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Don’t miss:

- WAKE-UP CALL: Prof. Tatsuhiko Kodama of Tokyo University To Japan Government ‘Shaking With Anger’: ‘What Are You Doing?’ (Part 1, 2, 3)

Just in case you too asked yourself what the Japanese government is doing…

- New Japan Law ‘Cleanses’ Bad Nuclear News (UK Progressive, July 24, 2011):

Friday, July 15, the Ministry of Industry and Trade (METI) – Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, opened a call for bids (tender) regarding the “Nuclear Power Safety Regulation Publicity Project”, for contractors to monitor blogs and tweets posted about nuclear power and radiation.

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Tags: 1984, Big Brother, Bloggers, Blogs, George Orwell, Global News, Government, Internet, New World Order, Nuclear, Politics, Radiation, Society, Solar Radiation, Surveillance, Twitter

- NJ Supreme Court Finds Source Shield Law Does Not Apply To Bloggers (ZeroHedge, June 7, 2011):

In another direct stab at the last remnant of truly independent (if often times quite incompetent) media, the New Jersey Supreme Court has just found that people posting opinions online don’t have the same protections for sources as mainstream journalists.

According to our secret sources at the AP, (also known as Copy and Paste), “The court ruled Tuesday that New Jersey’s shield law for journalists does not apply to online message boards. The case involved a New Jersey-based software company named Too Much Media. It sued a Washington state blogger for defamation and wanted her to reveal sources she cited on message board posts.”

It is sad that the legislative has decided to invoke a tiering in the media world, which will most certainly backfire and bring even more eyeballs to the blogosphere, where while the bulk of the information comes in the form of CTRL+V information exchange, it does serve a critical role of being a non-conflicted (corporate advertising) source of much needed information.

In the meantime, ever more blogs will find it necessary to offshore their operations (Iceland and Sweden are quite friendly in that regard) in order to avoid the encroaching US police state.

Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, Global News, Government, Internet, Law, New World Order, Politics, Society, U.S.

Added: 13.05.2011

More FKN Newz:

– FKN NEWZ: Osama Is Dead – Long Live Obama (05/06/2011)

- FKN NEWZ: Royal Wedding Pre Crime Special – UK Fascism (04/30/2011)

- FKN NEWZ: No End In Libyan, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.

- FKN Newz: Party on Dude

- FKN Newz: Fascists Love Ineffective Protest (01/04/2011)

- FKN Newz: Earth Hour – The Least We Can Do (03/25/2011)

- FKN Newz: Radioactive Bullshit Fallout – 03/19/2011

- FKN Newz: NO LIE ZONE OVER LIBYA – 03/04/2011

- FKN Newz: Hypocrisy Sweeps Middle East – 02/26/2011

- FKN Newz: Happy Revolution Baby! – 02/18/2011

Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, China, Dictatorship, Economy, Fascism, FKN Newz, France, Freedom, Germany, Global News, Government, Internet, New World Order, Politics, Russia, slavery, Society, U.K., War

See also:

- Egypt: CIA-Mossad Agent Omar Suleiman Exposed

- Egypt’s Military Dissolves Parliament, Suspends Constitution – Who Omar Suleiman Really Is!

- Military Top Brass Atop Egypt Pyramid – Political Analyst Said Zulficar: Nothing Has Changed – David Icke: There has been NO REVOLUTION so far

Egyptian anti-government bloggers work on their laptops from Cairo’s Tahrir Square

CAIRO (AFP) — A military court has jailed a blogger for three years for criticising the armed forces that have ruled Egypt since president Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in February, in a decision slammed by rights groups on Monday.

“Regrettably, the Nasr City military court sentenced Maikel Nabil to three years in prison,” the blogger’s lawyer Gamal Eid told AFP.

“The lawyers were not present, the verdict was handed out almost in secret.”

The decision had initially been set for Wednesday and was postponed to Sunday. The lawyers went on Sunday but were told to leave because there would be no verdict, Eid said.

“We were then very surprised to hear that he (Nabil) was sentenced to three years,” said Eid, who heads the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI).

