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Edward Snowden is Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, Bradley Manning Defense Rests its Case, Ian Freeman Wins vs City in Court, “Feral” Pig Farmer Mark Baker Has Huge Turnout at Hearing
PNN #153 Show Notes http://bit.ly/11S2HaT
Anonymous Projection on US Embassy in Germany
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bc6_1373876326
Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
http://rt.com/news/snowden-nominated-nobel-peace-099/
Bradley Manning’s Lawyers Rest
http://mashable.com/2013/07/10/bradley-manning-trial-defense-rest/
This is your Peace News for Tuesday, July 16th 2013.
Silver is trading at 20 dollars per ounce. Bitcoin is trading at 99 dollars per bitcoin.
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Anonymous activists staged a protest by beaming giant words reading ‘United Stasi of America’ across the walls of the US embassy in Berlin on Monday.
In protest of government surveillance, Anonymous’ latest act of civil disobedience lit up the walls of the Embassy with 10ft letters which referenced the former East German secret police.
The 3 activists arrived at the USA embassy, set up a generator and ran the projection for approximately 2 minutes before packing up and leaving the scene, not before having a celebratory dance. Two policemen were present during the event and were later joined by more than ten officers who proceeded to detain the Ruptly journalists filming on location. The reporters were searched and then detained for two hours while the police considered them first as suspects and then Anonymous conspirators. They were released without charge when the authorities acknowledged that their footage was indeed their alibi.
Edward Snowden, the former NSA employee and whistleblower was quoted in an interview by German newspaper, Der Spiegel as describing the NSA as “in bed with the Germans”. He also revealed in the report released July 7, that the NSA monitored about 20 million phone connections and 10 million internet data sets on average, per day and that the US’ closest allies went even further than the NSA to collect data.
Berlin police are investigating artist Oliver Bienkowski in relation to similar projections seen on July 8.
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A Swedish sociology professor has nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize. He says the NSA whistleblower could help “save the prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision” to give the 2009 award to Barack Obama.
In his letter addressed to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Stefan Svallfors praised Snowden for his“heroic effort at great personal cost.” He stated that by revealing the existence and the scale of the US surveillance programs, Snowden showed “individuals can stand up for fundamental rights and freedoms.”
Professor Svallfors wrote, quote:
“This example is important because since the Nuremberg trials in 1945 has been clear that the slogan ‘I was just following orders’ is never claimed as an excuse for acts contrary to human rights and freedoms.”
He emphasized that the decision to award the 2013 prize to Edward Snowden would also quote, “help to save the Nobel Peace Prize from the disrepute incurred by the hasty and ill-conceived decision to award US President Barack Obama 2009’s award.”
Snowden’s nomination is expected to be reviewed by the committee for next year’s prize. Should Snowden get the coveted award, he would be the youngest Nobel Peace Laureate in the history of the prize.
The 30-year-old nominee is wanted in the US on charges of espionage after revealing secret NSA surveillance programs and could face the death penalty in his home country. He fled American soil for Hong Kong in May and then flew to Moscow, where he has been stuck in an airport transit zone for three weeks.
On Friday Snowden said he is seeking political asylum in Russia because he cannot fly to Latin America.
In 2011 founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks Julian Assange was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by Norwegian MP Snorre Valen.
Last year Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of passing secret materials to WikiLeaks, was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The nomination was proposed by the Movement of Icelandic Parliament, which asserted that revelations produced by the documents Manning allegedly exposed, quote, “have helped to fuel a worldwide discussion about America’s overseas engagements, civilian war casualties, imperialistic manipulations, and rules of engagement.”
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Speaking of Bradley Manning,
Bradley Manning‘s lawyers rested their case on Wednesday. The defense built its case for a shorter amount of time than expected, but argued exactly what most anticipated it would: Manning did not intend to harm the United States and aid the enemy when he passed thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
Manning has already pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 charges levied against him, effectively admitting to being the source of WikiLeaks’ most touted revelations. However, he still faces life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge of “aiding the enemy.” On Monday, his defense asked the military judge Col. Denise Lind to drop that charge as well as another six.
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PNN #152 Show Notes http://bit.ly/1aX5um3
Colorado Bakery Owner Faces Jail for Not Baking Gay Wedding Cake
Man Jailed 30 Days for Building Reservoirs on his own land
Harvard Study Links Fluoridation to Lower IQ
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mercola/fluoride_b_2479833.html
Courts Rule Vaccines Containing MMR & Thimerosal Caused Brain Damage
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/courts-rule-vaccines-containing-mmr-and.html
Govt Overreacts to Computer Viruses, Destroys Keyboards & Mice
Pentagon Puts Workers on Unpaid Leave
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/08/pentagon-puts-650000-workers-on-unpaid-leave-due-to-cuts/
This is your Peace News for Thursday, July 11th 2013.
