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ONION: Ron Paul Supporter Likes The Way Paul Tells It Like It Has No Chance Of Being…

BEN HUH: Now, we need to build the Internet Defense System…
Congress puts SOPA and PIPA on hold… “arrested indefinitely”
So Pa, So Good… But must activists always align with corporations to win?

Before we get too self-satisfied over the SOPA/PIPA victory, we need to take a long, hard look at our increasing alliance with all manner of corporate entities to advance our own interests. We should ask ourselves: If we don’t believe that corporations should be treated as persons, why do we need to work with them as if they are? And how can we the people join together to attain political goals without an 800-pound corporate gorilla in our corner?

Feds shut down Megaupload.com file-sharing website…
Innocent victims cry out over lost legally owned files…
MEGAUPYOURS: Anonymous fires back taking down government and studio sites…
Justice.gov knocked offline…
Cyberwar gets real… 5,635 people used a networking tool called a ‘low orbit ion cannon.’
:) TANGO DOWN: Anonymous goes on DDoS spree shutting down domains…

Julian Assange gives credit to Ron Paul, libertarian activists in fight for freedom…

Who has been your most critical public supporter?
John Pilger, the Australian journalist, has been the most impressive. And the other is Dan Ellsberg. It’s the amount of time I’ve spent with him, both in front of and behind the scenes. When people are working in front of the scenes, in public, it is often because it is helpful to them. One never really knows what the true allegiance is. But when someone puts it on the line both publicly and privately, that’s a sign of true character. Ron Paul did come out and make an impassioned and rational speech. It has not been the soft liberal left, the pseudo left that has defended us. In fact, they have run a mile. It has been strong activists who have a long record of fighting for what they believe in, both on the libertarian right and on the left.

LAST LAUGH: Herman Cain wastes media’s time calling presser only to endorse “We The People”…
Rick Perry quits, endorses Gingrich, won’t rule out 2016 presidential bid… “campaign-trail revelations could dog Perry, including news that he boosted his annual income by more than $92,000 a year by collecting his state pension while drawing his paycheck as governor.”

Newt Gingrich’s ex-wife comes out swinging… “He wanted an open marriage and I refused”
Santorum: mean comments towards ‘black people’ that won’t melt away…
Ron Paul hot air balloon in Glennville, SC snarls traffic for four miles…

POLL: GOP schism on interventionism… “48 percent said the U.S. should maintain a policy of intervening where its interests are challenged. But 46 percent disagree, saying the country is “in a new global era” where it can no longer take such an active role.”

WikiLEAP: Speaking out, but still silenced: Anonymous cop criticizes War on Drugs…

Despite my current silence, I believe a paradigm shift regarding the drug war is quietly occurring in every law enforcement agency in this country, thanks in large part to the efforts of LEAP. This paradigm shift is palpable— I can see it, feel it, and on occasion I hear it slip out from fellow officers and even supervisors once in a blue moon. I firmly believe things are about to change in this country, and when they do, those within law enforcement will be jumping off this drug war rat ship like it was on fire. And the jumpers will proclaim that they knew the drug war was wrong the whole time. But alas, I am not here to judge or point fingers at those wearing badges—I wear one too. I too am riding on that drug war rat ship. Gladly, I will be jumping off that rat ship with everyone else. In the meantime, I can point no fingers, except at myself.

Obama’s tech challenge on copyright enforcement handily rebuffed…
Hollywood moguls organize, halt Obama donations over SOPA veto threat…
VIDEO: Santorum defends SOPA, badly…

SAN FRANCISCO: Bank of America ATMs turned into truth machines…

“The activists used special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA’s ATM interface. But instead of checking and savings accounts, these new menus offered a list of everything BoA customers’ money is being used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling of climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses.”

PHOTOS…

35Y/29N: PIPA support in Senate falters under immense Internet strike…
PASS THE TIME: Stiff drinks named in honor: The SOPA, The PIPA, The WikiBlackout…
TIME FOR AN UPDATE: We didn’t start the fire…
Lawrence Lessig: Real war is over corruption, censorship just ongoing battle front…

Google will protest SOPA using popular home page…
DON’T BE EVIL: Google petition for grievances against liberty goes live…
reddit engineer gives technical examination of SOPA/PIPA…

This legislation is aimed at requiring private U.S. entities to enforce restrictions against foreign sites but does nothing against the infringement itself. All of the enforcement actions can and will be worked around by sites focused on copyright infringement. U.S. citizens will still be able to use foreign DNS servers, new advertising and payment networks will pop up overseas, and “infringing sites” will still be linked to by other foreign sites and search engines. In fact, tools used to circumvent these form of internet restrictions are being funded by the U.S. State department to offer citizens under “repressive regimes” uncensored access to the internet. When the dust settles, piracy will still exist, and the internet in the U.S. will have entered the realm of federal regulation and censorship.

