Actually, that apathetic population is desperate to find an approach to end the looming fascist tyranny growing out of the marriage of the federal government and US/international corporations, that has a snowball's chance in hell of success.
- Can't use the law - its been rewritten in favor of the corporations and the government, who can re-interpret it at whim.
- Can't use the courts - they're controlled and judges face blackmail by the NSA if they don't toe the official line.
- Can't use the media - they're owned and controlled and pretty much lie about everything now. If they don't the few honest journalists left can now be arrested, just like in any other dictator led fascist banana republic.
- Can't use violent overthrow - they took most of our weapons and have a huge array of top secret high tech anti-crowd warfare weapons, that they would just love to try out.
- Can't use protest - the press necessary to awaken the public is owned and controlled and avoids all mention of such protests.
Suggestions, (that do have a snowball's chance in hell of success) are welcomed.
Well, all I can say is that its a darn good thing that the MAFIA and Drug Cartels have not been able to use the half century of tax free drug profits to buy their way into and control the Top 500 corporations and the US federal government and its many agencies, because then we'd be seeing things like massive in-your-face spying on the public and on non-profit organizations that threaten corporate and criminal profits, and bribery and coercion to stop funding agencies from assisting such non-profits, and collusion between the various super-big MAFIA controlled corporations and current members of the various federal government's agencies and ....
Ah, how important the perception of evil disseminated by the Truth Free Press in the Federal Government's phony War on Drugs, now that this war (to maintain blackmail pricing) is threatened with dissolution by a population tired of the farce and its far-too-long list of casualties.
It is thus necessary that Police pretend to be engaged in a Real War against the Evil Drug Dealing Men depicted by Hollywood in so many popular movies, if they wish to turn around the public's perception and insure that the War To Maintain Black Market Pricing on Certain "Drugs" continues unabated - and that the huge Drug War police budgets continue ad infinitum.
We can only expect this Militarization ruse to escalate as the public becomes more and more aware that the War on Drugs is an abject failure - in fact, was designed to fail from the start in order to remain an ongoing effort, for ever.
Let's face it. If Law Enforcement actually won the War on Drugs, then the whole reason for those monstrous Drug War Budgets would disappear, as would any need of the DEA and Police Department Drug Squads.
Those who reap the benefits of these enormous drug budgets - not to mention the graft available from Organized Crime - will do anything to keep the deal between Law Enforcement and the Black Marketeers from being ended, including killing any number of women and children in the "line of duty".
Might as well get used to it because there is no longer any legal process for the public to access in order to prevent its continuation and escalation.
After all, the public is just another Adversary in a long list of adversaries the federal government is at war with.
"...you'd think that someone inside the intelligence community would think to brief the President."
You'd think that if you still believed the President was anything more than a hired gun for Wall Street Billionaires.
On the other hand, if you realized that Obama was just an employee of the men running the USA these days, you would understand that what Obama knows is exactly what he needs to know when he's about to lay down another lie on the US Public.
He already had his German meeting script memorized, so there was no need to confuse the con with stuff that was immaterial to that meeting.
Now that he might need to spin some BS to the public about this "bumbling minion", he will be briefed and handed his new script by the same folks who wrote his German meeting script.
"The federal government should be dismantled and rebuilt, the foundations are rotten to the core."
Errrr... I can agree readily enough with the first half, but why on earth would you want to rebuild it??
Its an institution designed to fail. As long as it keeps failing, it remains intact and healthy. Its only real job is to keep Americans poor enough that they will keep on working for the billionaires for subsistence level pay.
Just hire a few dozen college kids and give them some good computers and pay them each 500 bux a week, and I'm certain they can do a far greater job than any gang of millionaire fascists could ever do. Offer them large bonus paychecks at the end of their term if they accomplish good things.
Hell, two 10 year olds and a Win 8 laptop would do a better job than the last 10 (s)elected administrations have done.
Let the millionaires back in and you'll just get a brand new cesspool of suck in a couple weeks. I mean hell, if you think that those billionaires gathered that much money together by caring about the world and its people, then you deserve what you get.
Remember, George Dubya Bush proved to the American People that the USA runs just fine for nearly a decade with no federal government at all. In fact he proved that the USA runs just fine even when there's a gang of thieves and cut throats sitting in the offal orifice doing their level best to steal the treasuries of three countries at once.
