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Re:Repeat after Me by blahplusplus · 2018-10-29 14:03 · Score: 4, Informative · on Wisconsin's $4.1 Billion Foxconn Boondoggle (theverge.com)

We don't actually have a conservative party anymore. We have two crony capitalist parties with opposing views on a few social issues, to keep the masses from realizing they're really just fangirling over which set of rich people get richer.

Except there is no such thing as a non crony capitalist society, you guys are fed so much pro corproate propaganda you never check to see whether your society works as advertise. There has never been a time your government has worked for you, there was a brief moment after the great depression but after that, the rich got mad and went to claw back all working peoples gains and you all fell for it.

US distribution of wealth

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

Princeton study

https://scholar.princeton.edu/...

Here are billions of dollars in energy subsidies, aka when politicians are saying social services need to be cut, they are speaking out both sides of their mouths because they know most people don't look at what companies are getting free handouts from subsidies.

https://www.imf.org/external/p...

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

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

Manufacturing consent:

Re:Consolidation of the Production of Value by blahplusplus · 2018-10-14 00:00 · Score: 1 · on Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? (medium.com)

I too started feeling pitchforky when I read the summary. There is, in fact, a tremendous amount of psychopathic malfeasance at the top levels of the economy and government. But, we need to understand what's going on, in order to fairly and justly address it, in order to provide the greatest standard of living for the most people.

You should feel more pitchforky because the top is way out of sight.

US distribution of wealth

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

A regulated market-based approach to education? by Paul+Fernhout · 2018-09-23 02:22 · Score: 0 · on MIT's Elegant Schoolbus Algorithm Was No Match For Angry Parents (bostonglobe.com)

For good or bad, in the USA we live in a capitalist society with a (somewhat) free market. We can try to make the most of that because -- given appropriate regulation by the State and a fair distribution of purchasing power -- markets can work. See:
"Planning Through the Market: More Equality Through the Market System" by G. William Domhoff
https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.e...
"Most importantly for our purposes, markets can be reconstructed to make it possible to plan for a more egalitarian economic future. It turns out it is possible for strong governments to use the market system for planning. Once it is realized that markets can be viewed from a governmental point of view as administrative instruments for planning, it can be seen that with a little reconfiguring they can serve collective purposes as well as the individual consumer preferences trumpeted by conservative free market economists. In this form of planning, the information is supplied by the price system that is so central to the considerable, but far from perfect, efficiency brought about by markets. There is thus no need for one big planning apparatus. Instead, the planning tools within a reconstructed market system are simply taxes, subsidies, government purchases, and regulation. This point may seem very mundane, but these well-known government powers can be potent when applied to markets. ..."

Just like there are some good cars out there out there (e.g. Toyota Camry) and bad cars (e.g. Ford Pinto), there are some good private schools out there which can be beneficial to specific families with specific needs and interests and there are also some bad private schools. Even the same school can be good or bad for a family depending on circumstances. For example for an overall good school (especially for families with kids who are a little extroverted), consider the Albany Free School:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

For parents who don't want to home educate (or otherwise can't do it for some reason), they could spend the $20k per child per year on private school instead. There would thus be a lot of money around to support alternative local private schools (like Montessori schools and child-directed Free schools as well as other types of schools). These schools would have to be very responsive to the needs of families in order to prosper given the potential for competition with all these other educational approaches and other private schools.

People choosing what they want to learn (and spending money on those choices) seems more compatible with a supposedly free-market capitalist society like the USA -- compared to what we have now with most young people being turned into standardized minds in government-owned "education" factories called schools (see my other comment on Prussian-inspired schools).

Local libraries might also be big beneficiaries from this shift. As John Taylor Gatto writes in "The Underground History of American Education", the "public" in public libraries means something very different than the "public" in public schools. Public libraries are inclusive institutions where you pick what you want to learn about on your own schedule and the librarian is not looking over your shoulder at everything you read. By contrast, public schools are only available to some people in the community (and exclude participation to everyone else) and, if you can enroll in them, are essentially mini surveillance states dictating what you learn and when you learn it (regardless of your individual needs or interests).

