...join us again down andy's sh'been in the recently saved holy headland
of the original, world record breaking pirate bay for another session
with guest star aiden filling in for the missing puzzle, take it
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Sunday, 14 April 2013
Tuesday, 9 April 2013
UK Man Wins Court Victory Over BBC for 9/11 Coverup Broadcast
Activist Post
Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 over 20 minutes before it occurred. WTC 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by a plane on 9/11 but collapsed at free-fall speed later that day.
So Rooke said the BBC had to have had prior knowledge to a terror attack making them complicit in the attack. He presented the BBC footage to the judge along with a slew of other evidence, and the judge agreed that Rooke had a reasonable case to protest. Rooke was found not guilty and he was not fined for failure to pay the licensing fee.
Tony Rooke refused to pay a TV license fee because the BBC intentionally misrepresented facts about the 9/11 attacks, he alleged. It is widely known that the BBC reported the collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 over 20 minutes before it occurred. WTC 7 was a 47-story skyscraper that was not hit by a plane on 9/11 but collapsed at free-fall speed later that day.
So Rooke said the BBC had to have had prior knowledge to a terror attack making them complicit in the attack. He presented the BBC footage to the judge along with a slew of other evidence, and the judge agreed that Rooke had a reasonable case to protest. Rooke was found not guilty and he was not fined for failure to pay the licensing fee.
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Student Invents Device that Charges Batteries with Radio and WIFI Waves
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German university student, Dennis Siegel, invented a device that captures electromagnetic fields like WIFI and radio waves and converts them to stored energy in batteries.
His electromagnetic harvester won second place at this year's Digitale Medien (Digital Media) technology competition at the University of the Arts Bremen, Hochschulpreis when he successfully demonstrated charging one AA battery over the span of a day.
Siegel explains the device on his blog:
The omnipresence of electromagnetic fields is implied just by simple current flow. We are surrounded by electromagnetic fields which we are producing for information transfer or as a byproduct. Many of those fields are very capacitive and can be harvested with coils and high frequency diodes. Accordingly, I built special harvesting devices that are able to tap into several electromagnetic fields to exploit them. The energy is stored in an usual battery. So you can for example gain redundant energy from the power supply of a coffee machine, a cell phone or an overhead wire by holding the harvester directly into the electromagnetic field whose strength is indicated by a LED on the top of the harvester.Here's a short video of Siegel finding strong enough electromagnetic frequencies to charge his battery:
Depending on the strength of the electromagnetic field it is possible to charge a small battery within one day. The system is meant to be an option for granting access to already existing but unheeded energy sources. By exploring these sources it can create a new awareness of the invisible electromagnetic spaces while giving them a spatial dimension.
There are two types of harvester for different electromagnetic fields: a smaller harvester that is suitable for lower frequencies below 100Hz which you can find in the general mains (50/60Hz, 16,7Hz) and a bigger one that is suitable for lower and higher frequencies like radio broadcast (~100MHz), GSM (900/1800MHz) up to Bluetooth and WLAN (2,4GHz).
Monday, 25 February 2013
Hollywood Rolls Out Propaganda on Oscar Night
Activist Post
Just as Oscar night was winding down with the most prestigious awards being handed out something strange happened that should have alarmed every viewer; something that should have triggered a warning in the minds of every American who cares about America, freedom and the Constitution.
With no apologies and much to the chagrin of some independent thinkers,
artists and movie watchers; sadly much to the delight of the Obamanite
Zombies, yet simultaneously to no surprise to those who are fully
awakened, the Emperor's wife popped up in the screen; yes the wife of
the man who has trashed the Constitution, murdered American citizens
without proof of guilt, trial or a jury. The was the wife of the same
man whose administration has expanded the police state; the
administration who is now occupying countries all of Africa and the
middle east, has launched countless wars without any moral or legal
basis and the same administration which has done nothing about the Bush
administration war crimes.
