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Should linking be illegal?(internet freedom under attack)

legalizeliberty — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:48:47 +0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk...

In a misguided attempt to aid newspapers, one of America's most influential judges is suggesting a new copyright law

Those who wish to keep the internet free and open had best dust off their legal arguments. One of America's most influential conservative judges, Richard Posner, has proposed a ban on linking to online content without permission. The idea, he said in a blog post last week, is to prevent aggregators and bloggers from linking to newspaper websites without paying:

Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.

Posner's notion set off an eruption from the likes of Jeff Jarvis, Matt Welch and Erick Schonfeld, among others. And they are right to be furious. Not only would Posner stop online media dead in their tracks, but he would also overturn long-established rules of fair use, which, among others things, allow for the reproduction of short excerpts of copyrighted material for the purposes of commentary, parody and the like – precisely what bloggers and aggregators do all the time.

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Pastor Steve Anderson's 4th July Tea Party

Hannah2 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:41:13 +0000

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(Pastor who was tasered and beaten by border control checkpoint)

Happy 4th of July from the good doctor.

sunny — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:52:02 +0000

Adam Kokesh July 4 Money Bomb - Today!

Michael Nystrom — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:52:01 +0000

Today is the money bomb fund raising event for Adam Kokesh who is running for congress in New Mexico.

Please visit http://kokeshforcongress.... to see Ron Paul’s endorsement of Adam, then click the contribute button on the upper right side of the page to donate. No contribution amount is too small!

http://kokeshforcongress....

Rolling Stone's Taibbi: How Goldman Sachs has Engineered Every Major Market Manipulation Since the Great Depression

legalizeliberty — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:15:30 +0000

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In Rolling Stone Issue 1082-83, Matt Taibbi takes on "the Wall Street Bubble Mafia" — investment bank Goldman Sachs. The piece has generated controversy, with Goldman Sachs firing back that Taibbi's piece is "an hysterical compilation of conspiracy theories" and a spokesman adding, "We reject the assertion that we are inflators of bubbles and profiteers in busts, and we are painfully conscious of the importance in being a force for good." Taibbi shot back: "Goldman has its alumni pushing its views from the pulpit of the U.S. Treasury, the NYSE, the World Bank, and numerous other important posts; it also has former players fronting major TV shows. They have the ear of the president if they want it." Here, now, are excerpts from Matt Taibbi's piece and video of Taibbi exploring the key issues.

The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

Any attempt to construct a narrative around all the former Goldmanites in influential positions quickly becomes an absurd and pointless exercise, like trying to make a list of everything. What you need to know is the big picture: If America is circling the drain, Goldman Sachs has found a way to be that drain — an extremely unfortunate loophole in the system of Western democratic capitalism, which never foresaw that in a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

They achieve this using the same playbook over and over again. The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of a speculative bubble, selling investments they know are crap. Then they hoover up vast sums from the middle and lower floors of society with the aid of a crippled and corrupt state that allows it to rewrite the rules in exchange for the relative pennies the bank throws at political patronage. Finally, when it all goes bust, leaving millions of ordinary citizens broke and starving, they begin the entire process over again, riding in to rescue us all by lending us back our own money at interest, selling themselves as men above greed, just a bunch of really smart guys keeping the wheels greased. They've been pulling this same stunt over and over since the 1920s — and now they're preparing to do it again, creating what may be the biggest and most audacious bubble yet.

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Reuters: Ron Paul strikes Gold

duff — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:07:35 +0000

By Chadwick Matlin

Ron Paul's legislative history is a lesson in principled failure. Among the bills he has co-sponsored: ending U.S. cooperation with the United Nations, a repeal of antitrust law "to restore the inherent benefits of the market economy," and stripping the government of the right to set a minimum wage. Just last week, he again introduced a bill "to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990," which would presumably make schools less safe but which would reinforce our right to bear arms. For Paul, ideology almost always trumps politics.

None of these bills, I should note, have picked up much support. And Paul's track record with economic legislation isn't any better. His perennial efforts—shifting the country back toward a gold standard, abolishing the personal income tax, and dismantling the Federal Reserve—are nonstarters. They so change the very fabric of this country that Paul can't marshal his colleagues to his side.

Which is why Paul's most recent legislative accomplishment is so impressive. He has rallied the majority of the House to support his new cause: an audit of the Federal Reserve. Legislators are sick of not knowing what's going on inside Bernanke's fortress, especially as the Fed becomes further enmeshed in the nation's fiscal policy. Paul's little bill has become emblematic of a larger movement, one that could spell trouble for Obama's troubled regulatory plan. Ron Paul—always an enemy of regulation—is now an enemy of Obama. And a mighty powerful one at that.

http://www.reuters.com/ar...

Video: How to Meet Rand Paul

Christopher_Hightower — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:52:31 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/wa...

Make an appointment with his office to get your eyes checked. It worked for this supporter...

Daily HR 1207 phone/email/fax bomb!!! 7/2/09 (S.604!)

Liberty_Mike — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:15:53 +0000

So, how about we take a break today from 1207 and try something new going into the 4th of July weekend. Since a lot of us get the day off work tomorrow, we will be out spending time with family and friends, so there won't be one tomorrow.

Today's Victims: Senator Lindsey Graham R-SC and Senator Jim Bunning R-KY. Both have expressed interest in this bill, and have said they would support it. Well, how about we hold them to their word about supporting it and demand they cosponsor!

Info:
Lindsey Graham R-SC
Washington Office
290 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Ron Paul on Freedom Watch - July 1, 2009

Michael Nystrom — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:11:50 +0000

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Peter Schiff Answers Reddittors Questions - Very Cool Indeed!

JoeDanger — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:07:26 +0000

I'd love to see Dodd try this.... ;-P

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/wa...
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/wa...