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Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html

Other important info

Michael Hudson

Richard wolf on capitalism

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

http://www.rdwolff.com/

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:Why? by blahplusplus · 2017-11-01 05:41 · Score: 1 · on Rise of the Machines Must Be Monitored, Say Global Finance Regulators (reuters.com)

Is there any actual evidence that monitoring the traditional finance industry works?

It's all smoke and mirrors for those in the know. Capitalism has never been "regulated" it's always worked in the interests of power.

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html

Other important info

Michael Hudson

Richard wolf on capitalism

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

http://www.rdwolff.com/

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.

Re:Fix the REAL fucking problem. by blahplusplus · 2017-10-26 05:37 · Score: 1 · on San Francisco Just Took a Huge Step Toward Internet Utopia (wired.com)

the corruption that creates and sustains that shit.

If you and the rest of america weren't so uneducated and ignorant you could all choose a correct political ideology, aka it's not right wing. The more right wing your country, the more you tell the world you don't understand you're being fucked by private power.

Crisis of democracy

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. See the manufacturing consent videos when you get the time.

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/10/michael-hudson-on-parasitic-financial-capitalism.html

Other important info

Michael Hudson

Richard wolf on capitalism

The Citibank memo

Citigroup memo

http://www.rdwolff.com/

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

This is a project of american empire, aka the rich (big business) vs the rest of mankind.

The grand chessboard

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

Grand chessboard user review

Reddit and intelligence agencies

Wikileaks -- Reddit and intelligence agencies

Senator Bob Graham has already opened the debate by matbury · 2016-04-18 14:29 · Score: 1 · on Blackmail: Obama Under Pressure To Declassify Secret 9/11 Report (cbsnews.com)

Back in 2013, Senator Bob Graham gave interviews with TheRealNews.com in which he talked frankly, as well as he could without divulging classified information, about the Saudi Involvement in 9/11 (See: http://therealnews.com/t2/inde... ). So what if the Whitehouse declassifies the files that are the smoking gun as far as the Saudis are concerned? What do you think will happen? The alleged threat by the Saudis to sell off US debt is either an obvious bluff or they're even more incompetent and reactionary than I previously thought. Seriously trying to dump $750 billion in debt in an attempt to sabotage the US economy would hit the Saudis' and quite a few other economies along with them, not to mention souring the milk between the Saudi military and the Pentagon. The Saudis have bought tens of billions of military hardware that it doesn't know how to use. They're totally reliant on the Pentagon's support to help them to use it effectively: The moment that the Saudis lose Pentagon support, they're effectively a sitting duck for a potential attacker.

Re:The real problem by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-04 04:37 · Score: 0 · on How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself (nytimes.com)

Because its common knowledge, there is plenty of facts out there...

Science on reasoning:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Crisis of democracy

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:I'm I the only one by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-03 16:15 · Score: 0 · on Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B (inquisitr.com)

"who finds the constant buyouts and mergers disturbing?"

You should get up to speed on what has always been the case.

Science on reasoning:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:Liberal Party? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-22 11:22 · Score: 1 · on Reactions Split On What Canada's Liberal Majority Means For Tech Policy Future (freezenet.ca)

"Don't try to focus on "left" or "right," it is a way to divide us. Instead focus on specific issues."

It would be the right approach except the government is structured so it doesn't work for you anyway.

Science on reasoning:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Crisis of democracy

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:America the Police State by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 04:30 · Score: 0 · on The NYPD's X-Ray Vans (theatlantic.com)

"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:

"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

Crisis of democracy

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

Re:America the Police State by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-21 02:59 · Score: 1 · on The NYPD's X-Ray Vans (theatlantic.com)

"These vans are just the latest in a long line of law enforcement abuse and complete disregard for the Constitution."