There she was, presenting the award for ‘Best Picture’ telling the audience about the importance of overcoming obstacles and conveying a positive message to the audience hoping that, (consistent with her husband’s administrations policy of ‘Do as I say not as I do’) the audience would just emotionally attach themselves to the messenger and judge her and her husband strictly by her words.
This may be very difficult for supporters of the current administration to wrap their heads around, but this was a classic display of Hitler-Style propaganda. This is exactly the tactics dictators of the past have used to manipulate public opinion about the leader by appealing to their emotions. Once again Hollywood is fully exposed for being one of the prime mouthpieces of the U.S. Government. For anyone even mildly awake, this was no coincident; this was classic real-time garbage propaganda for your mind.
There she was, presenting the award for ‘Best Picture’ telling the audience about the importance of overcoming obstacles and conveying a positive message to the audience hoping that, (consistent with her husband’s administrations policy of ‘Do as I say not as I do’) the audience would just emotionally attach themselves to the messenger and judge her and her husband strictly by her words.
This may be very difficult for supporters of the current administration to wrap their heads around, but this was a classic display of Hitler-Style propaganda. This is exactly the tactics dictators of the past have used to manipulate public opinion about the leader by appealing to their emotions. Once again Hollywood is fully exposed for being one of the prime mouthpieces of the U.S. Government. For anyone even mildly awake, this was no coincident; this was classic real-time garbage propaganda for your mind.
As expected the Emperor’s wife made no mention of the real problems in the world; no mention of the war crimes her husband is currently committing. Instead the actress stood firm in her lies, told with a smile hoping to nurture the zombie-seeds they (her and her husband) have sewn for over 4 years now since the explosion of lies Barry Soetoro unleashed on America back in 2008.
This is how tyranny and fascism works and I urge readers to take notes and share with your family and friends. This is the story of fascism in America; let us not miss a beat in telling future generations just how they did it.
This should serve as a reminder that as we observe the slow and progressive death of the mainstream media, we are also observing the emergence of Hollywood slowly becoming the primary mouthpiece of the Washington D.C. propagandists. Let us take this lesson from the Oscar awards. The stakes are very high for the Globalists Monkeys and the Hollywood platform is now greater than ever. Let’s be mindful of this (now very clear) Hollywood-Government complex that has been here all along and is now fully exposed.
Thanks to Hollywood Globalist Monkeys for showing their face in this moment of truth and giving us a chance to expose your evil and deception.
Bernie Suarez is an activist, critical thinker, radio host, musician, M.D, Veteran, lover of freedom and the Constitution, and creator of the Truth and Art TV project. He also has a background in psychology and highly recommends that everyone watch a documentary titled The Century of the Self. Bernie has concluded that the way to defeat the New World Order is to truly be the change that you want to see. Manifesting the solution and putting truth into action is the very thing that will defeat the globalists.
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
CIA TO CHOOSE NEXT POPE?
Cardinal Bertone (right)
"Tedeschi had taken seriously the call of the European Parliament for 'greater transparency' by the Vatican Bank /IOR, and was about to disclose to Brussels how his bosses had been laundering money for the mob for decades.
"It was the pivotal Cardinal Bertone who leaked the pope's diary and other incriminating papers to a catholic-friendly journalist in Rome last year .... to prepare the world for Ratzinger's removal."
Penny for your thoughts - Ratzinger Resigns: Follow the Vatican Bank Money
Ouellet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On 11 February 2013, Irish bookmakers put Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet as the leading contender to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.
On 11 February 2013, Irish bookmakers put Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet as the leading contender to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.
Ouellet's odds are to 3-1
The Dublin-based bookmaker Paddy Power's odds suggest that the next most likely contenders are African Cardinals Francis Arinze of Nigeria at 4-1 and Peter Turkson of Ghana at 7-2.
The Dublin-based bookmaker Paddy Power's odds suggest that the next most likely contenders are African Cardinals Francis Arinze of Nigeria at 4-1 and Peter Turkson of Ghana at 7-2.
