January 31 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Pythons & Republicans - Two Species Of Reptile Hosted By Areas Of Florida's 'Environment'

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«o» The Florida primary is in progress but it will be about eight hours until we start seeing the results. Meanwhile Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are still insulting each other while EVERYONE is wondering where Rick Santorum's campaign funds are coming from.

«o» Mic Check In Tahrir Square - The Egyptian protesters are demanding the military ruling junta turn over the government to their recently elected civilian government now while the military is clamping down on 'international universities' and searching for their Egyptian students... Then there's the NGO the US Secretary of Labor's son works for... The International Republican Institute... Six of the employees including the Secretary's son have taken refuge at the US embassy.

Whatever it is the International Republican Institute is doing, it IS Not “Promoting Democracy”. Mark Weisbrot in the Guardian UK.

«o» The senate voted to curb insider trading by congressional and senatorial representatives yesterday. The vote was 93-2 Aye but the measure has yet to pass the house. Even if it does pass , expect no enforcement.

«o» There is a one day strike by unionized Kaiser-Permanente nurses throughout California today in an attempt to force the HMO to allow collective bargaining by nursing aides and other lower level staff. The last one day strike cost Kaiser $14 million dollars.

«o» More of a "Snake Farm" than it ever was - People have been dumping their pet Boa Constrictors in the Florida Everglades, which is the perfect environment for the HUGE WHEN FULLY GROWN reptiles. However, The Everglades contains no natural predators and the massive number of eight foot fully grown pythons resulting from that eco-imbalance is causing the count of small critters like bobcats and raccoons to plunge dramatically. More about reptiles in the commentary.

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January 30 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary

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Travus is taking the 'commentary day' off.... But there IS news:
«o» Besides, do you trust the Persians with nuclear weapons any less than other nuclear powers like Israel, Pakistan, or South Africa? Iran has opened up their nuclear facilities and paperwork to outside inspection, meaning everyone but the United States, in an attempt to get the UN to call off it's sanctions negotiations. There has been Russian opposition to the sanctions in the Security Council and IF there is no evidence that Iran is developing nuclear weapons technology when those papers and facilities are examined, the West is going to be sanctioning a country that is not in violation of any international law all...by... themselves.

«o» The Florida primary race is in full swing even as Rick Santorum heads headed home for the weekend to visit his child ill in the hospital and he's not expected to be a contender, leaving Romney and Gingich, and Ron Paul.

«o» There were 400 people arrested or detained over the last couple of days as #OccupyOakland attempted to #Occupy the city's abandoned convention center. When rebuffed they headed for Oakland city hall, during open lobby hours, and caused a major disturbance and some damage inside... there have been running street battles since and an attempted occupation of a YMCA building.



#OccupyOakland responds to what only could be termed a police riot, and the disinformation campaign that followed:

Occupy Oakland’s building occupation, an act of civil disobedience, was disrupted by a brutal police response yesterday. Protesters were met with baton strikes, shot with rubber bullets, and exposed to tear gas along the route. Police immediately issued denials that tear gas was used; however, as many victims can attest, it was used freely and without regard to safety of the diverse crowd, which included families and children.
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The OPD and City have issued several false claims that need to be rebutted. OPD claim that there was no tear gas used, a fabrication easily refuted by video shot by protesters. Police also claim that several officers were injured by protesters—again, there is absolutely no evidence of this claim, which is made at every demonstration and subsequently proven to be baseless... [More]

An observer's response to the city's accusations of violence and vandalism is here.



«o» In Iraq there has been a second car bombing in three days which the government is saying are al-Qaeda actions designed to enflame Sunni sentiments and cause a Sunni/Shiite schism. But the final documents regarding Western security in the country are being looked over right now, so it COULD be people aligned with the currently standing power structure wanting 'security' in place to help them maintain power as well. FWIW, the Sunnis have decided to re-enter the Iraqi parliamentary process but they aren't going to attend the sessions. Perhaps they're worried about those attacks?


In OTHER News:

Correction... The other day it was reported that six Western students have been detained in Egypt including the son of the US Labor Secretary... That report was erroneous on my part.

They are not being allowed to leave the country and have taken refuge at the US embassy in Cairo. Further, they were not students but employees for an NGO, the International Republican Institute, which the Egyptian government is claiming as fomenting disruption in the country. Details.

