Articolo del 1996 di Stefano Carli.
domenica 15 aprile 2012
Il misterioso caso Ctip
Un tuffo nel passato nell'archivio di La Repubblica.
Articolo del 1996 di Stefano Carli.
Articolo del 1996 di Stefano Carli.
Corruption in Science: Temple Secretaries Limited?
Leggo dal blog l'Incarcerato di una fantomatica società "Temples Secretaries Ltd". Parla della tragica storia di Niki Aprile Gatti.
Ritrovo la stessa società (?) in un articolo su Sott.net che parla della corruzione in ambito scientifico, e di una serie di società con interessi che vanno sicuramente oltre quelli puramente "scientifici". In poche parole, basta fare soldi.
Chi c'è veramente dietro a questo oscuro nome medievale?
Ritrovo la stessa società (?) in un articolo su Sott.net che parla della corruzione in ambito scientifico, e di una serie di società con interessi che vanno sicuramente oltre quelli puramente "scientifici". In poche parole, basta fare soldi.
Chi c'è veramente dietro a questo oscuro nome medievale?
sabato 3 maggio 2008
QFG and SOTT.net defend Internet First Amendment rights.
It's going on and won't stop until... who knows? The arguments behind the HBI's lawsuit against the Sott alternative news site - really a good one - are just non-existent. Seems to me that it all happened just because HBI has a great deal of money to spend and if you can't stand up for the truth the first thing that the one in error does is to just sue anybody... that's my take on it, and the forum in question speaks for itself.
SOTT.net - May 02, 2008
SOTT.net - May 02, 2008
Web Site Defendant Moves to Dismiss Defamation Suit Under Anti-SLAPP Statute
(PRNewsChannel) / Portland, Oregon - Quantum Future Group, Inc. ("QFG"), the only defendant that has been served in an Internet defamation suit brought by New-Age guru Eric Pepin's sales company, has forcefully challenged the merits of the case and has asked an Oregon federal judge for a dismissal and attorneys fees.
The case concerns postings on a forum hosted by SOTT.net (Signs of the Times), an Internet site devoted to news and analysis in various fields, including analyzing and exposing cults. Citing Oregon's anti-SLAPP ("Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation") statute, QFG contends that the statements about Pepin and his company, Higher Balance Institute, LLC ("HBI") are constitutionally protected. Because HBI cannot show that it probably will prevail, QFG argues, the case must be dismissed before QFG or the other defendants must spend large amounts to defend themselves.
"Without exception," the motion states, "the statements are all constitutionally protected expressions of opinion rather than verifiable assertions of fact. HBI cannot meet its burden to prove, by clear and convincing evidence, that the statements are false, let alone that Defendants knew that they were false or had serious doubts as to their truth."
The statements cited in QFG's complaint question Pepin's meditation techniques and comment on Pepin's 2007 trial on multiple sexual charges involving a 17-year-old male acolyte. The statements at issue include a November 7, 2007 comment that "It's really starting to look like this Eric Pepin and his Higher Balance Institute may be merely COINTELPRO and a front for pedophilia" and a November 4, 2007 comment by an anonymous poster that something "fishy" was going on at HBI.
QFG's motions state that the forum posts are opinion based on stated facts published on a mainstream news source and are constitutionally protected. The motion also argues that the operator of an Internet forum cannot be liable for the posts of third parties under the Communications Decency Act of 1996 ("CDA") and questions Oregon's jurisdiction over QFG, a California non-profit corporation whose primary place of business is in France.
"These are exactly the sort of statements that the First Amendment and recent statutes protect as free speech," said QFG attorney Stephen Kaus, who prepared the papers with his colleagues Walter Hansell and Merrit Jones. "People are entitled to believe in gurus such as Pepin and buy their books and courses for hundreds of dollars or more, but people are also entitled to point out their view that the techniques of telepathy and development of a sixth eye promoted by Pepin are nonsense."
