I figure its only a matter of time before all of the "rebel" congress critters and senators get removed - one way or the other - and replaced with good old boys who know which side of their bread the butter goes on.
I am actually amazed that none of these people have had CIA airplane accidents yet.
However, as the perps in power get more and more eager to reap the benefits of all their hard work over the last decade or two, their urgency should get the job done pretty soon, if bribery, blackmail and coercion fail to work.
"To its credit, Microsoft has apologized and said that it has "taken steps to reinstate legitimate video content and are working towards a better solution to targeting stolen IP while respecting legitimate content."
Gads. Even a full public confession of wrong doing is not enough to trigger the law into action on fake and faulty DMCA takedowns.
I guess we can now admit that the "punishment" parts of this law were added only as PR color/flavor, in order to make the public think that their interests were also being considered by the courts.
Actually, there is some truth to this notion that police desire a violent response to their overreaching behavior.
Its a rather circular argument obviously, but the additional civilian disobedience and retaliation helps explain the rationalization presented by police forces for their militarization and use of excessive force.
If the assaulted public was to go meekly into the camera light, there would be no public perception of a "need" for massive police budgets and the purchase of tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Television alone cannot hope to fully reprogram the public via its continual use of the public-as-terrorist police show plots and the silly notion that police officers are always hunted down by the people they put in prison, seeking revenge when they "get out".
Sometimes you just have to get out there and break a few heads until someone in the general public-under-assault, actually reacts badly enough to make the headlines process workable.
By abusing the public during the normal course of events, police are able to enlarge the event in the direction of civil disobedience and thus manufacture the evidence needed to prove the necessity of their "arming up" and increasing budget size.
Of course, for those of you who think this is all just happening because of coincidence and bad luck, combined with better equipped and more evil bad guys, and who believe that such institutions as the police force can never become corrupt or self serving, I suppose this explanation will appear to be just another tin-foil hat brain-fart. :)
Oddly enough, this is best seen in the clothing we put on children. Pink for Girls, Blue for Boys.
Studies in prisons showed that Pink painted cells led to lowered aggression in the occupants. Blue on the other hand, tends to create or enhance aggressive reactions.
"How Australia's New 'Anti-Terror' Censorship Law Could Cover Up Botched Intelligence Operations"
Should Read:
"Australia's New 'Anti-Terror' Censorship Law Is Designed To Cover Up Botched Intelligence Operations"
As soon as you realize that YOU are the ENEMY, (officially designated as the Adversary), these little syntax errors do get a lot easier to spot and rectify. :)
Corporate owned Government is not a new thing in America.
After World War Two ended, industries like Alcoa, Texaco, Bayer and others, were paid millions of dollars from American Tax Payers, to repay them for the damage done to their Germany-based factories by Allied bombing.
Some of the top members of the American Top 500 companies are so Fascist based and Anti-American-Way, that they aided the Germans in WW2 by building their factories right in Germany, while still reaping the benefits of being American and supplying America's war effort as well.
To a Fascist, War is simply the ultimate business model.
For an interesting perspective on Fascism, Oil and Cannabis, read The "Elkhorn Manifesto".
"Especially if the European Commission continues to conduct the negotiations in secret and without any input from its citizens."
Especially??
There is absolutely no way in hell they can conduct these negotiations except in secret.
Do the bank robbers invite the bank owners to attend their pre-heist planning sessions??
Does the liquor store robber phone the store to insure the employees and store owner know their time of arrival at the store??
The idea that these "negotiations" can take place publically is an utter joke.
First of all the term negotiations might be better written as "divvying up the loot", since this is nothing more than a gang of billionaires deciding how best to screw over the global public legally, with the least personal expense.
What do you call a secret meeting between a bunch of international billionaires, to decide how best to eliminate and/or circumvent laws that protect the general public from the global piracy of the moneyed classes?
"Obama Administration Has Put Media Leakers In Jail For Nearly 50 Times As Long As All Other Administrations In History"
As fascism slowly erodes the barriers against land piracy by the wealthy, you will see more and more of this kind of lawful retribution against the minions of the fascists in power, for what is seen as "traitorous behavior" by the ruling elite. Since they own the media, all employees are considered to be minions and are thus, also owned.
To a Fascist, the paycheck given to minions demands total loyalty in return. An employee turning on his employer by disclosing criminal behavior, is seen by Fascists as the prime crime, worthy of the most severe punishment possible.
The Mob uses the exact same process in dealing with their own members who "rat", for the exact same purpose.
To send a message. "Squealers suffer badly!"
