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Note: This paragraph that appeared in an article on netmagizine really sums up how this act could be used to specifically attack alternative media!

    Suw Charman-Anderson, a social software consultant and writer, told us that SOPA is too broad, fails to understand the technology it’s trying to control, and would have some dreadful unintended consequences: “It seeks to give copyright holders the power to insist that online advertising networks or credit card processing services sever their relationship with any website, simply by pointing the finger. They would be able to undermine a website’s business without any judicial oversight, leaving sites vulnerable to false and malicious accusations.”

The following are companies that signed this letter which was written in support of the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, which is the House’s equivalent of the PROTECT IP Act, which I have previously exposed as China-style internet censorship on steroids.

I encourage everyone to not only boycott these companies but flood them with letters, e-mails and phone calls telling them why exactly you are boycotting them.

SOPA would put completely legitimate sites, like End the Lie and countless other alternative news outlets at risk of being shut down, along with literally any site that freely allows users to post content.

That includes YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, WordPress, Blogger, Craigslist, Dropbox and literally any website or service that allows users to upload content.

The United States Attorney General can not only seek court orders against “foreign infringing sites,” meaning any website with a non-U.S. domain name, but can also demand that internet service providers (ISPs) would have to cut off access to the site by not resolving domain name requests.

Furthermore, if served with one of the Attorney General’s court orders, search engines would have to remove any links to the site, payment networks would have to stop all payments to the site from U.S. customers and advertising networks would be forced to stop serving advertisements about the website or for the website.

But wait, it gets even worse. SOPA would require that within five days of receiving an allegation by a copyright holder, payment services and advertising networks would have to cut off all business with the site either U.S. based or foreign.

All the copyright holder has to do is allege that the site is “dedicated to the theft of property,” and if the payment provider and advertising networks don’t cease business within five days, the copyright holder can file a private lawsuit against the site compelling the payment service and others to cut off relations.

Furthermore, The Atlantic reports that the definition of “dedicated” in this bill “has little relation to common usage,” and in addressing the bill they characterize it as “dangerous.”

As experts in the technical, operational, academic and research communities who are the leading domain name system (DNS) designers, operators, and researchers who have also published numerous peer-reviewed academic studies regarding the architecture and security of the DNS have pointed out, this will create major cybersecurity and other technical concerns that did not exist previously.

The above linked technical whitepaper regarding the PROTECT IP Act also quite interestingly points out that the DNS filters could be easily circumvented, essentially making one of the biggest parts of the bill null and void.

The thing that the House and Senate don’t seem to realize is that there will always be online pirates and they will always find a way around whatever roadblocks are put in their way.

The issue is that this can and likely will be used to target important platforms for sharing information like YouTube and blog platforms like WordPress and Blogger.

All it would take is for a copyright holder to find one bit of infringing content and then it could very well be the end of the website, despite the massive amounts of legitimate content.

We must remember that major websites like YouTube and blog platforms are quite skilled and hasty when it comes to removing infringing content from their websites.

SOPA would also endanger the entire spirit of the internet which has pioneered social media and free expression, giving a platform to writers like myself who might otherwise be sidelined by the establishment media.

If you care about the internet, free speech and the future of sharing information with the world, I beg of you: take action and boycott these companies and make it clear why you will be boycotting them and telling everyone you know to do the same.

Please do not forget to contact your Congressperson and Senator to ask if they are supporting either bill and tell them why you think it would be a horrible idea for them to do so.

Hopefully we, as the collective users of the internet, can create a large enough buzz to shut down these bills before they get major support.

If “We the People” still have any power in this country, we need to flex it now when it really matters!

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1-800-PetMeds

2b1 Inc

3M Company

ABRO Industries, Inc.

