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Issue 101 Sopa, NDAA, Enemy Expatriation & loud free speech

Posted by Jim Smith on January 25, 2012 No comments

(1/25/2012)
This week (after an emergency equipment upgrade) I review a little more about NDAA and it’s companion bill, the Enemy Expatriation Act, the bill that would strip Americans of their citizenship and allow them to be held forever without trial under the NDAA.  Of course the government wouldn’t admit one bill helps the other one give them unprecedented power to remove people they don’t like without a trial.
And a little about SOPA and how The Gut Reaction Journal went dark 1/18 along with Reddit, Wikipedia and possibly tens of thousands of other Internet Websites to protest SOPA.
And we look at ACTA, an even more onerous bill that spans half the world and goes even further than SOPA and because it’s a treaty, trumps all conflicting US law.
We also look at “money as speech” and how it may not remove the free speech of everyone else, it just drowns out everyone else’s voice.
And this week’s look at the Occupy Movement goes closer to home.  There is a very thoughtful article on the Occupy Delaware website that puts Occupy’s goals in a slightly different light.  Also, Occupy Delaware has a new show on Blog Talk Radio and one of their guests was featured here on the Journal back in Issue 93.
And finally, this week’s Good Guy begins a new series on, of all people, the 1%.  It’s not what you might think.

A list of OTHER presidential candidates – Forbes Magazine on ACTA
Darryl Issa on SOPA – Enemy Expatriation Act - Article on Occupy DE site
Occupy DE talk show (Blog Talk Radio) – Our 1% Good Guy (1)
Our 1% Good Guy (2)

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Issue 99 My year in review, the NDAA and SOPA

Posted by Jim Smith on January 2, 2012 No comments

(1/02/2012)

This week, as it is the first program of 2012, I do a little 2011 in review, but it isn’t the top news stories of the year but a short list of some of the predictions I made last year.  This isn’t slapping myself on the back, but it’s presented to show that I do put a lot of effort into these shows and to show you that it’s worth 15-20 minutes of your time every week to listen to The Gut Reaction Journal and to recommend the program to your friends.  We believe this show is important for what it tries to do and we want to get as many new listeners in 2012 as we can.  We’re non-profit and non-partisan and we want to show you that it’s worth following.
Also, I talk about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and how it gives the president the power to make people disappear.  This president said he didn’t like it, but he signed it anyway and his signing statement “promising” not to USE that power doesn’t impress us.  If he didn’t WANT that power, why would he sign it?
Plus, I talk about the Stop Online Piracy Act and how inherently dangerous it might be if signed into law.

In place of this week’s Good Guy, we present a list of valuable websites that you should bookmark and refer to during this presidential campaign season.

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Obama signs NDAA into law – Rocky Anderson on corrupt government – SOPA
 Senate rejects challenge to FCC Net Neutrality rule – SOPA text

Thomas.gov - Maplight.org – Factcheck.org – Politifact.com - Snopes.com

 

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