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Like 500 years ago, geeks are becoming the last line of defense for free speech

April 1, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

Businesses are attacking liberties that challenge their interests, and normally powerless people are defending freedom of speech. This is a world upside down, the direct opposite of how it should be – and yet, entirely predictable when we look at history.

In the past week, the spam protection service Spamhaus was subjected to a relentless attack that gives a glimpse of things to come. The attack initially rendered the service inoperable, effectively killing many crucial spam filters around the world for the duration of the attack.

However, geeks rose to the occasion, mounted countermeasures, and dissipated the attack, restoring the functionality of the world’s spam filters in a matter of hours.

There is an escalating war on free speech happening right now. What Spamhaus does is easy to describe: it maintains a list of electronic junkmailers to the best of its ability, giving any and all e-mail services in the world the ability to sort out e-mail from known junkmailers. Publishing the list is obviously part of exercising free speech. Read the rest of this entry →

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US news media has devolved to ‘carnival act’ – Hedges

April 1, 2013 in Editorial, Headline, Politics

Chris Hedges, author, columnist and former Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New York Times spoke with RT about how FCC deregulation during the Clinton administration allowed a handful of corporations to dominate US media.

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RT: I want to start off by reading a quote from one of your articles on this very topic, you say: “The celebrity trolls who currently reign on commercial television, who bill themselves as liberal or conservative, read from the same corporate script. They spin the same court gossip. They ignore what the corporate state wants ignored. They champion what the corporate state wants championed. They do not challenge or acknowledge the structures of corporate power.” So Chris, what do you think is the problem with media today?

Chris Hedges: Well, that sort of sums it up. It’s a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporate state. You have a half-dozen corporations — Viacom, General Electric, Rupert Murdoch’s Newscorp, Disney, Clear Channel — that control almost everything most Americans watch or listen to. And, you know, as I wrote in that column, the lie of omission is still a lie. They hold up political puppets as part of this charade to deflect attention from where power actually resides, and that’s in the hands of corporations. It’s impossible within the American political system to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs, and so we don’t hear anything about climate change, the poor – the rural and urban poor are rendered invisible in this country. And they’re really suffering at this point, I just finished a book on it, spent two years on it – Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, with the cartoonist Joe Sacco out on the poorest pockets of the country.

We don’t hear anything about the assault on civil liberties, whether that’s the Section 1021 of the National Defense Authorization Act, or warrantless wiretapping, the use of the Espionage Act to shut down whistleblowers — the misuse of the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force Act, giving the executive branch the power to assassinate American citizens. And climate change – we should have … given the crisis which is now confronting the ecosystem on which the human species depends for its existence, we should have climate scientists on every night. And none of that appears, because it’s all driven by celebrity gossip, trivia — and yeah, okay, Fox will spin it one way and MSNBC will spin it another, but it’s all the same tawdry, useless garbage.

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Throwing the First Cyber-Stone – Implications of Cyber Warfare and the Stuxnet Scandal

March 30, 2013 in Editorial, Headline, Politics, World News

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper calls cyber-attacks a top national security concern, but these U.S. alarms sound hypocritical after the joint U.S.-Israeli cyber-sabotage of Iran’s nuclear industry, as Dutch computer expert Arjen Kamphuis explains.

From wired.com — Legal Experts: Stuxnet Attack on Iran Was Illegal ‘Act of Force’

A cyberattack that sabotaged Iran’s uranium enrichment program was an “act of force” and was likely illegal, according to research commissioned by a NATO defense center.

“Acts that kill or injure persons or destroy or damage objects are unambiguously uses of force” and likely violate international law, according to the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, a study produced by a group of independent legal experts at the request of NATO’s Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence in Estonia.

By Arjen Kamphuis -

A few years ago, Israeli and American intelligence developed a computer virus with a specific military objective: damaging Iranian nuclear facilities. Stuxnet was spread via USB sticks and settled silently on Windows PCs. From there it looked into networks for specific industrial centrifuges using Siemens SCADA control devices spinning at high-speed to separate Uranium-235 (the bomb stuff) from Uranium-238 (the non-bomb stuff).

Iran, like many other countries, has a nuclear program for power generation and the production of isotopes for medical applications. Most countries buy the latter from specialists like the Netherlands that produces medical isotopes in a special reactor. The Western boycott of Iran makes it impossible for Iran to purchase isotopes on the open market. Making them yourself is far from ideal, but the only option that remains.

Cascade of gas centrifuges used to produce enriched uranium. (Photo credit: U.S. Department of Energy)

Why the boycott? Officially, according to the U.S., it’s because Iran won’t give sufficient openness about its weapons programs, in particular, military applications of its nuclear program. This concern is fairly recent and, for some reason, has only been reactivated after the U.S. attack on Iraq in 2003 (a lot of the original nuclear equipment in Iran was supplied by American and German companies with funding from the World Bank before the 1979 revolution).

The most curious aspect of the West’s allegations about Iran is that they are never more than vague insinuations. When all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies in 2007 produced a joint study there was a clear conclusion: Iran is not developing a nuclear weapon. (To see a recent speech by the leader of this study, click here.)

And that’s what’s strange. For if the 16 American intelligence services and their Israeli colleagues, the Mossad, can all agree that Iran is not making nuclear weapons, how do you justify an attack against Iran’s civilian industrial infrastructure via the Stuxnet computer virus? And this is the equivalent of a military attack as would be clear if you consider what would happen if Iran had been caught in a cyber-attack on Western installations in Borssele or Indian Point.

Stuxnet is designed for a single purpose: the damage of nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran, a country that may just be performing these activities in accordance with the international agreements stipulated in the Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran, like most other countries in the world, signed this Convention. The countries outside the NPT are Israel, India, Pakistan, North Korea (which withdrew) and the newly independent South Sudan.

