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You have been searching for us without knowing it, following oblique references in crudely xeroxed marginal "samsidat" publications, crackpot mystical pamphlets, mail order courses ... a paper trail and a coded series of rumors spread at street level ... and the propagation of certain acts of insurrection against the Planetary Work Machine and the Consensus Reality ... or perhaps through various obscure mimeographed technical papers on the edges of "chaos science" ... through pirate computer networks ... or even through pure synchronicity and the pursuit of dreams. In any case we know something about you, your interests, deeds and desires, works and days ... and we know your address. Otherwise...you would not be reading this...

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China, Russia buying surveillance technologies to ‘control’ the Internet: US | NDTV Gadgets

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China and Russia are buying increasingly powerful surveillance technologies to intercept communications and try to take control of the Internet, a senior U.S. official said on Thursday. Alec Ross, the U.S. secretary of state's senior adviser for innovation, said new players such as Thailand and Ukraine would determine the future shape of the Internet by deciding ...

Internal Memo: National Guard Can Share Drone Surveillance With Law Enforcement – US News & World Report

Data collected by the Army National Guard’s unmanned aerial drones in American skies could be passed along to other government agencies, as long as it is “unintentionally and incidentally collected,” according to internal documents acquired earlier this week. The “Proper Use Memorandum,” acquired by MuckRock, an organization dedicated to making government documents public, and shared [...]

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Raytheon develops social network surveillance system

The software is called Raytheon Information Overlay Technology Content Management Framework (RIOT/CMF) and has been developed since 2010 by the US defence contractor’s Intelligence and Information Systems division, which last year employed 8,300 and earned revenue of US$3 billion. According to an articel in The Guardian, which obtained a video presentation from Raytheon, the RIOT/CMF software [...]

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Secret Societies Against the State

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Whereas society is totalizing, the social war is fragmentary and counter-power movements themselves are made up from multiple societies. Within these societies, that when in movement are struggling against the state, are hidden secret societies that excel in unstable conditions. Under the rule of social peace, these same anti-social forces are in permanent conspiracy, they [...]

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Unsound Magazine, Nr 1-5 (1983-1984)

“Unsound was a magazine published in San Francisco by William Davenport of the band Problemist. There were about eight issues published between 1983-86. Unsound is one of the earlier US based publications with any longevity that covered the industrial/noise/punk/experimental underground.” (source) The issues include interviews with Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten, Negativland, Boyd Rice, Sonic [...]

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FBI Banned from Iceland

FBI agents landed in Reykjavík without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations in the country, but Home Secretary Ögmundur Jónasson found out about the visit and forced them to leave the country, with the Icelandic government then issuing a formal protest to US authorities, according to Islandsbloggen. The hunt for WikiLeaks by [...]

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First Kiwi File-Sharer Guilty, But Lack of Evidence Kills Large Fines

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New Zealand’s Copyright Tribunal has handed down its first penalty to an Internet subscriber accused of downloading and sharing music without permission. While the case is a victory for the Recording Industry Association of New Zealand, the details make it a rather hollow one. All attempts by the music industry group to extract large punitive damages failed due to an almost complete lack of evidence.

Source: First Kiwi File-Sharer Guilty, But Lack of Evidence Kills Large Fines

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Reassessing the health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident

While the Japanese tsunami of March 2011 was devastating in its own right, the long term health consequences because of the damage to the nuclear reactor at Fukushima Daiichi are also of serious concern. There are a number of factors that have to be considered when assessing the health effects of radiation exposure: for example [...]

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Andy Greenberg: This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World’s Information (2012)

At last, the first full account of the cypherpunks who aim to free the world’s institutional secrets, by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg who has traced their shadowy history from the cryptography revolution of the 1970s to Wikileaks founding hacker Julian Assange, Anonymous, and beyond. WikiLeaks brought to light a new form of whistleblowing, using powerful [...]

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We Are All Aaron Swartz! Fighting Back Against the “Intellectual Property” Racket

Aaron Swartz’ passing becomes even more tragic if we do not recognize what he spent his life fighting for, and realize that no matter where we think we stand on the issue of Internet freedom, the interests driving the debate from Wall Street and Washington, do not have any of our best interests in mind. [...]

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Canadian Court Refuses to Ship Megaupload Servers to the US

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A Canadian court has rejected a request from the United States to hand over 32 servers hosted by a local provider. Instead of simply handing over all data, which may include personal files of users, the court decided to first determine what files are stored on the machines. Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken is pleased with the ruling and hopes the United States will be more considerate of the privacy of cloud hosting users when requesting data seizures in the future.

Source: Canadian Court Refuses to Ship Megaupload Servers to the US

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Anonymous Wants DDoS Recognised as an Official Form of Protest

The Anonymous hacking collective has petitioned the White House, using the US government’s open forum to ask for DDoS attacks to be registered as an official form of complaint – and requesting the convictions of previous DDoS attackers be wiped from their records. READ MORERelated PostsOccupy Wall Street crowd to become DC Comics superheroes The [...]

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Sometimes Things Blow Up Quickly: Is Occupy Dead?

For some time, I have been reading essays declaring Occupy dead. They all point to the failure of the movement, since the repression of the encampments, to mount sustained, visible protest. One of Alexander Cockburn’s last columns was devoted to this theme. More recently, Tom Frank has weighed in with a similar argument. Often times these writers [...]

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RapidShare: Traffic and Piracy Dipped After New Business Model Kicked In

Under continued pressure to take additional anti-piracy measures, file-hosting site RapidShare introduced a new business strategy last year. The model restricted the ability of all users to engage in third party public distribution, the most popular way of sharing copyrighted material. As a result the company experienced a significant drop in traffic and, according to a spokesman, a significant drop in copyright infringement too.

Source: RapidShare: Traffic and Piracy Dipped After New Business Model Kicked In

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The Financial Elite’s War Against the US Economy

Today’s economic warfare is not the kind waged a century ago between labor and its industrial employers. Finance has moved to capture the economy at large, industry and mining, public infrastructure (via privatization) and now even the educational system. (At over $1 trillion, U.S. student loan debt came to exceed credit-card debt in 2012.) The [...]

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The bizarre tale of John McAfee, spymaster

The craziest story of this last week? It’s an easy call—John McAfee’s self-told tale of becoming a spymaster in Belize, passing out malware-laden laptops to officials and overseeing a ring of 29 “operatives” who distributed and monitored the computers. McAfee, a one-time American antivirus expert, left the US for Belize a few years back and [...]

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excerpts from the book Upside Down a primer for the looking glass world by Eduardo Galeano

Editorial Reviews Los Angeles Times, front page “Galeano’s outrage is tempered by intelligence, an ineradicable sense of humor, and hope.” From Kirkus Reviews Galeano (The Memory of Fire Trilogy, etc.) has set to paper an astonishingly straight-faced indictment of yanqui capitalism that-for all its freshness and wit-could well have been freeze-dried at …Related PostsWang Hui: [...]

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REBELLION FOR SALE

Several versions of this story have appeared and/or been performed. The first iteration appeared in the meta-fiction experiment I did with my friend the late Dave Szubuski, called El Centro. The next iteration was an adaption for Terra Extremitas performed live in Amsterdam. The third iteration was for the literary collection: Rebels and Devils. This [...]

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