Acushnet Company

adidas America

Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed)

Allen Russell Photograph

Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers

Alliance of Visual Artists (AVA)

Altria Client Services

American Apparel and Footwear Association

American Association of Independent Music (A2IM)

American Board of Internal Medicine

American Federation of Musicians

American Gramaphone LLC

American Made Alliance

American Mental Health Counselors Association

American Photographic Artists

American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

American Society of Media Photographers

American Society of Picture Professionals

American Watch Association

Anatoly Pronin Photography

Andrea Rugg Photography

Anti-Counterfeiting and Piracy Initiative (ACAPI)

Applied DNA Sciences

Art Holeman Photography

Association of American Publishers (AAP)

Association of Equipment Manufacturers

Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP)

Association of Test Publishers

AstraZeneca plc

Australian Medical Council

Autodesk, Inc.

Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association

Baker & Taylor Ent.

Bay State Psychological Associates

Beachbody, LLC

Beam Global Spirits & Wine

Blue Sky Studios, Inc.

Bose Corporation

Braasch Biotech LLC

Brian Stevenson Photography

Brigid Collins Family Support Center

Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)

Burberry

C. F. Martin & Co., Inc.

Callaway Golf Company

Cascade Designs Incorporated

Caterpillar Inc.

Caveon, LLC

CBS Corporation

Cengage Learning

Center for Credentialing & Education

Center Stage Photography

CFA Institute

Chanel USA

Christopher Semmes Photography

Church Music Publishers Association

CMH Images

Coach

Coalition Against Counterfeiting and Piracy (CACP)

Columbia Sportswear Company

Comcast Corporation

Commercial Photo Design

Commercial Photographers International

Comprehensive Adult Student Assessment System

Consumer Healthcare Products Association

Copyright Alliance

Copyright Clearance Center (CCC)

Coty Inc.

Council of Fashion Designers of America

Country Music Association

CropLife America

Cross-Entertainment LLC

CSA Group

CVS Caremark

D’Addario & Company, Inc.

Dan Sherwood Photography

Danita Delimont Stock Photography

Dayco Products, LLC

Deluxe Entertainment Services Group

Dennyfoto

Derek DiLuzio Photography

DeVaul Photography

Direct Selling Association (DSA)

Directional Insight

Distefano Enterprises Inc.

Doriguzzi Photographic Artistry

Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

Dolce & Gabbana USA, INC.

Dollar General Corporation

Don Grall Photography

Dunford Architectural Photography

Eagle Rock Entertainment

Ed McDonald Photography

Educational & Industrial Testing Service

Electronic Arts, Inc.

Electronic Components Industry Association (ECIA)

Eli Lilly and Company

Englebert Photography

Entertainment Software Association (ESA)

ERAI, Inc.

Eric Meola Studio Inc

Evidence Photographers International Council

Ex Officio

Exxel Outdoors

FAME Publishing Co., LLC.

FAME Recording Studios

Far Bank Enterprises

Fashion Business Incorporated

Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy

Fender Musical Instrument Company

Footwear Distributors & Retailers of America (FDRA)

Ford Motor Company

Fortune Brands, Inc.

Fred J. Lord Photography

GAR Associates

Gelderland Productions, L.L.C.

Gemvision Corporation

Gibson Guitar Corp.

GlaxoSmithKline

Gospel Music Association

Governors America Corp.

Graduate Management Admission Council

Graphic Artists Guild

Greeting Card Association (GCA)

Greg Nikas Photography

Guru Denim

H.S. Marketing & Design, Inc.

Harley-Davidson Motor Company

HarperCollins Publishers

Harry Fox Agency

Hastings Entertainment, Inc.

ICM Distributing Company, Inc.

IDS Publishing

IEC Electronics corp.

Images Plus

Imaging Supplies Coalition (ISC)

Independent Distributors of Electronics Association (IDEA)

INgrooves

Innate-gear

International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition (IACC)

International Trademark Association (INTA)

IPC-Association Connecting Electronics Industries

Ira Montgomery Photography

J.S. Grove Photography

James Drug Inc.

Jaynes Gallery

JCPage Photography

Jean Poland Photography

Jeff Stevensen Photography

John Fulton Photography

John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Juicy Couture, Inc

Julien McRoberts Photography

K&R Photographics

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Kekepana International Services

Kenneth Garrett, photographer for National Geographic

Killing Jar Productions LLC

Lacoste USA

Leatherman Tool Group, Inc.

Lexmark International, Inc.

