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Revolutions don't happen if the government know every step of anything remotely looking as leader for them, they even had plans for killing the Occupy movement key figures (and other approachs). Reelected Bush, reelected Obama, even seeing in which direction were going both, the american people jailed themselves and throwed away the key. And unfortunately were the only ones that could had done something.

Draw attention to yourself with the most imaginative draft emails you can for your state, county, regions and wait.
Save them with one of the big brand accounts - the ones that have been in the news.
Suddenly take your cell battery out for hours. Save emails to the press as drafts and connect to at cafes in the CBD.
Local Feature Analysis (LFA) will get your face in a country with the population the size of the USA in a very short time.
If the CCTV cant get your face, you will noted and get to enjoy a nice random stop-and-frisk at an exit or park or street.
Welcome to the new world of gait signature if that fails.
http://rt.com/news/identify-walk-system-britain-668/

Yes Canada is wanting to ban masks too, just for riots~ “unlawful assembly” - you face 10 years.
http://rt.com/news/canadians-ten-years-protesting-masks-965/

Thats the real world equivalent to the xkcd strip. The problem is, knowing the trend, going in the streets with something like that will surely put you in jail, for years. If they put in jail, for a decade, for scribbling anti-bank messages in sidewalks with washable chalks this will be harder. In fact, is a hack attempt, you could get a century in prison for that kind of things. Meanwhile, you keep the money and walk free, even if caught screwing the entire world's economy. In their view, law needs justice like a fish needs a bicycle.

Can you read Russia Today with a straight face?
Piss is washable. If you piss on a sidewalk, that's vandalism, period.

You can't piss your thoughts out in giant letters on a sidewalk and call it freedom of speech.

Thats the real world equivalent to the xkcd strip. The problem is, knowing the trend, going in the streets with something like that will surely put you in jail, for years. If they put in jail, for a decade, for scribbling anti-bank messages in sidewalks with washable chalks this will be harder. In fact, is a hack attempt, you could get a century in prison for that kind of things. Meanwhile, you keep the money and walk free, even if caught screwing the entire world's economy. In their view, law needs justice like a fish needs a bicycle.

This page at the Pirate Times provides live updates.

Last two updates at the moment:

14:45 (CEST) Ecuadorian Ambassador in Vietnam states confirms that Edward Snowden has requested asylum and mentions that the USA often refused to extradite criminals including bankers.

13:10 (CEST) A plane bound for Cuba with a booking for Snowden and another person has left Moscow but with Ed Snowden apparently not on board according to Russian Television English Service

Last I heard, Canada was still OK with it as long as you pay taxes on any applicable transactions. I don't know how long it will last.

Russia isn't the same old USSR any more.

Take what you hear through western media with a pinch of salt - I highly recommend reading/viewing RT as well as western media to get both perspectives. The different spin each side give the same story is interesting and you can bet the truth is maybe there somewhere in the middle.

Yeah, anytime someone claims we live in a representative democracy, I point to Congress's approval rating. BTW, the latest Gallup poll shows that only 10% of Americans have confidence in our Congress and 80% feel they are doing serious harm to our country.

The reason I believe this is because reports show that Germany was one of the countries that was spied on the most.

Citations or it didn't happen.

http://rt.com/news/germany-spied-nsa-snowden-515/

The "Monsanto Protection Act", referenced above in the link, http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/, prevents the governement for fining them for anything. This is precisely the type of incident the bill was written to protect them from. Funny that, isn't it?

http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-bill-blunt-agriculture-006/

The Senate is considering repealing, I'm sure this will add fuel to the fire. But as it stands Monsanto is imune from liability.

The problem with Bitcoin is the difficulty of exchanging it for offline money. The governments of major countries have been cracking down on BTC exchanges, claiming that their potential for money laundering outweighs any lawful benefit they might offer. PayPal is big enough to be able to afford compliance with money laundering regulations.

But one alternative to PayPal is Dwolla, the payment processor that people used to use to get their money in and out of Mt. Gox.

