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Wow, all of them? That statement is ludicrous and cannot be defended. The republicans and democrats are both committed to control and neither side will relinquish it for the good of the country.
Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives, values, and systems such as the political system and the economy.
This is where the new radical Republicans want to take this country and have more trickle up economics for the 1%. Spreading the wealth up is Mitt Romney/Paul Ryan’s plan in other words fascism.
They are takers, will not give anything back. They will kick the working family down. They are Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Ayn Rand she was also the progenitor of a sweeping “moral philosophy” that justifies the privilege of the wealthy and demonizes not only the slothful, undeserving poor but the lackluster middle-classes as well. Paul Ryan’s mentor
" the Ryan Budget will kill more than 8 million jobs over the next several years – taking the unemployment rate to nearly 12% by 2014."
louisehartmann:
You should be ashamed for telling such lies!
If you take a look at a profile of a sociopath you will find that majority of the Republicans in Congress, in both houses the Senate and House of Representatives, and the candidates for president and vice president’s in the Republican Party their concept’s ideas and personalities will line up and match a sociopath.
kind of like how anything not SPECIFICALLY labeled as ORGANIC or at least NON-GMO really IS GMO
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Republicans are FACIST unless they CLEARLY state otherwise, such as calling for increase in taxes on the rich
if they don't come out as being FOR MORE TAXES for the RICH, they are WITH them; they ARE the enemy
'the enemy' is the translation of the word SATAN, so they are TOOLS of the DEVIL, the embodiment of pure EVIL
in one sense you have to PITY them, for they are DAMNED, though there is HOPE for anyone to CHANGE
sad part is, unless you already get this, it goes right through you
which is why it is important to end on a positive note
Jesus is LOVE
I keep encountering Republicans saying things like "Good thing this country's a republic and not a 'mob-rules' democracy."
I have a counter to that: The "USSR" was a republic too. That's what the R stood for. Too bad they didn't have democracy.
He meets every definition of a fascist, at what point will someone come out and simply state it as a fact?
Total agreement.
By Mussolini's definition, and by any sane person's definition, he is. His budget will destroy Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, continue the escalation of militarism and offshoring of American jobs, and not come close to balancing a budget for almost 30 years. Not a deficit hawk, not anyone who's fiscally responsible, Ryan is a corporatist professional politician pushing for an America-destroying agenda.
Private Prison companies want to run State Mental Hospitals too. GEO Group, the only bidder, is about to be awarded a contract by the Texas Department of Human Services. https://www.texastribune.org/texas-dept-criminal-justice/texas-departmen.... Of course in Texas, mental patients are nearly considered criminals. And of course, many criminals are mentally ill. Sounds like a great fit!
Hope so.
If you can't glue the atom back during damage control, then we should not be using technology that we don't have absolute control over in usage or disposal.
The American RED Way: How we can get away with it and make a buck at someone elses expense. Anything that obstructs our path, i.e., regulations, physical barriers, etc., we will waste our time and someone elses money [public] to find any loop holes to our profitable advantage) . . . then walk away from it all after the damage is done as if it's the inheritor's fault).
The French Way: No so. Then, again, Europe is older, has made more mistakes (and learned from them). Wiser in understanding that the rich can get richer if they'd like as long as the poorest has a decent and comfortable living for themselves and their families).
An interesting discussion is price comment. I think that you must write more on this topic, it might not be a taboo topic but typically people are not enough to speak on such topics. To the next. Cheers
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So I start munching on this chocolate ice cream on a stick that I bought at the Dollar Store (I have eaten a lot of these off and on...they are 6 for a dollar in a box)...and I noticed that the consistency was much rougher than before. It had the consistency of coarse saw dust that just clung to my tongue and inner mouth. Had to wash my mouth out. So, I started checking around on the internet and was quite surprised to learn that what I just ate was more than likely saw dust. I found out that this is not new...the food industry has been putting saw dust in our food for some time now. Unlike termites, we people cannot actually digest cellulose (saw dust). You Atkins dieters (low carbs) might perk up your ears on this one...the food industry uses saw dust to reduce the carb content of food they advertise as "low carbs". They use saw dust in ice cream, in many processed foods, in the foods you get at fast food restaurants. They put it in just about everything we eat. Even Mac and Cheese....I don't know about Pabst Blue Ribbon. Man, no wonder my stomach is starting to feel like the roots of a tree is growing in there...just joking...but I hope the termites don't attack me when I am sleeping.
Here's a thought....the ET aliens that look like giant termites (the greys) may actually be time travelers...they are US in the future after we have evolved into giant termites...no wonder they love strawberry ice cream....the earthling food manufacturers put saw dust in it! These aliens are trying to tell us....DON'T EAT THE FOOD!
