IYFR ** ALERT** IRS E-MAIL SCAM

 Keep an eye out for this scam.

Notice that the “IRS” email address is .org not .gov as it should be

Internal Revenue Service <forms@irs.org> wrote:
 From: “Internal Revenue Service”<forms@irs.org>
Subject: Tax refund – Online form
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:07:47 +0800

Internal Revenue Service
      United States Department of the Treasury

After the last annual calculations of your fiscal activity we have
determined that you are eligible to receive a tax refund of $480.23.
Please submit the tax refund request and allow us 3-9 days in order to
process it.

A refund can be delayed for a variety of reasons.
For example submitting invalid records or applying after the deadline.

To access your tax refund, please click here

Best Regards,
Tax Refund Deparment
Internal Revenue Service 

© Copyright 2008, Internal Revenue Service U.S.A. All rights reserved.

Bush: “I’m Sure People View Me As A War Monger

In Riyadh today, the president danced a traditional sword dance with one of the princes of the royal familyIt was a public — and a little awkward — display of affection, all part of Bush’s first visit to Saudi Arabia aimed at repairing strained relations between the world’s biggest oil producer and the world’ s biggest oil consumer. The president sat down with “Nightline” co-anchor Terry Moran at one of the vast royal palaces, and it became clear who holds the cards right now in the oil markets, with the price up near $100 a barrel.. …”I have talked to these leaders face to face,” he said”I have asked them point blank, ‘Do you understand how difficult these issues are?’

The Pirate Bay vs. Big US Bucks

‘Intellectual property, is the oil of the twenty first century’  – Getty

If the Peer 2 Peer sharing company The Pirate Bay had it’s way, they would just as soon buy an island off the coast of England.

And that’s just what  The Pirate Bay  might have to do if the Swedish government bows down to big US media corporate (and it’s lobbying) money, the likes of Dreamworks, and stops The Pirate’s P2P sharing. Money talks globally, and the US media has plenty to throw around.

The Pirate Bay is a file sharing network where users put up content to share with other users. No content is hosted on any server at The Pirate Bay besides the .torrent file which contains no copyrighted material what so ever. According to previous similar court cases this is not illegal.

Under Swedish law, P2P websites are not illegal, but that didn’t stop the legal heads representing several motion picture and music companies from going to Washington to ask US leaders to “lean” on the Swedish government to change their P2P file sharing laws. What transpired nearly shut down The Pirate Bay for good.

Between the years 2003 and 2007, The Pirate Bay came under massive attack from MPAA and other recording artists.
Here are some Legal letters to The Pirate Bay from Dreamworks and others. 
*note – IYFR found TPB’s response to Dreamworks extremely amusing.

May 2006 – After much pressure from Hollywood and the US government, the Swedish government seized all the Pirate Bay servers. The Pirate Bay was back online only a few days after the raid whilst the police continued the investigation.

Dec 10, 2007 – To the dismay of companies like Dreamworks, Pirate Bay prevailed under existing Swedish law. The police investigation into The Pirate Bay has finally came to an end. There doesn’t appear to be any evidence that suggests The Pirate Bay is involved in any illegal activities.

Will big US corporate money pack up and go home? Hell, no. Not on your life. Spend money to make money … and change laws. And that’s exactly what Hollywood, and the US government, intend to do. Throw a sizable penny, and their weight, around Sweden to change Swedish law.

When asked if a change in law will stop from it’s nefarious deemed practices, co-founder of The Pirate Bay Fredrik Neij says “no, we’ll just buy an island.”

As of January 13th, 2008 that’s exactly what The Pirate Bay is considering. Should the Swedish government bow down to US big money, The Pirate Bay is planning to buy the 550 square metre principality of Sealand, a former British naval platform in the North Sea that has been designated a ‘micronation’ which they can then set up their own laws. Since it’s inception, The Pirate Bay has amassed a small fortune to the tune of $70,000 usd per month.  Not a viable option for many P2P websites.

