Over the last four hours it seems Syria has gone dark, that is it has disappeared of the internet. While there have been no new military attacks on Syria since Sunday morning, something more peculiar happened in the past few hours, when according to Akamai and various other Internet traffic trackers, Syria has literally gone […]
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Just in case anybody is wondering. It turns out the Gastritis was a severe bout of Gall stones and I am now in Hamilton Waikato hospital where I have to make the difficult choice between a Gall bladder removed (very much a NZ policy it seems) or fight the Medically accepted wisdom and try to […]
By Washingtons blog The 15 Rules of Web Disruption David Martin’s Thirteen Rules for Truth Suppression, H. Michael Sweeney’s 25 Rules of Disinformation (and now Brandon Smith’s Disinformation: How It Works) are classic lessons on how to spot disruption and disinformation tactics. We’ve seen a number of tactics come and go over the years. Here […]
There are many pro’s for living in the wops such as growing your own food and riding horse whenever you want but there are also con’s such as an idjit peasant who decides to give his digger a work out and who digs up the telephone cable disconnecting an entire district and since your are […]
If you want to know how the mud stream media propagandises and manipulates the consensus you only need to look at some of the articles published in some of our news papers. A couple of days I pointed out how they kept the hatred toward Muslims alive and here are some more prime examples Here […]
And so it should. The Government is spending $150,000 on website “filtering” software, outraging some bloggers who say the move amounts to censorship of the internet. Since 2007 the Department of Internal Affairs’ Censorship Compliance Unit has worked with a small group of internet service providers on a “trial” project to block access to websites […]
A recently proposed but little-noticed Senate bill would allow the federal government to shut down the Internet in times of declared emergency, and enables unprecedented federal oversight of private network administration. The bill’s draft states that “the president may order a cybersecurity emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic” and would give […]
I found this incredibly cute picture on this site. If section 92 gets through you couldn’t show this any more and by the way the site where this came from could not exist any more but more to the point why would anyone bother? Right, they would not bother with that site but they would […]
For the second time this year it seems that out of nowhere huge internet cables traversing the oceans can snap just like that. The internet cables in the Mediterranean sea are especially prone it appears. Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America […]
AUSTRALIA’S mandatory net filter is being primed to block 10,000 websites as part of a blacklist of unspecified “unwanted content”. Some 1300 websites have already been identified by the Australian Communications and Media Authority. Communications Minister Senator Conroy revealed details of the Rudd Government’s proposed web filter as he called for expressions of interest from […]
“Suppose the Internet was entirely confined to the U.S., which it once was? That wasn’t helpful,” said Vint Cerf of Google. Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network’s first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data […]
I can’t get over the awesome reach of the internet. While most of my readers are from New Zealand and the US but sometimes my reach seems to go across the political devidesand the different cultures. These are some of the recent links made to my Blog. This morning I found that three people had […]
Amazing revelations have emerged concerning already existing government plans to overhaul the way the internet functions in order to apply much greater restrictions and control over the web. Lawrence Lessig, a respected Law Professor from Stanford University told an audience at this years Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference in Half Moon Bay, California, that “There’s going […]
Feeling safer already? What do you get when you combine U.S. militarism, fantasies of domination and an administration that views the internet as a hot-bed of “evil-doers” and “subversives”? Cyber Command, of course! Only this scheme has the potential of inflicting massive suffering on civilian populations across the planet. Currently situated at the secretive Barksdale Air […]
Blackwater Worldwide, Cheney’s Gestapo has it’s own intelligence unit I’m sure the contract is theirs. How does it feel to know the US army is going to trawling the internet to find people like you and me? It scares the shit out of me. WASHINGTON, June 30 (UPI) — The U.S. military is looking for […]
by Prof. Peter Dale Scott The Deep State and 9/11 The unthinkable – that elements inside the state would conspire with criminals to kill innocent civilians – has become not only thinkable but commonplace in the last century. A seminal example was in French Algeria, where dissident elements of the French armed forces, resisting General […]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Nearly 70 percent of Americans believe traditional journalism is out of touch, and nearly half are turning to the Internet to get their news, according to a new survey. While most people think journalism is important to the quality of life, 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in […]
