'Kill Switch' Internet bill alarms privacy experts - by Jon Swartz

A raging debate over new legislation, and its impact on the Internet, has tongues wagging and fingers pointing from Silicon Valley to Washington, D.C.

Just as the Egyptian government recently forced the Internet to go dark, U.S. officials could flip the switch if the Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset legislation becomes law, say its critics. Proponents of the bill, which is expected to be reintroduced in the current session of Congress, dismiss the detractors as ill-informed — even naive.

The ominously nicknamed Kill Switch bill is sure to be a flashpoint of discussion at the RSA Conference, the nation's largest gathering of computer-security experts that takes place here this week.

The bill — crafted by Sens. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn.; Susan Collins, R-Maine; and Tom Carper, D-Del. — aims to defend the economic infrastructure from a cyberterrorist attack. But it has free-speech advocates and privacy experts howling over the prospect of a government agency quelling the communication of hundreds of millions of people.

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Gerald Celente discusses Internet kill switch and Obama’s new budget - by Donna Anderson

Gerald Celente, the #1 trends forecaster in the world, founder of The Trends Institute, and publisher of The Trends Journal was the guest on Alex Jones' show on Thursday, Feb. 17. Celente has been forecasting world wide trends since 1980 and accurately predicted trends such as the “Panic of '08,” the collapse of the Soviet Union, the 1997 Asian currency crisis, the dot-com debacle, and the last two recessions.

When Celente was asked where he sees the U.S. in the next few years, Celente said it's hard to say if there will be revolts in this country like those in Egypt because the American people see through the hypocrisy and won't let government officials get away with it. Celente did say, however, that he feels we're on the doorstep of the first great war of the 21st Century. Food prices are increasing around the globe now and Celente feels we'll see uprisings around the world as the 'little people' get squeezed more and more. “We’re going to see the end of the retail Christmas….we’re going to see a fundamental shift take place….putting food on the table is going to be more important that putting gifts under the Christmas tree,” said Celente, adding that the situation would be “worse than the great depression”.

Celente feels the government will have to resort to more covert measures to control the American people. For example, Obama's new budget calls for a $78 billion cut in the defense budget. But what they're neglecting to tell everyone is that that $78 billion cut is spread out over 5 years. And over that 5 year time period, when you take inflation into consideration, according to Celente, they're actually increasing defense spending.

Celente believes the government will use this increased defense allowance to amass weapons and apparatuses that will control any dissent among the people. Citing a Feb. 15 article in the USA Today titled, Kill Switch Bill Alarms Privacy Experts, Jones says the government has already begun taking steps to control an uprising. They've openly stated that they want to be able to shut down the Internet and they're getting ready to launch a false flag using either a terrorist alert or the threat of war as an excuse to flip the kill switch.

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