Under the NPT, a civilian nuclear industry is allowed, a detail that sometimes escapes the attention of editors. I’m not saying the Iranian government is filled with darlings, but Iran has not attacked anyone in the past 200 years, unlike some NATO countries. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Cyber Warfare, intelligence, Internet Security, State Terrorism, Stuxnet, Terrorism, U.S. State Terrorism No Comments »

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Revolution, It’s Our Right

March 6, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics

We’re long overdue for a new American revolution.

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It’s obvious to anyone paying attention at this point that this current government doesn’t give a damn about anyone who isn’t buying influence in Washington. That’s why they’ll vote unanimously for giving the military hundreds of billions of dollars to maintain an imperial presence around the world, but they won’t pay for $85 billion to provide assistance to low-income families trying to heat their homes or keep early childhood education centers open. And when things have gotten this bad, revolution is a moral obligation, not a radical idea. The Declaration of Independence proves that.

“Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

-Declaration of Independence, 1776

The New Hampshire state constitution’s “Right to Revolution” clause says it a little more plainly.

“Government being instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the whole community, and not for the private interest or emolument of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, whenever the ends of government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the people may, and of right ought to reform the old, or establish a new government. The doctrine of nonresistance against arbitrary power, and oppression, is absurd, slavish, and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.”

-New Hampshire Constitution, 1784 Read the rest of this entry →

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Guerrilla, the ultimate way of resistance

March 1, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Occupy

By Joost van Steenis – downwithelite.wordpress.com

Guerrilla warfare has been successful in many Third World countries. In Western countries it has to be slightly adapted. Safe base areas where the guerrilla can recuperate and plan new actions are not possible. Guerrilla is the extension of politics by putting direct pressure on the most powerful people, the 1%. (Pressure on politicians, the puppets of the 1% is counter-productive). Most action principles are still valid, I name only a few:
Care for a long series of small victories
Attack incessantly
Have the initiative, we act so they have to react and not we react on what they do.
Use deception when possible
Surprise the enemy
Minimise damage to the 99%

Simple ideas but they have worked!

The first Occupy action – the occupation of thousands of squares in the world – was excellent. Surprise and initiative! Most further actions did not comply with guerrilla principles. Without daring and surprising actions in which the damage to the 99% is minimal and the pressure on the 1% maximal, there are no lasting successes. The beginning will be slow but suddenly a next spark can start a prairie fire (Mao Tse-tung).

Most guerrilla principles were already 2000 years ago written down in ”The Art of War” by Sun Tzu. Not weapons stand central but the strategy. Guerrilla is a political struggle, an action method that can be used by common citizens without any specialisation. Weapons are hardly necessary because a guerrilla in our kind of countries is not a war of a weak army against a strong army. It is a war of attrition against the centres of power, the 1%.

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Drug Wars, The D.R.E. scandal, Operation Fast and Furious and Gun Control – what does this all mean in your future?

February 7, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Documentary, Editorial, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Video Perspective

By Nick Hathaway – roguemedia.org

This is a call to all for assistance in investigating the facts surrounding the events detailed in the story below, if you have information, make it available. Run with it if you find something out and want a pulitzer… there is so much more to this that no one is talking about publicly yet.

Obama paid a recent visit to Minneapolis, MN earlier this week saying he was here to promote his gun control and weapons bans stance . The event took place, not among the public, but at a special facility, the Minneapolis Police Department Special Operations Center, speaking with law enforcement directly rather than the general public.

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This is somewhat interesting considering a number of sheriffs around the country have recently voiced concerns over the legislation and executive orders, some going so far as to say they would not enforce unconstitutional laws.

The peculiar thing about this is it is reported that major players in the D.R.E. ( Drug Recognition Evaluator ) scandal , were at the conference. This meeting comes on the heels of a major lawsuit filed last Friday by several individuals involved in being “tested on” by police as subjects in the program. The lawsuit aledges that police were involved in unsupervised testing, and distribution of drugs to civilians, with no medical supervision or regulatory commission, and then dropping them off in the street after just confirming through these tests that they were in fact intoxicated.

This article is an attempt to ask some serious questions about the connections between gun control, the fast and furious scandal, the war on drugs and how all of these tie into the D.R.E. investigation and trial. There are some serious questions that need to be answered by policy makers and those that are serving in public office regarding these connections. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: CIA, D.R.E. scandal, DHS, Drug War, Fascism, Fascist Police State, Fast and Furious, FBI, Gun Control, Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Police State, Secret Wars No Comments »

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Gun Control and the Politics of Opportunity in America

January 22, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update

By Nick Hathaway – roguemedia.org

There have recently been a few tragic incidents involving mass shootings by what seem to be hapless and insane individuals in the U.S. All politics and viewpoints aside, these events are tragic, and should be avoided. But, not at all costs. That solution, “fix the problem, at all costs,” is what is driving this country over a cliff that we will never be able to climb out of, if we keep current course.

Mentally deranged people should probably be monitored alot more than just making sure they don’t own firearms, god forbid we allow a lunatic to pump gas and blow everyone up at the local gas-station as well. I hope u get the point, everything we do on a day to day basis while daydreaming of something else is dangerous. Take driving your car for example, most people think nothing of it. That is most likely the single most lethal thing americans do on a day to day basis.

Black Panthers, on the steps of the state capitol in Sacramento, CA
Instrumental in the fight for civil liberties that happened over the last 50-100 years.

Gun control, and the new fervor for passing into law some draconian ideals that are fueled by sensationalist media campaigns on the evening news should not escape anyone’s notice. One side will argue that these [mass killings] should never happen again, the other will argue that we need to uphold the 2nd Amendment, both sides are right.