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Gay marriage was banned by the Colorado constitution in 2006.
But this didn’t stop the Colorado Attorney General’s office from filing a discrimination complaint against Masterpiece Cakeshop for not baking a cake for a gay couple.
The Colorado Attorney General’s office filed a discrimination complaint against the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop, who last year declined to make a cake for a Denver couple. The couple had their marriage ceremony in Massachusetts and wanted the cake for a hometown celebration.
Jack Phillips, one of the owners of Masterpiece Cakeshop, had cited his Christian beliefs in refusing the men’s business. Last summer Phillips told a television interviewer quote, “We would close down the bakery before we compromised our beliefs.”
The owner faces up to 12 months in jail for not baking a cake for the gay couple.
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An Oregon man has been jailed for 30 days for collecting rainwater and snow runoff in three reservoirs that he had built on his own property.
Gary Harrington, of Eagle Point, was found guilty two weeks ago for violating a 1925 law which says all water is publicly owned.
Harrington, 64, was convicted of nine misdemeanors, and received a $1,500 fine in addition to the jail term.
Following his conviction, he said quote, ‘When it comes to the point where a rural landowner can’t catch rainwater that falls on his land to protect his property, it’s gone too far.’
Harrington surrendered himself to authorities to begin his prison term and said that he was sacrificing himself to stand up for liberty.
Decades earlier, Harrington constructed two dams measuring at 10 and 20 feet, and has since collected nearly 13million gallons of water in his man-made ponds, which is enough to fill 20 Olympic-sized pools. He also built boat docks and stocked the reservoirs with trout and Bluegill for recreational fishing.
Oregon’s Water Resources Department said that while it is legal to set up rainwater collection barrels on roofs or other surfaces, Harrington’s reservoirs went far beyond that and required permits.
The state initially approved and issued permits for Harrington’s water collection pools on his 170-acre property in 2003, but years later changed the bureaucrats arbitrarily changed their minds.
Harrington has been ordered to drain his three reservoirs, he remains persistently defiant. He said that he is only collecting rainwater for personal use and fire suppression, and that the state is infringing upon his rights.
He told CNSNews.com, quote, “The government is bullying. They’ve just gotten to be big bullies and if you just lay over and die and give up, that just makes them bigger bullies.”
His legal adviser said they are willing to fight the issue all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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A recently-published Harvard University meta-analysis funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has concluded that children who live in areas with highly fluoridated water have “significantly lower” IQ scores than those who live in low fluoride areas.
The 32-page report can be downloaded free in these show notes.
There are now more than 23 human studies and over 100 animal studies linking fluoride to brain damage.
Fluoride is added to toothpaste to protect your teeth, yes, but that’s why you spit it out. So why is the government still adding a known neurotoxin to the public drinking water?
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Some people take full personal responsibility for what they choose to put in their bodies. If you’re one of them, you might be interested to learn that there have been several recent court cases where families have been granted damage payouts due to what vaccines and their ingredients have done to their children. The cases are directly linked to autism and brain damage, and each injury has been deemed, quote, “caused by vaccines.”
Find links to three such recent court decisions in this episode’s show notes.
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Speaking of eliminating viruses, the Economic Development Administration, or EDA, was recently notified of a potential malware infection on some of its computers.
The EDA’s CIO, fearing that the agency was under attack from a nation-state, insisted instead on a policy of physical destruction. The EDA destroyed not only (uninfected) desktop computers but also printers, cameras, keyboards, and even mice. The destruction only stopped because the agency had run out of money to pay for destroying the hardware.
The total cost to the taxpayer of this incident was $2.7 million dollars. Full recovery took close to a year.
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PNN #151 Show Notes http://bit.ly/12UUah2
Metro Rips Out Phantom Planters Flowers at Dupont Circle Station
Female Inmates Sterilized in CA Prisons
http://intellihub.com/2013/07/08/female-inmates-sterilized-in-california-prisons/
…Dr Defends…
UK Bitcoin Exchanges Do Not Have To Register with Gov
http://www.coindesk.com/hmrc-uk-bitcoin-exchanges-dont-have-to-register-under-money-laundering-regulations/ (Netherlands, UK, Canada)
Costa Rica Accidentally Legalizes Gay Marriage
PNN #150 Show Notes http://bit.ly/183BAJk
App Vindicates Man Falsely Accused of Rape
Mos Def Suffers Gitmo Force Feeding
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/08/mos-def-force-fed-guantanamo-bay-video
Tatiana Fundraising for Tour
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/tatiana-moroz-tour-2013
Shrooms Reduce Fear, Grow New Brain Cells
This is your Peace News for Tuesday, July 9th 2013.
