Lawmakers introduced legislation Monday that would let the Justice Department seek U.S. court orders against websites anywhere in the world, and shut them down through the sites domain registration.
The recording industry and movie studios have been clamoring for such a capability. If passed, the Justice Department could ask a federal court for an injunction that would order a U.S. domain registrar or registry to stop resolving an infringing sites domain name, so that visitors would get an address error.
In todays global economy the internet has become the glue of international commerce - connecting consumers with a wide array of products and services worldwide, said Sen. Orin Hatch (R-Utah) in a statement announcing the bill. But its also become a tool for online thieves to sell counterfeit and pirated goods, making hundreds of millions of dollars off of stolen American intellectual property.
The bill would direct injunctions at a sites domain registrar, if the registration was through a U.S. company. If not, the Justice Department could serve the court order at the registry for the sites top-level domain.
Registrys for the dot-com, dot-net and dot-org domains are all U.S.-based, and thus within the courts jurisdiction. For domains not under U.S. control, the bill would demand that internet service providers in the United States block resolution of the address upon a court order, but overseas users would not be impacted. The Great Firewall of America, a wholly owned subsidiary of the administration of the US president. Eric H. Holder, Jr., CEO, CFO.
But its also become a tool for online thieves to sell counterfeit and pirated goods, making hundreds of millions of dollars off of stolen American intellectual property.
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But its soon to become a tax, licensing, and penalty tool for government thieves to begin the harvesting of hundreds of millions of dollars of hard earned American taxpayer dollars.
(Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack B.O. Obama said Monday that the economy is still hurting millions of Americans even though the recession has been officially declared over.
It is precisely for this kind of brilliant insight that Mr. Obama, esq. was elected to the White House. Truly, the man is a genius with at least a 125 IQ, just like the on-line IQ tests advertise.
"The hole was so deep that a lot of people out there are still hurting," Obama addressed a town-hall-style meeting telecast live on CNBC before heading to Pennsylvania to raise money for a Democratic Senate candidate.
He spoke shortly after the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a panel of academic economists' announcement on Monday that the U.S. recession started in December 2007 officially ended in June 2009.
That was the first dip of the recession. When did the second dip start? We're still waiting for the banks to finish recapitalizing and the problem-mortgage backlog to be cleared from the system. Credit card debt seems to be taking care of itself on an individualized basis as people pay it down rather than buy more, so that is something.
"Even though economists may say that the recession officially ended last year, obviously for the millions of people who are still out of work, people who have seen their home values decline, people who are struggling to pay the bills day to day, it's still very real for them." Obama said.
Brilliant, Mr. President! How do you do it?
?U.S. unemployment, currently at 9.6 percent, is projected not possible to fall significantly in the short future. About 8 million Americans remain out of work now.
Obama repeated that the current economic difficulty is the result of the previous administration
Do stop whining Mr. President. It's so unattractive.
and he asked the American people for more patience. "Something that took ten years to create is going to take a little more time to solve," Obama said.
In responding to the critics that the country's economic situation is on the wrong track, Obama said that everything is not "where it needs to be," but that the nation is "moving in the right direction."
That does appear to be true, although in the political sense of more conservative rather than the judgemental sense of more correct. But the error is commonly made even by the putatively brilliant.
As for criticism that his policies are anti-business, Obama said they've helped businesses be profitable, and stabilized financial markets.
When businesses are more profitable they pay more taxes and hire more staff. That does not seem to be happening, which indicates they aren't. Smart people understand this.
When asked if he had any plans to replace his two top economic advisers -- Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers, Obama said that he had not made any determinations about changing personnel on his team.
Republicans criticized that the B.O. regime's economic policy failed, at least in terms of unemployment rate. They called for Obama to fire both of his top economic advisers.
Obama said, "This is tough work that they do."
He said that "the most important thing we can do right now is grow our economy."
The U.S. economy grew at 1.6 percent in the second quarter, a much slower pace that the previous quarter, which recorded at 3.7 percent.
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As for criticism that his policies are anti-business, Obama said they've helped businesses be profitable, and stabilized financial markets.