Light Perspectives

Linda Olsen Photography

Little Dog Records

Liz Claiborne, Inc

L’Oréal USA

Lucky Brand Jeans

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton

Macmillan

Major League Baseball

Marcia Andberg Associates LLC

Mark Niederman Photography

Marmot

Marona Photography

McLain Photography Inc

Merck & Co., Inc.

Messy Face Designs, Inc.

Michael Stern Photography

MicroRam Electronics, Inc.

Minter Works of Art

Mira Images

Monster Cable Products, Inc.

Moose’s Photos

Morningstar Films LLC

Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA)

MotionMasters

Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association

MPA – The Association of Magazine Media

Mr. Theodor Feibel (sole proprietor)

Music Managers Forum-U.S.

Nashville Songwriters Association International

Natalie Neckyfarow Actor/Dancer/Singer

National Association of Broadcasters

National Association of Manufacturers

National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM)

National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO)

National Basketball Association (NBA)

National Board for Certified Counselors

National Board for Certified Counselors Foundation

National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA)

National Football League (NFL)

National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA)

National Retail Federation (NRF)

NBCUniversal

Nervous Tattoo Inc., dba Ed Hardy

New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.

New Era Cap Co Inc

New Levels Ent. Co. LLC

News Corporation

Next Decade Entertainment, Inc.

NHL Enterprises, L.P.

Nicholas Petrucci, Artist, LLC

Nike, Inc.

Nintendo of America Inc.

Nissle Fine Art Photography

North Dakota Pharmacists Association

North Dakota Pharmacy Service Corporation

Oakley, Inc.

One Voice Recordings

OpSec Security, Inc.

Outdoor Industry Association

Outdoor Power Equipment Institute (OPEI)

Outdoor Research, Inc

Pacific Component Xchange, Inc.

Party Killer Films LLC

Pearson Clinical Assessment

Peavey Electronics Corporation

Perry Ellis International

Personal Care Products Council

Peter C. Brandt, Architectural and Fine Art Photography

Peter Hawkins Photography, Inc.

Petzl America

Pfizer Inc.

PGA of America

Philip Morris International

Photojournalist Dave Bartruff

Picture Archive Council of America (PACA)

Pigfactory Music

PING

PNW Images

Premier League

Production Music Association (PMA)

Professional Photographers of America

Quality Float Works, Inc.

Raging Waters Music

Ralph Lauren Corporation

Ramsay Corporation

Rebel Photo

Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)

Red4 Music/Doogs Rock Inc

Red Wing Shoe Company

Reebok International Ltd.

Reed Elsevier Inc.

Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA)

Revlon

Richard Flutie Photography

Rite Aid

Robin Davis Photography, Inc.

Rodger Scott Craig, a member of Liverpool Express, The Merseybeats, Fortune, Harlan

Cage, 101 South, and Mtunz Media

Roger Smith Photography Services

Rolex Watch USA Inc.

Romance Writers of America (RWA)

Rosetta Stone Inc.

Saddle Creek

Sage Studios LLC

Sam D’Amico Photography

Schneider Electric

Sean McGinty Photography

Secret Sea Visions (Photography)

SESAC, Inc.

SG Industries, Inc.

Shure Incorporated

SIGMA Assessment Systems

Six Degrees Records

Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council

SMC Entertainment

SMT Corp.

SoBe Entertainment

Society of Sport & Event Photographers

Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA)

Sony Electronics Inc.

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Pictures Entertainment

Soul Appeal Records and Music

SoundExchange

Southern Gothic LLC

Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA)

SPI (The Plastics Industry Trade Association)

Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association

Sports Rights Owners Coalition

Spring Fever Productions LLC

Spyder Active Sports, Inc

Stenbakken Photography

Stephen Dantzig Photography

Stock Artist Alliance

Stuart Weitzman Holdings, LLC

Student Photographic Society

Studio 404

SunRise Solar Inc.

Taylor Glenn Photographs

Taylor Guitars

Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.

Tednologies, Inc.

The Cambridge Don

The Collegiate Licensing Company/IMG College

The Donath Group, Inc.

