At an all-day White House conference on “environmental justice,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that her department is creating a new task force to battle the effects of climate change on domestic security operations.
Speaking at the first White House Forum on Environmental Justice on Thursday, Napolitano discussed the initial findings of the department's recently created “Climate Change and Adaptation Task Force.”
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The Commerce Department and the Federal Trade Commission are pushing ahead with the “reorganization” of the decentralized Internet into a more centralized government program. The Associated Press reports on a Commerce Department report released today:
The new report proposes the creation of a voluntary, but enforceable industry code
The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet.
Establishment of such a group has the backing of several countries, spearheaded by Brazil.
It appears that the US government is realizing the fact that an espionage charge against Julian Assange over Wikileaks is unlikely to succeed and would probably freak out the press (at least those in the press who remember the details of the First Amendment). So, instead, it's moved on to trying to use the Computer Fraud and Abu... (more)
"A new episode in French internet legislation — French ministers have passed a bill (original in French) allowing the government to add any website to a black list, which access providers will have to enforce. This black list will be ... (more)
Acting on information provided by an anti-piracy group, Swedish police have carried out raids and taken down at least one warez scene topsite. Items seized include at least a dozen computers and servers containing a conservative 200 terabytes of media, mainly Hollywood movies. As other sites get sucked into the fallout, the recriminations and finger-pointing have begun.
This week, Swedish authorities again turned their attention to The Scene, the collection of servers and indi... (more)
Three months ago, TorrentFreak discovered that the Motion Picture Association were about to make an unprecedented move against file-sharing in the UK. Their targets were ISP BT and Usenet indexing site Newzbin.com. In discussions the MPA refused to confirm our suspicions. Yesterday, however, the MPA went to court to obtain an injunction to have BT block Newzbin in the UK.
In mid September this year, TorrentFreak received word from a previously reliable source and another anonymous... (more)
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK’s main recording industry trade body, came out with guns blazing against Google today. BPI says that search engines like Google are as popular as P2P applications as a source for illegal downloads. The music industry is pressing Google and others to censor their search results in favor of ‘legal’ music services.
Anyone who searches for music, TV-shows or movies on the Internet will notice that BitTorrent sites and o... (more)
USA Today, i.e., Regime News, offers us glad tidings of great joy: there’s an awful TSA chorus at LAX to distract the hostages with bloody government ditties like the Battle Hymn of the Republic. And the singers are all “officers”! Charmed? This is chilling, of course, and intended as such. Customers are supposed to like something that’s threatening. If they don’t, they must need the... (more)
The MPAA and their colleagues in The Netherlands appear to have shut down more than two dozen BitTorrent, Usenet and other file-sharing sites today. Accused of linking to movies, music, TV shows and games, at least one domain appears to be redirecting to the website of Dutch anti-piracy outfit, BREIN.
In an operation carried out by the MPAA and Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, 29 BitTorrent and Usenet indexing sites are believed to have been closed down.
Now that the US government appears to be endorsing the idea of simply seizing domain names without notice to the proprietors of those domains, it appears that others are doing the same as well. TorrentFreak reports that the Dutch anti-piracy group, BREIN, with help from the MPAA, has been able to get 29 different domain names -- all hosted in the US -- to p... (more)
In a growing effort to find something, anything, with which to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the Justice Department is reportedly studying a collection of chat logs from ex-hacker Adrian Lamo as possible evidence of “conspiracy” against Assange.
In an e-mail sent to BSD project leader Theo de Raadt, former NETSEC CTO Gregory Perry has claimed that NETSEC developers helped the FBI plant "a number of backdoors" in the OpenBSD cryptographic framework approximately a decade ago.
Perry says that his nondisclosure agreement with the FBI has expired, allowing him to finally bring the issue to the attention of OpenBSD developers. Perry also suggests that knowledge of the FBI's backdoors played a role in DARPA's decision to withdr... (more)
Suppose the unthinkable happened, and terrorists struck New York or another big city with an atom bomb. What should people there do? The government has a surprising new message: Do not flee. Get inside any stable building and don’t come out till officials say it’s safe.
The advice is based on recent scientific analyses indicating that a nuclear attack is much more survivable if you immediately shield yourself from the lethal radiation that follows a blast, a simple tac... (more)
This is the same advice they gave to the people in the Twin Towers...
The saga of the domains seized by Homeland Security's Immigrations & Customs Enforcement (ICE) group continues to get more and more bizarre. We'd already noted that among the domains seized were a bunch of hiphop blogs that artists and record labels regularly used to promote their works and that at least the search engine Torrent-Finder was planning to ... (more)
Fox News continues their search for laws to twist in order to murder Julian Assange! This time they have on Former U.S. Attorney General, Michael Mukasey who calmly says Assange could be murdered under the espionage act! Here is some more on this shill from Glenn Greenwald.
Mukasey also was the judge in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade Center.
...DTG Trading owner Siegfried Rotthäuser ordered 40,000 in November from China. He intended to skirt regulations by selling the 75- and 100-watt strength bulbs as a source of heat for what his website calls a “resistance art project.” [...]
But officials in Cologne disagreed. A report on the matter by the Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technologies (VDE), Heatballs fall under EU light bulb regulations and cannot be imported, a spokesperson s... (more)
It is literally illegal to buy a normal light bulb in the EU. Do people even understand what that means? The government is banning light bulbs. If you try to import a light bulb against their orders, you will be shot.
That's your wonderful "civilization" for you.
Nothing about this was "satirical," the man was trying to buy normal light bulbs because tons of people hate mercury filled CFL bulbs and crappy LEDs.
Normal light bulbs have also already been banned in the US, starting in 2012 men with guns will prevent you from "illegally" buying them. The government will likely stage stings and raids with SWAT teams just like they do for raw milk.
Among the climate “solutions” proposed by scientists, officials, and others for the Cancun COP16 “global-warming” summit are ideas like a global “one-child policy” modeled on Communist China’s brutal system, a carbon rationing scheme for every person on Earth, world socialism, and a series of global taxes paid to the United Nations.
Prominent scientists have offered some of the more extreme suggestions. Professor Kevin Anderson, for exampl... (more)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- A Kentucky man who acknowledged writing a poem threatening the life of President Barack Obama was sentenced Monday by a federal judge to 33 months in prison. [...]
