Monday, December 27, 2010


“The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exits” — J. Edgar Hoover
Nicholas West
Activist Post
The weather forces of Earth are volatile indeed.   Even in the human era we have passed through cataclysmic times of both fire and ice, destruction and rebirth; recorded throughout the world in legends and religious texts. Are the current weather events part of that natural wave pattern of upheaval and stability, man-made global warming, a cyclical eruption of the sun, or are there clear manufactured patterns emerging?
The HAARP project has been shrouded in secrecy and speculation since its inception.  Despite recent high-profile attempts to access its inner workings, only more questions continue to emerge. Conclusions about its operational capacity are those that have caused a drift toward “conspiracy theory.”  Defense operations have quite a history of harebrained boondoggle schemes that never become operational. However, weather modification (and weaponization) has been consistently discussed and researched by the military and the Elite to a level that indicates there is something worth pursuing.  Let us look at a few things we know for certain:
HAARP is a military installation
Officials downplay the facility as pure “basic or exploratory research” — working with Alaska University, Fairbanks — possessing no military applications.  Yet, the United States Air Force, Navy and DARPA scientists populate the remote site in Gakona, Alaska.  It is also part of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which answers to the Department of Defense, and makes it a component of “Star Wars” inviting NASA into the mix.  At the very least, the communications and surveillance applications fit in perfectly with national security via sea and sky.
It is a weather modification apparatus
The scientists at HAARP do not deny the capacity for structural modification of the atmosphere, but they continue to insist that their academic studies are limited to a small swath around the facility. However, there is an indication of wider use:  the premier defense contractor, Raytheon, is now the owner of most of many relevant patents surrounding the research being conducted there.  Of twelve patents that form the backbone, #4,686,605 says it all: “Method and Apparatus for Altering a Region in the Earth’s Atmosphere, Ionosphere, and/or Magnetosphere.”
Weather weapons have been considered by the Elite as a Potential Tool for Control
Zbigniew Brzezinski is the world’s foremost geopolitical director.  His seminal books, The Grand Chessboard and Between Two Ages have so many quotable passages that it is overkill to list them all.  He is the supreme insider:  Born into Polish nobility; a former National Security Advisor; and co-founder of The Trilaterial Comission with David Rockefeller, he seems to revel in telling the world the future of Elite direction.  There is not a chance that he would have mentioned weather weapons in his books if they were not feasible.  A key passage from Between Two Ages (1970) states, “Technology of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm.”
With this in mind, let’s consider some recent events that might suggest HAARP has achieved its full operational potential as a weapon that can be accurately directed to a given target if geopolitical masterminds give the order.
  • Venezuela Drought — The worst drought in 50 years came in late 2009 after Elites labeled Hugo Chavez an authoritarian (despite repeated popular elections).  They indicated a desire to, “divert the country toward a democracy.”  That type of rhetoric often indicates a mission to destabilize a regime, and impose a true dictator subservient only to the whims of the Globalists.  Big Oil hates iconoclastic leaders who are not members of The Club.  The benefit of political instability can set the stage for a future coup, so we have to wonder if a weather weapon was tested to produce anger among the populace.  Chavez invoked El Niño at the time, but did indicate his awareness of U.S. weather weapons after the Haiti Earthquake.
  • Pakistan Floods The suddenness of the weather could be a tipoff.  This is a disaster that experts are saying dwarfs the impact of the 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia, and is the worst in Pakistan history. And it came by surprise.  Unlike a Tsunami which can have a random earthquake as its source, weather has been charted enough to put meteorologists on TV who presumably make a living off of their accurate analysis. Yet, millions have been affected, and hundreds of villages erased by this anomalous event that dropped from the skies.  A recent article in the Daily Mail has scientists speculating that a blocked jet stream is causing a prolonged weather system over Pakistan . . . as well as Russia.  A stated ability of HAARP is to “perturb the ionosphere,” which can lead to the stalling, or supercharging of weather systems, as the jet stream is affected.  In fact, it appears that the jet stream has split in two, with one arm going north over Russia, and the other arm heading south into Pakistan; the region in the middle is feeling the effects.
  • Russia Heat Wave — The worst heatwave in the nation’s history is slowing its economic recovery and causing destabilizing anger in the populace. Major media coldly states that the Russians’ penchant for alcohol is to blame for the subsequent deaths. Meanwhile, talk of a climate weapon is increasing in volume.  Then there is Global Warming and carbon taxes:  Russia has been a holdout on the effects of man-made Global Warming and the attendant need to tax industry.  Premier Medvedev stated in late 2009, “We will not cut our development potential.”  He also made it clear that  he believed that Global Warming was, “some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects.”  Yet, who can doubt the effects of man-made warming now?  Medvedev was quoted recently doing a complete about-face, “What’s happening with the planet’s climate right now needs to be a wake-up call to all of us, meaning all heads of state, all heads of social organizations, in order to take a more energetic approach to countering the global changes to the climate.”
  • Freak U.S. Storms — Washington D.C. has been getting pounded.  A recent storm came out of nowhere.   Could this be retaliation from Russia for a perceived (or real) attack on its main agricultural region? The storms produced the first hail in the state’s history and dumped 5 inches of rain per hour, amid 180,000 lightning strikes. Or, perhaps it was domestically inspired — the area’s freak storm claimed the life of community leader and activist, Carl Henn.  Either way, experts are noting in Russia and D.C. that a change in the jet stream has led to the significant events.  The D.C. events come on the heels of a strange storm in Montana, curiously not long after the governor turned down Federal stimulus money.
The recent death of Ted Stevens is a disturbing development.  Some sources indicate that he was ready to reveal that Obama had given the green light to use weather weapons.  And Stevens might have known; he was the Senator in 1988 that had to be “convinced” to allow his state to house the HAARP project.  At the time, Stevens was insisting to detractors that the HAARP array could end fossil fuel dependence.  Perhaps this is what he was led to believe, so he let the project sail through . . . until he later learned otherwise.  Also on board the plane was former NASA administrator, Sean O’Keefe, who was enlisted by Stevens to help research the truth.
Government acronyms are very often revealing for their propagandizing; in reality being a 180-degree turn away from what is implied.  HAARP invokes a sense of the peaceful strumming of angels in harmony with all creation. Yet, even if we conclude the most benign intentions, a familiar chestnut warns us that the road is paved straight to Hell.  The title of the definitive book on the subject states it best:  Angels Don’t Play This HAARP.  That is because the strum of mechanistic manipulation is discordant with Nature; it plays a devil’s tune, rasping its way across the strings of existence.
On Earth, it is played out as Full Spectrum Dominance where it needs souls to succeed.  This is the free will of humanity — you must choose your side.  History is a catalogue of Man’s attempts to imitate the Divine.  He has not yet succeeded, but he might just die while trying.

http://www.examiner.com/city-buzz-in-atlanta/the-haarp-program-could-this-wicked-government-use-a-weather-machine-as-a-weapon

The HAARP Program: Could this wicked Government use a weather machine as a weapon?