Oddsmakers have Canadian as leading pope candidate...
Angelo Scola, Italy
Cardinal Angelo Scola, 71, Archbishop of Milan, is a conservative.
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
Marc Ouellet, Canada
Cardinal Ouellet, 68, from Canada, has similar thinking to that of the resigning Pope. He has close connections with the Latin American Church.
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
Christoper Schoenborn, Austria
Cardinal Schoenborn, Archbishop of Vienna, is the son of a Bohemian count, and is seen as intellectually conservative.
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
http://www.jpost. / http://www.rense.com/ http://www.guardian.co.uk
Cardinal Sandri, 63, was born in Buenos Aires in Argentina to Italian parents.
Towards the end of John Paul II's papacy, he became the pope's spokesman.
Peter Turkson, Ghana
Cardinal Turkson expressed support for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.
Theologically, he is seen as a moderate.
Luis Tagle, Philippines
At 55, Luis Tagle is Cardinal archbishop of Manila.
"He's also known for inviting beggars outside his cathedral to share a meal with him. Tagle is one of the more media-savvy cardinals. He is a frequent broadcaster in the Philippines and has a presence on Facebook."
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
Joao Braz de Aviz, Brazil
The 65-year-old from Brazil has focused on the welfare of the poor as espoused by the Liberation Theology popular in Latin America. But he distances itself from its ideological "excesses".
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
Timothy Dolan, United States
Cardinal Dolan, 62, from the United States, is the archbishop of the New York archdiocese.
Gianfranco Ravasi, Italy
Cardinal Ravasi, 70, has popularised Scripture studies through Italian television, radio and popular magazines. He is seen as a "moderate".
John Paul I
Will the the next Pope be chosen by the CIA?
The book 'In God's Name' by David Yallop suggests that, in 1978, Pope John Paul I was murdered.
According to Yallop this was partly because John Paul I was intending to excommunicate 100 top-ranking Vatican officials who were Freemasons.
Several of these Freemasons were allegedly co-conspirators in the Vatican Bank scandal.
Archbishop Marcinkus, who joined the priesthood in Chicago, where he was born to Lithuanian immigrants. He was a key figure in the 2.4 billion US dollars that were reportedly stolen from the Vatican Bank by the CIA-linked P2.
2.4 billion US dollars were reportedly embezzled from the Vatican Bank.
The masterminds of this bank crime were reportedly members of Italy's P2 masonic society.
Barbara Honnegar, author of 'October Surprise' believes that both Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger were key members of P2.
P2 was reportedly a fascist movement with links to the mafia.
http://www.puritans.net/ingodsname / http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com
John Paul II
After John Paul I's death:
1) Karol Wojtlya, allegedly the CIA's candidate, was elected as John Paul II.
2) John Paul II reportedly "sat" on the banking scandal.
3) Ronald Reagan allegedly bailed out the Vatican Bank with $300 million of "discretionary CIA funds."
4) Church canon law was changed in 1982 so that membership in the Freemasons was no longer grounds for excommunication from the Church of Rome.
Gelli
There was no autopsy performed on John Paul I.
Angelo Scola, Italy
Cardinal Angelo Scola, 71, Archbishop of Milan, is a conservative.
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
Marc Ouellet, Canada
Cardinal Ouellet, 68, from Canada, has similar thinking to that of the resigning Pope. He has close connections with the Latin American Church.
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
Christoper Schoenborn, Austria
Cardinal Schoenborn, Archbishop of Vienna, is the son of a Bohemian count, and is seen as intellectually conservative.
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
The Jerusalem Post, 1 April
2005, claimed that Schoenborn "delivered a strong message in favour of
Jewish settlement in the Holy Land ... rejecting the claim that European
Christians' support for the State of Israel is based on Holocaust guilt
and saying that all Christians should affirm Zionism as a biblical
imperative for the Jewish people."
Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Schoenborn was speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of "God's chosen land."
