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Buy one, get two for half price - Attorney Generals Special
Wonder what the chances of success are for a crowd-funded public Buy An Attorney General fund?
Seems like its around about a million for a smart one and about half that for your run of the mill idiot type.
Surely the public could raise a million or two and get themselves some behind the scenes sabotage work on a few of the bad apples recently exposed by Snowden, if we had a few of them Rentable Attorney Generals on our side.
I mean its pretty obvious that these Attorney Generals are eager and willing to shit down anyone's throat if the money is right.
Hey. What exactly does an Attorney General actually do, when he's not doing dirty work for the Entertainment Industry, I mean.
Since he's already shipped the USG retainer of 12 suitcases full of cash, to his off-shore bank, I doubt he really gives a shit.
That's the thing about crooks in power. They're all in it for personal gain and will quickly and without the slightest hesitation, cut each other's throats for a small increase in their own cut of the booty.
I always suspected that the oft-repeated "problem" with too much salt in the diet was due more to drinking sodium fluoride in tap water, than to the use of iodized table salt.
hmmmmm... dunno bout you all, but I for one would surely love to see a full break down of all the money spent by the USG on the Snowden leaks, next to a detailed description of precisely what those expenses entailed.
The courts should demand such a complete breakdown, or there should be no way to legally allow this extortion to continue, since the USG is supposed to be acting for the US public - thus the US public should know in full detail what the redress of finances is actually for.
Otherwise, the USG can simply pull a number out of its ass and claim that it represents the amount of money they spent doing whatever it was they claim (without evidence) that they've been doing since Snowden exposed their dirty deeds to the world.
It might actually be worth taking them up on the suit and filing countersuit to get the full details of these expenses exposed publically. That should get the USG to run in the other direction pretty quick.
I guess The Department of Ease of Public Exploitation and Official Criminal Activity Protection would be both hard to put on a business card and a little too honest for even the most forward thinking governments...
hehehehe - I just wrote "Forward Thinking Governments".
I think that must be oxymoron cubed. Or too many cups of coffee...
How I wish one could summon up a list of all of Hood's recent off-shore account deposits.
That would completely explain his intent and purpose.
Now that's the sort of thing hackers should be going after.
In fact, it would be extremely educational if we could see a printout of all the deposits made recently into the off-shore accounts of ALL Attorneys General, both those on that Sony list and all the others not listed.
I wonder if there are any members of the USG who are NOT on the Mob's payroll these days. I truly doubt it. One good apple could easily ruin it for all the bad apples in the basket.
Then again, since I think it is a false flag op, perhaps the "Jetski level in Battletoads" is a far more appropriate phrase than "... pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States." :)
Look! Over there! Behind you!! he he he he he he he
False Flag Warning.
All the evidence that has been presented "proving" North Korea as the culprit, would also be evidence of a CIA false flag operation, since anyone "in the know" could have used these same code snippets, hacker wares and tech resources, to pull off this attack, including and especially the CIA, NSA, FBI and other less know secret federal agencies of the USG.
And the rationale behind the USG doing a false flag operation to make the public think that NK is behind it is simple:
"North Korea’s attack on SPE reaffirms that what we are dealing with now can only be described as the cyber-war equivalent of the jetski level in Battletoads."
To get more public support and taxpayer funding and new spy-enabling legislation for the on-going Cyber War that the USG is already operating, by "reaffirming" that the FUD is really for really real, honest injun!!!!
And, by screaming Evil Korean Empire and Global Cyber War at the top of their lungs, they also drown out all the public discourse about the actual content of the material taken from Sony's servers, concerning their on-going bribery of Attorneys General and their assault on Google and the Internet in general.
Giving all the above, I would say that the chances of this being a CIA op is likely 10 times greater than that of it being a completely Korean op.
Then again, one cannot rule out the idea that its a joint effort by the USG and the Korean Government either, since almost all visible animosity between foreign governments is purely public relations, as their goals of mass surveillance and population control are identical nation to nation.
Starting an international cyber war would easily benefit the spy agencies and corporate interests of every nation on earth (especial five eyes nations), as the public would then be called upon to foot the bill fully, as it does for any declared war, and the kid gloves would come off and the surveillance state would be a legally guaranteed sure thing.