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Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, Civil liberties, Civil rights, Dictatorship, Egypt, Human Rights, Military

On Friday, a Minnesota jury found that a blogger must pay $60,000 in damages because of statements he published in his blog about a public figure who was subsequently fired from his job. Internet publishers and free speech advocates should pay close attention to this case if it is appealed because the blogger was found liable even though the jury did not find that the blogger’s statements were false.

This decision is the latest example of the law’s apparent struggle to apply basic constitutional protections to internet publishers. If the Minnesota ruling holds up, it will mean that bloggers will have to worry they will be forced to pay for true statements that they publish that cause a person damages.

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Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, Civil liberties, Civil rights, Constitution, First Amendment, Global News, Government, Internet, Law, Politics, Society, U.S.

A local blogger who was critical of Rep. Billy Long during last year’s congressional campaign has been interviewed by the FBI about his encounters with the congressman.

Clay Bowler, who lives in Christian County, says he was shocked to find an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation at his doorstep. Accompanying the agent was Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott.

The agent asked Bowler if he was a threat to Long, a notion Bowler finds laughable.

“I’m not a threat to Billy Long,” Bowler said Thursday. “I find the whole thought very funny, because I’m such an advocate for constitutional rights that I would never do anything that would put in jeopardy those constitutional rights like the Second Amendment.”

Bowler published a blog in 2010 — Long Is Wrong — and said he campaigned against Long because he didn’t think the Springfield businessman would be a good representative for southwest Missouri. Bowler took down the site after the November election, when Long defeated Democrat Scott Eckersley to replace outgoing Rep. Roy Blunt.

Bowler acknowledges confronting Long as some campaign events, but says he did not threaten Long.

Bowler was puzzled why Arnott accompanied the FBI agent. Arnott is sheriff of Greene County. Bowler lives several miles into Christian County.

“Our first information was that he lived in Republic,” in Greene County, Arnott said.

Christian County Sheriff Joey Kyle was apparently unaware the FBI was in his county, interviewing a person who’d been flagged as a potential problem to a sitting U.S. congressman.

Bowler isn’t the only local person under federal investigation. Arnott confirmed to KSPR News that Bowler isn’t the only local person who’s been scrutinized in the wake oflast weekend’s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Gifford (D-AZ) during a meet-and-greet with constituents in Tucson, Ariz.

Arnott said U.S. Capitol police canvassed members of Congress to come up with a list of people across the country who might be considered potential threats to members of Congress. It’s up to local law enforcement to protect members of Congress when they return to their home districts.

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Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, Global News, Government, Politics, Society, U.S.

Police force suspension of website that offered advice to students involved in last week’s rioting

Riot police and student demonstrators outside Millbank in London. Photograph: Kirsty Wigglesworth/AP

Scotland Yard has forced the closure of an anti-police blog which was being used to disseminate advice to protesters pictured at the student fees demonstration.

The website Fitwatch was suspended after the its hosting company received contact from C011, the Metropolitan’s public order branch, stating that the blog was “being used to undertake criminal activities”.

The move appears to have taken place after a blog posted on the website gave guidance to students who feared they might be arrested for their involvement in the occupation of the Millbank office complex, which houses the Tory party headquarters.

A largely peaceful march against the proposed increase in tuition fees turned violent on Wednesday when a minority of the 50,000 students targeted Millbank.

Around 200 entered the building and some accessed the roof. During a period of rioting, windows and furniture were smashed and, in the most serious act of violence, a fire extinguisher was thrown towards police from the roof.

The Fitwatch blogpost, which last night had reappeared on several other websites, recommended that students “get rid” of clothes they wore at the demonstration and change their appearance.

“Perhaps now is a good time for a makeover,” said the post. “Get a haircut and colour, grow a beard, wear glasses. It isn’t a guarantee, but may help throw them off the scent.”

Hours later, the Met’s “e-crime unit” informed Fitwatch’s website hosting service – JustHost.com – that the blog was being used to attempt to pervert the course of justice by providing guidance to “offenders”.

“We hereby request [you] de-host this website for a minimum period of 12 months,” it said in a letter seen by the Guardian. “The website is providing explicit advice to offenders following a major demonstration in central London.