Schoenborn said: "Only once in human history did God take a country as an inheritance and give it to His chosen people," Christians, Schoenborn said, should rejoice in the return of Jews to the Holy Land as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Archbishop of Vienna Cardinal Schoenborn was speaking at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on the topic of "God's chosen land."
Schoenborn said: "Only once in human history did God take a country as an inheritance and give it to His chosen people," Christians, Schoenborn said, should rejoice in the return of Jews to the Holy Land as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
Odilo Scherer, Brazil
The archbishop of Sao Paulo, Cardinal Odilo Scherer, 63, is the most prominent Latin American candidate.
Leonardo Sandri, Argentina
The archbishop of Sao Paulo, Cardinal Odilo Scherer, 63, is the most prominent Latin American candidate.
Leonardo Sandri, Argentina
Cardinal Sandri, 63, was born in Buenos Aires in Argentina to Italian parents.
Towards the end of John Paul II's papacy, he became the pope's spokesman.
Peter Turkson, Ghana
Cardinal Turkson expressed support for the Occupy Wall Street protest movement.
Theologically, he is seen as a moderate.
Luis Tagle, Philippines
At 55, Luis Tagle is Cardinal archbishop of Manila.
"He's also known for inviting beggars outside his cathedral to share a meal with him. Tagle is one of the more media-savvy cardinals. He is a frequent broadcaster in the Philippines and has a presence on Facebook."
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
Joao Braz de Aviz, Brazil
The 65-year-old from Brazil has focused on the welfare of the poor as espoused by the Liberation Theology popular in Latin America. But he distances itself from its ideological "excesses".
Papal conclave: Runners and riders...
Timothy Dolan, United States
Cardinal Dolan, 62, from the United States, is the archbishop of the New York archdiocese.
Gianfranco Ravasi, Italy
Cardinal Ravasi, 70, has popularised Scripture studies through Italian television, radio and popular magazines. He is seen as a "moderate".
John Paul I
Will the the next Pope be chosen by the CIA?
The book 'In God's Name' by David Yallop suggests that, in 1978, Pope John Paul I was murdered.
According to Yallop this was partly because John Paul I was intending to excommunicate 100 top-ranking Vatican officials who were Freemasons.
Several of these Freemasons were allegedly co-conspirators in the Vatican Bank scandal.
Archbishop Marcinkus, who joined the priesthood in Chicago, where he was born to Lithuanian immigrants. He was a key figure in the 2.4 billion US dollars that were reportedly stolen from the Vatican Bank by the CIA-linked P2.
2.4 billion US dollars were reportedly embezzled from the Vatican Bank.
The masterminds of this bank crime were reportedly members of Italy's P2 masonic society.
Barbara Honnegar, author of 'October Surprise' believes that both Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger were key members of P2.
P2 was reportedly a fascist movement with links to the mafia.
http://www.puritans.net/ingodsname / http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com
John Paul II
After John Paul I's death:
1) Karol Wojtlya, allegedly the CIA's candidate, was elected as John Paul II.
2) John Paul II reportedly "sat" on the banking scandal.
3) Ronald Reagan allegedly bailed out the Vatican Bank with $300 million of "discretionary CIA funds."
4) Church canon law was changed in 1982 so that membership in the Freemasons was no longer grounds for excommunication from the Church of Rome.
Gelli
There was no autopsy performed on John Paul I.
Reportedly, many members of "P2", the secret Masonic society, carry with
them a fatal dose of digitalis - on the advice of the society's
founder, Licio Gelli.
Calvi
In 1982, P2 member Roberto Calvi was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London, shortly before 1 billion dollars was found to be missing from the Vatican-owned Banco Ambrosiano.
Some think the Mafia murdered him.
Others think that Gelli, the Grand Master of P2, had him murdered.
Others think that the secret society so highly thought of by John Paul II - Opus Dei, did it.
Many of the CIA are reportedly members of Opus Dei.