And the money saved, not having to pay billionaires to party hardy and snort coke with 1000 dollar an hour hookers on multi-million dollar yachts 4 days a week, could end poverty in the US over night. Although I suppose the 1000 dollar a night hookers might honestly complain about the lack of liquid cash and sugar-daddy love.
If a machine does not work, trash it and build a machine that works. The Federal Government is obsolete and useless and costs Americans both a fortune in upkeep and their reputation world wide.
"First, technically, we're not at war, because Congress hasn't declared war."
True, unless, after 9/11, there was a special top secret meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other political VIPs who secretly reinterpreted the War Measures Act to allow them to Secretly Declare War in a secret closed session, without the need for an issuance of declaration of war by congress, under special circumstances, such as an attack by terrorists.
Of course this is entirely conjecture, but is based upon the actions and behaviours of the federal government and its agents since 9/11.
It has also become nearly a habit for these agencies to use secret interpretations of standing laws in order to accomplish things that would not be possible without breaking the law.
If the War Measures Act was secretly reinterpreted in such a fashion as to allow the administration in power to secretly declare war on any "adversary" it deemed a terrorist or terrorist organization and thus allow that administration to use the immense legal powers bestowed by the War Measures Act against that adversary, without disclosing that fact to the public or informing the chosen "adversary" that it was being attacked formally, then much of what we have seen over the last decade becomes easily understood.
Especially the now-common tactic of law enforcement and federal agencies of reclassifying everything from child molesters to drug dealers as terrorists.
It would also make the Home Surveillance activities of the NSA nothing more than the standard procedure for spying on an enemy during war, once the public was reclassified as an "adversary".... As recent documents have shown it has been for some time now.
It was probably all just another NSA/CIA/FBI/HSA based operation and in fact only a small number of highly embarrassing and dangerously informative articles, postings, images and documents were intended for removal.
The insane legal ruling was actually intended to allow a massive number of such removals to occur over a short period of time as a smoke screen, so that the few truly important ones could be disappeared quietly in the background while everyone was giggling about the long line-up of obvious assholes trying to hide their obvious assholiness.
Now that the job is done and no-one the wiser, "common sense" will soon appear to have raised its ugly head and these idiotic pro-censorship legal rulings will be removed from the law.
If the NSA wanted to get the public on their side about Snowden being a dangerous nasty spy who has harmed national security ( a federal wet-dream ), it could easily produce a fake secondary leak that appeared to be from Snowden's cache, but which eventually disclosed far more sensitive information that could be pointed to as harming national security and be presented by the Truth Free Press as having "probably" come from Snowden's cache of documents.
And as we have seen in the past on numerous occasions, the NSA and other federal agencies are 100% OK with disclosing truly sensitive National Security information that actually harms national security and/or endangers field operatives, as long as it can be used to fool the public into believing what they want it to believe.
Probably time for a NSA Blackmailing to this group of "errant" judges I guess.
Can't have a bout of integrity ruin the game plan now after all. Time to get these judges back into marching order and singing the right tune.
Nothing like a video of a judge's mistress earning her keep, or pictures of his kids sleeping in their beds with a masked man holding a knife inches above their heads, to get almost anyone "back on track".
As the MAFIA proved long ago, every man has his price.
You should probably pay close attention to all of Whatever's posts, as it appears s/he is using the same "legal" loopholes in his/her "defense" arguments as the Federal agency's are using to defend their various illicit surveillance actions.
Rather telling actually. He/She might make a fair crystal ball for future excuses of federal shenanigans.
If a Blog or Social Network does not offer a written posted policy on anonymity, I would think that anyone would assume that they do not support or promote anonymity.
I know that I would assume this and if it was important to me, I would definitely inquire as to whether or not it was or was not policy.
If a blog or Social Network does not post a written statement as to their policy on Sock-Puppetry, then I would think anyone would assume they either do not care if participants use multiple handles and multiple accounts, or that they are unable to convince their service provider to aid them in the elimination of such abuse.
For me, the proof of the ease of identifying apparently anonymous users has been on display for years by the very fact that law enforcement via the courts, can and often does demand an ISP give them lists of identities associated with posts and downloads. A service provider will have ways to discover Sock Puppetry and should do so upon request by a client website owner as a service.
In fact, Copyright Troll Lawyers depend on the ability of courts to wrest the identities of "anonymous" downloaders from ISPs, in order to carry out their lucrative business of legal extortion of those identified persons.