Methinks you will see this kind of legalised revenge against turn-coat minions become standard policy as the Federal Government and its corporate owners becomes less and less democratic and more openly fascist, and the minions begin to realize they are working for the enemy.
Sadly, this mess is probably just another "sheep to the sheering pen" scam, where the players - Verizon and their ilk, and the FCC - bat the ball - Net Neutrality - back and forth, until the public demands a set of rules/laws be created to protect their interest.
Then the players sit down and manufacture another "for the children" law where the wording is just loose enough to allow the whole wish list of the players to be interpreted from the text, after the laws are in place.
The government can then claim that the Public "made'em do it", so its not their fault that the rules turned out to be exactly what the Players wanted and nothing that the public wanted.
Methinks you will get your new Net Neutrality Rules. But I don't think anyone but the Players are gonna like'em.
In the first paragraph, the reasoning is explained in quite a bit of detail. Improved reading comprehension eliminates many already answered questions.
(Third sentence, first paragraph.) "What concerns us is (1) the journalistic integrity of those engaged in promoting the false claims about Walter O'Brien for the sake of a TV show and (2) the fact that O'Brien has been using this to promote his own business, which may lead people to giving money to him under questionable pretenses."
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What could possibly be more "technology-based" than the process of dissemination of FALSE information via electronic means, that is then picked up by other electronic media sources and repeated, until the public is convinced of the factuality of the lie?
Interesting attempt at a detour, however, if you admit that the Marines are one of the two NAVAL SERVICES, then you have just admitted that the NAVY is composed of 2 parts, one of which is the Marines.
ie "Marine Corps is part of the Navy"
Is it the word "CORPS" that you're basing your argument on?
If so, that's a nit, mister picker and does nothing to improve the message.
It appears, to me, that CBS has taken the ruling by the courts in the FOX TV case - that television has no mandate for honesty, and that there is no law against telling lies on TV - and extended it into the real world.
Since its a TV network that is telling these tales of the unknown genius (to promote a television show), CBS lawyers have likely discerned that there is no law against a television news show doing this sort of marketing either.
Like the NSA, FBI, CIA, and the USG in general, Hollywood is simply running this scam on the "But its all legal!!" wagon.
I still think that Ferguson is simply a shock test by the USG to see:
1. What it can expect to get away with easily, and;
2. What laws need to be re-interpreted in order to get away with the stuff it found hard to get away with in the shock test, and;
3. What new legislation/executive orders need to be put in place to make the process more stream-lined and the fallout less damaging to the USG's public relations image.
Re: There's another way to avoid Government Spying.
"Elect politicians who will cut the NSA's budgets."
Methinks that much/most of the NSA's public surveillance program is specifically aimed at gathering dirt on anyone in America who might run for office with the sort of mindset you mention above. To the NSA, that sort of person is the true Terrorist Under The Bed.
If you can find such people, you can likely vote'em in to office, but they will belong to the NSA immediately afterwards.
But is that what the members of a democratic country pay their government to do?
Disseminate half truths and lies as news and misinform the public secretly, using the public's money and the Once Free Press to pull it off and then call it all legal, and claim its for the safety of the nation?
If it is, then democracy is just another lie we tell ourselves to help us sleep better at night and we might as well just hitch up our britches and gird our loins for another millennia of biblical hell on earth.
After all, about 99% of human history reads like a horror story, with the rich landowners and friends of the hereditary ruling caste enslaving the rest of the human race for fun and profit, when they're not throwing a war to cull the excess slaves from the herd.
This wee blip of peaceful coexistence and almost-justice is probably just an anomaly - a peculiar bump in the road of human existence that is inevitably guaranteed to come to an abrupt end very soon, and allow the usual state of human affairs to continue as usual.
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time
I am actually amazed that none of these people have had CIA airplane accidents yet.
However, as the perps in power get more and more eager to reap the benefits of all their hard work over the last decade or two, their urgency should get the job done pretty soon, if bribery, blackmail and coercion fail to work.
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On the post: Microsoft Takes Down A Bunch Of Non-Infringing YouTube Videos Over People Posting Product Keys In Comments
Good for the soul...
Gads. Even a full public confession of wrong doing is not enough to trigger the law into action on fake and faulty DMCA takedowns.
I guess we can now admit that the "punishment" parts of this law were added only as PR color/flavor, in order to make the public think that their interests were also being considered by the courts.
Silly us eh.
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On the post: NYPD Officer Takes Cash From Man During Stop-And-Frisk; Pepper Sprays Him When He Asks To Have It Returned
Re: Re: Re: Re: Easily explained
Its a rather circular argument obviously, but the additional civilian disobedience and retaliation helps explain the rationalization presented by police forces for their militarization and use of excessive force.