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January 27 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Degenerate Polluted & Indicative - Rich White Republicans Arguing Over Who Screws You More

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«o» Last night's Republican debate was banal and boring with two rich white guys arguing over who screwed you more. Rick Santorum may drop out shortly. More in the commentary.

«o» President Obama has toured two more states selling his economic package. He's in Michigan this morning with visits to Detroit and Ann Arbor, after which the Obama will return to Washington.

«o» The house has reversed itself on raising the debt limit. Details.

More from The Hill:

Senate kills measure to stop President Obama from raising debt limit
By Alexander Bolton

President Obama will raise the nation’s debt limit to $16.39 trillion after the Senate on Thursday killed a measure to stop the president from adding another $1.2 trillion to the total.

After just over two hours of debate, the Senate voted 44-52 to block a motion to disapprove the debt-limit increase, which the House passed overwhelmingly last week. Four Senate Republicans missed the vote.

The $1.2 trillion debt increase is expected to cover the nation’s borrowing requirements until after the November election. [Details]

«o» Secretary of Defense Panetta has announce a $5.25 billion dollar budget for the Marines and Army. That huge allocation come after major cuts in troops and a number of military weapons systems programs.

More about the revised military budgets and automation of our wars from RT:

Under the new budget, at least four new Predator and Reaper drone air patrols — each consisting of upwards of four crafts a piece — will be added to the military’s arsenal. As a result, the wars will rely less on on-the-ground marksmanship but on robotic planes controlled from command stations thousands of miles away. Under the sea, submarines will be outfitted with massive missiles and in the sky the US will get “improved air-to-air missiles,” which will also be operated remotely...
[In Full... Pentagon's new budget: Rise of the machines]

«o» The son of the US secretary of Labor and six others are being held by the Egyptian government. They were attending an international university in Egypt closed down by the Egyptian government for allegedly fomenting dissent. Will Seal Team Six 'Move' on this?

«o» A British re-construction contracting crew has been attacked in the provincial capital of Helmand Afghanistan and thirty one were killed.

Perhaps these are the people building the ring road around Afghanistan in a long range attempt by the West to foster cultural separation between the indigenous people of "Afghanistan" and "Pakistan"?

See: A Treacherous Trip On Afghanistan's Ring Road at NPR Or: The Ring Road: A Gift Afghanistan Cannot Afford at The Kabul Press for more.

The Kabul Press article was written by "Matthew J. Nasuti. Mr. Nasuti was a Deputy City Attorney for Los Angeles and a U.S. Air Force Captain with Air Force Logistics Command." wherein he posits:

"The 3,000 kilometer Ring Road connecting Kabul, Herat, Kandahar and back to Kabul could be an excellent idea, if Afghanistan were at peace, if the Ring Road had been properly constructed (using 100% grant funds) and if project funds were not being diverted to the Taliban. Since none of these factors are present, this project, one of the most ambitious and costly American aid project in decades, should never have been proposed."

In OTHER News:

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Penguin Shits on Kentucky Senate

A penguin named Paula from the Newport Aquarium pooped on the state Senate floor Tuesday.

The African blackfooted penguin had been brought to the chamber Tuesday by Senate President Pro Tem Katie Stine, according to the Lexington Herald-Leader.

The Southgate Republican was presenting her resolution to honor the Newport Aquarium for its stewardship of sea life and penguins when Senate President David Williams told her the bird had “just defecated on the floor.” [Get the Hehhehheh ...Hot Poop... Here]

In more important news, you have been lied to about an environmental catastrophe... Scientists were asked to downplay Deepwater Horizon spill rates - L.A. Times

We are also being told to “Sit Down and Shut Up” about the lies and deceit, as an anti-protest ordinance just passed in Chicago shows..

But that's just right now...

Come May, there will be a whole 'nother thing happening in Chicago, and if we play it right, the nation.
In The Tradition Of The Chicago 7
#OccupyChicago May 1 2012...


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For a month... Bring A Tent

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Tactical Briefing #25

Showdown in Chicago.
25 Jan 2012

Hey you redeemers, rebels and radicals out there,

Against the backdrop of a global uprising that is simmering in dozens of countries and thousands of cities and towns, the G8 and NATO will hold a rare simultaneous summit in Chicago this May. The world’s military and political elites, heads of state, 7,500 officials from 80 nations, and more than 2,500 journalists will be there.

