SOPA & ACTA: The Total End of Internet Freedom with Privacy Activist Katherine Albrecht 1/3

On the Monday, January 30th edition of the Alex Jones Show, Alex talks with GCN radio host and privacy activist Katherine Albrecht. She has authored and co-authored six books, including the award-winning bestseller Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every move with RFID and The Spychips Threat: Why Christians should resist RFID and electronic surveillance. She is the Director of CASPIAN Consumer Privacy (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering), an 18,000-member grass-roots organization.
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India to neglect sanctions on Iranian oil

Despite the new round of US and EU sanctions on Iran, India has said it would do what ever it takes to buy the Iranian oil. Finding a replacement on such a large scale is difficult as Iranian oil contributes to about 12 percent of India's oil imports.

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The Corporate Usurpation of the Internet

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In the wake of a public outcry against internet regulation bills such as SOPA and PIPA, representatives of the EU have signed a new and far more threatening legislation yesterday in Tokyo. Spearheaded by the governments of the United States and Japan and constructed largely in the absence of public awareness, the measures of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) dramatically alter current international legal framework, while introducing the first substantial processes of global internet governance. With complete contempt towards the democratic process, the negotiations of the treaty were exclusively held between industry representatives and government officials, while excluding elected representatives and members of the press from their hearings.  - BlackListedNews.com

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Humans Lose, Robots Win in New Defense Budget

The big loser in the Pentagon’s new budget? Ordinary human beings.

About 80,000 Army soldiers and 20,000 Marines are getting downsized. Half of the Army’s conventional combat presence in Europe is packing up and ending its post-Cold War staycation. Replacing them, according to the $613 billion budget previewed by the Pentagon on Thursday: unconventional special-operations forces; new bombers; new spy tools; new missiles for subs; and a veritable Cylon army of drones.  | Wired.com

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The U.S. Air Force expects to close some of its bases across the country during the next few years as it retires older planes and cuts up to 10,000 airmen.

While one independent analyst said it would be highly unlikely for the Air Force to close Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Air Force Chief of Staff Norton A. Schwartz said Friday that the Air Force has 500 fewer planes since the last round of base closings in 2005.

16 Statistics Which Show That The Number Of Americans Dependent On The Government Is At An All-Time High

A higher percentage of the American population is receiving government benefits than ever before.  Yes, there have always been poor people that have needed our assistance, but what does it say about our economy that the number of Americans dependent on the government is at an all-time high?  Every night on the evening news we are told that the economy is improving, and Barack Obama is endlessly giving speeches about the "economic recovery" that is supposedly underway.  But that is not the reality on the ground for those on the bottom rungs of the income ladder in America.  People are really hurting out there, and the number of Americans that are turning to the government for financial assistance just continues to increase.  Yes, we should always have a "safety net", but right now our "safety net" is becoming massively overloaded as millions more Americans jump on to it every single year.  What all of these impoverished Americans really need are jobs, but the U.S. Congress and the past several administrations have been systematically killing job growth in America.  So unfortunately the number of poor Americans is going to continue to rise, and that is really bad news for a nation that is already drowning in debt.  Read more...

Black Buying Power. The Poverty is not in the Community but in our Minds.

According to The State of the African- American Consumer Report: Black buying power is expected to reach $1.1 trillion by 2015. With a buying power of nearly $1 trillion annually, if Blacks were a country, they'd be the 16th largest country in the world of the approximately 200 nations in the world!

African Americans earned a take-home salary of nearly $950 billion yearly (2009), not to mention the billions they generate in productivity increase and profits for their employers. Sadly, less than 5% of this income is returned to the communities where many African Americans live. Thus they are rundown, impoverished, and are easy prey for those who would exploit the weak in society.

16 Netherlands 780,668
17 Turkey 735,487
18 Indonesia 706,752
19 Switzerland 527,920
20 Poland 469,401
21 Belgium 467,779
22 Sweden 458,725
23 Saudi Arabia 448,360
24 Republic of China (Taiwan) 429,845
25 Norway 412,990
26 Iran 407,382
27 Austria 377,382
28 Argentina 369,992
29 South Africa 363,655
30 Thailand 318,908
31 Denmark 309,866
32 Greece 305,415
33 United Arab Emirates 302,039
34 Venezuela 293,268

U.S falls to 47th in press freedom rankings after Occupy crackdown

Sweeping protests around the world made it an extremely difficult year for the media, and tested journalists as never before, the annual report into press freedom reveals.

The annual report by Reporters Without Borders has been released, showing the United States fell 27 points on the list due to the many arrests of journalists covering Occupy Wall Street protests.

The slide in the United States places it just behind Comoros and Taiwan in a group with Argentina and Romania.

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