#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode219 - Globalized Healthcare, China's Real Names, Public Internet Good News

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode219 -
Globalized Healthcare, China's Real Names, Public Internet Good News
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Globalized Healthcare Is Coming
Flashback: TISA, Yet Another Secret “Trade” Threat (Oct 2014)
YouTube Search: "TiSA Trade In Services"
Wikileaks: Secret Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) - Financial Services Annex
"Why Come You Don't Have A Tattoo?"

Story #2: China Forcing Citizens to Use Their Real Name On the Internet
India and Russia Back China's Call for 'New World Order'
Goldman Sachs: Building Better Global Economic BRICs

Story #3: Good News? The FCC Says Your City Can Build a Public Internet, Even If Your State Says No
FCC on Verge of Killing State Laws That Harm Municipal Broadband
Wikipedia: Tom Wheeler's Career
How Nebraska Citizens Took Control of Their Energy Grid
Coke Drops #MakeItHappy PR Stunt After Being Tricked Into Mein Kampf Tweet
Flashback: Cheerios Removes App During Fury of Anti-GMO Backlash (Dec 2012)
@BrocWest: Community Garden Journal: Week 3 & 4

#NewWorldNextWeek Updates: New Allegations of Saudi Involvement in 9/11
Amy Pascal Out as Sony Studio Chief Following Virtual Flag Terrorism Event Popularly Known As 'Sony Hack'
Rupert Murdoch Gets Off Scot-Free in US Over Phone Hacking
Brian Williams Under Fire For The First Time In His Life As Iraq Attack Lie Comes Undone
James Corbett, Dan Dicks and Luke Rudkowski Invite You to Change Media University

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Previous: Episode218 - Police Waze, Syriza Rising, Allergy Good News

#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode196 - Hunger Games Thai Style, Van Gogh's Ear, DIY Internet

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode196 -
Hunger Games Thai Style, Van Gogh's Ear, DIY Internet
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: 'Hunger Games' Salute Used as Protest in Thailand
Thailand Junta: Elections Could Take More Than One Year
The Nation Reporter Taken Into Custody
Thai Media Censored Under Martial Law
Soldiers, Selfies and Martial Law: Thailand's Tourism Industry Suffers

Story #2: Vincent Van Gogh's Severed Ear Regrown, On Display In Germany
Artist Prints Van Gogh's Ear From Family DNA
Solutions: 3D Printing
Star Trek-Style 'Tractor Beam' Created In Scotland
New Technique Could Erase Painful Memories - Or Bring Them Back
Scientists in Netherlands Teleport Quantum Info Across Room

Story #3: German Villagers Build Own Broadband Network
KC Freedom Network
Oakland People's Open
Open Garden
John Oliver's Net Neutrality Rant Crashes FCC Website
NWNW Flashback: No More Net Neutrality?
Flashback: Dead Drops - When US Cyber Command Pulls the Net

#GoodNewsNextWeek:
Massachusetts Pirate Party Fields First Two Candidates
Citizens of Oberon, Australia Keep Councilors from Starting Fluoridation
Buffalo, Missouri, Stops Adding Fluoride to the Water Supply

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Previous: Bilderberg 2014, Snowden a Spy, Rancourt Railroaded

#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode191 - Drones Justified, Net Neutrality, #MyNYPD

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode191 -
Drones Justified, Net Neutrality, #MyNYPD
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Story #1: Federal Judges Order Obama to Release Memo Justifying Assassination of Americans
John Yoo Says the President Can Torture Children If Necessary
Life's Good If You're a Drone-Loving Criminal Regime: 'US Drone Strikes Continue With Impunity'
Makers Say Don't Worry About Privacy as Civilian Drone Industry Takes Off in Sunny Spain

Story #2: FCC Finally Announces New Rules That Will Kill Net Neutrality
Internet "Fast Lane"? Big Companies May Soon Be Able to Pay to Have Their Websites Load Faster
Corbett Report Episode 262: Pirate Internet
Cronyism At Its Finest, U.S. Government Arguing Against Aereo On Behalf Of Broadcasters Before SCOTUS

Story #3: #MyNYPD Hashtag Attracts Photos of Police Violence, Abuse
The Folks Behind #MyNYPD Are Learning a Tough Lesson Right Now
General Mills Reverses Legal Terms After Controversy
Federal Judge Approves Class Action Case Against Ford, IBM for Helping South African Apartheid
Colorado Crime Rates Down 14.6% Since Legalizing Marijuana
Open Source Comes to Farms With Restriction-Free Seeds
​Vermont Poised to Enact Toughest US GMO-Labeling Law Yet