And so will we...
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...this time around we’re not going to put up with the kind of police repression that happened during the Democratic National Convention protests in Chicago, 1968 … nor will we abide by any phony restrictions the City of Chicago may want to impose on our first amendment rights."

In Full @ Adbusters, the Journal of the Mental Environment.

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January 26 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Mortgage 'Banking' - Real Estate, Real Homelessness, Real Fraud On A RICO Act Scale

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." January 26 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Mortgage 'Banking' - Real Estate, Real Homelessness, Real Fraud On A RICO Act Scale [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 17:09 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥

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«o» Tonight will be another installment of the Republican debates where Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney will probably do what they've been doing for the last few days... Insulting each other about wealth and privilege.

«o» President Obama was at a campaign stop yesterday and engaged in a verbal altercation with governor Jan Brewer of Arizona. Apparently governor Brewer has just written a book called Scorpions For Breakfast where she recounted meeting Obama at the White House. She opined that the White House security team was rude for insisting she leave her cell phone with them and how she had to wait some extended period of time for her meeting with the president.

At an airport meet-up Obama told her he had read her book and she was being unfair. She waggled her finger at him, captured by press photographers in an iconic image and told him that was her opinion and he could like it or lump it so to speak. Governor Brewer may be trying to distance herself from the Obama administration for political purposes. Arizona is not quite as liberal as Chicago you know?

«o» Last week the plan for a new millennial navy and concurrent reorganization with budget cuts were released to the public, and the army's turn came yesterday. It looks like combat battalions will be reduced by about 60,000 people and the reorganization will be towards smaller tactical units

«o» Governor Jerry Brown of California is working on a way to resist the federally pressured bail out of mortgage bankers who wrote fraudulent paper, and may not allow the state to sign onto a deal being negotiated in a federal lawsuit.


In OTHER News:

Yesterday yours truly noted something unusual about the sitemeter statistics for Cabale News Service. A particular post dated September 30 2008 was outstripping today's or yesterday's postings. On examination I discovered what this hit cluster on a two and a half year old post was about... People searching the internet for "Somalia Pirates" seeking more information on yesterday's SEAL Team snatch operation in Somalia which freed a couple of people who work for a Danish refugee relief program, including an American, who had been held hostage by 'pirates'.

The news story they found at Cabale News Services from September 2008:

Somali pirates are holding a Ukrainian ship with Russian weapons systems, ostensibly on their way to Kenya as their papers say (or perhaps illegally, to Sudan, as the pirates are claiming) are negotiating with the cargo ship owners as the US and Russian navies steam towards the area.

Somali Pirates MAY BE Kidnappers, but they're also the de facto Somali Coast Guard, and they've been economically forced into banditry by Western nations rape of their environment... specifically their coastal waters and fishing grounds. More on that.

The commentary that day: Muzzling The Dogs Of Capitalist Greed - On Being Torn Between Allegiance To My Country And Knowledge Of US Imperialism And It's Economic Model [Listen and read]

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January 25 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Obama's SOTU And His Unrealistic Focus On Certain Tax Reforms

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«o» Just before and during president Obama's State of the Union address SEAL Team Six was in action in Somalia snatching a couple of Western aid agency workers held hostages by an un-named party, and rescued a Dane and an American woman without casualties on our side. Nine Somalis were killed in the raid. The hostages were either very high value (ie. CIA workers) or the SEALS are simply practicing for an not-too-distant-future incursion into Somalia to attempt keeping the illegitimate (there WAS an elected government in place, the Islamic Court Union) U.N.-established 'government' in place/kill anyone who might threaten them militarily or politically. More on the president's SOTU address, and still more in the commentary.

«o» Quick Comparison - A Marine sergeant who led the troops involved in the Haditha Iraq massacre where twenty four civilians were slaughtered has pled guilty, and all others in his squad were exonerated. The sergeant will do no time, and a decision on whether he will remain in the Marines is still pending. Meanwhile, PFC Bradley Manning, accused of releasing a number of items including the Collateral Murder war crime video of a US helicopter gunship crew lying to their fire controller and aerially gunning down a Reuters photographer along with a number of Iraqi civilian including a man with children in a van who came to their aid, is facing life imprisonment for 'aiding the enemy'.

