Techdirt
Mike Masnick

Apparently there’s been a years-long effort in Italy to give the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) some regulatory authority to enforce copyrights online. And apparently there has been some fighting over this (mostly over AGCOM’s competence in this field). However, according to The 1709 Blog, it appears that AGCOM is now giving up its goal of regulating copyright online:

Although AGCOM has showed its ability to reconcile the various rights and interests involved in copyright, it will not go ahead with its copyright regulation. This is because Italian Government has not yet adopted the proviso needed to clarify the nature and extension of AGCOM’s competence to this end. Therefore, until this happens, AGCOM will not feel obliged to adopt its “well-balanced” regulation.

This, of course, does not mean that there is no online copyright in Italy. Just that it’s not being regulated by AGCOM for the time being. Considering just how badly pretty much every attempt to regulate copyright has gone recently, perhaps this is a good thing.

May 8, 2012

Fullerton: Video of Kelly Thomas Beating Death Released ^Reply

Police State/Civil Liberties

cryptogon.com
Via: pixq:

The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers.

The shocking video, which was combined with an audio recorder worn by one of the police officers on the night of July 5, 2011, was shown in court today, then later released to the media.

“Now you see my fists?” Fullerton police officer Manny Ramos asked Thomas while slipping on a pair of latex gloves.

“Yeah, what about them?” Thomas responded.

“They are getting ready to fuck you up,” said Ramos, a burly cop who appears to outweigh Thomas by 100 pounds.

Last year, Ron Thomas, a retired Orange County Sheriff’s deputy, said the City of Fullerton offered him $900,000 to just go away, which would have allowed the two cops to remain on the force unpunished for killing his son.

Thomas was pronounced dead on July 10, five days after the beating that left him in a coma.

May 8, 2012

Attack the System: Totalitarian Humanism and Strategies for Resistance ^Reply

Anti-Imperialism/Foreign Policy, Political Correctness/Totalitarian Humanism, Secession, Strategy

April 26, 2012

Listen to the interview

Keith Preston discusses possible strategies for building resistance to the hegemony of the totalitarian Left.

Topics include:

The weaknesses of strategies that others have proposed, such as the Majority Strategy and third part efforts;
How the shrinking size of working to middle class whites makes the achievement of a demographic majority impossible;
Keith’s concepts of “Liberty and Populism” and “Pan-Secessionism” as grand strategies for building a long term effective resistance to the ruling class;

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May 7, 2012

Pirate Party Wins Again, Enters Another Parliament ^Reply

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falkvinge.net
Rick Falkvinge

I just came back from the victory party in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany’s northernmost state. The German Piratenpartei has done it again, and entered its third state parliament.

With 8.2% of the votes, the pirates take six out of the 69 seats. This causes problems for the existing coalition in Schleswig-Holstein, as a new constellation is needed.

(Germany consists of 16 states, each roughly equivalent in size to a smaller country in Europe.)

But more interesting is the German Pirate Party’s now-demonstrated ability to deliver again and again and again. People are starting to expect that the pirate platform is a permanent part of policymaking in Germany. That is certainly a huge change from just six months ago, from before the entry into the Berlin state parliament.

It is only one week to go before elections in Germany’s largest state, Northrhine-Westphalia. A lot of media spotlights and politicial analysts are tuning their antennae to the outcome of that election, on May 13. Recent polls place the pirates at 8-10 percent there, well above the five-per-cent hurdle needed to enter that parliament too.

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May 7, 2012

Man arrested in Obama death threat ^Reply

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upi.com

WAYNESBORO, Va., May 6 (UPI) — The Secret Service arrested a Virginia man for allegedly making repeated death threats against President Barack Obama, authorities say.

Christopher Hecker of Waynesboro was arrested this week, and is being detained pending an evaluation, The (Staunton) News Leader reported.

Hecker allegedly sent an e-mail to WVTF Public Radio in Roanoke April 19 with a subject line saying: “I am going to kill the president of the United States.”

An affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisonburg said the FBI traced the e-mail account to Hecker, pegging him for investigation.

The parent company of CNN contacted the Secret Service April 23, saying the same e-mail address had issued bomb threats to the White House and several radio stations, the newspaper said. The author of the e-mails made his location known and boasted that no one had arrested him yet. The Secret Service contacted Hecker regarding the threats, and he responded that he would surrender, but refused to answer questions.

After three more bomb threats, Hecker made authorities aware of his location again Wednesday, allegedly following it with another message that he would “require a vegetarian diet in prison” after killing the president.

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May 6, 2012

The Descent of Man… ^Reply

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…the Rise of Apes

Alternative Right
Mark Hackard

photo: 20th Century Fox

History has ended in the postmodern West, and humanity’s future burns brightly. Nothing will impede inexorable progress toward the perfect harmony envisioned in Coca-Cola’s hilltop commercial, prophesied from Rome 40 years ago:

I’d like to teach the world to sing (Sing with me)

In perfect harmony (Perfect harmony)

I’d like to buy the world a Coke

And keep it company (That’s the real thing)

Indeed, the great dream draws ever closer to realization as democracy is enshrined as religion, labor flows erase borders, and the political economy is globalized. Enjoy a Coke! And think nothing of your demographic displacement by alien cultures, of rape and other atrocities, of riots, looting and twitter mobs—just turn to another channel on your flat-screen.

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May 6, 2012

Equality as an Evil ^Reply

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Alternative Right
Alex Kurtagic

The Moral Scourge of Modernity

The dominant ideology of modern Western societies upholds equality as an absolute moral good, which must, therefore, be pursued for its own sake. The morality of egalitarianism is never questioned by the establishment power structure or by the vast majority of citizens; it is, in fact, a taken-for granted assumption that exists outside the scope of acceptable debate. Predicated on the arbitrary assertion that all humans are born equal in dignity and rights, and bearer of such rights by the mere fact of being human, able to reason, or endowed with dignity (note the circular reasoning) it makes of anyone questioning the moral goodness of equality into an individual of questionable humanity. Even conservatives dare not question the moral goodness of equality, focusing instead on critiquing the methods of application. Yet, equality, despite the high-flown rhetoric surrounding it, is far from an absolute moral good. On the contrary, when we examine the consequences of equality, it is an evil. This article will first explore some of the ways in which equality is an evil and will then put forth an alternative paradigm, founded on a theory of difference.

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May 6, 2012

Greens, Blues, and the Extinction of Distinction ^Reply

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Alternative Right
Derek Turner

Ka ngaro I te ngaro a te Moa (“We are lost as the moa is lost”)

Maori lament

There he kneels, the young, proud, ignorant farmer – posing smiling with his dog and gun, and the unusual-looking predator he has just killed propped up against the fence. It is lunchtime on 13 May 1930, in Mawbanna in north-western Tasmania, and Wilfred Batty has just made melancholy history. The dead lupine creature with the stripes is a thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus – “dog-headed pouched one”) actually a marsupial wolf but inevitably called a Tasmanian Tiger, and Batty was the last man in the world to have shot one in the wild.

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April 2, 2012

Ron Paul as a prototype for anarchists ^Reply

Strategy

I think the Ron Paul movement is evidence of what actually works. He’s obviously the best thing the mainstream libertarians have yet to achieve and that’s because he focuses on issues that affect everyone and that lots of different kinds of people are interested in. He has a solid anti-state, anti-war, anti-Fed message that transcends the usual points of contention from the left and right. That allows him to have a crossover appeal to the more conventional right as well as the antiwar left.

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