- ARCHIVE / Uncategorized
- Do We Need Copyright Cops? (More on ACTA)
I would like to write up ACTA for a UK mainstream outlet. Please contact me if you’re interested in this.
[by
Matthew Ingram, in The Globe and Mail]
Are you sure that all of the songs on your iPod were legally acquired? What about the music or movies or other digital content on your laptop? You could […] - Links To Go #2
1.
Tenants are targeted to launder cash (Drug traffickers accrue multi-million pound social housing portfolios)
Criminals across England have been laundering money by offering it to social tenants to buy their homes under the right to buy or the right to acquire. As well as admiring the creativity, one thinks that this rather calls into question […] - US Military Offices Question 9/11 Fables
‘25 USA Military Officers Challenge Official 9/11 Account’
[in
Pakistan Daily, via
Alternative News & Media: Daily Breaking News]
Twenty-five former U.S. military officers have severely criticized the official account of 9/11 and called for a new investigation. They include former commander of U.S. Army Intelligence, Major General Albert Stubblebine, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Col. […] - We Must Act Now Against ACTA
For those reaching this entry from a direct link,
there is news.
From
IP Justice and
Wikileaks, we learn (I hope not too late) about the existence of ACTA, a new global trade agreement being drafted — mostly in secret — by the US, European Union, Switzerland, Australia, and a select handful of other wealthy nations.
The […] - Introducing Your Local Tension Surveillance Committee
I hate to repost anything from
The Daily Mail, but
this seems particularly disturbing:
More than 10 million people are to have their everyday disputes, their politics and their business lives checked by new “tension monitoring” committees.
The committees are to be set up to try to cut the risk of riots or disturbances in the aftermath […] - Links To Go
1. Grant Schulte, ‘Feds say raid is nation’s largest’,
in Des Moines Register.
[Largest ever roundup of "illegal" immigrants in the USA]
2. Enrico Piovesana, ‘The Manage The World’,
in Peace Reporter.
[The Trilateral Commission, an unelected elite group, meets in secret to decide guidelines for the international politics and economics that the member governments are to […] - STEAL THIS FILM in Babelgum Festival Shortlist
Dear Filmmaker,
We’re delighted to inform you that “STEAL THIS FILM” has made it into the overall top 10 shortlist for the Documentary category. You could be one of the winners flying to Cannes for the awards ceremony on May 20th (save the date!).
The overall shortlist reflects the most popular entries from the beginning of the […] - What Does ‘Main Core’ Know About You?
Last year, former deputy attorney general James Comey
revealed that in 2004, he refused to “certify” the legality of certain aspects of the National Security Agency (NSA) spy program. Comey witnessed Alberto Gonzales and Andrew Card try to force a bed-ridden John Ashcroft to approve the program. Comey, however, did not publicly give specifics […] - Help Pirates Fight Market Censorship!
(this is a draft of an article for the forthcoming OSI Magazine.)
Copyright is supposed to provide for the orderly functioning of creative production in our society, to maintain a balance between economic and civic interests. It has certainly failed. Any semblance of order in our media, either in content or distribution, has today broken […] - “Welcome to the real world: the return of documentary film-making”
Enjoyably enough,
I am featured in today’s edition of The Times, though I can’t help thinking I should drop the completely up-myself-sounding “theorist” moniker. It was always supposed to be a bit of a joke. (I once had business cards with ‘Licensed Theory Practitioner’, back when I used to do mostly nothing, printed on them.) […]