  • January 26th, 2010 4:06 pm ET
I asked this question to my Brother Malik Shabazz and he said, “Brother if this devil can do that then we might as well just sit down and not even talk about fighting him because it would be hopeless.”
Is the HAARP project real? Does our government have a machine that they can use to manipulate the weather? These are questions being asked by plenty of citizens who had watched what happened in New Orleans with Katrina and now with the earthquake in Haiti.
HAARP is the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program and is real and the government doesn’t deny that they have it. They do deny that it can be used to manipulate the weather and be used as a weapon.
 According to Wikipedia:  “The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an investigation project jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for communications and surveillance purposes. Started in 1993, the project is proposed to last for a period of twenty years. The system was designed and built by Advanced Power Technologies (APTI) and since 2003, by BAE Advanced Technologies.
The facility currently operates a VHF and UHF radar, a fluxgate magnetometer, a digisonde, and an induction magnetometer alongside the transmitter facilities. As of 2008, HAARP had incurred around $250 million in tax-funded construction and operating costs”.
The government doesn’t deny where the machines are located. In the United States, there are three ionospheric heating facilities: Fairbanks, Alaska and one at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. The European Incoherent Scatter Scientific Association (EISCAT) operates an ionospheric heating facility near Russia.
Before you start trying to call me a conspiracy theorist, I have to ask, why are we spending so much money building on these kinds of machines? As a citizen of America and a descendant of Africa I have to ask why no African nations are being given the chance to test this instrument? If you know the history of this country when it comes to experimenting on people who are African like the Tuskegee experiment, you have to be leery of everything this government is doing.  I think as people who have been targeted for extermination on so many levels from drugs being put into our community to the creation of Planned Parenthood targeted toward Africans and other minorities as forms of population control, you have to think we will be the first target if such a machine can be used as a weapon. With the current earthquake that just almost wiped out Haiti and didn’t even budge the Dominican Republic next door you have to wonder. The history of Haiti is important because the goal of those who tried to conquer it has always been to stop the advancement of the Africans who were left on that island and defeated the French to obtain their freedom when freedom for Africans wasn’t even a thought. A lot of people don’t’ understand how America and other European countries put embargos on Haiti for over sixty years after the revolution. Did you know Haiti was ordered to pay reparations to the families of the French that died in the war that they fought trying to obtain their freedom? What?! But when I talk about reparations for Africans enslaved and dehumanized in America, my own people look at me like I am crazy.
 “My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the Blacks in the world.” - Napolean Bonaparte
It is said that the Reverend Nat Turner and many more were inspired by this Revolution and it is the belief of many that they have always been hated by, and targeted by, European nations because of their history.
I think as a people, we have to start creating think tanks to investigate everything being done by this government. Out of all people, we need to think of the most wicked thing that can be done to a people and remember this country has proven to us that there is no limit when it comes to trying to remove us from the planet. Many on the internet and television like Alex Jones and Governor Jesse Ventura have had specials on this subject. I know they won’t be called crazy or racist. They believe the government is into population control and will use this machine to wipe out more than eighty percent of the population. When I hear white men nervous and worried about being wiped out, you know my lil black self from the south side of Chicago is nervous as hell. The Russians also questioned this technology when America first showed up with it.
Potential for use as a weapon
The objectives of the HAARP project became the subject of controversy in the mid-1990s, following claims that the antennas could be used as a weapon. In August 2002, a critical mention of HAARP technology came from the State Duma (parliament) of Russia. The Duma issued a press release on the HAARP written by the international affairs and defense committees, signed by 90 deputies and presented to then President Vladimir Putin. The statement claimed:
The U.S. is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves ... The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component.
This high level concern is paralleled in the April 1997 statement by the U.S. Secretary of Defense over the power of such electromagnetic weaponry. Russia owns and operates an ionospheric heater system as powerful as the HAARP, called 'Sura.'
If everybody is questioning the use of this technology, trust me we are not crazy for thinking the same thoughts. What happens to us too much is we let race relations put us to sleep. We want to be friends with our open enemies more than we want to be family with our African brothers and sisters around the world. We are all still African no matter where we were left. Malcolm X once asked “If a cat has kittens in an oven, does that make them biscuits?”
The most Honored Elijah Muhammad teaches us that when the bible speaks of the destruction of the world it is actually speaking of a system being destroyed. He said in the book “The Fall of America” that the U.S would put together its best weapons in its war against God. He said this would be allowed so that God would be able to prove his power to the people and bring about the destruction of the devils as we know them today. So I say to my brother Malik and others who would allow fear to make them bow down, Allah (the all in all including us) is more powerful than the devil could ever be and if we continue to stick together and fight with God against this open enemy we possibly can be saved. Until Truth Prevails My Eyes will be watching

Sunday, December 19, 2010

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2003/07/59803
EXCERPT:

RIAA Chief's Republican Pedigree

Katie Dean
07.29.03
The recording industry has turned to a well-connected Republican to lead it through the upcoming legal fights it has picked with consumers.
On Sept. 1, Mitch Bainwol, former chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), will replace Hilary Rosen as chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Bainwol takes the helm as the music industry is embroiled in a battle with music lovers over illegal downloads on the Internet. Over the past few weeks, the trade group has sent out hundreds of subpoenas to Internet service providers and universities to obtain the identities of suspected file traders. The RIAA has said it will begin to file lawsuits against those music swappers at the end of August.
"Mitch's strong background and experience will be a real asset to the RIAA. We welcome him to the RIAA and look forward to working with him on the important issues facing our industry at this crucial time," Cary Sherman, RIAA president, said in a statement.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1027_3-5056299.html
July 28, 2003 3:14 PM PDT

GOP staffer chosen to head RIAA


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The Recording Industry Association of America has tapped a former Republican Senate staffer to replace Hilary Rosen as chief executive, firming up the group's leadership during one of the most controversial moments in its history. The big record labels' trade group said Monday that Mitch Bainwol, former chief of staff to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, will replace Rosen at the RIAA's helm. Rosen left the group several months ago, after announcing her planned departure in January.
Although Bainwol has little experience inside the music industry, he brings deep connections to the Republican Party, something the RIAA has largely lacked under Rosen's leadership.
"Mitch brings to the RIAA the consummate insider's understanding of political nuance in Washington," Roger Ames, CEO of Warner Music Group, said in a statement. "I'm confident he has the ability to clearly communicate the issues and challenges the music industry faces and to partner effectively with the computer, consumer electronics and music publishing businesses to help us address those issues in all appropriate forums."
Bainwol joins the RIAA at a critical moment in the group's history, as it plans to launch what could be thousands of lawsuits against individual music consumers who have allegedly traded large numbers of copyrighted songs online. The controversial drive, already under way, has threatened to further compromise the industry's relationship with online consumers.
The new RIAA head has moved in GOP political circles for most of his professional life. He began his career as a budget analyst in President Reagan's Office of Management and Budget and has variously served as a Senate staffer, as chief of staff for the Republican National Committee and as executive director of the Republican National Senatorial Committee.
"I'm delighted to take on this role," Bainwol said in a statement. "What could be more rewarding than helping to promote two great American traditions: music and property rights?"
Bainwol will begin his duties Sept. 1, the RIAA said.


Read more: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1027_3-5056299.html#ixzz18cXG3S3s

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trust that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States. Its members consist of record labels and distributors, which the RIAA say "create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate sound recordings produced and sold in the United States".[1]

http://www.essortment.com/all/whatistrust_rfyg.htm
There are many differences with the wording of Trusts and many different types of Trusts. However, there are two basic distinctions the Living Trust and the Testamentary Trust. A Living Trust is created and instated while you are alive. A Testamentary Trust is carried out after your death from instructions given while you were alive. There is also the distinction of revocable and irrevocable Trusts. A revocable Trust can be changed, added to, taken from or stopped at anytime by the person instating it. If the Trust does not specifically state that the Trust can be revoked or amended,then it is an irrevocable Trust and can not be altered, ever.

Trusts can be created for many reasons, but they usually are best for people who have assets over $500,000.00 dollars. Here are some reasons to create a Trust. To run and support a business. Take care of minors. Pay for medical bills. Create a scholarship fund. Hold real estate, cash, securities or property. Avoid probate. Save on Federal taxes. To hold all your assets together for future instructions.

Whomever is appointed as trustee must follow the rules of the Trust and can not go against your instructions. As said earlier, you can appoint yourself as trustee or another friend or family member. Or, you can appoint a corporate trustee. A corporate trustee is usually a lawyer, accountant, bank or trust company that is chartered to be a trustee. They will charge you fees to take care of your Trust. They will also be able to invest your assets in a more educated manner than unqualified trustees.

When a Tust is done right, it will protect your assets in many ways. It can protect your assets from probate after your death. Save on estate taxes. Keep all assets out of creditor’s clutches. Keep your property away from a divorcee.

To find a lawyer who can put together a Trust for you, call your local Bar Association for a referral. Ask for an attorney who is experienced in tax and estate planning. Ask for a free conference to interview them. Many attorneys are willing to give you fifteen minutes or a half an hour free consultation. If you feel they are experienced and you want to do business with them have them prepare a plan for your Trust. You should always get a second opinion on this plan that is developed by paying another attorney, your banks trust department or your accountant to review it. After all, you want to make sure that it is done properly, legally and to your best benefit because you will be transferring your property to it. It is well worth the money to make sure you are not getting ripped off.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Attacks-the-United-States-Copyright-Office-164623.shtml

Anonymous Attacks the United States Copyright Office
November 3rd, 2010, 17:21 GMT| By Lucian Constantin

After hitting riaa.org during the weekend, Anonymous members have turned their attention towards the United States Copyright Office and are currently coordinating a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against its website.
Anonymous is group of hacktivists claiming to fight for freedom of expression and freedom of information online, which has no problem with using illegal means to get its message out.
It is not an organization with a real structure or leaders, but rather a spontaneous gathering of Internet users who share the same views.
The group has its origins on the infamous 4chan /b/ board, the birthplace of many Internet memes, where the majority of users post anonymously.
On September 28, Anonymous began a DDoS campaign dubbed Operation Payback against the entertainment industry and anti-piracy organizations.
It started after an Indian company called Aiplex Software openly admitted to attacking torrent sites that failed to respond to takedown notifications sent on behalf of movie studios.

