NDAA | A nightmare becomes real

In teh US you can now be detained, jailed forever without even seeing a lawyer, a courtroom or a jury. Activist Post wrote and article yesterday outlining teh possible consequences of this monstrosity perpetrated by teh US government.

 

Here is a copy of their article

Sunday, April 27, 2014

The NDAA: What They Don’t Want You To Know

 Lily Dane

Activist Post

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Sections 1021 and 1022, authorizes the indefinite military detention, without charge or trial, of any person, including an American citizen, and applies the “Law of War,” to U.S. soil, making the United States legally a battlefield.

People Against the NDAA (PANDA) was founded by Dan Johnson in January 2012. Johnson is a remarkable young man – he’s only 20 years old, and is already a nationally known writer and speaker.

PANDA is the largest organization of its kind in the world, and has worked on over 18 pieces of state and local anti-NDAA legislation.

The PANDA Mission Statement, from the organization’s website:

Our Mission is to nonviolently block, strike down, repeal, stop, void and fight the indefinite detention provisions, Sections 1021 and 1022, of the National Defense Authorization Act for the Fiscal Year of 2012, to fight for American civil liberties, to combat laws restricting liberty in the interest of National Security, to support current government officials that are doing so and to engage a younger generation in the politics of the United States so this cannot happen again.

Johnson spoke at the Freedom Forum in Santa Cruz, CA on March 19, 2014, where he broke down the law and discussed its impacts on citizens:

 

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Good news for #Anakata (?)

#Anakata

Good news for #Anakata | not so good for teh one being threatened but clearly grounds for optimism as teh co-founder of #TPB goes to trial 4 months from now / Danish and Swedish police flying half way around teh world to try to find some way to prove that Gottfried was teh only person with access to teh computer that allegedly was used to hack into a bank.

Gottfried`s lawyer should immediately contact this “John” in Cambodia as a witness to teh fact that 50+ people had access to his computer.

My main question right now is, why there was a Swedish policeman there? His Swedish conviction was overturned and Gottfried is now in Danish jurisdiction. Anybody else feel something strange going on behind teh scenes?

Here is teh link to teh original story from TorrentFreak

#Scandal | Political censorship of teh Pirate Party!

Popular pirates excluded from EU debate

Copied in its entirety from European Pirates
European Pirate Party candidate for the President of the European Commission, Amelia Andersdotter, has been denied participation in a debate with the other candidates. This despite the fact that Amelia, together with Peter Sunde, are the most popular candidates according to the organization VoteWatch’s poll.

Today, April 28, the televised “First European Presidental Debate” is held in Maastricht in front of 700 young voters. The debate is announced as taking place between the nominated candidates to the presidency of the European Commission; however, Amelia Andersdotter, Member of the European Parliament for the Swedish Pirate Party and nominated candidate, has been excluded from participating.

“I don’t like to see myself as a victim. However, the fact that I’m denied access to the first debate between candidates, despite us having followed all the rules for participation and having political support, makes me feel censored for the first time during my time as an EU politician”, says Amelia Andersdotter.

Amelia Andersdotter was nominated for the presidency along with Peter Sunde, former spokesperson for The Pirate Bay, by the European political party European Pirates, which Andersdotter is the chairperson of.

The justification for the exclusion is that she has worked together with the Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament and somebody considered that since one of the candidates who will participate in the debate is from the European Green Party, Andersdotter’s participation would give them two candidates from the same movement. This argumentation has holes, however, as the candidates are nominated by the European political parties, not by the European Parliament political groups.

This decision seems to be taken by the organisers despite the fact that Andersdotter and Sunde’s candidacy has received the highest support by those who have participated in the organisation VoteWatch’s poll.

“I have made my utmost efforts to be represented in each of those debates where European top-level politicians present their visions for the future. There is no reason to block me from these debates just because my political party has been good at cooperating with other political parties in the European Parliament. This is very poor behavior from our competitors. We’re the the youngest party by age of members. Ousting us from a debate targeted at young voters is nonsensical and shows someone is misusing their position”, states Amelia Andersdotter.

Published 2014-04-28 and copied in its entirety from European Pirates

I am responsible!

#2992 | I am a responsible #Activist | mine eyes are wide open

I am responsible. I am giving teh orders. I am the one making teh decisions. I have to make teh decisions, I am responsible. *twitter* So, I become teh hand of my causes. I know what I have done. I know who was left behind, who suffered – because of teh decisions I made. 

This is teh burden of being teh one to step up. I always suffered a bit with each one of my actions. I remember them all! Teh responsibility of that. Teh gravity of that. Teh weight of it. It marks me. It stains me. It never leaves me.