However, despite the debate that ensues after every one of these incidents there are a few things to keep in mind ::

1) Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety, deserve neither ( Ben Franklin, founding father of the United States of America ). I mean no dis-respect to him when I paraphrase this to say, ‘you are responsible for your own safety and well being, make smart choices and keep yourself armed.’

2) Keeping guns out of the hands of law abiding citizens only makes the problem worse, in that case all the criminals will have guns and no one but the police state will be around to save you.

3) All of these recent incidents have numerous reports from eye witness’ that say there was more than 1 shooter. This should raise a huge false flag to anyone that cares about the truth of the news reports they hear.

4) Mentally unstable people should probably not be allowed to have weapons that are intended to kill large amounts of people all at once. This may actually include gasoline at filling stations, let’s be honest.

5) Our own government has been involved in supplying people, that most of society would view as mentally unstable, with automatic [ i.e. illegal] weapons that EVEN NOW BEFORE NEW LEGISLATION, CIVILIANS CAN NOT BUY OR OWN !!!! (cough , cough, Fast and the Furious Scandal, MK Ultra, Iran Contra Scandal, not to mention the laundry list of U.S. law officers that have come forward to say that the C.I.A. is involved in a domestic drug cartel, the list is virtually endless.)

6) We already live in a fascist police state, and the time to claim and hold on to your 2nd amendment rights is NOW !

7) A smart criminal that really wanted to could build his own assault rifle, with or without gun control, and do the same things that have happened in these recent cases of violence. Including building their own ammunition, the fact is it is fairly easy, and all the tools are available to anyone willing to take the time to do it. If you are worried about psychopaths with automatic assault rifles, gun control legislation will not help you.

8) After passing the recent NDAA, which allows indefinite detainment WITHOUT TRIAL of anyone (including US citizens) the executive branch of government decides is a terrorist, they can send you to guantanamo. REAL FACT. It’s current law in the U.S. after Obama’s executive order, and that means he has every reason to disarm the populace.. . What better time, disarm everyone, and then any “insurgents (read, people that don’t agree with the master plan ) “ can just be held in offshore prisons where we don’t have to account for anyones health, security or well being…

9) When political protest becomes illegal, and as you have seen if you are awake by now, peaceful protest is met with violent police state, fascist style repression, not only in the form of beating and subdueing protesters and activists… But, also in the form of mass media repression of the topic. The major corporate backed news networks simply refuse to cover any protest action, as if they can totally ignore the communication links already building within the masses.

The future of this planet, and our children’s children, and those to come after depend on us.. Let’s make our voice heard, I for one want to live on a planet that is sustainable.

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State of the World Address

January 21, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Uncategorized, World News

Nick Hathaway – Roguemedia.org

Things are not well for our planet. If you were not already aware of this, you need to start paying more attention. Possibly, get off the couch or armchair, and do something about it..

Where to start, really? How do you begin talking about all the problems facing us, the human race, right now? Do i start with global warming and climate change that we are all seeing happen right now? Do i talk about some of the biggest and most fascist governments this world has ever seen, squaring off in a cold war style fight for the earths resources with no thought at all about the possible outcome, the inevitable wars, or if it is even good for our planet and way of life to use some of these resources and pollute our air and water, not to mention the land we get our food from….

Do I talk about the corporations that now seem to in fact run these governments? Do I talk about all the dis-information these governments are trying to feed us, the people, so we buy into the lie and just keep going to work day after day, not doing anything about the problems facing our planet.

There is really so much to say, so much to do, that it is amazingly difficult at times to even pick a place to start.

We all need to do our part, think globally, act locally within your community. Start getting communities meeting with each other face to face and start talking about how to deal with the world around us. TURN OFF YOUR TV !! GET OFF THE COMPUTER AND TALK TO PEOPLE !! MAKE A DIFFERENCE ! DIRECT ACTION, NOW !!!!

The truth is, we do not have time to wait for politicians to try “fix” the problems, THE FIX IS IN, and they have rigged the game for so long we are all FUK’T if we don’t get up and do something about it now.

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Academe Is Complicit – Remembering the legacy of Aaron Swartz

January 21, 2013 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Headline, Politics

Timothy Burke – insidehighered.com

I don’t think there’s much more to say about Aaron Swartz. I didn’t know him personally, but like many others I am a beneficiary of the work he did. And I have agreed for much of my life as an academic with the thinking that led him to his fateful act in a closet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Most centrally, that there are several ethical imperatives that should make everything that JSTOR (or any comparable bundling of scholarly publication) holds freely available to everyone: much of that work was underwritten directly or indirectly by public funds, the transformative impact of open access on inequality is already well-documented, and it’s in keeping with the obligations and values that scholars allege to be central to their work.

Blame is coming down heavy on MIT and JSTOR, both of which were at pains to distance themselves from the legal persecution of Swartz even before news of his suicide broke, particularly JSTOR, which very early on asked that Swartz not be prosecuted. Blame is coming down even more heavily, as it should, on federal prosecutors who have been spewing a load of spurious garbage about the case for over a year. They had discretion and they abused it grievously in an era when vast webs of destructive and criminal activities have been discretionarily ignored if they stem from powerful men and powerful institutions. They chose to be Inspector Javert, chasing down Swartz over a loaf of bread. Read the rest of this entry →

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It’s Silly: The Trillion Dollar Coin and the Monetary System

January 12, 2013 in Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics

Toby Iverson – tshirttoby.blogspot.com

While celebrating Christmas with the family I had a conversation with my 8 year old nephew. He knows that I’ll explain anything to him in a comprehensible way. (Well, almost anything.) We were talking about money and I told him how you used to be able to trade your dollar bill in for silver but can’t anymore.

“So what can you trade it in for?” he asked

“You can’t. It’s not backed by anything now.”

“Then what makes it worth a dollar?”