So far, the group's targets have included music and film industry associations, law firms involved in copyright litigation, record labels and even artists, who were vocal against Internet  piracy.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the Dutch BREIN Foundation, the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), the Spanish General Society of Authors and Editors (SGAE) and the Federation of the Italian Music Industry (FIMI), are amongst the group's victims.
Some outfits were even attacked multiple times. For example, the Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) was hit on two separate occasions.
Last time it was during this past weekend, after a court shut down the LimeWire file sharing application, as a result of a complaint filed by the association.
It's not immediately clear if there is any specific reason why copyright.gov has become the main target, except for the organization's mission to protect copyright.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiplex_Software
Aiplex Software is a company based in India contracted by the MPAA[1] to deliver copyright notices to websites that they deem violate copyright laws, and distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) said sites if they fail to remove the offending content.[2] Both Aiplex Software and the MPAA were subjected to a DDoS attack themselves as a result of said contract.[3]
Aiplex have openly admitted to engaging in illegal actions such as DDoS attacks against various anti-copyright websites [4].
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LimeWire
EXCERPT:Pirate Edition
In November of 2010, an anonymous individual by the handle of Meta Pirate released a modified version of LimeWire Pro, which was entitled LimeWire Pirate Edition[31][32]. It came with all undesirable components removed, such as the Ask! Toolbar and all other malware, adware, spyware, and backdoors removed, as well as all dependencies on LimeWire LLC servers.[33]
In response to allegations that a current or former member of Lime Wire LLC staff wrote and released the software, the company has stated that: "[LimeWire is] not behind these efforts. LimeWire does not authorize them. LimeWire is complying with the Court’s October 26, 2010 injunction."[31]
On 11 December, the source to LimeWire Pirate Edition was placed on the popular source code hosting Web site, SourceForge. Due to copyright concerns, the name of the application was changed to WireShare. The application supports Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X.
http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2010/12/08/the-wikileaks-scandal-is-more-than-just-a-diplomatic-scuffle-its-a-war-for-the-future-of-the-internet/
The Wikileaks scandal is more than just a diplomatic scuffle; it’s a war for the future of the Internet
By Tom Mendelsohn
The Foreign Desk
Wednesday, 8 December 2010 at 12:29 pm
You’ll have been following the Wikileaks saga, of course, because it is novel and interesting. Maybe you like it because it looks like a live action retelling of Enemy Of The State, or because history seems to be in the making. It feels big, doesn’t it? It is, but it’s bigger than that, too: what we’re witnessing right now is the opening of hostilities in the first big infowar. The war for the Internet is very big indeed.
If you’re not a digital native, or if you’re some kind of hearty outdoors type, this may not seem important, but you’re dead wrong. We could be spectators for the start of the cyber Great War – and they’ve just knocked over Franz Ferdinand.
We’ve seen cyber skirmishes before: Russian hackers targeted and sank Georgia’s internet infrastructure during their brief conflict in 2008, while there’ve been hints of Chinese muscle flexing for some time – especially last month, when traffic through US government sites was rerouted through Chinese servers for 18 minutes in November.
The difference now is that this battle is extra-national; it isn’t one country against another, so much as an establishment of nations fighting a global insurgency – with the soul of the Internet as the spoils.
At the moment, the greatest invention in human history is broadly free. It allows for unprecedented communication, truly free assembly, and with these, an unparalleled forum for the exchange of ideas. It’s a seat for radicalism, and it has the potential to usher in dramatic reorganisation of established power structures.
Up until now, the apple cart hasn’t been upset enough to incline governments to make overt changes. Wikileaks has changed that, and provoked the US into action: now the powers that be can see what the Internet can do, they want it changed.
It’s Internet power that lets us watch this unfold minute-by-minute, as the web’s corporate support structure crumbles before our eyes. One by one, companies we take for granted bow to pressure and desert the insurgents. First Amazon’s hosting, then Pay Pal, EveryDNS and Mastercard and Visa – betrayals all, robbing Wikileaks of the oxygen of hosting and funding. This is the old order’s first salvo, an old-fashioned show of power, using old-world intimidation tactics to bring down tangible assets and demonstrate the fragility of the Internet we thought we could trust.
Make no mistake, if they win here, online life will change. Expect tighter government control, more regulations and sanitised information flow. It won’t end the web as a place of freedom – but it will raise the technological barriers to entry, necessitating secrecy software and technical savvy. People without the IT skills may never be able to stumble upon radical ideas or free speech.
This leads us to the insurgency. There are people fighting against the constriction of the net, a rebel alliance of hackers and activists, and it is they who are causing such a ruckus.
Now Wikileaks has put its head above the parapet, myriad spontaneous groups are emerging from the soupy corners of the Internet, refusing to take all this authoritarianism lying down. Many of these are simple anarchists, like the infamous group Anonymous – a collective in the loosest possible sense of troublemakers and technophiles. Angry, porn-obsessed adolescents they might be, but they’re angry, obsessed adolescents with significant technological firepower – and a grudge.
Operation Payback is in full swing, lashing out with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks – which flood a website with fake hits in order to overwhelm its servers. Armed with a simple hack tool called the Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC), hackers have been attacking the websites of those companies who slighted Wikileaks and Assange with surprising success, knocking them offline for hours at a time.
The Swiss bank that deserted Assange was down for the whole day yesterday, while MasterCard – which, lest ye forget, still allows you to donate to subsidiaries of the KKK – has now lost control of its own homepage. If people can’t see http://www.mastercard.com/, it’ll certainly cost them money; infowar is waged on the bottom line.
DDoS attacks, while difficult to trace, are illegal, and the LOIC currently has a Trojan in it.
Other groups are rallying around too: Pirate Parties and private individuals are hosting Wikileaks mirrors now that wikileaks.org has been removed from the DNS – the Internet’s address book. Allies worldwide are assembling on Twitter and Facebook, disseminating information, organising protest and downloading the all-important insurance file. Consider the Justice for Assange group which sprang from nowhere yesterday, and organised an entire protest through Twitter in time for his court appearance.
The war has escalated to the extent that anti-Wikileaks hackers are retaliating with DDoS attacks of their own, counter-attacking anonops – Anonymous’ own organisation hub. Last week, an apparently rightwing hacker calling himself ‘th3 j3st3r’ DDoS’ed Wikileaks itself, with limited success.
Like I say, it’s going nuts out there, and this is truly just the beginning. Remember, if this sounds trivial or nerdy to you – and well it may – it doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening or that it isn’t significant. While the only casualties right now may be websites and services, there will be bigger trophies to come in a war which is only just getting warmed up – and which will certainly shape the future of the world.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/spam-downloads-surge-wikileaks-supporters/
EXCERPT:
WikiLeaks supporters download ‘Low Orbit Ion Cannon’ software en masse
By The Associated Press
Friday, December 10th, 2010 -- 12:59 pm
Security experts see surge in downloads of spam used to attack sites hostile to WikiLeaks
WikiLeaks supporters on Friday downloaded increasing amounts of the spam-shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile — a development that could challenge even Internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com during the crucial Christmas shopping season.
U.S. data security company Imperva says downloads of the attack program used to bombard websites with bogus requests for data have jumped to over 40,000, with thousands of new downloads reported overnight.
"It's definitely increasing," Imperva Web researcher Tal Be'ery said in a telephone interview from Israel.
The freely available software is a critical part of the campaign by "hacktivists" seeking to take revenge on sites they believe have betrayed WikiLeaks, the group that has outraged American officials by publishing hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. diplomatic cables and military intelligence reports.
Users who download the software essentially volunteer their computers to be used as weapons that volley streams of electronic spam at targeted websites. The more computers, the greater the flow of data requests, and the better chances are of overwhelming the targeted website.
The cyberguerillas, who gather under the name Anonymous, have generally been successful in foiling their enemies. Attacks directed at the main pages of Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc. succeeded in making them inaccessible, in MasterCard's case for several hours. Attacks on online payment company PayPal Inc. have periodically rendered part of its website inoperative. Moneybookers.com, another targeted site, was inaccessible Friday.
All four sites have severed their links to WikiLeaks, often citing suspected "terms of use" violations, hurting the group's ability to accept donations. The moves angered WikiLeaks supporters and alarmed free speech advocates, whom claim the companies are caving in to U.S. pressure to muzzle the controversial website.
WikiLeaks has been careful to distance itself from Anonymous, saying "we neither condemn nor applaud these attacks."
A press release circulated under the Anonymous name Friday said the group was acting "to raise awareness about WikiLeaks and the underhanded methods employed by the above companies to impair WikiLeaks' ability to function."
