SOPA: Anti-Piracy or Censorship?

Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales vs. Copyright Alliance’s Sandra Aistars

Congressional support for a pair of anti-piracy bills is weakening after Wednesday’s historic online protest in which thousands of websites went dark for 24 hours. Hollywood film studios, music publishers and major broadcasters support the anti-piracy legislation, saying it aims to stop the piracy of copyrighted material over the internet on websites based outside the United States. "We’re talking about sites that are operated and dedicated to piracy and that are really preventing individual creators across the country from having an economic livelihood from their creative pursuits," says Sandra Aistars, executive director of the Copyright Alliance, whose members include the Motion Picture Association of America, NBCUniversal, Time Warner, Viacom, ASCAP and BMI. But critics say the bills could profoundly change the internet by stifling innovation and investment, hallmarks of the free, open internet. "Wikipedia could be defined as a search engine under these [bills]," says Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. "That would mean that it would be illegal for Wikipedia to link to a site, even if we’re writing an encyclopedia article explaining to the public what is The Pirate Bay, what is going on here, and we want to send you there so you can go and take a look for yourself. That would become illegal. This is outrageous, and it’s just not acceptable under the First Amendment." [includes rush transcript]

Currency Wars - Iran Banned From Trading Gold and Silver

Currency Wars - Iran Banned From Trading Gold and Silver

Reuters report that the EU has agreed to freeze the assets of the Iranian central bank and ban all trade in gold and other precious metals with the Iranian Central Bank and other public bodies in Iran. According to IMF data, at the last official count (in 1996), Iran had reserves of just over 168 tonnes of gold. The FT reported in March 2011 that Iran has bought large amounts of bullion on the international market to diversify away from the dollar, citing a senior Bank of England official. Currency wars continue and are deepening. Many Asian markets are closed for the Lunar New Year holiday which has led to lower volumes. Of note was there was an unusual burst of gold futures buying on the TOCOM in Japan, which has helped the cash market to breach resistance at $1,666 an ounce. Investors are also waiting for euro zone finance ministers to decide the terms of a Greek debt restructuring later today. This would be the second bailout package for Greece...

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Financial Parasites-Bill Gates-Africa Interview

Max Keiser and co-host Stacy Herbert present their bah-humbug special, taking a closer look at claims that the top 1% have more 'skin' in the game. They'll also question the intentions of the 'well-meaning' people who drive Kenyans off their land, and could be doing more harm than good with malaria vaccines. They also talk to independent journalist, Thomas C. Mountain, about charity in Africa and China's investments.

Bill's Vaccine RTSS-Afro-Scam

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The Fruits of Elite Immunity - Chaney's torture policy

Retired U.S. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell talks about ex Vice President
Dick Cheney's media blitz promoting his memoir, "In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir". The show was broadcasted in Aug 30th 2011. Cheney was saying that "heads will explode" upon reading it. We see a now notorious former vice president vehemently defend the policies of his administration, including the most gruesome of torture. As Col.Wilkerson recalls its cabinet as the 'Gestapo,' 'Nazi's' in Cheney's Office.

On RT



and Democracy Now

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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson



pt 2
Glenn Greenwald



"The Fruits of Elite Immunity." "Dick Cheney goes around the country profiting off of this sleazy, sensationalistic, self-serving book, basically profiting from his crimes and at the same time normalizing the idea that of these kinds of policies ... are perfectly legitimate choices to make, and I think that is really damaging legacy from all of this," says Greenwald.

DN - IRAQ SPECIAL - U.S. Withdrawal Scenario

The U.S. military may be leaving Iraq, but the U.S. government is not. The U.S. embassy in Baghdad is the largest in the world, and thousands of private contractors will fill the role of the departing U.S. troops

U.S. invasion and occupation has left a bloody toll on Iraqi civilians and foreign troops. Nearly 4,500 U.S. troops died, and another 32,000 were wounded.
An accurate toll of Iraqis killed may never be known. Iraq Body Count says at least 104,000 Iraqi civilians have died, while some studies put have put the death toll at over one million.

The Costs of War: Tens of Thousands Dead, Billions Spent, and a Country Torn Apart



Iraqi Women’s Activist Rebuffs U.S. Claims of a Freer Iraq: "This Is Not a Democratic Country"

Bradley Manning: Famed Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on Alleged WikiLeaks Soldier’s 1st Day in Court

U.S Withdrawal from Iraq : " In terms of Destroying Iraq, It's Mission Accomplished"

Iran MP says Military to practise closing strait of Hormuz to shipping

IRAN MP SAYS MILITARY TO PRACTISE CLOSING STRAIT OF HORMUZ TO SHIPPING; IRANIAN MILITARY DECLINES TO COMMENT - RTRS

Iran army declines comment on Hormuz exercise

A member of the Iranian parliament's National Security Committee said on Monday that the military was set to practise its ability to close the Gulf to shipping at the narrow Strait of Hormuz, the most important oil transit channel in the world, but there was no official confirmation.