From Barbara Honegger's 'October Surprise':
When the Italian police raided (P2 Lodge founder) Gelli's home in March 1981, it was Michael Ledeen who, at the instigation of Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger, offered to buy the list of 953 P2 members in an apparent attempt to keep it from becoming public.
Henry Kissinger had reportedly sent Ledeen to Italy to try to squash an investigation into his and Haig's involvement in the founding of P2.
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/yellow-cake-and-black-shirts.html
Emanuela
15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared in Rome.
What is the Vatican's sinister secret behind teenager Emanuela.
According to a phone caller to a TV program: ''To find the solution to the case, go and see who's buried in the crypt of the basilica of Sant'Apollinare.''
Poletti
The caller implied that Emanuela had been kidnapped as a favour to Cardinal Ugo Poletti.
The motive was said to be sexual.
De Pedis allegedly supplied teens to cardinals for sex.
De Pedis.
Mob boss, Enrico De Pedis was buried in a diamond-encrusted tomb in the central Roman Basilica of Sant’Apollinare, beside the Opus Dei University of the Holy Cross.
On 14 May 2012, police forensic experts exhumed the tomb.
They found hundreds of bones in an ossuary nearby in the crypt.
Some people believe that the Mob boss de Pedis was the son of Cardinal Poletti, the Vicar of Rome, who was very close to former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti.
De Pedis reportedly was involved in the CIA's Operation Gladio, which carried out acts of terrorism in Italy.
Quel “benefattore” di Enrico De Pedis detto “Renatino” | le cose che ... - Translate this page
In Italy, the P2 masonic lodge linked up all the 'bad guys' belonging to the Deep State.
(http://www.american-buddha.com/darkhistory3.htm)
The Deep State "is a parallel secret government, organized by the intelligence and security apparatus, financed by drugs, and engaging in illicit violence, to protect the status and interests of the military..."
(The Link Between War and Big Finance )
In March 1981, the Italian police found a list of the 962 members of P2, which contained the names of:
3 government ministers and 43 members of parliament,
43 generals and 8 admirals,
Secret service chiefs and police commanders
Top bureaucrats and diplomats, industrialists, financiers, journalists and TV personalities.
Gelli
Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky wrote that Licio Gelli, P2's Grand Master, was allied to Mossad and involved in Operation Gladio.
( down with murder inc / Israel, Mossad, Iran and a Nuclear False Flag Attack )
The CIA-NATO's Operation Gladio carried out acts of terrorism such as the 1980 Bologna Bombing.
Top people who allegedly had contact with P-2 include:
Henry Kissinger,
Edmond de Rothschild, and
David Rockefell
Calvi
In 1982, P2 member Roberto Calvi was found hanged under Blackfriars Bridge in London, shortly before 1 billion dollars was found to be missing from the Vatican-owned Banco Ambrosiano.
Some think the Mafia murdered him.
Others think that Gelli, the Grand Master of P2, had him murdered.
Others think that the secret society so highly thought of by John Paul II - Opus Dei, did it.
Many of the CIA are reportedly members of Opus Dei.
From Barbara Honegger's 'October Surprise':
When the Italian police raided (P2 Lodge founder) Gelli's home in March 1981, it was Michael Ledeen who, at the instigation of Alexander Haig and Henry Kissinger, offered to buy the list of 953 P2 members in an apparent attempt to keep it from becoming public.
Henry Kissinger had reportedly sent Ledeen to Italy to try to squash an investigation into his and Haig's involvement in the founding of P2.
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/yellow-cake-and-black-shirts.html
Emanuela
15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi disappeared in Rome.
What is the Vatican's sinister secret behind teenager Emanuela.
According to a phone caller to a TV program: ''To find the solution to the case, go and see who's buried in the crypt of the basilica of Sant'Apollinare.''
Poletti
The caller implied that Emanuela had been kidnapped as a favour to Cardinal Ugo Poletti.
The motive was said to be sexual.
De Pedis allegedly supplied teens to cardinals for sex.
De Pedis.