The more I read about what these guys were doing--and I mean the stuff they've admitted to, not just been accused of--the more I think they are getting what they deserve. Breaking into someone's network to get at information that the public should know is political. Breaking into someones network and racking up charges on personal credit card numbers is criminal. They're like the idiots that smash store windows during street protests.

I agree they are not the good guys. But I also think it's important to mete out justice based on who was doing what. I hope in street protests when windows are smashed that the vandals are correctly identified and brought to justice. Similarly, I hope they find who are responsible for the credit card thefts but it appears Hammond is not and there are reports he did not benefit personally from this intrusion:

Barrett Brown of Dallas, Texas is expected to stand trial starting this September for a number of charges, including one relating to the release of Stratfor subscribers’ credit card numbers. He faces a maximum of 100 years in prison.

More here.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/201311071754973439.html

http://www.texasobserver.org/seeds-of-discontent/

http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/farmers-sue-monsanto-over-seed-contamination.aspx

http://rt.com/usa/monsanto-court-plaintiffs-seed-747/

Microsoft has been caught selling DATA to advertisers, which is the worst offense.

http://rt.com/usa/yahoo-microsoft-campaign-political-862/ [rt.com]

No. They don't. Its obvious you haven't even read the link. You just posted some bullshit news link with a click-bait headline knowing most people wouldn't read it. All that has happened is political campaigns purchased ads (Protip: Ads are not data) targeting their voters.. Like they would on any advertising platform. So yeah.. just like what Google does. But hey.. I hope you've read up on what google is actually planning though... its no secret.

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The architect of Google's display strategy is former DoubleClick exec and VP Neal Mohan. He told Ad Age that "we are working on a couple of things," but also said "there is no timetable" for what will be released and when.

  "If our vision is a comprehensive one, it needs to contemplate data in addition to ad inventory," he said in an interview. "We are working on initiatives to help publishers and advertisers do just that ."

http://adage.com/article/digital/google-readies-ambitious-plan-web-data-exchange/228637/

Funny how anti-ms trolls love to project the thing they hate onto microsoft when in reality other "web" companies (aka slimy advertising executive filled companies) are much worse.

Astroturfer or ignorant?

Microsoft tracks you everywhere for contextual ads as well. And they value your privacy far less than Microsoft.

http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/microsofts-new-outlook-mail-welcome-hotmail-replacement-917473

https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-2013

Microsoft has been caught selling DATA to advertisers, which is the worst offense.

http://rt.com/usa/yahoo-microsoft-campaign-political-862/

And they have a patent specifically covering selling your personal private data to advertisers, allowing advertisers to bid on that data.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2010/02/gates_ozzie_other_microsoft_execs_patent_personal_data_mining.html

I'm not sure I see the tech angle on this /. story but I find it interesting that he had a plastic bag that says RFID Shielded.

Here's a picture of the blue RFID bag:
http://admin.new.rt.com/files/news/1f/11/50/00/48.jpg

http://rt.com/usa/yahoo-microsoft-campaign-political-862/

Microsoft has been caught selling DATA to advertisers.

And they have a patent specifically covering selling your personal private data to advertisers, allowing advertisers to bid on that data.

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/blog/techflash/2010/02/gates_ozzie_other_microsoft_execs_patent_personal_data_mining.html

It is only bad business if the media calls them out on it, which hasn't really happened. That is why Microsoft spends a small fortune on astroturfing, shifting the focus on Google for privacy concerns.

Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship, they rule by an army inducing terror on a populace, not because the populace chose the leadership.

The problem is that in Muslim countries the political system they chose is invariably worse. Libya is worse than it was under Gaddafi, Egypt is worse now than under Mubarak, Iraq is worse than under Saddam Husain, and Afghanistan is infinitely worse off than it was under Soviet rule.

Yes, Saudi Arabia is bad, but anything that keeps the Muslims under control is better than letting them have their way .... which is not giving them freedom but allowing them to murder, kill, and rape others as well as killing eachother and removing freedoms under sectarian Sharia militias.

"How do you pick who can vote when the average person votes badly and selfishly?" That is the central question of Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie). One could easily argue many western states get pushed worse off over time due to democracy.

I'm not advocating any particular view here, other than maybe we could do with a little self introspection.

Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship, they rule by an army inducing terror on a populace, not because the populace chose the leadership.

The problem is that in Muslim countries the political system they chose is invariably worse. Libya is worse than it was under Gaddafi, Egypt is worse now than under Mubarak, Iraq is worse than under Saddam Husain, and Afghanistan is infinitely worse off than it was under Soviet rule.

Yes, Saudi Arabia is bad, but anything that keeps the Muslims under control is better than letting them have their way .... which is not giving them freedom but allowing them to murder, kill, and rape others as well as killing eachother and removing freedoms under sectarian Sharia militias.

The issue is that Microsoft's privacy track record is worse.

When George W. Bush demanded all search engines hand over search data tied to IP addresses for all users, Google was the only search engine to refuse. Microsoft handed that data right over.

Microsoft has ad campaigns suggesting Google employees are actively reading your email, even though they know that is an outright lie, the very definition of FUD.

Even worse, Microsoft is a hypocrite because they scan your email to serve up contextual ads as well.

Microsoft also has a patent on selling your private data to the highest bidder.

Google isn't giving your private data to anyone. They just serve you ads. Microsoft outright sells your data to people without your knowledge. And when they know they can't compete with Google on price, their only response is FUD.

http://rt.com/usa/yahoo-microsoft-campaign-political-862/

`I had a guy waiting here first thing in the morning [after the election.] He came in, bought two AK-47s'.

> It probably bothers TEPCO greatly, that this is out there

Doubtful. It probably bothers them more that articles like that are completely inaccurate, intentionally misleading and exaggerated for the sake of getting clicks. Not to mention the Radiation and Public Health Project itself, from where that story is sourced. Companies worry about bad press. Even if it's bad journalism as well.

TOR is not the problem... Well, not the problem the Japanese police claim.

It IS a problem for the corporate/government control of information. It probably bothers TEPCO greatly, that this is out there - and damned near impossible to filter.

Cybercrime. The great Emmanuel Goldstein, needed to keep in place, proles and party members alike.

Where is this track record of the Swedish justice system as subservient to US interests? You do realize that Sweden gladly turned a blind eye to The Pirate Bay and US copyright concerns until The Pirate Bay until the founders hacked Swedish systems. And they weren't charged for any copyright infringement.

http://rt.com/news/pirate-bay-hacking-fraud-003/

I didn't accuse Assange of threating to kill someone. I stated that his former partner made that accusation. I stated a fact. I didn't claim to have direct knowledge if it was accurate. But it came from his former partner and supposed best friend. It should be noted that several people close to Assange left Wikileaks to start a forked project because they supported the ideal, but not him.

The third accusation isn't bullshit. It was widely reported.

http://www.ufppc.org/us-a-world-news-mainmenu-35/9874-news-assange-falls-out-with-rights-groups-as-us-presses-allies-for-investigations.html

You state that Wikileaks was very useful for mankind, but he refused to release tons of leaks given to him. His partner outlined how the entire purpose of Wikileaks was to funnel money to Assange, and that the ideals of transparency and whistleblowing were secondary.

You may also be interested in this link:

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/07/18665978.php

All in the name of saving a handful of lives they say.

The success of Buckyballs was attributed to it's addictive nature and weird properties - magnetic rocks also known as Rare earth element(REE's). The idea in itself is great; the long term prosperity of this idea isn't.

The main component of a buckyball is Neodymium in which has several deposits around the world with the main REE deposits located in China with other deposits scattered around the world. In the past year, it's been reported several times that the Chinese government has very little interest in supplying the world with this mineral that is used more and more frequently in high-end technology. As restrictions have been placed on the import, a country must secure as much of the material as possible in the event that the unthinkable occurs.

As this is a voluntary recall, consider what will be done with the recalled products. Will they be sent back to China with a note about how unsafe it was for Americans and asking for a refund? Do you really believe that today's government is out to protect its citizens by such a trivial and mostly harmless toy?