The legislator, Parviz Sarvari, told the student news agency ISNA: "Soon we will hold a military manoeuvre on how to close the Strait of Hormuz. If the world wants to make the region insecure, we will make the world insecure."

Contacted by Reuters, a spokesman for the Iranian military declined to comment.

Iran's energy minister told Al Jazeera television last month that Tehran could use oil as a political tool in the event of any future conflict over its nuclear programme

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As a reminder from Wikipedia:

The strait at its narrowest is 54 kilometres (34 mi) wide.[1] It is the only sea passage to the open ocean for large areas of the petroleum-exporting Persian Gulf. About 13 tankers carrying 15.5 million barrels (2,460,000 m3) of crude oil pass through the strait on an average day, making it one of the world's most strategically important choke points. This represents 33% of the world's seaborne oil shipments, and 17% of all world oil shipments in 2009.[2]

A series of naval stand-offs between Iranian speedboats and U.S. warships in the Strait of Hormuz occurred in December 2007 and January 2008. U.S. officials accused Iran of harassing and provoking their naval vessels; Iranian officials denied these allegations. On January 14, 2008, U.S. naval officials appeared to contradict the Pentagon version of the Jan. 16 event, in which U.S. officials said U.S. vessels were near to firing on approaching Iranian boats. The Navy's regional commander, Vice Admiral Kevin Cosgriff, said the Iranians had "neither anti-ship missiles nor torpedoes" and that he "wouldn't characterize the posture of the US 5th Fleet as afraid of these small boats".

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It's on. Iran has just closed the Straits of Hormuz for military training as was expected yesterday, according to RanSquawk. Oil, and all other commodities, are outtahere.

And entire commodity complex:

UBERDEBTEN ! !

Überdebten, financial eugenics and secret Fed loans.
In the second half , Karl Denninger talks about MF Global, pepper spraying banksters and Occupy Wall Street.



Occupy Europe splits into "Mayor" and "Minor" Economies, This fact, admitted in the open today was aired December 1st on RT when the message was still being encoded.

Black Friday Gun Sales Break Records

Even as Joe Sixpack was maxing out that last credit card on useless gadgets (but not flat screen TVs as Corning was so nice to warn), he was making sure to have enough in store for that one final Plan Z purchase. Guns. As KNDU reports, "Gun dealers flooded the FBI with background check requests from shoppers, smashing the single day record with a 32% increase from last year." USA Today has more: "Deputy Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender said the checks, required by federal law, surged to 129,166 during the day, far surpassing the previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday of 2008." And in reality, the number is likely far greater: "The actual number of firearms sold last Friday is likely higher because multiple firearms can be included in a transaction by a single buyer. And the FBI does not track actual gun sales."
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KEISER - UK Northern Rock Fiasco & MF Global Black Hole

Northern Rock & Richard Branson's shinny teeth

MF Global & "a heads up phone call" worth billions for Koch Bros

fraud brothers

From me to you ... A billion teeth

The Age of Transitions - Eugenics

Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to human populations.^[2] The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance, and the theories of August Weismann.^[3] Historically, many of the practitioners of eugenics viewed eugenics as a science, not necessarily restricted to human populations; this embraced the views of Darwin and Social Darwinism.

Eugenics was widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century.^[4] The First International Congress of Eugenics in 1912 was supported by many prominent persons, including: its president Leonard Darwin, the son of Charles Darwin; honorary vice-president Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty and future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Auguste Forel, famous Swiss pathologist; Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone; among other prominent people.^[5] The National Socialists' (NSDAP) approach to genetics and eugenics became focused on Eugen Fischer's concept of phenogenetics^[6] and the Nazi twin study methods of Fischer and Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer....

Julian Huxley, ,brother of writer Aldous Huxley , was the first Director-General of UNESCO and a founder of the World Wildlife Fund , he was also a Eugenics Society president.

"[E]ven though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable. --Julian Huxley^[165]"

“My firm conviction is that if wide-spread Eugenic reforms are not adopted during the next hundred years or so, our Western Civilization is inevitably destined to such a slow and gradual decay as that which has been experienced in the past by every great ancient civilization. The size and the importance of the United States throws on you a special responsibility in your endeavours to safeguard the future of our race. Those who are attending your Congress will be aiding in this endeavour, and though you will gain no thanks from your own generation, posterity will, I believe, learn to realize the great dept it owes to all the workers in this field.”
― Leonard Darwin

Transhumanism / Eugenics

Leonard Darwin : What os Eugenics (Book)

Charles Galton Darwin : The next millon years (Book)

More Eugenics and De-population video at Archive.org

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the Internet and free speech may never be the same

On 11/16, Congress holds hearings on the first American Internet censorship system.
This bill can pass. If it does the Internet and free speech will never be the same.
Join all of us on the 16th to stop this bill.
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Max Keiser interview James G. Rickards' Currnecy Wars (Ep 208)

James G. Rickards is an American lawyer, economist and investment banker with 35 years of experience on Wall Street, working in capital markets. He is a writer and is a regular commentator on finance and the emerging field of threat finance. Rickards advised clients of an impending financial collapse, of a decline in the dollar and a sharp rise in the price of gold, all years in advance. He believes the United States needs to go back to a gold standard and was one of the first to promote this view.