Mob boss, Enrico De Pedis was buried in a diamond-encrusted tomb in the central Roman Basilica of Sant’Apollinare, beside the Opus Dei University of the Holy Cross.
On 14 May 2012, police forensic experts exhumed the tomb.
They found hundreds of bones in an ossuary nearby in the crypt.
Some people believe that the Mob boss de Pedis was the son of Cardinal Poletti, the Vicar of Rome, who was very close to former Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti.
De Pedis reportedly was involved in the CIA's Operation Gladio, which carried out acts of terrorism in Italy.
Quel “benefattore” di Enrico De Pedis detto “Renatino” | le cose che ... - Translate this page
In Italy, the P2 masonic lodge linked up all the 'bad guys' belonging to the Deep State.
(http://www.american-buddha.com/darkhistory3.htm)
The Deep State "is a parallel secret government, organized by the intelligence and security apparatus, financed by drugs, and engaging in illicit violence, to protect the status and interests of the military..."
(The Link Between War and Big Finance )
In March 1981, the Italian police found a list of the 962 members of P2, which contained the names of:
3 government ministers and 43 members of parliament,
43 generals and 8 admirals,
Secret service chiefs and police commanders
Top bureaucrats and diplomats, industrialists, financiers, journalists and TV personalities.
Gelli
Ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky wrote that Licio Gelli, P2's Grand Master, was allied to Mossad and involved in Operation Gladio.
( down with murder inc / Israel, Mossad, Iran and a Nuclear False Flag Attack )
The CIA-NATO's Operation Gladio carried out acts of terrorism such as the 1980 Bologna Bombing.
Top people who allegedly had contact with P-2 include:
Henry Kissinger,
Edmond de Rothschild, and
David Rockefell
Monday, 21 January 2013
WiFi + USB Drive = Your Own Mini-Internet (Freedom)
Tony Cartalucci, Contributor
Activist Post
Worried about draconian Internet laws? Creeping surveillance? The inability to share with others without being criminalized? The Internet is still a tool of tremendous power, but a deep rot has set in. We have caught it early and we are fighting to stop this rot, but there are other options we can begin exploring to hedge our bets, enhance our current efforts of fighting against corporate monopolies, and eventually, build an Internet of the people, by the people, for the people - big-telecom monopolies not welcomed.
Image: The PirateBox in use on a handheld device. Once the
PirateBox is up and running, either on a standalone device like the one
pictured to the right (background), or on your laptop as described here,
it will appear as another WiFi network for people in range to connect
to. Once connected files can be freely shared, and there is even a chat
client users can communicate with. It is just as useful as a file server
for a small business, as it is for circumventing the draconian
criminalization of Internet file sharing.
In last week's "Fighting Back Against the "Intellectual Property" Racket," the "PirateBox" was introduced. The PirateBox transforms a laptop, router, or single board computer into a mini-Internet hub where files can be freely shared, and even features a chat program so users can communicate.
It is a lite version of the mesh networks described in December 2012's "Decentralizing Telecom" where independent mesh networks featured many software alternatives to emulate popular online programs such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and others. The PirateBox is an introductory project anyone with a WiFi adapter and a USB thumbdrive can do on their own with a little motivation and an hour to experiment.
In a busy office, a PirateBox can serve as a simple local wireless file server and chat client. In an apartment complex, it can become the center of a social experiment, an opportunity to reach out to neighbors and organize constructively, or just for fun - building badly needed local communities back up.
Instructions for perhaps the easiest of PirateBox's implementations can be found on blogger, designer, and activist David Darts' website here. The instructions are nearly foolproof, and a lot of the common problems ran into are described and their solutions linked to throughout the explanation.
The
PirateBox does not connect to the Internet, nor does it operate from
your hard drive. It works entirely on the USB thumbdrive you install it
on, simply using your computer's WiFi to network all who are in range.