Silver is trading at 19 dollars per ounce. Bitcoin is trading at 78 dollars per bitcoin.
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A taxicab driver in the UK was falsely accused of rape this week. After being thrown into a jail cell, the man was finally vindicated when he presented evidence on his phone proving that he was innocent. Though many rail against the surveillance state, private surveillance is a useful tool for providing an objective record of your innocence. The cabbie knew his CCTV was broken that evening, and so he switched on an audio recorder on his phone. That was enough to prove that Astria Berwick was a passenger like any other — simply rode in the cab and went on her way. But after the ride, Astria called police and told them that she had been the victim of a serious sexual assault inside Asif’s cab. It was a complete lie.
Now thanks to the objective record held by Asif’s phone, Astria’s lie is exposed. She now sits behind bars on a sentence of 16 months for a charge of perverting the course of justice.
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As Ramadan begins, 120 hunger-strikers in Guantánamo Bay continue their protest. More than 40 of them are being force-fed. A leaked document sets out the military instructions, or standard operating procedure, for force-feeding detainees. In a four-minute film made by Human Rights organisation Reprieve and Bafta, award-winning director Asif Kapadia, US actor and rapper Yasiin Bey (formerly known as Mos Def), experiences the procedure first-hand.
What is happening in Guantanamo Bay is hidden from public view. There are people who, for months, have been dressing up in American soldier uniforms, strapping down innocent people to chairs, and forcing baby formula into their stomachs through tubes inserted into their noses.
Nobody likes to see what is happening in Guantanamo. But if the public refuses to look at what’s happening, then it will continue.
Most of the men remaining at Guantanamo have been cleared for release from the detention center not only by the Obama Administration but also by the Bush Administration years ago! They are wholly innocent both in reality and in the eyes of the government, however the government continues for years to torture their bodies in a secretive facility outside of US soil.
I encourage listeners of this program to get creative and produce media highlighting the abuses of Guantanamo Bay and challenging others to face the reality of what’s happening there. It’s good to focus on the positive, but noncooperation with evil is as much a responsibility as cooperation with good. Do your part to withhold your support for torturers.
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Tatiana Moroz is a singer-songwriter and independent musician for the Liberty Movement, and she is going out on tour this summer in support of her album, “Love and Liberty”!
Tatiana has launched an indie-go-go campaign to raise $5,000 to cover airfare, fuel, car rentals, hotels, and food!
To show how much she appreciates your support, the campaign is offering tiered-level rewards for those who donate.
Tatiana’s music reach people, inspiring discussion about what you and I can do as a united front against injustice.
Peace, Love and Liberty are messages that everyone can get behind. The more opportunities that Tatiana has to sing and perform around the continent, the more people she can reach and connect with.
If you can’t offer financial support, Help spread the word! Are you on Facebook? Twitter? Instagram? Do you have a newsletter? A website? A radio program? Reach out to your family and friends!
Following Tatiana on Twitter, Facebook, and sign up for Tatiana’s newsletter by going to www.tatianamoroz.com
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Dr. Juan Sanchez-Ramos, who co-author of the study, exclaimed of his lab mice, “They simply lost their fear.”
Much more research could be done by ordinary people and professors alike, if governments around the world weren’t at war with peaceful drug users. Psilocybin mushrooms are illegal in the United States, and other countries. Scientists are eager to look into the idea of using Psilocybin Mushrooms to cure (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), chronic depression, and a wide range of other mental and physical ailments, but doing so would require disobeying agents of the state. These mushrooms are harmless, cannot cause overdose, and unlike disobedience to the state, cannot cause death.
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PNN #149 Show Notes http://bit.ly/16ZXsUN
Peace News Now Live Recap
US Attempts to Block Snowden Bolster Case for Asylum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/07/us-attempts-block-snowden-bolster-case-asylum
PNN #148 Show Notes http://bit.ly/16VMOyg
NSA Recruiters Face Tough Student Interview
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/07/students-destroy-nsa-recruiters-over.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/shortcuts/2013/jul/05/national-security-agency-recruitment-drive
PNN #147 Show Notes http://bit.ly/13yBDgR
Agora Seed Exchange
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Agora-Seed-Exchange/561372390547793?fref=ts
Financial Times: Rise of Bitcoin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnNnZLkHnG4
Significant Improvements Planned for Merchants in V0.9
http://thegenesisblock.com/significant-merchant-improvements-planned-for-bitcoin-v0-9/
Free Speech Atty Joins Robin Hood Pro-Bono
http://freekeene.com/2013/07/03/renown-free-speech-attorney-jon-meyer-joins-robin-hood-case/
Danny Panzella, Crime Stopper
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3TI_Cu5dXw
This is your Peace News for Saturday, July 6th 2013.