The Dow Chemical Company

The Estee Lauder Companies

The McGraw-Hill Companies

The Music People! Inc.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)

The Recording Academy (National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences)

The Timberland Company

The Walt Disney Company

Tiffany & Co.

Time Warner Inc.

Tony Bullard Photography

Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.

TRA Global

Tricoast Worldwide

Trio Productions, Inc. / Songscape Music,

Twist & Shout, Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Ultimate Fighting Championship

Underwriters Laboratories Inc.

Universal Music Group

Uniweld Products Inc.

VF Corporation

Viacom

Vibram USA, Inc

Virtual Chip Exchange USA, Inc.

Voltage Pictures, LLC

W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co.

Walcott Studio, LLC

Wal-Mart

Warner Music Group

Wendy Kaveney Photography

Western Psychological Services

Westmorland Images, LLC

Wild & Associates, Inc.

Wild Eye Photos LLC

William Sutton Photography

Willis Music

WindLegends Ink LLC

Winestem Company

Winslow Research Institute

Wolfe Video

Wolverine World Wide, Inc.

Woolrich, Inc.

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.

Xerox Corporation

Zippo Manufacturing Company

Zumba Fitness, LLC

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Russian warships are due to arrive at Syrian territorial waters, a Syrian news agency said on Thursday, indicating that the move represented a clear message to the West that Moscow would resist any foreign intervention in the country's civil unrest.

Also on Friday, a Syrian official said Damascus has agreed "in principle" to allow an Arab League observer mission into the country.
Medvedev and Assad in Syria    

Russia President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus, May 10, 2010.
Photo by: AP

But the official said Friday that Syria was still studying the details. The official asked not to be named because the issue is so sensitive.

The Arab League suspended Syria earlier this week over its deadly crackdown on an eight-month-old uprising. The 22-member body has proposed sending hundreds of observers to the country to try to help end the bloodshed.

The report came a day after a draft resolution backed by Arab and European countries and the United States was submitted to the United Nations General Assembly, seeking to condemn human rights violations in the on-going violence in Syria.

Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia were among Arab states that joined Germany, Britain, and France to sponsor the draft submitted to the assembly's human rights committee. In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the U.S. would sign on as a co-sponsor of the resolution.

The draft demanded an end to violence, respect of human rights and implementation by Damascus of a plan of action of the Arab League.

The move comes as clashes escalated in Syria and after Russia and China used their veto in October to block a Security Council resolution that would have condemned the Syrian government of President Bashir for the violence.

Such a veto is not applicable in the 193-nation assembly, which will consider the issue after the human rights committee reports back to it.

The UN says more than 3,500 people have been killed since unrest erupted in spring against Assad.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 7:05AM Gilad Atzmon

Police in London possess a surveillance technology that sounds like something straight out of science fiction: a mobile GSM device that pretends to be a cellular tower, tricking nearby phones into connecting to it, then intercepting all their communications.

The system was developed by the British firm Datong plc, according to The Guardian, which noted that the U.S. Secret Service and a number of Middle Eastern regimes also patronize the company.
The signal this device projects covers an area for 10 miles around, and the variety of data it can produce is specific enough to track the exact location of any mobile device on the network. It can even be used to shut off all mobile devices in its range.

The full range of its capabilities are classified, The Guardian added, and Datong plc did not comment on the initial report. The Metropolitan Police refused to say when or where the device has been used, if at all.
Documents seen by the British paper show the police paid £143,455 for the device in 2008-2009. The same firm has won over $1.6 million in U.S. contracts between 2004 and 2009, The Guardian said.

It’s not clear whether the technology was used during the riots that gripped London and other British cities earlier this year after police killed a young man who they claimed was involved in a drug deal.
During the unrest, British authorities threatened to cut off Blackberry messaging service, in a scene that evoked similar actions taken against protesters this year by authorities in Egypt and Oakland, California.
Photo: Flickr user nolifebeforecoffee.

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NATO Secretary General has dismissed the prospect of any military intervention in Syria by the Western alliance.

Addressing reporters on Monday during a joint news conference in Tripoli with Chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) Mustafa Abdel-Jalil, NATO's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterated that any military action within Syria by the Western alliance forces is out of the question.

