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Forum: General Talk
01-27-2012, 08:00 PM
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Jolepp:
From the Electronic Frontier Foundation, January 27, 2012:
"In December, the Council of the European Union—one of the European Union’s two legislative bodies, composed of executives from the 27 EU member states—adopted ACTA during a completely unrelated meeting on agriculture and fisheries. Of course, this is not the end of the story in the EU. For ACTA to be adopted as EU law, the European Parliament has to vote on whether to accept or reject it." Source
Regarding the above: Three days ago, when I posted my previous comment, I also wrote (but decided to delay posting) the following:
The EU government seems to be a Jeckyll-and-Hyde organization. They mimic the U.S. government one day and then seem enlightened the next day. As for their codified claim that they intend to keep the internet free and uncensored, I hope you are right, but I fear they cannot be trusted. Case in point: In 2005, the citizens of France and the Netherlands voted against ratifying the new EU constitution (watch the video). Since the vote had to be unanimous (among 27 countries), the constitution was officially dead; however, the EU leaders refused to listen. Instead, they wrote the "Treaty of Lisbon," in which they supposedly "amended" the constitution. In 2008, the citizens of Ireland joined those of France and the Netherlands in rejecting the Constitution/Treaty. The EU ignored these three countries and adopted the Constitution/Treaty anyway.
Another case in point: The EU also has a law that, in essence, forbids the European Central Bank (ECB) from printing excess money out of thin air in order to "bail out" member states. Some sources report that the ECB may be ignoring this law. The ECB is also bypassing that law by accepting trillions of dollars in bailouts from U.S. taxpayers, courtesy of the unaccountable Federal Reserve (thus further destroying the value of our dollar). I will be thrilled to admit I am wrong if the EU Parliament votes against the EU Council's ACTA treaty.
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Forum: General Talk
01-25-2012, 02:51 PM
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Hi, Jolepp, I appreciate such a well informed and courteous reply. Thank you.
First, my apologies. I should have been more careful in my statement about the unelected members of the European Union. The members of the EU parliament are elected, but the members of the European Commission and the European Central Bank are not elected. The European Commission is the executive body of the European Union; thus, it has a significant amount of control over the legislative process and over undemocratic processes (please see the video at the end of this comment). Nigel Farage, an outstanding member of the European Parliament, is just one of my sources for this information. He is an outspoken critic of the unelected element in the EU (again, please see the video).
Second, I will admit that I was intentionally being provocative when I stated that bankers and communists are working together in the same organization. I must also admit that I would never have made such a seemingly "crazy" claim (my word, not yours) if I didn't have ample evidence to back it up. The research I've been doing for the past few years has been very enlightening (I'm happy to say I finally began putting my history degree to serious use in 2005, thanks entirely to the internet). There are many pieces of this massive, worldwide jigsaw puzzle that link bankers and communists together; however, those pieces, when viewed one (or a few) at a time, may not always seem significant.
Anyway, I am now attempting to put together that reply. The hardest part is knowing what to include and what not to include. I'm not very good at that. But, for the sake of being as brief as possible, I will try my best.
P.S. I certainly wasn't thinking ahead when I wrote that provocative comment. I should have anticipated all the work I would be creating for myself if someone were to challenge me on it. Now I have to overcome my considerable lethargy and get to work. Ha? ;)
In your subsequent comment, I had to laugh as soon as I saw the name "Lamar Smith" in that woman's Facebook comment. I knew then that she had obviously had a rude awakening. :p
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Forum: General Talk
01-23-2012, 06:55 PM
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Hi, Adam. As I wrote to you last week, people "should be careful which country [they] choose, because our [U.S.] government has a knack for "encouraging" other governments to follow their lead, although most appear not to need any encouragement." I was thinking of Europe -- and its unelected body of banksters and communists that comprise the European Parliament -- when I wrote that. Well, it appears that it is happening already: Forget SOPA, Europe is about to ratify its bigger brother ACTA.