You need to get up to speed on what has been going on... Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

This is the natural outgrowth of private property + military industrial complex coupled with allowing small groups of people unlimited accumulation of wealth. It's the rich and corporations vs everyone else. We're seeing the true face of class war, aka the cold war never really ended and anyone who isn't rich is being impoverished in a one sided class war where the rich are going for full on slavery. See what happened to greece here:

"American historian D.F. Fleming, writing of the post-World War II period in his eminent history of the Cold War, stated that “Greece was the first of the liberated states to be openly and forcibly compelled to accept the political system of the occupying Great Power. It was Churchill who acted first and Stalin who followed his example, in Bulgaria and then in Rumania, though with less bloodshed.”

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

Crisis of democracy

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

Re:I accept my employer's right by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-19 09:59 · Score: 0 · on Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance (dailydot.com)

"My employer owns my work machine and supplies the network it's connected to. I accept that the employer's right to monitor his own equipment and network.

However, that's a FAR cry from accepting internet surveillance. "

Except your employers are behind it... big business (elites and their corporations) fears people waking up. The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

First, see the science on reasoning. The human brain is bad at reasoning and reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

Crisis of democracy

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670160415

Re:Posted this a couple of years ago... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-16 11:32 · Score: 0 · on How Is the NSA Breaking So Much Crypto? (freedom-to-tinker.com)

"I'm disappointed that those brilliant minds would waste them violating the laws of their own country and attacking their own people."

You're under the dangerous illusion the government worked for you. The rich want to keep control over the masses, their politics and public opinion. They do that via control of information.

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

Crisis of democracy

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Re:"the primary intended beneficiary is the public by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-16 08:49 · Score: 1 · on Google Books Wins Again (documentcloud.org)

"Do any non politicians even know what the TPP says?"

They know what it is for

First, science on reasoning... our brain is really bad at reasoning and reality generally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usbR_kKCDs

They are getting concerned, that's why the NSA and the TPP are trying to lock down everything, they are trying to strip us of our rights and control us and the information channels we communicate on because they are at their weakest.

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

They also are using it to try to lockdown the internet because they fear us politically waking up...

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://youtu.be/Ttv6n7PFniY?t=10

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Manufacturing consent:

Crisis of democracy

Re:a world we've been warning about for decades by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-15 04:42 · Score: 0 · on If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy (theatlantic.com)

"That's kind of sad, actually"

No it was actually the intent. The rich want to keep control over the masses, their politics and public opinion. They do that via control of information.

First, see the science on reasoning:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670160415

In his 1970 book Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era, Brzezinski wrote the following.

"The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

Crisis of democracy

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyT7yzap1Wc

Re:Some basic rules by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-15 04:12 · Score: 1 · on If You're Not Paranoid About Your Privacy, You're Crazy (theatlantic.com)

"1) Do not use "free" services"

You're under the dangerous idea that you haven't already been compromised by the hardware, router, OS, etc. Why do you think the NSA is spying on everyone?

Jacob Applebaum - People Think They're Exempt From NSA (2014)

Other Video 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzzDMD8pFqk

Other Video 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3XWDlTEVcs

The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

Crisis of democracy

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

Re:Trends by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-15 02:36 · Score: 1 · on Big Data Attempts To Find Meaning In 40 Years of UK Political Debate (thestack.com)

"Censorship only works for short-duration wars like Desert Storm before the sight of bloodied soldiers and civilians spread through the Internet and turn public opinion against the war."

They are trying to get back the power over the information space through bullshit IP laws and the like, they want to turn the internet back into TV.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

Crisis of democracy

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-15 01:56 · Score: 0 · on How Putin Tried To Control the Internet (vice.com)

"Wow that's a lot different then how the US is trying to control the internet. Yay for thinking out of the box!"

The internet is a threat to all institutions of power (aka the rich and their corporations). The free flow of information is detrimental to their goals and aims (profits and control over us).