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I am responsible and it IS teh worst punishment in teh world. There are no more white hats left and teh deck is ALWAYS stacked against us.

I may be a monster, but almost every decision I ever made – was motivated by only one thing. Helping those that cannot help themselves. That is my burden and I accept it as my mission in life. So when you see me, or hear rumors of what I might have done, you WILL know that I take full responsibility – for teh things that are true.

But I never claim fame for doing what I do. I misdirect, manipulate, obfuscate, hide my motives and I always protect anyone willing to show loyalty to a good cause. Loyalty is even more beautiful to me than teh purest of love.

I make mistakes, as we all do. I make many mistakes, many more than those that do nothing. I forgive myself for those – even if mistakes cause suffering. I must move on, there are too many causes, too many evil nation states, too many oligarchs and too much violence – not to move on.

I AM FULLY AND SOLELY responsible for every action I undertake.

Because I give zero fxcs, never forget and you can always expect me for as long as I breathe. What you must also not forget is that I am not one – but a legionnaire at heart. And no one has ever defeated me. I may suffer – but I will never stop. Since I almost never brag, you do not know what I am capable of or what my skill set is. All you know is that I have survived teh coldest winters, teh harshest times and teh worst enemies you only read about. In 18 months I have lost 19 comrades to jail, disappearance, kidnapping, torture and/or murder. In teh last decade and a half I have lost contact with every IRL friend and family in part due to figures from organized crime “crews”. I do not have a home nor an address. My body is a map of violence. But I do not complain. I made my bed myself and now I must lie in it. I am responsible.

In conclusion
Those of you entertaining teh notion of stopping me, do your research beforehand. At least you will then know what you are up against. A man – struck down many times – but NEVER ever defeated. All of those that have tried before you – are now in a life long state of regret. Those that are still among us will tell you so – outright. They are plentiful.

In truth and respect, Ray  |  April 2K14

Pirate Activist  |  #2992, #HCPP, #Anon, #WikiLeaks, #Snowden, #PPI, #Amnesty, #Occupy, #Palestine ,#TPB and #FreeAnons supporter
~ Loosely based on a magnificent /rant originating in #Hollywood .ca

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Post script: Written in respect and reverence of countless, anonymous and non-anonymous friends and cohorts on four continents that risk their freedoms for our common causes. You amaze me all! Stay Frosty!
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What are teh 1% so scared of? | “The Piketty Panic”

Paul Krugman of teh #NYTimes has written an excellent Op Ed piece that should interest all of us. Especially those not among teh 1% Oligarchs that own most of teh worlds riches. Krugman starts by calling the writer of a book a phenomenon.

““Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” the new book by the French economist Thomas Piketty, is a bona fide phenomenon. “

Why is this and why is teh only comment from teh super rich that Mr. Piketty must be a Marxist
Krugman continues:  “Other books on economics have been best sellers, but Mr. Piketty’s contribution is serious, discourse-changing scholarship in a way most best sellers aren’t. And conservatives are terrified. Thus James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute warns in National Review that Mr. Piketty’s work must be refuted, because otherwise it “will spread among the clerisy and reshape the political economic landscape on which all future policy battles will be waged.”

Well, good luck with that. The really striking thing about the debate so far is that the right seems unable to mount any kind of substantive counterattack to Mr. Piketty’s thesis. Instead, the response has been all about name-calling — in particular, claims that Mr. Piketty is a Marxist, and so is anyone who considers inequality of income and wealth an important issue.”

Who is the author and what is teh “Second Belle Époque”?
Thomas Piketty, professor at the Paris School of Economics, isn’t a household name, although that may change with the English-language publication of his magnificent, sweeping meditation on inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Yet his influence runs deep. It has become a commonplace to say that we are living in a second Gilded Age—or, as Piketty likes to put it, a second Belle Époque—defined by the incredible rise of the “one percent.” But it has only become a commonplace thanks to Piketty’s work.

Oh teh irony!
Mr. Krugmans article has a lot of comments, but teh best one is of the teh ironic kind. Especially funny to me since my home country is Norway where we all pay taxes and all get free healthcare. We are even worse than Canada. [insert international symbol for irony here]

Featured Comment / Francis Volpe / Carlisle, Penn.
“Oh dear God, we’ll be like Sweden and Norway! The horror!”