The constitution would be completely cancelled. Legally. For the war effort. Once again.
Actually, the attitude openly expressed by this official towards the general public is, I think, the prevalent attitude of American Police forces across the board and very reminiscent of the attitude expressed by the federal tri-letter agencies, when it comes to honoring public privacy and public security as well.
If the Police still actually Protect and Serve somebody, you can be absolutely certain its not the American public.
The public is, for all intents and purposes, The Problem, according to almost all the agencies that are supposed to be working for the public and for the public good, and who seem to forget that its the public that pays their wages.
I don't see this situation getting any better soon, because the public no longer has a voice and can thus effect no change in the direction the Police and other federal agencies are headed.
This thing is going to have to come to a boil, and blow the lid off the pot before there will be even a remote possibility for change, because the people leading this charge into hell are completely isolated from the normal legal and social consequences of wrong action now and see no reason for restraint.
Shit and fan will have to meet before anything can be salvaged from the wreckage of what was once The United States of America.
I find it somewhat ironic, that those who have succeeded the most due to the American Way of Life, are the very same people who are currently doing everything in their power to destroy every last remnant of that way of life.
Damn. I'd swear Spain must have gotten itself a truly christian government, because they certainly do apperar to be hell bent on taking their entire country to the "other side" as fast as possible.
Is there a word for national insanity?? How about national suicide??
Oh for the love of Mike, Barrack, give it a rest already, will ya.
Nobody but you crony fascists and corporate renta-statesmen actually think that Snowden put any real Americans at risk - the only people he put at risk is you pseudo-American corporate-controlled assholes in the White Whore-House and your mob-business bum-buddies in Hollywood.
And we're all hoping that Snowden's expose of your crimes in office and crimes against humanity, insure that you ugly fuck dinosaurs see the other side of the extinction equation real soon.
I no longer leave my computers on when not in use.
Similar to the idea that leaving your car keys in the ignition could cause a criminally inclined person to steal your car, I consider leaving the computer on when not in use as simply overtly tempting the irresponsible members of the spy networks of the five eyes to use my computer for their nefarious and always quasi-legal purposes.
Whereas the stealer of a car might inadvertently hit someone and thus involve your car in the harm of another, the thieves in the employ of the Five Eyes governments would use your unguarded running computer to cause others - at home and abroad - and possibly yourself, harm and grief, on purpose.
I feel it is my civil duty to do whatever I can to prevent such irresponsible and mentally deranged people from having access to those things, such as my running computers, that can be used by them, to harm others for fun and profit.
If you've ever read old science fiction, many such authors depict human future as a kaleidoscope of floating 3D images that follow us around on the street and float right through the walls of our homes to broadcast their maker's products and services 24/7, non-stop.
Streets become collages of ads as every flat space available is used to full capacity to get the image of someone's wares or service into your face.
A world where even sleep is assaulted with subliminal advertisements broadcast on standing alpha waves to infiltrate even the comatose with deals that are always too good to be true.
How could such a travesty become reality?
Money transfers from the advertisers, manufacturers and service companies to the politicians and law makers will make it so.
Always has.
Always will.
We are in fact, seeing the beginnings of this process as the MAFIA owned MPAA and its many member dinosaurs create legislation like SOPA and bypass public accountability with what passes today for Trade Agreements, that will soon destroy the internet and take control of what you see, eat and do, when you see, eat or do it and bill you regularly for the "privilege" of breathing.
After all, there is nobody among the consuming peasants with the clout to do anything but quietly bitch under their breathe about it, and nobody in power who gives a shit about what the peasants want anyway.
Peasants are notoriously bad at bribery.
As long as the advertisers, product makers and service providers are willing and lawfully allowed to fulfil every law-maker and politician's wet dreams of yachts, bimbos and cocaine a-go-go, with daily cash deposits to their tax-haven off-shore accounts, there will be constant escalation of the methods of control put in place over the resource population made possible by our leaders.