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

States experiencing serious systemic "handicaps":

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

Crisis of democracy

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

Manufacturing consent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Term_Extension_Act#/media/File:Copyright_term.svg

Re:Why don't we just say it? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-15 01:36 · Score: 0 · on How Putin Tried To Control the Internet (vice.com)

"who else would there be to ensure contracts are enforced and not just useless words on paper? without courts, who would determine if people have been injured or mistreated and ensure justice for those people?"

Sorry to tell you but the real world is very much not like what you just stated. When corporations can strip of us of our rights to own shit and have been doing so for roughly 200 years now.

Science on reasoning:

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Manufacturing consent:

Re:People who think economics is not a science... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 08:13 · Score: 0 · on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com)

"People who think economics is not a science usually have no understanding of economics."

No we know its bullshit...

I can tell you the facts and the figures and you won't reason to the right conclusion, it's science:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

What about this? More evidence against your religion...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

So, no you just believe the propaganda, that's all economics is - propaganda for the masses. We can go back in time to when people lived in tribes, before such ideas and concepts were invented. That's the real world, aka just humans and nature. Everything else is a human invention. By reducing mankind (as a system) to its simplest state, we see the outgrowth of artificial structures as a result of one group of primates attacking another and forcefully imposing their culture upon them. AKA real science, to determine what is real and true you go back to the beginning before all these artificial structures were invented. Laws of nature don't need the NSA to protect them or former national security advisors worried about "radicals" and "heretics" (aka disbelievers in "economics").

Am I going to believe some podunk slashdot poster/puppet, or the former National security advisor of the United states?

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

http://www.tcij.org/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

Re:People who think economics is not a science... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 07:50 · Score: 0 · on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com)

"People like you would become smarter if you picked up an economics textbook."

I can tell you the facts and the figures and you won't reason to the right conclusion, it's science:

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

What about this? More evidence against your religion.

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

So, no you just believe the propaganda, that's all economics is - propaganda for the masses. We can go back in time to when people lived in tribes, before such ideas and concepts were invented. That's the real world, aka just humans and nature. Everything else is a human invention. By reducing mankind (as a system) to its simplest state, we see the outgrowth of artificial structures as a result of one group of primates attacking another and forcefully imposing their culture upon them. AKA real science, to determine what is real and true you go back to the beginning before all these artificial structures were invented. Laws of nature don't need the NSA to protect them or former national security advisors worried about "radicals" and "heretics" (aka disbelievers in "economics").

Am I going to believe some podunk slashdot poster/puppet, or the former National security advisor of the United states?

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttv6n7PFniY&feature=youtu.be&t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

The elite push behind this is... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 02:04 · Score: -1 · on The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are (techcrunch.com)

... they fear us, that's why they are trying to lock down everything. They are trying to strip us of our rights and control us, via the payment and information channels we engage each other with because they are at their weakest.

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://youtu.be/Ttv6n7PFniY?t=10

Brezinski at a press conference

Science on reasoning:

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Manufacturing consent:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465027261

Re:Who are these people? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-09 18:25 · Score: 0 · on EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared (eff.org)

" Now I completely understand. Globalization is more and more just bullying on a national scale."

Not quite... This is a project of empire.

The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2NVX3KKHJONPW/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0465027261&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=283155&store=books

Speech by former National security Advisor of the US about Global domination of the atlantic powers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usbR_kKCDs&feature=youtu.be&t=406

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

They also are using it to try to lockdown the internet because they fear us politically waking up...

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

https://youtu.be/Ttv6n7PFniY?t=11

Brezinski at a press conference

Science on reasoning:

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

The Citibank memo

http://politicalgates.blogspot.ca/2011/12/citigroup-plutonomy-memos-two-bombshell.html

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Manufacturing consent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4usbR_kKCDs

Re:One of the last real news outlets remaining by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-06 02:00 · Score: 0 · on NY Times Passes 1M Digital Subscribers

"One of the last real news outlets remaining".

Sorry to tell you but there are better news outlets, with real people like university professors and not apologists for the establishment like the NYT.

http://therealnews.com

Re:ITT by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-05 06:15 · Score: 0 · on Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached

"It sounds nice, but it isn't as simple as you make it sound."