After a brief pause looking around at the rest of my family who was now listening in.”Faith.”

“Faith?”

“Yes. Because we believe it is worth something makes it valuable.”

After a moment of contemplation my nephew says. “Well that’s silly.”

We all laughed as I agreed. “It is silly.”

The whole trillion dollar coin idea is silly. But it is no more silly than the rest of our financial system. It will probably never happen and should be understood in that context. But if you leave out the silliness and likelihood of it happening, it is not a bad idea. Read the rest of this entry →

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MK Occupy Minnesota: The Drug Recognition Evaluator BCA Investigation files

November 25, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Documentary, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, Video Perspective

According to all recent reports, police officers themselves indicate people were provided with drugs by law enforcement agents, think what happens in the medical world for one second and how a Dr.’s life could be ruined in a second with one faulty prescription….

After thinking about that. realize that both Hennepin county and the city of Richfield and Minneapolis where this all happened, have both refused to file criminal charges despite confirmation from law officers that they were giving people drugs with no medical supervision and letting them loose in the street afterwords.

The original DRE report video, a new BCA ( bureau of criminal apprehension ) report and a list of all the interesting pages and the statements made on them is noted below, enjoy

Submitted by HongPong on Mon, 2012-11-12 10:50

hongpong.com — MINNEAPOLIS — NOV 12 2012 — Law enforcement officers under a state training program called Drug Recognition Evaluators encouraged people in downtown Minneapolis, including Occupy Minnesota protesters at Peavey Plaza and other vulnerable and houseless people to participate in alcohol and drug intoxication evaluations. After a 35-minute video “MK Occupy Minnesota” [produced by Occupy Minneapolis, Communities United Against Police Brutality, Rogue Media & Twin Cities Indymedia] was released documenting claims of several DRE participants they’d been given drugs and encouraged to take drugs, an officer from Hutchinson, MN, stepped forward to corroborate part of that story.

Mn Bureau of Criminal Apprehension under the Department of Public Safety, generated a 513-page investigative report described in Minnesota Public Radio & Star Tribune stories, but not available publicly in full until now, adding another chunk to this incomplete story from one of the many gray areas in the war on drugs & the suppression of Occupy protesters.

New BCA Report URL: http://hongpong.com/files/dre/DRE-investigation-BCA.pdf (78MB)

May 3: http://www.hongpong.com/archives/2012/05/03/mk-occupy-minnesota-drugs-dre-program-peavey-plaza
Original video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTgN17FZGKEMK Occupy Minnesota: Drugs & the DRE Program at Peavey Plaza

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Wall Street ‘s Next Profit Scheme — Buying Up Every Piece of Your Home Town

October 10, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics

Across America, schools, roads, and water systems are for sale to the highest Wall Street bidder.

By Michael Hudson – alternet.org

The pace of Wall Street’s war against the 99% is quickening in preparation for the kill. Having demonized public employees for being scheduled to receive pensions on their lifetime employment service, bondholders are insisting on getting the money instead. It is the same austerity philosophy that has been forced on Greece and Spain – and the same that is prompting President Obama and Mitt Romney to urge scaling back Social Security and Medicare.

Unlike the U.S. federal government, most states and cities have constitutions that prevent them from running budget deficits. This means that when they cut property taxes, they either must borrow from the wealthy, or cut back employment and public services.

For many years they borrowed, paying tax-exempt interest to wealthy bondholders. But carrying charges on these have mounted to a point where they now look risky as the economy sinks into debt deflation. Cities are defaulting from California to Alabama. They cannot reverse course and restore taxes on property owners without causing more mortgage defaults and abandonments. Something has to give – so cities are scaling back public spending, downsizing their school systems and police forces, and selling off their assets to pay bondholders.

This has become the main cause of America’s rising unemployment, helping drive down consumer demand in a Keynesian nightmare. Less obvious are the devastating cuts occurring in health care, job training and other services, while tuition rates for public colleges and “participation fees” at high schools are soaring. School systems are crumbling like our roads as teachers are jettisoned on a scale not seen since the Great Depression.

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Thirty National & International Groups Call For Support Of the Tar Sands Blockade

October 9, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update

Published by Sparki, October 6th, 2012 global warming – itsgettinghotinhere.org

I’m very excited to have been able to have worked on getting this letter of support the Tar Sands Blockade together.

They are the flagship of what is going on in the climate movement today. It’s so important that the rest of us that can’t be there have their backs and support their non-violent direct campaign in whatever way we can. Right now, police and prosecutors respond to blockaders with violence and trumped up charges and TransCanada responds with reckless disregard for the safety of protestors as well as lawsuits.

Right now, we need to respond with “a threat to justice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

An Open Letter In Support Of the Tar Sands Blockade Read the rest of this entry →

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OCCUPY ISN’T DEAD

October 9, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics

DEAR CORPORATE MEDIA: OCCUPY ISN’T DEAD, BUT IF IT EVER DOES DIE, GET THE BLAME CORRECT

By Dan Kaplan

Photo Credit: http://beautyfilledrevolution.tumblr.com

As I do after each one of Occupy Wall Street’s major days of action, I scoured news websites on Tuesday to learn what our “trusted watchdogs,” the mainstream media, had to say about S17.

And within minutes, I learned that the coverage – with little exception – amounted to nothing more than the typical and predictable refrain: Occupy is dead.

For me, reading Occupy stories written by reporters at the AP or Reuters or MSNBC or theDaily News or NY1 or Fox News or The New York Times is almost an exercise in masochism at this point. I don’t need to click on a link to know how the most important social movement of my lifetime is going to be handled by the establishment media. And it’s this: The coverage will fall somewhere between petulant group-think and outright falsehoods.