Ideally you'd want to make a dedicated, standalone PirateBox to serve your space, office, and neighbors. A great place for beginners to embark on this is at your local hackerspace. If you don't have a local hackerspace, look into starting one up.
Protesting is important, but protesting alone will not stem the problem at its source. The rot will continue to spread unless we develop tangible tools to pragmatically excise it and repair the damage it has already done.
The problem of corporate monopolies ensnaring and subjugating us through their telecom monopolies can and is being solved by solutions like mesh networks, the PirateBox, and the onward march of open source software and hardware, simply displacing proprietary products and services. The best way to ensure success is to have as many informed and constructive people as possible join in the problem-solving process.
Since posting about the PirateBox, LocalOrg has received several success stories of people who have either already been using it, or have looked into it, prompting this follow up. Continue sharing your success, and if you would like, contact us and have them covered here on LocalOrg.
Tony Cartalucci's articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here.
Activist Post
Worried about draconian Internet laws? Creeping surveillance? The inability to share with others without being criminalized? The Internet is still a tool of tremendous power, but a deep rot has set in. We have caught it early and we are fighting to stop this rot, but there are other options we can begin exploring to hedge our bets, enhance our current efforts of fighting against corporate monopolies, and eventually, build an Internet of the people, by the people, for the people - big-telecom monopolies not welcomed.
In last week's "Fighting Back Against the "Intellectual Property" Racket," the "PirateBox" was introduced. The PirateBox transforms a laptop, router, or single board computer into a mini-Internet hub where files can be freely shared, and even features a chat program so users can communicate.
It is a lite version of the mesh networks described in December 2012's "Decentralizing Telecom" where independent mesh networks featured many software alternatives to emulate popular online programs such as Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, and others. The PirateBox is an introductory project anyone with a WiFi adapter and a USB thumbdrive can do on their own with a little motivation and an hour to experiment.
In a busy office, a PirateBox can serve as a simple local wireless file server and chat client. In an apartment complex, it can become the center of a social experiment, an opportunity to reach out to neighbors and organize constructively, or just for fun - building badly needed local communities back up.
Instructions for perhaps the easiest of PirateBox's implementations can be found on blogger, designer, and activist David Darts' website here. The instructions are nearly foolproof, and a lot of the common problems ran into are described and their solutions linked to throughout the explanation.
The
PirateBox does not connect to the Internet, nor does it operate from
your hard drive. It works entirely on the USB thumbdrive you install it
on, simply using your computer's WiFi to network all who are in range.Ideally you'd want to make a dedicated, standalone PirateBox to serve your space, office, and neighbors. A great place for beginners to embark on this is at your local hackerspace. If you don't have a local hackerspace, look into starting one up.
Protesting is important, but protesting alone will not stem the problem at its source. The rot will continue to spread unless we develop tangible tools to pragmatically excise it and repair the damage it has already done.
The problem of corporate monopolies ensnaring and subjugating us through their telecom monopolies can and is being solved by solutions like mesh networks, the PirateBox, and the onward march of open source software and hardware, simply displacing proprietary products and services. The best way to ensure success is to have as many informed and constructive people as possible join in the problem-solving process.
Since posting about the PirateBox, LocalOrg has received several success stories of people who have either already been using it, or have looked into it, prompting this follow up. Continue sharing your success, and if you would like, contact us and have them covered here on LocalOrg.
Tony Cartalucci's articles have appeared on many alternative media websites, including his own at Land Destroyer Report, Alternative Thai News Network and LocalOrg. Read other contributed articles by Tony Cartalucci here.
Sunday, 13 January 2013
Cannabis and Movies: A History of Contradiction
The Changing Media View of Cannabis
Cannabis and its legality are never far from the fore of political and societal debate. There are those who argue for the medically approved usage, those for complete decriminalisation and legalisation and those who staunchly oppose the use of marijuana in any way shape or form.However, it is the ever changing social view that guides this ebbing and flowing tide of argument that has seen the debate never yet put to bed.