Much of the dispute concerns Pepin's trial on charges of sexual misconduct with a minor. Pepin was acquitted in a court trial because the judge did not feel the charges had been proven beyond a reasonable doubt. According to the article in the Oregonian, Washington County Circuit Court Judge Steven L. Price stated that it was, " 'probable that the conduct alleged in all counts occurred,' but he wasn't convinced beyond a reasonable doubt" and "called the leader of a metaphysical Internet sales company manipulative and controlling and his testimony unbelievable, even as he acquitted him today of charges that he had sex with an underage boy."
SOTT.NET posters point out that being found "not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" is not the same thing as being found "innocent of all charges."
The sexual charges aside, the SOTT.NET forum topic on Pepin and HBI has been the site of a lively debate on whether he is an exploiter, ever since a visitor posted an inquiry about them in 2006. Several Pepin devotees have posted fervent praise, while others have denounced him as a power-lusting cult leader who takes advantage of gullible followers.
SOTT.NET contends that it is the public's right to examine the claims of any company selling a product or service to the public and to form their own opinion as to whether it is "snake-oil" sold by con-artists or not and that those opinions may be made public for the safety of consumers.
In a previous press release, atty Walter Hansell noted: "HBI's lawsuit is a frontal assault on free speech, and on the free global flow of information and opinion on the Internet. It is a blunt force attack on the discussion of sincere opinions among people sharing common interests."
See: http://www.prnewschannel.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=423&z=4 Following the filing of the motions to dismiss on April 25th, Walter Hansell of Cooper, White & Cooper said: "The intent of this suit by HBI is to stifle free speech, but luckily the anti SLAPP statute allows us to nip the matter in the bud before the cost is out of hand." About Signs of The Times: About Quantum Future Group: About Cooper, White & Cooper LLP: Contact: Joseph Quinn This press release was issued by PRNewsChannel.com. For more information, please visit http://www.prnewschannel.com.
SOTT.net is an independent alternative news and analysis outlet that seeks to shine a spotlight on significant events and trends that affect the entire world. SOTT.net helps bring clarity out of a sea of media spin. The site is funded entirely by donations from individuals and groups that seek to support its work. For more information visit http://www.sott.net
Quantum Future Group (QFG) supports activities that bring together people to engage in and to promote the study of scientific ideas and research in all scientific and socio-cultural fields that further the deepest understanding of our world and our place within it without regard to nationality or ethnicity. QFG seeks to increase the understanding of humankind by humankind, as a whole, by sponsoring research into all the parts to see how they fit together. QFG supports documented research that is made freely and widely available to all humanity. For more information visit:http://quantumfuturegroup.org
Cooper, White & Cooper LLP, based in San Francisco, is longtime defender of free speech and communications. For more information visit http://www.cwclaw.com/
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giovedì 1 maggio 2008
1968 Paradox
May 1968 - a watershed in French life
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Nanterre, France: Forty years ago, students in neckties and bobby sox threw cobblestones at the police and demanded that France's sclerotic postwar system change. Today, students worried about finding jobs and losing state benefits are marching through the streets demanding that nothing change at all.
May 1968 was a watershed in French life, a holy moment of liberation for many, when youth coalesced, the workers listened and the semi-royal French government of President Charles de Gaulle took fright.
But for others, like the current president, Nicolas Sarkozy, only 13 years old at the time, May '68 represents anarchy and moral relativism, a destruction of social and patriotic values that, he has said in harsh terms, "must be liquidated."
The fierce debate about what happened 40 years ago is very French. There is even a fight about labels - the right calls May '68 "the events," while the left calls it "the movement."
While a youth revolt became general in the West - from anti-Vietnam protests in the United States to the Rolling Stones in swinging London and finally the Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany - France was where the protests of the baby-boom generation came closest to a real political revolution, with 10 million workers on strike and not just a revulsion against stifling social rules of class, education and sexual behavior.
