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FROM THE LA TIMES

YouTube is letting users decide on terrorism-related videos

The company has been under fire from lawmakers for refusing to prescreen militant speeches and propaganda videos. Now users can mark such uploads for removal.By Brian Bennett, Tribune Washington BureauReporting from Washington — Nudity. Sexual activity. Animal abuse. All are reasons YouTube users can flag a video for removal from the website. Add a new category: promotes terrorism.

YouTube and its parent company, Google, have been criticized by lawmakers for refusing to prescreen militant speeches and propaganda videos that have been cited in more than a dozen terrorism investigations over the last five years.

But rather than submit to policies that many argue would amount to an erosion of 1st Amendment rights, particularly in an open-access environment such as the Internet, YouTube is taking a decidedly more democratic path — let the customers decide.

The approach puts YouTube in the middle of a debate over whether it is possible to protect free speech and deny militants a powerful recruitment tool — slick videos glorifying jihad that reach into the laptops and minds of disaffected young Americans.

After years of calling on YouTube to take down content produced by Islamic extremists, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) called the new flagging protocols a "good first step toward scrubbing mainstream Internet sites of terrorist propaganda."

"But it shouldn't take a letter from Congress — or in the worst possible case, a successful terrorist attack — for YouTube to do the right thing," said Lieberman, whose staff has met with YouTube officials on the issue.

Yet the new category also is "potentially troubling," said George Washington University law professor Jeffrey Rosen, because the phrase "promotes terrorism" is more subject to interpretation than the longstanding language in the YouTube guidelines that specifically forbids material that incites others to commit violence.

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Madison Co. to evict man from camper
Updated: Tuesday, 30 Nov 2010, 11:39 PM EST

MADISON COUNTY, Ind. (WISH) - 72-year-old Dick Thompson isn't sure if he wants to fight or give up. 

"I want to get the hell out of here right now — too much hate," Thompson says one minute. 

"I think it's a bunch of bull," he says another, vowing to stay. 

Thompson faces eviction from his 38 acres in Madison County. The county lawyer tells 24-Hour News 8 it's because Thompson is breaking too many rules, laws and ordinances; Thompson has no water, no sewer and no electricity in his recreational trailer that he calls home. 

"I'm a country boy," explains Thompson. "I just want to be left alone." 

Thompson is mighty fine, thank you very much — along with his dog, Ace, his horse, Fritz, his bird, Sunshine, and many more. 

The eviction papers state go-time is “Nov. 30 at noon,”' though no one came — not yet.

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FROM UK TELEGRAPH

Every email and website to be stored

t will allow security services and the police to spy on the activities of every Briton who uses a phone or the internet.
Moves to make every communications provider store details for at least a year will be unveiled later this year sparking fresh fears over a return of the surveillance state.
 
The plans were shelved by the Labour Government last December but the Home Office is now ready to revive them.
It comes despite the Coalition Agreement promised to "end the storage of internet and email records without good reason".
Any suggestion of a central "super database" has been ruled out but the plans are expected to involve service providers storing all users details for a set period of time.

That will allow the security and police authorities to track every phone call, email, text message and website visit made by the public if they argue it is needed to tackle crime or terrorism.

The information will include who is contacting whom, when and where and which websites are visited, but not the content of the conversations or messages.

The move was buried in the Government's Strategic Defence and Security Review, which revealed: "We will introduce a programme to preserve the ability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communication data and to intercept communications within the appropriate legal framework.

"This programme is required to keep up with changing technology and to maintain capabilities that are vital to the work these agencies do to protect the public.

"Communications data provides evidence in court to secure convictions of those engaged in activities that cause serious harm. It has played a role in every major Security Service counter terrorism operation and in 95 per cent of all serious organised crime investigations.

"We will legislate to put in place the necessary regulations and safeguards to ensure that our response to this technology challenge is compatible with the Government’s approach to information storage and civil liberties."
But Isabella Sankey, director of policy at Liberty, said: "One of the early and welcome promises of the new Government was to ‘end the blanket storage of internet and email records’.

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By KATY GRIMES

Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach, has introduced a bill that would require the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to develop a program to assess drivers for vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax in California.

Specifically SB1299 would require the DMV to develop and implement, by Jan.1, 2012, a program designed “to assess the issues related to implementing a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fee in California.”

In February 2009, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced that he wanted to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn. His comments came on the heels of report from a special commission created by Congress which reported that the current 18.4 cents a gallon gas tax and 24.4 cents a gallon diesel tax are not raising enough money to keep pace with transportation costs.

