11-09-23 Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets // Miedo a la represión Spurs académicos y activistas para construir alternativas Internets // 担心受到压制马刺学者和活动家建立备用因特网

September 18, 2011

Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets

Yana Paskova for The Chronicle

Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia U., is developing the Freedom Box, a personal server that makes data harder to intercept. "The Net we have is increasingly monitored, measured, and surveilled everywhere by everybody all the time," he says. "Our Net has been turned against us."

By Jeffrey R. Young

Washington

Computer networks proved their organizing power during the recent uprisings in the Middle East, in which Facebook pages amplified street protests that toppled dictators. But those same networks showed their weaknesses as well, such as when the Egyptian government walled off most of its citizens from the Internet in an attempt to silence protesters.

That has led scholars and activists increasingly to consider the Internet's wiring as a disputed political frontier.

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http://chronicle.com/article/Fear-of-Repression-Spurs/129049/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

11-09-23 Occupy Wall Street - Day 7 Pics (September 23, 2011) // Ocupan de Wall Street - Día 7 Fotos (23 de septiembre de 2011) // 占领华尔街 - 天7 PICS（2011年9月23日，）

Occupy Wall Street - Day 7 Pics (September 23, 2011)

US/European/Israeli media blackout continues...

Coverage of events on Wall Street, NYC:
1) Russia Today
http://rt.com/
2) Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/

Live Stream:
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

11-09-23 the Constitution Doesn't Prohibit Executing an Innocent Man // la Constitución no prohíbe la Ejecución de un hombre inocente // 宪法并没有禁止执行一个无辜的人

Scalia Ruled That the Constitution Doesn't Prohibit Executing an Innocent Man in Troy Davis Case

Submitted by mark karlin on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 7:52pm.
MARK KARLIN, BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT

Beyond the emotional punch in the gut of Troy Davis' execution - and the echoing cheers of a GOP debate audience for Rick Perry killing so many people - it is worth remembering the role of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in the Davis affair.

Because it was during an appeal to the Supreme Court in 2009 on behalf of Davis that Scalia - and BuzzFlash is not making this up - actually wrote a dissenting opinion that there was nothing in the Constitution that prevented a state from executing an innocent man (or woman).

How does BuzzFlash at Truthout know this?

Because we did a commentary back then on Scalia's jaw-dropping constitutional assertion when the decision was rendered. (The Supreme Court ordered a Georgia court to allow Davis to present new evidence.)

In that 2009 commentary, we quoted from Scalia's dissent:

This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is "actually" innocent. Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged "actual innocence" is constitutionally cognizable.

If the Constitution doesn't protect us from being executed even if we are innocent, then, Houston, we have a fundamental problem of human rights in America.

Scalia is considered by some to be a "brilliant legal mind," but there is nothing brilliant about authorizing the murder of innocent people.

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http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13033  

11-09-22 Occupy Wall Street - Day 6 Pics // Ocupan de Wall Street - Día 6 Fotos // 占领华尔街 - 6天图片

Occupy Wall Street - Day 6 Pics (Sep 22, 2011)

US/European/Israeli media blackout continues...

Coverage of events on Wall Street, NYC:
1) Russia Today
http://rt.com/
2) Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/

Live Stream:
http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution

11-09-23 Welcome United Kingdom! // Bienvenido Reino Unido! // 英国欢迎您！

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