«o» In Afghanistan the winter snows have finally arrived causing a massive avalanche which has closed the Salang Pass, one of the three key resupply routes for our military operations in the country, with another one of those routes, the Khyber Pass, either still closed by the Pakistani government in retaliation for the killing of a couple of dozen of their troops by NATO helicopter gunships, or perhaps simply closed due to winter conditions.

«o» A solar storm is in progress for the next few days. Airlines have rerouted their flights to avoid the North Pole where the radiation would be severest, affecting instrumentation, and if you go out to a dark place at night, you MIGHT see traces of an Aurora


In OTHER News:
The other day yours truly reported on the massive attack by hackers all over the world directed at US and other country's government agencies, the MPAA, the RIAA, and other pimps and thieves involved in the Movie and Recording Industry.

It was such a severe and widespread attack that it actually made the MSM news... but of course they left something out because the same people who own the MSM news also pretty much own the Movie and Recording industry (It's called Media Concentration, and the reason you never hear about it? Media Concentration!)

There's an unstated reason WHY the federal government chose right now to take down a very specific internet operation, MegaUpload, and IT IS NOT the 'racketeering and piracy' reasons they are claiming:

In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported on something new that the creators of #Megaupload were about to unroll. Something that would rock the music industry to its core...

...a site that will soon allow artists to sell their creations directly to consumers while allowing artists to keep 90 percent of earnings,” [H/t: M3ntalist]

The Entertainment-Industrial Complex = Pimps and Thieves.

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January 24 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The 'Homed' & The Houseless - Those Issues Will Be THE ISSUES This Election

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." January 24 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: The 'Homed' & The Houseless - Those Issues Will Be THE ISSUES This Election [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 15:24 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥

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[After the commentary, Guy Clark. Courtesy of the respective artists and KPIG Radio Freedom California... Earth.]

«o» The Republican debate at Tampa Florida was much more 'orderly (unlike Travus' dog) than the South Carolina 'audience participation' event. There was no booing clapping or cheering and it WAS boring. Gingrich and Romney stirred it up over who gets money from whom but other than that... The next primary on the 31st is winner take all so look for HUGE amounts of SOMEONE'S money being spent. Details

«o» The European Union has finally caved to the pressure and will enact sanctions on Iran. The EU will embargo the trade in Iranian oil immediately if you don't have a contract and by the end of 2013 if you do to allow everyone who uses oil or gasoline to get used to the 'sticker shock'. The Russian are not going along with the embargo saying it's foolish and will only increase tension in the region, to which the NATO and Western industrialized nations foreign policy apparachik could only reply... "What's your point?". More.

«o» Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, shot a little over a year ago by a mentally disturbed young man while shaking hands at an Arizona shopping mall is resigning for recovery reasons. Her last act was to introduce a bill in the House on what to do about intercepting ultralight aircraft over-the-border contraband smuggling is due to be voted on today with passage expected.

«o» Tonight is the State Of The Union address by the President and he may talk about health care, against a backdrop of a Supreme Court ruling against taking on a lawsuit by Republican interests because Justice Sonia Sotomayor allegedly assisted the Obama adminstration with the health care bill coming up in their court, with Sotomayor sitting on the bench.

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January 23 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Perhap This Won't Happen Anymore - "I Had An FBI File By The Time I Was In 2nd Grade"

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«o» Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary with a twelve point lead. Mitt Romney came in second, Santorum third, and the 'suspended' Rick Perry dead last. The Florida primary debate will happen tonight on a strange note with the Iowa primary recount showing that Rick Santorum won, not Mitt Romney, and by a nice margin.

«o» Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has announced the Pentagon's plan for our navy's warmaking capabilities in the new millennium. It starts with $458 million dollar in budget cuts over 5 years. The Navy will keep eleven aircraft carriers but the Enterprise, a historic vessel and the oldest still in operation, will be mothballed

«o» Yemen's president ali abdul-Saleh has FINALLY LEFT after a year of waiting for some sort of deal where he wouldn't be hunted down by international authorities... The deal turned out to be total immunity given by the country's (pretty much hand-picked by Saleh) parliament, and then he immediately left for the United States, ostensibly for medical treatment. He claims he will return to his country to live in one of his palaces.