#NewWorldNextWeek Updates:
Researchers Unveil System to Start Storms & Lightning on Command
Controversial Light Bulb Listens to Conversations, Tweets What It Hears
@Pepsico: Why Are You Bulldozing The Rainforest? Why The Blood-Palm Oil?
Capital and 'Captain America': Media Oligarchs Plan Comic Book Movies Into 2028

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Previous: Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO

#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode188 - Good News Next Week

NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode188 - Good News Next Week
Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:

Monsanto’s ‘Healthier Environment’ Ads Banned in South Africa

South Africans Erase Bad Credit History

China Destroys Illegal GMO Crop Trials on Hainan Island

Brazil Looks to Ban Monsanto’s Roundup, Other Toxicity Risks

GMO Cultivation Declines in Developed Nations for First Time in 18 Years

Volunteer Gardeners Help Texas Community Garden Grow

Open Sourcing the Food, Nutrition, and Supplement Industries

Team of Scientists Release ‘Global Warming’ Counter Report

Japan Told to Halt Antarctic Whaling by International Court

Texas Researcher: Peaches Inhibit Breast Cancer Metastasis in Mice

Deaf 40-Year-Old Woman Hears Sound for First Time

Study Shows We Work Harder If We’re Given Chocolate

American University Students Walk Out on ‘War Criminal’ Cheney

In Thailand, A New Kind of Protest

Dotcom Launches Internet Party

Kim Kardashian Goes Political re: Armenian Genocide

From Zionism to Peace Activism

13 Wisconsin Cities Vote YES to Overturning Citizens United

R**skins Owner Dan Snyder Ridiculed by Native Leader for Promise of Aid

Sen. Harry Reid Predicts R**skins Name Changes Within Three Years

F.C.C. to Free Airwaves for Wi-Fi and Wireless Broadband

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Previous: Judging Judges, Cocaine Condoms, Sanction Spills

Obama Executive Order Seizes Control Of Communications Systems

Video: Controlling Communications Via Executive Order

from theintelhub.com: President Obama has usurped all available forms of communication for the use and discretion of the US government. Under executive order (EO), Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions, Obama has enabled the executive branch to control communications under all “possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies, and improve national resilience.” Radio and wired communications systems “of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) communications policies, programs, and capabilities.” ... The Presidential Alert was announced in August of 2011, wherein the Commissioners for the FCC required that television, radio stations and cable systems (including satellites) will redirect broadcasting if the President wants to “alert Americans of impending danger”... This latest EO is but one in a long string of presidential shows of authority that lays the foundation for the establishment of a dictatorship in America.

Updates: President seizes control of all U.S. communications*
Video: Govt. re-prioritizing U.S. communications*

Media/Memes: Twilight Time

Can You Answer 25 Difficult Questions The Mainstream Media Refuses To?*
House Republicans Reject FCC Rule to Force TV Stations to Publish Who Paid for Political Ads*
Video: The arrogance and failure of news media*
Boy Has Seizure Over Gory Scene in Prometheus*
Gory Prometheus Scene Gives Young Boy A Seizure*
Blade Runner: 30 Years of Synchromysticism - Part 1 (Tyrell 2019 + Weyland 2023)*
Blade Runner: 30 Years of Synchromysticism - Part 2 (Aztec-Mayan Symbolism)*
Audio: Steve Carell Says 'Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World' Could Be Tough Sell*
Net Fame Doc 'Me at the Zoo', featuring Freeman, debuts on HBO Jun25*
Me at the Zoo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia*
South Park "What What (in the Butt)" Wins Court Claim*
'Green Acres' actor Frank Cady dies at 96*
Rare '60s Audio: Kubrick's Interview w/ The New Yorker*
'Game Of Thrones' Creators Say Use Of George W. Bush's Decapitated Head On A Pike Wasn't Politically Motivated*
Metallica helps FBI try to catch Virginia killer*
#Audio #Satire: New Movie From Pixar Will Totally Fuck With Kids' Minds*
Herb Reed, last original member of the Platters, dies 83*
Video: The Platters "Twilight Time"*
Erykah Badu doesn’t like The Flaming Lips’ video for “The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face”*
Video: School prefers mindless pop to patriotism*

new world next week - nov3

new world next week: episode090 -
eas test, unesco, drug wars

Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week:

Story #1: Nationwide 'Presidential Emergency Alerts' to Be Tested on 11/9
NWNW Flashback: FCC Announces Nationwide 'Presidential Emergency Alerts' to Be Tested

Story #2: US Halts Payments to UNESCO Over Palestine Vote
Update: Settlement Building to Ramp Up As Punishment for UNESCO Vote
Background: UNESCO, Eugenics & Transhumanism

Story #3: WikiLeaks Honduras-US Linked to Brutal Business
Background: US Supported Honduras' Ascent in the Cocaine Business
Related: Documents Show Reaction to ATFs 'Wide Receiver' and 'Fast and Furious'

New World Next Week on Archive.org

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previous: world peace, british heat, god's banksters

nationwide 'presidential emergency alerts' to be tested on 11/9

confluence of drills on 11/9 as #EAStest to last for 3:30*
from kake-tv: A nationwide Emergency Alert System test will take place early next month. All television and radio stations will be interrupted for the test. How widespread the test will be and will the test shut down general communications like phones and computers? Good questions. Most broadcast companies test their statewide system every month. On November 9, there will be a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System. The EAS is used by the National Weather Service along with local and state agencies. This will be the first national activation of the test. Questions and rumors have been circulating in the past few weeks about exactly what will be interrupted during the test. While television and radio communications will be interrupted, general communications throughout the country will not be affected. A local EAS test lasts two minutes but the national test will last three minutes. The length of the test will vary from state to state. The national EAS alert would allow the president to inform the country in case of extreme emergencies. Of course, we hope the interruption will only and always be just a test.

video update: anxiety over upcoming emergency system test*

flashback video from new world next week: fcc announces nationwide 'presidential emergency alerts' to be tested

emergency alert 'plan' coming to your 'smart' phone

valuable information or scaring you into submission?
from nytimes: The emergency broadcast system is coming to cellphones. Updating the national emergency alert system, federal officials planned to announce on Tuesday in Manhattan that some cellphone users in New York and Washington will soon be able to receive alerts by text message in the event of a national or regional emergency.

The service in those cities is scheduled to start late this year as a prelude to nationwide service next year, perhaps as early as April. To receive the alerts, users must have mobile phones with a special chip, which is currently included in some higher-end smartphones like the latest iPhones. The service will also require a software upgrade.

new world next week - feb17

new world next week: episode063 -
pentagon sued, big brother alert, machine over man?


Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week:

Story #1: Amid Reporter's Assault in Cairo, Pentagon Sued Over Rape Coverup
Background: Project SHAD - American Servicemen Used As Guinea Pigs

Story #2: FCC Announces Nationwide 'Presidential Emergency Alerts' to Be Tested
Background: Project Bluebeam - TV Fakery, Holographic Projections & Audio Spotlights

Story #3: Man Vs Machine - Final Solutions Company Destroying Humans Again
Background: IBM & the Holocaust

Bonus: Obama Honors Former President George H.W. Bush with Medal of Freedom

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download audio version of 'new world next week'*

previous episode: feb3 -
cfr in egypt, rumsfeld award, 9/11 leak

fcc announces nationwide 'presidential emergency alerts' to be tested

video: feds admit emergency takeover system
from emergencymgmt.com: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has made it official. It has released an order that requires participants in the Emergency Alert System (EAS), namely broadcasters, cable operators, and certain satellite providers, to participate in the first-ever national test of EAS. The test will differ starkly from the monthly EAS tests the public knows so well. In this case, the White House will actually activate the test as if the President wanted to take over the air waves to address the nation. Although EAS-type capabilities have existed since the early 50's, no President has ever used it. Now, we're going to find out how well it actually works.