For André Glucksmann, a prime actor then and still a famous "public intellectual," May 1968 is "a monument, either sublime or detested, that we want to commemorate or bury."
It is a "cadaver," he said, "from which everyone wants to rob a piece." Glucksmann, 71 and still with a mop of Beatle-like hair, wrote a book with his filmmaker son, Raphaël, 28, called May 68 Explained to Nicolas Sarkozy.
In a stinging campaign speech a year ago, as he ran against the Socialist candidate, Sarkozy attacked May 1968 and "its leftist heirs," whom he blamed for a crisis of "morality, authority, work and national identity." He attacked "the cynicism of the caviar left."
In 1968, Glucksmann said, "the hope was to change the world, like the Bolshevik revolution, but it was inevitably incomplete and the institutions of the state are untouched." Now, he said, "We commemorate, but the right is in power." As for the French left, he said, "it's in a state of mental coma."
For Raphaël Glucksmann, who led his first strike at high school in 1995, his generation has nostalgia for their rebel fathers, but no stomach for a fight in hard economic times.
"The young people are marching now to refuse all reforms, to defend the rights of their professors," he said. "We see no alternatives. We're a generation without bearings."
The events (or movement) of 40 years ago began in March at Nanterre university to the west of Paris, where a young French-born German named Daniel Cohn-Bendit led demonstrations against parietal rules - when young men and women could be together in dormitory rooms - that got out of hand. When Nanterre was closed in early May, the anger spread to central Paris, to the Latin Quarter and the Sorbonne, where the student elite demonstrated against antiquated university rules, and then outward, to workers in the big factories.
Scenes of the barricades, the police charges and the tear gas are dear to the French, recaptured in every magazine and scores of books, including one by the photographer Marc Riboud, now 84, called: "Under the Cobblestones," a reference to a famous slogan of the time from the leader-jester Cohn-Bendit, now a member of the European Parliament, "Under the cobblestones is the beach."
Known then as "Dany the Red" for the color of both his politics and his hair, Cohn-Bendit is also thought responsible for other famous slogans of the time: "It is forbidden to forbid" and "Live without limits and enjoy without restraint!" - with the word for enjoy, "jouir," having the double meaning of sexual climax. The injunction was especially potent in a straight-laced country where the birth-control pill had been authorized for sale only the year before, said Alain Geismar, another leader of the time.
Geismar, a physicist who spent 18 months in jail - but later served as a counselor to government ministers - wrote his own book, "My May 1968." Now 69, the former Maoist uses an Apple iPhone. He happily displays his music catalogue, which is mostly Mozart.
The movement succeeded "as a social revolution, not as a political one," Geismar said. While the de Gaulle government responded with police and mobilized troops in case the students marched on the presidential palace, the idea never occurred to student leaders, who talked of revolution but never intended to carry one out.
Most significant, Geismar said, the movement was "the beginning of the end of the Communist Party in France," which deeply opposed the revolt of these young leftists who it could not control, but who managed in important ways to break the party's authority over the big industrial unions.
French society in May 1968 "was completely blocked," Geismar said. A conservative recreation of pre-World War II society, it had been shaken by the Algerian war and the baby boom, its schools badly overcrowded.
"As a divorced man, Sarkozy couldn't have been invited to dinner at the Élysée Palace, let alone be elected president of France," Geismar said. Both the vivid personal life and political success of Sarkozy, who has foreign and Jewish roots, "are unimaginable without 1968," he said. "The neo-conservatives are unimaginable without '68."
André Glucksmann, who still supports Sarkozy as the best chance to modernize "the gilded museum of France" and reduce the power of "the sacralized state," is amused by Sarkozy's fierce campaign attack on May 1968. "Sarkozy is the first post-'68 president," Glucksmann said. "To liquidate '68 is to liquidate himself."
