Hemp is the far bigger economic issue hiding behind legal marijuana.
If the upcoming pot legalization ballot in California were decided by hemp farmers like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, it would be no contest. For purely economic reasons, if you told the Constitutional Convention in 1787 that the nation they were founding would someday make hemp illegal, they would have laughed you out of the room — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Pentagon urged news organizations on Monday not to publish classified US documents due to be released by WikiLeaks as US officials brace for a mass disclosure of leaked Iraq war files by the whistleblower website — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The company charged with installing Brisbane’s broadband network has recently been forced to abandon its sewer delivery method in a smaller United Kingdom project.
Lord Mayor Campbell Newman last week announced i3 Asia Pacific would install a $600 million fibre optic broadband network through Brisbane’s wastewater network within the next four years.
However, this website can reveal a similar scheme in the southern English city of Bournemouth had to be abandoned after the relationship between i3 and the local water authority soured — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The founder of the Wikileaks website, Julian Assange, has been denied residency in Sweden — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Independent Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie has introduced the first private member’s bill of the new Parliament – legislation to toughen protections for whistleblowers and journalists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
As WikiLeaks prepares to release 400,000 Iraq war documents, two former government security officials argue that WikiLeaks could have prevented 9-11, if the website had been around in 2001.
The two ought to know: Coleen Rowley, the Minneapolis FBI agent who tried to sound the alarm a month before 9-11, and Bogdan Dzakovic, a special agent for the FAA’s security division, who was a leader of the agency’s Red Team
that was warning officials about vulnerabilities in airport security just before 9-11 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is how the US government and American media jointly disseminate propaganda: in the immediate wake of some newsworthy War on Terror event, US Government officials (usually anonymous) make wild and reckless — though unverifiable — claims. The US media mindlessly trumpets them around the world without question or challenge. Those claims become consecrated as widely accepted fact. And then weeks, months or years later, those claims get quietly exposed as being utter falsehoods, by which point it does not matter, because the goal is already well-achieved: the falsehoods are ingrained as accepted truth — via spudpundit.newsvine.com
The government is urging councils across the country to stop giving hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax breaks to the Church of Scientology.
The communities secretary, Eric Pickles, said a majority of the public did not want the “controversial organisation” to be given the kind of favourable treatment usually reserved for charities and questioned this use of public money — via redwolf.newsvine.com
THE steadily increasing power of Australia’s domestic spy agency is set to continue, with legislative amendments to give ASIO the power to run the wiretaps of more than a dozen domestic law enforcement agencies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.
Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A group of former senior communist officials in China has written an open letter calling for an end to censorship, just days before a key party meeting that is expected to shape policy over the next few years — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We also have a review of one of the most controversial parts of the filter proposal – that of the scope of refused classification (RC). It definitely needs a review, because frankly, RC is broken, and apparently, misunderstood by both the responsible Minister in Senator Conroy and the Prime Minister herself, who just yesterday confirmed the Government’s ongoing commitment to the filter, saying it was a “moral question” to ensure the filter came to be.
I’m sorry, Prime Minister, but since when, in this day and age, is the Government the arbiter of what I, or any other member of Australian society, should consider moral? Please get off my lawn!
The only moral question here is whether Australia, as a society is mature enough to ensure we maintain adequate civil liberties and in the case of what we and our kids view on the internet, whether we are mature enough as people and parents — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you are ever inclined to think that the Australian media leans left, ask yourself this: why has the Labor Party moved so far to the right?
To understand the answer to that question you have to understand a few other points.
The first is that politicians know their main audience is not we the people, but them the media — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Hungary seized control Tuesday of the company at the centre of the deadly toxic sludge disaster, a day after its managing director was arrested — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The High Court in Ireland has ruled that laws cutting off internet users who have illegally downloaded content cannot be enforced in the country.
It is a victory for Irish internet service provider UPC which took the legal action against copyright owners, including EMI and Sony.
But it will be a blow to the music and film industry, which wants the strict rules as a deterrent against piracy.
It is likely to have a knock-on effect to similar policies in other countries — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
Tony Abbott travelled to Afghanistan on the weekend and found the cure for his jet lag problem. It’s a mega-dose of political aggression — via redwolf.newsvine.com
On tuesday october 5th, Mexican Senate took the first step to take Mexico out of ACTA by voting through a non-binding point of agreement that makes a strong call to reject any type of international policy fabricated behind closed doors, at least in Mexico — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the early 1970s, three men working for the British Government developed an encryption system that – almost 40 years later – underpins every transaction on the internet. There was only one problem: they couldn’t tell anyone about it.
Between them James Ellis, Clifford Cocks and Malcolm Williamson invented Public Key Cryptography, a system that permits secure communications and electronic transactions without the prior exchange of a secret key. Their work was used to secure Government communications – and naturally their bosses at the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) wanted to keep their discovery top secret — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Libyan government has removed an adult-friendly link-shortening service from the web, saying that it fell foul of local laws.
It could have an impact on similar services registered in Libya — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A near-final version of the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) released this week won praise from organizations representing copyright holders and some sighs of relief from groups that had opposed proposals in earlier drafts.
Still, concerns about the copyright-enforcement trade pact remain, said some groups critical of language in earlier, leaked versions of ACTA. The proposed trade agreement has been improved, with Internet service providers no longer on the hook for the copyright infringement of their customers, said the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA), a tech trade group — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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