They fear us, that's why the NSA and the TPP are trying to lock down everything, they are trying to strip us of our rights and control us and the information channels we communicate on because they are at their weakest.

They are getting rid of state sovereignty with trade agreements and basically constructing kangaroo courts for the corporate world.

Wikileaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

They also are using it to try to lockdown the internet because they fear us politically waking up...

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA/others and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

Science on reasoning:

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

US distribution of wealth

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

Re:Time to let it die by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-04 16:00 · Score: 0 · on Chrome AdBlock Joining Acceptable Ads Program (And Sold To Anonymous Company)

"Sorry, adblock, time to let your product die and we will go on to a product that actually blocks ads"

One of the few independent news sites on the net without ads and is supported through donations.

http://therealnews.com

Re:Fake capitalism by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-01 01:51 · Score: 0 · on Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action

"Fake capitalism"

I don't think you know much about capitalism's real history in the US.

Book - War is a racket

"The following quotations from the book are intended to summarize it:

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." [p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23]

"The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

General Butler is especially trenchant when he looks at post-war casualties. He writes with great emotion about the thousands of tramautized soldiers, many of who lose their minds and are penned like animals until they die, and he notes that in his time, returning veterans are three times more likely to die prematurely than those who stayed home."

Science on reasoning:

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABDiHspTJww&feature=youtu.be

Wikileaks

When you allow corporations to own all the media, you get only distorted information.

https://youtu.be/d8D67YiLcOM?t=17

Manufacturing consent:

The realnews

Brezinski worried people are waking up to how world works

Re:Who's going to police it? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-27 19:05 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Edward Snowden Promotes Global Treaty To Curtail Surveillance

"If our grandfathers and great-grandfathers could see just how many of the rights and freedoms they fought to protect have now been lost in the name of "safety" and "security", they'd turn in their graves."

Capitalism produces such things, the whole reason is because the rich fear the masses in a capitalist society. Masters vs slaves. Rich vs the rest. You and most people are going to find out too late what the NSA spying is really about.

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

Graphs regarding distribution of wealth

Democracy inc

Shadow government

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Amazon

Look at the following graphs:

Wealth @ UCSC.EDU

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Link

Free markets?

Free trade?

Empire of illusion

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Link

Nonsense... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-22 06:27 · Score: 0 · on Legislation Requiring Tech Industry To Report Terrorist Activity Dropped

... google and tech companies are not what they seem. This is just more PR.

See here:

Article

Science on reasoning:

Science on reasoning

American wealth distribution

" Cohen’s world seems to be one event like this after another: endless soirees for the cross-fertilization of influence between elites and their vassals, under the pious rubric of “civil society.” The received wisdom in advanced capitalist societies is that there still exists an organic “civil society sector” in which institutions form autonomously and come together to manifest the interests and will of citizens. The fable has it that the boundaries of this sector are respected by actors from government and the “private sector,” leaving a safe space for NGOs and nonprofits to advocate for things like human rights, free speech, and accountable government.

This sounds like a great idea. But if it was ever true, it has not been for decades. Since at least the 1970s, authentic actors like unions and churches have folded under a sustained assault by free-market statism, transforming “civil society” into a buyer’s market for political factions and corporate interests looking to exert influence at arm’s length. The last forty years has seen a huge proliferation of think tanks and political NGOs whose purpose, beneath all the verbiage, is to execute political agendas by proxy.

It is not just obvious neocon front groups like Foreign Policy Initiative.20 It also includes fatuous Western NGOs like Freedom House, where naïve but well-meaning career nonprofit workers are twisted in knots by political funding streams, denouncing non-Western human rights violations while keeping local abuses firmly in their blind spots. The civil society conference circuit—which flies developing-world activists across the globe hundreds of times a year to bless the unholy union between “government and private stakeholders” at geopoliticized events like the “Stockholm Internet Forum”—simply could not exist if it were not blasted with millions of dollars in political funding annually.