What? You thought that my ICON wasn't an actual photo of me?
http://www.zonediet.com/forums/aft/61235
http://www.naturalnews.com/033767_cellulose_food.html
I agree, domestic surveillance has become a tool for the Oligarchs to use in thwarting attempts like the Occupy Movements initiative to move towards representative govt., also commonly known as Democratic Socialism....a direction most of the rest of the world is already well on it's way towards. This scares the crap out of piggish subversives like the Kochs....who by the way will be entombed in solid gold mausoleums by the time we catch up with the rest of the world.
Another "TOOL", is a guy most citizens have never heard of....which is all about to change......PAUL RYAN....the media will no longer be able to suppress the facts behind his BUDGET PLAN. The very least, Biden could expose the cold facts in front of a global audience during the VP debates with the little monkey. In my opinion this plan is truly the Republians achilles heel.....hey, MIITT HAPPENS!
I've been in the mountains this last week but caught some of Mike Papantonio's coverage...... what a freaking great job he does!...... Good choice Thom!
Ryan needs to be asked how his Koch/Teabag mandate of shrinking government by cuts to senior citizens and working people and thus reducing spending......how does this action which turns into more tax cuts for Romney to stash in off-shore bank accounts..... create one more damn job for the millions currently suffering from all of this bald faced greed?
A National Security State, ever increasing its full spectrum surveillance, is the natural result of the solidarity of 99% of the participating electorate routinely flocking to the polls to obediently robovote together for the sociopathic policies of the corporate (R) & (D) party.
America will remain a corporate-state as long as too many senseless Americans continue to obediently vote for the corporate party's Republicans and Democrats... and too few sensible people disobediently vote.
If Democrats were the Solution we wouldn't still have the Problem.
The "progressives" are the liberals who keep voting for the corporate party's Democrats so they can keep protesting against what they keep voting for.
Occupy the 2012 election with support for Dr. Jill Stein for president.
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Every big box store has cameras in every aisle. This is nothing new. Moreover, the UK has tested out the system. This system will hopefully result in a far more responsive law enforcement as it has in the UK.
I wonder what part Microsoft will play in the new NSA complex they are building in Utah..right next door to the mylife bunkers. "Find out who is searching for you!".
Man, talk about a "cloud"...that's likely where all data will be stored, decrypted if need be, and analyzed...or a good part of it anyway.... It will save them from having to sneak into peoples houses, or businesses, imaging people's drives for analysis when they get back to their lairs....although I'm sure they will continue to do that, as well, when they are dealing with someone who knows better than to warehouse their data "in the cloud".
What makes me feel safer is that this latest outrage is managed by Microsoft. That means they will have crashing cameras, failure to link saved data to the central drives, and an inability to even search properly. Their incompetence ensures our freedom.
We can all cry about what is going on, ranting and screaming feels good, but in reality what will be, will be. We have allowed our government to get away with lying to us about why we were warring on a nation (Vietnam for one and then on to the more recent wars we are still fighting), using us as guinea pigs for nuke tests in the 1950's in the Nevada desert, and now spying on us in the name of national security. Guess what, perhaps there is nothing we can do or say to change what is happening. We have allowed the right side of the political isle and the left to pay off the Wall St. loses while pushing full forward onto austerity for the rest of us, and have we marched or come out in packs to stop them, NO. We get up in arms and get pissed and say they are turning our freedom into a joke and spying on us from every source imaginable, yet only a 45-50% turns out on Election Day! Until we unite as a force, we have no chance of changing any thing. They, speaking of every entity that will make a profit off our laziness and inability to form a united front, will continue to produce and purchase, with our tax revenues, whatever they wish too, to keep us in line with their wishes. Why, because they know the American span of attention is limited to micro bytes of info they feed us in our news and whatever else we spend our time watching. Is there even a small chance we can turn this form of 1984 around, maybe. but until we stop them from dividing us into our separate little fragmented political and ethnic groups, we haven't a chance of getting back our civil rights and privacy, that is being stripped away almost daily. So either get serious and get united or get use to the eye in the sky and everywhere else they are watching us from.......
Welcome to 1984....