I's actually prefer a universal basic income over money spent just on families with children. But both of those solutions are in part about the same thing -- addressing a growing destructive rich-poor divide. Both capitalism and democracy can only function well when wealth is roughly evenly distributed across the society. Otherwise regulatory capture and

Re:Everything about this story is wrong by drinkypoo · 2018-09-11 03:24 · Score: 1 · on Silicon Valley University Asks Professors To Offer Students Affordable Housing (fortune.com)

Meaning specifically this meadow?

Correct.

I'm somewhat confident some of the land around UCSC consists of some type of preserves.

Yes, the land around its land. It's bordered on one side by Pogonip, and on another side by Henry Cowell. Further, 410 acres of the campus itself are "protected natural lands". However, the campus totals 2,000 acres. A quick back of the envelope calculation :) reveals that this leaves over 1,500 acres.

They can't just go developing randomly though, because people will protest pretty much regardless of what they do. However, people will protest most strenuously if they try to cut down any redwood trees, so that's pretty much a non-starter.

UCSC has never literally promised not to build on the meadow, they only never previously put the meadow into their construction plans because it was not necessary. However, since they are not first and foremost an A&M or similar, they don't really need all that meadow space like Davis needs theirs. Last I checked, UCSC was known primarily for science, computing, and marine bio. There's a shortage of sea life in the meadow...

Re:The reality is... by blahplusplus · 2018-08-26 11:31 · Score: 3, Insightful · on It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs (nytimes.com)

Dead money is mostly an illusion

It really isn't, money "invested" in stocks is money just shuffling zeroes and ones between different banks. If you're going to try to tell me the market is efficient I'd laugh in your face. Try to at least be educated enough before participating in a discussion.

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

If you're going to tell me the bottom 80% can't use more money to do more productive things I'll laugh in your general direction.

US distribution of wealth

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

Re: not just fortnight. by blahplusplus · 2018-08-24 15:57 · Score: 0 · on Epic's First Fortnite Installer Allowed Hackers To Covertly Download and Install Anything on Users' Android Phones, Google Researchers Say (androidcentral.com)

Yeah it is stupid to make sure the apps are safe. It should be a free service. College for all, free medical care, diners that stay open for nostalgia while losing cash, you know the old smash and grab politics of the left. Wave the flag get your head beat in because fascism or whatever they hate today. But it has to be free see.

Gee it's shit like this that makes me think the world has gone downright insane, there is no real left wing movement in america. There is one party, the party of big business with it's two wings republicans and democrats.

Indeed america is filled with raging communists given the bottom 80% of society holds a meager 5% of the total financial wealth of the economy.

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.e...

If numbers and science were anything to go by, if you are working class or poor and aren't left wing and american, you are pretty damn uninformed. But that's america for ya.

George carlin said it best about american citizens:

Citigroup banks Plutonomy memo

Re:He's a Hard Worker by Anonymous Coward · 2018-08-16 21:05 · Score: 0 · on US Bosses Now Earn 312 Times the Average Worker's Wage, Figures Show (theguardian.com)

People get paid based on the value they produce

Just like those bank bailouts in 2008? Citigroup had an army of lawyers trying to scrub the internet of their internal documents saying the modern economy is a plutonomy (aka servers the oligarchy). So in a nation where the laws are bought and paid for. You are clueless.

US distribution of wealth

Elites fear political awakening of the globe

Wealth in america

Re:Race to the bottom by blahplusplus · 2018-05-30 18:47 · Score: 1 · on Face Recognition Is Now Being Used In Schools (theintercept.com)

So we have to compete with China in creepiness?

Of course since the average american and person in capitalist society is unaware how extreme wealth inequality is. So all the rulers are at full blown war against their publics. That's why the spying is there, to make sure you have the "correct" free market, corporation worshipping thoughts and not notice the end of the rule of law, endless copyright laws which equals total domination of government by the rich.

See it in this speach by former national security adivisor of the United states:

The Citibank memo

US distribution of wealth

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

These links will take a while to digest, but if you want to understand what's going on in the world, you owe it to yourself to become informed about the true state of the world. Realize that business and the wealthy is hostile to your interests.