Photo by Emmanuelle Marchadour

Since 1980 the one percent has seen its income share surge again
In another article Krugman wrote about this book, Why We Are In a New Gilded Age,  a paragraph stands out to me:
“It therefore came as a revelation when Piketty and his colleagues showed that incomes of the now famous “one percent,” and of even narrower groups, are actually the big story in rising inequality. And this discovery came with a second revelation: talk of a second Gilded Age, which might have seemed like hyperbole, was nothing of the kind. In America in particular the share of national income going to the top one percent has followed a great U-shaped arc. Before World War I the one percent received around a fifth of total income in both Britain and the United States. By 1950 that share had been cut by more than half. But since 1980 the one percent has seen its income share surge again—and in the United States it’s back to what it was a century ago.”

Here is teh article from Mr. Krugman and information on where to get teh book at teh lowest price on paper or Kindle
The Piketty Panic – NYTimes.com.

Capital in the Twenty-First Century  (Click title to go to Amazon)
by Thomas Piketty, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 685 pp.,

If you would like to save 28 dollars you can go here to download it from The Pirate Bay.

 

 

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Enlightenment and Activism

Jefferson by Rembrandt

#Enlightenment #Activism | inspired by Thomas Jeffersons thinking

/ Once you understand teh world, you can take part in improving  it /

Before you embark on a mission to take part in changing teh world, it is your duty to learn all you can about teh ideas behind your cause. It means listening to your enemies, friends, media, history and those living in teh middle of teh hell that may be your reason to partake in an attempt to better their world.

Be it Palestinians, Tartars, Muslims, jailed anons, children in need or simply millions of Syrian refugees – there is always much to learn. If you biindly follow teh flock or special interests you are bound to make more harm than good. Enlighten yourself before jumping up and blindly sharing other peoples ideas and words.

This is my belief!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson

Bio

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2nd Vice President of the United States
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1st United States Secretary of State
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United States Minister to France
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2nd Governor of Virginia
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Obama’s Asia Trip: TPP Make-or-Break Moment?

Posted: 04/23/2014 6:55 pm EDT Updated: 04/23/2014 6:59 pm EDT by Lori Wallach

A major goal of President Barack Obama’s Asia trip is to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) after four years of negotiations have resulted in talks deadlocked over scores of issues and growing U.S. congressional and public opposition.

Whether or not any real deal is made, some sort of “breakthrough” almost certainly will be announced because the U.S.-Japan summit is viewed as a do-or-die moment to inject momentum into the TPP process. Familiarity with kabuki theatre may be useful in interpreting the summit outcomes on the TPP.

Obama arrives in Asia without trade authority and with TPP partners Japan and Malaysia aware that the U.S Congress, which has exclusive constitutional authority over trade policy, is increasingly skeptical about the TPP. January 2014 legislation to enact Fast Track authority was dead on arrival in the U.S. House of Representatives. Already in late 2013, 180 House members had announced they would never authorize the Fast Track process again; more announced opposition to the specific Fast Track proposal when it was submitted in January 2014.

The prospect that Obama cannot deliver on whatever “compromises” he may make on his Asia trip was heightened on Monday by a bipartisan letter in which 63 members of Congress demanded that the Obama administration secure an agreement for Japan to eliminate its agricultural tariffs.

The letter was mainly signed by those in the dwindling bloc of TPP-supporting U.S. representatives. Major U.S. agribusiness interests have reiterated the call for zeroing of Japanese agricultural tariffs after Japanese press reports suggested that a deal on more modest tariff reductions was imminent. Legislation passed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s legislative wing listed five “sacred” agricultural products — rice, beef and pork, wheat and barley, sugar and dairy — that must be excluded from the TPP.

But at the same time, there is enormous pressure for Obama and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to announce a breakthrough. They want news of a U.S.-Japan deal — whether or not one is made — to revive TPP talks.

Months of non-stop U.S-Japan bilateral TPP negotiations have failed to overcome sensitive agricultural and auto market access issues — among the few real, old-fashioned trade issues in the TPP. Without knowing what market access gains they may achieve in return, other TPP nations have been loath to consider high-stakes tradeoffs on the sensitive policy issues at the core of the TPP. This includes U.S. demands on behalf of corporate interests to extend medicine patents and meddle with governments’ drug reimbursement rates; limit financial regulation, food safety standards and Internet freedom; and expand investor protections that subject domestic laws to attack by corporations in foreign tribunals.

Despite the unprecedented secrecy surrounding the TPP negotiations, leaks of TPP documents are fueling opposition in many TPP countries as the pact’s prospective threats are revealed. As a result, the other TPP nation governments face considerable domestic political liability for acceding to various TPP demands being forwarded by U.S. negotiators on behalf of the 600 official U.S. trade advisors who represent corporate interests. (You can find a checklist of all of the unresolved issues here.)