«o» Another drone attack in Waziristan has killed several people who were allegedly leaders of the Taliban in Pakistan.

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January 20 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: I Hate It When I Find Myself Agreeing With The 'Newt' - The Media & The Election Process

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«o» Then there were four... Texas governor Rick Perry will suspend his campaign for president, again 'suspend' means American taxpayers will be paying matching funds into the pocket of someone who isn't even campaigning.

But those matching funds COULD be a thing of the past if Dennis Kucinich has his way with a congressional amendment calling for ALL campaign money to be paid by the public, and NONE paid by corporations.

In other words, #Occupy Has A Posse!

Kucinich Announces Constitutional Amendment to Publicly Finance Federal Elections

On the eve of the second anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling known as Citizens United, which opened the floodgate of unlimited, shadowy corporate spending in public elections, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) has introduced H. J. Res. 100, a constitutional amendment to rescue American democracy from corporate money’s corrupting influence.

“Because of the decision by the Supreme Court majority in the Citizens United case, more money was spent on campaigns in the 2010 election than has ever been spent in a mid-term election.

Because of the Citizens United case, more money will be spent in the 2012 elections than has ever been spent in an election in the history of our country.

Because of the Citizens United case, American democracy has been put up on the auction block,” said Kucinich.

H.J. Res.100 would require that all federal campaigns –all campaigns for President, Vice-President, Senator and Representative – be financed exclusively with public funds and prohibit any expenditures from any other source, including the candidate. H. J. Res. 100 would also prohibit any expenditures in support of, or in opposition to, any federal candidate, so that interest groups will not be able to influence elections. It will maintain the First Amendment “freedom of the press” and preserve the traditional role that the media have played in our electoral process. [In Full @ Dennis Kucinich's Site]

«o» Meanwhile, the SEVENTEENTH Republican presidential debate took place last night and there was a donnybrook right at the start when the moderator's first question to Newt Gingrich was not about his position on the issues, but about his philandering. Gingrich ripped into him to the applause of a Republican and Southern audience who instinctively already despise the media. More, and more still in the commentary.

«o» A US Marine Sea Stallion helicopter with six on board went down in Afghanistan's Helmand province killing all on board. The Pentagon is saying that it was not brought down by 'enemy action', but there's hardly a place in Afghanistan where US troops go where they AREN'T being shot at.

«o» Another drone strike in Waziristan has killed 20 plus people including alleged leaders of the Taliban in Pakistan. But we don't know for sure, because those drone operations are run by the CIA, an ostensibly civilian agency which is not required to report to the US public. They're not required to report the cost of these "black ops" either.

«o» France had six troopers killed in Afghanistan yesterday even as the French military pulls out of it's combat role in the country.

«o» The #Occupy movement is planning a number of actions centering around the financial industry today in San Francisco and other major cities.

In OTHER News:

Just a short time ago, one of the hacked and leaked Stratfor security analyst emails showed their 'security experts' pre-supposing there are A LOT MORE people who would prefer to CyberAttack the 1% than get maced.

They're AbsoFuckingLutely right.

Popular file-hosting site Megaupload, probably known to our readers for a variety of reasons, has been taken down after the FBI charged some of its staff with copyright infringement and “conspiracy to commit racketeering.” Seven people have been charged, and four arrested (in New Zealand), and the site itself appears to be down as authorities around the world closed in on the site’s resources. (via Megaupload Taken Down On Piracy Allegations | TechCrunch) [More]

FYI, Megaupload gets millions hits daily and claims 4 percent of all internet traffic.

What happened next can be described like this:

"Department of Justice shut down Megaupload. In return, Anonymous shut down the Department of Justice."

...and that ain't all...

A sitrep from the interwebz:

The following sites were taken down in response to the FBI shutting down megaupload.com

justice.gov
universalmusic.com
riaa.org
mpaa.org
copyright.gov
hadopi.fr
wmg.com
usdoj.gov
bmi.com
fbi.gov

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not Forgive.
We do not Forget.

Tango Down.

[Press Release]

There's a war on... right now. But the 'guns' are Low Orbit Ion Cannons (LOIC, a server torture testing tool... which a perfectly legal piece of software to own)

Anonymous attacks whitehouse.gov after taking down Department of Justice and others

Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.