The fact that a video game company was voted worst company in America is ridiculous and would be laughable if it was not so frightening. Come on! Is there nothing more serious on the planet than botching a game release? Aren't companies that fight like crazy to deprive cancer patients from inexpensive treatments a little worse? Or companies who lie to be free to play with your health in the name of profit? Or companies using child labor to lower the price of smartphones? Or simply profitable companies planning massive layoffs? Or media associations with an agenda built on layers of lies?

Apparently, for the majority of Slashdot readers, getting a perspective chip would be a good idea.

"So, when will Wikileaks start releasing Soviet and Communist archive material? Thats right, Assange probably doesn't consider them "bastards" to be crushed. Well, he going to Ecuador if he can, isn't he?"

Assange is retreating to Ecuador because many of those "free Western" democracies you seem so fond of have given him little choice.

Sure the country is free, until you embarrass the government. Then it becomes a police state faster than you can say donut.

I'm not saying Assange might not have legitimately got himself in trouble. As the girl getting arrested in Montreal shows, once the government and police see a person as a dissident they watch them closely. With the number of crimes that are vaguely defined, easy to make up, or just plainly something a reasonable person would not realize where a crime, it is not hard to put someone behind bars if they try.

http://rt.com/news/montreal-girl-arrested-instagram-370/
http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx
Aaron Swartz

With the number of politically minded prosecutions and arrests making the news, it is hard not to say that Western society has become a police state.

Wonder how the inhabitants of Stockton, CA feel about that.

Protests in Chicago: http://rt.com/usa/chicago-school-protests-arrests-969/ They were protesting the closing of schools. How 'feral'.

How did something as vile as your post ever get modded up?

Going by this reconnaissance photo detailing what Kim Jong-Un has sitting on his desk, I have no doubt you may be onto something.

You seriously have to be joking. If you want to read http://mediamatters.org/ then go there, if you want to read http://foxnewslies.net/, if you want to read http://www.politifact.com/ then go there, if you want to read http://crooksandliars.com/ then go there. Don't waffle on about Fox not-News and demand people provide examples of Fox not-News blatant propaganda on slashdot, just bloody google it yourself there are thousands of examples, a regular daily act of corporate propaganda.

The reality here Fox not-News dresses up opinion as news whilst the other news channels are clear about what is opinion and what is news.

Here is a couple of links, just so can can go a bit rabid, http://rt.com/ and http://www.aljazeera.com/, go for it ;D.

Aha! Russia has retaliated for our meteor strike over Chelyabinsk!! ;-)

In case you don't get the reference:

http://rt.com/politics/zhirinovsky-meteorite-american-weapon-316/

Assad the butcher

Really?

Hitler, the butcher. Yes. Stalin, the butcher, sure. Bosco Ntaganda, the butcher, yes. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21835345) You could even call Saddam Hussein a butcher for chemical attacks on Kurds and 1,000,000 deaths in US-backed war with Iran.

Assad? The "great freedom fighters" like some religions nutjobs are not exactly using Gandhiâ(TM)s tactics now. If Assad is "the butcher" then sure as hell the so called "opposition" is no better. Syria is now a nation of butchers butchering each other.

The only thing Assad as sure is is not a religious nutjob calling for sharia and ethnic cleansing (genocide) in syria.

http://republicaninthearts.blogspot.com/2013/03/sharia-and-no-infidels-in-syria-says.html

http://rt.com/news/syria-usa-rebel-drone-356/

So please, a little respect. Syria has a war, mostly thanks to opposition. They thought it would be "easy" to just to kill Assad and his supporters - you know, home for christmas (or haj) or whatever everyone always says... but what war does is solidify positions.

A soldier that would support kicking out Assad from office if opposition used peaceful tactics (see Gandhi, again), will definitely fight for Assad when bullets starts flying his way.

I'm just a 3rd party observer and I blame opposition 100% for the shit that Syria has become. The moment they picked up a gun is when they lost all of my respect.

Slashdot should stop the Iran bashing already

So, when the Iranian government imposes yet another new repressive measure to build on its existing repressive measures against the Iranian people that result in death, mutilation, torture, and other atrocities, your concern is that people on Slashdot don't criticize - don't say harsh things against the Iranian government? I think there is a word for that, Mr. Liberty.