Banks can borrow money to by T-Bills; great, just great. Dead is stable too.
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He said that "the most important thing we can do right now is grow our economy."
And the 4-6 million new or saved jobs that you spoke about nearly two years ago..... where might they be Mr. President?
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Obama says U.S. economy "still hurting"
he should know, he's the main cause, and NOT helping.
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You know, no one believes anything the BHO says anymore. He talks too much and does nothing. The economists who said the recession is over come across as being in the government pocket. They ought to demand the money back which they spent becoming "experts" and find another line of work.
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Marx says, Lenin says, Stalin says, Hitler says, Mussolini says, Idi Amin says, Che says, Castro says, Pol Pot says, Saddam says, Chevez says, Ahmadinejad says, Kim Jong-Il says, Mugabe says......Obama says..... enough of these broken record, megalomaniac blatherings.
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The Economy started going south the day the Democratic Congress took over in 06 and refused to enact any sort of housing (Freddie / Fanny) regulation.
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Wait now...previous administration, 8 years, is at fault but this has been 10 years in the making?
I like it when he scolds the press corpse about what programs to cut. The easy answers would be pork projects and not expanding the health care wing of government, but how can we know since the Democrats failed to make a budget. And his down with the middle class struggle talk he gave when he faked reading note cards in between teleprompter volleys. Soo cool.
And the hair, wonderfult. Like a just for men commercial. "This look says I'm young and down with the struggle." "Well this look says I'm wise and can solve the Middle East."
Sounds petty when someone else does it, eh? At least he didn't say teabagger or flip the bird.
What the man really meant to say is "Damn, it's not dead yet?" How can they put in place total central state planning and programming while there is still life in the sucker?
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ION TOPIX/RENSE > {News.com.au] US GOVT. HIDING AMOUNT OF DEBT["ENRON Accounting", US GOP-DEM = USG ESTABLISHMENT LOVE OF EXCESSIVE OR OVER-&&& SPENDING REGARDLESS OF THE MERITS/LOSSES].
Aka US GOVT. LOVE TO "SPEND-FOR-SPENDING'S-SAKE"???
ARTIC > To wit,
* US CBO Figures = US Debt in 1980 was US$909.0BILYUHN or roughly 33% of USGDP at that time.
* YEAR 2010 = US Debt OFFICIALLY at US$13.4TRILYUHN at 92% of US GDP.
* Come YEAR 2012 [2016] = US Debt anticipated to rise to US$16.4TRILYUHN of US GDP or 100% of US GDP.
* BOSTON UNIVERSITY'S LAURENCE KOTLIKOFF > believes TRUE US DEBT is as highas US$200.0TRILYUHN [all causes].
COMPARED TO
PERT ANDREW MOYLAN > believes TRUE US debt is US$60.0TRILYUHN.
BOTH PERTS AGREE THAT ALREADY DIRE US SPENDING HABITS WILL ONLY GET WORSE [IIUC, likely due to USGovt's = Politician's inability to stop themselves].
ALL TOGETHER NOW, WID FEELING > D **** NGED 2013 = SOLAR FLARES!
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ION BRITAIN > propsals to for repor cash-strapped LONDON = BRIT GOVT. to copy many THIrd World States + formally recruit, send LARGE NUMBERS OF UN-EMPLOYED BRITS OVERSEAS AS INTERNATIONAL CONTRACT LABOR [read, Percentage of $$$ Remittances earned overseas to go back into London Govt coffers].
USA???
OTHER NET > "STRATEGIC RESERVE FORCE" FOR MILITARY OR NATIONAL CONTINGENCY INCLUD "ECONOMIC CONTINGENCY"???
D *** NG IT, TIME FOR AMERICA = AMERIKA, THE OWG MIGHTY USSA = OWG WEAK USRoA SSR, TO DUST OFF ALL OF THOSE OLD BOB HOPE-N-BING CROSBY HOBO "ROAD" MOVIES, + ABBOTT-N-COSTELLO!
