February 2012
9 posts
Cory Doctorow: On Little And Big Brother
MP: You said that you left the US because you didn't want to have to regularly subject yourself to biometrics...But in the UK there's even more surveillance.
CD: Oh, yeah. You can't escape it anywhere. It's a race to the bottom all around the world right now. Canada, Germany, the US, and the UK, as well as the rest of the EU, are basically locked in a race to see who can implement 1984 the fastest. The US -- obviously now you've got indefinite detention for American citizens on US soil. In Canada we're on the verge of getting this lawful intercept bill that's as bad as anything anywhere else in the world. In the UK we have the Digital Economy Act and widespread biometrics. In Germany the police just got caught deploying what they've called the 0zapftis Trojan, the government trojan where when people cross the borders and they examine their laptops they covertly put spyware on their computers so they can watch them after the fact. I mean really, at every turn there's somebody doing this, so it doesn't matter where you live. It really doesn't at this point. That's one of the things that I've really come to realize, the fight is global.
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Graeber vs Hedges on the Black Bloc
Me: This is an ongoing dialog between Chris Hedges and David Graeber over Hedges' use of inflamatory language calling out the Black Bloc in the Occupy Wall Street movement as "a cancerous tumor"
Hedges: http://www.truth-out.org/black-bloc-cancer-occupy/1328541484
Graeber: http://nplusonemag.com/concerning-the-violent-peace-police
“plurality of the public (41%) believes young adults, rather than middle-aged or...”
– http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/02/09/young-underemployed-and-optimistic/?src=tumblr
“Few individuals outside advertising know about the power of the new media-...”
– A Guide to the digital advertising industry thats watching your every Click
January 2012
47 posts
“Soros goes on to say that as the crisis in the Eurozone only worsens, the...”
– George Soros predicts riots, police state and class war for America
“I believe in copyright. I benefit from it. I don’t want it to go away. I...”
– Jonathan Coulton Destroys The Rationale Behind The Megaupload Seizure With A Single Tweet; Follows Up With Epic Blog Post
mehreenkasana:
Just heard a huge blast. My windows shook. What’s going on?
“Can social unrest be the next step after more or less peaceful OWS, Occupy Wall...”
– http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2011/11/17/capitalism-at-a-tipping-point/
“Admonishing CEOs (and investors) to ignore the expectations market and refocus...”
– http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/3/
““We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from...”
– http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/2/
“Although Jack Welch was seen during his tenure as CEO of GE as the heroic...”
– http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/2/
“The “real market,” Martin explains, is the world in which factories are built,...”
– http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/11/28/maximizing-shareholder-value-the-dumbest-idea-in-the-world/
OWS VISION STATEMENT →
JANUARY 17th GENERAL ASSEMBLY-APPROVED FINAL DRAFT VISION STATEMENT:
We the people of Occupy Wall Street gather in the canyons of wealth to reaffirm our inalienable rights. United with the peoples of the world, we declare our rights to a just society and a flourishing environment for future generations.
Our political and economic systems are broken. Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts...
“The same thing goes for international relations. If Mozambique owes the US 10...”
– David Graeber studied 5,000 years of debt: real dirty secret is that if the deficit ever completely went away, it would cause a major catastrophe
“The creeping attempts at legislation are down to the power of what he calls the...”
– http://m.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jan/22/rick-falkvinge-swedish-radical-web-freedoms?cat=technology&type=article
“Mr. Chomsky said he had taken no offense at Mr. Chávez’s remarks about his being...”
– A Scholar is alive, actually, and hungry for debate
“It seems that most of us get more pleasure out of doing than out of having....”
– Consumption Makes Us Sad? Science Says We Can Be Happy With Less - The Daily Beast
“So no, Mitt Romney, when we say that Americans are waking up to the reality that...”
– America Wakes Up to the Reality: Inequality Matters | On Democracy | BillMoyers.com
“INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012.
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
Over a...”
– https://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/sopa.txt
“While some progressives are fond of calling fundamentalist religion the “opiate...”
– 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
“During the time in one’s life when it should be easiest to resist authority...”
– 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: How the US Crushed Youth Resistance
“A number of analysts have observed that bin Laden won major successes in his war...”
– Noam Chomsky: The Responsibility of Intellectuals, Redux
Brake the Internet Pirates →
Wikipedia and many other websites are shutting down today to oppose a proposal in Congress on foreign Internet piracy, and the White House is seconding the protest. The covert lobbying war between Silicon Valley and most other companies in the business of intellectual property is now in the open, and this fight could define—or reinvent—copyright in the digital era. Everyone agrees, or at least...
“This is an illegitimate system. Around half of the nation’s population doesn’t...”
– AMERICA OCCUPIES THE CAPITAL | OccupyWallSt.org
“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution,...”
– Daily Kos: Occupy the Dream
“For the second year in a row, more American soldiers—both enlisted men and women...”
– More U.S. Soldiers Killed Themselves Than Died in Combat in 2010
“These 15 men are leaders of what might be called Romney’s K Street army. They...”
– Happy Lobbyists, Unhappy Citizens - NYTimes.com
A question for the 2012 GOP Candidates
A recurring theme I keep hearing among the GOP presidential candidates is the need to create jobs by making American companies more competitive in the world marketplace. What this means in practical policy terms is to lower the corporate tax rate, deregulating the marketplace and eliminating speed bumps (ie: the EPA, lowering carbon emission caps, opening up new domestic oil and gas reserves,...
When will war end?
It’ll end when Americans and people-abroad realize that these wars only benefit corporatist interests involved in the war-machine, and the politicians, executives and hangers-on involved with those concerns. The people in the attacked country face the obvious violence, the problems that result from the destruction of their societies infrastructure, the degradation of their countries natural...
WatchGlobal Revolution TV evicted: Jump to around 5mins.
“We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube...”
– United States – Google Transparency Report
A Petition to Support the Saving American... →
President Barack Obama: “With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”