The FCC order found here lays out how the test will be conducted. It will use what many emergency managers know as the EAN code. That's "Emergency Alert Notification", the code reserved for the President to activate EAS. The EAN code kicks in the process where video and audio content will be interrupted by EAS participants monitoring the Primary Entry Point (PEP) stations that receive the message the White House originates. Stations, cable outlets and some satellite programming providers are to interrupt their content to allow the White House to take over the air waves. No specific date for the test was set, although as it stands, a two-month notice will be provided. The FCC gave its staff ability to extend the notice period if necessary, and to work with stakeholders to determine the right time of the day for the test. In a live web broadcast on EAS recently, senior FCC and FEMA officials indicated the test would be conducted in the latter part of 2011. (EAS is part of FEMA's Integrated Public Alert and Warning System - IPAWS.) It's an open question about the length of the test message.

for hollywood, it was a tough 2010 as spending continued to fall

from latimes: To paraphrase Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert, "Hollywood, we have a problem." The industry that was supposed to be immune to economic downturns looks like it's going to have some re-entry problems as the economy begins to recover. Broad swaths of the entertainment business declined in 2010. DVD sales were off 13%. Music CD purchases plummeted 19%. Video game sales as well as concert and theater attendance also fell. Even the turnout for America's favorite pastimes — baseball and NASCAR — was down. And swift changes in technology will make it difficult for Hollywood to capture pre-recession levels of revenue. So much for the value of escapism. But perhaps most ominously, last summer the pay-television industry suffered an unprecedented net loss - for the first time - of customers, a yellow warning light that consumers may no longer regard cable TV as a must-have utility on par with electricity and phone service.

flashbacks: pay tv subscriptions fall for first time ever in US &
americans watched more television than ever in 2010

fcc gets votes to pass 'net neutrality' rules

video: fcc confident 'net neutrality' is legal
from wsj: The top communications regulator won support to pass contentious new rules for Internet traffic, a move likely to face legal challenges and create uncertainty about Internet regulation. The Federal Communications Commission is set to approve on Tuesday Chairman Julius Genachowski's proposed rules governing net neutrality - a concept aimed at preventing Internet providers from interfering with web traffic. The rules are expected to bar providers from discriminating against legal Internet traffic and require more transparency. They also would let broadband providers for the first time charge more to companies that want faster service for delivery of games, videos or other services. Net neutrality has become a contentious issue as worries grow that large phone and cable companies are growing too powerful as Internet gatekeepers. Start-ups and small businesses that rely on the Internet to provide shopping, information or other services to consumers are particularly concerned.

related: skype hit by worldwide outage, recovery stalls as millions complain

new world next week - apr8

rev billy, collateral murder, net neutrality

Welcome to the latest episode of the New World Next Week - the weekly 10min series from CorbettReport.com & MediaMonarchy.com that gives you the text, context & subtext on the stories that matter. This week:

Story#1: Rev Billy Placed 'Holy Hex' on JPMorgan Over WV Mountaintop Removal
West Virginia Worry: 25+ Killed in Massey Coal Mine Explosion
Flashback: NWNW on WV Mountaintop Removal

Story#2: Wikileaks Releases Video of Civilians Killed by US in Baghdad
Decrypted Video from Wikileaks Shows Collateral Murder
Wikileaks, Sunshine Press & 'Collateral Murder'

Story#3: FCC Loses Net Neutrality Battle Against Comcast
Background: Wikipedia on Network Neutrality in the US
Flashback: Ron Paul Softens Stance on Net Neutrality

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previous episode: nwnw - apr1

alt media under attack as corporate/state media want more

obama admin: it's time to make radio pay for its music
from ars technica: The recording industry scored a significant victory today with news that the Obama administration will provide its "strong support" for the Performance Rights Act. The bill would force over-the-air radio stations to start coughing up cash for the music they play; right now, the stations pay songwriters, but not the actual recording artists. This has been a dream of the recording industry for decades, but it has taken on new importance as the revenues from recorded music have plummeted over the last decade. The broadcasters refer to the idea as a new "tax" that will largely benefit foreign record companies such as Universal (France), Sony (Japan), and EMI (UK). Today, a letter from the Commerce Department's general counsel, Cameron Kerry, makes clear which side has the administration's support: the recording industry. (We double-checked with Kerry's office; this is no April Fools' joke.) ... Congress has already tried locking both sides in a room to solve the issue; at some point soon, it will just have to vote.