Finally, the president’s Asia trip provides the best possible platform to make arguments that distract from the TPP’s merits and shift the focus to broad-brush narratives that connect to congressional and public anxieties about a rising China. As the economic sales pitch for the TPP has faced increasing incredulity in Congress, TPP proponents have shifted to such foreign policy arguments-of-last-resort used to sell flagging trade deals.

A report released last week by Public Citizen reveals that nearly identical foreign policy arguments have consistently proven baseless when used to sell trade deals over the past two decades. The report reviews foreign policy claims made to promote the TPP, ranging from the absurd to the counterfactual, to those that repeatedly have been disproved by the actual outcomes of similar claims made for past pacts. Repeatedly, Congress has approved trade deals based on dire predictions that failure to do so would mean diminished U.S. power, the takeover of important markets by competitors or foreign instability, only to find that many of those predictions came true in spite of, and sometimes even because of, pacts’ enactment.

Among the report’s findings, echoed last week in a call with members of Congress and Asia policy expert Clyde Prestowitz:

• Past free trade agreements (FTAs) failed to counter the rising economic influence of China (or Japan): From 2000 to 2011, U.S. FTAs with eight Latin American countries were sold as bulwarks against foreign economic influence in the hemisphere. The U.S. pacts were implemented and China’s exports to Latin America soared more than 1,280 percent, from $10.5 billion to more than $145 billion, while the United States saw only modest export growth. The U.S.-produced share of Latin America’s imported goods fell 36 percent, while China’s share increased 575 percent. Similarly, under the North American Free Trade Agreement’s (NAFTA) first 20 years, the U.S.-produced share of Mexico’s imported goods dropped from almost 70 percent to less than 50 percent, while China’s share rose more than 2,600 percent. Similarly, after hysterical claims that Japan would seize U.S. market share in Latin America by signing its own free trade agreements unless the United States approved NAFTA and other FTAs, such Japanese FTAs were signed anyway.

 

• The TPP will not “contain” or isolate China: U.S. officials have repeatedly welcomed China as a prospective TPP member. How can the TPP isolate China if China can become a member? Administration officials note that China could join only if it agreed to the TPP’s rules, but those rules would give Chinese products duty-free access to the U.S. market and new foreign investor rights and privileges that would enhance China’s relative economic might within the United States. This may explain China’s statements of increased interest in joining the TPP. The TPP also will not empower Pacific allies to act as a bulwark against Chinese influence, given that many of those nations see China as a partner. The report cites officials from TPP countries stating that if the TPP were to become a China-containment tool, they would no longer participate in TPP negotiations.

 

• The TPP is not a vehicle to impose “our” rules vs. China imposing “theirs”: The TPP’s actual terms undercut the false, but conveniently scary, dichotomy posed as a choice between using TPP to impose “our” rules internationally or living with rules set by China. This argument presumes that the TPP represents “our” rules, but in fact many of the TPP’s terms reflect the narrow special interests of the hundreds of official U.S. corporate trade advisors that have shaped them. TPP investment rules would promote more U.S. job offshoring and further gut the U.S. manufacturing base that is essential for our national security and domestic infrastructure. The study summarizes a recent U.S. Department of Defense report that concludes that U.S. deindustrialization poses a threat to national security and our nation’s economic well being. Meanwhile, TPP procurement rules would ban Buy American policies that reinvest our tax dollars to create economic growth and jobs at home. TPP service sector rules would raise our energy prices and undermine our energy independence and financial stability. And TPP drug and copyright terms would raise health care costs and thwart innovation.

Unfortunately, such inconvenient details have not guided the Obama administration’s approach to the TPP. So, stand by for trans-Pacific wafts of hot air about the TPP serving as a key component of Obama’s “pivot” to Asia, and — maybe — news of a “breakthrough” that ain’t.

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TTIP Updates – The Glyn Moody blogs

Tracking the twists and turns of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and spelling out what it really means

Published 16:23, 28 November 13

At the start of 2012 I began a series of posts about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement – ACTA. These took the form of updates on how ACTAwas developing. I did this because I had a sense of how quickly things were moving, and how complicated the issues were, and I wanted to try to track those as they happened.

To make that easier, Computerworld UK brought those updates together on a single page. It turned out to be an extremely exciting ride as opposition toACTA grew across Europe, culminating in the rejection by the European Parliament on 4 July last year.