If the assaulted public was to go meekly into the camera light, there would be no public perception of a "need" for massive police budgets and the purchase of tanks and armored personnel carriers.
Television alone cannot hope to fully reprogram the public via its continual use of the public-as-terrorist police show plots and the silly notion that police officers are always hunted down by the people they put in prison, seeking revenge when they "get out".
Sometimes you just have to get out there and break a few heads until someone in the general public-under-assault, actually reacts badly enough to make the headlines process workable.
By abusing the public during the normal course of events, police are able to enlarge the event in the direction of civil disobedience and thus manufacture the evidence needed to prove the necessity of their "arming up" and increasing budget size.
Of course, for those of you who think this is all just happening because of coincidence and bad luck, combined with better equipped and more evil bad guys, and who believe that such institutions as the police force can never become corrupt or self serving, I suppose this explanation will appear to be just another tin-foil hat brain-fart. :)
C'est la vie eh!
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On the post: More Abuse Of The Orphan Drug System: Taking Treatment From Free To $80,000 A Year
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Studies in prisons showed that Pink painted cells led to lowered aggression in the occupants. Blue on the other hand, tends to create or enhance aggressive reactions.
We are indeed far more than just what we eat. :)
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On the post: How Australia's New 'Anti-Terror' Censorship Law Could Cover Up Botched Intelligence Operations
Typo?
Should Read:
"Australia's New 'Anti-Terror' Censorship Law Is Designed To Cover Up Botched Intelligence Operations"
As soon as you realize that YOU are the ENEMY, (officially designated as the Adversary), these little syntax errors do get a lot easier to spot and rectify. :)
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On the post: Obama Administration Has Put Media Leakers In Jail For Nearly 50 Times As Long As All Other Administrations In History
Re:
After World War Two ended, industries like Alcoa, Texaco, Bayer and others, were paid millions of dollars from American Tax Payers, to repay them for the damage done to their Germany-based factories by Allied bombing.
Some of the top members of the American Top 500 companies are so Fascist based and Anti-American-Way, that they aided the Germans in WW2 by building their factories right in Germany, while still reaping the benefits of being American and supplying America's war effort as well.
To a Fascist, War is simply the ultimate business model.
For an interesting perspective on Fascism, Oil and Cannabis, read The "Elkhorn Manifesto".
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On the post: New Zealand Police Raid Home Of Reporter Who Embarrassed Gov't Officials & Was Working On Snowden Documents
Don't blink!
I wondered when the Fifth Eye would start making noise.
Far too quiet for a member of the White-Guy Global Spy Ring.
On the post: Revealed: ISPs Already Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption And Make Everyone Less Safe Online
Criminals don't break law when law protects criminals
Monopolies used to be illegal, for a very good reason.
Does anyone remember what that reason is, or was?
Monopolies are now a standard business model.
Does anyone know why monopolies are now legal?
Did the reason for their illegality go away?
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On the post: CBS News Sacrifices All Journalistic Integrity To Be Pure PR For CBS PrimeTime TV?
Re: United States Marines
Attempted Redirection Noted.
Failed.
Have a nice day.
On the post: Street Demonstrations In 21 European Countries Held To Protest Against TAFTA/TTIP; Another ACTA Revolt Brewing?
Secrecy is absolutely necessary.
Especially??
There is absolutely no way in hell they can conduct these negotiations except in secret.
Do the bank robbers invite the bank owners to attend their pre-heist planning sessions??
Does the liquor store robber phone the store to insure the employees and store owner know their time of arrival at the store??
The idea that these "negotiations" can take place publically is an utter joke.
First of all the term negotiations might be better written as "divvying up the loot", since this is nothing more than a gang of billionaires deciding how best to screw over the global public legally, with the least personal expense.
What do you call a secret meeting between a bunch of international billionaires, to decide how best to eliminate and/or circumvent laws that protect the general public from the global piracy of the moneyed classes?
A Trade Agreement.
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On the post: Obama Administration Has Put Media Leakers In Jail For Nearly 50 Times As Long As All Other Administrations In History
A dish best served cold...
As fascism slowly erodes the barriers against land piracy by the wealthy, you will see more and more of this kind of lawful retribution against the minions of the fascists in power, for what is seen as "traitorous behavior" by the ruling elite. Since they own the media, all employees are considered to be minions and are thus, also owned.
To a Fascist, the paycheck given to minions demands total loyalty in return. An employee turning on his employer by disclosing criminal behavior, is seen by Fascists as the prime crime, worthy of the most severe punishment possible.
