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EU Calls for “Internet G12″ for Global Internet Governance

Old-Thinker News | May 7, 2009
By Daniel Taylor
As the EU Observer reports, Information Society Commissioner Viviane Reding has called on President Obama to fully privatize the California based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the web address system for the internet, and build a “multilateral forum for governments to discuss general [...]

Rupert Murdoch: “Internet Will Soon Be Over”

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Billionaire media mogul Rupert Murdoch gave a strange response when asked about plans for mainstream news websites to charge for content, declaring, “The current days of the internet will soon be over.”
He was making reference to the fact that corporate media websites cannot continue to survive under their current [...]

Rep. Weiner: Do We Give Obama an Internet On-Off Switch?

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The Pentagon’s Cyber Command: Formidable Infrastructure arrayed against the American People

Tom Burghardt
Global Research
April 26, 2009
The Wall Street Journal revealed April 24 that current National Security Agency (NSA) director Lt. General Keith Alexander will “head the Pentagon’s new Cyber Command.”
Friday’s report follows an April 22 piece published by the Journal announcing the proposed reorganization. The Obama administration’s cybersecurity initiative will, according to reports, “reshape the [...]

The Rockfeller Foundation’s Molecular Vision of Life

How the Aims of Eugenics, Social Control, and Human Engineering Shaped Molecular Biology and 20th Century Science
Chris Masterjohn
January 16, 2009
A Review of Lily E. Kay’s The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology (Oxford University Press, 1993)
Is the molecular biology we have inherited from the twentieth century [...]

Should Obama Control the Internet?

Mother Jones
By Steve Aquino
April 2, 2009
Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) think so. On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor—an arm of the executive branch that would have [...]

VA Highschool Students Discuss Transhumanism

WHSV
April 3, 2009
Keith Jones
High school students from around the Valley discussed an unusual topic Thursday at Eastern Mennonite High School. They were talking about whether or not society or the government should step in when it comes to altering the genes of a child before it’s born.
It’s called transhumanism, or altering the human body through [...]