Sadly, the only way that we the people could possibly put and end to such massive social engineering projects, would be to boycott the products and services of those companies shown to be complicit in the elimination of freedom and choice and boycott all those companies who lie about their products and services, and publicly expose all those who wear the badge of leadership, who make all of this legal robbery possible.
And that, as anyone who still has a functioning brain can tell you, is simply impossible, because 99% of the peasant/consumers on earth are already programmed to buy whatever new toy is dangled in front of them and their greatest joy in life is to be the first to purchase some new piece of shit labelled shinola.
Trooth In Advertising would make a billion dollar industry extinct.
"Advertising Needs To Be More Considerate"
I would easily settle for simple honesty.
A beer commercial that came right out and stated that their beer will get even the most chronic guzzle-boozer pleasantly shit-faced on three bottles and peel the panties of most boozin' bosom-babes after 4 bottles, would get my serious kudos, even if I never drank a bottle of it in my life.
If I discern even the slightest amount of deception - and modern commercials literally swim in it - I delegate the product being sold to the "not in this life-time" purchase list, permanently.
It should thus be fairly obvious that I do not use any products advertised on TV at all.
These legacy corporations resemble nothing less than dinosaurs, flailing wildly at the little creatures they cannot see, who are eating their feet and legs while deftly dodging the dinosaurs' best panicked efforts to crush them underfoot.
OK, so a lot of that is just wishful thinking... :)
I think this will go a long way towards showing exactly how stupid such laws and such lawmakers are and hopefully, will warn off other nations who allow morons and idiots to make laws.
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Police States Grow Until They Collapse From Within
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On the post: Irony: Sony Turns To Google, The Company It Was Plotting Against, To Stream The Interview
Trojan film?
If I was an evil fascist corporation like Sony, that's what I'd do. Make the movie toxic and then give it to my enemy as a gift.
On the post: Attorney General Downplays Ties To MPAA... Just As NY Times Reveals MPAA Actually Wrote The Letter He Sent Google
Buy one, get two for half price - Attorney Generals Special
Seems like its around about a million for a smart one and about half that for your run of the mill idiot type.
Surely the public could raise a million or two and get themselves some behind the scenes sabotage work on a few of the bad apples recently exposed by Snowden, if we had a few of them Rentable Attorney Generals on our side.
I mean its pretty obvious that these Attorney Generals are eager and willing to shit down anyone's throat if the money is right.
Hey. What exactly does an Attorney General actually do, when he's not doing dirty work for the Entertainment Industry, I mean.
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On the post: Snowden, Poitras & Others Sued For 'Billions Of Dollars' Spent By US Government In Response To Leaks
Re:
That's the thing about crooks in power. They're all in it for personal gain and will quickly and without the slightest hesitation, cut each other's throats for a small increase in their own cut of the booty.
On the post: Snowden, Poitras & Others Sued For 'Billions Of Dollars' Spent By US Government In Response To Leaks
Re: Re: Is it environmental?
On the post: Snowden, Poitras & Others Sued For 'Billions Of Dollars' Spent By US Government In Response To Leaks
Fee Fie Foe Fum
The courts should demand such a complete breakdown, or there should be no way to legally allow this extortion to continue, since the USG is supposed to be acting for the US public - thus the US public should know in full detail what the redress of finances is actually for.
Otherwise, the USG can simply pull a number out of its ass and claim that it represents the amount of money they spent doing whatever it was they claim (without evidence) that they've been doing since Snowden exposed their dirty deeds to the world.
It might actually be worth taking them up on the suit and filing countersuit to get the full details of these expenses exposed publically. That should get the USG to run in the other direction pretty quick.
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On the post: DOJ Secretly Helped Kill FOIA Transparency Bill That Was Based On Its Own Public Policy
Re: They're following an established tradition
hehehehe - I just wrote "Forward Thinking Governments".
I think that must be oxymoron cubed.
Or too many cups of coffee...
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On the post: More Evidence Revealed Of Hollywood's Chummy Relationship With State Attorney General... Even As He Plays Dumb
Doing it for the Money of course.
That would completely explain his intent and purpose.
Now that's the sort of thing hackers should be going after.