If you think the Iranian government is for peace, you aren't listening carefully.

All Iran is saying,
is give cutting people into pieces a chance.

Iranian Women Prisoners Detail Torture

Iran as continual regional menace
Iran's Menace in Azerbaijan
15,000 Elite Iranian special-ops 'head' to Syria ---- Iran confirms it has forces in Syria ...
Gulf states lash out at Iran 'interference'

The six members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said in a statement that Tehran's actions were threatening regional security and stability.
The GCC said it "rejects and denounces" Iran's "continued interference" in their internal affairs and Tehran must "immediately and completely stop these actions and policies that increase regional tension and threaten security and stability".

Iranian Bomb Suspects 'Targeted' Israelis, Thai Police Say
Report: Turkey thwarts Iran weapons shipment to Hezbollah
      Why Hezbollah is sitting on 40,000 rockets and missiles ...
            Iran and Hezbollah: The Balance of Power Shifts in Lebanon
Afghanistan war logs: Iran's covert operations in Afghanistan
Iran Steps Up Threats to Rub Out Israel

Discussing the record of Iran's actions and behavior doesn't constitutes "warmongering."

I read the linked articles and I see that Freedom House, an NGO, says that Singapore has the same rating for political and civil freedom as Nigeria. The Economist compares the democracy in Singapore with that of Liberia. So that does beg the question... what genius sat down and said "this would be a great place to put a new campus for Yale!"

Consider Yale's proposal* for training US military to interrogate immigrants. As Singaporeans are already subject to degrading human rights conditions, there should be little resistance from the populace should Yale decide to improve trainees' experience with interrogating natural-born Asians.

* Additional source: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/2/21/an_interrogation_center_at_yale_proposed

Why pay through the nose, both in terms of dollars and in terms of horrendous lead times, for space-qualified parts when commercial, industrial, and automotive parts work just fine?

Heh.. Proof right there that you're not affiliated with a US government agency. And, to answer your question, the reason is to keep the tax dollars funneling into the privatized black-holes* It's rampant.
[*]
http://rt.com/usa/blackwater-security-iri-report-300/

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Greed/ALEC-s-Funnel-Turns-Public-Dollars-to-Corporate-Profits

http://www.alternet.org/one-states-poor-excuse-funneling-taxpayer-cash-private-schools

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/01/1181678/-Walker-s-Plan-for-Wisconsin-Public-Schools-Make-Them-Private

Oh really, Mr. Anonymous Shill Astroturf Coward employee?

Explain this.

http://rt.com/usa/google-privacy-android-app-429/

They're bleeding staff right now. Statistics show how their coverage chagned when Bush threatened to bomb their headquarters. It was probably a bluff to manipulate them, but still, a distinct change shows some bias. The real question is "who's funding them and what's their motive?" just like Fox News' pretend right-wing slant and MS-NBC's pretend left-wing slant.

Anyone know where I can get an RQ-170 in hot pink?

http://rt.com/usa/news/iran-us-drone-obama-933/

On the other hand...

http://rt.com/news/meteorite-crash-urals-chelyabinsk-283/

Police officers, environmentalists and EMERCOM experts at the site of a meteorite hit in the Chelyabinsk Region. Small 0.5-1 cm pieces of black matter resembling rock were found around the ice hole caused by the meteorite. Photo courtesy of the press service of the Interior Ministry's Main Directorate for the Chelyabinsk Region.(RIA Novosti)

(That's the caption to the second picture of the hole).

That is exactly what I would expect from a real hit. So maybe it is real.

Organic Farmers filed a class-action lawsuit against Monsanto over suing for patent infringement where cross-pollination was the culprit and the judge threw the case out because the farmers could not produce one single example of this happening.

I am not overly familiar with the US court system but how about out of court settlements, could the judge even take those into consideration? http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/23451

Monsanto has sued more than 700 additional farmers who have settled out-of-court rather than face Monsanto's belligerent, and well-financed, litigious actions.

The article you refer to is very vague on the actual specifics in the Organic Farmers' lawsuit and equally vague on the details for the judge's decision. To me it almost read as a press release with just that tiny hint of "balanced" reporting needed to not be overly blatant in for whom it were written.

