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Manford L. Eaton: Bio-Music (1974)

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“Bio-Music is the term used by ORCUS Research to describe a class of electronic systems that use biological potentials in feedback loops to induce powerful, predictable, repeatable, physiological/psychological states which can be elegantly controlled in real time. The types of states that can be programmed are as powerful as chemical (drug) states, and the hallucinogenic [...]

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Startup Sovereigns

Statehood ain’t what it used to be. The competition for authority within and between states is as intense as ever in history. And it’s due not just to the current wave of democratic experimentation occurring across Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, but also the rising power of corporations, NGOs, religious groups, terrorists, and [...]

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Matthew Aaron Llanez Charged In Oakland Car Bomb FBI Terror Sting

A 28-year-old man from San Jose, Calif., tried to set off what he thought was a car bomb outside of a bank in Oakland, Calif., on Friday morning, federal authorities said. Matthew Aaron Llaneza was arrested as part of an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation terror sting and charged with attempted use of a weapon [...]

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Black Bloc Communiqué: On Tactics And Organization

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*With the Black Bloc playing a leading role in the intensifying uprising in Egypt, this Communiqué on Tactics is again being made available. This document, drafted by the Green Mountain Anarchist Collective and elements of Anti-Racist Action, was published over a decade ago in the immediate wake of the Battle of Seattle and A16. The [...]

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Approximately 1,000 march in solidarity with squats under attack across Greece

Heraklion, Crete On January 26, a demonstration in solidarity with squats under attack across Greece saw approximately 1,000 anarchists gather and march through the streets of Heraklion, in what might very possibly be the largest anarchist demonstration in the history of the city (fourth largest in the country, with a population just under 200k). Along [...]

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The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?

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Human rights organizations, as well as political and social ones, are condemning what they are calling a new form of inhumane exploitation in the United States, where they say a prison population of up to 2 million – mostly Black and Hispanic – are working for various industries for a pittance. For the tycoons who have [...]

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Blockade All Power! International Call For Solidarity With Egyptian Anarchists & Those Fighting For Total Freedom

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Call out to organize action the night of February the 6th. http://www.facebook.com/events/150565008433054/ http://anarchistnews.org/content/blocade-all-power-international-call-solidarity-egyptian-anarchists-those-fighting-total#comment-5739 http://www.phoenixanarchist.org/2013/01/f6-worldwide-solidarity-with-egyptian-anarchists-those-fighting-for-total-freedom/ As night falls on February 6th_____ Find your friends, comrades. Head to the centers of power in your area______ The Egyptian state has declared the black bloc illegal, to be hunted down, beaten and arrested_____ We ask state and capital for [...]

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The Obama Administration Wants States to Grab Your Personal Data

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Last year, when I tried to use my (perfectly legal, thank you) Montana state driver’s license to enter a bar in Washington, DC, the bouncer rejected it on the basis that “no real ID would have bear holograms.” Actually, in the Big Sky state we do—but the guy was on to something: Montana is one [...]

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Greek anarchists on anarchist movement in Greece

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Last weekend in the largest show of strength in over a decade thousands of anarchists marched to protest against the violent eviction of the squats of Villa Amalias and Skaramagka and Patision Sts in Athens and also the very repressive climate that police and state have created the last months in Greece. Below is an [...]

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We Are All Aaron Swartz! Fighting Back Against the “Intellectual Property” Racket

Aaron Swartz’ passing becomes even more tragic if we do not recognize what he spent his life fighting for, and realize that no matter where we think we stand on the issue of Internet freedom, the interests driving the debate from Wall Street and Washington, do not have any of our best interests in mind. [...]

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Canadian Court Refuses to Ship Megaupload Servers to the US

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A Canadian court has rejected a request from the United States to hand over 32 servers hosted by a local provider. Instead of simply handing over all data, which may include personal files of users, the court decided to first determine what files are stored on the machines. Megaupload lawyer Ira Rothken is pleased with the ruling and hopes the United States will be more considerate of the privacy of cloud hosting users when requesting data seizures in the future.

Source: Canadian Court Refuses to Ship Megaupload Servers to the US

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Fear, Violence and the Absurd

Nearly a month after the tragic massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the ensuing “debate” over gun control and gun violence still looks less like the exchange of ideas and discussion on systemic violence we need to be having, and more like an absurdist tragicomedy; the latest “act” of which is, of course, the recent [...]

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The State versus an “Anarchist Society”

Murray Rothbard once gave a definition of “The State” and an “Anarchist Society” before he launched into an explanation of how an anarchy might work. I would like to take a look at his definitions today. He wrote: In attempting to outline how a “society without a state” – that is, an anarchist society – [...]

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Iowa’s new REAL IDs generating questions, controversy

DUBUQUE (KWWL) – A new form of ID in Iowa is generating some controversy and confusion, but might also help make traveling a smoother process. At Iowa driver’s license stations starting Jan. 15, people with an existing driver’s license can get what’s called a REAL ID. This federally-proposed and state-adopted ID will look just like a [...]

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Russia’s surveillance state [29C3]

Privacy International, Agentura.Ru, the Russian secret services watchdog, and Citizen Lab have joined forces to launch a new project entitled ‘Russia’s Surveillance State’. The aims of the project are to undertake research and investigation into surveillance practices in Russia, including the trade in and use of surveillance technologies, and to publicise research and investigative findings [...]

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Oliver Stone: ‘US has become an Orwellian state’

Americans are living in an Orwellian state argue Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and historian Peter Kuznick, as they sit down with RT to discuss US foreign policy and the Obama administration’s disregard for the rule of law. Both argue that Obama is a wolf in sheep’s clothing and that people have forgiven him a [...]

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Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy

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Naomi Wolf New documents prove what was once dismissed as paranoid fantasy: totally integrated corporate-state repression of dissent It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, [...]

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We are all lawmakers! [29c3[preview]]

=== This is only a dump of the livestream! the official video will be released in another playlist! ===We are all lawmakers!How to further transparency by law — the Hamburg example and beyondIn the Free City of Hamburg, which is one of 16 German states, a coalition of hackers, activists and other players of civil [...]

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