Silver is trading at 20 dollars per ounce. Bitcoin is trading at 67 dollars per bitcoin.
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Agora Seed Exchange is an internet based company connecting farmers to heirloom seeds.
Heirloom seeds yield plants whose DNA comes from early periods in human history. For generations they have been maintained by gardeners and farmers, particularly in isolated or ethnic communities. This keeps the DNA of the plants rich and diverse. Seeds from monocultural plots lack this biodiversity and nutrition.
Since heirloom seeds are not used for large-scale commercial agriculture, they are ideal for everyday people like you to plant in your home garden. Organic and 100% natural, these heirloom seeds are available through their Facebook page.
Run by activist Eddie Free and organic farmer Melissa Moran, the Agora Seed Exchange has been in operation since April of 2013.
Part of the strategy for survival in a tumultuous world is to become self-sufficient in producing your own food, and to eat foods that are rich and nutrient dense.
Procure your own heirloom seeds from Agora Seed Exchange by sending them a message through Facebook.
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The Financial Times produced a video yesterday in which Maija Palmer reports from a Bitcoin Conference. Several Free Staters appear in the video, including Zach & Josh Harvey, and Erik Voorhees. In a brief interview with Josh, he makes the point that the Bitcoin landscape is developing around tech centers like Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston, where bars, restaurants, grocery stores, and nightclubs all accept bitcoin. Erik notes that bitcoin’s growth has been totally organic and adds that it will continue to grow as long as people find it useful. And with ever-increasing bank fees, regulations, and controls on investments, more & more people are opting for alternatives. Whether you are paying your friend at the bar or programmers in India, bitcoin can be sent instantly and for negligible cost. With the high speed and low cost of transmission, digital money is an inevitability.
The video also features one of the reporters from the Financial Times using the Lamassu bitcoin ATM to transfer her currency from Great British Pounds to bitcoins in just a few seconds. The design of the machine is sharp and this video does a great job of highlighting the most important facts about bitcoin.
You can watch the financial times video through the link in this episode’s show notes.
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Speaking of bitcoin, Phillip Archer writes in a blogpost at theGenesisBlock.com yesterday that significant improvements are planned for the next version of the bitcoin software. These changes are pretty technical, and I recommend reading the article to grasp its full meaning, but in essence, there will be improvements in 4 major areas: ease of use, recurring payments, dispute resolution and immediate feedback.
I am most excited by the prospect of easily implementing recurring payments, something that would benefit most bitcoin-based charities.
Plus, subscription services have been hesitant to implement bitcoin as a payment feature because of the lack of ability to bill customers at regular intervals.
These changes will likely lead to more adoption of Bitcoin as the technology and the market matures.
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Ian Freeman blogs at FreeKeene.com:
Jon Meyer is an attorney based in Manchester, New Hampshire, whose normal focus is on employment-related cases, however he is also renown as one of the best lawyers in America on the subject of free speech.
Formerly an attorney with the NH Civil Liberties Union, in recent years Meyer won a major free speech case at the NH Supreme Court involving a man in a bigfoot costume on Mt. Monadnock. Additionally and more recently he trounced then-Cheshire-Sheriff Dick Foote in court and had Foote’s no trespass orders against local liberty activists (banning us from court property) overturned as unconstitutional.
Now, Meyer has made the time in his busy schedule for the Robin Hood of Keene case where the people calling themselves “the city” are suing several Robin Hooders in hopes of creating a 50ft anti-freedom radius around the meter maids.
Meyer filed his appearance this week in Cheshire superior court on behalf of five of the six defendants, with Copblock.org‘s Pete Eyre deciding not to opt-in to having an attorney.
To be clear, Meyer is donating his valuable time to the cause, pro-bono, and is up against the city people’s hired gun (paid by your tax dollars) private attorneys, including renown civil rights attorney Charles P. Bauer.
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Danny Panzella of TruthSquad.TV posted a video this week in which he tracks down the owner of an illegally parked vehicle and finds that it belongs to a New York City Councilwoman. He walks right up to her, camera rolling, and addresses the situation, asking her if she thinks it’s right or necessary to park where others would get a ticket.
Danny perfectly highlights the hypocrisy of those in power and takes a personal stand against people acting as if they have extra rights.
Kudos, Danny! If everyone held bureaucrats personally responsible for their actions, what a different world it could be.
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