Scan the memberships of the biggest US think tanks and institutes and the same names keep cropping up. Cohen’s Save Summit went on to seed AVE, or AgainstViolentExtremism.org, a long-term project whose principal backer besides Google Ideas is the Gen Next Foundation. This foundation’s website says it is an “exclusive membership organization and platform for successful individuals” that aims to bring about “social change” driven by venture capital funding.21 Gen Next’s “private sector and non-profit foundation support avoids some of the potential perceived conflicts of interest faced by initiatives funded by governments.”22 Jared Cohen is an executive member."

Re:I've always said by Anonymous Coward · 2015-09-21 18:07 · Score: 0 · on Sci-Fi Author Joe Haldeman On the Future of War

"And your thesis that it's all leaders, sorry, it isn't - we elect them,"

Your thesis is incorrect...

World is fucked

Research

More on American wealth

Who rules america

Science on reasoning:

Science on reasoning

Article

" Cohen’s world seems to be one event like this after another: endless soirees for the cross-fertilization of influence between elites and their vassals, under the pious rubric of “civil society.” The received wisdom in advanced capitalist societies is that there still exists an organic “civil society sector” in which institutions form autonomously and come together to manifest the interests and will of citizens. The fable has it that the boundaries of this sector are respected by actors from government and the “private sector,” leaving a safe space for NGOs and nonprofits to advocate for things like human rights, free speech, and accountable government.

This sounds like a great idea. But if it was ever true, it has not been for decades. Since at least the 1970s, authentic actors like unions and churches have folded under a sustained assault by free-market statism, transforming “civil society” into a buyer’s market for political factions and corporate interests looking to exert influence at arm’s length. The last forty years has seen a huge proliferation of think tanks and political NGOs whose purpose, beneath all the verbiage, is to execute political agendas by proxy.

It is not just obvious neocon front groups like Foreign Policy Initiative.20 It also includes fatuous Western NGOs like Freedom House, where naïve but well-meaning career nonprofit workers are twisted in knots by political funding streams, denouncing non-Western human rights violations while keeping local abuses firmly in their blind spots. The civil society conference circuit—which flies developing-world activists across the globe hundreds of times a year to bless the unholy union between “government and private stakeholders” at geopoliticized events like the “Stockholm Internet Forum”—simply could not exist if it were not blasted with millions of dollars in political funding annually.

Scan the memberships of the biggest US think tanks and institutes and the same names keep cropping up. Cohen’s Save Summit went on to seed AVE, or AgainstViolentExtremism.org, a long-term project whose principal backer besides Google Ideas is the Gen Next Foundation. This foundation’s website says it is an “exclusive membership organization and platform for successful individuals” that aims to bring about “social change” driven by venture capital funding.21 Gen Next’s “private sector and non-profit foundation support avoids some of the potential perceived conflicts of interest faced by initiatives funded by governments.”22 Jared Cohen is an executive member."

Re:Corporate media doesn't act in public's interes by jbn-o · 2015-05-25 15:06 · Score: 1 · on Privacy Behaviors Changed Little After Snowden

What you call "the slow way" is called journalism. Journalism, like scientific work or any other work worth doing, takes time to do. There are plenty of examples of independent journalism being done well, some have already been shared in this thread by others. Here are some more that come to mind: Democracy Now!, NOW with Bill Moyers and Bill Moyers Journal were both quite well done and worth watching reruns/archives (moreso the Journal), CounterPunch, Harry Shearer's weekly Le Show, and The Real News. All of these focus on issues of importance, get more deeply into those issues via interviews with those who have studied the topic in-depth via investigative journalism and those who work in the field, and leave you with pointers to more information you can study yourself. I'm sure there are so many more examples of this work being done well I didn't list but don't let that stop you from trying various sources and reading books (paper books, not DRM'd proprietary-driven computer-based readers that track you, threaten to cut off your reading, or deny you the other freedoms paper grants). You won't agree with everything you see, hear, and read but the point isn't to manufacture your consent, it's to get you thinking critically about the world outside the allowable limits of debate so often featured in mainstream coverage.

Re:Be a goddam American ... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-15 05:21 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Senator: 'Plenty' of Domestic Surveillance We Still Don't Know About

"... stop being an enabler and speak up."

Most people are locked in the matrix of their upbringing and education, they are quite literally spinning in terms of exhaustion/being distracted by stress of school/work and debt (paying the bills). We'll not get into poor parental environment or upbringing which heavily interferes with all of that. And yes you can be manipulated without knowing it.

Reason doesn't work the way we thought it does:

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

UN says US violating international law, calls for closure of Guantanamo
US Attack On Syria Violates International Law
US drone strikes violate international law, harm civilians: Amnesty and HRW (VIDEO)
NATO Violates International Law
US: Prolonged Indefinite Detention Violates International Law
UN says US drone war in Pakistan violates international law
The Military Admitted Force-Feeding Gitmo Detainees Violates International Law and Medical Ethics
US violates int’l laws; moves USS Enterprise into Pakistani water near Balochistan
International community concerned America violating international law by striking Syria
Americans Abandon International Law

HAHAHAHAHAHA Americans and international law? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-14 21:41 · Score: 0 · on US Asks Vietnam To Stop Russian Bomber Refueling Flights From Cam Ranh Air Base

Whether they realize it or not, Americans are increasingly embracing policies that undermine the international rule of law, with self-identified liberals, in particular, seemingly reversing their positions on matters such as the Guantanamo prison camp, extrajudicial assassinations and arbitrary detention.

A recent Washington Post-ABC News poll, for example, found that 70 percent of the American public approves of the U.S. government’s decision to indefinitely keep the Guantanamo prison open, despite widespread international condemnation of this policy.

Re:or put another way. by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-14 05:30 · Score: 0 · on US Asks Vietnam To Stop Russian Bomber Refueling Flights From Cam Ranh Air Base

We're upset that in the 21st century our status as an unchallenged international superpower is no longer valid.

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://64.62.200.70/PERIODICAL/PDF/Encounter-1968jan/18-29/&chrome=true

Re:I'm more interested in how it's being used... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-13 19:49 · Score: 0 · on Mass Surveillance: Can We Blame It All On the Government?

"I'm worried primarily about two kinds of abuse: political capture of our nation (a coup through intelligence services) and theft from motivated American minds working to accomplish things that could benefit us all. The overarching problem is that there is absolutely no way for the average citizen to know these abuses are not happening."

America in the Technetronic Age 1968

Page 21 "At the same time, the capacity to assert social and political control over the individual will vastly increase. As I have already noted, it will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and to maintain up-to-date, complete files, containing even most personal information about the health or personal behaviour of the citizen, in addition to more customary data. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

"Moreover, the rapid pace of change will put a premium on anticipating events and planning for them. Power will gravitate into the hands of those who control the information, and can correlate it most rapidly."

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a

Re:Really? You think? by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-13 04:47 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Obama Administration Wants More Legal Power To Disrupt Botnets

"do not give them this power!

they can then 'schwartz you' if they want."

You are way late, see here about america...

http://williamblum.org/aer/read/137

Reason doesn't work the way we thought it does:

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Reality is bruce... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-09 06:40 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Book Review: Data and Goliath

... and most people are going to find out too late what the NSA spying is really about.

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Re:Ok then... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-05 21:42 · Score: 4, Interesting · on How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes

"Step away from the crazy person..."

You aren't seeing the world how the leaders are seeing it behind the scenes. Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Too late... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-03 21:19 · Score: 0 · on Schneier: Either Everyone Is Cyber-secure Or No One Is

... people don't make "free choices" to begin with, the universe works on the laws of nature. The only way to safeguard our privacy would have to have been to build it in at its foundations early in history when it was being invented but that didn't happen because the people who invented it didn't really think about it too much because of computational and other limits of the technology of the time. The freedom and open-ness that gave us the internet ended up being its achilles heel.

Just look at early things like Gopher and email, all plaintext and early HTML as well. That was pretty much just asking to be spied on and let's remember, most of the internet is in plaintext so its trivial to see what they are doing.

All systems can be hacked given infinite resources and time, and given the political climate, Schneier would do well to see what science has discovered about reasoing. Reason doesn't work the way we thought it does, your sense of reality is controlled by emotion not truth:

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is

Re:Short answer ... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-03-02 10:10 · Score: 0 · on Secret Memo Slams Canadian Police On Inaccurate ISP Request Records

"It's time to stop giving these idiots the benefit of the doubt, and assume they're lying to us and crapping on our rights -- because, apparently they are"

You and many people are unaware of what's really going on, this is a pre-emptive strike against political change. Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Re:spying is a drug by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-28 09:03 · Score: 0 · on NSA Spying Wins Another Rubber Stamp

"spying is a drug"

It has nothing to do with drugs, most people don't know what the spying is really about. It is very intentional. Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Reason doesn't work the way we thought it does, see the sc

Elite fear... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-02-25 11:27 · Score: 5, Informative · on US Govt and Private Sector Developing "Precrime" System Against Cyber-Attacks

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening (aka global revolt). i.e. they fear you stopping voting for politicians and causing social and political change because the democratic system is a sham.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Incorporated-Managed-Inverted-Totalitarianism/dp/069114589X/

http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Government-Surveillance-Security-Single-Superpower/dp/1608463656/

http://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446/

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

http://www.businessinsider.com/wikileaks-haiti-minimum-wage-the-nation-2011-6

Free markets?

Free trade?

http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132/

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Re:Interesting. I'd think the opposite by blahplusplus · 2014-12-24 06:36 · Score: 2 · on The World Is Not Falling Apart

Problem is both the above posters are ignorant. Modern publics are so illusioned they don't know which end is up.

Reasoning and the human brain doesn't work the way we thought it did:

http://www.amazon.com/Manufact...

Manufacturing consent

Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Brezinski at a press conference

http://therealnews.com/t2/
http://www.amazon.com/Democrac...
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-G...
http://www.amazon.com/National...

The real news:

Look at the following graphs:

IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Free markets?

Free trade?

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

Re:Not that surprising thanks to CALEA by blahplusplus · 2014-12-15 05:31 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks

"The problem is it will be abused. It will be used for things beyond the scope they claimed it will be."

And that's intentional. Most have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening.

This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Science on reasoning, reason doesn't work the way we thought it did:

Brezinski at a press conference

The real news:

http://www.amazon.com/Democrac...
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-G...
http://www.amazon.com/National...

Look at the following graphs:

IMGUR link - http://imgur.com/a/FShfb

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Free markets?

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Important history:

http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~...

Re:Fucking Hell, Harper needs to go! by blahplusplus · 2014-12-13 12:03 · Score: 1 · on Canada Waives Own Rules, Helps Microsoft Avoid US Visa Problems

"We do not have a shortage of CS workers in this country, we have a surplus, and with some provinces having over 10% unemployment rates Harper is seemingly doing everything he can to keep Canadians out of Canadian jobs."

If you think anyone of the parties in government gives a damn about you then you need to learn about the myth of "balance" in capitalist societies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Overthrowing governments

http://www.amazon.com/War-Rack...

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." [p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

The 9 trillion dollar bank bailout

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Libor scandal

Rule of law is impossible under capitalism, since the kings of business (he who has the gold makes the rules) get to do whatever they want and the public gets fucked.

So if you want to fight corruption "the traditional way" (electoral politics), you're dead in the water because most people aren't going to give up their deeply felt emotions and aren't very bright. This way of doing things is limited because of the limits of history and the amount of energy it takes to transform the minds of a large population and the fact that the media is co-opted. There are things that can be done but you'd have to be really committed and not a change the world 'faker' like most people are (aka they don't want to risk anything).

http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~...

