Top 25 Censored Stories for 2008

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2. Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
5. Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
8. Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
9. Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
10. APA Complicit in CIA Torture
11. El Salvador’s Water Privatization
12. Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
13. Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
14. Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
15. Worldwide Slavery
16. Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
17. UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
18. Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
19. Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
20. Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
21. NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
22. CARE Rejects US Food Aid
23. FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
24. Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
25. Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer

French Government decides to censor the Internet

The early stages to a prison society. I wonder how long it will be before the UK, Canada, US etc also adopt this approach?

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT has apparently decided that it doesn’t much like being democratic, and that it would rather like to censor the Internet instead.

Not content with simply limiting itself to blocking despicable child sex abuse, a move three major ISPs in the US also agreed to today, the French government feels it necessary to go a radical step further and decide for its citizens whether or not they can view content it considers inappropriately racist and or linked to terrorism.

In fact, worse still is that any site is now game for a French blockade, as Sarkozy’s government is inviting people to send in huge long lists of sites which offend their delicate sensibilities. The French government, which will purportedly be able to receive complaints from Internet users in real time, will be able to add sites to a so called “black list”, which it will then force national ISPs to block.

The move, announced by France’s Interior Minister, Michel Alliot-Marie, is France’s way of showing it is indeed taking a strong stand against cyber-criminality, but it seems that the line between ‘strong’ and ‘authoritarian’ is a little fuzzy on this one.

Alliot-Marie, only caring to justify the block on child sex abuse sites, noted “Other democracies have done it. France could wait no longer". She added that all of France’s Internet Service Providers had agreed to comply with the new regulations which go into effect as of September.

The minister vehemently denied that the French government was turning itself into "a Big Brother of the Internet" and promised that the "fundamental liberty that is Internet access" would continue to thrive. As long as people only see the sites the government allows them to see, of course.

Source: Theinquirer.net

BBC censors Bhuttos remarks about OBL being murdered

In early November David Frost talked to Benazir Bhutto about the risks she faced in an Al-Jazeera broadcast. What’s interesting however is that at 06:10 into the videoclip Bhutto says Osama bin Laden had been “murdered”, a comment that Frost doesn't respond to or follow-up

You can watch the Al Jazeera clip here

However, what’s really interesting is the way the BBC very subtly censored the same interview. For when the interview was carried by the BBC on its web site Bhutto’s remarks that Osama was murdered were edited out. The coverup occurs at 5:04, when the images switches back momentarily to Frost.

Here is the BBC's Censored version

Now you know why the BBC is often referred to as the British Bull$x!! Corporation. They deliberately distort the news and its fair to ask to whose benefit: the warmongers in Whitehall and Washington or the arms manufactures?

Whoever the beneficiary it’s not television licence holders who pay a substantial annual fee, most of which goes to fund the BBC.

Source: existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com

When a news organization as venerable as the BBC censors the reportage of a story as important as the assassination of Benazir Bhutto - a highly visible critic of US/British policy with regard to the "War on Terrorism" et al - it is fair to ask: who is the BBC protecting? Are they covering up the motive for her murder? Are they protecting the regimes that engineered her assassination?

Bhutto herself has exposed the fraudulent nature of the "war on terrorism". If Bin Laden is dead, as has been reported, then the various tapes that he is alleged to have made are all phony. The war on terrorism itself is a callous, calculated fraud perpetrated by the murderous elite. That's why Bhutto was murdered. She was the woman who knew too much.

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1) Future of Internet Debate Ignored by Media
2) Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
3) Oceans of the World in Extreme Danger
4) Hunger and Homelessness Increasing in the US
5) High-Tech Genocide in Congo
6) Federal Whistleblower Protection in Jeopardy
7) US Ops Torture Detainees to Death in Afghanistan and Iraq
8) Pentagon Exempt from Freedom of Information Act
9) The World Bank Funds Israel-Palestine Wall
10) Expanded Air War in Iraq Kills More Civilians
11) Dangers of Genetically Modified Food Confirmed
12) Pentagon Plans to Build New Landmines
13) New Evidence Establishes Dangers of Roundup
14) Homeland Security KBR to Build Detention Centers in the US
15) Chemical Industry is EPA’s Primary Research Partner
16) Ecuador and Mexico Defy US on International Criminal Court
17) Iraq Invasion Promotes OPEC Agenda
18) Physicist Challenges Official 9-11 Story
19) Destruction of Rainforests Worst Ever
20) Bottled Water: A Global Environmental Problem
21) Gold Mining Threatens Ancient Andean Glaciers
22) Billions in Homeland Security Spending Undisclosed
23) US Oil Targets Kyoto in Europe
24) Cheney’s Halliburton Stock Rose Over 3000 Percent Last Year
25) US Military in Paraguay Threatens Region