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  1. Then again, there's always this alternative... on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1

    Say, I know some Nigerian princes who are looking to escape their predicament and have a great deal for ya......

  2. Re:Altruism...outstanding on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1
    wermske, you have truly made the most outstanding suggestions --- good show!!!!

    Do not, puuuuhlease do not, make the flagrant mistake of shipping to those professional scammers like M.A.D.D. or Susan G. Komen Foundation (MADD was founded by a woman whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver -- ostensibly to change drunk driving laws, but the founder's salary increased dramatically, as did her net worth, while contributions were poorly disbursed --- eventually, after doing as much fund raising as possible, that mother who exploited her daughter's death, then once again dramatically increased her salary by becoming a lobbyist for the liquor retail industry). The founder of that foundation, whose sister died from breast cancer, was a neocon, supporter of Geo. W. Bush's campaigns for both governor and president, and that foundation followed a similar, albeit more convoluted, structure as MADD: they steered some of those donations to pharmaceutical companies which would be sure their research never implicated their own products, etc.

  3. Agreed! on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    Most likely, having read numerous papers and reports published in Saudi Arabia over the past 10 years which were aimed at the economic elite of that family-owned country (the Saud family), one might surmise that the Saudis are behind the financing of these widespread protests, and possibly even the murders of the ambassador and the State Dept. people in Libya.

  4. Re:Do it already on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    One might actually attempt to use what little powers of cognition to think the situation through, and note the similiarity to what occurred in the early 1950s in Iran, when the Kermit Roosevelt-led CIA team helped to overthrow the democratically-elected president of Iran. Probability suggests that the Saudis are financing this widespread protests, and murders of those State Dept. people in Benghazzi, Libya, to foment pressure against the pro-democracy movements and, eventually, promote war between the North African Muslim countries and Europe, which would aid the spread of the Wahabist extremism, and boost the Saudi Arabian product of oil.

  5. The Lion's Warning on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    The Lion's Warning

    It has become almost traditional at every anniversary of 9/11 to mention all those warnings from American and foreign intelligence agencies, compulsively ignored by the Cheney-Bush administration.

    While those are all well and true, it should never be forgotten that repeated warnings were also coming from a warrior-commander far away in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, known as the Lion of Panjshir for his fighting to repel the Soviet invasion.

    Commander Massoud, of the Northern Alliance he had formed to fight against the Taliban, had repeatedly attempted to warn the Bush administration of an impending terrorist attack, and had spoken of such in a speech several months earlier he had given to the European Parliament.

    Told of several journalists who wished to interview him, and ignoring the concerns of his aides, Commander Massoud made one last attempt to publicize his warning to America.

    The two reporters turned out to be imposters, cowardly dogs of Al-Qaeda, who would self-detonate to murder the noble Massoud, who made the ultimate sacrifice in his final attempt to warn America!

    One can only wonder what Ahmad Shah Massoud, the martyred commander might have elaborated about after the attacks on 9/11/01, and what his living testimony might have shed light upon?

    Dead men tell no tales, but Americans should never forget this tale of yet another Muslim hero of 9/11, the Afghanistani warrior-leader who died trying to sound the alarm.

    The Beloved Martyred Commander
    Ahmad Shah Massoud
    Sept. 2, 1953 --- Sept. 9, 2001

    Hvil i frioi, Commander

  6. Obama on education...& Chicago on Chicago Teachers Rip 'Big Money Interest Groups' · · Score: 1
    Obama on Education

    As with so many other neocon policies, President Obama has managed not just to extend the George W. Bush policies, but to expand them.

    While Bush went after the students to sabotage their education with his "No child left behind" fiasco, Obama has expanded that to go after not only the students, but the teachers as well, with his "Race to the top" -- moving towards the final Wall Street goal of the complete privatization of American education.

    At the Chicago --- or city --- level, Obama's former chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, now Mayor Rahmney of Chicago, carries on the corporate model. (Rahm, or Rahmney, was a former private equity banker with Wasserstein Perella, so he's well suited for the job of the destroyer of public education.)

    It was Obama's man, Arne Duncan (formerly of Chicago, now Sec'y of Education), who stated that Hurrican Katrina was the best thing to happen to education in New Orleans. Aside from the sheer obscene crassness of that remark --- Katrina killed thousands in New Orleans --- Duncan intended that remark to mean that the aftermath of Katrina's destruction allowed for the establishment of widespread charter schools --- the privatization of education --- and the destruction of the teachers' union.

