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Here in Canada, we will have a national day of protest on Mayday. We are reclaiming Mayday-the communist celebration from Kraputalism. It will also be a nod to the Trekkies, who protested during the first Great Depression. They clung from the sides of trains, and even rode on top. They came from all over the nation to protest in Ottawa.
I subscribe to Washington Post and a few others online and when I read and comment on some of their stories or commentaries, I am just absolutely astounded at the ignorance of people who actually buy into what the far right is selling? I was going back and forth a few minutes ago regarding the story of Paul Ryan's new budget plan which would cut food stamps, SS, Medicare, etc. and these people think he's just great. I think these are people who haven't felt the pain yet, but there day will come. I haven't felt the pain myself, but if my SS benefit is cut, I will. But, I feel the pain of others and know of some firsthand.
The word is spelled algorithm.
Plus, this NSA breakthrough was a long needed gap in post-War II intelligence gathering which has connected families of war profiteers to the present state of things.
I'm glad they were finally able to unscramble certain code blocks, with the help of Mr. Magwire.
"First they ignor you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you. Then you win."
Gandhi
We The 99% and all who support and occupy in protest against Corporate Democracy will continue our plight with strength in numder and spirit.
Nazi/Draconian laws will not stop us.
Much like men who marched on the Salt Mines in India in protest against belligerent British Occupation...
WE WILL PREVAIL OVER BELLIGERENT CORPORATE GREED, POWER, FRAUD.
Big Brother at the end of Beef Hollow Road.
"...the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.”...smash those cell phones and computers, and go really, really dark.
But this spy center will have the capability to go really, really dark...into the "dark web"...the places where you think your data bases are protected by elaborate random passwords but are easily searched (crawled) by NSA. All of the searches you normally do are only accessible by say Google's, or other search provider's, web spiders crawling the web collecting data that wants to be found...or data that can be found and not protected. The "dark web" dwarfs the "visible web" and there is an incredible lot of data in the dark web....private data..business data..investment data...embarassing or "criminal" data. And the NSA wants it before Homeland Security can get it.
Construction is to be completed in September 2013 and cost about $2billion and encompass a million square feet...5 times larger than the US Capitol. It is being built at the end of Beef Hollow Road on Ft. Williams about 3 miles south of Bluffdale, Ut. It will be called "Utah Data Center".
This is the most likely spot I've found on Google Earth 40deg24'17.54N 112deg03'02.00W elev 5450ft. This salellite photo was taken on 12/31/2005 and you can see an area that is about 1000' by 1000' that looks like the ground has been broken and some foundation, of sorts, laid. It looks ready to build something huge (1 million square feet) at this site.
If you are big into cryptoanalysis and computers, and want more than one wife, you may be interested in a job here. The new site is about a mile from a polygamous reservation. Bon Appetite and My sympathies... but despite your gift for handling complicated riddles and algorythms you will realize that even one wife is complicated enough!
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/
The cops still don't get it. If the occupy movement fails to restore our democracy, ultimately their jobs will be farmed out to security franchise companies, ones that pay a fraction of the current compensation as well as scant benefits. Wake up, billionaire Bloomberg is already trying to cut your pensions. In addition Cuomo has caught the republican anti-union, balance the budget on the backs of public workers, austerity, privatization, fever. It's about the 1% grabbing all the money and power and the cops need to realize they're not part of that elite frat...... they're part of the 99%, they need to join in and help carry the signs....it's their kids future at stake too!
Hopefully the change will be the attitudes of law enforcement!
I think that the Occupy movement, here in NY and around the world, has already raised the level of discourse on many issues, especially surrounding the creators/devastators of our economic plummeting. I'm hopeful that this small but potent beginning will emerge to become another civil rights/anti-Vietman/sufferage/early union/UFW movement that started out with a few folks giving it their all then spreading to encompass all sorts of people of many different persuasions.
Just think, all of the movements I mentioned above blossomed without the internet and the results had deep and lasting impact on our country and in the world. Think of what we can do with this tool.