As a former mainstream media reporter myself – I wrote for the second-largest daily paper in New Jersey – I think I know why this is the case. Most journalists are either too meek and obedient to their most powerful sources (Mayor Bloomberg, the NYPD, etc.) to tell the real story – or they are too J-school trained to get “both sides” of the issue that they always leave the reader wondering: “So what’s the truth?” NYU professor Jay Rosen calls this “the view from nowhere.”

Throw in the fact that most mainstream media outlets are owned by huge corporations and that Occupy doesn’t fit into their neat parameters of what constitutes a political story (Democrats versus Republicans!!!), and it’s pretty obvious why every other story about the movement is an obituary.

But how many times is the mainstream media going to declare Occupy dead? It did so after encampments across the country were brutally raided and evicted late last year, it did so on Occupy’s six-month anniversary, it did so after May Day – and many more times in between.

The opening paragraph to these stories is always the same. It reads something like this: “Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered at such-and-such location yesterday, but their presence did not nearly live up to their numbers last fall.”

Enough already.

IF OCCUPY IS DEAD – AND HAS BEEN DEAD FOR MONTHS – WHY ARE YOU STILL WRITING ABOUT IT? Read the rest of this entry →

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July 27th Will Be Known As The Day The Free United States Died If UN Arms Trade Treaty Is Signed

July 24, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Headline, Occupy, Politics, World News

This is a call to everyone out there to wake up, turn off the TV and look to see what is really going on.

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

Photo: Cam in Van (Flickr)

By Nick Hathaway – © roguemedia.org

Without the right to bear arms the only people that have guns are the criminals that the media is trying to LIE and tell people this type of legislation will prevent from getting guns.

Anyone remember the Fast and Furious scandal recently, the government was giving criminals and gangsters automatic weapons in Mexico in hopes it would bring up a gun control debate then too.

Now, not even a year later, the government wants to ban civilians from owning semi-automatic and handguns, let alone the fact that the fully automatic ones they give to criminals are already illegal to own.

“According to FBI statistics, since Washington D.C.’s gun ban was implemented, the murder rate for the district increased while the nation’s murder rate declined.

After the injunction against handguns was lifted, from 2008 to 2009, murders in the district fell twenty-five percent.” - washingtontimes.com

The real honest fact is that if a criminal has a gun, and knows that guns are illegal, they also know it is highly unlikely that anyone is going to shoot back at them.

Video below.. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: 2nd Amendment, Constitution, Death of a Nation, Freedom, Gun Control, Liberty, UN Arms Trade Treaty 3 Comments »

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The Gentleperson’s Guide To Forum Spies

July 22, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Occupy, World News

The Gentleperson’s Guide To Forum Spies (spooks, feds, etc.)
http://pastebin.com/irj4Fyd5

1. COINTELPRO Techniques for dilution, misdirection and control of a internet forum
2. Twenty-Five Rules of Disinformation
3. Eight Traits of the Disinformationalist
4. How to Spot a Spy (Cointelpro Agent)
5. Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression Read the rest of this entry →

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Remember What This Holiday Is For? July 4th Is Independence Day , Are You Really Independent ?

July 4, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Occupy, Politics, Video Perspective

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Remember What This Holiday Is For? July 4th Is Independence Day , Are You Really Independent ?

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America Could Have Dropped Big Oil Decades Ago — What Happened?

June 20, 2012 in Editorial, Headline, Politics

Renewables are still just scraping by, while we’re beholden to dirty fossil fuels. An important history lesson explains why.

www.alternet.org By Aaron Skirboll

This story is not new. Today, solar energy is picking up momentum. But despite the current numbers and the recent raves, the solar saga, and that of renewable energy as a whole, has been going on for decades. It is a history of false starts and stutter steps.

First, the good news. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), 2011 showed record-breaking numbers for U.S. solar installations. The industry’s best year ever saw demand rise by 109 percent over the previous year. With tremendous incentives and benefits for homeowners, and as prices continue to decline, the future looks bright for this alternative energy source.

However a quick glance to the past throws harsh light on the fact that we’ve been at this precipice before. In 1978, the White House Council on Environmental Quality issued this glowing statement: “Our conclusion is that with a strong national commitment to accelerated solar development and use, it should be possible to derive a quarter of U.S. energy from solar by the year 2000. For the year 2020 and beyond, it is now possible to speak hopefully, and unblushingly, of the United States becoming a solar society.”

The key words here being “strong national commitment,” because just as timber, coal, oil, gas, and nuclear received enormously strong federal support, solar needs the same kind of government backing, which as of yet, the sector has not seen. The statement should instead read, We could become a solar society, if only we wanted to become a solar society. Read the rest of this entry →

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Political duality of the week: Electoral politics crushes anti-establishment networks of Ron Paul & Wisconsin uprising reframed as #WIrecall. What now, lolcats?

June 12, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Headline, Occupy, Politics

Submitted by HongPong

Privatized ballot boxes, courtesy of IBM and Unisys

The ugly realities of modern electoral politics in America hit home this week with two body blows to self-styled anti-authoritarian political networks: The Ron Paul movement finally hit the brick wall as Rand Paul (R-KY Coal Mines) endorsed Mitt Romney (R-Rich Mormon Mafia) — utterly shocking & depressing tons of semi-libertarian Republicans along with the entire conservative side of the “Truther” and/or “Liberty” movements.

Days earlier, the Wisconsin recall election against Gov. Scott Walker (R-Petulance) turned in uglier-than-expected numbers as likely thousands of Wisconsinites were stripped of their Constitutional right to vote through ridiculous new regulations — and of course a bunch of shady electronic voting machines run from a company in a suburban St. Cloud strip mall. Fox News flacks and nasty Gloria Borger/Sarah Palin types cackled that the unruly, rebellious hordes had been licked for good. Now, the Paulistas and the rebellious Cheesehead hordes must ask: what’s next?!