    The standard scam, or process, is exemplified in Chicago: the testing is non-curriculum based, producing poor test results, which leads to support for shifting to charter schools, or the complete privatization of education.

    The building of charter schools is a lucrative profit center, given the tax breaks and structure for educational real estate development.

    Profit, profit and more profit, coupled with the further destruction of unions with the subsequent reduction in workers' rights and quality of education.

    While education suffers in Chicago, Rahmney's children attend the best of private schools.

    While education suffers nationally, President Obama's children attend the best of private schools.

    Once again the American electorate is given real "choice" by Wall Street: Mutt Romney who supports the complete privatization of America, or President Obama, who supports the complete privatization of America.

  7. Things that make one go hmmmmm on GAO Slams DHS Over BioWatch Biological Defense System · · Score: 1
    I'm really looking forward to the day when America stops treating terrorists like terrorists...

    You are joking, right? Don't tell me you are one of those Americans who still believes FoxFiction to be an authentic news station (after they won their two legal cases, allowing them to forever fictionalize their "news")? Or that Americans aren't all hopeless, given that hardly a one of them understands who owns JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, ExxonMobil, BP, GE, AT&T, et al.?

    Please tell me you aren't one of those incredibly simpleminded, gullible types who believes that USCoC (US Chamber of Commerce) meme about voting for Obama for future SCOTUS choices --- as if that matters after Bush, then Obama, has criminalized dissent in America with their preemptive arrests?

  8. You're talking pseudo-liquidity on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    With QEI and II, plus what ever they pump out next, they are transferring their private debt onto the public with all those purchases of toxic assets (junk paper), allowing for more generation of the latest junk paper, used in their charade of pumping up the stock market --- it's all a hologram, like Max Keiser says.

  9. Wrong terminology, I'm afraid .... on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    ....now it is properly referred to as ultra-high frequency trading.....that cat is waaaay out of their bag. Same category as LIBOR manipulation, the DTCC's Stock Borrow Program (SBP, for naked short selling), unlimited number of Credit Default Swaps' purchases, unlimited number of commodity futures contract purchases, unlimited number of investors per hedge fund, etc.

  10. Logical disinformation on Scientists Say Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You · · Score: 1

    After Monsanto and Novartis have managed to infect, contaminate and corrupt most agriculture in North America, and probably elsewhere, with their GMOs crapola, it stands to reason they'd be pushing such nonsense as this.

  11. Re:Uncertain uncertainty limit on Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Are you sure about that?

  12. Re:Nobody with a clue is surprised on Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1

    Well said...

  13. Fantasy Physics still confuses on Violation of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle · · Score: 1
    Pierre-Simon Laplace was correct. Prof. Taleb, in his book, The Black Swann, clearly demolishes the Uncertainty Principle and too few people still don't understand Bell's Theorem and therefore are confused on "quantum entanglement" and the EPR.
    (Read that fellow who's a prof in quantum mechanics at MIT, Seth Lloyd.)

    It's about universal balance --- too many people are still unfamiliar with GFB Riemann, most unfortunately. In the present we are saddled with Fantasy Finance and Fantasy Physics, I fear.....

  14. Re:Science and conjecture on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    Your points are well taken, the lumping together of disparate categories serves no purpose other than propaganda and disinformation. While I accept global climate change, I realize it is a confusing subject for many as there exists much financial fraud surrounding it, and people routinely attack myself and others for not accepting the latest in shadow banking fraud: cap-and-trade and carbon permit trading, etc., which both GAO reports and Euro forensic audits have shown to be nothing more than the latest bankster fraud.

  15. Freak market, perhaps? on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1

    I've been doing voluntary political activism for forty years, and I still have yet to see any mythic "free market" anyplace.

  16. Re:Suprising how? on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1
    I've posted the link in the past multiple times so you can google my name and vaccines if you're interested (don't have the time to search once again) but a most respected French research institute did a study and concluded the existence of a positive correlation between the number of vaccinations received by babies under one year of age and autism.

    I believe we call that science, and while I've been a believes of climate change since at least 1970, I defintely have read, and completely reject, the Warren Commssion Report, the 9/11 Commission Report, the Peterson Commission on Foundations report, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

  17. Iffy article .... on The Motivated Rejection of Science · · Score: 1
    ...would have commented on it at The Guardian, but they practise heavy censorship over there --- and routinely refuse to print my comments. Don't know about conspiracy theory, but know a great deal about conspiracy facts.

    Conspiracy fact: On 9/10/01, the Pentagon's comptroller announced their auditing team had uncovered $2.3 trillion which was unaccounted for.