The Mob uses the exact same process in dealing with their own members who "rat", for the exact same purpose.
To send a message. "Squealers suffer badly!"
Methinks you will see this kind of legalised revenge against turn-coat minions become standard policy as the Federal Government and its corporate owners becomes less and less democratic and more openly fascist, and the minions begin to realize they are working for the enemy.
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On the post: Hadopi Strikes Again: Net User Fined For Not Understanding How A Program Installed By Someone Else Works
Query...
Is that pronounced:
Had a pee.
or
Hey Dopey.
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On the post: Revealed: ISPs Already Violating Net Neutrality To Block Encryption And Make Everyone Less Safe Online
Business as usual
Then the players sit down and manufacture another "for the children" law where the wording is just loose enough to allow the whole wish list of the players to be interpreted from the text, after the laws are in place.
The government can then claim that the Public "made'em do it", so its not their fault that the rules turned out to be exactly what the Players wanted and nothing that the public wanted.
Methinks you will get your new Net Neutrality Rules.
But I don't think anyone but the Players are gonna like'em.
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On the post: CBS News Sacrifices All Journalistic Integrity To Be Pure PR For CBS PrimeTime TV?
Re:
In the first paragraph, the reasoning is explained in quite a bit of detail.
Improved reading comprehension eliminates many already answered questions.
(Third sentence, first paragraph.)
"What concerns us is (1) the journalistic integrity of those engaged in promoting the false claims about Walter O'Brien for the sake of a TV show and (2) the fact that O'Brien has been using this to promote his own business, which may lead people to giving money to him under questionable pretenses."
---
What could possibly be more "technology-based" than the process of dissemination of FALSE information via electronic means, that is then picked up by other electronic media sources and repeated, until the public is convinced of the factuality of the lie?
---
On the post: CBS News Sacrifices All Journalistic Integrity To Be Pure PR For CBS PrimeTime TV?
Re: O'Brien
Interesting attempt at a detour, however, if you admit that the Marines are one of the two NAVAL SERVICES, then you have just admitted that the NAVY is composed of 2 parts, one of which is the Marines.
ie "Marine Corps is part of the Navy"
Is it the word "CORPS" that you're basing your argument on?
If so, that's a nit, mister picker and does nothing to improve the message.
---
On the post: CBS News Sacrifices All Journalistic Integrity To Be Pure PR For CBS PrimeTime TV?
The Truth Free Press is now part of Hollywood
Since its a TV network that is telling these tales of the unknown genius (to promote a television show), CBS lawyers have likely discerned that there is no law against a television news show doing this sort of marketing either.
Like the NSA, FBI, CIA, and the USG in general, Hollywood is simply running this scam on the "But its all legal!!" wagon.
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On the post: Court Says '5 Second Rule' Used By Police In Ferguson To Arrest Protestors Is Unconstitutional
1. What it can expect to get away with easily, and;
2. What laws need to be re-interpreted in order to get away with the stuff it found hard to get away with in the shock test, and;
3. What new legislation/executive orders need to be put in place to make the process more stream-lined and the fallout less damaging to the USG's public relations image.
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On the post: Former DHS Official Announces Plan To Sell Cyberattack Insurance
Re:
Thanks. Can't remember the last time I heard that. :)
On the post: Former NSA Head Says You Can Avoid Government Spying By Using This One Simple Trick
Re: There's another way to avoid Government Spying.
Methinks that much/most of the NSA's public surveillance program is specifically aimed at gathering dirt on anyone in America who might run for office with the sort of mindset you mention above. To the NSA, that sort of person is the true Terrorist Under The Bed.
If you can find such people, you can likely vote'em in to office, but they will belong to the NSA immediately afterwards.
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On the post: NSA Says Secrets It Leaked To The Press Are Too Secret To Be Disclosed Publicly
Re: Umm...
Yeah, I guess so.
But is that what the members of a democratic country pay their government to do?
Disseminate half truths and lies as news and misinform the public secretly, using the public's money and the Once Free Press to pull it off and then call it all legal, and claim its for the safety of the nation?
If it is, then democracy is just another lie we tell ourselves to help us sleep better at night and we might as well just hitch up our britches and gird our loins for another millennia of biblical hell on earth.
After all, about 99% of human history reads like a horror story, with the rich landowners and friends of the hereditary ruling caste enslaving the rest of the human race for fun and profit, when they're not throwing a war to cull the excess slaves from the herd.
This wee blip of peaceful coexistence and almost-justice is probably just an anomaly - a peculiar bump in the road of human existence that is inevitably guaranteed to come to an abrupt end very soon, and allow the usual state of human affairs to continue as usual.
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