Environmental
Monsanto’s GMO Seeds Contributing to Farmer Suicides Every 30 Minutes
By Anthony Gucciardi
BlacklistedNews.com
In what has been called the single largest wave of recorded suicides in human history, Indian farmers are now killing themselves in record numbers. It has been extensively reported, even in mainstream news, but nothing has been done about the issue. The cause? Monsanto’s cost-inflated and ineffective seeds have been driving farmers to suicide, and is considered to be one of the largest — if not the largest — cause of the quarter of a million farmer suicides over the past 16 years.
According to the most recent figures (provided by the New York University School of Law), 17,638 Indian farmers committed suicide in 2009 — about one death every 30 minutes. In 2008, the Daily Mail labeled the continual and disturbing suicide spree as ‘The GM (genetically modified) Genocide’. Due to failing harvests and inflated prices that bankrupt the poor farmers, struggling Indian farmers began to kill themselves. Oftentimes, they would commit the act by drinking the very same insecticide that Monsanto supplied them with — a gruesome testament to the extent in which Monsanto has wrecked the lives of independent and traditional farmers.
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Cyber Space
SOPA, PIPA, CISPA, ACTA: 354 companies that Supported SOPA!
Uploaded by GetThisThingCrunk on Jan 20, 2012
National Football League (NFL)
World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)
Nike, Inc
National Basketball Association (NBA)
The Walt Disney Company
CBS Corporation
NBC Universal
Viacom
Adidas America
Wal-Mart
Juicy Couture
Burberry
Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC)
Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA)
Universal Music Group
Beachbody, LLC
Bose Corporation
Coach
Comcast Corporation
Country Music Association
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Dolce & Gabbana USA, INC.
Dollar General Corporation
Electronic Arts, Inc.
Fender Musical Instrument Company
Ford Motor Company
Gibson Guitar Corp.
Graphic Artists Guild
Greeting Card Association (GCA)
Harley-Davidson Motor Company
HarperCollins Publishers
Johnson & Johnson
kate spade
Linda Olsen Photography
Liz Claiborne, Inc
L’Oréal USA
New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc.
News Corporation
NHL Enterprises, L.P.
Nintendo of America Inc.
PGA of America
Philip Morris International
Ralph Lauren Corporation
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
Reebok International Ltd.
Revlon
Rite Aid
Rolex Watch USA Inc.
Rosetta Stone Inc.
Sony Electronics Inc.
Sony Music Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association
The McGraw-Hill Companies
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
The Timberland Company
Tiffany & Co.
Time Warner Inc.
Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Virtual Chip Exchange USA, Inc.
Warner Music Group
Winestem Company
Xerox Corporation
Zippo Manufacturing Company
Zumba Fitness, LLC
1-800 Contacts, Inc.
1-800-PetMeds
3M Company
American Mental Health Counselors Association
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Applied DNA Sciences
Association of American Publishers (AAP)
AstraZeneca plc
Australian Medical Council
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)
C. F. Martin & Co., Inc.
Caterpillar Inc.
Not a complete list, also look up ACTA
SOPA/PIPA, Internet 2 and The Trojan Horse of Control 1/3
Uploaded by TheAlexJonesChannel on Jan 18, 2012
SOPA/PIPA Battle Rages: Tell Congress We Will Not Accept Censorship
Kurt Nimmo
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.prisonplanet.tv/
January 18, 2012
The underhanded effort to fundamentally alter the internet under the guise of protecting the copyrights of Hollywood and its transnational “entertainment” corporations was delivered a distinct set-back a few days ago when Congress retreated on its full-steam ahead effort to ram SOPA down our throats.
Faced with massive outrage and a political backlash, the Obama administration threatened a veto of the SOPA legislation and in response Congress shelved it.
Equally important is the battle to defeat PIPA, the Protect IP Act, which will soon be up for a vote. Congress needs to be told it must reject this legislation as well.
Even though the shelving of SOPA appears to be a victory, we cannot trust the government to not reintroduce the bill after sprucing it up as a kinder and gentler effort to rob of us our ability to freely disseminate information and speak our minds on the internet without fear of the censor’s truncheon crashing down. After all, in 2010 the government shut down 73,000 web sites under the cover of fighting copyright infringement.
We must continue to let our “representatives” in Congress know that in no uncertain terms will we accept any modification of the internet at the behest of large corporations and the globalists who intend by hook or by crook to neuter the only free communication medium left to the people.
Use the links below to contact Congress now and speak your mind:
Congress:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
http://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
Senate:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
STOP AMERICAN CENSORSHIP:
http://americancensorship.org/
Read the bills in full here:
SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act):
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-3261
PIPA (Protect IP Act):
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s112-968
CONGRESS:
http://www.youtube.com/user/househub
SENATE:
http://www.youtube.com/user/senatehub
YOU are the resistance.
CISPA: Nightmare Cybersecurity Bill
Uploaded by TheAlyonaShow on Apr 3, 2012
CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protect Act, also known as HR 3523 is a cybersecurity House bill that’s already gained over 100 sponsors and is perhaps the worst of them all. It would allow companies to collect and monitor private communications and share them with the government, and anyone else. So is it really as scary as it sounds? EFF’s Trevor Timm explains.
How to hide emails from government snooping
Despite coalition proposals to monitor public email, there remain numerous free or low-cost methods to keep messages private
By Jack Schofield, The Guardian
You already know how to keep messages private: you just encrypt the contents using a password. But although this kind of technology has been freely available to PC users since Phil Zimmermann launched PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) in 1991, hardly anyone uses it. The benefits of email and online messaging are that they are fast and relatively frictionless – you don’t need to address an envelope, find a stamp, walk to a post box and so on – and encryption becomes an annoyance.