You need to know that most people who are voting in electoral politics don't live in reality (that's a sizeable chunk, many millions of people, totally oblivious). The real news is the cure for that. Hang out in places where smart people exist, avoid traditional media mostly and always keep them at arms length.

Re:The battle of extremes. by blahplusplus · 2014-12-12 13:21 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Hollywood's Secret War With Google

Corporate greed vs individual entitlement. Both extremes are wrong and harmful

You're a moron if you believe this...

The myth of "balance" in capitalist societies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

Overthrowing governments

http://www.amazon.com/War-Rack...

"I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil intersts in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested." [p. 10]

"War is a racket. ...It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives." [p. 23] "The general public shoulders the bill [for war]. This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations." [p. 24]

The 9 trillion dollar bank bailout

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

Libor scandal

Rule of law is impossible under capitalism, since the kings of business (he who has the gold makes the rules) get to do whatever they want and the public gets fucked.

So if you want to fight corruption "the traditional way" (electoral politics), you're dead in the water because most people aren't going to give up their deeply felt emotions and aren't very bright. This way of doing things is limited because of the limits of history and the amount of energy it takes to transform the minds of a large population and the fact that the media is co-opted. There are things that can be done but you'd have to be really committed and not a change the world 'faker' like most people are (aka they don't want to risk anything).

You need to know that most people who are voting in electoral politics don't live in reality (that's a sizeable chunk, many millions of people, totally oblivious). The real news is the cure for that. Hang out in places where smart people exist, avoid traditional media mostly and always keep them at arms length.

Re:Ond once again we learn they have been lying... by blahplusplus · 2014-12-07 06:20 · Score: 3, Interesting · on Canadian Agency Drops Cases Rather Than Deal With New Requirements For ISP Info

"My impression is that law enforcement has gotten entirely too lazy and to disrespectful of the rights and well-being of the citizens that are supposed to protect."

You have no clue what's really going on in the world... the elites are afraid of political awakening. This (mass surveillance) by the NSA and abuse by law enforcement is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

Science on reasoning, reason doesn't work the way we thought it did:

Brezinski at a press conferenec conference

http://www.amazon.com/Democrac...

The real news:
http://therealnews.com/t2/ [therealnews.com]

Look at the following graphs:

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Free markets?

"We now live in two Americas. One—now the minority—functions in a print-based, literate world that can cope with complexity and can separate illusion from truth. The other—the majority—is retreating from a reality-based world into one of false certainty and magic. To this majority—which crosses social class lines, though the poor are overwhelmingly affected—presidential debate and political rhetoric is pitched at a sixth-grade reading level. In this “other America,” serious film and theater, as well as newspapers and books, are being pushed to the margins of society.

In the tradition of Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death, Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges navigates this culture—attending WWF contests, the Adult Video News Awards in Las Vegas, and Ivy League graduation ceremonies—to expose an age of terrifying decline and heightened self-delusion."

Re:US Centric? by blahplusplus · 2014-12-02 17:51 · Score: 2 · on Is a "Wikipedia For News" Feasible?

"I was amazed to read major American newspapers and to see for myself how drastically what they were reporting was different than what was actually going on."

The elites are afraid of political awakening, and you really don't understand what science has discovered about the brian... you dear sir, don't live in 'reality'. See the science:

Also a real news site:

The (mass surveillance) by the NSA is just more part and parcel of state suppression of dissent against corporate interests. They're worried that the more people are going to wake up and corporate centers like the US and canada may be among those who also awaken. See this vid with Zbigniew Brzezinski, former United States National Security Advisor.

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...
http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesa...

Look at the following graphs:

And then...

WIKILEAKS: U.S. Fought To Lower Minimum Wage In Haiti So Hanes And Levis Would Stay Cheap

Free markets?