fcc adviser advocates state-run propaganda 'megaphone' to counter alternative media
from kurt nimmo: In order to counter alternative media, an adviser to the Federal Communications Commission has suggested using your tax money — or rather money the government borrows from bankers and then expects your children to pay off — to create “public media” that will serve as a “filter” and a “megaphone” for a network of government-funded journalists competing with other, non-government-backed reporters, according to Matt Cover, writing for CNSNews. Rutgers University law professor Ellen Goodman, who is a “distinguished” visiting scholar with the FCC’s Future of Media Project, submitted the proposal in a draft of the government takeover plan targeted at the internet called the National Broadband Plan [811kb PDF]. The feds are pushing their internet takeover plan under left cover, specifically touchy-feely platitudes about the disabled, and providing “free” internet as a form of democratic egalitarianism (nothing is “free,” especially when it is offered by government). FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has addressed the issue in FDR-esque overtones, stating that broadband internet “is our generation’s major infrastructure challenge… It’s like roads, canals, railroads and telephones for previous generations. It’s like electricity in its transformative power.”

free radical: jeff simmons, pra, radio23 & cascade community radio

from willamette week: On a plush couch in the back of Northeast Portland bar Tiga, Jeff Hylton Simmons asks if I know what time it is. “About 10 till 10,” I tell him. He opens his laptop. “All I’ve got to do is turn this thing off,” he explains, waiting for a five-second countdown to finish. “OK, now Tiga is live.” DJ Mang Mang, the man casually spinning vinyl 30 feet away at the front of the bar, just went live to the entire world.

Hylton Simmons isn’t the most likely candidate to change the face of regional radio. He grew up in the Midwest, where he studied theater before moving to Portland in 1998 (“It was either Portland or Austin, and I can’t stand the heat”). But before long, he’d become enchanted by the local music scene and slipped into radio, first DJ-ing, then station managing local pirate-turned-Internet station Portland Radio Authority. Later he’d help would-be terrestrial station KZME - slated to go live at 107.1 in Portland later this year - to successfully secure an FM transmitter. And for the past year, Hylton Simmons has run his own 24-hour-a-day Internet station, Radio23.org, which boasts a crew of DJs from Japan to New Zealand to right here in Portland. “We’re already on the ground in Islamabad,” he says proudly. “I don’t know any other radio station in town that’s on the ground in Islamabad.”

1/28 newspurge: like a secret society, meeting at the midnight mass

drugwar updates:
video: cheech & chong get fair & balanced on fox*


geopolitiks:
clyde lewis' ground zero media: norwegian woodpecker*
flashback: israel makes waves by simulating an earthquake*
children disappearing from hospitals in haiti*
haiti - a history of intervention, occupation and resistance*
blue helmets pepper spray hungry haitians*
radio free haiti, on the ground & in the skies*
who plans to give haitians controversial jabs*
finland to host large naval exercise in september*
US military involved in yemen operations*

history/mystery:
details of death of uk scientist to be sealed for 70yrs*
'concealing vital information': dr kelly post-mortem to be kept secret for 70yrs*
canada's fmr ambassador to iran was cia spy*
oliver stone says adolf hitler was 'enabled by western bankers'*
wall street journal: ivins not the anthrax killer*

media/memes:
alleged car thief arrested while playing 'grand theft auto'*
judge says polanski won't be sentenced in absentia*
fox most trusted news channel in US, poll shows*
'avatar' replaces 'titanic' in record books*
law would keep fcc off low-power radio*

murder/mayhem:
tanker explodes on new york highway*
william bennett update: ayala pleads guilty to february gang assault*

obamessiah updates:
obama's full state of the union speech*
video: obama criticizes scotus during sotu*
does scotus still think it can't happen here?*
bruised obama's new rallying cry: jobs, not healthcare*
obama commits to climate change bill*
obama & the myth of job creation*
video: rep hayworth says obama should 'come forward' with birth certificate*
hacker breaks into 49 house sites, insults obama*
obama gets an f for world leadership*
obama strives to revive the spirit of 2009*
video: celente says speech was pep rally for obama*

plus: obama admin opposes 9/11 health funding*
obama: i will never waver from supporting israel*

police state int'l:
could vancouver 2010 be the next 9/11?*
canada, US beef up security for the winter olympic games in vancouver*
somerset nj authorities seize grenade launcher, weapons cache from virginia man at motel*
US police arrest heavily armed man with military map*
potential false flag attack to be blamed on muslims foiled*
video: nyc cops punching handcuffed man in head*
video: texas schoolkids tagged with gps tracking devices*
flight diverted to denver's new world airport*
authorities quietly reverse underwear bomber official story*
spam, tequiza & total information awareness*
full-body scanner blind to bomb parts*
oregon shoppers, cops freak out over man carrying umbrella*
bush order allowing murder of US citizens abroad still in effect*