2600 will black out in solidarity…
WordPress.com blacks out front page…
PIRATE BAY: Not shutting down, now or ever…

Bitcoin gets 12m viewer shot in arm with The Good Wife episode…
Over 19K seek out Wikipedia article…
VIDEO…

Ashton Kutcher warns twitter hacker: ‘I know where you live’…

CRASH AND DASH: BofA told Fed it could sell branches in emergency…
BofA reaches 4th quarter settlement of $410 million for overdraft class action lawsuit…
Bank of America Ponders Retreat… “Regulators have warned the board that the sanction could escalate to a more formal, public enforcement action if they aren’t satisfied with the results of the ongoing shake-up.”
FLASHBACK: Bank of America could go tits up…

CNN apparently waives own debate rules to let Rick Perry in…
UPDATE: Kelly Clarkson enjoyed 442% increase in sales after Ron Paul endorsement, joked about endorsing all of them…
VIDEO: Daily Show covers NH GOP primary… “Mitt Romney becomes the first Republican non-incumbent to win both Iowa and New Hampshire without being liked by anyone”
SC POLL WATCH: Romney falling, Gingrich rising, Santorum falling, Huntsman rising, Paul rising fastest…
TEXAS: Ron Paul wins in-person/text-in straw poll, Romney way behind…

SCIENTIST: A Guide for Using SOPA & PIPA to Kill Scientific Debate — You’re Welcome…

For example, lets say I want to take down the Huffington Post because it competes with my website for traffic. I could reach deep into my two copyrighted books (shameless plug for Betrayal and Tails of Socrates) and pick out a couple chunks of text. Then I could use different anonymous wifi hot zones to upload passages from my books to the Huffington Post as comments. I then report HuffPost to the Justice Department. I could keep doing this until I established that the Huffinton Post has a pattern of displaying my copyrighted works without a license (I would totally make up a name to call them…. like the Pirate Post… or something way more clever). Under PIPA and SOPA, the Justice Department would then order financial institutions to stop processing payments for HuffPost, which would keep them from collecting advertising revenue. I’ve killed the site for my own personal gain.

Iran and the Terrorism game…

In the few venues which yesterday denounced as “Terrorism” the ongoing assassinations of Iranian scientists, there was intense backlash against the invocation of that term. That always happens whenever “Terrorism” is applied to acts likely undertaken by Israel, the U.S. or its allies — rather than its traditional use: violence by Muslims against the U.S. and its allies — because accusing Israel and/or the U.S. of Terrorism remains one of the greatest political taboos (even when the acts in question involve not only assassinations but also explosions which kill numerous victims whose identities could not have been known in advance). But the case of these scientist assassinations particularly highlights how meaningless and manipulated this term is.

The prime argument against calling these scientists killings “Terrorism” is that targeted killings — as opposed to indiscriminate ones — cannot qualify. After Andrew Sullivan wrote a post entitled “The Terrorism We Support” and rhetorically asked: “is not the group or nation responsible for the murder of civilians in another country terrorists?”, and then separately criticized the NYT for failing to describe these killings as Terrorism, numerous readers objected to the use of this term on the ground that a targeted killing cannot be Terrorism.

Iran says it has evidence U.S. behind scientist’s killing…

TEXAS: Antonio “Austin’s Hero” Buehler, aiding a damsel distressed by the police state…

Thankfully the police spectacle was being filmed by a witness from across the street using their cell phone. Miraculously, through public pleas across the internet, he was contacted by the witness and received the video from a post on Craigslist. The witness also stated that they are willing to testify to what they saw. It seems that the police are the ones getting a lesson about the power of smartphones and social media. They also learned that they can’t judge people by appearances and that they should treat us all with respect when performing their duty. This serendipitous moment, could be the tipping point that will allow for positive change in Austin’s police culture.

10 reasons why even democrats, liberals and progressives are choosing Ron Paul over Obama…
A new low in American politics: Personally attack candidate’s supporters…

TOO MUCH, WHO’S NEXT? Rand Paul returns $500K in office budget to Treasury…

Newt Gingrich vows to go negative, because everyone’s negative about him…

“No, I have no view,” Gingrich said when asked his personal judgment of Romney.

He continued, “He is a competitor. He’s somebody who I think was unnecessarily negative and who ran – who knows that some of the things he ran were not true. But that’s his decision. That’s how he wants to play the game.”

Newt Gingrich: Read all of our 2012 analysis so far…
VID: Jon Stewart trashes mass media trying to spin away Ron Paul’s second place win…
DELUSIONAL: Santorum says bombing Iran wouldn’t start a war…
Political speech being distorted by unfettered Super PACs…

HYPOCRITICAL ASSHAT: Texas congressman Lamar Smith (author of SOPA) is copyright violator of the worst kind…

“I do not see anywhere on the screen capture that you have provided that the image was attributed to the source (me). So my conclusion would be that Lamar Smith’s organization did improperly use my image. So according to the SOPA bill, should it pass, maybe I could petition the court to take action against www.texansforlamarsmith.com.”