In fact, it would be extremely educational if we could see a printout of all the deposits made recently into the off-shore accounts of ALL Attorneys General, both those on that Sony list and all the others not listed.
I wonder if there are any members of the USG who are NOT on the Mob's payroll these days. I truly doubt it. One good apple could easily ruin it for all the bad apples in the basket.
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On the post: FBI Formally Accuses North Korea Of The Sony Hack
...lack of sufficient coffee no doubt...
Then again, since I think it is a false flag op, perhaps the "Jetski level in Battletoads" is a far more appropriate phrase than "... pose one of the gravest national security dangers to the United States." :)
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On the post: FBI Formally Accuses North Korea Of The Sony Hack
Look! Over there! Behind you!! he he he he he he he
All the evidence that has been presented "proving" North Korea as the culprit, would also be evidence of a CIA false flag operation, since anyone "in the know" could have used these same code snippets, hacker wares and tech resources, to pull off this attack, including and especially the CIA, NSA, FBI and other less know secret federal agencies of the USG.
And the rationale behind the USG doing a false flag operation to make the public think that NK is behind it is simple:
"North Korea’s attack on SPE reaffirms that what we are dealing with now can only be described as the cyber-war equivalent of the jetski level in Battletoads."
To get more public support and taxpayer funding and new spy-enabling legislation for the on-going Cyber War that the USG is already operating, by "reaffirming" that the FUD is really for really real, honest injun!!!!
And, by screaming Evil Korean Empire and Global Cyber War at the top of their lungs, they also drown out all the public discourse about the actual content of the material taken from Sony's servers, concerning their on-going bribery of Attorneys General and their assault on Google and the Internet in general.
Giving all the above, I would say that the chances of this being a CIA op is likely 10 times greater than that of it being a completely Korean op.
Then again, one cannot rule out the idea that its a joint effort by the USG and the Korean Government either, since almost all visible animosity between foreign governments is purely public relations, as their goals of mass surveillance and population control are identical nation to nation.
Starting an international cyber war would easily benefit the spy agencies and corporate interests of every nation on earth (especial five eyes nations), as the public would then be called upon to foot the bill fully, as it does for any declared war, and the kid gloves would come off and the surveillance state would be a legally guaranteed sure thing.
The constitution would be completely cancelled.
Legally.
For the war effort.
Once again.
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On the post: Cleveland Police Union Rep: Citizens Think They Understand The Law? Ridiculous!
John Q. Public - State Adversary #1
If the Police still actually Protect and Serve somebody, you can be absolutely certain its not the American public.
The public is, for all intents and purposes, The Problem, according to almost all the agencies that are supposed to be working for the public and for the public good, and who seem to forget that its the public that pays their wages.
I don't see this situation getting any better soon, because the public no longer has a voice and can thus effect no change in the direction the Police and other federal agencies are headed.
This thing is going to have to come to a boil, and blow the lid off the pot before there will be even a remote possibility for change, because the people leading this charge into hell are completely isolated from the normal legal and social consequences of wrong action now and see no reason for restraint.
Shit and fan will have to meet before anything can be salvaged from the wreckage of what was once The United States of America.
I find it somewhat ironic, that those who have succeeded the most due to the American Way of Life, are the very same people who are currently doing everything in their power to destroy every last remnant of that way of life.
Must be a dinosaur thing.
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On the post: DOJ Secretly Helped Kill FOIA Transparency Bill That Was Based On Its Own Public Policy
A rose by any other name...
Its not.
Its not even close.
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On the post: Proposed Spanish Law Would Make Online Calls For Street Demonstrations, And Circulating Riot Images, Illegal
Give those folks a bigger shovel, please!
Is there a word for national insanity??
How about national suicide??
On the post: The Snowden Effect: 750 Million People Have Taken Steps to Avoid Surveillance
Re: Fuck sNOwden
Nobody but you crony fascists and corporate renta-statesmen actually think that Snowden put any real Americans at risk - the only people he put at risk is you pseudo-American corporate-controlled assholes in the White Whore-House and your mob-business bum-buddies in Hollywood.