I would expect Anti-Sock-Puppetry applications would be run automatically by the network provider offering such a service to clients, not the owners/operators of a website, and that such applications that prevent spam and S-P would be offered by the network provider as security features of their system. Value added.
In fact, I've always believed that the onus of preventing abuse of the network by spammers and the like has always been on the network providers, not the website operators who "rent" the "spaces" they provide.
That such systems are not in place currently, says much about the state of the art and the attitudes of the both blog owners and ISP's. Says a lot about bloggers too.
Of course, I also assume that if such preventative systems were in place, that there would be a large contingent of coders doing their level best to provide applications to defeat them. C'est la vie eh. Restrictions beget Innovations.
The Never To Be Written Secret History of the USA.
Bush Junior was the first fully effective corporate POTUS, placed into office through vote fixing, bribery, blackmail and coercion.
His job was to rewrite as many laws as possible, in order to remove the restrictions faced by Banks, Wall Street and the Top 500 MAFIA controlled corporations, due to regulations that prevented them from doing such things as cheating, lying, stealing, racketeering, forming monopolies, etc..
Since he was not fully successful - he had to do a lot of other things like end a ton of law suits against various supporter institutions like the tobacco industry and bury all the records of his family's support of Hitler prior to and during WW2 - they needed to place a new corporate POTUS in power to finish the task.
Since placing a Known Republican back in the Oval Office was impossible after Bush, it was necessary to create a ringer - a Republican sympathizer who could masquerade as a Democrat.
9/11 allowed the forces of Wall Street and the MAFIA to almost entirely eliminate the Democratic Party through a combination of blackmail, bribery and coercion, made possible by the new War Time Laws secretly enacted after 9/11 due to the manufactured Terrorist Problem.
This made it easy to foist the ringer on the public without exposure by other democrats.
Obama was the perfect choice for the New Republican POTUS, because, due to his being black and a silver-tongued con-artist, the public could be easily fooled into believing he was a democrat and trust-worthy.
Because everyone expected all the American Blacks to vote for Obama, the vote was easily fixed and the election was a cake walk.
Naturally, the nutcase Republican Pundits publicly poo pooed the Ringer endlessly in order to insure the public's continued belief in his Democrat-hood, in the face of his republican friendly activities and corporate administration members.
Obama has since finished off all the work that was started by Bush and added a few new twists that his handlers have always wanted, such as reverse copyright reform and the beginnings of the end of the internet.
Wall Street is now fully in control of the Federal Government, as can be seen easily by the way the NSA, FBI, IRS, CIA and every other branch of the Federal Government has been behaving since 9/11, not to mention Hollyood, the RIAA and MPAA law creation, or the Trade Agreement Group's secrecy.
If it were not for Snowden, almost none of this would have been known by the few Americans who have been able to see through the smoke screen put up by the Truth-Free Press.
Sadly, the vast majority of American citizens continue to ignore reality, due mainly to embarrassment at being made fools of, and their misguided patriotism.
To expose a participant's real-name identity on a site that claims anonymity, without good cause, such as protection of other participants against threats of harm, is a breach of contract.
Once you make a single undocumented exception to a rule, the rule no longer exists. If you offer anonymity, then you MUST honor that offer, or lose participants and credibility and weaken the necessity of anonymity for free speech in the eyes of law enforcement.
You can make a set of documented exceptions such as "if a participant threatens harm to another participant, or to anyone living, then their anonymity will be ended", but such exceptions must be included with the promise of anonymity and literally spelled out in plain language.
Sock-puppetry is easily controlled by simply placing the participant's other handles in brackets beside the newest handle.
This would end sock-puppetry altogether and should be posted on any blog-site as standard operating procedure to protect other participants from such scams/ruses.
Any site that did not include this promise would be then seen as a place where participants can be deceived by users with two or more accounts, because sock-puppetry is allowed and thus promoted.
Since the author's actual name is still unknown, and only the link between the various sock-puppet handles is acknowledged, the user's actual identity remains unknown and the other participants are protected from, and informed about the ruse.
Otherwise, the legacy industries and government will win the day if anonymity becomes an added privilege that can be revoked arbitrarily.
The power and beauty of blackmail as a means of creating consent is: The victims never report the crime.
Every day, in every way, the Federal Government looks more and more like the MAFIA.