warwhores:
pentagon calls for 'office of strategic deception'*
download: 'defense science board 2008 summer study on capability surprise' [7.7mb PDF]
paging james cameron: pentagon wants 3d surveillance*
pentagon master plan: super-size my drone fleet*
price of US wars: $1 trillion & rising*
fmr army top brass address gitmo, obama & more*
US moves missiles & troops to russian border*
pentagon backtracks after gates ‘admits’ xe operating in pakistan*
missile-shooting ships on station in the gulf*
hussein aide 'chemical' ali executed in iraq*
US to pay taliban fighters to 'lay down their arms'*
is it cheaper & more effective to buy off the taliban than to fight them?*
1/3rd of women in US military raped*

8/20 newspurge: leary, cho, stone, disney, s&m, surveillance

history/mystery:
timothy leary & the cia*
scotus orders review of death row inmate troy davis's case*
fromme-peltier: inequality of mercy*
cho's missing mental records released*

media/memes:
fcc 'diversity officer' targets talk radio*
the fairness doctrine is dead, long live the fairness doctrine*
'indictments are coming' in jackson case*

oliver stone revealing 'secret history of america'*
your tax dollar$ at work for michael bay*
why the recession will lead to a renaissance in film noir*

murder/mayhem:
gunmen kill 7 women in russian sauna*
woman sets herself on fire in west dade mall*
savage boutique immolation*
3rd disney world death in recent weeks*
body in suitcase identified as missing swimsuit model*
lawyer killed in alleged s&m triangle at ny lawfirm*

warwhores:
new army camera promises super-wide surveillance*
expert warns new mind drugs eyed by military*
poll shows most americans oppose war in afghanistan*
iraq forces admit lapses after blasts kill 95*
US troops to return to northern iraq*
cia hired blackwater to help hunt terrorists*
cia hired blackwater for assassin program*
report: lithuania hosted secret cia prison
uk 'can't find' $13b in military hardware*

low-power fm radio gains a small victory over fcc

from arstechnica: Supporters of low-power FM (LPFM) radio won a victory on Friday when a federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit to stop the Federal Communications Commissions from protecting LPFM stations from full power station signal interference. "This is terrific news for the low power radio community," declared Sakura Saunders of the Prometheus Radio Project, which helps LPFMs. "Now, these stations can focus on serving their local communities, rather than live in fear of displacement due to the whims of their full-powered neighbors." On the other hand, the advocacy group that defended the LPFM service was circumspect about the win. "The decision in the courts merely protects the status quo," noted the Media Access Project in a statement sent to Ars. "Congress still must pass legislation to allow more low-power FM stations to operate nationwide."

read the court of appeals decision here [56kb PDF]

police state int'l: skype, shop, cyber katrina & operation arcadia

eu agency supports wiretapping skype conversations
from eu observer: EU's judicial cooperation agency Eurojust will take the lead in finding ways to help police and prosecutors across Europe to wiretap computer-to-computer phone conversations enabled by programs such as Skype. "We will sit together with all member states to see how this can be done technically and legally," Joannes Thuy, Eurojust spokesman told this website. Mr Thuy stressed that the wiretapping would not affect "normal users", but would have to be carried out only as part of a criminal investigation.

big brother likes to watch you shop
from ahmenra2012: Mall ads watch shoppers... Cameras inside ad displays gather advertising data about shoppers. KSDK’s Kasey Joyce reports. More blatant invasions of privacy!

chicago mayor vows surveillance cameras on every street corner
from chicago sun-times: Mayor Daley has argued that security and terrorism won’t be an issue if his Olympic dreams come true because, by 2016, there will be a surveillance camera on every street corner in Chicago. But even before that blanket coverage begins, the "Big Brother" network is being put to better use... In 2004, City Hall used a $5.1 million federal homeland security grant to install 250 cameras at locations thought to be at high risk of a terrorist attack and link them and 2,000 existing city cameras to the 911 center. Chicago then launched "Operation Virtual Shield," by linking 1,000 miles of fiber cable to a unified "homeland security grid" — complete with hundreds of additional cameras and sensors to monitor the city’s water supply and detect chemical and biological weapons. On Thursday, Orozco refused to say how many cameras are currently linked to the 911 center. But, he reiterated Daley’s earlier promise. “We’re going to grow the system until we eventually cover one end of the city to the other,” he said.