And we're all hoping that Snowden's expose of your crimes in office and crimes against humanity, insure that you ugly fuck dinosaurs see the other side of the extinction equation real soon.
----
On the post: The Snowden Effect: 750 Million People Have Taken Steps to Avoid Surveillance
Low level security measures...
Similar to the idea that leaving your car keys in the ignition could cause a criminally inclined person to steal your car, I consider leaving the computer on when not in use as simply overtly tempting the irresponsible members of the spy networks of the five eyes to use my computer for their nefarious and always quasi-legal purposes.
Whereas the stealer of a car might inadvertently hit someone and thus involve your car in the harm of another, the thieves in the employ of the Five Eyes governments would use your unguarded running computer to cause others - at home and abroad - and possibly yourself, harm and grief, on purpose.
I feel it is my civil duty to do whatever I can to prevent such irresponsible and mentally deranged people from having access to those things, such as my running computers, that can be used by them, to harm others for fun and profit.
---
On the post: DailyDirt: Advertising Needs To Be More Considerate
Re: Re: Re: continuing on previous ad rant...
If you've ever read old science fiction, many such authors depict human future as a kaleidoscope of floating 3D images that follow us around on the street and float right through the walls of our homes to broadcast their maker's products and services 24/7, non-stop.
Streets become collages of ads as every flat space available is used to full capacity to get the image of someone's wares or service into your face.
A world where even sleep is assaulted with subliminal advertisements broadcast on standing alpha waves to infiltrate even the comatose with deals that are always too good to be true.
How could such a travesty become reality?
Money transfers from the advertisers, manufacturers and service companies to the politicians and law makers will make it so.
Always has.
Always will.
We are in fact, seeing the beginnings of this process as the MAFIA owned MPAA and its many member dinosaurs create legislation like SOPA and bypass public accountability with what passes today for Trade Agreements, that will soon destroy the internet and take control of what you see, eat and do, when you see, eat or do it and bill you regularly for the "privilege" of breathing.
After all, there is nobody among the consuming peasants with the clout to do anything but quietly bitch under their breathe about it, and nobody in power who gives a shit about what the peasants want anyway.
Peasants are notoriously bad at bribery.
As long as the advertisers, product makers and service providers are willing and lawfully allowed to fulfil every law-maker and politician's wet dreams of yachts, bimbos and cocaine a-go-go, with daily cash deposits to their tax-haven off-shore accounts, there will be constant escalation of the methods of control put in place over the resource population made possible by our leaders.
Sadly, the only way that we the people could possibly put and end to such massive social engineering projects, would be to boycott the products and services of those companies shown to be complicit in the elimination of freedom and choice and boycott all those companies who lie about their products and services, and publicly expose all those who wear the badge of leadership, who make all of this legal robbery possible.
And that, as anyone who still has a functioning brain can tell you, is simply impossible, because 99% of the peasant/consumers on earth are already programmed to buy whatever new toy is dangled in front of them and their greatest joy in life is to be the first to purchase some new piece of shit labelled shinola.
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On the post: DailyDirt: Advertising Needs To Be More Considerate
Trooth In Advertising would make a billion dollar industry extinct.
I would easily settle for simple honesty.
A beer commercial that came right out and stated that their beer will get even the most chronic guzzle-boozer pleasantly shit-faced on three bottles and peel the panties of most boozin' bosom-babes after 4 bottles, would get my serious kudos, even if I never drank a bottle of it in my life.
If I discern even the slightest amount of deception - and modern commercials literally swim in it - I delegate the product being sold to the "not in this life-time" purchase list, permanently.
It should thus be fairly obvious that I do not use any products advertised on TV at all.
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On the post: Sony Fires Off Letter To Press Outlets Demanding They Cease Publication Of And Destroy Any 'Stolen Information'
Dancing around the dinosaurs.
OK, so a lot of that is just wishful thinking... :)
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On the post: Google Pulls Out The Nuclear Option: Shuts Down Google News In Spain Over Ridiculous Copyright Law
attaboy google!
I think this will go a long way towards showing exactly how stupid such laws and such lawmakers are and hopefully, will warn off other nations who allow morons and idiots to make laws.
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