Rasmussen's remarks came in the wake of a recent warning by the Syrian leader, who cautioned the West that any intervention to divide Syria would break up the entire region.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ali al-Ahmed, director of the Institute for (Persian) Gulf Affairs ([P]IGA) from Washington, to discuss the issue further.

Press TV: Are you surprised at NATO's announcement that they would not intervene in Syria?

al-Ahmed: No, I am not surprised because the situation in Syria is way different than that of Libya. Syria is much more stable and the security forces are united with the government. Secondly, Syria -neighboring Israel- gives the Syrian government greater leverage to push back the Western pressures -in addition to the support of Russia and China. So I think the situation is different; they was an attempt to get the UN Security Council to condemn Syria and to start the process [of] allowing the NATO to attack Syria but that has really stalled in the UN Security Council and the Arab League produced an initiative that is helping the Syrian government stile off the protest there.

Press TV: What do you think is the criteria for NATO? We saw how they intervened in Libya, but what we see taking place in Yemen, for example, with more and more people being killed every day; what is the determining factor for NATO to decide if they are going to interfere in a conflict or not?

al-Ahmed: NATO, to be sure, has not intervened in Libya for humanitarian reasons. This must be clear to the viewers and to the world that it was not the criterion to intervene in Libya. After all, the majority of the casualties in Libya [was] due to the bombings of NATO airplanes. In Yemen, as you mentioned, the situation is no different from that of Libya; however, the NATO and the Western governments have not raised the possibility of taking action -even political action. The Saleh regime in Yemen continues to do what he is doing without any challenge or major criticisms from the Western governments, from NATO specifically.

So these decisions [in these situations] are not made based on a humanitarian basis, it is based on political and geo-political reason; in terms of Libya it was economic, the decision-making process in Syria, I think, is much more complicated and [it is] much more difficult to try to unseat the Syrian government or attack Syria because I think there will be an implosion in the whole region (Middle East) and of course NATO is extremely worried about that effect on Israel, so they don't want anything to broaden this conflict further in Syria so we can say that this conflict, at least in the near future, will not include NATO or any Western governments attacking or intervening militarily in Syria.

Press TV: Let's look at the NATO in general. One of the reasons for their involvement, they said, was for humanitarian purposes but, as you have pointed out, there were more civilian causalities after they got involved. Who will hold them responsible? Every day, it seems more clear that practically a massacre has taken place in Sirte and of course in other parts of the country. Who will hold NATO accountable?

al-Ahmed: The reality is that there is nobody who can hold NATO responsible for any of the casualties that have taken place either directly by the bombings that NATO airplanes conducted or [for its] help in allowing the massacre of civilians in Sirte or other parts of Libya, so there is no push in international law that allows anyone to raise this flag and this is the reality.

ROTHSCHILDS TO BRING AMERICA TO ITS KNEES!!



“Very pleased we have entered into relations again with American Government” -Rothschilds, 1878


I'd say we're almost there, thanks to the predatory activities of those Zionist owned, Jewish run Wall Street banks and the Zionist owned, Jewish run Federal Reserve.

In 1878, the Rothschilds were back in business with the US government (after having been chased out of DC by Andrew Jackson in the 1830′s), as detailed by this cable discussing the Rothschild refinancing of American debt:

Messrs. Rothschild & Sons to Mr. Sherman.
[Cable message.]

April 12,1878.
Hon. John Sherman,
Secretary of the Treasury, Washington D. C.:

Very pleased we have entered into relations again with American Government. Shall do our best to make the business successful.

ROTHSCHILDS.

The Zionist owned, Jewish run Federal Reserve is illegal and unlawful, and has been that way since it was spawned.

You can't change the Constitution by simply passing a law, there has to be a Constitutional Convention and any changes have to be voted into an Amendment by a super-majority of the Congress and the States.

Besides stealing trillions of dollars of American wealth thru debt and inflation, the Fed has caused economic recessions and recently, even Fed head Bernanke admitted the Fed caused the first Great Depression..... any guesses as to who caused this 'Second Great Depression?'