Looks like a century of untaxed drug proceeds have allowed the mob to move into politics big time. :)
I expect this new "Sudden Capitulation Syndrome" will become a standard occurrence during all of the up and coming "negotiations" and "investigations", such as surveillance legality and trade agreement based copyright legislation.
"Whatever legal standard is used, it should be no different than that used for the common person."
Err.... would that not take some access to government?
I mean, who would write these new rules into law?
I'd think the current members of the Federal Government would simply say a unanimous "no", and then laugh their collective asses off at the audacity of some peasant telling them to restrict their activities in such a manner.
First, methinks, it might behoove us to figure out some way to gain control of this runaway federal government before we try and get it to do something diametrically opposed to its members' current practices, habits and desires - none of which has anything remotely to do with honesty, obedience or disclosures to the public.
Unless of course, you think the Federal Government is simply "confused" and "unguided", and not at all being purposely obtuse, deceptive, or secretive, and a simple wrist slap will bring them all back in line....
"Perhaps the government should just admit it's a charade and let people go straight to the lawsuit filing process instead."
Well, they might do that if it were not for the Standard Government Policy laid down by the Bush administration - know as the "Rules", that states - tell them a lie first, then tell another if that one does not work, then make them ask for proof, then, after they've asked (roll a 6 sided die and multiply by 2 and add 3) times, make them get a court order, then blackmail the judge to deny the order, and make them go through the whole process again from the beginning, and then lose the documents in question, through a. storeroom fire, b. computer malfunction, c. dog ate them, d. tornado damage, e. flood damage, f. termites, or g. make something up.
You see, they can't ever admit to you that the FOIA is a charade, because, well, that would be telling the public something it simply does not need to know.
And telling the public something it does not need to know is against the Rules.
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."
I thought it was entirely due to the public's belief in this "truism" that the CIA purposely does at least one really stupid action a day.
My version differs somewhat:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, unless its a lawyer, politician, or MAFIA enforcer you're dealing with."
Methinks t'would be very interesting to learn how much this man is paid yearly for his twice a year morality synopsis of the world's second nosiest eavesdroppers' global surveillance activities.
It would also be interesting, I'd think, to learn what he does for the other 363 days of the year.
On the post: The Fifth Surveillance: Corporate Spying On Non-Profits
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- Can't use the law - its been rewritten in favor of the corporations and the government, who can re-interpret it at whim.
- Can't use the courts - they're controlled and judges face blackmail by the NSA if they don't toe the official line.
- Can't use the media - they're owned and controlled and pretty much lie about everything now. If they don't the few honest journalists left can now be arrested, just like in any other dictator led fascist banana republic.
- Can't use violent overthrow - they took most of our weapons and have a huge array of top secret high tech anti-crowd warfare weapons, that they would just love to try out.
- Can't use protest - the press necessary to awaken the public is owned and controlled and avoids all mention of such protests.
Suggestions, (that do have a snowball's chance in hell of success) are welcomed.
On the post: The Fifth Surveillance: Corporate Spying On Non-Profits
Hooda thunk it?
oh... wait a minute.....
never mind.
On the post: ACLU Digs Deep Into The Law Enforcement War Machine
It is thus necessary that Police pretend to be engaged in a Real War against the Evil Drug Dealing Men depicted by Hollywood in so many popular movies, if they wish to turn around the public's perception and insure that the War To Maintain Black Market Pricing on Certain "Drugs" continues unabated - and that the huge Drug War police budgets continue ad infinitum.
We can only expect this Militarization ruse to escalate as the public becomes more and more aware that the War on Drugs is an abject failure - in fact, was designed to fail from the start in order to remain an ongoing effort, for ever.
Let's face it. If Law Enforcement actually won the War on Drugs, then the whole reason for those monstrous Drug War Budgets would disappear, as would any need of the DEA and Police Department Drug Squads.
Those who reap the benefits of these enormous drug budgets - not to mention the graft available from Organized Crime - will do anything to keep the deal between Law Enforcement and the Black Marketeers from being ended, including killing any number of women and children in the "line of duty".
Might as well get used to it because there is no longer any legal process for the public to access in order to prevent its continuation and escalation.
After all, the public is just another Adversary in a long list of adversaries the federal government is at war with.
On the post: CIA Didn't Bother Informing Obama About Blown Cover Of German Double Agent Before His Call With Merkel
Its just a job... but the pay is awesome!