The NSA is building the biggest spy center in the world for spying on us. It is located in Bluffdale, Utah. They will have the capacity of yottabytes which is a million-billion-gigabytes of information of the world's communications (phone, emails, text, and internet searches). And even your toaster or refrigerator or your dish washer may be spying on you.
Will they be using the digital wireless power meters that they are installing everywhere to tap into our homes..even if you don't have internet?
If appliance manufacturers install microchip processors with the right software and a network chip and modem designed to communicate over the house power grid (your AC outlets) to the power meters on the side of your house which then broadcast their signals wirelessly to the internet...then it is quite possible. After all, DSL works at a higher frequency than voice frequencies on the telephone simultaneously. Or, perhaps, they will just have the capacity to just broadcast wirelessly, themselves, like your lap tops.
Sounds really paranoid but it's only paranoid if it is not reality. We are not really very far away from science fiction...like Fahrenheit 451.
http://presstv.com/detail/232475.html
It is happening! And the police riot in NYC shows how frightened the oligarchs are of our determination!
I think OWS will come back stronger. I've beeen involved in anti-war demonstrations the past 10 plus years and it seemed that the public was becoming more favorable to our cause over time. Hopefully we'll see the same thing happen with OWS.
First; Seton Motley is what I call a Social and Economic Darwinist. This means that he wants to let nature separate the weak from the strong. He thus masks his own heartlessness with a dishonest appeal to "...let God sort 'em out." That way Seton's off the hook for having to give a damn. "Why should I have to share MY money?" they cry. And let's not forget, "Let 'em DIE!"
Second; on OWS an older activist lady told me, "It's out of our hands now. It's organic. It will take it's own direction." I wish it wasn't so. But it's anarchic in both a good way and a bad way. It won't have a leader. Why I wonder, do Occupiers feel they have to camp out on the streets every night? Is it because their model is the Arab Spring in Egypt? If I was leading the thing I'd have ten thousand people walk past the stock exchange with guitars singing, "Money Honey", or "Money" ("That's What I Want"), then just keep walking. Do it every day. A sense of humor (and shame), know what I mean?. It's not going to help just expressing rage. Might even hurt. Then there are the infiltrating provaceteurs from certain so called "intelligence agencies". Your rage plays right into their hands.
Saw "I AM" last night --!
in honor of the extraordinary approaching
2012 Vernal Equinox.
Time for a WHOLE SHOW on "I AM" and the science in it!
That will get the team pumped up!
Bravo Tom and Thom!!
A HEART Hug to YOU Both.
I wonder sometimes if anyone reads these comments, but it would appear to me with the struggle and unrest everywhere a great many citizens could really benefit from jpining the occupy movement. There is not enough participancts to make a difference. Shall we all wait until it's too late ? I'm of the opinion that if we simply do nothing we will arrive at a point where open conflict looting and chaos will be the only option. We need to shut down the nation. Paralyze it. National strike. Those of us who are employed right now are being extorted by the promise of better times ahead. Those who are unemployed, under educated, disenfranchised are simply ignored. If there is no class warfare then why do bankers where a uniform of a suite ? Why are some suites off the shelf and some are Armani ?
Lets all where dungarees of the working class. See where this all leads. Any society with unregulated
ethics for profit and income cannot avoid socialism at it's most minimal incarnation. Capitalism literally creates a requirement for socialism. The elite hate socialism because it infringes on there own private form of socialism. The "good ol' boy system" of eliminating unwanted competition, avoiding social responsibility, and selective screening of who will be successful and who will not.
Is there a shadow of a doubt in anyones mind an individual such as George Bush JR or SR could possibly enjoy the success they have had without selection and priviladge ?
This reality should make every citizen, not on a golf course, ready to fight. We need to take back our government.
Puerto Rico is a commonwealth. And I think that's even technically true, i.e. that it's not called a territory..
I have been waiting for the public to gather and protest for ten years now. In the 60's we stopped a war. I wondered if there were any people with ideals and the guts to get behind them in this era. Glad to see it.