The Fed needs to be closed down, and since it has been engaging in unlawful criminal activities since 1914, that means it's a continuing conspiracy and ALL the assets obtained as a result of that criminal activity of the private banking families that own the Fed can and should be confiscated.

Not only is the Fed illegal, but the 1913 Income Tax Amendment, that was allegedly approved by the necessary number of states, was passed into law fraudulently, but the bankster gangsters knew they needed to start picking our pockets to line theirs, using the soon to be created 'Creature from Jekyll Island,' the Federal Reserve.

Just think what we could do with an extra 300-400 billion dollars a year we'd save by NOT paying the Fed gangsters interest.

Interest that we are forced to pay to borrow OUR own money.

Second Look at the Federal Reserve by Edward Griffin 1 of 7

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magician's secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money. A boring subject? Just wait. You'll be hooked in five minutes. It sounds like a detective story, which it really is, but it's all true. Based on Mr. Griffin's book of the same title, this address will shatter your old ideas about money and change the way you view the world. 1998 lecture.



Like the old saying goes, "Follow the Money," and the trail of our plundered wealth leads to the world's #1 terrorist state, Apartheid Israel, a nation so in love with and indebted to the Rothschilds that they've named towns, parks, streets and used the plundered wealth of other nations to build the Israeli Supreme Court building and their congressional building, the Knesset.

by: Helen Rumbelow 

Some of the biggest men in the United States are afraid of something. They know there is a power somewhere, so organised, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. – President Woodrow Wilson

The "Occupy" protests and other demonstrations across the US and Europe are reported as being "anti-capitalist", "anti-banker", "anti-EU" or simply "anti-government".

But these labels will just not do.

The oligarchs who bring us our successive financial crises and wars will be getting rid of capitalism pretty soon.

Unfortunately they have no intention of disappearing with it.

We know that the entire financial system is going to collapse in fairly short order.

It must.

The 'more-debt' solution to irresolvable debt problems is a stalling strategy and everybody knows it.

A real solution to the nightmare that the financial oligarchs have created for us would end their system, so that ain't going to happen.......just yet.

First we are going to endure crises like we have never seen before.

Currencies will collapse.

There will be a major and very terrible war, a primary purpose of which will be to make survivors so desperate that they will be glad to accept anything on offer that delivers peace.

When it is over capitalism will go.......but the same people will remain in charge.

Therefore there is little point in branding oneself an 'anti-capitalist' (because Messrs. Rothschild and Rockefeller will soon be making common cause with you)

When the time comes we will be expected not to notice that the new, much better, much fairer system on offer will continue to be run by the same banking oligarchy that caused all the problems and nearly destroyed planet earth in the first place.

This trajectory is well laid out by Richard North in a recent article here.

We can expect a new Godless tyranny. A 'humanitarian' tyranny.

So let us be clear:

The system we call 'democracy' is really government by agents representing the interests of a financial oligarchy.

'Capitalism' is government by oligarchy.

(Wall-Street funded) Soviet 'Communism' was government by a tyrannical oligarchy.

All these disastrous systems were disasters because they were structurally designed to represented the interests of a ruling elite rather than the genuine interests of ordinary people.
So,

WHEN THE NEXT OLIGARCHICAL SYSTEM IS OFFERED TO US, ALL HUMANITY MUST RECOGNISE IT FOR WHAT IT IS AND REJECT IT.

TOTALLY.

What protesters need to set their minds and hearts against is the continuing dominating influence of a financial juggernaut that is, at its core, led by a small elite of extraordinarily powerful, corrupt and self-serving oligarchs.

Think it through, be clear about this and explain to everybody you meet.

Our system is not democratic, it is oligarchical and.....

WE ARE, FIRST AND FOREMOST, ANTI-OLIGARCHY.


Film on Oligarchy:




Part Two of this video here.

Pat Buchanan issued a stern warning to Occupy Wall Street this weekend.

In a round-table discussion on 'The McLaughlin Group', host John McLaughlin asked panelists about the future of the movement.
 
