2012-10-10 Canada joins closed door Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations: Critics warn Canadian Internet rights will suffer. Vancouver Sun.

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Oct 102012
 

http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2012/10/10/canada-joins-closed-door-trans-pacific-partnership-negotiations-critics-warn-canadian-internet-rights-will-suffer/ Canada has officially joined Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations, a move that Canadian Internet advocates say could result in harsh restrictions on Internet use in Canada and leave ordinary citizens facing heavy fines and banishment from the online world over accusations of copyright infringement. “The (TPP) agreement is being negotiated in secret but we do […]

2012-08-26 The Organization of American States (OAS) supports Ecuador’s position on Assange

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Oct 082012
 

http://m.news24.com/news24/World/News/Ecuadorian-president-defends-Assange-20120826 Aug 26, 2012 (I have not seen this reported in Western media before:  The OAS stands behind Ecuador.) EXCERPT from the full article: Angry British Prime Minister David Cameron “must be really angry with his foreign minister”, Correa said. “Because, besides the rudeness and the discourtesy, the intolerable threat this was, it was a […]

2012-09-30 The Associated Press (AP) doctored the video of Julian Assange’s address to the United Nations, changing his message. The Globe & Mail posted the doctored video.

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Sep 302012
 

Anybody who listened to the video of Julian Assange’s address to the United Nations would know that it’s about failing democracy in the U.S. The Globe & Mail  Associated Press (AP – American) edited the video to create:  Assange accuses Obama of exploiting Arab Spring.   The G&M simply posted what the AP distributed, did not […]

2012-09-30 The struggle for independent media in a democracy, three quotes.

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Sep 302012
 

•     “Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done, (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember the occasions in which maybe if you had stood others would have stood […]

2012-09-30 The Globe & Mail’s handling of Margaret Wente’s plagiarism

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Sep 302012
 

Thank goodness for the bloggers who hammered the Globe & Mail’s handling of the Margaret Wente plagiarism.  I’ve pasted that story together, below.  The last article, 9.  Watching the Watchdog, by Tim Knight, is very good. This is related to the G&M’s reporting of Julian Assange’s presentation to the United Nations, further condemnation of the G&M’s […]

2012-09-27 Julian Assange addresses the UN by satellite linkup (full version).

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Sep 282012
 

Click on: Julian Assange addresses UN (Full Version with Q&A) Video Published on Sep 27, 2012 by RussiaToday. Julian Assange addressed permanent representatives to the UN General Assembly at a high-level talk on the legal and ethical legitimacy of diplomatic asylum – READ MORE  http://on.rt.com/f3jgtl ‘It is time for the US to cease its persecution […]

2012-09-26 Transcript of Julian Assange Address to the UN

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Sep 272012
 

NOTE:   The Globe & Mail posting of the Julian Assange video, for which this is the transcript,  eliminated the first part and changed the message delivered by Assange.  I marked the point where they start their “reporting” of what he said.  Scroll down to ***.    The words reported in the doctored video appear in red. […]

“The Demon-Haunted World” by Carl Sagan, Quotes

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Sep 272012
 

I replied to a friend: From my perspective, human brains are wired to find patterns.  We need to be able to do that, in order to make sense of the world and our lives.  And, in order to survive – – recognize the patterns that lead to harm. My brain seems to be good at […]

2012-09-27 US calls Assange ‘enemy of state’, Sydney Herald

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Sep 262012
 
2012-09-27 US calls Assange 'enemy of state', Sydney Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/us-calls-assange-enemy-of-state-20120927-26m7s.html THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the  United States – the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and  the Taliban insurgency. Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US  freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact  WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk […]

Lockheed Martin: “AirRage”, Click & Watch CTV’s W5 Doc on the F-35. PLUS

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Sep 262012
 

The contract for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 stealth bombers.  Taking citizens to the cleaners. Watch CTV’s  W5 documentary, AIR RAGE.   (Only one ad at the beginning. It plays straight through, part 1 and then part 2.  It’s excellent.)    http://www.ctvnews.ca/f-35-fighter-jet-is-it-the-pinnacle-of-technology-its-creators-claim-1.966893   NOTE:    I don’t see any on-line comments below the video that address WHY Harper is operating […]

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