Testing theories of representative government

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

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

Stratfor and social media like reddit to monitor / influence and control public opinion.

Reddit and intelligence agencies

Wikileaks -- Reddit and intelligence agencies

"Intended as an internal document. Good reading to understand the nature of rich democracies and the fact that the common people are not allowed to play a role."

Crisis of democracy

Crisis of democracy - PDF

http://www.amazon.com/Crisis-D... ">Crisis of democracy - BOOK

Education as ignorance

Overthrowing other peoples governments

Overthrowing other peoples governments, the master list

Interference in other states when the rich/corporations dont get their way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Re:Excellent by blahplusplus · 2018-03-08 22:52 · Score: 1 · on Trump Promises Copyright Crackdown As DoJ Takes Aim At Streaming Pirates (torrentfreak.com)

limited time should be viewed with respect to that basis. 25 seems reasonable to me.

Not going to happen in a nation as stupid as america, you're a totally lawless nation and you worship corporations. George carlin said it best about americans.

Carlin

US distribution of wealth

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Wealth in america

Re:Corporate lobby group by blahplusplus · 2017-12-21 23:22 · Score: 1 · on Apple's iPhone Throttling Will Reinvigorate the Push for Right To Repair Laws (vice.com)

he right to purchase a good, and thereby own it, is a fundamental aspect of a fair, open and free market.

It's too bad most right wingers are ignorant that the free market doesn't exist and is a myth preached to the stupid masses. The rich have never subscribed to the ideology they preach, your society has never worked how you believe it does.

Testing theories of representative government - shows the rich get whatever policies they want, the rest have no impact. AKA no rule of law for the average person.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Energy subsidies

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

US distribution of wealth

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

Re:Socialism is an easy fix for cases like this. by blahplusplus · 2017-12-21 19:31 · Score: 1 · on US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% (ft.com)

Socialism is an easy fix for cases like this. In a socialist system this vitamin wouldn't even be available because it never would have been developed in the first place.

Because we all know companies would never take billions in state subsidies while morons like you fuck yourselves by believing that free market bullshit. Socialism for the rich, harsh reality for the free market fundies amongst the public.

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

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:

US distribution of wealth

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

Re:Elites celebrating other elites by blahplusplus · 2017-12-03 22:50 · Score: 2 · on Silicon Valley Billionaires Award $22 Million in 'Breakthrough Prizes' (theguardian.com)

Gee perhaps if you'd stop being politically uninformed you could actually elect someone to fix that clusterfuck of a government down there.

US distribution of wealth

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

Protectionism for big business by state intervention

Big business was always protected there was no market

Re:Also affects normal people by blahplusplus · 2017-11-19 03:58 · Score: 1 · on 'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo (theguardian.com)

"I distrust ALL modern USA political parties/movements, and evaluate individual politicians instead."

Then you really don't understand your political interest as a non rich person. Big business interests are allayed against the common man.

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.

Manufacturing consent:

US distribution of wealth

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

Re:Amagasaki rail crash by No+Longer+an+AC · 2017-11-16 17:11 · Score: 1 · on Apology After Japanese Train Departs 20 Seconds Early (bbc.com)

Although they did play that song, that's Wallace Saunders' version.

The original song memorializing Casey Jones was written a few days after the accident by , Jones' friend Wallace Saunders, an African American engine wiper.

The Dead's version (along with some annotations including the above quote) appears here:

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead...

Re:USA contrasted with... by blahplusplus · 2017-11-15 21:43 · Score: 1 · on Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work (wsj.com)

" I'd love to hear companies speak of employees like something other than a lump of coal to be tossed into the boiler."

Not going to happen until you people start getting a clue that your masters don't even practice what they preach, you guys need to stop licking the balls of capitalist ideology so hard and ask tough questions about whether rule of law can even exist in a high tech society. How is one to hold a big company accountable when you are hundreds of miles away from it? I have serious doubts most of you guys are introspective and self critical enough to see through your leaders bullshit.

You want to be treated better you guys need to start scaring the shit out of the business community and let them know you'll stand up for your right to exist too instead of being so slave like to the business community.