Combine this with how the U.S. criminals recently, illegally took out MegaUpload -- in New Zealand! --, and you have a recipe for a real prison planet (no pun intended with regard to Alex Jones' web site).
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Forum: General Talk
01-18-2012, 06:54 PM
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I'm very glad to see so many great replies here. I wasn't expecting too many replies of any sort since I rarely get them on other sites where I am registered. ;-)
Very well said, Dark_Mist! Thank you!
I couldn't agree with you more on all counts, séamuis. They won't give up if these two bills fail, just as they didn't give up on the banker bailout in October 2008, even though 90 percent of Americans who contacted their congress dirtbags were against it (according to various reports). It failed the first time but was then reintroduced and passed a few days later. Ninety-three senators voted in favor of the NDAA last month, which allows the military to arrest U.S. citizens without charge and hold them indefinitely and in secret. They've really kicked the process into high gear in the last few years.
As for those politicians who have come right out and supported full-blown internet censorship, the most prominent one of the bunch is Senator Joseph Lieberman, who proudly, arrogantly, unashamedly said the U.S. should censor the internet the same way China does (in order to protect certain special interests whose crimes against humanity are being exposed to Americans, en masse, for the first time ever).
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Forum: General Talk
01-17-2012, 06:44 PM
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That's certainly understandable. Maybe a banner of some sort on your home page would suffice? That's just a suggestion. I'm more than okay with whatever you decide to do or not to do.
Thank you for your quick reply!
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Forum: General Talk
01-17-2012, 06:09 PM
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I little while ago, I sent the following email message to Pentax Forums, and Adam kindly sent me a very quick reply. I don't know if he gave me permission to quote him here or not, so I won't. Instead, I will let him reply to this post, if he sees it and wishes to do so. He recommended that I post this comment here, and so I shall. Here is what I wrote to him: Hello,
As a Pentax Forums visitor for the past year (and a wonderful site it is), I strongly encourage you to consider joining the SOPA strike tomorrow, January 18, 2012. Pentax Forums readers need to be made aware of this travesty before it is too late to stop it.
Pentax Forums, by merely linking to web sites that contain "forbidden" copyrighted material (even if you are not linking directly to that forbidden material) would be in violation of the SOPA law -- if it is enacted --, and your site could be forced to shut down. Don't think it wouldn't happen. Even if you weren't forcibly shut down, you would never be able to link to other web sites again (such as Flickr) without always worrying about the consequences of even one frivolous complaint being filed against you. If even one of your subscribers uploaded a photo that is not his or hers, you could be shut down by the true owner of that photo, if he/she is of a mind to file a complaint.
Michael Nystrom, owner of one of the most prominent web sites on the internet these days, explains it very succinctly in this brief commentary.
A gaming web site owner(???) put it very succinctly in a recent internet radio broadcast He begins by saying: Ladies and gentlemen, my name is [indecipherable], and I'm here to talk about something of an important issue. Unfortunately, I really don't like having to do this. This is a gaming channel. We like to have fun here. This is all about enjoyment. It's all about how to spend your leisure time. Unfortunately, since a certain piece of legislation, or more accurately, two pieces of legislation, are being forced through Congress at the moment to stop you from doing just that, then I think we're just gonna have to have a few words on the subject. Are we not?
So the subject of today's ridiculous lecture / rant is the SOPA -- the S-O-P-A -- the Stop Online Piracy Act -- and also Protect IP [Act].
Listen to his commentary here:
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Among the many sites that will be blacking out tomorrow are "Wikipedia, Reddit..., BoingBoing, MoveOn.org [and] The Free Software Foundation" [Wikipedia, WordPress, possibly Craigslist, and others (see here).
You have many visitors who probably don't know about this legislation, which will have worldwide effects, not just in the United States, since the U.S. is home base for millions of worldwide sites. You could make a huge impact on your readers by closing down for the day and putting up a sign explaining why.
Thank you very much.
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