You'd think that if you still believed the President was anything more than a hired gun for Wall Street Billionaires.
On the other hand, if you realized that Obama was just an employee of the men running the USA these days, you would understand that what Obama knows is exactly what he needs to know when he's about to lay down another lie on the US Public.
He already had his German meeting script memorized, so there was no need to confuse the con with stuff that was immaterial to that meeting.
Now that he might need to spin some BS to the public about this "bumbling minion", he will be briefed and handed his new script by the same folks who wrote his German meeting script.
I can barely wait to hear this one. :)
On the post: Latest Survey Shows People Across The Political Spectrum Are Skeptical Of Government Surveillance
But Why...
Errrr... I can agree readily enough with the first half, but why on earth would you want to rebuild it??
Its an institution designed to fail. As long as it keeps failing, it remains intact and healthy. Its only real job is to keep Americans poor enough that they will keep on working for the billionaires for subsistence level pay.
Just hire a few dozen college kids and give them some good computers and pay them each 500 bux a week, and I'm certain they can do a far greater job than any gang of millionaire fascists could ever do. Offer them large bonus paychecks at the end of their term if they accomplish good things.
Hell, two 10 year olds and a Win 8 laptop would do a better job than the last 10 (s)elected administrations have done.
Let the millionaires back in and you'll just get a brand new cesspool of suck in a couple weeks. I mean hell, if you think that those billionaires gathered that much money together by caring about the world and its people, then you deserve what you get.
Remember, George Dubya Bush proved to the American People that the USA runs just fine for nearly a decade with no federal government at all. In fact he proved that the USA runs just fine even when there's a gang of thieves and cut throats sitting in the offal orifice doing their level best to steal the treasuries of three countries at once.
And the money saved, not having to pay billionaires to party hardy and snort coke with 1000 dollar an hour hookers on multi-million dollar yachts 4 days a week, could end poverty in the US over night. Although I suppose the 1000 dollar a night hookers might honestly complain about the lack of liquid cash and sugar-daddy love.
If a machine does not work, trash it and build a machine that works. The Federal Government is obsolete and useless and costs Americans both a fortune in upkeep and their reputation world wide.
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On the post: Senator Lindsey Graham Doesn't Know Details Of NSA Abuse, But Sure It's Fine Because 'WE'RE AT WAR!'
What they don't know, won't hurt us.
True, unless, after 9/11, there was a special top secret meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other political VIPs who secretly reinterpreted the War Measures Act to allow them to Secretly Declare War in a secret closed session, without the need for an issuance of declaration of war by congress, under special circumstances, such as an attack by terrorists.
Of course this is entirely conjecture, but is based upon the actions and behaviours of the federal government and its agents since 9/11.
It has also become nearly a habit for these agencies to use secret interpretations of standing laws in order to accomplish things that would not be possible without breaking the law.
If the War Measures Act was secretly reinterpreted in such a fashion as to allow the administration in power to secretly declare war on any "adversary" it deemed a terrorist or terrorist organization and thus allow that administration to use the immense legal powers bestowed by the War Measures Act against that adversary, without disclosing that fact to the public or informing the chosen "adversary" that it was being attacked formally, then much of what we have seen over the last decade becomes easily understood.
Especially the now-common tactic of law enforcement and federal agencies of reclassifying everything from child molesters to drug dealers as terrorists.
It would also make the Home Surveillance activities of the NSA nothing more than the standard procedure for spying on an enemy during war, once the public was reclassified as an "adversary".... As recent documents have shown it has been for some time now.
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On the post: Google Restores Some Links To Articles Removed In 'Right To Be Forgotten' Mess
Smoke Screen?
The insane legal ruling was actually intended to allow a massive number of such removals to occur over a short period of time as a smoke screen, so that the few truly important ones could be disappeared quietly in the background while everyone was giggling about the long line-up of obvious assholes trying to hide their obvious assholiness.
Now that the job is done and no-one the wiser, "common sense" will soon appear to have raised its ugly head and these idiotic pro-censorship legal rulings will be removed from the law.
On the post: Does The XKeyscore Source Code Leak Point To Another NSA Leaker?
Just a thought.
And as we have seen in the past on numerous occasions, the NSA and other federal agencies are 100% OK with disclosing truly sensitive National Security information that actually harms national security and/or endangers field operatives, as long as it can be used to fool the public into believing what they want it to believe.
Just a thought.
