February 2012
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“If there’s one thing that encapsulates what’s wrong with the way government...”
– Maira Sutton and Parker Higgins in We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via quotingthecrisis)
December 2011
15 posts
“If you want to know what the United States would look like after this bill is...”
– America’s Future: Russia and China Use Copyright Laws to Crush Government Criticism (via azspot)
Can the U.S. Government close social media... →
“The powers with which the U.S. Government has vested itself would be disturbing and odious no matter the magnitude of the highlighted threat. But the fact that they’re now reduced to bottom-of-the-barrel screeching about Twitter Terrorism — while simultaneously claiming the “legal authority” to force the closing of social media accounts — reveals just how wide is the gap between the...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
– The late Christopher Hitchens
Late Night Snack: RIP Christopher Hitchens
(via think4yourself)
Obama to approve indefinite detention and torture... →
rtamerica:
Less than a month after he threatened to veto terrifying legislation that would cease constitutional rights as we know it, Obama has revoked his warning and plans to authorize a bill allowing indefinite detention and torture of Americans.
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“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they...”
– George Orwell (via citizensanonymous)
A member of Congress has called on the U.S.... →
newsweek:
Today in Headlines We Never Thought We Would Actually See
The Corporate Psychopaths Theory of the Global... →
cultureofresistance:
A peer-reviewed paper is set to appear in the Journal of Business ethics which proposes the theory that psychopaths on Wall Street have had a critical role in the global financial crisis.
Psychopathy is defined as the inability to empathize with the feelings of others. A theoretical paper, to be published in the Journal of Business ethics, will analyze the global financial...
November 2011
10 posts
Watch(via NYPD blast LRAD sound cannons at OWS — RT)
“Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) send harmful, pain inducing tones over longer distances and are rarely deployed for crowd control purposes. This is at least the second time they have been used on peaceful protests.”
“…the prison industrial complex and its attendant “prison industries” mimic the...”
– http://www.sagepub.com/upm-data/14873_Chapter9.pdf (via dailydisapproval)
Some things don’t change.
(via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
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Deep Green Resistance Massachusetts: #OWS This May... →
abaldwin360:
by WashingtonsBlog
Police State Tactics On Display Nationwide
In the last couple of days, police at Occupy protests:
Bludgeoned peaceful protesters at Berkeley … and then said that the protesters’ locking of arms was “violent”
Beat and reportedly…
Can Feds track the GPS of every American? — RT →
rtamerica:
The Supreme Court today began talks over what legalities could exist to allow authorities to secretly track global positioning system devices on everyday Americans. Is it a haunting transformation into an Orwellian society?
What the Costumes Reveal →
On Friday, the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party. The firm, which is located near Buffalo, is what is commonly referred to as a “foreclosure mill” firm, meaning it represents banks and mortgage servicers as they attempt to foreclose on homeowners and evict them from their homes. Steven J. Baum is, in fact, the largest such firm in New York; it represents virtually all the giant...
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October 2011
7 posts
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Occupy Oakland vs. the cops - Occupy Wall Street -... →
OAKLAND, Calif. – When several hundred protesters gathered in front of Oakland’s City Hall Wednesday night in the wake of the previous night’s police crackdown, enemy No. 1 wasn’t Wall Street but rather law enforcement.
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Alabama brings back slavery for Latinos →
So, here is how it goes. First, the state passes a harsh immigration law. Then, it detains large numbers of immigrants. Third, private prisons (LCS, CCA, GEO) receive fresh inmates. And finally, the artificially created labor shortage is supplied by the new inmates. Does this sound like modern-day slavery to anyone?
The rest of the country can only look in shock and dismay, as once again,...
“What’s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street’s Masters of the...”
– Paul Krugman in Panic of the Plutocrats - NYTimes.com (via quotingthecrisis)
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September 2011
6 posts
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The Wall Street Protests and America's Choice →
Yet looking at the national debate — the emergence of the Tea Party, of the protesters in Manhattan, and prophecies of rioting by the Mayor of New York — you can’t help but feel that something in the U.S. is different now than any time in its history. That change may force America to do something it’s never had to do before: work out which of its two values it holds most dear.
What’s causing...
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Secular victory: Air Force issues religious... →
liberal-life:
In a victory for secular America, a top U.S. Air Force official has issued new guidelines demanding that leaders at all levels take immediate steps to maintain government neutrality regarding religion.
Tuesday, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz issued the new guidelines in recognition that the Air Force has failed in the past to adhere to the demands of the U.S....
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“In Colorado we believe our laws should be practical and they should be fair. Yet...”
– The ACLU of Colorado has endorsed the campaign to regulate marijuana like alcohol (via jonathan-cunningham)
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Tumble DC 25: Illinois Judge Upholds Law... →
manicchill:
This week, U.S. 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner ruled against a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, saying if an Illinois eavesdropping law prohibiting the taping of policy activity was weakened, “snooping” bloggers and gang members would “rejoice” at the…
August 2011
10 posts
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S.F. subway system admits cutting cellphone... →
“In a controversial move that has riled up free speech advocates, San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway system said it cut off cellphone signals at “select” stations in response to a planned protest this week.
“BART temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform,” the transit agency said...
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Stuff white people like: denying climate change →
stfuconservatives:
There’s a study running soon in the journal Global Environmental Change called “Cool dudes: The denial of climate change among conservative white males in the United States.” It analyzes poll and survey data from the last 10 years and finds that … are you sitting down? … conservative white men are far more likely to deny the threat of climate change than other people.
OK,...
“More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of...”
– Albert Camus, Between Hell and Reason (1940)
“Many of them have said: they like war, they like the notion of staying in war,...”
– Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) - The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
preach
(via thelifetimenetwork)
“It began as a series of peaceful protests calling for reform of the Chilean...”
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“Several internet service providers across the United States are using an online...”
– Researchers: U.S. Internet Service Providers Are Hijacking Customers’ Searches
The providers in question are: Cavalier, Cincinnati Bell, Cogent, Frontier, Hughes, IBBS, Insight Broadband, Megapath, Paetec, RCN, Wide Open West, XO Communication.
(via ryking)
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July 2011
13 posts
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