To date, 20 percent of your genetic code is owned by someone else. About two-thirds of these patents belong to private companies, and one-third belong to universities. … Read More
Syria – Rights activists face terrorism charges – Free Award-Winning Journalist, Colleagues
(Amsterdam, Beirut, Cairo, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dublin, Geneva, London, New York, Paris, The Hague, Utrecht – May 17, 2013) The international community should urge the Syrian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release and drop all charges against a freedom of expression activist and two of his colleagues, 19 regional and international human rights organizations said today. Mazen Darwish and two of his colleagues from the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), (…) … Read More
Verizon secretly handed over phone records of AP reporters to the federal government
Debra Lewis said she was “not going to speculate on what may or may not happen in the future,” speaking of a possible change to the company’s policy on responding to government requests. … Read More
Azerbaijan – New legislative amendments further erode rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly
Download PDF The International Partnership Group for Azerbaijan (IPGA) strongly condemns a series of repressive legislative amendments that Azerbaijan’s National Assembly (Milli Majlis) adopted on 14 May 2013. The amendments were submitted by the prosecutor-general’s office to a parliamentary commission two weeks before and are being enacted in the run-up to October’s Presidential election. The existing draconian penalties for criminal defamation and insult have been extended to online (…) … Read More
11 Governments Are Meeting in Peru to Figure Out How They Can Control the Internet
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is calling this the “biggest global threat to the internet since ACTA.” … Read More
IRS Requested Reading Materials – Tea Party Organizer Sent The Constitution
Kudos to a woman who was willing to fight through this garbage and come through on the other side. This won’t be the only story of IRS scrutiny of a Patriot Group that we hear but it will be tough to top. … Read More
Ooops… Hot mic reveals lawmakers intent to confiscate guns
“We need[ed] a bill that was going to confiscate, confiscate, confiscate,”stated one high ranking senate member. “They don’t care about the bad guys. All they want to do is have their ‘little guns’ and do whatever they want with them.” … Read More