In response to today’s federal raid on the file sharing service Megaupload, hackers with the online collective Anonymous have broken the websites for the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America. “It was in retaliation for Megaupload, as was the concurrent attack on Justice.org,” Anonymous operative (ed. snigger) Barrett Brown tells RT on Thursday afternoon. [In Full]

Wired has a good writeup... including an accounting of how those nasty charges that have nothing to do with 'cybercrimes' were rationalized... If you assume your government is telling the truth.

FWIW, and just in case you didn't know many musicians don't care for the entertainment-industrial complex... as a matter of fact:

Musicians Value Freedom Over Dollars

With many major websites going into blackout yesterday over the proposed SOPA and PIPA (Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect Intellectual Property Act) bills that are currently making their way through US Congress, it is perhaps unsurprising that a number of musicians have also been speaking their minds about the proposed legislation in the past 24 hours.

According to Spinner.com, Trent Reznor, MGMT, Nada Surf’s Daniel Lorca, OK Go, Amanda Palmer, Erin McKeown and the Lonely Island, the comedic band fronted by ‘Saturday Night Live’s Andy Samberg, posted an open letter yesterday stating their opposition to PIPA and SOPA.

“We, along with the rest of society, have benefited immensely from a free and open Internet,” the letter says. “It allows us to connect with our fans and reach new audiences. Using social media services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, we can communicate directly with millions of fans and interact with them in ways that would have been unimaginable just a few years ago.” [In Full]

Jackson Browne put it like this back in 1996... “It’s a war for your mind”


(Jackson Browne’s Information Wars (with cameos) overlaid with pertinent
imagery, and vignettes from the Media & Democracy Congress I, San Francisco, 1996.)

Meanwhile, on the ground in the City of Angels...

#OccupyLA
Things are getting seriously heated at #ucRegents protest #occupyriverside live both on http://bit.ly/A6Mspn & http://bit.ly/xkMO0X 3:15PM

#OccupyLA
The sherrifs are here http://yfrog.com/odkqlroj
Brown Act Violation In Progress Occifer! #ucRegents protest

#OccupyLA
Everyone just sat down http://yfrog.com/kjdaxhlj

BREAKING: Police Fire Projectiles at Students from Occupy UC Riverside Protesting Board
www.dailykos.com

The cease-fire against California students appears to be over.

Students from UC Riverside, protesting today's Board of Regents meeting, were confronted by riot police, with multiple reports indicating they were fired upon with paint-filled bullets and other projectiles that injured several at the scene.

The students, many of whom are associated with Occupy UC Riverside, today protested and (ultimately) shut down a Board of Regents meeting where tuition hikes were planned to be discussed.

The meeting was adjourned when students who managed to get inside refused to be silent in the face of skyrocketing tuition costs. After the meeting was closed, the board members were escorted off of campus amidst what were, for most of the day, incredibly peaceful and nonviolent protests.

Here is a report from ABC's local affiliate on what transpired before police began attacking protesters: [In Full]

So... the question is begged...

Whose side are you on?

"When a government becomes destructive of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.

Do you believe that the United States government takes better care of corporations, or human beings?

I don’t know anyone who believes the United States government takes better care of human beings than it does corporations.

Do you believe that your vote counts as much as the votes of owners of transnational oil and gas corporations? Do you believe your vote counts as much as the money of owners of transnational oil and gas corporations?

The United States government is not a democracy.

It is a plutocracy: government by, for, and of the wealthy.

It is a kleptocracy: government by, for, and of thieves..." [Read Derrick Jensen's Statement]

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January 19 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Obama Applies The 'Brer Rabbit Solution' To The KeystoneXL Pipeline Bill

"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." January 19 2012 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: Obama Applies The 'Brer Rabbit Solution' To The KeystoneXL Pipeline Bill [Pop Out Player? Click Here] Prefer An MP3 Playlist? It's Here: [128Kbps MP3 16:59 Minutes] Other Audio Formats Available [ Here ] Razer Raygun Says: ♥ Sharing IS Caring! ♥

A Synopsis Of This Morning's News...

H/t to ChrisM my MP3Angel for supplying the audio files.