One of the best ways to gain an insight into the changing view of cannabis is in the media and movies have for the last century played a major part in portraying the cultural views of the time whether through documentation, scaremongering and even comedy…
The Horrors of REEFER!!!
It wasn’t until the early days of the 20th century that proper legislation was brought into place that identified that cannabis was a harmful intoxicant and was made illegal. Even still it was widely used in the United States and the variant hemp was still used in industry for ship rigging, animal feed, textiles and many more things in the 20’s and 30’s. This was when the media would strike a major blow to the cannabis culture.The most prominent anti cannabis film of the time was Reefer Madness (released in 1936). This film has been widely criticised in recent years due to its absurd scaremongering tactics and close ties to the logging industry. This was less an informative piece and more of an exploitative slander piece against the use of hemp over wood in industry.
This and a variety of other bizarre exploitation films from this time such as “Marihuana” and “Assassin of Youth” paint cannabis smoking in a hysterical and usually bizarre light with results ranging from becoming psychopathic rapists to fuelling kidnapping and abandoning children.
All of this worked to fuel a strong anti cannabis propaganda movement at the time that was actually quite effective. The Reefer Madness film also spawned the derogatory term ‘Reefer Addict’.
Your Country Needs YOU… to Grow Weed!
In a bizarrely self-contradictory decade, the 40’s saw a continuation of the anti-pot propaganda coupled with a government funded plea for farmers to grow hemp on mass.The film “Hemp for Victory” was created by the United States government during World War 2 that actively encouraged farmers to grow crops of hemp to help with the war effort. It seemed that the evils of hemp and cannabis went right out of the window when they could be of some use. Hemp marijuana seeds were dispersed throughout the states in accordance with this film that basically said “We need weed to win the war.”
Once the war effort was over and freedom saved, it seems appropriately hypocritical for American media to go back to telling you what you can’t and shouldn’t do when “She Shoulda Said No!” or “The Devils Weed” was released in 1949.
Misconceptions Go Up in Smoke
It wasn’t until almost 30 years later that cannabis would receive any alternate view in popular culture or films, but when it did, people didn’t know what to think.One of the first movies to show the lighter side of smoking cannabis was Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke movie, the 1978 follow-up to their stand-up and television appearances. Cheech and Chong never made any qualms with the way they were often viewed, the dopey stoners, wasters with more blunts than brain cells.
It didn’t matter as that was part of their charm and they were a part of the changing view of cannabis in regular society. Sure, people had done plenty of it during the 60’s but it had always been kept out of the view of the buttoned down family friendly mainstream.
This was a major change, when cannabis could be spoken about openly and not presented as the monstrous apparition of nightmares.
Stoners were no longer the terrifying reefer addicts out to abduct your children… stoners were funny!
The Cannabis Backdraft
While Cheech and Chong have gone on to be world renowned, they were still marginalised in their time. It would be the 90’s and 2000’s that saw cannabis become an accepted part of society. Already cannabis was smoked in more homes than the government would care to admit but the acceptance of it as common culture in the media really carried some weight.Films like Half Baked, How High and Pineapple Express may all have been comedies but to a degree they were part of the more open and honest portrayal of cannabis in the media. Films like Dazed and Confused while also comedic in some aspects painted a picture of the adolescent purgatory of the teenage years that was relatable to so many. In what decade previous could pot heads be relatable?
The Informed Stoner
The final piece of the cannabis puzzle seems to after the best part of a century been found, and it is ever so carefully being put into place. No longer simply a mechanism for entertainment, cannabis documentaries are asking questions about why cannabis is illegal, how harmful it really is, the healthcare applications of these medical seeds and why governments are still so staunchly against its decriminalisation.Documentaries like “Waiting to Inhale”, “In Pot We Trust” and the hilarious yet informative “Super High Me” are finally lifting the lid on cannabis culture and the future potential of this always controversial herb.
Cannabis has been the realm of the farmer, the reefer addict, the patriot, the dopey stoner, the average Joe and finally… the informed individual.
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