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On the post: Court Tells DOJ To Cough Up The Other Secret Memos That Justify Killing People By Drone
Can't have a bout of integrity ruin the game plan now after all. Time to get these judges back into marching order and singing the right tune.
Nothing like a video of a judge's mistress earning her keep, or pictures of his kids sleeping in their beds with a masked man holding a knife inches above their heads, to get almost anyone "back on track".
As the MAFIA proved long ago, every man has his price.
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On the post: International Service Providers Sue GCHQ For Potentially Hacking Their Networks
Re: Re: Re: Re:
Rather telling actually. He/She might make a fair crystal ball for future excuses of federal shenanigans.
Turn the shill into something useful. :)
On the post: EU Publishers Present Their 'Vision' For Copyright: A Permission-Based Internet Where Licensing Is Required For Everything
Fair Well InterNet, we will miss you greatly...
The OuterNet
Cuz if yer on it, yer outed automatically.
On the post: Local Blog Outs Local Politician's Crazy But Anonymous Comments. So...Is That Okay?
Re: Re: A promise is a promise, or its a lie.
I know that I would assume this and if it was important to me, I would definitely inquire as to whether or not it was or was not policy.
If a blog or Social Network does not post a written statement as to their policy on Sock-Puppetry, then I would think anyone would assume they either do not care if participants use multiple handles and multiple accounts, or that they are unable to convince their service provider to aid them in the elimination of such abuse.
For me, the proof of the ease of identifying apparently anonymous users has been on display for years by the very fact that law enforcement via the courts, can and often does demand an ISP give them lists of identities associated with posts and downloads. A service provider will have ways to discover Sock Puppetry and should do so upon request by a client website owner as a service.
In fact, Copyright Troll Lawyers depend on the ability of courts to wrest the identities of "anonymous" downloaders from ISPs, in order to carry out their lucrative business of legal extortion of those identified persons.
I would expect Anti-Sock-Puppetry applications would be run automatically by the network provider offering such a service to clients, not the owners/operators of a website, and that such applications that prevent spam and S-P would be offered by the network provider as security features of their system. Value added.
In fact, I've always believed that the onus of preventing abuse of the network by spammers and the like has always been on the network providers, not the website operators who "rent" the "spaces" they provide.
That such systems are not in place currently, says much about the state of the art and the attitudes of the both blog owners and ISP's. Says a lot about bloggers too.
Of course, I also assume that if such preventative systems were in place, that there would be a large contingent of coders doing their level best to provide applications to defeat them. C'est la vie eh. Restrictions beget Innovations.
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On the post: As All Its Big Trade Agreements Grind To An Awkward Halt, Canada Aims To Make TPP Even More Secretive
Re: SECRET TPPartnership, C-CITreaty & CETA TRIBUNALS are INSIDER TRADING...
I think I love you.
In a totally non-sexual manner of course.... :)
On the post: EFF Sues NSA Again Over Failure To Release Procedures For Dealing With Zero Days
Re: Re: ...ask me no questions...
The Never To Be Written Secret History of the USA.
Bush Junior was the first fully effective corporate POTUS, placed into office through vote fixing, bribery, blackmail and coercion.
His job was to rewrite as many laws as possible, in order to remove the restrictions faced by Banks, Wall Street and the Top 500 MAFIA controlled corporations, due to regulations that prevented them from doing such things as cheating, lying, stealing, racketeering, forming monopolies, etc..
Since he was not fully successful - he had to do a lot of other things like end a ton of law suits against various supporter institutions like the tobacco industry and bury all the records of his family's support of Hitler prior to and during WW2 - they needed to place a new corporate POTUS in power to finish the task.
Since placing a Known Republican back in the Oval Office was impossible after Bush, it was necessary to create a ringer - a Republican sympathizer who could masquerade as a Democrat.
9/11 allowed the forces of Wall Street and the MAFIA to almost entirely eliminate the Democratic Party through a combination of blackmail, bribery and coercion, made possible by the new War Time Laws secretly enacted after 9/11 due to the manufactured Terrorist Problem.
This made it easy to foist the ringer on the public without exposure by other democrats.
Obama was the perfect choice for the New Republican POTUS, because, due to his being black and a silver-tongued con-artist, the public could be easily fooled into believing he was a democrat and trust-worthy.
Because everyone expected all the American Blacks to vote for Obama, the vote was easily fixed and the election was a cake walk.