What was it that they could not produce one single example of happening, cross pollination? If so, your linked article contain a link ( http://www.npr.org/2011/03/01/134162035/a-growing-debate-how-to-define-organic-food ) leading to the below:

Organic farmers aren't allowed to plant GMO seeds. But most conventional corn in America is genetically modified, and among all grains, corn is perhaps the most promiscuous cross-pollinator, so its genes often migrate into organic fields via windblown pollen that lands on the tassels of organic corn..... most organic corn in the U.S. typically contains anywhere from half a percent to 2 percent GMOs, according to companies that sell such corn to organic dairies or poultry farmers. It has been that way since genetically engineered corn and soybeans became popular, more than a decade ago

So cross pollination would appear to be a fact. Leaving us to assume that the judge threw out the case as the Organic Farmers' were unable to prove any cases of Monsanto suing farmers for cases where the claimed infringement were due to cross pollination. How about the below, close enough for you? http://rt.com/usa/news/monsanto-seeds-trial-bowman-123/:

At the center of the case is Monsanto’s protection of its patented soybean, known as Roundup Ready. When farmers like Bowman plant the company’s seeds, they are only allowed to harvest the resulting crop – not keep any for next year’s harvest.

Under these rules, farmers have to buy new Monsanto seeds to plant each season, even if they already have usable seeds in their possession.

However, farmers are able to buy excess soybeans from local grain elevators, many of which are likely to be Roundup Ready seeds. One of Bowman's trips to such a grain elevator put him in Monsanto’s sights.

“We have always had the right to go to an elevator, buy some ‘junk grain’ and use it for seed if you desire,” Bowman explained.

While not a case of cross pollination in the strict meaning of the word it do get pretty damned close, if a ruling is made in favor of Monsanto it would invite them to get even more aggressive in their intimidation tactics and I would be little surprised if the number of out of court settlements increased exponentially.

"Fox News` credibility rating has hit a four-year record-low, with the majority of Americans distrusting the conservative-leaning channel. New Public Policy Polling (PPP) results show that 46 percent of voters distrust the network, while only 41 percent of voters perceive its information as reliable." link

If you make a habit of reading polls on a a variety of political and social issues, you'll learn a lot about Americans and specifically you might come to the conclusion that about 25-35% of Americans are basically so disconnected from scientific and social reality they're functionally insane and their opinion should ALWAYS and AUTOMATICALLY be classified as "non-truth related".

For instance, and famously, about 46% of Americans don't believe in evolution

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/americans-believe-in-creationism_n_1571127.html

But also 10% think that prosecutors who send innocent people to jail should not be prosecuted:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-texas-exoneree-testifies-20130204,0,3950542.story?page=2

25% think Obama is not an American citizen:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20056061-503544.html

30%^ think God decides the outcome of sporting events: http://rt.com/usa/news/super-bowl-result-god-337/

And on and on and on. Watching polls what you'll discover is about 10% of Americans are just outright fascists who wouldn't hesitate to do whatever any right wing authority told them to do, and think it should have been started yesterday. This is also the finding of Bob Altemeyer in his seminal work on authoritarianism :

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/.

right.

About 25-30% believe that events on Earth are assiduously overseen by an all knowing God who "sees them when they're sleeping / and knows if they're awake / and knows if they've been bad of good..." and what happens in everything from their personal life to world events is really of no consequence except to the extent that it is a reflection of an eternal, ongoing battle between good and evil being fought on an unseen cosmic plane. This is something they have this is common with every Muslim extremist who ever strapped a suicide bomb onto himself.

Americans have a deficit of rationality, a deep and persistent belief that something other than outcome based, welfare of humans is the proper measure of human morality, are scientifically illiterate and constitutionally incapable of perceiving in their thinking just the kinds of bugs that the referenced article details.

There's not enough time to reform the American character before we have to take radical and decisive action on global warming. The fact is, democracy stops where science begins. This isn't going to lead to anything good.