But there is also a fashionable absurdity to the commemoration. The designers Sonia Rykiel and Agnès B discuss their views of May 1968 in every magazine, there are documentaries and discussions on every channel and a Parisian jeweler, Jean Dinh Van, born in Vietnam, has reissued a silver cobblestone pendant he made at the time "to celebrate 40 years of liberty" - and, in his case, success. (The smallest, with chain, sells for $275.)
~*~And here's a comment from Sott.net, which fits by means of a broader bird's view, explicating this crazy controversy:
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Again, the Protocols of the Psychopaths who wrote them, come to mind:
The Protocols repeatedly affirm that the first objective is the destruction of the existing ruling class ("the aristocracy", the term employed, was still applicable in 1905) and the seizure of property through the incitement of the insensate, brutish "mob". Once again, subsequent events give the "forecast" its "deadly accuracy":
"In politics one must know how to seize the property of others without hesitation if by it we secure submission and sovereignty. . . The words, 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity', brought to our ranks, thanks to our blind agents, whole legions who bore our banners with enthusiasm. And all the time these words were canker-worms boring into the wellbeing of the people, putting an end everywhere to peace, quiet, solidarity and destroying all the foundations of the States. . .
This helped us to our greatest triumph; it gave us the possibility, among other things, of getting into our hands the master card, the destruction of privileges, or in other words the very existence of the aristocracy . . . that class which was the only defence peoples and countries had against us. On the ruins of the natural and genealogical aristocracy . . . we have set up the aristocracy of our educated class headed by the aristocracy of money. The qualifications of this aristocracy we have established in wealth, which is dependent upon us, and in knowledge. . . It is this possibility of replacing the representatives of the people which has placed them at our disposal, and, as it were, given us the power of appointment .... .
We appear on the scene as alleged saviours of the worker from this oppression when we propose to him to enter the ranks of our fighting forces; Socialists, Anarchists, Communists . . .
By want and the envy and hatred which it engenders we shall move the mobs and with their hands we shall wipe out all those who hinder us on our way . . . The people, blindly believing things in print, cherishes . . . a blind hatred towards all conditions which it considers above itself, for it has no understanding of the meaning of class and condition. . . These mobs will rush delightedly to shed the blood of those whom, in the simplicity of their ignorance, they have envied from their cradles, and whose property they will then be able to loot. 'Ours' they will not touch, because the moment of attack will be known to us and we shall take measures to protect our own. . . The word 'freedom' brings out the communities of men to fight against every kind of force, against every kind of authority, even against God and the laws of nature. For this reason we, when we come into our kingdom, shall have to erase this word from the lexicon of life as implying a principle of brute force which turns mobs into bloodthirsty beasts. . .
But even freedom might be harmless and have its place in the State economy without injury to the wellbeing of the peoples if it rested upon the foundation of faith in God. . . This is the reason why it is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the minds of the masses the very principle of Godhead and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs . . ."
". . . We have set one against another the personal and national reckonings of the peoples, religious and race hatreds, which we have fostered into a huge growth in the course of the past twenty centuries. This is the reason why there is not one State which would anywhere receive support if it were to raise its arm, for every one of them must bear in mind that any agreement against us would be unprofitable to itself.
We are too strong, there is no evading our power. The nations cannot come to even an inconsiderable private agreement without our secretly having a hand in it . . . In order to put public opinion into our hands we must bring it into a state of bewilderment by giving expression from all sides to so many contradictory opinions and for such length of time as will suffice to make the peoples lose their heads in the labyrinth and come to see that the best thing is to have no opinion of any kind in matters political, which it is not given to the public to understand, because they are understood only by him who guides the public. This is the first secret.
The second secret requisite for the success of our government is comprised in the following: to multiply to such an extent national failings, habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence will fail to understand one another . . .
