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		<title>EU Covertly Spending Millions to Censor Media</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/11974</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angered by the British media’s coverage of Brussels, the European Commission says it wants to be a “moral compass” against press misconduct, seeking new national and Europe-wide regulatory powers over journalists.

The EU has spent £2.3 million on the previously unpublicised “Mediadem” project to “reclaim a free and independent media”. In a “policy brief” co-authored by its lead British researcher, Rachael Craufurd Smith, Mediadem says it is “simplistic” to “see state influence [over the press] as inherently stifling”. Dr Craufurd Smith, an Edinburgh University academic, said that it was also “simplistic” to believe that “market-driven media” were now “free and independent”.]]></description>
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		<title>After the Arab Spring: How Al-Jazeera Became A Propaganda Tool For Qatar&#8217;s Geopolitical Interests</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/10862</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 20:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Critics say that the emir now essentially trusts only his own people: The network's director general is now a relative of the emir, as is the head of the advisory board. They are seemingly required to follow political guidelines laid down by the palace -- instead of serving the interests of viewers. Thanks to its oil wealth, Qatar is blessed with the world's second highest per capita income, and it's a key geo-political player with a clear agenda. When, for instance, mass protests were staged against the neighboring regime in Bahrain, a close ally of the emir, Al-Jazeera almost entirely ignored the situation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Half of Chinese government officials fear microblogging services could cause social unrest: Survey</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/10856</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 19:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most Chinese officials acknowledge the potential far-reaching impact that the rise of Weibo microblogging services could have on Chinese society, according to a new study.

WantChinaTimes notes that a survey of over 2,000 officials by the party-backed People’s Tribune found over 50 percent are afraid of increased social unrest due to microblogs, while 70 percent of them were in favor of the use of Internet in combatting corruption. While it’s nice to see so many apparatchiks in support of online anti-corruption measures, it does make you wonder about the other 30 percent.]]></description>
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		<title>Leak reveals EU surveillance of communications</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/8262</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CleanIT is duplicating much of the work of the CEO Coalition (child protection), which is also financed by the European Commission. Both create “voluntary” rules for notification and removal of possibly illegal content, explained EDRI.

Within the “best practices” to be discussed described in the leaked document we can find: “removal of any legislation preventing filtering/surveillance of employees' Internet connections”, “law enforcement authorities should be able to have content removed, without following the more labour-intensive and formal procedures for 'notice and action” and “Governments should use the helpfulness of ISPs as a criterion for awarding public contracts.”]]></description>
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		<title>United Russia: Russian Protesters Will Clean The Streets</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/5552</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 08:52:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of deputies of the State Duma on the party "United Russia" led by first deputy chairman of the Committee on Housing, Alexander Sidyakin made to the State Duma amendments to the Code of Administrative Offences (CAO).

The amendments require increased penalties for violations of the organization of street activities, from 10,000 to 100,000 rubles (3,400 dollars) for the organizers of the shares and 1,000 to 10,000 rubles ($ 340) - for the participants. Currently the maximum fine for such offenses is not more than 2000 rubles.

The bill also introduces an alternative punishment - mandatory work. Now they are provided only to the Penal Code (60 to 480 hours) for persons who have committed minor crimes. In the proposed Administrative Code to establish the period of compulsory work from 20 to 200 hours.]]></description>
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		<title>Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; &#8216;Clean&#8217; National Intranet In Pipeline</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/5385</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Millions of Internet users in Iran will be permanently denied access to the World Wide Web and cut off from popular social networking sites and email services, as the government has announced its plans to establish a national Intranet within five months.

In a statement released Thursday, Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology, announced the setting up of a national Intranet and the effective blockage of services like Google, Gmail, Google Plus, Yahoo and Hotmail, in line with Iran's plan for a "clean Internet."]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Censorship and Arrests May Be Strike by Hardliner Faction</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/5141</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Censorship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group within the Chinese Communist Party is cracking down hard on the Internet. Since mid-February, more than a thousand people have been arrested in connection with posting information online. Meanwhile, more than 3,000 websites have been issued warnings, and over 200,000 online postings have been deleted. On Friday, China's two biggest microblog sites had their comment functions disabled.


This may relate to the ongoing battle between two factions within the CCP.]]></description>
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		<title>Belarus special forces officer: why I fled to the EU</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/5104</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 10:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Diamond - an elite special forces unit in Belarus - is the personal security detail of President Alexander Lukashenko.

In a secret location outside the country, a former Diamond officer, Igor Makar, spoke to EUobserver about his experiences and why he fled to seek refuge in the EU.

He said the Lukashenko system has turned rank-and-file police and the state security service, the KGB, into "criminals."

"The state itself makes criminals out of the police because they are entirely dependent on the state and carry out any order [they are given]. If the order is not fulfilled, then you will be fired and you can no longer feed your family," he explained.]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s Black Shirts: Hired by regime to stop Chinese protesters</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/4485</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 02:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a snowy morning in Beijing, over 1,000 plain-clothed thugs, all with similar cropped haircuts and dark windbreakers, are gathered outside one of the city's vast government compounds.

This is the State Petitions Office, the last port of call for China's most desperate or foolhardy protestors. Anyone brave enough to come here, however, has to run the gauntlet of intimidating "black security officers" outside.

As the Daily Telegraph watched, one woman on her way to the office to submit her complaint was bundled screaming, in full sight of the police, into the back of a minivan and driven off. The number plate read: Jiangsu G-2627-A.]]></description>
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		<title>How a U.S. agency cleaned up Rwanda’s genocide-stained image</title>
		<link>http://stratrisks.com/geostrat/3838</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelVail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a monthly fee of $50,000 plus expenses, the U.S. agency offered a tantalizing prospect to the Rwandan government: a burnished image, a sophisticated media campaign – and a chance at “drowning out” those pesky opposition voices on the Web.

It was 2009, and the authoritarian regime in Rwanda was facing mounting criticism of its human-rights record. It was accused of censoring the media, suppressing freedom, shutting down newspapers and creating a climate of fear. So it turned to a public-relations agency, Racepoint Group, that had already polished the image of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.]]></description>
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