MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

President Obama will be handed the power to shut down the Internet for at least four months without Congressional oversight if the Senate votes for the infamous Internet ‘kill switch’ bill, which was approved by a key Senate committee yesterday and now moves to the floor.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. President Obama declares national emergency over swine flu pandemic, but why?
2. Obama Is Said to Consider Preventive Detention Plan
3. Britain’s new Internet law — as bad as everyone’s been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.

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MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Codex Alimentarius – How the global elite will control your food supply
2. Worlwide Corporate Control of Agriculture: The New Farm Owners
3. Bush Plans To Monitor Internet Data

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement, without proof or evidence or trial)

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers
2. Berlusconi plans to use G8 presidency to ‘regulate the internet’
3. The Pentagon’s War on the Internet

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Congress and civil libertarians have always been twitchy about involving the ultrasecretive National Security Agency—masters of electronic spying—more deeply in domestic security matters. Revelations that George W. Bush authorized the NSA (Motto: Never Say Anything) in the wake of 9/11 to expand warrantless electronic eavesdropping on Americans caused heartburn for both intelligence officials and private industry.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. The Worms in the Apple of the Bipartisan Policy Center
2. World Bank Under Cyber Siege in ‘Unprecedented Crisis’
3. Putting the Federal Back in the Federal Reserve

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Researchers at security firm Finjan have discovered details of a new type of banking Trojan horse that doesn't just steal your bank log-in credentials but actually steals money from your account while you are logged in and displays a fake balance.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. A nice list of quotations from Thomas Jefferson on money and banking
2. Wall Street’s Trojan Horse
3. FDIC may borrow money from Treasury

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

A determined propaganda blitz is well underway as the government sets the stage for the passage of Cybersecurity Act of 2009, introduced in the Senate earlier this year. If passed, it will allow Obama to shut down the internet and private networks.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Ultrasecret NSA Has Conspicuous Role in New Federal Cybersecurity Center
2. UN warns of North Korea food crisis
3. World Bank Under Cyber Siege in ‘Unprecedented Crisis’

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Israeli officials, weary of Iran's achievements in the nuclear field, have turned to cyber attacks to halt the country's development, Israeli sources told Reuters on Tuesday.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Israel launches covert war against Iran
2. Israel ready to strike Iran: ex-envoy
3. Gordon Brown promises Israel he will take the lead in preventing a nuclear Iran

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The demonstrations, which were convened by the Digital Liberty Coalition (DLC), are another indication of the growing concern of industry technicians, scientists and a broad range of ordinary people over the government's attempts to control and regulate Internet access in Australia.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Australia:Labor’s web gag ‘worse than Iran’
2. Australia planning to block 10,000 websites
3. Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Interoute, the internet networks company, reports that three of the four internet sub-cables that run from Asia to North America have been damaged.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Bush Plans To Monitor Internet Data
2. The Pentagon’s War on the Internet
3. Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The recent revelations of the military (Pentagon) placing propaganda in the foreign press demonstrate the importance that is given to co-opting public opinion. Pentagon “fighting the net”; implying that the internet is the equivalent of “an enemy weapons system."

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Australia: Growing opposition to Labor’s Internet censorship
2. Is the internet going down? Undersea sub-cables have just broken…
3. Pentagon Accountants Killed in 9/11 Attacks Day After Rumsfeld Admitted $2.3 Trillion Missing

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Berlusconi: "The G8 has as its task the regulation of financial markets... I think the next G8 can bring to the table a proposal for a regulation of the internet"

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Bush Plans To Monitor Internet Data
2. Australia: Growing opposition to Labor’s Internet censorship
3. Obama Can Shut Down Internet For 4 Months Under New Emergency Powers

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

According to reports, there may be a back door built into Skype, which allows connections to be bugged.Austrian interior ministry revealed that it is not a problem for them to listen in on Skype conversations

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Perhaps 60% of today’s oil price is pure speculation
2. Germany in call for ban on oil speculation
3. Chased by their church: When you try to leave Scientology, they try to bring you back

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

Australia is preparing to block public access to 10,000 websites deemed to carry "unwanted content" Sites mostly contained child pornography and other unwatned content, including images and videos

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Australia:Labor’s web gag ‘worse than Iran’
2. Australia: Growing opposition to Labor’s Internet censorship
3. Secret summit of top bankers in Sydney Australia

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The Federal Government is attempting to silence critics of its controversial plan to censor the internet, which experts say will break the internet while doing little to stop people from accessing illegal material such as child pornography

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Australia planning to block 10,000 websites
2. Australia: Growing opposition to Labor’s Internet censorship
3. Britain’s new Internet law — as bad as everyone’s been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR

The World Bank Group's computer network — one of the largest repositories of sensitive data about the economies of every nation — has been raided repeatedly by outsiders for more than a year, FOX News has learned.

MATADOR NINETY-FOUR - What happens in the World today? News, backgrounds and opinions too hot to handle for the mainstream media

1. Jim Rogers: Abolish The IMF & World Bank
2. World Bank President Admits Agenda For Global Government
3. UN Calls For Bank Of The World, New Global Currency