Naturally, the nutcase Republican Pundits publicly poo pooed the Ringer endlessly in order to insure the public's continued belief in his Democrat-hood, in the face of his republican friendly activities and corporate administration members.
Obama has since finished off all the work that was started by Bush and added a few new twists that his handlers have always wanted, such as reverse copyright reform and the beginnings of the end of the internet.
Wall Street is now fully in control of the Federal Government, as can be seen easily by the way the NSA, FBI, IRS, CIA and every other branch of the Federal Government has been behaving since 9/11, not to mention Hollyood, the RIAA and MPAA law creation, or the Trade Agreement Group's secrecy.
If it were not for Snowden, almost none of this would have been known by the few Americans who have been able to see through the smoke screen put up by the Truth-Free Press.
Sadly, the vast majority of American citizens continue to ignore reality, due mainly to embarrassment at being made fools of, and their misguided patriotism.
On the post: Local Blog Outs Local Politician's Crazy But Anonymous Comments. So...Is That Okay?
A promise is a promise, or its a lie.
Once you make a single undocumented exception to a rule, the rule no longer exists. If you offer anonymity, then you MUST honor that offer, or lose participants and credibility and weaken the necessity of anonymity for free speech in the eyes of law enforcement.
You can make a set of documented exceptions such as "if a participant threatens harm to another participant, or to anyone living, then their anonymity will be ended", but such exceptions must be included with the promise of anonymity and literally spelled out in plain language.
Sock-puppetry is easily controlled by simply placing the participant's other handles in brackets beside the newest handle.
This would end sock-puppetry altogether and should be posted on any blog-site as standard operating procedure to protect other participants from such scams/ruses.
Any site that did not include this promise would be then seen as a place where participants can be deceived by users with two or more accounts, because sock-puppetry is allowed and thus promoted.
Since the author's actual name is still unknown, and only the link between the various sock-puppet handles is acknowledged, the user's actual identity remains unknown and the other participants are protected from, and informed about the ruse.
Otherwise, the legacy industries and government will win the day if anonymity becomes an added privilege that can be revoked arbitrarily.
On the post: Privacy And Civil Liberties Board Mostly Unconcerned About PRISM Or Backbone Tapping By NSA
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Every day, in every way, the Federal Government looks more and more like the MAFIA.
Looks like a century of untaxed drug proceeds have allowed the mob to move into politics big time. :)
I expect this new "Sudden Capitulation Syndrome" will become a standard occurrence during all of the up and coming "negotiations" and "investigations", such as surveillance legality and trade agreement based copyright legislation.
After all, it works.
On the post: EFF Sues NSA Again Over Failure To Release Procedures For Dealing With Zero Days
Re: Better Solution
Err.... would that not take some access to government?
I mean, who would write these new rules into law?
I'd think the current members of the Federal Government would simply say a unanimous "no", and then laugh their collective asses off at the audacity of some peasant telling them to restrict their activities in such a manner.
First, methinks, it might behoove us to figure out some way to gain control of this runaway federal government before we try and get it to do something diametrically opposed to its members' current practices, habits and desires - none of which has anything remotely to do with honesty, obedience or disclosures to the public.
Unless of course, you think the Federal Government is simply "confused" and "unguided", and not at all being purposely obtuse, deceptive, or secretive, and a simple wrist slap will bring them all back in line....
Good luck with that then.
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...ask me no questions...
Well, they might do that if it were not for the Standard Government Policy laid down by the Bush administration - know as the "Rules", that states - tell them a lie first, then tell another if that one does not work, then make them ask for proof, then, after they've asked (roll a 6 sided die and multiply by 2 and add 3) times, make them get a court order, then blackmail the judge to deny the order, and make them go through the whole process again from the beginning, and then lose the documents in question, through a. storeroom fire, b. computer malfunction, c. dog ate them, d. tornado damage, e. flood damage, f. termites, or g. make something up.
You see, they can't ever admit to you that the FOIA is a charade, because, well, that would be telling the public something it simply does not need to know.
And telling the public something it does not need to know is against the Rules.
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tride and troo
I thought it was entirely due to the public's belief in this "truism" that the CIA purposely does at least one really stupid action a day.
My version differs somewhat:
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, unless its a lawyer, politician, or MAFIA enforcer you're dealing with."
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Its a job...
It would also be interesting, I'd think, to learn what he does for the other 363 days of the year.
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