“It’s going to end very, very badly with these folks in the winter and they’re not going to be getting publicity and they’re going to be acting up and acting badly like the worst of the demonstrators in the 60s," Buchanan said. "They’re going to start fighting with the cops.”

Occupy Wall Street took a violent turn this week as Oakland police unleashed tear gas on protesters and injured an Iraq war veteran.

On Saturday, scores were arrested in Denver after protesters clashed with local law enforcement. When cops began to spray Mace on the crowd, several protesters reportedly retaliated by kicking and pushing police.

Watch Buchanan on 'The McLaughlin Group', courtesy of the Daily Caller.

Oct. 31 — Monday morning in Washington D.C., Marco Kaltofen, PE, of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, discussed current issues concerning radiation exposure in Japan.

Kaltofen is a Massachusetts Registered Professional Engineer engaged in the investigation of nuclear material release. He investigated the transport of radioactive particles in his dissertation research at WPI.
Here are excerpts from the description for his presentation, ‘Radiation Exposure to the Population in Japan After the Earthquake’:

• “The Fukushima nuclear accident dispersed airborne dusts that are contaminated with radioactive particles. When inhaled or ingested, these particles can have negative effects on human health that are different from those caused by exposure to external or uniform radiation fields.”
• “A field sampling effort was undertaken to characterize the form and concentration of radionuclides in the air and in environmental media which can accumulate fallout. Samples included settled dusts, surface wipes, used filter masks, used air filters, dusty footwear, and surface soils.”
• “Isolated US soil samples contained up to 8 nanoCuries per Kg of radiocesium, while control samples showed no detectable radiocesium.”

Read More: Radiation Exposure to the Population in Japan After the Earthquake
According to UC Berkeley, the highest cesium content in topsoil for each location sampled was fairly consistent throughout California:

• Sacramento, CA Topsoil on 8/16/2011: Total Cesium @ 2.737 Bq/kg
• Oakland, CA Topsoil on 9/8/2011: Total Cesium @ 2.55 Bq/kg
• Alameda, CA Topsoil on 4/6/2011: Total Cesium @ 2.52 Bq/kg
• San Diego, CA Topsoil on 6/29/2011: Total Cesium @ 2.51 Bq/kg
• Sonoma, CA Topsoil on 4/27/2011: Total Cesium @ 2.252 Bq/kg

The highest cesium levels of any topsoil measurements by UC Berkeley since the crisis began was 2.737 becquerels/kg in Sacramento. This is is equal to 73.9 picocuries/kg. (Conversion: 27 picocuries = 1 becquerel)

According to Kaltofen, the highest cesium levels detected in U.S. “surface soil” were up to 8 nanoCuries per Kg of radiocesium. This is equal to 8,000 picocuries/kg. (Conversion: 1 nanocurie = 1,000 picocuries)
Kaltofen’s highest findings were up to 108 times greater than the highest findings by UC Berkeley.

Before Kaltofen’s finding, the highest cesium content in US topsoil post-Fukushima was 700 picocuries/kg near Reno at the base of the Sierra Nevada Mountains by a person affiliated with the University of Nevada. However, this was only preliminary and appears to not have been confirmed. See: 700 pCi/kg of Cesium-137 found in soil from base of Sierra Nevada mountains according to preliminary data

Though we do not know what location in the U.S. Kaltofen’s samples were from (hopefully that information will soon be made available UPDATE: SEE BELOW), we do know that UC Berkeley’s samples were taken in areas that had some of the highest radiation readings in the nation post-Fukushima.

Finally, Kaltofen’s control surface soil samples (known to be unaffected by Fukushima fallout) “showed no detectable radiocesium”, meaning the 8,000 pCi/kg finding of cesium was caused by the triple meltdowns in Japan rather than leftover from atomic weapons tests decades ago.
h/t Fairewinds

UPDATE: The slideshow from Kaltofen’s presentation is now available online via the Fairewinds website. However, it does not provide any specific information on the cesium detection in the US. The only additional mention on this topic is that “US samples had only two isolated Cs-­134 and Cs-137 detections in soil.” It shouldn’t take to long before we find out how many US samples were tested, where they were from, and what the results and minimum detectable amounts were.