Perhaps these movements never had too much in common, though you could find some overlapping supporters. Probably the biggest difference is the Liberty types are pretty darn hostile to mainstream unions while the #OccupyCapitol (which the Dems transmuted into #WIrecall) clearly ended up with unions as its main hub. But they shared a hostility to the party hierarchies, business as usual, and to some extent the elite financial/War Machine domestic & international complexes, which has triggered the financial/austerity crisis by sucking out trillions of dollars. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Ballot Box Errors, Ballot Boxes, Fraud, Governor Walker, Lies, Recall, Recall Election, Ron Paul, Unysis, Voting, Voting Fraud, Walker, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Recall Election No Comments »

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Financial Crisis at Hand

June 12, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, World News

By Paul Craig Roberts — intrepidreport.com

Ever since the beginning of the financial crisis and quantitative easing, the question has been before us: How can the Federal Reserve maintain zero interest rates for banks and negative real interest rates for savers and bond holders when the US government is adding $1.5 trillion to the national debt every year via its budget deficits? Not long ago the Fed announced that it was going to continue this policy for another 2 or 3 years. Indeed, the Fed is locked into the policy. Without the artificially low interest rates, the debt service on the national debt would be so large that it would raise questions about the US Treasury’s credit rating and the viability of the dollar, and the trillions of dollars in Interest Rate Swaps and other derivatives would come unglued.

In other words, financial deregulation leading to Wall Street’s gambles, the US government’s decision to bail out the banks and to keep them afloat, and the Federal Reserve’s zero interest rate policy have put the economic future of the US and its currency in an untenable and dangerous position. It will not be possible to continue to flood the bond markets with $1.5 trillion in new issues each year when the interest rate on the bonds is less than the rate of inflation. Everyone who purchases a Treasury bond is purchasing a depreciating asset. Moreover, the capital risk of investing in Treasuries is very high. The low interest rate means that the price paid for the bond is very high. A rise in interest rates, which must come sooner or later, will collapse the price of the bonds and inflict capital losses on bondholders, both domestic and foreign.

The question is: when is sooner or later? The purpose of this article is to examine that question. Read the rest of this entry →

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SOLIDARITY WITH QUEBEC STUDENT STRIKE !

June 4, 2012 in Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, Video Perspective

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Over the last few months, we have been enheartened by the revolt taking shape in the streets of Montreal. The students of Quebec have taken a struggle against tuition hikes and mobilized hundreds of thousands against austerity and state repression. What began as a one-week university student strike has precipitated into an anti-capitalist revolt against universities, banks and police in what many are calling a general and indefinite social strike. In the face of intense state repression, including the draconian law 78 more or less banning protest, court injunctions against university picket lines, and mass arrests, the rebels of Montreal return to the streets night after night for over 100 days. They have called for solidarity actions from everyone and everywhere that can connect with the struggle, saying that if the strike “cannot inspire disruptions of its own, then it will die out quick.”

In the Bay Area, we, too, have seen revolt spread from universities into the community through Occupy, and we’ve seen tens of thousands come together against state repression for the November 2nd general strike and December 12th west coast port shutdown. And during those days of intense struggle, we drew strength and joy from the solidarity extended to us from as far as New York to Mexico City to Cairo.

It is now time for us to extend our solidarity to our comrades in Montreal and work to inspire the same solidarity and desire to disrupt business as usual in our friends, families and neighbors.

How did Quebec Students Mobilize Hundreds of Thousands for Strike?

Published on May 3, 2012 by TheRealNews

Keep striking and don’t ever stop!

Infinite solidarity with the infinite social strike!

We are all in the Red!

Bring pots, pans, and red squares of cloth. These are the symbols of solidarity with our Quebec comradies.

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Freedom Of Speech

June 3, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics

by Michelle Hill – occupynewhampshire.org/2012/05/29/freedom-of-speech/

While at the first rally, the one sponsored by National Nurses United (the union which paid for the buses to get us to and from Chicago), I found my brand new phone didn’t work. I couldn’t get or receive texts or phone calls. So I asked one of the police officers why our phones were being blocked. He responded with “there are too many people trying to use their phones at once. No one is blocking them.” Frankly, I didn’t believe him. Later in the week I overheard two officers talking. One was saying how glad she was cellphones had been blocked. The other nodded his head. I believed this officer to be telling the truth.

Unfortunately, blocking cellphones became the norm.

By blocking cellphones live tweets weren’t sent, people couldn’t call one another, and there was a dearth of Facebook status updates. It seems to me by blocking our phones, the police (or whomever was the guilty party) curtailed Freedom of Speech since phones are no longer just for voice communications.

Speech is our most basic freedom. To curtail it, for any reason, is not only unconstitutional, it’s a sign of fascism. For city police to participate in such behavior is totally unacceptable. For any police to participate in the silencing of speech is totally unacceptable.

I wondered why my brand new phone didn’t work but others did. I saw cops and paramedics on their phones. I saw other Occupiers on their phones. So maybe the technology used worked only on new phones. I’m not that tech savvy so I can’t answer my own question. But what I can say is I felt stifled. I could not reach the woman I was supposed to meet so we never connected that day. I felt uninformed without my twitter updates. When the rally moved I couldn’t find where the climate people went because of the dearth of text messages. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: #NATOPROTEST, #NoNato, Cell Jamming, Cell Phone Jamming, Denial of Service, Freedom of Speech, NATO, Nato Protest, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Signal Disruption No Comments »

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We need a “blitz” against poverty

June 2, 2012 in Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics

by Alan Maki - mnpolitics.gather.com

MPR on All Things Considered, aired this program on poverty:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2012/05/30/report-says-more-minn-children-living-in-poverty/

We need further discussion and concrete action if we are serious about eliminating poverty.