Although the LaHood proposal was struck down, Lowenthal is taking aim at the issue in California.  Lowenthal’s measure would lay the groundwork for taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive.

Not taking a hint from the failed federal attempt to tax motorists on miles driven rather than fuel consumed, Lowenthal continues to push his own version of the driving tax.
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I wouldnt consider myself a token 'patriot' by any stretch of the means but this is funny!
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I just read an article posted by a facebook friend that explained the new finding that children who get spanked have lower IQ's. Asides from the contraversy as to the validity of IQ and psychometric testing and other extraneous variables compromising the studies integrity (i.e. could low IQ cause misbehaviour which leads to the use of corporal punishment) the study does demonstrate a clear correlation between punishment and low IQ.

Now what if we were to apply this reasoning to our society as a whole? If we substitute the institutions that comprise our legal system with parents, and substitute the kids with protestors, its no suprise that ultimatley so few feel inclined to take to the streets and resist the blatant injustices of the establishment. There simply isnt enough intelligent people left to stage a real revolution. And I dont mean the mass produced capitalist ready intellect manufactured in Americas universities, I am talking about global street smarts, something which has deteriorated alongside our explanatory systems we once used to engage the world. 

The article states that when kids are beaten (corporal punishment) they dont think about their behaviour in the same way as do those disciplined using alternative/ non-violent methods. When they are not beaten they are compelled ruminate on their behaviors and form a deeper understanding of why its wrong. That is, they dont simply do something because it is entails punishment, they avoid doing it because of an indepth consideration of how that behavior will impact others. This exercise and critical thinking prepares them to make better decisions in later life. Does it imply that when people have no conception as to why they are being punished that they literally become dumber, and therefore perpetually less capable of challenging authority? It is clear that if a person is constantly told to ignore motives, like why drugs are illegal, or why Zionism is ok, that they will likely diminish in their capacity to evaluate other events, such as 9/11.

Its an odd paradox that the ideals of peaceful protest and authoritative disciplining could have evolved in tandem as they have in America. On the one hand you have a force of riot police who have learned their coercive ways from an establishment with one of the ugliest humanitarian track records and that has housed and committed abroad some of the greatest atrocities in history. Protesters are repressed without any explanation as to masses on mainstream news media as to why and are conditioned to believe it is because they are bad as opposed to the  underlying dynamic and truthful reasons. The police need'nt any explanation for the orders they take, as both they and society as a whole has been conditioned to think they dont need one. It is not promising that in a social psychological experiment conducted by Stanley Milgram in the 1960's almost half of the participants committed to harming another human being so long as they didnt have to take responsibility, these results were replicated in our more modern and 'morally evolved' society.
The low IQ is further evidenced in the act of going to a protest to seek validation of your unpopular view that the system is corrupt and proceed to positioning yourself on the faultlines to sustain the predictable abuse that you knew all to well would follow. Over and over again. Only to have your efforts ignored by a media that is entirely controlled by the same people who control the police.

We do it over and over again because a) We are too dumb and fearful to contemplate the ineffectiveness of peaceful protest in a society that doesnt recognize it, and ignorant to exploring alternatives 2) because we have been conditioned to believe that any form of "extremism" is wrong and this is best explained by nothing more then fear of a baton cracking the side of your head. The fact is there will be no transformation of consciousness that will permit a peaceful approach to be successful as vaccinations, flouride, chemtrails, GMO fast food, and fast news coupled with the modelling effects of corporal punishment have long since diminished in most of us our capacity to recognize the problem, much less react in effective ways once we have.

The rich get richer while both the police and protestors get dumber. Here is some recent imagery of this cognitively degenerate state of affairs.
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Pandemonium 09/04/2009
 
*If you see a blank white screen above click on it to view video

I am working on uploading a higher quality version of the video with better sound. The audio was removed from the youtube version over terms of use violation, claiming that the audio/ video infringed on copyright.

Considering this is for non-profit journalistic purposes, youtube can eat a nut.
Its not at all ironic that I downloaded the majority of videos used in this one from youtube!!! I also see blatant copyright violations on the site all the time. However right when I post something its pushed to the fringes, but not before being probed by an army of youtube monkeys.

C'est la vie!!!!

The music in the video was produced by:

The glitch mob
eDIT
OOAH
Benny Benassi

The videos used to create video were numerous but I borrowed heavily from "koyannaquatsi", and "home". It was made on the most primitive of movie production software, so again pardon the quality!
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