Robert Anton Wilson: The Vatican / Cocaine / CIA connection (Video)

Robert Anton Wilson: The Vatican / Cocaine / CIA connection.

Guns and Dope Party Poetry Jam v1

The National Reefer Association

grinds the law

and smokes out the senate



if riffles were reefers, why...

the NRA cd. join the

legalization movement and

help people live joyously

with many funny thoughts



The dopers

and the gun people in America

          --if they cd. tolerate each others manias--

would make a majority party:

the guns and dope party



thereafter...

separate gun territories and

separate dope territories

can be established peacefully

freedom and justice for all



A novel co-operative

solution to Americas

guns and dope nightmare


--Steve Fly.
Vondel Park, Amsterdam. Sunday 21st April 2013. 4-5 PM.

RAW and the Ontological Status of Conspiracy Theory by Hakim Bey

Rather than speak of conspiracy theory we might instead try to construct a poetics of conspiracy. A conspiracy would be treated like an aesthetic construct, or a language-construct, and could be analyzed like a text. Robert Anton Wilson has done this with his vast and playful "Illuminati" fantasy. --http://hermetic.com/bey/conspire.html

Libdem TSOG and illegal hidden UK spy terror tactic

We voted for the LibDems to be the "party of liberty," but they've been anything but. With this latest betrayal of party principles, the leadership has scuttled any credibility it had left. There is simply no case for this measure. The proponents of the law act as though there is a flood of baseless claims of torture and kidnapping that the government has had to settle in order to avoid revealing the secrets of Britain's spies. The truth is that the government has had to apologise for lying about its role in illegal torture and kidnapping, and that most of its victims are unable to get justice even today. Indeed, we don't know for sure that the practice has stopped, and we can't, because we've had more than a decade of "war on terror" nonsense that says that the public must be spied upon at all times, but that politicians and police must be able to operate in unaccountable secrecy. -- http://boingboing.net/2013/03/12/libdems-leave-over-support-for.html

CISPA is back (From Cory at boingboing)

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/18/cispa-is-back-worst-internet.html
(Probably the most informative blog on the web)

CISPA is back: worst Internet law since SOPA needs you to fight it!

Cory Doctorow at 9:56 am Mon, Feb 18

CISPA is a sweeping, privacy-annihilating Internet law that we killed last year. The Congressmen who introduced it haven't learned their lesson and they've reintroduced it. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, right? We killed CISPA once before. We will kill CISPA again. It only works if you take part.

Last year, Representatives Rogers and Ruppersberger introduced CISPA, which would create a gaping new exemption to existing privacy law. CISPA would grant companies more power to obtain “threat” information (such as from private communications of users) and to disclose that data to the government without a warrant -- including sending data to the National Security Agency.
This week, CISPA was reintroduced in the House of Representatives. EFF is joining groups like ACLU and Fight for the Future in combating this legislation.
Last year, tens of thousands of concerned individuals used the EFF action center to speak out against overbroad and ineffective cybersecurity proposals. Together, we substantially changed the debate around cybersecurity in the U.S., moving forward a range of privacy-protective amendments and ultimately helping to defeat the Senate bill.
Now we need your help again. Can you send a message to your Representatives asking them to oppose this bill?

CISPA is Back.
(Image: eye of providence, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from emperley3's photostream)

http://boingboing.net/2013/02/18/cispa-is-back-worst-internet.html

12 years ago today, Robert Anton Wilson gave this lecture

RAW360 . NET (Coming soon)

http://raw360.net/

Phone-hacking report: what is 'wilful blindness'? (sneaky cheating lies and double-speak?)

Phone-hacking report: what is 'wilful blindness'?

--(sneaky cheating lies and double-speak?)--Steve fly

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/may/01/phone-hacking-report-wilful-blindness?newsfeed=true

• Phone hacking

Phone-hacking report: what is 'wilful blindness'?

The allegation is not a specific legal term, but experts say it is one of the most damning findings in the MPs' report

• • Simon Bowers

• • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 May 2012 14.18 BST

 

 

Rupert Murdoch denied 'wilful blindness' in his evidence to the committee. He said: 'I have heard the phrase before, and we were not ever guilty of that.' Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters

The charge of "wilful blindness" and "wilful ignorance" is referred to four times in the MPs' report into phone hacking and has been instantly picked up by legal experts as one of the most damning findings.

The allegation – levelled at Rupert and James Murdoch as well as the directors of News International and its parent News Corporation – does not denote a specific legal wrongdoing but strongly points towards an accusation that those at the top, and additionally those responsible for scrutinising their actions, breached their fiduciary duties.

News Corp non-executive directors include a spread of prominent business and political figures, among them the former Spanish president José María Aznar and the former British Airways boss Sir Rod Eddington.

One lawyer, who would not be named, said he thought the findings of MPs raised the prospect of News Corp shareholders launching a class action claim in the US. "If I was a disgruntled shareholder and I wanted evidence, this report gives some of that … I think it potentially opens them [News Corp] up to a class action."

The MPs found: "In failing to investigate properly, and by ignoring evidence of widespread wrongdoing, News International and its parent News Corporation exhibited wilful blindness, for which the companies' directors – including Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch – should ultimately be prepared to take responsibility."

The phrase came up during evidence to MPs and James Murdoch was asked the direct question by the Lib Dem MP Adrian Sanders: "Are you familiar with the term 'wilful blindness'?" Sanders described the phrase as "a term that came up in the Enron scandal … a legal term. It states that if there is knowledge you could have and should have had it."

In response James Murdoch said he had not heard the term, but his father added: "I have heard the phrase before, and we were not ever guilty of that."

Niri Shan, head of media law at Taylor Wessing, said the phrase was not, in fact, a formal legal term. That said, he added: "If you are wilfully blind, from a corporate governance perspective, you have not fulfilled your fiduciary duties."

He added that some of the sting of the MPs report, in his opinion, had been removed by the fact that the committee had been split on many issues down party-political lines.

The allegation of wilful blindness – sometimes referred to in Britain as turning the Nelsonian eye – is, in a legal context, often levelled by prosecutors at defendants who acknowledge they have unwittingly played a part in a criminal act of which they had no knowledge at the time.

When it comes to the business world, however, the allegation can be more powerful as directors of companies are required by law to exercise proper responsibility on behalf of the company's shareholders. Wilful blindness was the subject of a book by the entrepreneur and author Margaret Heffernan last year. She suggests the concept can be an unspoken attitude common to a large group – the Catholic Church, the military in Afghanistan and Nazi Germany are all example she cites.

Heffernan has been a stern critic of News Corp, publishing several articles attacking the appointment of family members in key executive roles.

Rupert Murder of media balance.

"Given that Mr Hunt had the quasi-judicial task of ruling on a corporate takeover that would materially affect not only the company itself, but Britain's entire media landscape – with all that that implies – it is difficult to overstate the seriousness of yesterday's revelations--http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-no-amount-of-squirming-can-save-jeremy-hunt-7675922.html

The Greek Ministry of Justice website was targeted by the hacking group Anonymous overnight

The "hacktivist" collective replaced the Ministry of Justice home page with a black screen bearing two Anonymous seals and an occult image of an eyeball in a pyramid placed over the word "Illuminati" above a Guy Fawkes mask graphic and the words "We are Anonymous".

 

 

The "hacktivist" collective replaced the Ministry of Justice home page with a black screen bearing two Anonymous seals and an occult image of an eyeball in a pyramid placed over the word "Illuminati" above a Guy Fawkes mask