Governor Dayton, state legislators, the business community, organized labor and the foundation-funded outfits went into a “blitz formation” and scored a touchdown and the billionaire owners of the Vikings got their new stadium.

See: Vikings stadium backers go into blitz formation (Star Tribune article by Rachel E. Stassen-Berger, March 4, 2012)

Link: http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/141313353.html

Apparently the “blitz formation” works as well in politics as on the football field so one has to wonder why after having scored this touchdown for the billionaire owners of the Vikings, Governor Dayton together with his friends in the business community, organized labor and the foundation-funded outfits don’t use the same “blitz formation” to tackle the problem of poverty?

I am assuming the crowds would cheer much louder if the governor and his friends in business and labor sacked poverty.

Governor Dayton was the primary cheerleader for a new Vikings Stadium although he is leading no cheers to alleviate, let alone eliminate, poverty.

Governor Dayton, during his tenure as governor of Minnesota, hasn’t even attempted to articulate an explanation as to why poverty still exists in a state where a billion dollars can be found for a new Vikings Stadium let alone bring forward any legislation to alleviate poverty.

Minnesota legislators have some kind of committee they call “Ladder Out of Poverty.” It seems the ladder must be missing quite a few rungs and constructed from rotting timber because no one can use the “ladder” for its stated purpose. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: Child Povery, Economic Disparity, Economic Injustice, Finance the Future, Government Bailout, Poverty, Real Working Wages, Trickle Down Economics No Comments »

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Propaganda – Manufacturing Consent, The Death of Free Press and Free Thinking

May 28, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Headline, Politics, Video Perspective, World News

This article has come about for 2 reasons, one being an article at beforeitsnews.com about propaganda, and secondly an article involving Tim Pool proposing a monopoly on audio broadcast during the NATO summit in the event [like many people thought was going to happen] that internet data transmissions went down and live video feeds were not possible.

I was going to just re-post the beforeitsnews.com article, but felt there was alot more to say and wanted to address why we feel so strongly that even talking about a monopoly in media is enough of an offense, that it destroys the very fabric of what independent journalists working against mainstream media is all about. Not to mention what that sounds like to any journalist in a collective space where people are donating their time and energy for ZERO profit, just for the sake of getting news out to people.

The propaganda model is a conceptual model in political economy advanced by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky that states how propaganda, including systemic biases, function in mass media. The model seeks to explain how populations are manipulated and how consent for economic, social and political policies are “manufactured” in the public mind due to this propaganda. — beforeitsnews.com

– see video below Noam Chomsky’s “Manufacturing Consent” Well worth the time.

Today the “news” is all but bought and paid for by wealthy elitists that have every interest in controlling what you think, buy, do, say, act, wear, eat, and even how you go about your day to day life in a way that is unprecedented in scale. Just look at the fact that 5-6 companies own every major broadcast network in the U.S. and how much money is being flooded into commercial advertising. Read the rest of this entry →

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Tim Pool Seeks Monopoly on Audio Broadcast in the Event Data Services Go Down – NATO Protest 2012

May 24, 2012 in Editorial, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, World News

Tim Pool Seeks Monopoly on Audio Broadcast in the Event Data Services Go Down - NATO Protest 2012

Having recently worked in and around the NATO protests in Chicago, we’re surprised to learn that self professed “fair and balanced” reporter @timcast , Tim Pool was trying to corner the market and get : A monopoly on audio broadcast in the event that data services went down and people were being prevented from live streaming. This report was witnessed by several other individuals.

Many people, from all over the world, thought they would be jamming or shut down internet and cellphones for months leading up to this event in Chicago, rumors had been circulating through various circles. It seemed to many people, that it would be standard practice for an event like this where military helicopters were flying through the loop in DT Chicago between skyscrapers, just weeks in advance, on training exercises.

The rumor that was floating around among many video streamers was that data services would be down during the protest, but that cell phone service itself would remain intact. There was a lot of speculation as to what this would mean, and many people [including Tim] involved in media efforts, were trying to figure out ways to work together towards solutions.

Tim was involved in trying to arrange for special favors, in his exact words, ”…then I could have a monopoly [on audio]…” This would have been broadcast in the event that data services went down and live video streaming was not an option.

We can also confirm that the independent media center was told they could no longer use his [ Tim 's ] video stream to re-broadcast coverage of NATO as they had been doing from various live video feeds from everyone around the country in attendance. There was not a single other streamer that had a problem with being re-broadcast. In fact, most people we talked to that were uploading video live or via other means were happy to freely share, so that the whole story could be seen from multiple points of view.

Tags: #NATOPROTEST, #NoNato, @timcast, American Spring, Deciet, Lies, Media Blackout, Occupy, Occupy Chicago, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Tim Pool, Truth in Media 3 Comments »

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Canada Refuses to Allow Fox “news” A License – Lying to People is Illegal There

April 23, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Finance, Headline, Occupy, Politics, Update, World News

This is not a new headline, but I feel it needs to be re-addressed as IT IS STILL PERFECTLY LEGAL TO LIE TO THE PUBLIC in United States Corporate Media, and it is getting worse.

By Nick Hathaway – roguemedia.org

“Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators announced they would reject efforts by Canada’s right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news. Canada’s Radio Act requires that ‘a licenser may not broadcast….any false or misleading news.’ The provision has kept Fox ‘news’ and right wing talk radio out of Canada” -Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Huffington Post

I lived in Vancouver, BC for about 2 years myself around 2005-7, and was astonished at the fact they actually got real world news. Something I was not used to coming from the U.S. and I commented on all the time. People there were shocked to hear when I told them what a traditional U.S. news broadcast entailed..