By all these means we shall so wear down the peoples that they will be compelled to offer us international power of a nature that by its possession will enable us without any violence gradually to absorb all the State forces of the world and to form a Super-Government. In place of the rulers of today we shall set up a bogey which will be called the Super-Government administration. Its hands will reach out in all directions like nippers and its organization will be of such colossal dimensions that it cannot fail to subdue all the nations of the world". [Douglas Reed, Controversy of Zion]
giovedì 17 aprile 2008
9-11 was a good thing for us
Unbelievable! This comes directly from Haaretz... I'm still not getting how and why people dismiss what has been said over and over on 9/11 by alternative sources.
Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Meanwhile, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt over the veracity of the September 11 attacks Thursday, calling it a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.
"Under this pretext, they [the U.S.] attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq."
Speaking Wednesday at a news conference on the Iran threat, Netanyahu compared Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler and likened Tehran's nuclear program to the threat the Nazis posed to Europe in the late 1930s.
Netanyahu said Iran differed from the Nazis in one vital respect, explaining that "where that [Nazi] regime embarked on a global conflict before it developed nuclear weapons," he said. "This regime [Iran] is developing nuclear weapons before it embarks on a global conflict."
I can tell you, I don't like Ahmadinejad, but in this media-world ruled by propagandists I ca concede him the benefit of the doubt... So who's the real Hitler here?
Report: Netanyahu says 9/11 terror attacks good for Israel
By Haaretz Service and Reuters
Meanwhile, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad cast doubt over the veracity of the September 11 attacks Thursday, calling it a pretext to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.
"Four or five years ago, a suspicious event occurred in New York. A building collapsed and they said that 3,000 people had been killed but never published their names," Ahmadinejad told Iranians in the holy city of Qom.
"Under this pretext, they [the U.S.] attacked Afghanistan and Iraq and since then, a million people have been killed only in Iraq."
Speaking Wednesday at a news conference on the Iran threat, Netanyahu compared Ahmadinejad to Adolf Hitler and likened Tehran's nuclear program to the threat the Nazis posed to Europe in the late 1930s.
Netanyahu said Iran differed from the Nazis in one vital respect, explaining that "where that [Nazi] regime embarked on a global conflict before it developed nuclear weapons," he said. "This regime [Iran] is developing nuclear weapons before it embarks on a global conflict."
I can tell you, I don't like Ahmadinejad, but in this media-world ruled by propagandists I ca concede him the benefit of the doubt... So who's the real Hitler here?
giovedì 10 aprile 2008
The Sport Of Psychopaths - Does Cheney Hunt Human Beings?
Incredible!!! ... well, not entirely, most probably just another scenario to consider:
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[...] Is it possible that Scalia and Cheney opted to leave separately so as not to highlight the fact that someone in their party had gone missing? Since no one saw Scalia leave, then it follows that no one can confirm whether his 'daughter' left with him. And even if she did, doesn't this story, at the very least, have the makings of a good sex scandal? I mean, when two older guys and a young woman go duck hunting for a couple of days and no one brings back any ducks, people are going to talk. And if the two guys come back without ducks or the girl, then I think we could have a serious problem.
That secretive, high-security hunting outing was the first indication that maybe those hushed rumors about Cheney weren't so crazy after all. The second clue surfaced in September of 2004, when the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel inadvertently published a rather, uhhh, revealing photograph of our illustrious vice president. But before discussing that further, I have to note here, for the uninformed, that the same women who have accused Cheney of having a fondness for hunting humans have also claimed that he is an unusually well-endowed man. Yes, that's right: Cheney not only is a big dick, he also allegedly has a big dick - which seems to be on display in the Sentinel photo (below).
Aspartame Can Mess Up Your Body and Brain
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Com'è strana la vita in un laboratorio analisi, eh?
Com'è strana la vita in un laboratorio analisi, eh?
"Tellingly, whether a study finds for or against aspartame seems to be intimately related to, er ... who paid for it. One online review [1] of the evidence finds that while 100 percent of industry-funded studies conclude aspartame is safe, 92 percent of independently funded research and reports identified aspartame as a potential cause of harmful effects."
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