“The demonstration was marred by violence and several subjects have already been arrested, with a major police operation under way to identify and arrest further offenders.”

The letter stated that authority to close “the website and IP address” had been given by Will Hodgeson, an acting detective inspector at C011.

The Telegraph and the rightwing blogger Guido Fawkes both launched campaigns last week to identify student protesters, posting photographs of activists they suggested had been involved in criminal activity.

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Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, Global News, Internet, Police, Politics, Society, U.K.

• Death threats and murders silence traditional reports

• Catalogue of horror posted by bloggers and on Twitter

Soldiers carry the coffin of one of 72 migrants killed by drug traffickers in Tamaulipas, Mexico, last month. Photograph: Reuters

A small army of bloggers and tweeters is filling the gaps left by traditional media in Mexico that are increasingly limiting their coverage of the country’s drug wars because of pressure from the cartels.

“Shots fired by the river, unknown number of dead,” read one recent tweet on a busy feed from the northern border city of Reynosa, #Reynosafollow. “Organized crime blockade on San Fernando road lifted,” said another. “Just saw police officers telling a group of narcos about the positions of navy checkpoints,” ran a third.

Nothing of this kind appeared in the city’s papers which, along with most media outlets in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, have become better known for what they do not publish than for what they do.

Tamaulipas is one of the most intense battlegrounds of the drug wars being fought in Mexico between the federal forces and at least seven cartels.

Gun fights lasting hours, grenade attacks in shopping streets, military swoops on suspected kingpins – all ignored. Six local journalists in one city disappeared in two days, and there was hardly a word from their terrified colleagues.

One editor on a regional paper – who does not want to be named for security reasons – has meticulously followed directives from the dominant local traffickers ever since a story she published about a shoot-out, based on an official report, earned her a death threat a couple of months ago.

She does not even dare complain too openly about this to colleagues, in case they are in the pay of the gang. But every now and then she cannot resist tweeting. “Sometimes the emotion of a story gets to me and I put it on Twitter,” she says. “Especially when I know it won’t get out otherwise.”

Earlier this month, she revealed the kidnapping of a former local mayor who is also a cousin of Mexico’s biggest media magnate.

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Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, Crime, Drugs, Global News, Mexico, Society, Twitter

The land of the free!

Philly wages a $300 “business privilege tax” on bloggers, even if they make no profit

Taking a step closer to an eerie Orwellian state where creativity is crushed in the name of “the greater good,” the city of Philadelphia is demanding that bloggers pay $300 for the privilege of writing on the Internet.

This $300 “business privilege license” is for all local bloggers – even the ones that make no money off their words.

The city doesn’t stop there. In addition to the $300 for the license to write on the World Wide Web, bloggers must pay city wage taxes, business privilege taxes and taxes on any net profits — on top of state and federal taxes — even if the blogger only made $11 over two years, reports the City Paper.

Blogger Marilyn Bess, whose Ms. Philly Organic Blog has made her a whopping $50 over the past few years, went to the city’s tax amnesty program to explain that she makes pennies on her hobby. They told her to hire an accountant, she told the City Paper.

In an economy where jobs are sparse and people try to make ends meet with part-time jobs, taxing the independent, scrappy freelancers and bloggers seems counterproductive.

But the emptying of bloggers’ wallets may not be the worst result of these taxes. With the city’s charge being more than what most bloggers make, their voices could be silenced, as the extra expense is enough to discourage many from even having a blog.

“To say that these kinds of draconian measures are detrimental to the public discourse would be an understatement,” writes the Washington Examiner’s Mark Hemingway.

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Tags: 1984, Bloggers, Blogs, George Orwell, Government, Internet, New World Order, Philadelphia, Politics, Society, Taxes, U.S.

Added: 1. April 2010

- Robert D. Steele’s at Wikipedia

Tags: Bloggers, Blogs, Central Bank, CIA, Congress, Constitution, Dollar, FBI, Fed, Federal Reserve, Global News, Government, John F. Kennedy, Military, New World Order, Paul Wolfowitz, Politics, Robert Steele, Society, U.S.