December 2011
164 posts
Happy New Year Everyone! Free ride home & towing!...
I hope everyone has had a great holiday season. I’ll get back to updating soon! Just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year!
Please stay safe if you go out tonight. Just so you know, AAA has teamed up with Budweiser and several other places to offer you a free ride home AND they will tow your car for free if you go out but don’t stay sober. It’s good in a number of states,...
DOCUMENTARIES: Knowapower put up a nice,... →
occupyonline:
I haven’t seen all of these, but they all sound interesting.
Affluenza
A documentary movie entitled “Affluenza” in 1997 is an innovative film that diagnoses a serious social disease. It is caused by commercialism, consumerism, and rampant materialism that are having a disturbing impact on our families, communities, environment, and even future generations. Affluenza is defined...
Under my Information Sources page, but to repaste... →
occupyonline:
Documentaries:
Affluenza Inside Job Capitalism: A Love Story Zeitgeist: Moving Forward Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room Food, Inc. The One Percent Gashole The Big Buy: Tom DeLay’s Stolen Congress The Warning I.O.U.S.A. (Byte-Sized 30 min version) Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lending Trading on Thin Air The Corporation A Crude Awakening: The...
GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support
Major Internet companies have formed a united front in their opposition to the Protect IP Act and the Stop Online Piracy Act. Well, almost. One exception has been the domain registrar GoDaddy. In a op-ed published in Politico shortly after SOPA was introduced in the House, GoDaddy applauded the bill and called opponents “myopic.”
Now furious Internet users at reddit (owned by...
“The gridlock is easy to explain as long as you take the time to append “because...”
– - I believe a large proportion of Republican policy can be explained by GO FUCK YOURSELF. (via ilyagerner)
Lolol
“Bank of America’s Countrywide Financial business has agreed to pay a record fine...”
– BBC News - Bank of America fined $335m for minority discrimination
As we protest corrupt systems and institutions like BofA, it is extremely important to remember that race still plays a major role in the oppression of the people.
Financially, culturally, and politically, racism is not over. (via...
Bradley Manning Defense Reveals Alter Ego Named... →
socialismartnature:
This is the first I had heard of the fact that alleged Wikileaks whistle-blower, Bradley Manning, might actually identify as a female, preferring the name Breanna, instead.
The only weird part about this coming out in the course of the trial is that apparently Manning’s lawyers are trying to use the existence of Manning’s “gender identity disorder” as the reason why she may...
Reddit: The 'We are the 53%' Tumblr is... →
occupyonline:
The comments are also worth a read.
99anon: Image from Forbes article:
The American Dream: Ur Doing It Wrong.
I find it hard to believe she is serious here…
“The Japanese could read the US press, with its lurid discussion of how US...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
Socialism Art Nature: The FBI's unjust persecution... →
socialismartnature:
Politicians in the U.S. are never convicted of advocating or carrying out the bombing and murder of innocent people in other countries. Yet a Boston Muslim, Tarek Mehanna, was just convicted in federal court of “terrorism” and “conspiring to kill US soldiers in Iraq,” despite the fact that…
Bradley Manning Faces Life Sentence, While War... →
socialismartnature:
We speak with constitutional lawyer and Salon.com blogger Glenn Greenwald about the military pretrial hearing now underway for alleged U.S. Army whistleblower Bradley Manning, who has been accused of releasing classified U.S. documents to WikiLeaks. Greenwald comments on the possible strategy being put forth by Manning’s defense. “All the Manning [tribunal] hearings have...
Anonymous Retaliates: Massive Information dump...
This year’s National Defense Authorization Act passed quickly through the Senate and as expected President Obama signed the bill. 86 Senators in a bipartisan move, signed off on this controversial bill, which opens the door to invasive acts against Americans. Almost everyone has felt the effect of Anonymous’ presence online and off and now, the 86 Senators will feel their ubiquitous presence as...
Meet Kim Jong-Il's Sons
I’m oddly fascinated by North Korea and am interested to see what happens next since the passing of Kim Jong-Il. Decided to read up on his sons. I knew he had two, but didn’t know there were actually three:
Kim Jong-Nam is the oldest son of the departed “Dear Leader.” Jong-Nam was born in 1971 and for the first four years of his life his existence was kept from his...
“I want people to see the truth… regardless of who they are… because without...”
– Bradley Manning (Manning-Lamo chat logs)
Human rights violations including the torture and...
Decided to read through Wired.com’s post of the (alleged) Manning-Lamo chat logs (and post the parts I found interesting, after cut).
Though I’ve never been in the military, I’ve been around military and former-military people a lot. I understand the issues with leaking classified documents. I understand the dangers of his doing so. I haven’t even read a fraction of the...
Kim Jong Il: Dead
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died of a heart attack while on a train trip, state media reported on Monday, sparking immediate concern over who is in control of the reclusive state and its nuclear program.
A tearful television announcer dressed in black said the 69-year old had died on Saturday of physical and mental over-work on his way to give “field guidance.”
Kim Jong-un, Kim...