When the chasm between the wealthy and the poor continues to widen, more and more people will fall in, this is why the Occupy Movement will continue and grow as more of these people look for a way to have their voice heard. Unfortunately some of these people have it in their head that it will never happen to them, and yet there are wealthy people above them contemplating the next dollar, and eventually the rich will drop the axe on everyone below them just to get their next pile of cash. Occupy will continue to grow and evolve and I think this coming year will show a more organized, cohesive plan that will have to be paid attention to. I wish them all well.
You all realize that the pattern is repeating. We took the bio diversity from the land, we took the indigenous culture out for an industrial revolution that has brought us a new corporate citizen, and now the new land owners are rewarded for redesigning the Corporate Citizens new landscape of mono cropping and suburban sprawl. This has now set forth a new trail of tears. The American people and their walk into death from being completely dissolved of a natural food web, completely dissolved of a pattern that has any cycle to earth. You are a a cargo culture; a huge tanker on a collision course that has no preparations to halt its course into extinction. Driven by a false light of technology. Driven by their IPADand GMO's. You don't even think Earth can sustain life without it. Learn Permaculture design.
Privatized libraries!? Oh yeah --- ? Privatized schools. Privatized Post Office, Privatized Police and Fire -- does anyone NOT get that this is end game of Deep Water? (Hello White Rose)
Total Control of Information, in content and in exchange.
We needed to have taken the seizure of the airwaves a whole lot more seriously.
As for the Present: Please make sure your neighbor and communities see what is at stake,
and the transparency of the same old game of Creating Chaos
in order to let the "Strong Hand" take over.
Well I don't think Mr. Motley has ever stepped foot into a library, much less does he know how much different things people use libraries for. When we were in the Military with three children our household income was considered low income so we used the public library always. We could simply no afford to buy books. Also we checked out movie for the kids to watch and the kids would participate in the summer reading program. The library was also the first place where I've have made use of a computer. Yes this was years ago but I'm still now using the library my husband and kids still have a library card to this day. I believe the republicans want to dumb down the public any way they can,just look at the college tuitions
Thom, This is info you should have at hand the next time someone criticizes libraries or the arts.
http://www.artsusa.org/pdf/information_services/research/services/economic_impact/aepiii/national_report.pdf
Nationally, the nonprofit arts and culture industry generates
$166.2 billion in economic activity every year—$63.1 billion in spending by organizations and an additional $103.1 billion in event-related spending by their audiences. The impact of this activity is significant, supporting 5.7 million U.S. jobs and generating $29.6 billion in government revenue.
In my opinion, when Seton Motly used the term "whiny bitches" he tipped his hand as being a gay man. I don't think there are many players in the NCAA tournament throwing that term out on the court. Maybe he just hasn't come to terms with it himself. Thom, you were just polite enough not to have raised the issue.
Things partly still seem to go wrong 2950-10K. The other day Norman Goldman reported on his radio show, there was a new Democratic Congressman appointed : a blue-dog, obviously quite a bit GOP-friendly--bLaH. I forgot the state, it was somewhere in the west -- not the Middle West, not Pacific...... Whatever, we really need a decent majority in Senate and House, to change something over the comming four years. No progressive should waste their votes, otherwise we might get a Congress dominated by blue-dogs and teabaggers. With such Congress cast even Karl Marx couldn't govern any other way else but corporate right-wing policy. So please don't waste your votes, progressives!
We constantly have to remind fellow-progressives : voting for progressive parties on the left of President Obama mustn't necessarily be wrong, BUT : it MUST be a party that has a realistic chance to get into Congress! I certainly might vote for Bernie Sanders, if I lived in Vermont. I never heard him talk against the President -- he's actually Obama-friendly. So if some progressives like Senator Sanders, but dislike President Obama, something's not logical about this philosophy.....
Whatsoever, laws are being made in CONGRESS, the President just signs them. This is why I lately stress : let's talk about CONGRESS, folks!!
The SCOTUS has not ruled on auto insurance, and it is a little different.
The difference between the GOP nominated judges and the DEM appointed judges is the GOP judges follow the constitution and the others are activist judges that rule like they would like it to be, making a mockery of the constitution..