We can all cry about what is going on, ranting and screaming feels good, but in reality what will be, will be. We have allowed our government to get away with lying to us about why we were warring on a nation (Vietnam for one and then on to the more recent wars we are still fighting), using us as guinea pigs for nuke tests in the 1950's in the Nevada desert, and now spying on us in the name of national security. Guess what, perhaps there is nothing we can do or say to change what is happening. We have allowed the right side of the political isle and the left to pay off the Wall St. loses while pushing full forward onto austerity for the rest of us, and have we marched or come out in packs to stop them, no. We get up in arms and get pissed and say they are turning our freedom into a joke and spying on us from every source imaginable, yet only a 45-50% turn out on Election Day! Until we unite as a force, we have no chance of changing a thing. They, speaking of every entity that will make a profit off our laziness and inability to form a united front, will continue to produce and purchase, with our tax revenues, whatever they wish to keep us in line with their wishes. Why, because they know the American span of attention is limited to micro bytes of info they feed us in our news and whatever else we spend our time watching. Is there even a small chance we can turn this form of 1984 around, maybe. but until we stop them from dividing us into our separate little fragmented political and ethnic groups, we haven't a chance of getting back our civil rights and privacy as a nation, that is being stripped away almost daily. So either get serious and get united or get use to the eye in the sky and everywhere else they are watching us from.......
Paranoia is a mental disease characterized by irrational unwarranted, delusional beliefs that someone is watching and/or controlling you...like through radio waves...or that you can actually talk to, and hear, some imaginary being...I think they call it "prayer". But, there is nothing unwarranted, irrational, or delusional about the belief that someone IS watching and monitoring us because they ARE. But, of course, the watchers, upon seeing that we are on to them, will call us paranoid anyway. Today, if you are not believed to be paranoid (by THEM anyway) you are just bleating sheeple that are easily led to the slaughter when THEY whisper sweet propaganda into your ears.
Microsoft has planned obsolescence very well perfected. What better way to not only sell a consistent reliance on their software but to create their constant ability to inject code that might be used for purposes that they really don't want you to know about...and neither does the 3-letter government organizations. Where are you Mel Gibson...help me out here...would you?
Matter of fact just about everything has a microprocessor it in now-a-days. And what better way of causing the planned failure of our devices...say refrigerators, or TVs, or cars, or whatever...to occur just before warranty runs out (as a reminder to buy the extended insurance) and then once again after the warranty runs out if you didn't buy the extended insurance. Another matter of fact...that these microprocessors will be communicating to some federal agent nearly everything we say in our kitchens and bedrooms one day. Our appliances will be spying on us....talk about paranoia...it'll drive us all nuts for sure.
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
By Mat Honan
Email Author
August 6, 2012 |
8:01 pm
"In the space of one hour, my entire digital life was destroyed. First my Google account was taken over, then deleted. Next my Twitter account was compromised, and used as a platform to broadcast racist and homophobic messages. And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook."
"...what happened to me exposes vital security flaws in several customer service systems, most notably Apple’s and Amazon’s. Apple tech support gave the hackers access to my iCloud account. Amazon tech support gave them the ability to see a piece of information — a partial credit card number — that Apple used to release information. In short, the very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the web are precisely the same ones that Apple considers secure enough to perform identity verification. The disconnect exposes flaws in data management policies endemic to the entire technology industry, and points to a looming nightmare as we enter the era of cloud computing and connected devices."
"This isn’t just my problem. Since Friday, Aug. 3, when hackers broke into my accounts, I’ve heard from other users who were compromised in the same way, at least one of whom was targeted by the same group.
The very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the Web are precisely the same ones that Apple considers secure enough to perform identity verification."
"[I lost]... more than a year’s worth of photos, covering the entire lifespan of my daughter, or documents and e-mails that I had stored in no other location."
"Moreover, if your computers aren’t already cloud-connected devices, they will be soon. Apple is working hard to get all of its customers to use iCloud. Google’s entire operating system is cloud-based. And Windows 8, the most cloud-centric operating system yet, will hit desktops by the tens of millions in the coming year. My experience leads me to believe that cloud-based systems need fundamentally different security measures. Password-based security mechanisms — which can be cracked, reset, and socially engineered — no longer suffice in the era of cloud computing."
Read this fascinating, fairly detailed, article on how the hack went down as detailed by the hacker. You may want to close some favorite accounts till they get this mess cleaned up.
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/
video news report here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HEzrJEjExs
This is happening under the guise of "It's all about your safety" - Protecting you and the American way of life"...... Bullshit, stay the hell out of my life and let me worry about my safety, or lack thereof. It's nobodys damn business where I go, what I do, who I talk to, and what I say, let alone what I think. As long as I obey basic social laws that everyone else obeys, then leave me the hell alone and saty out of my life..........
The advent of cheap technology in cameras, audio etc, has made this all possible, and the more everyone buys into the influence of technology the more crap such as this will increase.
Time everyone gets off their lazy asses and votes to cut government down to a fourth what it presently is..........
One consolation - the software was done by MicroSoft. It will be full of bugs, wide open to hacking, and will have to be upgraded every year.