The Pirate Bay has also recently released it’s documentary called “Steal This Film”. All five parts can be found on Youtube. It chronicles The Pirate Bay’s ongoing struggles and triumphs.

If  P2P filing share is to survive US corporate greed, owning an island might be the only way possible.

~ IYFR

Who Is The Real Ron Paul?

The New Republic
Angry White Man by James Kirchick
The bigoted past of Ron Paul.
Post Date Tuesday, January 08, 2008

If you are a critic of the Bush administration, chances are that, at some point over the past six months, Ron Paul has said something that appealed to you. Paul describes himself as a libertarian, but, since his presidential campaign took off earlier this year, the Republican congressman has attracted donations and plaudits from across the ideological spectrum. Antiwar conservatives, disaffected centrists, even young liberal activists have all flocked to Paul, hailing him as a throwback to an earlier age, when politicians were less mealy-mouthed and American government was more modest in its ambitions, both at home and abroad. In The New York Times Magazine, conservative writer Christopher Caldwell gushed that Paul is a “formidable stander on constitutional principle,” while The Nation praised “his full-throated rejection of the imperial project in Iraq.” Former TNR editor Andrew Sullivan endorsed Paul for the GOP nomination, and ABC’s Jake Tapper described the candidate as “the one true straight-talker in this race.” Even The Wall Street Journal, the newspaper of the elite bankers whom Paul detests, recently advised other Republican presidential contenders not to “dismiss the passion he’s tapped.”

Most voters had never heard of Paul before he launched his quixotic bid for the Republican nomination. But the Texan has been active in politics for decades. And, long before he was the darling of antiwar activists on the left and right, Paul was in the newsletter business. In the age before blogs, newsletters occupied a prominent place in right-wing political discourse. With the pages of mainstream political magazines typically off-limits to their views (National Review editor William F. Buckley having famously denounced the John Birch Society), hardline conservatives resorted to putting out their own, less glossy publications. These were often paranoid and rambling–dominated by talk of international banking conspiracies, the Trilateral Commission’s plans for world government, and warnings about coming Armageddon–but some of them had wide and devoted audiences. And a few of the most prominent bore the name of Ron Paul.

Paul’s newsletters have carried different titles over the years–Ron Paul’s Freedom Report, Ron Paul Political Report, The Ron Paul Survival Report–but they generally seem to have been published on a monthly basis since at least 1978. (Paul, an OB-GYN and former U.S. Air Force surgeon, was first elected to Congress in 1976.) During some periods, the newsletters were published by the Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, a nonprofit Paul founded in 1976; at other times, they were published by Ron Paul & Associates, a now-defunct entity in which Paul owned a minority stake, according to his campaign spokesman. The Freedom Report claimed to have over 100,000 readers in 1984. At one point, Ron Paul & Associates also put out a monthly publication called The Ron Paul Investment Letter.

Read full story: http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-4720-ac15-4532a7da84ca

Decide for yourself.

Where Does Your Candidate Stand on the Issues Important to You?

For far to long we’ve pushed issues that really matter to us on the back burner and been swayed by MSM into picking our candidates for us. ENOUGH!! We at In Your Face Radio found the best website that matches YOUR IMPORTANT ISSUES with the candidate you’ve been supporting. Take The Test Don’t let the MSM polls push you into someone who’s either popular or worthless to them. See how your candidate matches up to what’s important to you. IYFR

ABC TO BAN DENNIS KUCINICH FROM DEBATES

01/05/08

ABC News is eliminating Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter and Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from its prime-time presidential debates Saturday night because they did not meet benchmarks for their support.

Therefore, since ALL AMERICANS will not be represented by fascist media outlet ABC, In Your Face Radio will NOT be airing these debates.

The Democratic debate three days before the New Hampshire primary will include Iowa Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards and Bill Richardson. But NOT Dennis Kucinich. THIS IS A TRAVESTY.

After Democrats leave the stage in Republicans Mike Huckabee, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul will arrive for their own forum. <yawn>

ABC corporate whore Charlie Gibson will moderate both debates.

ABC, and most of MSM, should be eviserated.