Imperva said Friday that it had monitored Anonymous supporters boasting about bringing in huge numbers of extra computers to back the attacks — something it said might challenge Amazon.com — another site that cut its ties to WikiLeaks — at one of the retailer's busiest times of the year.
But Be'ery stressed the boasts were unconfirmed, and the Anonymous statement said its members did not want to alienate the public by causing online havoc over the holidays.
"Simply put, attacking a major online retailer when people are buying presents for their loved ones would be in bad taste," the Anonymous release said.
Dutch police said Friday they were investigating whether hackers were responsible for taking down the websites of police and prosecutors in the Netherlands after the arrest of a 16-year-old suspected cybercriminal and alleged WikiLeaks supporter.
In Australia, WikiLeaks supporters held rallies Friday in Brisbane and in Sydney, where more than 500 people gathered outside Town Hall, some waving signs that read, "Hands off WikiLeaks, We deserve the truth," and "Don't shoot the messenger."
One man sealed his mouth shut with tape on which the words "NO LEAKS" was written.
Among the most recent newsworthy WikiLeaks revelations was a claim that drug maker Pfizer Inc. hired investigators to dig up dirt on Nigeria's former attorney general in a bid to stop action over a 1996 drug study, and that the U.S. considered taking military action against an arms-laden Ukrainian ship after it was hijacked by Somali pirates two years ago.
The U.S. Department of Justice, meanwhile is considering whether to charge those behind the leaks under the espionage act or other laws, while U.S. diplomats, deeply embarrassed by WikiLeaks' disclosures, have struggled to contain the fallout.
"The deplorable WikiLeaks disclosures put innocent lives at risk, and damage U.S. national security interests," U.S. Ambassador to London Louis Susman wrote in an editorial Friday in The Guardian newspaper. "There is nothing brave about sabotaging the peaceful relations between nations on which our common security depends."
The U.S. may soon be facing more than WikiLeaks as an opponent.
A former WikiLeaks spokesman plans to launch a rival website Monday called Openleaks that will help anonymous sources deliver sensitive material to public attention. Daniel Domscheit-Berg made the claim in a documentary by Swedish broadcaster SVT airing Sunday but obtained in advance by the AP.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange remained in a U.K. jail ahead of a Dec. 14 hearing where he plans to fight Sweden's request to extradite him to face sex crimes allegations.
Kristen Gelineau in Sydney, Michael Corder in The Hague and Louise Nordstrom in Stockholm contributed to this report.
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http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/film-industry-hires-cyber-hitmen-to-take-down-internet-pirates-20100907-14ypv.html
Film industry hires cyber hitmen to take down internet pirates
Ben Grubb
September 8, 2010
The film industry is launching cyber attacks on websites hosting pirated movies. Illustration: Karl Hilzinger
The film industry is using pirate tactics to beat the pirates – by employing “cyber hitmen” to launch attacks that take out websites hosting illegal movies.
Girish Kumar, managing director of Aiplex Software, a firm in India, told this website that his company, which works for the film industry, was being hired - effectively as hitmen - to launch cyber attacks on sites hosting pirated movies that don't respond to copyright infringement notices sent to them by the film industry.
Kumar said 95 per cent of sites hosting illegal movies co-operated with notices, but a few - mostly sites hosting torrents and used primarily for illegal content - did not.
Managing director of Aiplex Software, Girish Kumar. Photo: Supplied
"Most movies are released on Friday morning at 10am in India," Kumar said in a telephone interview. "The movie is released in the morning [and] by afternoon it's on the internet."
His company trawled the net to find movies uploaded, he said.
"What we do is we see all those links on the net," he said.
"We find the hosting [computer] server and send them a copyright infringement notice because they're not meant to have those links. If they don't remove [the link] we send them a second notice and ask them [again] to remove it."
He said that if the provider did not do anything to remove the link or content hosted on its site, his company would launch what is known as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on the offending computer server.
In Australia, distrubuted-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are an offence under section 477.3 of the Criminal Code Act 1995, according to the Australian Federal Police. As for DoS attacks, which are different, according to Australian law a person is guilty of an offence if the person causes "any unauthorised impairment of electronic communication to or from a computer".
According to news site Daily News & Analysis, Kumar's company sometimes went further in its attacks.
"At times, we have to go an extra mile and attack the site and destroy the data to stop the movie from circulating further," the site quoted him as saying.
"Generally speaking 95 per cent of ... providers do remove the content. It's only the torrent sites - 20 to 25 per cent of the torrent sites - that do not have respect for any of the copyright notices," Kumar said.
"How can we put the site down? The only means that we can put the site down is [by launching a] denial-of-service [attack]. Basically we have to flood [the site] with millions and millions of requests and put the site down."
He said commercial sites such as YouTube and Daily Motion were the only sites that responded promptly to infringement notices.
"They are immediately responding to our copyright notices and removing the links and this is saving immense revenue to the producers [of movies]," he said.
Asked whether his company ever warned when it was to launch a DoS attack on a site if it did not remove pirated content, Kumar said that it did not.
"No, we don't do that. We generally ask them to respect the copyright notices under DMCA ruling XYZ."
Kumar even pledged to come to Australia to help out on internet piracy here.
"If you want me to service any Australian companies I would be really pleased to come down and do a presentation and work for the Australian movie [industry] also if they are willing," he said.
Kumar said that at the moment most of the payment for his company's services came from the film industry in India.
"We are tied up with more than 30 companies in Bollywood. They are the major production houses."
As for Hollywood films, he said they, too, used his services.
"We are tied up with Fox STAR Studios - Star TV and 20th Century Fox -who are a joint venture company in India."
The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft, or AFACT, which represents the film industry on piracy in Australia, said it did not condone the activities of Kumar's company.
"The methodology [used by Kumar's company] ... is not something that AFACT has undertaken nor sub-contracted to outside vendors," executive director Neil Gane said.
Asked whether it, on behalf of the Australian film industry, would use Kumar's services, it said: "AFACT have very talented in-house investigators and a successful track record that does not require outside vendors to assist in ongoing criminal investigations."
"AFACT investigates websites that infringe our member companies content and refers such alleged criminal matters to law-enforcement agencies using investigative techniques that are within the law, cost effective and would elicit the necessary level of evidence to support further police inquiries."
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http://www.afact.org/
AFACT
AFACT is the Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business. It’s a non-profit, Non-governmental organization that is open to participation from the representatives of member countries and experts from private sectors within the Asia-Pacific region.
The forerunner of AFACT was ASEB (Asia EDIFACT Board) established in 1990 in response to disseminate EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce and Transport) policies and activities in the Asia-Pacific region. After 8 years’ contribution to facilitate international transaction within the region, through the simplification and harmonization of procedures and information flows, the need for re-engineering was raised in the 16th ASEB meeting to conform to the rapidly changing trend of EDI and EC, and to respond to the successful restructure of UN/CEFACT. As a result of re-engineering, AFACT marked down the era of ASEB in 1998. In 1999, the epoch of AFACT was officially commenced.
AFACT aims to promote the commitment and development of trade facilitation, electronic business policies and activities in the Asia Pacific region, mainly focusing on those promoted by UN/CEFACT ( United Nations Center for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business), to guide, stimulate, improve and promote the ability of business, trade and administrative organizations from members, as well as to exchange products and relevant services effectively within AFACT community.
Currently, there are 19 members from Australia, Chinese Taipei,China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan. Each of which is represented by a local organization dedicated in promoting the application of standards and recommendations, e.g. UN/EDIFACT, developed by UN/CEFACT. eBusiness Asia committee and PAA (Pan-Asian eCommerce Alliance) are the associate members of AFACT, which is dedicated to promote cooperation in implementing trade facilitation and eCommerce in this region.
There are 11 Working Groups formed under AFACT, of which each with its own scope of work and responsibilities. The Working Groups are Awareness and Education Working Group(AEG), Financial Working Group(FWG), Transportation Working Group(TWG), Customs Working Group(CWG), Supply Chain Working Group(SCWG=PWG+ECWG), Security Working Group(SWG), Air Transportation Working Group(ATG), Legal Working Group(LWG), Inter-networking Implementation Committee(IIC), Business collaboration Framework Working Group(BCFWG), XML Working Group(XMLWG).
The major activities include:
1.Analyzing and understanding the key elements of international transactions and working for the elimination of constraints;
2. Developing methods to facilitate transactions, including the relevant use of information technologies such as UN/EDIFACT and ebXML;
3. Promoting both the use of these methods, and associated best practices, through channels such as government, industry and service associations;
4. Coordinating its work with UN/CEFACT and other relevant international, regional and non-governmental organizations; and
5. Enhancing the cooperation among the AFACT members and promoting the objectives of the mission statement in the Asia Pacific region.