Also starring DOROTHY LAMOUR, BETTY GRABLE, ETAL. as YOUSE + AL BUNDY'S FAV ORION GREEN SPACE BIKINI BABE(S)!
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Tomorrow she loses her status as ranking member on a committee. The Pubs will pull all her privileges.
On election day she'll have less than 5% of the vote as people will decide she's more trouble than she's worth in writing her name in on the ballot.
She'll then be the butt of all political jokes in both DC and Alaska.
That in turn will kill any career she might have as a lobbyist. She'll have to come home to Juneau and settle for a put-up job in a local think-tank.
The thing is, if she'd just done the right thing -- concede, endorse Miller and stay out of the way -- she could have run for the other Senate seat in 2014. Or she could have hoped for a Romney or Huckleberry win in 2012 and angled to be the next Secretary of Energy or the Interior. Perhaps a cushy ambassadorship somewhere.
No, she's blown all that. She'll deserve every bit of the humiliation she gets and she'll serve as an object lesson to every pol, Pub and Dem: this is what happens when you don't get the message the voters are sending.
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Misspells don't count in AK. Got to be on the money. Lot's of her voters will know how to spell Makowski, I mean Merkowski or is that Murkowsky? Or just SOL.
Rasmussen had it at Miller 50% - McAdams 44% before Murkowski announced her kamikaze run. Basically, Murky is splitting the anti-Miller vote. In this poll, that is. When election time comes she'll be lucky to get 5% of the vote and her beloved lobbyists will stop taking her calls.
Sounds like a Republican with an axe to grind, huh? Not so much. On the phone, Mr. Muller told that he is way over on the lefty liberal end of the political spectrum, but would never vote for Chris Coons because, he says, Coons has no respect for his constitutents. Muller told me: I am one of those people who thinks the world is safer with the Democrats in control of the Senate, but I could never support Coons, because he is personally malicious. He said that Coons is very bright and he knows how to jerk off the public while representing special interests.
So what did Chris Coons do to Alan Muller? Well, Muller says that he was an activist who often spoke out at city council meetings until his ownership of a historic property gave local authorities the chance to use the power of the government to harass him?
He's the kind of nasty boy who uses the courts and code enforcement to thump any of the peasantry who get out of line.
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I think Coons better watch himself. We heard about some of Christine O'Donnell's earlier associations... There may be others she hasn't mentioned, and Coons may well end up with the tail of a pig.
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haha. I just love this story. Isn't it a classic? Lefty loon is all about love for Big Government until one day, he realizes that Big Government doesn't love him for loving them.
It's great to help the little people until it impacts you personally, eh Mr. Muller?
Classic.
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and Coons may well end up with the tail of a pig.
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This is the part that I find scary about Chris Coons:
Muller writes:
We also did something stupid in the circumstances: Bought a historic house threatened with demolition. This opened us up to unending harassment. ...[T]hey charge us ten or twelve times for the same offense, and we are convicted for each offense.
The county ordinance apparently allows bringing a separate charge every day. So the county could charge a person 365 times for having a cracked windowpane and then deliver these charges all at once, without prior notice, and demand a fine for each violation. A minimum fine of $100 is prescribed for each violation and the court shall not suspend the sentence of any person Welcome to Delaware!
Abuse of code enforcement power has often been used to harass people. Since, obviously, every property has some technical code violation, anyone could be harassed. While the evil of Coons in abusing these laws is obvious, it is also obvious that the Delaware General Assembly has itself done a great evil by passing such laws for the County, and by failing to maintain the integrity of Delawares courts.
The documents support Mullers contention. Muller links to a court document that contains numerous charges against him for unpermitted work to his roof. Each of the charges contains the same verbiage and makes the same accusations. But each charge is alleged to have occurred exactly one month apart. The first is on March 10, the next is on April 10, the third is on May 10, the next on June 10 and so on, and so on, and so on.
I told him it looked like they were charging him every month for work that he had done once. He said it was worse than that they were still coming after him even after he got everything fixed.
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Code enforcement harassment here in Oakland is so rampant that there has been talk of a RICO case lately.
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