    Conspiracy fact: On the morning of 9/11/01, a plane crashes dead center into the Pentagon's west wall, killing most of that auditing team and severely injuring the rest (the DIA's Financial Management staff).

  18. The Romney Directive on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 0
    The Romney Directive

    The Romney/Ryan campaign ordered the Democratic Party to insert new language in their campaign plank: praising the lord and recognizing Jerusalem as the capitol of Israel.

    The Democratic Party immediately capitulated!

    No doubt those 750,000 American workers who lost their jobs over the past six months are now filled with hope for change? The crucial question is, was that Romney’s first directive to the Obama administration?

    We think not.

    Late in the Bush administration, the banker whistleblower, Bradley Birkinfeld, flew from UBS, Switzerland, to Washington, D.C., armed with a list of American super-rich tax dodgers, and on that list appeared the name of Willard Mitt Romney.

    After Obama was elected president, the Obama administration prosecuted Birkenfeld into jail, and although UBS was fined for those tax dodgers, they essentially buried that list.

    Of course, among the names on that list of super-rich tax dodgers there probably appeared the names of the financial backers of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Mitt Romney, but we are certain that Romney’s name was featured.

    Anybody still unsure as to the obvious orchestration of American presidential elections?

    All you faux crats out there, you vile rightwingers who dare call yourselves “progressives” --- stand ready for the next Romney directive!

    We true progressives shall cast our vote for the authentic democrat, Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party.

    Affirmative on Jill Stein, negative on Obamney!

  19. Operating a copier is "hacking" ? ? ? on Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim · · Score: 1

    "..someone who snuck into the building and made copies of the document.."
    Well, if operating a copying machine equates to "hacking," then even those draft-dodging whoremongers of the US Secret Service should be able to catch them for let us never forget the history of the US Secret Service's incremental improvement: after four USSS types on Nixon's presidential detail almost drowned in Biscayne Bay 'cause none of them could swim, the US Secret Service installed a swimming pool at their training center, and now all US SS doods are taught how to swim......

  20. EXACTLY ! ! ! on FBI Denies It Held iPhone UDIDs Stolen By AntiSec · · Score: 1

    http://www.whale.to/b/gelbspan_b.html
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO
    Present director, Robert Mueller III, was appointed to chief of DOJ's criminal division to interdict the BCCI investigation by then-president, George H.W. Bush, and later appointed to FBI director by George W. Bush, four days prior to 9/11/01. Director Mueller is the grandnewphew of Richard Bissell, while Mueller's wife is the granddaughter of Gen. Cabell --- two of the three top CIA types President Kennedy fired before he was assassinated. (The third, Allen Dulles, would be appointed to manage the Warren Commission to "investigate" the Kennedy assassination.)

  21. Re:Not just your phone! on Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum · · Score: 1
  22. Blessings on Jacob and Julian on Leave Your Cellphone At Home, Says Jacob Appelbaum · · Score: 2

    And please let us not forget one of the overriding stories against free speech and transparency:

    http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/suspicious.pdf

    http://www.whale.to/b/gelbspan_b.html

    And blessings on Jacob for everything he's done and is still doing.

  23. Re:all in all on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: 1

    Has everyone forgotten the days when your computer actually belonged to you?

    Sorry, chum, but most Zombie Americans have forgotten even the value or importance of knowing who owns anything: nobody knows who owns the major banks, oil companies, telecoms, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

    The reason FYI (just in case you are interested?) is that viewing certain shows from a young age (such as Peter G. Peterson's Sesame Street) induces the same brainwave pattern as apathy and obeisance to authority, as does years of viewing TV on a regular basis. Hence, people from ages 10 to 80 are equally zombie-like and apathetic stooges.

    And it's oh so sad.....

  24. Not that fraudster, Doctorow on Doctorow on the War on General Purpose Computing · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Please, no bullcrap stuff on Cory Doctorow, Public Fraud #1. That clown practises extreme censorship on his site, only allowing the most vanilla comments, completely worthless in content. That stooge also has a hardon for the uber corporate TED talks, psychometrically staged events, much like those psychometrically timed studies form the oil company people, Pew Research Center, which faux crats and rightwingers who claim to be self-described "liberals" claims is "respectable" --- until you mention they were also responsible for that so-called study claiming the Corporate-controlled media propaganda machine is "liberal."

  25. Re:stolen property on Why WikiLeaks Is Worth Defending · · Score: 1

    Either this site placed your comment wrong, or you got the wrong guy --- we're in agreement.