http://www.p2pnet.net/story/24416

Apple, Pepsi and the RIAA SuperBowl scandal

p2pnet news view Kids & Kartels:- | Advertising | P2P:- I thought the reappearance of Psystar on the Apple front was pretty funny. If nothing else, it shows Jobs and his merry crew of Reality Distortion specialists aren’t as all-powerful as they think they are.
In May, as Psytar points out in a letter to customers, it filed for Chapter 11 protection but, “we are now ready to emerge and it again battle Goliath,” it says. “More information will be available in the coming days when will be formally discharged by the Bankruptcy court.
“When life gives you apples, make applesauce.”
In a Reader’s Write to the p2pnet post saying Psystar was back, “Apple has a niche selling premium products to people who are willing to pay for that premium,” said Lachlan, but, “I think the word ‘premium’ here is a farcical perception perpetuated by that ‘niche’ market,” said Devil’s Advocate.
I responded, posting, “Way back in the dark reaches of time when I wrote for a friend who had one of the first ‘computer’ newspapers, Apple actually gave me a Mac and a printer. It was a relatively new company and the idea was I’d write about its product(s). But because a) unlike a PC, you couldn’t fool with it unless you were an expert; and, b) most people couldn’t afford it, or the software needed to run it, I couldn’t see how it’d be of much use to the general population. So I gave it back. With apologies to surfer, a keen Macolyte, I used to believe those who bought Macs (and were subsequently afflicted with the manic religious fever which seems to hit most people who own an Apple product) had secret brain implants. Now, I realise they’re just too embarrassed to admit they were had. ;)
However, “Basing your current opinion on preconceptions garnered a long time ago is not a wise course of action,” reckoned Dan, and I replied:
“As far as I’m concerned, there’s not much to choose between Apple stuff of yester-year and Apple stuff of today. But it isn’t just that, or the fact Apple and Jobs were among the early, and most enthusiastic, long-term adopters of DRM, or that Jobs closed down an excellent Apple-centric site for promoting ‘product’ before he wanted it promoted. Etc and so on. What really bothers me, and it’s something I won’t forget or drop, is how he [Jobs] blatantly used 16 innocent teenagers identified by the RIAA as alleged ‘copyright violators’ — ‘alleged’ because they never appeared before a judge — in his infamous 2004 SuperBowl iTunes / iPod ad. http://www.p2pnet.net/story/677
“I didn’t like Apple back when, and I don’t like it now.”
I’ve alluded to the disgraceful RIAA / Apple /iTunes / Pepsi SuperBowl ad before, but this time around, I’m going to re-run the whole item, together with another which sets it up.
I wonder where Annie Leith (right) is today and what she thinks of her appearance? Does she believe it was right for Apple and Pepsi to hold her and her friends up to be falsely accused by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music’s RIAA as criminals in front of hundreds of millions of people in a warped iPod commercial?
The iTunes /RIAA / Pepsi advertising connection has been forgotten by most people. But the RIAA is still trotting out kids and their parents as thieves.
And it’s still getting away with it.
Meanwhile Item Number One »»»
Pepsi ads wink at music downloading
‘Wink’ at downloading? That’s the headline in a USA TODAY story pumping up Pepsi’s coming iTunes music store promo.
Some 20 teens sued by the Recording Industry Association of America, which accuses them of unauthorized downloads, will appear in a Pepsi-Cola (PEP) ad that kicks off a two-month offer of up to 100 million free – and legal -downloads from Apple’s iTunes, the leading online music seller, says the story here.
The sassy ad [no kidding - it's a direct quote] due out on February 1 during Superbowl, is a wink at the download hot button, says Theresa Howard in a piece which might have come straight from Pepsi’s promo department.
Pepsi hopes the promotion will connect its flagship cola, as well as Sierra Mist and Diet Pepsi, with teens who’ve shown more affinity for bottled water, energy drinks and the Internet, she says.
The ‘wink’ comes in because Annie Leith, 14, has been suckered into appearing in the ad with other downloaders and apparently says she no longer makes unauthorized downloads and, can say I was on TV for something so ridiculous. With her older sister and younger brother, she downloaded 950 songs over three years, says the story, going on:
They settled the lawsuit for $3,000, the average according to RIAA. She’ll use some of her undisclosed ad fee to help pay for the settlement.
‘Settled’ means they paid the RIAA $3,000 rather than getting hauled into a court hearing which might have cost them thousands of dollars more.
In the meanwhile, Green Day cut a special version of the 1966 Bobby Fuller Four hit I Fought the Law for the ad, by BBDO, New York, says USA TODAY. In the ad, Leith holds a Pepsi and proclaims: ‘We are still going to download music for free off the Internet.’ Then the announcer says how: ‘Announcing the Pepsi iTunes Giveaway’.
It’s all in good spirit, Dave Burwick, chief marketer, Pepsi, North America, is quoted as saying.
Pepsi even managed to wheel out the RIAA’s seldom-seen boss Mitch Bainwol.
This ad shows how everything has changed, Bainwol says. Legal downloading is great because fans are supporting the future of creative work in America.
How low can you go?
Ask Pepsi.
I should have added a line to this story: “The only people laughing are the people who run the RIAA.”
Item Number Two »»»
Hi, I’m one of the kids who was prosecuted for downloading music free off of the Internet, says a teenager in an ad slated to be aired during the Super Bowl tomorrow.
And I’m here to announce in front of 100 million people that we’re still going to download music free off the Internet.
She’s one of 16 naive US teenagers ‘persuaded’ to appear in the 45-second spot which was to have reprised Apple’s triumph of 1984 when, in the first Super Bowl ‘event’ ad, it launched the Mac.
However, the 2004 production will be remembered with shame.
The 16 teenagers were identified by the RIAA as alleged ‘copyright violators’ – ‘alleged’ because they never appeared before a judge. They, or their parents, settled out of court rather than risk much larger financial penalties had they gone head-to-head with the RIAA’s heavyweight legal team, and lost.
The ad has Pepsi ‘giving’ away 100 million iTunes songs as a promotion. Waving bottles of soda, the kids let everyone know that’s the kind of ‘legitimate’ music they’ll be downloading in the future.
I would like to see more of this, Jimmy Iovine, chairman of Interscope Geffen A&M, part of Universal Music Group, is quoted as saying in a National Post story here. We’re starting to see technology companies come on our side, now soft drink companies are coming on our side.
Iovine’s reference to technology companies comes from his love-in with Hewlett-Packard when he appeared onstage at an HP dog-and-pony show to support the latter’s introduction of DRM systems.
In the meanwhile, Annie Leith, 14, whose parents gave the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) $3,000 to avoid a civil lawsuit, is featured and she says she’ll use some of her undisclosed ad fee to help pay for that.
Michelle Maalouf is another teenager caught up in the RIAA’s stop-at-nothing sue ‘em all campaign.
It was fun being in the commercial, but being sued wasn’t so great, Michelle, 13, says in this SFGate story here. We didn’t know it was illegal. We really like music.
All of the teenagers in the spot were sued by the recording industry’s powerful trade group [the RIAA], says the report.
What’s interesting is that the SFGate story uses the word ’sued’.
More on that later.
Falsely attributing criminal conductIt’s all in good spirit, says Dave Burwick, chief marketer, Pepsi, North America.
Josh Wattles, however, doesn’t think that adequately describes the commericial. In fact, Falsely attributing criminal conduct to someone is a slam-dunk libel in just about every state, he says.
There’s no calculus of relative harm to justify this kind of abusive, untruthful and cynical behavior towards minors no matter how complicit their misguided parents may have been in this deception.
He’s the former acting general counsel of Paramount Pictures, a key architect of the MPAA’s (Motion Picture Association of America) anti-piracy programs in the transition to videocassette distribution, and the former senior executive in charge of Viacom’s music subsidiaries, The Famous Music Publishing Companies.
It started last year when Big Music instructed the RIAA, its principal enforcer, to sue any file swapper it could identify for copyright violations. Its lawyers used ‘instant subpoenas’ obtained under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to pressure ISPs into handing over subscriber names and addresses – until the Verizon decision put a stop to it.
However, before being ordered to use due process like everyone else, the RIAA had been able to track down and identify close to 1,000 p2p file swappers, mostly teenagers and students, whom they threaten with civil, not criminal, court actions. Unless they settle.
The 16 teenaged Pepsi stars were among those swept up in the RIAA’s ‘investigations’.
By the sheer volume of ink the RIAA has been able to generate in the media, it’s succeeded in making people believe anyone who downloads music, shares files, swaps music, or whatever you want to call it, is a criminal and thief.
That’s not true.
But the RIAA’s relentless, mind-numbing assertions have been sufficient to paint the picture and hence, the Pepsi/iTunes campaign could be catchily entitled I Fought the Law.
And, I was one of the kids prosecuted for downloading music, says a teenager. She was not, though, ‘prosecuted’ for anything. She’d never been in a court. She was, rather, mouthing words from a script contrived by BBDO and approved by Pepsi and Apple.
However, to make the theme stand up, the message that these kids were ex-criminals who’d been rightfully ‘prosecuted’ had to be driven home hard and therefore, Busted, Charged, Incriminated, and Accused appears over their images, and the carefully arranged lighting and their sullen looks purposefully suggest a gritty, urban, isolated feel – the kind of thing associated on TV with ‘lawbreakers’ and criminality.
To make the point even more strongly, Convicted file swappers star in Pepsi Super Bowl ad, reads a ZDNet teaser headline leading to another site.
Convicted? When? By whom? And on what criminal charge?
And in During Breaks in Game, Satire and Silliness, New York Times business writer Stuart Elliott thinkse the stand-out (his words) Super Bowl commercial was a, cheeky spot, introducing a promotion co-sponsored by the iTunes division of Apple Computer, that smartly teased the recording industry for suing teenagers for illegal file sharing.
“Sixteen of the miscreants appeared in the commercial, identified with tongue-in-cheek labels like ‘Incriminated,’ ‘Accused and ‘Busted,’ as the soundtrack played ‘I Fought the Law (and the Law Won).’ The jest was topped at the end as these words appeared on screen: ‘Drink down Pepsi and download music at iTunes. Legally’.
Smartly teased the recording industry for suing teenagers?
QuestionsA number of questions go begging, however.
  • Did the kids appearing in the commercials know exactly what the script would have them saying – specifically, that the word ‘prosecuted’ would be used? And did they know there’d be suggestive overlays superimposed while their images flashed up?
  • Did the ‘actors’ or their parents or their guardians or lawyers see and OK the ads – and the various elements such as the overlays – in writing after they’d been edited and approved for airing by Pepsi and Apple?
  • Were they given the option of backing out if they didn’t like the look of the final cut, if they indeed saw it?
  • Was the agreement between BBDO and the teenagers carefully crafted and honestly written to protect them?
  • Or was it a standard ‘name and likeness for a fee’ boilerplate or worse, a cold and cynical contract made by a calculating team of highly paid lawyers and account executives with 16 naive and easily impressed youngsters to insulate Pepsi, iTunes and CBS from possible libel suits filed by the teenagers after the ad was cut?
I still can’t get over the fact that these fresh faced teenagers are being attacked by companies just to preserve a business model in need of freshening up itself, says Wattles. I don’t want my kids treated that way by business and I don’t want other people’s kids treated that way.
And on the choice of language, Prosecutions are usually understood to be actions by the state to enforce criminal laws, he says. Prosecutions aren’t generally understood to mean civil lawsuits. The word ’sued’ would be appropriate and accurate in this context.
The ad falsely pumps up the music industry’s enforcement effort, and its suggestive criminalization of the kids’ behavior building up to the tag line ‘we’re still gonna download music for free off the Internet – and there’s not a thing anyone can do about it,’ reinforces the ad’s presumption that their behavior had been criminal.
What’s the problem?But, What’s the problem? – asks a nameless, faceless RIAA spokesperson. We’re only involved as good corporate citizens. We gave Pepsi and Apple and BBDO the kids’ names to help them. The kids, that is. This is our way of working with wholesome American institutions to save the Children of America from having us prosecute them for stealing music. What can be wrong with that?
And Gosh! Pepsi is giving the music away anyhow. But this time, the kids won’t end up in a court for downloading!
‘Giving’ is probably the wrong word, though.
Actually, Pepsi is marketing the tunes on behalf of the RIAA’s owners, the major record labels, who sold the songs to Apple in the first place. People get the songs by buying Pepsi and looking under the bottle tops, some of which have a code which can be redeemed to ‘buy’ a song from iTunes.
Rich Menta, editor of MP3newswire, says here, The RIAA will earn $0.75 from Pepsi for each of the 100 million downloads. And that’s $75 million, in pure profit for the record industry, which is why RIAA president Mitch Bainwol is happy to go along with the joke, suggests Menta.
Apple wins, of course, because now they have more than quadrupled their total sales of downloads from 30 million to 130 million tunes – all using the AAC format that only the iPod will play, thus pushing iPod sales.
Is ‘get sued by the RIAA and star in a TV commercial’ the message? – Menta asks.
It’s bad enough that the RIAA targeted kids for their lawsuits but, it’s worse to criminalize their behavior on national television just for the sake of a provocation, or to sell soft drinks and iTunes downloads, Wattles told p2pnet.
Moreover, he goes on, Congress, in making the copyright laws, never, to my knowledge, considered the circumstance that kids would be engaged in mass infringements, however technical. Certainly, imposing extraordinarily high statutory civil damages on an ill-behaved and/or ill-informed teenager seems out of step with the result a legislature would have openly picked.
And there’s a big legal question mark over whether or not they can be tried as juveniles for criminal copyright infringement.
Wattles – who was at Berkeley in 1969 – points out that he’s speaking as an individual concerned over the excessive and intrusive behavior of an industry to which he’s contributed, and in which he still has a stake.
I don’t want to see it [the entertainment industry] behave in this way and I believe I’m speaking out responsibly to help it correct itself, he says.
No matter how old they are and even if their parents or a court signed off for them, they could possibly sustain an action for libel if they weren’t completely aware of what this ad was going to look like and suggest about them.
These kids weren’t criminally prosecuted, but they’ll get to live with this characterization for the rest of their lives – even after they grow up and move away from their childish false bravura performances.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Anonymous-Attacks-the-United-States-Copyright-Office-164623.shtml
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/6250

Was filmmaking genius Stanley Kubrick 'snuffed' in retribution for symbolic exposé of the Illuminati in "Eyes Wide Shut"?

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Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Illuminati Symbology (9 min)

The ritual in Eyes Wide Shut (YT, 5 min, embedding disabled)
While perusing the Jeff Rense-Benjamin Fulford interview transcript in researching Chinese secret society which I previously discussed, I came across the interesting tidbit:
(Discussing the deal with the Illuminati members to spare their lives by not carrying out the genocidal plans to de-populate the Earth)
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FULFORD: No. I'm going to get these people if no one else does. If they don't agree to my terms, they are doomed. And they know it. They have the intelligence agents.
You people out there, you don't know because you don't have access. You don't know if I'm lying, if I'm a crazy guy, but they do. People in the CIA, the NSA, Mossad, they know I'm not kidding. This society is real. And they are moving.
So they realize this is not a bluff. This a promise. They must stop their crazy games.
What these people are trying to do - I know it sounds insane. They are trying to artificially create Armageddon. They are trying to make people believe these are end times, by slaughtering people through disease and famine.
I believe they even have, I know this will sound a bit crazy and you will start wondering about me, but they have some kind of microwave weapon that can heat up underground water near earthquake-prone zones, and trigger earthquakes.
RENSE: Oh, I believe it. If that particular technology is true, it's probably one of two or three. They can do it with harmonic resonance, with sonic-based weapons and devices. There are a lot of ways, apparently, to get earthquake faults to move.
FULFORD: So what I'm getting, the feeling is these people are trying to artificially create the appearance of end times, just like in the Bible, and fool everybody.
RENSE: They seem to be playing to that script.
FULFORD: And you must not be fooled, because this has nothing to do with anything spiritual or otherworldly. This is right here on this earth.
And the cults these people represent, they have been known by folklore over the years. You have to start with Nimrod, the Babylonian tyrant. Then Hammurabi.
Hammurabi is known to the Jews as Abraham - a Babylonian tyrant. A slave driver. These people have had a secret sect of slave drivers that is almost six thousand years old.
They have very, very sophisticated methods. They use secrecy, murder, bribery and ridicule as their main weapons. They have had a very good run, but this is checkmate for them, as far as I am concerned.
They are not going to get away with this. They'd better realize it. It's game up. They've been exposed. People know about them. They are onto their game. And it's not going to work.
All you've got to do is target the Eye. Hollywood - the people in Hollywood have been trying to warn the Americans for years! If you look at Tolkien's movie, you have this Eye on the top of a mountain. Destroy the Eye and save the world.
Or [destroy] the masters. Stanley Kubrick gave up his life to expose these people.
So you've got to remember this isn't [associated with] the Jews. The Jews are your best friends in fighting these people, because they've been their biggest victims over the years.
RENSE: Well, we're talking about Zionists here, not Jews.
FULFORD: Exactly. I'm talking about a specific - well, yeah, you can call them Zionists. I think at a higher level it is a very secretive sect of people who are pretending they are Gods.
RENSE: What happened to Stanley Kubrick? I don't mean the precise cause of death, but where was he going that got him into trouble with these people?
FULFORD: It was the movie Eyes Wide Shut, exposing the Masonic orgies. They showed that there were people being killed. This is probably based on real events.
I haven't done the proper research, but there is an old man who dies in Eyes Wide Shut. If I'm not mistaken, the man in the movie died exactly the way Stanley Kubrick died in real life, just as he finished the movie.
RENSE: It is also suggested that Kubrick was involved in creating the - at least some hoaxed Apollo moon footage, and knew all about that. His wife has intimated as much since his death.
I consider myself a fan of Stanley Kubrick, and I find this revelation, while outlandish, fascinating.
Admittedly, when I was a young man, I did not enjoy Eyes Wide Shut as a plodding and ludicrously turgid movie.
The strange circumstance of Kubrick's March 7, 1999 death at his home -- and the family refuse to release the exact cause of death other than natural cause (may be sudden cardiac arrest) -- shortly after approving the lock on final cut and before the film was released in theatres in North America and some regions on July 16 provide a new perspective that might explain his reclusive & somewhat eccentric lifestyle beginning in the early 70's and why it led naturally to the subject of his final film.
While Kubrick's genius was undoubted to some who appreciate stimulating cinematic art, he chose to relocate to Great Britain to settle as his permanent home beginning in about 1962 after having endured the experience of dealing with the stress and frustration of Hollywood large-scale production & demanding actors (Spartacus). He had not set foot on American soil sometime after the 60's since (he attended April 1968 premiere of 2001: A Space Odyssey in New York City), if the assumption is correct.
Kubrick was famous for the perfectionist style in cold, detached, subliminal, psychologically inhumane and challenging cinematic aesthetics and his preferred approach to adapt the published materials for the screen. He chose Arthur Schnitzler's obscure psychosexual drama novella Traumnovelle (alternatively called Dream Story) to form the basis of the film production removed from general comprehension in plot depth more complex than his previous films.
It's been several years since I saw Eyes Wide Shut for the second time, in my vain attempt to evaluate the movie on its merit in story and theme comprehension. Now that years have passed and my knowledge of the Illuminati and Zionism acquired, I have learned, by viewing the video on YouTube, the appliance of occult symbols in purposefully obscured "satirical context" to accentuate Kubrick's cleverly veiled use of theme on the deadly contagion of mind control, lust, corruption, avarice, deceit, treachery and power vested in the secret society conspiring to swindle, debaunch, brutalize, violate and enslave humanity in Eyes Wide Shut.
While (perhaps rightly) condemned by the mystified and bored audiences for its sheer tedium and incomprehensibility of the bizarre, nonsensical story, Eyes Wide Shut may have a valid point that emerged belatedly, as the truth of the disturbing events and facts divulged and theorized in the alternative media and on the information superhighway of the Internet give our conscious mind food for thought -- the events tracing to the secret societies involving ambitious power to control financial and political businesses in governing the national and international affairs, intelligence services and occult participation within the ranks of the Illuminati, et cetera.
This is precisely Mr. Kubrick's intention. The interpretation of his prophetic warnings can also be found in another film A.I. (themes of searching for maternal love, inhumanity and human extinction) which Steven Spielberg studiously developed for production soon after his friend's untimely passing.
As far as the circumstance of Kubrick's death at the age of 70 is concerned, I may never know whether his death, which is still a great loss for modern cinema nine years later, was a retribution by one of the secret societies angry at the expose of the supposedly discreet activities to bring awareness to the general audience.
The general audience's poor reception of Eyes Wide Shut in reaction -- complaining about the slow-moving tedium and weirdly idiotic story (especially the bedroom scene of a long-winded marital communication in drugged state, escape from the cult's grip & the last scene involving the singular utterance of "Fuck" word) -- may have brought relief to the Illuminati that depend on the trust of the controlled media not to shed the light on the treasonous activity in the long-term plan to usurp power and introduce globalist totalitarian tyranny.
May Stanley Kubrick rest in eternal peace, having departed this mortal plane to leave behind his illuminating message to mankind the warning on the rise of occult tyranny and optimism in renewed hope and faith in the good of humanity.

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Stanley Kubrick
July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999


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The Process Church of The Final Judgment

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The Process, or in full, The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known by non-members as the Process Church, was a religious group that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, founded by the English couple Mary Anne and Robert DeGrimston (originally Robert Moor and Mary Anne MacLean).[1] Originally headquartered in London it had developed as a splinter client cult group from Scientology,[1] so that they were declared "suppressive persons" by L. Ron Hubbard in December 1965.[citation needed] In 1966 the members of the group underwent a social implosion and moved to Xtul on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, where they developed "processean" theology (which differs from, and is unrelated to process theology). They later established a base of operations in the United States in New Orleans.
They were often viewed as Satanic on the grounds that they worshipped both Christ and Satan. Their belief is that Satan will become reconciled to Christ, and together will come at the end of the world to judge humanity, Christ to judge and Satan to execute judgment. Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor of the Charles Manson family trial, comments in his book Helter Skelter that there may be evidence Manson borrowed philosophically from the Process Church, and that representatives of the Church visited him in jail after his arrest. According to one of these representatives, the purpose of the visit was to interview Manson about whether he had ever had any contact with Church members or ever received any literature about the Church.
In April, 1974 Robert DeGrimston was removed by the Council of Masters as Teacher. They renounced The Unity, his exposition of the above-noted doctrines, and most of his other teachings. DeGrimston attempted to restart the Process Church several times, but he could never replace his original following. Following DeGrimston's removal the group underwent a significant change in orientation and renamed itself the Foundation Faith of the Millennium. Further changes in both name and focus followed, and the organization eventually became the Best Friends Animal Society, which is now one of America's best known animal welfare rescue groups. Later on, many of these same believers went on to support Gilles Deleuze in his leadership of the Anti-Oedipal movement of 1968. Most notable works of French critical theory came out of this period [2] Originally headquartered in London it had developed as a splinter client cult group from Scientology,[1].
A detailed account of the history of and life within the Process Church as told by a participant-observer is contained in William S. Bainbridge's book Satan's Power. (He employed a pseudonym for the name of the group, referring to it as "The Power", and disguised the names of people to preserve their identities, a procedure used for sociological studies of living groups to ensure privacy.)

 


[edit] Processean theology

The term "processean theology" distinguishes these ideas from the process theology derived from the thoughts of Alfred North Whitehead.
At Xtul was the first 'channeling' of God. After Xtul, Jehovah was the only recognised God. Later, with Jehovah, Lucifer and Satan were recognised as "The Three Great Gods of the Universe" and Christ as the Emissary to the Gods. The Three Great Gods represent three basic human patterns of reality:
  • Jehovah, the wrathful God of vengeance and retribution, demands discipline, courage and ruthlessness, and a single-minded dedication to duty, purity and self-denial.
  • Lucifer, the Light Bearer, urges us to enjoy life to the full, to value success in human terms, to be gentle and kind and loving, and to live in peace and harmony with one another. Man's apparent inability to value success without descending into greed, jealousy and an exaggerated sense of his own importance, has brought the God Lucifer into disrepute. He has become mistakenly identified with Satan.
  • Satan, the receiver of transcendent souls and corrupted bodies, instills in us two directly opposite qualities; at one end an urge to rise above all human and physical needs and appetites, to become all soul and no body, all spirit and no mind, and at the other end a desire to sink beneath all human codes of behavior, and to wallow in a morass of violence, lunacy and excessive physical indulgence. But it is the lower end of Satan's nature that men fear, which is why Satan, by whatever name, is seen as the Adversary.
In between these Three Great Gods and man, is an entire hierarchy of Gods, beings and superbeings, angels and archangels, demons and archdemons, elementals and guides, and fallen angels and watchers.
The Process believes that, to varying degrees, these "God-patterns" exist within all of us. The main doctrine of The Process is the unity of Christ and Satan, who exist as opposites. Jehovah and Lucifer exist as opposites and when Christ and Satan are united this will unite Jehovah and Lucifer.
In the original 1960s literature of the church, Christ, Lucifer, Satan, and Jehovah were all arranged on a mandala, with Christ at the top opposite Satan on the bottom and Jehovah on the left opposite Lucifer on the right.
(The descriptions of the Gods comes from a teaching called "The Hierarchy" published in December 1967, as a part of "The Tide of the End".)

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/forensics/hollywood_mistress/8.html

Parallel Investigations

 The Mincher case would soon be linked to an even colder case, but one that was being actively investigated, because it had been a celebrity hot potato.  The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department contacted the LAPD to compare notes.  Michael Pascal, it turned out, was a name common to two murders.  So were the names of a few of his bodyguards.
Roy Alexander Radin, a movie producer from New York who'd staged successful vaudeville revivals, was working with other Hollywood notables on putting together deals to back the expensive production of
The Cotton Club.  The story was based on a famous nightclub in New York City that had operated throughout Prohibition.  Opened in 1920, a gangster took over operations three years later, offering bootlegged liquor, scantily-clad female dancers, and even strippers.  Francis Ford Coppola directed the 1984 film which starred Richard Gere, Diane Lane, and Gregory Hines. While it did not do well at the box office, the film was nominated for several awards, including Golden Globes for Best Director and Best Picture (Drama) and the Oscar for best Film Editing.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/forensics/hollywood_mistress/1_index.html
The Mistress of Hollywood: June Cassandra Mincher

Death of a Madam

 They had just left the apartment of a friend, where June, 29, was staying.  She was a well-known figure around there, having undergone over $20,000 worth of cosmetic surgery to sculpt her face, supplement her reported 66-inch bosom, and reshape her lower torso.  Some say she was a prostitute, others elevate her to a madam, but in any event, she advertised in underground porn magazines for her lucrative sex-by-phone services.  Known for flamboyance, she drove a lavender Rolls Royce, wore elaborate wigs under which she often stuffed thousands of dollars, and referred to herself in print as a "sexy Black goddess."  Many erroneously thought she was not a woman at all but a transvestite, in part because many of her associates were.  As long as she got customers, she didn't care what anyone thought.

To some extent, June used phone sex to perpetuate lies — or rather, to enhance fantasies.  At five-foot-seven and 245 pounds, she wasn't exactly a Playboy centerfold type, but since she supported herself on male sexual desires she had learned to manipulate by voice alone until her clients were driven to call...and call again.  But some developed an obsession, and one of them decided he needed more than just a breathy voice.
Greg Antonelli, a twenty-one year-old bodybuilder from a wealthy Beverly Hills family, used every means available to learn June's address, although she'd persistently refused to give it.  One night, hoping to be welcomed, he showed up at her door.  When she saw who it was, she played coy and refused to let him in, so he grew enraged and broke down the door.  To his stunned surprise, he found not the sexy goddess with luxurious curls that he'd expected from photos but an obese fraud with close-cropped hair.  In disgust, he called her several vile names and walked away.
Several months thereafter, on May 3, 1984, June and Christian passed a man standing outside a dark car, with a driver inside.  The man mumbled something and June spun around to run.  She'd seen this man before.
Christian yelled at him, "What do you want?" and a shot cracked through the night air.  Christian grabbed his stomach, falling backwards.  More shots caught June in the back of her head and she collapsed to the street, instantly dead, with blood running onto her clothing and the sidewalk.  Someone inside the car yelled for the shooter to hurry, but he wanted to empty his gun first.  Then he kicked both victims hard before he got back into the car; it sped away from the scene, but not before people had seen it.
June's friend heard the shots and rushed out, saw the blood-soaked forms, and called the police.  She knew June had been targeted before for rough treatment, possibly with good reason, but had never believed it would result in murder.

* L.A. Forensics Season 2 Episode 3 - Mistress of Hollywood 

Lavender Rolls Royce, similar
Lavender Rolls Royce, similar

Los Angeles skyline
Los Angeles skyline
It was a hot night in Los Angeles. Around 10:30 p.m., June Cassandra Mincher descended the steps of a building the 6800 block of Sepulveda Boulevard in Van Nuys.  She wore a wild print dress, tan jacket, curly black wig, and very high heels.  Her good friend, Christian Pierce, accompanied her. He adored her, and as a result, he followed her at 10:30 that night into the danger zone. He had no idea that someone was watching for them.

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/04/us/four-are-accused-of-killing-producer-in-soured-film-deal.html

NYTimes.com
Four Are Accused Of Killing Producer In Soured Film Deal
AP
Published: October 04, 1988

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 3 — Four people have been charged with murder in the slaying five years ago of Roy Radin, the New York producer who the authorities say was involved in a soured deal to finance the movie ''The Cotton Club.''
Mr. Radin disappeared May 13, 1983, on his way to a meeting concerning the film, and his body was found a month later with a bullet wound in the head. His death, the authorities said today, was a contract killing.
Charged with murder were Karen De Layne Greenberger, formerly known as Elaine Jacobs; William Molony Mentzer; Alex Lamota Marti; and Robert Ulmer Lowe. The complaint alleged that they killed Mr. Radin for financial gain. Became a Middle Man
David Conn, deputy district attorney said a key figure in negotiations over the film was its producer, Robert Evans. Mr. Evans, who also produced ''Chinatown'' and ''Marathon Man,'' was not charged.
Mr. Conn said Mr. Radin's slaying resulted from a dispute between Mr. Radin and Ms. Greenberger about a plan to raise $35 million from investors in the Puerto Rican Government for ''The Cotton Club.''
The prosecutor said Mr. Radin was introduced to Mr. Evans by Ms. Greenberger and became a middleman in the Puerto Rican negotiations. Dispute Over Fee
But a dispute developed between Mr. Radin and Ms. Greenberger over a finder's fee she was demanding, Mr. Conn said.
''We think the individuals felt the deal could go forward without Radin being involved,'' Mr. Conn said, ''and it did go forward, but without the Puerto Rican investors.''
On May 13, 1983, he said, Mr. Radin stepped into a limousine rented by Ms. Greenberger ''with the intention of going to a restaurant and discussing the business arrangement further.''
Mr. Radin's body was found June 10, 1983, in northwest Los Angeles County.
Mr. Conn said new evidence had been uncovered in an investigation by the Sheriff's Department. Fears for Informant
Mr. Conn said the complaint was issued Sept. 22 but kept sealed because of fear for the safety of an informant who has since been relocated.
Searches carried out under warrants Sunday turned up weapons and explosives at the homes of Mr. Mentzer and Mr. Marti and at a storage locker, he said. Mr. Conn said Mr. Mentzer was a private investigator involved in security work with Mr. Marti, Mr. Deremer and Mr. Lowe.
Ms. Greenberger was arrested in Florida, Mr. Conn said. Mr. Lowe was arrested in Maryland, where Mr. Deremer was expected to be arrested, he said. Mr. Mentzer and Mr. Marti were arrested in Los Angeles.
The complaint also charged Mr. Mentzer, Mr. Lowe and a fifth defendant, Robert Leroy Deremer with murder in the slaying of June Mincher, a prostitute. Mr. Conn said said the two killings were unrelated except that two of the defendants were involved.