The least divisive, least disrupting course of action is for the government to internally and secretly set up an Executive Action team within one the intelligence agencies whose purpose is to discredit, attack and dismantle and neutralize the leaders of the denier terrorist movement. We all know who they are. These *thought leaders* need to be attacked the same way we'd attack any group of terrorists building a bomb named which would have the same long term destructive power as global warming. Denialism is a bomb with the capacity to permanently destroy civilization and the people assembling that bomb are not working in secret. They need to be neutralized and their sources of funding and societal legitimacy attacked through and and all means necessary. They have forfeited their civil rights and constitutional protections. We simply need to deal with them like the world destroying terrorists they are.

You can come to this conclusion now when there's still time to do something about global warming or you can come to this conclusion later, when there's no possibility of doing anything about it and the starvation, the concomitant societal breakdown and mass, uncontrolled immigration, the tidal wave of anti-Western (Big Oil / Big Coal ) terrorism and collapsing centralized governments take not just the denier's civil liberties and Con

The only difference between the President and old world royalty is that presidents get changed every few years.

http://rt.com/usa/news/president-amendment-bill-repeal-541/

There is some effort being made to eliminate that distinction.

Strat

Cites: the Al-Azhar University in Cairo. Their publications are considered to be canon by most of Sunni Islam, and yest, the death penalty is proscribed for apostasy. Here's some more love from the democratic Egypt. Hey. But at least they didn't kill the mother and kids. Congratulations on cheering on such democratic values of peace and love.

Only Muslims are considered to be Muslims from birth according to Islam, so nobody really gets a choice. In "democratic" Egypt, just last week seven children were charged, along with the mother, for apostasy. This happens every fucking week if you pay attention.

Actually, while it may be physically easier to leave the USA than to leave North Korea, it is harder to get away ideologically from the US ideological bubble than the North Korean ideological bubble because the US culture is more pervasive. See the ending of "The Prisoner" for a symbolic example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner

You mention elsewhere you are in Sweden. Do you really feel that much safer in Sweden from global nuclear war or biological war or widespread killer robots that might result from US-driven policy and technology? Stuff that results from an economic imperative that Major General Smedley Butler wrote about in the 1930s and has only grown since?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Is_a_Racket

If not, then I'd suggest in general you have not gotten very far away from the US ideological bubble, even if your day-to-day life may (for you) have improved as you indicated in another post.

BTW, a Russian spin on US politics as it affects US citizens abroad:
"White House wins fight to keep drone killings of Americans secret"
http://rt.com/usa/news/drone-kill-mcmahon-obama-245/

That kind of exercise of US physical power abroad is only going to get easier technologically over that next twenty to thirty years. This violation of constitutional rights of US citizens (even abroad) was unimaginable when I was growing up. (Granted, other countries may develop anti-drone countermeasures, like Iran allegedly did.)

Or, on a more mundane level, US economic practices probably still are shaping big chunks of the Swedish economy too, not to mention the pop culture landscape.

So, I question how far you have "escaped" the US zone of influence even if your life may have improved... See also, for Sweden's role in a recent US-related legal matter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange#Allegations_of_sexual_assault_and_political_refugee

My point is not that the USA is North Korea. My point is that there are some similar social processes at work in both places (and probably in Sweden as well for that matter).

That the USA is radically different from NK is the unstated assumption in TFA. I'm just pointing out some uncomfortable conceptual similarities as well as suggestions for moving beyond them. If you want a great example of that, see James P. Hogan's 1982 novel "Voyage from Yesteryear":
http://www.jamesphogan.com/books/info.php?titleID=29&cmd=summary
"In the meantime, Earth went through a dodgy period, but managed in the end to muddle through. The fun begins when a generation ship housing a population of thousands arrives to "reclaim" the colony on behalf of the repressive, authoritarian regime that emerged following the crisis period. The Mayflower II brings with it all the tried and tested apparatus for bringing a recalcitrant population to heel: authority, with its power structure and symbolism, to impress; commercial institutions with the promise of wealth and possessions, to tempt and ensnare; a religious presence, to awe and instill duty and obedience; and if all else fails, armed military force to compel. But what happens when these methods encounter a population that has never been conditioned to respond?"

You're right, more gun laws would just turn America into a police state.