vampire cops to draw blood at dui checkpoints in florida
from wpbf: Drunken drivers beware: If you drink and drive, especially during the last weekend of February, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and other area law enforcement will be out for blood. PBSO deputies plan to set up driving under the influence checkpoints. If they suspect a driver is under the influence, they'll offer an on-the-spot Breathalyzer. If drivers refuse, deputies will ask to draw blood from their arms. "I think that's really personal and I think that if you deny a Breathalyzer and you say that you don't want that, I think that's outrageous if they take blood without your consent," driver Courtney Liddle said. Attorney David Olson said that "would only be lawful if a warrant is issued by a judge." That's just what deputies plan to do. They'll actually drive to a judge's home for a signature and return to the checkpoint. Olson said drawing blood from drivers is usually done in extreme cases like homicides and fatal collisions. Olson said he's not sure a judge would actually sign a warrant.

flashback: forced dwi blood samples challenged in texas

fearing 'cyber katrina,' obama candidate for cyber czar urges a 'fema for the internet'
from businessweek: For all the fears of sophisticated digital intrusions preoccupying many computer security professionals, President Obama’s leading candidates for “cyber czar” also are focusing on an all-too-human vulnerability: The nation’s inability to respond to a full-fledged Internet-borne crisis for lack of a central cyber commander. Former White House cybersecurity official Paul B. Kurtz, in his first public remarks since becoming an advisor to President Obama’s transition team following the election, describes his biggest worry: A “cyber Katrina” in which fragmented bureaucracies and companies fail to share critical information and coordinate responses to cyber intruders attempting to disrupt power grids, financial markets, or any number of now-plausible scenarios involving a Web shutdown. One recent fear is the cascading effects of even a partial Internet blackout that could add to economic anxieties. There’s such electronic insecurity afoot, some are even beginning to suggest building an entirely new global computer infrastructure. “The bottom line is, is there a FEMA for the Internet? I don’t think there is,” Kurtz told an audience of security professionals at a Feb. 18 Black Hat security conference in Virginia. Kurtz’ solution: A trio of key agencies - the Defense Department, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Federal Communications Commission - but overseen by a new national cybersecurity center.

faa breach heightens cybersecurity concerns
from fcw: The Federal Aviation Administration was doing such a good job at protecting data in its computer systems that the Office of Management and Budget chose it in January to be one of four agencies to guide other federal agencies in their cybersecurity efforts. Just a month later, FAA officials had to admit that hackers breached one of the agency’s servers, stealing 48 files. Two of the files contained information on 45,000 current and former FAA employees, including sensitive information that could potentially make them vulnerable to identity theft. The security breach, although significant and potentially far reaching, is not necessarily a reflection on FAA’s security measures. Rather, it demonstrates the problems of securing federal computer systems and difficulty in evading every potential attack.

iowa national guard rolls back arcadia invasion
from kurt nimmo: According to Drew Zahn, writing for WorldNetDaily, the Iowa National Guard has “scaled back” its “training exercise” planned for April in Arcadia, Iowa, population 443. Military spokesman Lt. Col. Greg Hapgood, told Zahn and WND that the operation has now been “scaled back” and no longer involves an “invasion” of Arcadia. “And while Hapgood confirmed the Guard had been inundated with objections from citizens concerned about soldiers patrolling the streets of an American town, he said most came from people out of state and unfamiliar with the operation. Iowans, he explained, typically cooperate with the Guard. The change in plans was based on troop evaluation, he said, not public outcry.”

states rediscover 10th amendment to combat stimulus strings
from washington times: Worried the federal government is increasing its dominance over their affairs, several states are pursuing legislative action to assert their sovereignty under the 10th Amendment of the Constitution in hopes of warding off demands from Washington on how to spend money or enact policy. The growing concerns even have a handful of governors questioning whether to accept federal stimulus money that comes with strings attached. The sentiments to declare themselves legally independent from Washington have swept across as many as a dozen states, renewing a debate over so-called unfunded mandates that last raged in the 1990s. The states question whether the U.S. government can force states to take actions without paying for them or impose conditions on states if they accept certain federal funding.

firestorm brewing between the states & the feds

video: glenn beck again predicting doomsday & revolution
from raw replay: President Obama has been criticized for warning of economic “catastrophe” but Glenn Beck’s prediction is far more dire. Beck says the military is preparing for a revolution. This video is from Fox’s Fox & Friends, broadcast Feb. 20, 2009.