The problem with the latest government attempts at snooping is that they are not concerned with the content of messages, but their existence. If you have found some suspected criminals or terrorists, then you will want to know who their friends are: the people they email or message most frequently. Each of these people can probably be identified by their internet protocol (IP) address: the number assigned by their ISP (internet service provider). Even an encrypted email will usually include the addresses of the sender and the recipient in its headers.
The general solution to privacy concerns is to use a non-UK “proxy server” to relay web pages, messages, anonymous email accounts and other content anonymously. Hackers who really want to hide their origins will use several proxy servers, including ones that are acting as proxies without their owner’s knowledge. Many websites publish lists of free proxy servers, which are updated continuously.
Of course, these servers may offer less privacy than your ISP, and some may be traps or “honeypots”. However, there are some trusted anonymous servers available either free or for modest payments.
Examples include hidemyass.com, anonymouse.org, Guardster, Proxify, IDzap and Megaproxy. Such servers usually have terms of service to prevent abusive or criminal behaviour. They will probably record your IP address and may report you if you breach them, so they’re not completely beyond government reach. However, they’re probably beyond government fishing expeditions…..
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Activism
Raw Video: Calif. Students Pepper-sprayed
Published by AssociatedPress
Campus police pepper-sprayed as many as 30 demonstrators after Santa Monica College students angry over a plan to offer high-priced courses tried to push their way into a trustees meeting, authorities said.
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Articles of Interest
Families to lose average £511 a year in tax credits cull, warns Labour
Ed Balls accuses George Osborne of giving with one hand and taking more away with the other in budget changes
Families with children stand to lose an average of £511 a year on what is being described as black Friday, according to figures compiled for Labour by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
In what is likely to be a key battleground in the local elections, the Treasury said the figures were partial and chose to highlight the impact of the lifting of the personal allowances for most basic rate taxpayers.
The Labour analysis follows George Osborne’s budget last month and is on top of tax increases already introduced, such as last year’s VAT rise which is costing a family with children an average of £450 a year. The figures include the impact of raising the personal allowance.
Labour said more than 850,000 families on modest and middle incomes would lose all their child tax credit, worth about £545 a year. Up to 212,000 working couples earning less than £17,000 a year will lose all of their working tax credit – worth up to £3,870 a year – if they cannot increase their working hours. It is the first time the IFS has put these calculations in cash terms.
According to Labour, a couple with two children on the minimum wage will be better off quitting their jobs if they cannot work at least 19 hours a week. Ed Balls, the shadow chancellor, accused the government of giving with one hand and taking much more away with the other.
Balls said: “For all the government’s talk about increasing the personal allowance, these independent figures show that, while they may be giving one with one hand, they are taking much more away with the other hand. That is why families with children will be an average of £511 a year worse off from tomorrow.”
Even Congress Wants To Know What The NSA Is Doing With This $2 Billion Utah Spy Center
Robert Johnson
Maybe you’ve heard of it and maybe you haven’t, but in Bluffdale, Utah alongside one of the largest polygamist sects in America, the NSA is building a one-million-square-foot data collection center — five times the size of the U.S. capital.
Despite immense secrecy, and construction workers with Top Secret clearances, news of the project made it to the pages of Wired last month. Intelligence authority James Bamford wrote that the center is part of President Bush’s “total information awareness” program that was killed by Congress in 2003 in response to public outrage over its potential for invading Americans privacy.
One senior intelligence official formerly involved with the project told Bamford “this is more than just a data center,” that it’s a code breaking megalopolis the likes of which the world has never seen.
Several years ago the NSA made a major leap in breaking complex encryptions used in everything from “financial information, stock transactions, business deals, foreign military and diplomatic secrets, legal documents, confidential personal communications.”
The official concluded by saying “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”
The story caused such a stir that the NSA’s chief General Keith Alexander was called before Congress last week to testify about the project and categorically denied the facility will be used to spy on American citizens.
“The NSA does not have the ability to do that in the United States,” Alexander told Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson. “We’re not authorized to do that, nor do we have the equipment in the United States to collect that kind of information.”
NSA public information officer Vanee’ Vines backed up Alexander in an email saying: “What it will be is a state-of-the-art facility designed to support the Intelligence Community’s efforts to further strengthen and protect the nation.”
Update: The NSA does not spy on Americans, they hire it out to the Israelis…..
Americans brace for next foreclosure wave
By Nick Carey
GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio
(Reuters) – Half a decade into the deepest U.S. housing crisis since the 1930s, many Americans are hoping the crisis is finally nearing its end. House sales are picking up across most of the country, the plunge in prices is slowing and attempts by lenders to claim back properties from struggling borrowers dropped by more than a third in 2011, hitting a four-year low.
But a painful part two of the slump looks set to unfold: Many more U.S. homeowners face the prospect of losing their homes this year as banks pick up the pace of foreclosures.
“We are right back where we were two years ago. I would put money on 2012 being a bigger year for foreclosures than 2010,” said Mark Seifert, executive director of Empowering & Strengthening Ohio’s People (ESOP), a counseling group with 10 offices in Ohio.
“Last year was an anomaly, and not in a good way,” he said.
In 2011, the “robo-signing” scandal, in which foreclosure documents were signed without properly reviewing individual cases, prompted banks to hold back on new foreclosures pending a settlement.
Five major banks eventually struck that settlement with 49 U.S. states in February. Signs are growing the pace of foreclosures is picking up again, something housing experts predict will again weigh on home prices before any sustained recovery can occur.
Mortgage servicing provider Lender Processing Services reported in early March that U.S. foreclosure starts jumped 28 percent in January.
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