However, one thing we have learned is that those behind unbalanced laws like SOPA and treaties like ACTA, never give up. If they fail with one, they just try again with another. And so it turns out in the wake of ACTA’s demise. We are now witnessing exactly the same secretive approach being applied to TTIP – the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – originally known as TAFTA, the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement.

Although TTIP only began a few months ago, it is becoming increasingly controversial as more people begin to realise what is at stake. As I explain in several updates below, one of the key problems is the presence of “investor-state dispute settlement” – ISDS – which I predict will prove to be the most contentious part of TTIP.

Indeed, I think it is likely that ISDS will generate so much resistance among the European public that ultimately it will be removed from TTIP completely in order to give other parts more chance of being passed by the European Parliament, which must approve the agreement once it has been negotiated. What follows is my attempt to track the twists and turns of the journey to that final, fateful vote.

TTIP Update l

A review of the few details that emerged from the first round of negotiations, including an attempt by the European Commission to convince us that TAFTA/TTIP is not another ACTA.

TTIP Update ll

An introduction to investor-state dispute resolution (ISDS), and why its presence in TAFTA/TTIP is a grave threat to European sovereignty, open source and the Internet.

TTIP Update III

A point-by-point rebuttal of a document in which the European Commission tries to prove that the presence of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) in TTIP is not a problem.

TTIP Update IV

An exploration of how the public is kept in the dark over TAFTA/TTIP, and the dangrous asymmetries it contains.

TTIP Update V

A discussion of a major Wikileaks document discussing intellectual monopolies in TAFTA/TTIP’s sister agreement, TPP, and what it means for TTIP.

TTIP Update VI

An analysis of a leaked document outlining the European Commission’s communication strategy forTAFTA/TTIP, and a look at how disastrous other trade agreements like NAFTA and KORUS have been.

TTIP Update VII

Yet another, increasingly desperate attempt to justify the unjustifiable inclusion of ISDS in TAFTA/TTIP, and why the arguments simply don’t stand up to scrutiny.

TTIP Update VIII

Lifting the lid on how a new transatlantic “TTIP Regulatory Council” would bring in massive deregulation, with a consequent lowering of food, health and environmental standards in Europe.

TTIP Update IX

How an astonishing attack on Corporate Europe Observatory reveals a floundering European Commission increasingly concerned that it is losing control of the TAFTA/TTIP debate.

TTIP Update X

Another (failed) attack, this time by Karel De Gucht, the EU’s trade commissioner, who laughably tries to claim that there is no lack of transparency in the TAFTA negotiations, and that it’s worth accepting the threats posed by ISDS.

TTIP Update XI

So it looks like TAFTA/TTIP is, in fact, ACTA by the backdoor – despite what Mr De Gucht has said…

TTIP Update XII

Why the US Fast Track bill guarantees that TAFTA’s ISDS chapter will be one-sided and unfair for EU companies

TTIP Update XIII

Big news: EU pulls ISDS to allow unprecedented public consultation; UK report says ISDS in TTIPwould bring little or no benefit

TTIP Update XIV

What new CETA leaks tell us about EU’s plans to re-vamp ISDS – and why they aren’t enough to protect European sovereignty or democracy

TTIP Update XV

There are growing calls to keep data protection out of TAFTA/TTIP – and to reject the agreement if the privacy of European citizens is not adequately protected

TTIP Update XVI

More details emerge on ISDS provisions, and a rather ironic call for transparency from the paranoically opaque USTR

TTIP Update XVII

Bad news, lots of leaks, plus debunking another misleading European Commission document

TTIP Update XVIII

New leaks, new Web sites, a hidden threat from the “most-favoured nation” approach, and an astonishing claim that Germany wants ISDS out of TTIP

TTIP Update XIX

A newly-discovered CETA bug shows why the European Commission needs transparency; also, why regulatory data must be opendata

TTIP Update XX

All about transparency in TTIP – or, rather, the almost complete lack of it; includes details of three phantom EU consultations I never heard about, and few took part in

TTIP Update XXI

Why that best-case “€119 bn” GDP boost to EU economy equates to just an extra cup of coffee every month

TTIP Update XXII

Activist got silenced by Facebook

(Article is from last year)

“Global Pirate Party Activist Raymond Teh Johansen had his account disabled this morning for violating Facebook’s Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. He has no recent posts violating any of the rules. His last act was trying to stop government shills from destroying teh 10k #FreeAnakata page. The same persons are responsible for destroying several large Anonymous groups recently.

His account:  https://www.facebook.com/Raymond.Teh.Johansen

Activist got silenced by Facebook.

Teh article got liked more than 3k times on FaceBook