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

The real news

The Citibank memo

Richard wolf on capitalism

http://www.rdwolff.com/

US distribution of wealth

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

Re:Um, where? by blahplusplus · 2017-11-15 16:40 · Score: 1 · on FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules (bloomberg.com)

If you do it once they'll use that trick to get what they want every time.

They've been doing that since forever you and americans don't seem very informed on this issue. You guys are up to your ass in free market fairy tales down there.

Elites respond to Crisis of democracy - aka double down and propaganda and misinformation

https://scholar.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/mgilens/files/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc.pdf

Testing theories of representative government

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

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

The Citibank memo

Manufacturing consent:

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

The real news

The Citibank memo

Richard wolf on capitalism

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

The real news

The Citibank memo

Richard wolf on capitalism

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

Re:No surprises by blahplusplus · 2017-09-14 06:28 · Score: 2 · on Union Power Is Putting Pressure on Silicon Valley's Tech Giants (bloomberg.com)

"This comes across as preemptively shouting down dissent, rather than engaging"

There's not much to engage, the business class preaches free market for the masses but secretly loves state subsidy.

Energy subsidies

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/survey/so/2015/NEW070215A.htm

Science on reasoning, your brain does not see the world as it is, see the science:

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

Testing theories of representative government

US distribution of wealth

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

Re:I hope he sues... by tsqr · 2017-08-10 08:15 · Score: 5, Informative · on Fired Google Engineer Says Company Execs Shamed and Smeared Him (bloomberg.com)

Perhaps you didn't notice, but the site you linked lists companies and individuals holding a state contractor's license. These are entities that are licensed by the state to provide services to the public, and shouldn't be confused with companies that have contracts with the state.

Here's something a little more relevant to the discussion, as it shows that Google does indeed have a contract with the state of California -- a description of Google's contract with the University of Californa.

Re:Strawman Much? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-06-02 04:15 · Score: 0 · on A New Report Finds No Evidence That People Will Work Less Under a Universal Basic Income (theoutline.com)

Here you go: research and numbers. See Figure 4 for a graph of the actual, expected, and ideal proportionate wealth distributions as recorded by a survey of 5,522 Americans in a study done by Norton & Ariely (2010).

If you'd prefer that in words instead, here's a relevant excerpt:

Americans from all walks of life were also united in their vision of what the "ideal" wealth distribution would be, which may come as an even bigger surprise than their shared misinformation on the actual wealth distribution. They said that the ideal wealth distribution would be one in which the top 20% owned between 30 and 40 percent of the privately held wealth, which is a far cry from the 85 percent that the top 20% actually own. They also said that the bottom 40% -- that's 120 million Americans -- should have between 25% and 30%, not the mere 8% to 10% they thought this group had, and far above the 0.3% they actually had. In fact, there's no country in the world that has a wealth distribution close to what Americans think is ideal when it comes to fairness. So maybe Americans are much more egalitarian than most of them realize about each other, at least in principle and before the rat race begins.

Re:Solar City... by elrous0 · 2016-11-21 05:22 · Score: 1, Offtopic · on Tesla Acquires SolarCity: Little Can Stand in Elon Musk's Way When He Wants Something (cnbc.com)

I came across one table at the old location where someone practically raped the pine needles off a small Christmas tree.

Probably one of those new "ecosexuals". And yes, that's apparently an actual thing now, and not just some joke about extremist eco-hippies. And no, they don't get nature's consent first, presumably.

I swear, it's becoming harder and harder to parody the left when so many of their own have become parodies of themselves.

Re:Utopia .NE. a good place to live by Sir_Eptishous · 2016-08-10 03:06 · Score: 1 · on Nicholas Carr Says Tech 'Utopia Is Creepy' (cio.com)

Well, with a sig like that it wouldn't surprise people that you don't think the US is an oligarchy, whether that comes from the Washington Times or from UCSC

Re:The sheer scale of it by RDW · 2016-07-16 23:04 · Score: 1 · on Encrypted DNA Storage Investigated by DOE Researchers (darkreading.com)

A human has about 4 billion base pairs, which are roughly 2 bits each, so that is 500 MB. You could fit that on a CDROM with room to spare. But humans share 99% of their DNA, so you would really only need to store the diffs. 1% is 5 MB.