More Interviews:

Lori Ann LaRocco, Interview with Jim Rickards CNBC (January 13, 2011). Retrieved May 14, 2011

Ron Hera, "Interview: Jim Rickards on Inflation and Currency Wars" Financial Sense (February 4, 2011). Retrieved May 14, 2011

James Goldsmith's Financial Prophecy

Sir James Goldsmith's (26 February 1933 – 18 July 1997) was an Anglo-French billionaire financier and tycoon.^[1] Towards the end of his life, he became a magazine publisher and a politician. In 1994, he was elected to represent France as a Member of the European Parliament and he subsequently founded the short-lived eurosceptic Referendum Party in the United Kingdom.
His predictions from 1994 are amazingly accurate. Laura Tyson, seen arguing in the video, is now an economic advisor in the Obama Administration. Previous to that, she was a professor at UC Berkeley??? Stuff does float to the top, doesn't it? She believes more government spending will solve the current crises. So the lack of government spending is what caused this crises? How about the corrupt politicians and corporations? Can we roll back the policies of the past 2-3 decades?





Sir James Goldsmith interview on The Charlie Rose Show 11-15-1994



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More Sir James Goldsmith's Videos Posted on: Ask 'But Why?' blog

Leah McGrath Goodman - Max Keiser 204 - Oil Speculation

Leah McGrath Goodman on the Keiser Report 204


This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at bank stocks ablaze and a Grecian vortex. They also discuss speculators responding to falling prices by smashing showrooms in Shanghai and holding Congress hostage in America. In the second half of the show, Max Keiser interviews Leah McGrath Goodman about Occupy Wall Street, the Koch Brothers and oil derivatives and the new market in water derivatives.

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Fallujah beyond Hiroshima, New Uranium Battlefield

Seems Weapons of Mass-Destruction were finally used in Iraq

Christopher Busby ( University of Ulster ) Study confirms Iraq's studies




Fallujah Fallout




Al-Kubaisy. Stockholm 20100831

Depleted Uranium. The study "Cancer, Infant Mortality and Birth Sex-Ratio in Fallujah 2005-2009", published in July 2010 in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH), shows the terrifying facts about the disease and genetic defects

Iraq & Depleted Uranium. Dr. Omar Al-Kubaisy. Stockholm 20100831 from Nils Lundgren on Vimeo.

Chomsky on Fallujah's Nuclear Terror

Dean Baker on the Bailout Panic

Economist Dean Baker shares his thoughts on the looming economic crisis. Dr. Baker is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC, and a columnist for The Washington Post and Atlantic Monthly.

Noam Chomsky - Manufacturing Conscent

Manufacturing Conscent sub ESP

Money Masters (sub esp)

Federal Reserve History pt 1

Federal Reserve History pt 2

Historia de la creación del banco central estadounidense. Este documental relata como fue la lucha por el control de la emisión de la moneda norteamericana, que finalmente dio lugar al establecimiento en 1913 del Federal Reserve Bank (FED), banco privado (en apariencia gubernamental) que monopoliza la emisión del dolar y las reglas monetarias de ese país, y que actualmente tiene dominio del circuito financiero mundial. Revela la trama oculta que dio lugar a independencias, guerras, ciclos económicos y control político. El enfoque crítico y bien fundamentado permite comprender la crisis actual del capitalismo y la monstruosa deuda que encadena Estados, empresas y particulares en el presente. Material esencial para aquellos que creemos que un cambio del sistema social, económico, político e ideológico ES POSIBLE. Más info en: http://www.themoneymasters.comNarrador: Bill Still Directores: B. Still, Patrick Carmack USA-EUA-EE.UU. Año: 1996 Audio: Inglés. Subtítulos en español

Higher Quality video at : Archive.Org

The Trap by Adam Curtis

The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom ?

PT. 1 - F**k You Buddy




What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom is a BBC documentary series by English filmmaker Adam Curtis, well known for other documentaries including The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares. It began airing in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on 11 March 2007.

The series consists of three one-hour programmes which explore the concept and definition of freedom, specifically, "how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom.

Higher Quality video at : Archive.Org

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Adam Curtis' Century of the Self

It Takes a Nation of Billions - Adam Curtis' The Century Of The Self.










The story of Edward Bernays , the nephew of Freud who adapted his uncle’s theories concerning animalistic drives and deeply-sunken baser motives for the purposes of propaganda and, far more pervasively, advertising and politics.
Complete Work (4 films) DLD at Archive.Org

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