Co.Exist. Breaking news, latest news, and current events. The Real News Network - Independent Video News, Blogs and Editorials. Underground press. The underground press were the independently published and distributed underground papers associated with the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and other western nations. The term "underground press" is also used to refer to illegal publications under oppressive regimes, for example, the samizdat and bibuła in the Soviet Union and Poland respectively. Origins[edit] The underground press in the 1960s and 1970s existed in most countries with high GDP per capita and freedom of the press; similar publications existed in some developing countries and as part of the samizdat movement in the communist states, notably Czechoslovakia.
Published as weeklies, monthlies, or "occasionals", and usually associated with left-wing politics, they evolved on the one hand into today's alternative weeklies and on the other into zines. In the United Kingdom[edit] The flaunting of sexuality within the underground press provoked prosecution.
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Each of these categories highlights the perceived shortcomings of dominant media to serve particular audiences, aims and interests, and attempts to overcome these shortcomings through their own media. Definition[edit] The traditional, binary definition of alternative media as stated above has been expanded in the last decade. Simply comparing alternative media to the mainstream media ignores the profound effect that making media has on the makers. Michael Albert has written that primarily, organizations self-identify as alternative.
History[edit] Theory[edit] INFORMATION CLEARING HOUSE. NEWS, COMMENTARY & INSIGHT. Utne Reader: Alternative coverage of politics, culture, and new ideas. Canadian Alternative News Media. Alternativemedia.org is devoted to providing news, perspective, and information that mainstream corporate media does not report. Infowars. Shadow Government Statistics : Home Page. PDF Newspaper | fivefilters.org. Hosted or self-hosted? We want our users to be free to examine and run the code behind FiveFilters.org however they like. So rather than simply invite you to sign up for API access, we've gone to great effort to make the software easy to use and install on your own hosting account.
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In 1974, Henry Kissinger suggested using food as a weapon to induce targeted population reduction in a previously classified 200-page report, National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests. The primary tactic to be applied is that food aid would be withheld from developing nations until they submitted to birth control policies: There is also some established precedent for taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance requirements by AID [U.S. Agency for International Development] and consultative groups. So, food was to be used as just another method of imperial colonization to force countries to conform their policies to those desired by the controllers. Here are six ways food is being used to wage war against the population: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Police Agent Provocaters and Agent Agitators. This film (and the graphic on the left) was made by an independent group of people called Agent Provocateur Watch. It came into my hands recently, and having viewed the video, I would have to say it raises several interesting questions. It seems to suggest that the police are now using unusual techniques to arrest and agitate demonstrators. In the video you will see, groups of plain clothes police grabbing protesters, affecting arrests, and apparently attempting to goad the placid crowd into violence. The video shows policemen in hoodies and jeans launching themselves at unweary protesters, and arresting them.
I would urge you to watch the video very carefully. You will also notice a large man screaming abuse at the police (a force,it appears, he himself belongs to) in an attempt to "stir up" the crowd. Please study the tape yourself, and decide if this sort of agitation is an acceptable form of policing. The New Press. The Story of Stuff. About the Secular Coalition for America | Secular Coalition for America.
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Submitted by MediaShed on Mon, 2006-07-03 15:29. The MediaShed is the first "free-media" space to open in the east of England. It's a place where members can come hang out, learn, propose some training, create and propose new projects using free-media or show things they have made on one of our screening nights. The MediaShed is designed to be as open and accessible as possible, welcoming all. The MediaShed is a Community Interest Company Video Sniffin still - short film in a CCTV network Free-media is best thought of as a means of doing art, making things or just saying what you want for little or no financial cost by using the public domain and free software and recycled equipment. Replacing money with imagination The MediaShed is not just another clique for arty types and tech heads. Did you know - the MediaShed is completely run using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and waste electronic equipment'?
Video Sniffin still - short film in a CCTV network The MediaShed. Media Mobilizing Project | Movements begin with the telling of untold stories. Phone hacking a “bog-standard journalistic tool”, ex-Mirror reporter tells Inquiry. A former financial reporter at the Daily Mirror has told the Leveson Inquiry that phone hacking seemed to happen daily at the paper, and was “openly discussed”. James Hipwell, who wrote the City Slickers column for the paper from 1998 before being jailed in 2006 for writing about firms he owned shares in, stood by his witness statement in which he said phone hacking was a “bog-standard journalistic tool”.
He told the Inquiry the practice was openly discussed by the showbiz desk, recounting that the team had deleted a message from a celebrity’s voicemail to stop the rival paper, the Sun, intercepting and getting the story. “It didn’t seem to me to be an ethical way to behave, but it seemed a generally accepted method to get a story,” Hipwell said. He said he did not report the practice to former editor Piers Morgan because it seemed that it was “entirely accepted” by senior editors on the paper.” He said Morgan was the tabloid’s “beating heart” and “dear leader”. Earth album alpha - a slicker google maps + flickr mash-up. Radio Blackout 105.250 FM | One Station Against The Nation. How Corporations Run America & The World, Field McConnell Abel Danger Plume-gate: Secret documents prove global cover-up of continued Fukushima radiation pollution.