A copy of the (haploid) reference genome encoded as 2 bits per base pair comes in at about 800MB:

http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu...

Run that through something like Z-zip and you can store it in less that 640MB, so it will indeed fit on a CD. Each of us has a diploid genome, though (a copy from each parent), so you really need to store double that if you take no account of the high level of similarity between both copies. If we assume a known reference genome, however, the 'diffs' are as you suggest very small - one paper reports compression down to 4MB, small enough to email:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...

Lots of analyses are done with lists of variants with respect to a reference genome, but the raw data generally comes from 'next generation sequencing' platforms, where every base needs to be sequenced many times over before bases can be called confidently, and quality scores of base calls need to be stored. The raw data usually needs to be kept since alignment and variant calling algorithms are improving all the time. Storage requirements are something like 80GB+ compressed.

Re:Chilling-effects are the intent of surveillance by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-29 07:44 · Score: 1 · on Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions: Study

"Universal surveillance is a direct, targeted and determined attack on free society. "

They are worried about the globe awakening politically.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

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

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

From war is a racket:

"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.

US distribution of wealth

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

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

Re:Founding Fathers Spinning In Their Graves by Anonymous Coward · 2016-03-29 07:41 · Score: 0 · on Mass Surveillance Silences Minority Opinions: Study

"...does our current group of "leaders" not get?"

They get it, they worry about the globe awakening politically.

Our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought.

Science on reasoning:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

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

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

From war is a racket:

"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 traumatized 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.

US distribution of wealth

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

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

Re:Considerations... by DRJlaw · 2016-03-29 05:45 · Score: 1 · on The Arctic Sets Yet Another Record Low Maximum Extent (nsidc.org)

So what if the Earth is slightly lower in altitude of it's planar orbit around the sun? The northern hemisphere would be warmer, ice would melt. The southern hemisphere would experience the opposite, with the antarctic increasing in the accumulation of ice.
Yet I have seen very little research into this possibility that could pose a valid explanation for Earth's present climate changes.

There's been very little research into this possibility because it violates the laws of physics. You could not consistently orbit "slightly lower in altitude of [Earth's] planar orbit around the sun" without the near constant intervention of really, really large rockets.

Pick an orbital plane that you want to label as the "normal" one. Now shift the planet "below" the orbital plane due to, say, the combined gravitational pull of most of the other planets (September 2040 superalignment; y'all's days are numbered!). The problem is that the planet will still orbit the barycenter of the solar system, which also moves around slightly, but not much. The barycenter will "pull" the planet up. Thus means that, just like when you spin a tetherball in a flat plane and then push or hit the ball down, if the Earth were to descend "below" the normal plane, it would for half an orbit but pop up "above" the orbital plane for the other half. Blah blah blah, Earth gravity and air resistance to rotation of the ball make this a poor model, but at least it's within the realm of ordinary experience.

Guess what already causes the northern hemisphere to be warmer and the southern hemisphere to experience the opposite? The axial tilt of the Earth's rotation relative to its orbit. We call it winter and summer. It reverses every 6 months. can have subtle effects on the precise timing of certain transitions, but you're not going to escape the reversal of conditions every 6 months.

Re:Suzie can vote. Suzie can get a pitchfork. by crunchygranola · 2016-03-18 05:06 · Score: 1 · on Fast-Food CEO Invests In Machines Because Regulation Makes Them Cheaper Than Employees (yahoo.com)

"Paid for by the corporations through taxes because they put all of the people out of work."

Corporations simple pass any added taxes and costs on to the customer. Thus if you add taxes to a corporation they simple raise the price and pass that added expense on to the customer.

Except that it isn't true. Look, for example, at this discussion by conservative economist, and former Reagan adviser Bruce Bartlett.

Some key excerpts:

All economists reject that idea. They point out that prices are set by market forces and the suppliers of goods and services aren’t only C-corporations, which pay taxes on the corporate tax schedule, but also sole proprietorships, partnerships and S-corporations that are taxed under the individual income tax. Other suppliers include foreign corporations and nonprofits.