[After the news, the sound of technological history... Thomas Alva Edison, on wax. Most likely the first recorded words anyone had ever heard in the United States. After the commentary, Steve Goodie, with BIG CREDS to some local guys, The Doobie Brothers... Another little piece of history... relatively recent history. The video for this is a must see. Courtesy of the respective artists, and the greed of the global petrochemical industry.]
«o» Congress is back in session and they MIGHT actually get something done having been 'educated' by their constituents over the holiday. It looks like the payroll tax relief bill will be passing and the president made a deal on the KeystoneXL pipeline from Canada to Houston because the State Department says that there isn't enough time before the bill's passage to do an environmental study, no less because the people of Nebraska and the state itself not wanting the pipeline because it would most likely damage the underground aquifer the citizens of Nebraska depend on for much of their water. Yes folks, water IS "heavier" than Oil on the scale of human necessities. There are plans for an alternate route. More @ BusinessWeek.

«o» In Honduras, remember Honduras? The South American country whose government was overthrown by a coup d' etat while the US looked on despite the coup's illegality and a FORGED resignation letter by the country's president Manuel Zelaya... The State department is demanding that all US civilians including Peace Corp personnel leave Honduras. Perhaps an insurrection is brewing, but neither country is saying why. The Peace Corp contingent in Honduras is one of the largest, with 158 volunteers. More @ CBSNews.

«o» A battle is won against the pimps and thieves of the recording and motion picture industry, but the war IS NOT over! Yesterday's blackout by various sites on the internet including archive.org, the file host for Cabale News Service's online 'broadcast/podcast' was highly successful. SOPA and PIPA will not pass in it's current form when it's due to come to a vote next week... IF it comes to a vote next week. More, and more below the fold.

Meanwhile, with a H/t to: AnonymissExpress

#US Supreme Court Chooses #SOPA/#PIPA Protest Day To Give A Giant Middle Finger To The Public Domain
from the ridiculous dept

We’ve been talking about the Golan case, and its possible impact on culture, for years. If you’re unfamiliar with it, it’s the third in a line of cases, starting with the Eldred case, to challenge aspects of copyright law as violating the First Amendment.

The key point in the case was questioning whether or not the US could take works out of the public domain and put them under copyright.

The US had argued it needed to do this under a trade agreement to make other countries respect our copyrights. Of course, for those who were making use of those public domain works, it sure seemed like a way to unfairly lock up works that belonged to the public. It was difficult to see how retroactively taking works out of the public domain could fit into the traditional contours of copyright law… but today, on the day of the big SOPA/PIPA protests… that’s exactly what happened (pdf). [In Full @ TechDirt]

In OTHER News:

More on the SOPA/PIPA fight... It's ain't over!

Sopa and Pipa protests not over, says Wikipedia

After a 24-hour blackout, Wikipedia has returned to full working order but declared: “We’re not done yet.”

The site had blocked its content for 24 hours in protest at proposed anti-piracy legislation in the US.

The encyclopaedia said the site had been viewed 162 million times, with eight million people following instructions to contact politicians.

The protest led to eight US lawmakers withdrawing their support for the proposed bills.

Two of the bill’s co-sponsors, Marco Rubio from Florida and Roy Blunt from Missouri, are among those who have withdrawn their support after “legitimate concerns”.

But backers of the legislation, led by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), described the action as an “irresponsible” publicity “stunt”.

The Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (Pipa) have caused considerable controversy among internet users and businesses since the plans were proposed in October last year. [More @ BBC]

But it HAS crippled the pimps and thieves of the Motion Picture/Recording industry... and their lobbyists:

The First Internet Strike in History a Success

Wednesday, January 18 2012

The Washington Post reports that Rep. Darrell Issa of California, who opposed SOPA/PIPA, has put out a statement saying, “The voice of the Internet community has been heard,” and that there will be no vote in the House on the bills so detested by the entire technical and Internet communities.

“Much more education for Members of Congress about the workings of the Internet is essential,” Issa says.
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This is tech history, so I’ve collected screenshots for you of some of the many, many sites that are on strike today. The complete list, with links, is on SOPAstrike.com. I see media reports that Google and Wikipedia are on strike, but this strike turned out to be much larger than that.

Here is a representative sample, with links provided so you can follow up and learn more about why the Internet en masse is so opposed to SOPA and PIPA... [More @ GrokLaw]

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