A Freedom of Information Act(FOIA) request filed by Friends of the Earth (FoE), Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR), and the Nuclear Information and Resource Center (NIRS) has unearthed a shocking series of new evidence proving a deliberate, global cover-up of the true severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
And the unfortunate reality is that the mainstream media continues to blatantly ignore this colossal scandal. Private emails, meeting transcripts and other key documents reveal that both the Obama White House and the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission(NRC) were well aware of just how bad things really were with Fukushima from the early days of the disaster, but did nothing to warn the public about it. In fact, NRC and the White Housepurposelydid not warn Americans about a massive radiation plume that struck the West Coast just days after the massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan’s eastern coast.
And read the activist website www.AlexanderHiggins.com. Center for Media Literacy. Japanese Government Pays 60 Trillion Yen to Stop More H.A.A.R.P. Attacks. Home » Asia, Manipulation, Nature » Japanese Government Pays 60 Trillion Yen to Stop More H.A.A.R.P. Attacks The cowardly Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan handed 60 trillion yen HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Reasearch Program) over to the Federal Reserve Board crime syndicate immediately after his country was attacked with HAARP and nuclear terror, according to Japanese security police sources. The extortion money was paid off following threats to use HAARP to cause Mt. Fuji to erupt. For those of you still too brainwashed to believe such a thing is possible, please take a look at the following transcript available on the US Defense Department’s home page: It quotes then Secretary of Defense William Cohen as publicly stating in 1997 that: “Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.”
Source Related Posts. London is Turning Into a Highly Militarized Police State in Preparation for Olympic Games. Military exercises on Thames River in London in preparation for the Olympics. The upcoming summer Olympics are turning London into a highly militarized zone. All kinds of weaponry are currently being tested and deployed in the city such as land-to-air missiles, fighter jets, amphibious assault ships and machine guns.
These highly controversial measures are not welcomed by many Londoners as they create an unnecessary climate of fear and oppression in the city. The weapons being tested do not only have a military purpose. New crowd control weapons will be deployed during the Olympics such as high powered “sonic gun”. The police state tactics surrounding the Olympics are not simply limited to the deployment of high-powered weapons. The least we can say is that these 2012 London Olympics will be very interesting – and not because of the sporting events. Osborne allows tax avoiders to get away with murder – while you pick up the tab. Last night’s Panorama showed how giant multinationals, like Glaxo SmithKline are using overseas subsidiaries to avoid paying millions in pounds in tax.
Watch how they do it: And instead of clamping down on it, Chancellor Osborne is relaxing the rules to make the shifty manoeuvre easier to perform. The pre-existing rules also protected the tax payable by British companies in developing countries. As ActionAid’s Chris Jordan wrote on Left Foot Forward: “…managed and controlled in the UK and are therefore subject to tax in the UK… under the UK CFC legislation.” It is likely some of these tax haven companies that are currently covered by the CFC (anti-tax haven) rules will be exempted after the changes. See also: The British taxpayer is losing out twice – uncollected taxes from megacorporations have to be picked up by ordinary citizens, and by taking money out of developing countries’ treasuries, they remain reliant on aid – including that from the UK.
Obama Has Signed 3 New Executive Orders. Obama has signed 3 new executive orders: www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/01/executive-order-promoting-international-regulatory-cooperation and www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/10/executive-order-identifying-and-reducing-regulatory-burdens and www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/15/executive-order-establishing-white-house-council-strong-cities-strong-co This latest executive order will allow the soviet socialists in our local communities through their committees to adopt and enact United Nations regulations designed to establish absolute United Nations’ control over our every resource. These commissars, working in coalition with state and local agencies and sovereign nations/Indian Tribes, will attempt to initiate UN dictatorship over our lands, both private and public.
This is a sneak attack and it will not be publicized in the mainstream media. Www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/01/executive-order-promoting-international-regula www.whitehouse.gov. Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters | Journal of the mental environment. The Daily Beast. Digital Journal: A Global Digital Media Network. Norway abolishes state-sponsored Church of Norway.
In an unprecedented move, the Norwegian Parliament has voted to abolish the state-sponsored Church of Norway with a constitutional amendment. The bipartisan measure to create a separation of church and state will officially be presented on Tuesday, reports Norway's TV2. The nation will not have an official religion, and the government will not participate in the appointment of church deans and bishops. Svein Harberg, the spokesman for the Church, Education, and Research Committee stated that the decision "is historic both for the Norwegian Church and for the politicians in Parliament.
" The Church of Norway began after the Lutheran Reformation in 1536, and was officially called the Lutheran State Church. The state meddled very little in church matters, only quelling unrest when it had to, chose high church officials, and financially supported the church. Opposition from secular groups arose in the 1970s when Norway's economy boomed and the church benefited. Read more... Welcome To American Freedom Radio.