Therefore, corporations cannot raise prices to compensate for the corporate income tax because they will be undercut by businesses to which the tax does not apply. It should also be noted that the states have substantially different corporate tax regimes, including some that do not tax corporations at all, and we do not observe that prices for goods and services vary from state to state depending on its taxation of corporations.

In 1962, the University of Chicago economist Arnold C. Harberger, published an important article arguing that the corporate tax was borne entirely by shareholders. This was unquestionably true in the first instance; that is, when the corporate income tax was first imposed. The tax simply reduced corporate profits and had to come out of the pockets of shareholders, given that it could not be shifted onto consumers.

But as time went by, some economists argued that a substantial portion of the corporate income tax was ultimately paid by workers in the form of lower wages...

...The Treasury economists conclude that 82 percent of the corporate tax falls on capital and 18 percent on labor. This is very close to the methodology of the private Tax Policy Center, whose analyses are frequently cited in policy debates. It assumes that 80 percent of the corporate tax is borne by capital and 20 percent by labor.

So no, consumers do not pay that tax. Those with capital, the shareholders do, and to a small extent, eventually, workers. 70% of all shares are held by the top 5% of the population (by wealth) by the way, 42% by just the top 1%. But if productivity gains from automation are being passed on to workers (unlike what has happened since 1972) then their real wages will be rising anyway.

Re:Hedge funds own the market. by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-15 00:50 · Score: 0 · on Goldman Sachs: VR and AR "Will Be The Next Generation Computing Platform" Worth $80 Billion By 2025 (roadtovr.com)

"The banking sector is meant to be highly competitive so that scarce capital (savings) is efficiently allocated to the businesses that will produce the best real returns on it."

This has never been the truth.

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

The Citibank memo

US distribution of wealth

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

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

GeneTorrent by Shadow+IT+Ninja · 2015-11-16 05:08 · Score: 2 · on ISP To Court: BitTorrent Usage Doesn't Equal Piracy (torrentfreak.com)

The Cancer Genomics Hub uses BitTorrent based software to distribute huge public domain data sets (multiple TB each) from DNA sequencing and related studies. BitTorrent is simply the most efficient way to distribute data on such a scale. This does get interesting when you are at a university which is under pressure from the RIAA to shut down BitTorrent, however. I had to spend way too much time working this all out with a firewall administrator.

I love how... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-11-04 09:19 · Score: 0, Interesting · on Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence (hopesandfears.com)

... no one ever looks at corporations and the rich. Someone should do a study on them because they are the ones who cause violence in the world.

From war is a racket:

"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.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

US distribution of wealth

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

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

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:So to summarize... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-23 16:26 · Score: 3, Insightful · on Full Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Analyzed (freezenet.ca)

"This is yet another example of idiot governments rolling over and giving corporations everything they want, and utterly failing to serve the people who voted for them."

You're under the dangerous idea that they ever worked for you.

First, our brains are much worse at reality and thinking than thought. Science on reasoning:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxp_wgFWQo&feature=youtu.be&list=PLKR2GeygdHomOZeVKx3P0fqH58T3VghOj&t=724

Why you can't have capitalist democracy

From war is a racket:

"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.

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

What happens when government tries to help its people - greece

http://williamblum.org/

US distribution of wealth

https://imgur.com/a/FShfb/

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

Re:CISA is a "done deal" by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-23 04:47 · Score: 0 · on Sen. Ron Wyden Explains the Fight Ahead Over CISA

"How do you know this?"

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7ZyJw_cHJY

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWTIZBCQ79g

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

http://www.amazon.com/War-Racket-Antiwar-Americas-Decorated/dp/0922915865/">War is a racket

From war is a racket:

"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.

US distribution of wealth

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

The Centre for Investigative Journalism

https://kurukshetra1.wordpress.com/2015/09/27/a-brief-history-of-imperialism-and-state-violence-in-colombia/

Some history on US imperialism by us corporations.

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: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:

Economics is not a science... by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 09:02 · Score: 0 · on Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science (theguardian.com)

See the 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

Wikileaks

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

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: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:

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

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.

Brezinski at a press conference

Science on reasoning:

Major powers, and imposing control over the awakened masses.

The real news: