This document and video presentation outlines steps you can take right now to help put a stop to the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which poses a serious threat to our freedom and national sovereignty. For additional information and links on ACTA, please click here.

We need a new approach, whereby we take back government from the elite’s stooges and appointees – grassroots campaigns whereby we go to visit our Local Members with a carefully prepared plan, limited to a maximum of ten point plan to tell them why we find something unacceptable.  What I mean is don’t go in with voluminous documents except as reference documents.  Let the politicians know that this reference material is not part of the presentation.

The Most Effective Strategy is to actually visit your Local MP in person to make representations as to why we should not ratify ACTA.

How to find your Local Federal MP
If you are unsure in which electorate you reside, then, try visiting the Australian Electoral Commission Website at http://apps.aec.gov.au/esearch/.
in order to ascertain this information. 

What to Do About Getting an Appointment
Ring your Local Federal MP’s office and make an appointment to see them.  Suppose that you are told that they are unable to see you, then, don’t be deterred, ask to see the appropriate member of their staff. 

Prepare a Ten Point Plan
Do not go into visit your Local MP with a voluminous document complaining about ACTA because it will not be read!  Instead prepare a careful ten point plan that sets out the problems with ACTA in summary but do make sure that you reference every point and do take in the reference material with you.  If your MP, or their staff member asks for a copy of this or access to this reference material, then, give them a copy. 

Do be polite but let your Local Member know that you are very concerned about the impact that ACTA will have on our society and that you are only prepared to support a candidate who will vote against ACTA being implemented. 

Politics is a numbers’ game!
If every electorate in Australia receives ten visits, then, that will be sufficient to let our politicians know that we don’t want ACTA ratified.  Not many politicians have a death wish and visits of this magnitude will convince them that the policy is not only unpopular but that supporting it is political suicide.  Get your friends to do likewise.  Make this information go viral!  Urge everyone on your email contacts’ list to do the same.

ACTA 10 Point Plan – Point Form Only

Download the FULL 10 POINT PLAN: click here

• The Stated Aims of ACTA do not stand up to scrutiny
• There is no necessity for ACTA as there are already remedies available for breach of copyright and Trade Mark violations
• ACTA makes it possible to bypass the judicial system of this country
• If a warrant is issued against someone in your household then every computer in your place will be seized
• ACTA provides for a custodial sentence for the unauthorized copying of cinematographic films:  This is manifestly excessive!
• ACTA necessitates the Principle of Excessive Surveillance
• ACTA will make criminals out of an estimated 25% of Net users
• The Claims about Net Piracy Are Flawed
• We do not know how foreign law is to apply as regards extradition?
• ACTA was negotiated in secret with public consultation
• The Dirty Secret of the Copyright Lobby is that is that the very people who are trying to make criminals of those who upload or download copyright material are the very same people who have made a fortune out of file sharing software! 
• ACTA may well prevent you getting the vitamins, minerals and alternative medicine you want
• ACTA may well prevent you watching sport when you want to watch sport
   

 

The Gaza flotilla was manned by unarmed peace activists on a humanitarian mission

Our lead story tonight is the deadly assault by the Israeli military on a convoy of  ships bringing humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

I have as my guest Michael Shaik, spokesperson for the advocacy group Australians For Palestine.

As we publish this podcast it has been reported that journalists Paul McGeough and Kate Geraghty  have been deported from Israel to Turkey:

Sydney Morning Herald editor Peter Fray said earlier today that McGeough told him Geraghty was “recovering from the injuries she received when hit by what she believes was a stun gun as Israeli forces boarded the boat she was on”.

The Herald was still deeply concerned at the circumstances surrounding the detention of Mr McGeough and Ms Geraghty and their deportation, he said.

“Paul and Kate have agreed to be deported only because they have had legal advice that they will be able to appeal their deportation even after they have left Israel,” Fray said.

“The fact remains that they were denied free passage in Israel to carry out their reporting assignment despite the Israeli authorities knowing full well that they are accredited journalists.”

In the interview with Michael Shaik we look at the potential consequences of this act of blatant aggression in international waters, and the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Gaza.

We urge listeners to donate to the cause via the Free Gaza Movement or Australians for Palestine.

Thanks for your support!

Related Links

• Gaza flotilla attack: Freed journalists tell of ordeal


• Aussie photographer Kate Geraghty Tasered during flotilla raid


• Gaza Flotilla Carried 40 Al-Qaeda Members, Says Israel


• Amy Goodman interviews Adam Shapiro, a member of the Free Gaza Movement


• Israel fends off inquiry pressure


• Videos released by the IDF here and here purport to show activists attacking Israeli soldiers


• Rebel scientists force Royal Society to accept climate change scepticism


• Sony Music is systematically purging Youtube of Bob Dylan videos

Tonight TNRA covers three major topics in as much detail as humanly possible within the time constraints.

Internet Filter and Copyright Laws

• The Obama administration has questioned the Rudd government's plan to introduce an internet filter


• A chronology of Australian censorship controversies proves that the definition of "RC" is already very problematic


• Conroy's internet censorship agenda slammed by tech giants


• Leaked ACTA treaty gives border agents powers to search, seize and destroy your equipment for copyright infringement


• "Gag the Filter" protest information

Psychiatry Gone Mad / Big Pharma

• Australian of the Year Psychiatrist Wants Millions in Government Funding for Brave New World of “Pre-Drugging” Kids


• Children as young as one are being prescribed powerful anti-psychotic drugs


• Drug company Merck created a "hit list" of critics and even faked a medical journal to promote arthritis drug Vioxx

The Israel/Palestine conflict

• New documentary "The Children of Gaza" explores the impact of Israel's military assault and subsequent blockade of Gaza


• Democracy Now! interviews Prof. Norman Finkelstein

9/11 Truth At LA Peace March

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMiqPQdWvo4

Hope you enjoy the show - and thanks for listening!

Tonight I am joined by Josh Jackson and John Bursill to discuss a number of issues of the day, leading with the landmark decision by an Australian Federal Court against the Australian film and television industry which was trying to make ISPs liable for the downloading habits of their customers.

"You can breach copyright in two ways. One is by directly breaching it, which the users did; and secondly you can authorise a breach of copyright, which you can sometimes do by putting people in a position where they can breach copyright," Mr Lambrick said.

"Now what Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) had argued was that by providing its internet service, iiNet was putting its account holders in a position whereby they could breach copyright directly themselves.

"Justice Cowdroy found it wasn't the ISP's system that was responsible for the breach of copyright. It was actually the BitTorrent system which was the means by which copyright was breached."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/04/2810520.htm

Other topics in focus on tonight's show include the latest develoments in the 9/11 truth movement and the quest to create a broad based anti-war / truth & justice movement to oppose the ongoing military agression and erosion of civil liberties seen across many countries.

A great show and an excellent discussion - not to be missed!

Related Links

• CIA drone carnage continues in Pakistan with 12 attacks this year alone


• Internet piracy is good for films
  


• Cindy Sheehan On The 9/11 Issue - NYC - 1/22/2010
  


• David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information


• Gagging order on David Kelly records could be lifted


• Tony Abbott to meet with Lord Monckton


• Lord Monckton debates Rupert Posner from the Climate Group (ABC Radio)

Is downloading of copyrighted content theft? Should we reform the concepts of digital and intellectual property? Do new technologies like BitTorrent really require new criminal statutes or should record companies change their business models? Is the criminalisation of file sharing really just protecting the interests of mega corporations?

Tonight we welcome to the show David Crafti, President of the Pirate Party of Australia to discuss these and more questions.

What is the Pirate Party all about? From the pp website:

Real property is something that you can touch. In simple terms, if one person possesses it, another person cannot possess it at the same time. Intellectual property is information. If a person makes a copy of a song, the person who owns the original is not deprived of the song.

The Pirate Party is dedicated to protecting civil liberties with an emphasis on reform of copyright law, freedom of speech and protection of privacy. Other policy areas include opposition to internet censorship, support for an R18+ rating for games and providing parents with software tools to manage access to the internet.

The Australian Pirate Party has affiliations with movements around the world which are rapidly gaining in popularity.

Related Links

• From Jan 25-29, Oz websites will turn their lights out to inform Australians about the threat of Internet censorship


• Bin Laden takes credit for the underpants bomber, threatens more attacks using white females


• David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information


• IPCC chief admits Himalayan glacier fraud


• Italy to impose draconian internet censorship measures


• France prepares to crack down on web pirates and users alike


• Photographers protest over UK terror search laws

On tonight's show I have as my guest Dr. Frank Legge, a regular contributor to the Journal of 9/11 Studies, and co-author of the peer reviewed paper, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe".

In the interview Dr. Legge presents some of his own research and general insights into the many controversies surrounding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

A very important broadcast - not to be missed!

In the second half I am joined once again by Dr. Legge and Josh Jackson to discuss various issues of the day.

More links for the show:

• The Missing Jolt: A Simple Refutation of the NIST-Bazant Collapse Hypothesis


• E-mails indicate EPA suppressed report skeptical of global warming


• Opposition to reconsider ETS


• Special report on Free Gaza project and Cynthia McKinney (mp3)


• The Cynthia McKinney interview on WRH radio (mp3)


• Movie pirates funding terrorists

David Chandler analyses the North Tower collapse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG2y50Wyys4