I told them that I have never lived in communist China, but going off what I had heard I did not think the U.S. was much different in terms of getting real honest news reports of what was going on around the world, let alone in my own city or state. I still feel that way today and I believe it is getting worse.

The illusion of freedom of the press is perhaps more damaging and dangerous than knowing that you are being lied to and that everything you hear is censored. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: censorship, Fox, Fox News, Free Speech, freedom of the press, Journalism, Lies, media, Murdoch, Occupy, OWS, Politics 8 Comments »

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Anonymous: Revolution 2012

April 13, 2012 in ANON NeWs, Editorial, Occupy, Politics, Video Perspective, World News

Published on Mar 29, 2012 by TheAnonMessage

The time has come…

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In This From My Heart – Occupy Oakland

April 3, 2012 in Editorial, Headline, Occupy, Politics

by Linda – occupyoakland.org

The camp was the most beautiful experience of my life. Then they tore it down. We responded by bringing tens of thousands to march on the Port of Oakland, declaring a General Strike in the city of Oakland. The night of the General Strike, everyone came back to the plaza and the police shut down the buses so I couldn’t go home. Someone let me use their tent and I didn’t mind staying out all night. It was my first time ever encountering police in riot gear, but the way that my comrades hurled things at them and chanted “fuck the police” gave me a whole new sense of empowerment.

Oakland Port Shutdown - margaretkilljoy http://www.flickr.com/people/26353674@N05

I love Occupy Oakland because it has given me a new voice and a new strength that I never knew I had. It also gave me confidence and the knowledge that I can fight back; I do have a voice and a choice in this world. I can push change forward. I love being in such a diverse movement: Being surrounded by different races, different sexes, different cultures, different thoughts and opinions and different, creative ways we all come up with to communicate with one another makes me feel wiser, helps me think more creatively and inspires me to act more responsibly. Every time I go to a general assembly or a committee meeting I work with other people that feel the same way and that really is a beautiful experience. I’ve always helped people, always wanted to affect people’s lives positively, and Occupy has given me another way to do that.

I’m getting my SSI check cut every three months while my food stamps dwindle away. Housing isn’t easy either. I’m on Section 8 and they want you to bend over backwards to stay in your home. Then I got with occupy and I realized that everyone’s dealing with some bullshit. I’ve been homeless before, for four years in a row, and I don’t ever want to be homeless again. That’s why I fight to help homeless occupiers get what they need to stay on their feet. Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: American Spring, Community, Love, Occupy, Occupy Oakland, Occupy the Heart, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Spring, Unity No Comments »

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Occupy Movement, Meet Permaculture

April 1, 2012 in Editorial, Headline, Occupy, Politics

Nathan - creativedharma.blogspot.com

When Occupy Wall Street appeared last fall, it was a breath of fresh air in what had become a decidedly stale a depressing political landscape. From the broad collection of issues being represented, to the actual “occupying” of a major public space in plain site of one of the world’s most powerful economic institutions, OWS brought people alive and brought people together – sometimes across astoundingly challenging differences. As the movement spread across the country, and went international, it was like watching the flashbulbs of cameras at the World Series or Super Bowl. Everywhere you looked, the lights of grassroots democracy were being switched on. And even those with some sympathy, but also with a lot of questions and reservations, couldn’t help but express some astonishment that this was happening at all.

Then the coordinated police repression set in. The untended roots of racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, and the like rose to the surface, and sprouted all over the place. The attraction to power, and greed, began to overtake the egalitarian processes and structures that had been formed, sending decision-making into a tailspin. The secular activists began to shun the spiritual ones, and many of the spiritual ones either retreated from their messages, or simply disappeared all together.

And then winter came. Stealing the sun. Swamping most of the remaining occupations with snow, or cold, or both.

Read the rest of this entry →

Tags: American Spring, Community, Love, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, Perma Culture, Spring, Sustainability, Unity No Comments »

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The roads leading to disaster

March 27, 2012 in Editorial, Headline, Politics, World News

Reflections of Fidel - By: Fidel Castro Ruz – en.cubadebate.cu

This Reflection could be written today, tomorrow or any other day without the risk of being mistaken. Our species faces new problems. When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away. At that time, a handful of leaders of the most powerful countries were in charge of the world. They applauded my words as a matter of mere courtesy and placidly continued to dig for the burial of our species.

It seemed that on our planet, common sense and order reigned. For a while economic development, backed by technology and science appeared to be the Alpha and Omega of human society.

Today, everything is much clearer. Profound truths have been surfacing. Almost 200 States, supposedly independent, constitute the political organization which in theory has the job of governing the destiny of the world.

Approximately 25,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of allied or enemy forces ready to defend the changing order, by interest or necessity, virtually reduce to zero the rights of billions of people.

I shall not commit the naïveté of assigning the blame to Russia or China for the development of that kind of weaponry, after the monstrous massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered by Truman after Roosvelt’s death. Read the rest of this entry →

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According to all recent reports, police officers themselves indicate people were provided with drugs by law enforcement agents, think what happens in the medical world for one second and how a Dr.’s life could be ruined in a second with one faulty prescription….

Across America, schools, roads, and water systems are for sale to the highest Wall Street bidder.

DEAR CORPORATE MEDIA: OCCUPY ISN’T DEAD, BUT IF IT EVER DOES DIE, GET THE BLAME CORRECT

This is a call to everyone out there to wake up, turn off the TV and look to see what is really going on.

Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.

Renewables are still just scraping by, while we’re beholden to dirty fossil fuels. An important history lesson explains why.

How did Quebec Students Mobilize Hundreds of Thousands for Strike?

We are all in the Red!

This is not a new headline, but I feel it needs to be re-addressed as IT IS STILL PERFECTLY LEGAL TO LIE TO THE PUBLIC in United States Corporate Media, and it is getting worse.

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