Watchanonymissexpress:
DID YOU HAVE ANY IDEA? - with John PILGER
One of the things that almost has never come out of the generally appalling media coverage of Julian and Wikileaks, is the REASON for Wikileaks. It had a moral base. It was about Justice. He wrote it on the home page of the first Wikileaks. It wasn’t necessarily finally defined, but to use that expression… he nailed his colours...
Anonymous asked: Why do you suppose the citizenry dont destroy public surveillance cameras .22 rifle would be sufficient, and the sonic report wouldn't be deafening. Do you think cameras overlap each other's views to catch just this type of thing?
No Fear: Memory Adjustment Pills Get Pentagon Push...
The Pentagon hasn’t come close to solving the PTSD crisis plaguing the current generation of troops. And the top brass looks like it’s ready to try anything — like a major push into a cutting-edge, controversial realm of treatment. One that’d see military personnel popping a pill to wipe away the fear they associate with traumatic memories.
The Pentagon this week announced an $11 million grant...
Carrier IQ Spying On You? You Consented! →
Americans consented to secretly installed software on 150 million mobile phones that logs what apps they use and what websites they visit and who they communicate with, according to mobile-phone makers and carriers.
Sprint, AT&T, HTC and Samsung told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) Thursday that their end-user licensing agreements — those pages of fine print you sign when you get a new cell...
Link Roundup: State of Surveillance
I was going back through my recent posts for my compilation of links to the most important ones when something caught my eye once again: FBI: Carrier IQ Files Used for Law Enforcement Purposes. And while it was, of course, a cause for worry the first time I read it, it was even more so when taken into consideration alongside the other links posted recently.
Carrier IQ is surveillance software...
“And here was another thing many in the middle class were discovering: the...”
– The Making of the American 99% And the Collapse of the Middle Class (via azspot)help US (via jmichealortiz)
Indefinite Detention of American Citizens: Coming...
occupyonline:
By Matt Taibbi
There’s some disturbing rhetoric flying around in the debate over the National Defense Authorization Act, which among other things contains passages that a) officially codify the already-accepted practice of indefinite detention of “terrorist” suspects, and b) transfer the responsibility for such detentions exclusively to the military.
The fact that there’s been...
Congress Authorizes Pentagon to Wage Internet War →
veritaschronicle:
The ancient art of war is coming to the internet.
The House and Senate agreed to give the U.S. military the power to conduct “offensive” strikes online — including clandestine attacks, via a little-noticed provision in the military’s 2012 funding bill.
The power, which was included in the House version but not the Senate version, was included in the final “reconciled” bill...
Got heat? If you're poor, you'll have less than... →
otherwise-occupied:
The relentless assault on low-income Americans continued apace Thursday as part of the budget “deal” Republicans made not to shut down the government. Figuring that the Pentagon isn’t getting enough taxpayer money, but the poor are getting too much, Congress boosted spending for core defense by about 1 percent over the current year, a bit more than $5.6 billion. But it only...
Locking up children just doesn't work, a study... →
anonymissexpress:
By MeganCottrell, October 10, 2011 at 2:23 pm
Illinois currently has about 1,200 youth in juvenile correctional facilities, and another 2,000 awaiting trial in detention facilities. How much does that cost us? More than $100 million a year, or about $85,000 per child, according to the Illinois State Bar Association. Fifteen percent of those children, it says,...
Anonymous declares cyber war on Congress over... →
anonymissexpress:
Published: 16 December, 2011, 22:28
Anonymous declares cyber war on Congress over indefinite detention act.
Hacktivists are continuing their mission to take on politicians causing the collapse of constitutional rights in America, with operatives from the online collective Anonymous keeping up a campaign against the signers of controversial legislation.
Read more on...
Coming soon: Ubiquitous surveillance from Big... →
anonymissexpress:
As the price of digital storage drops and the technology to tap electronic communication improves, authoritarian governments will soon be able to perform retroactive surveillance on anyone within their borders, according to a Brookings Institute report.
These regimes will store every phone call, instant message, email, social media interaction, text message, movements of...
“What does it say about our country that nonviolent protesters are given the...”
– Patrick Meighan (writer of Family Guy), on his Occupy arrest
My #OccupyLA arrest, by Patrick Meighan (one of... →
youthiswasted:
This is well worth the read.
Agreed, thanks for the link. Excerpt:
When the LAPD finally began arresting those of us interlocked around the symbolic tent, we were all ordered by the LAPD to unlink from each other (in order to facilitate the arrests). Each seated, nonviolent protester beside me who refused to cooperate by unlinking his arms had the following done to him: an...
WNDW Downloads →
anonymissexpress:
Wireless Networking in the Developing World book can be freely downloaded in a variety of formats and languages.
“Globalization – the handmaiden of Cheap at All Costs – is celebrated as a...”
– The Walmartization of America Redux: How the Relentless Drive for Cheap Stuff Undermines Our Economy, Bankrupts Our Soul, and Pillages the Planet (via cultureofresistance)
SOPA has NOT been postponed to 2012! The Committee...
abaldwin360:
techdirt.com
Despite the fact that Congress was supposed to be out of session until the end of January, the Judiciary Committee has just announced plans to come back to continue the markup this coming Wednesday. This is rather unusual and totally unnecessary. But it shows just how desperate Hollywood is to pass this bill as quickly as possible, before the momentum of opposition...
