free humanity

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I am so tired.

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police state

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Paul Craig Roberts goes on RT to help highlight the hypocrisy of the administration's shtick about not using violence on peaceful, unarmed citizens. I was going to mention it myself, but he seems to be covering it.

I would add that there has not been one massive demonstration in the United States that has not been put down by teargas and rubber bullets, etc., in decades... DECADES.

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take note — Mubarak speech — egypt uprising — UPDATING

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They are getting it done. In their millions.

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The people in their millions have been in the streets all day and all night. Mubarak is due to speak in a few minutes. Click the image for the stream from al Jazeera.

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They say a statement is to be released. It might not be Mubarak, but it's supposed to be an important statement....

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The huge throngs in the square, 1110pm in Tahrir Square, are very, very loudly chanting, "Freedom, freedom, God make it tonight." They're interspersing this with "Illegitimate, illegitimate, get out."

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Still no word, 1110:30pm, their time. Earlier, before I finally went to bed, there were easily a million people in the square, with their camping gear, and people were bringing them food. They are NOT going to stop for anything short of regime change. They want an interim government, and the constitution rewritten.

Barackhenaten urges Mubarak not to stand for reëlection. Fucking pathetic. So al Jazeera says they think Mubarak will be announcing he won't stand for another term in this year's "election".

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While we're waiting, let's have a little musical interlude... I mean, really, Bippy thinks we should do it over healthcare, and I think we should do it for the entire world. The one thing about this whole situation is that the Egyptian people are showing everyone HOW IT'S DONE. No matter what filthy machinations have been and are running in the background, THE PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL! I feel myself filling with some sort of loving incarnation of envy right next to my boundless solidarity here. I'd give ANYTHING to have neighbors like that, countrymen like that....

Quarter to midnight eleven there. Hope the statement, whatever it is, comes out by midnight.

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The crowd is ROARING the chant, "coming... coming... coming..." [freedom that is]....

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11pm, Cairo.... Mubarak is blathering... working toward saying something.

He's blaming everything on his obtuse government, doing a Genghis Ponzi Yoo.... Griping about an Egyptian filibuster, so to speak. Now swearing not to stand for reëlection.

THE FUCKER IS NOT RESIGNING.

He's invoking the "constitution". Fucking hell. Just as sociopathic as ours.

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OMG! OMG! OMG!

The crowd is ROARING even louder! They're as unimpressed by that shit as I am.

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AND NOW ROARING "LEAVE, LEAVE" MUCH MORE LOUDLY STILL!!!

They're tell him to fuck off, but the hairdos can't say that on the air.

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Short break, here, to point out the difference between reality and what we only call it. Everyone calls Mubarak "president". He IS NOT the president and has not been for a very long time. Think about it. Neither is the Egyptian constitution their constitution. We maybe do not know the precise form and aspect of their REAL one, but it IS NOT this one, and hasn't been for a very long time.

Reality is: the whole paradigm under which they have been and are operating does not exist.

It only remains for this truth to manifest. The PEOPLE are in the streets for THAT.

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Word from the street is: "Mubarak has just galvanized the street to protest even harder."

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Al Jazeera just spoke with Rep. David Wu in Washington. He said the internet shutdowns are emblematic of governments that are afraid of their people, as though that were not precisely how they should be... he capped it, of course, by saying the governments should instead be of the people, by the people, and for the people.

WE have not had that in at LEAST the last ten years—the ones wherein it was becoming obvious enough even for the average beer-guzzling sports fan on the street—but actually much longer than that.

WE SHOULD BE WALKING LIKE AN EGYPTIAN.

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Right after Mubarak's address, about forty or fifty pro-Mubarak protesters tried to enter the protest in the square in Alexandria. The military moved a tank in to try to keep the protesters separate. Not happening. They're throwing rocks at each other and shots just rang out.

Again, we're talking ALEXANDRIA, not Cairo, where the main action is, but the protests have been strong across all the cities of Egypt. There were a few hundred thousand protesting against Mubarak in Alexandria earlier, but had been going back home for their neighborhood watches, and sleep, so the anti-Mubarak crowd has thinned and the pro-Mubarak faction, still vastly smaller....

More shots.

... has pretty clearly come in to try to pull another psyop. It horrifies me just how dirty they are playing with this whole...

More shots. Correspondent says military is firing in the air.

... endeavor... especially in Alexandria. I think there has been much more loss of life in Alexandria than the other cities, but that MOST of the ugliness and violence across the country has been instigated by the police, who have been acting as MUBARAK'S enforcers, NOT peace officers. Big distinction.

Guy on the street says the pro-Mubarak counter-protests that have sprung up today and tonight are the POLICE.

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CONSIDER NOW... the federalization of all our police forces across the nation that has been increasing since 9/11 and the PATRIOT Act, and intensifying with the financial meltdown. Most cities and states no longer have the money to keep their forces strong, and must cede control to get federal funds to keep their forces happening. So. This is precisely the same thing as the Egyptian police being directly under the control of the regime, as opposed to the people, as that idiot Wu was lying about a little while ago.

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no longer merely a fashion statement

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Our pants are coming down for real.

In an exclusive interview with Philips, the passenger in the car said members of the Red Dog unit pulled over his friend's vehicle and forced the driver, Shawn Venegas, to pull down his pants on the side of the road in broad daylight. He says officers conducted a body cavity search for drugs on Venegas. No drugs were ever found, passenger Brian Kidd said.

“They went to his bottom part. That’s as low as you can go. I don’t think anybody should be subjected to that kind of search,” Kidd said. “I had to look away because I couldn’t watch my friend be done like that.”

Kidd told Philips that an officer also reached down his pants searching his private parts for drugs.

Venegas said he was so traumatized by the incident that he moved to another state.

"I feel molested, and I feel like I was raped," Venegas told Philips in a phone interview.

“There’s absolutely no justification under these or any other circumstances, even if they had shown any kind of resistance to the officers, to make Shawn take his pants and underwear down in the middle of a city street,” attorney Mark Bullman said.

Doesn't take an attorney to tell you that... but seeing as how an average of six people a day die as a result of contact with police in the United States, what was Venegas to do? Hmmm?

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and it won't be the last

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Unless... we're all saved by extinction on 21 December 2012... or....

And besides:

Iris recognition is increasingly used in airports, controlling access to restricted areas, and prisoner booking and release.

It's already too late. The Precrime Unit is already being tricked-out in the new DHS complex.

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More in the same vein HERE....

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And, yeah, good luck with that. I'm rootin' for you.

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do you want to live here?

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Just ignore the opening bars, the 9/11 blather, and cut straight to the facts.

Do you want to live here?

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Maybe Vermont....

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another pile up

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I don't know if this will turn into my usual mode. It too is NOT helpful for people trying to search for things here... or link to something here... but almost everything is linked via the untracked URL shorteners on TwitFace these days anyway and there just isn't any way around the fact that even the longest and most precise documentations of things amount to ephemera SO much more quickly than ever before and searching anything anywhere has its good days and its bad days in any case and since I'm not piling it up and then posting it, but rather posting it and then piling it up, you can still get yer daily hits of protective mindfucks in titrated blasts.... The great part about being me is I can just do it how I do it when I do it and keep open for that little flaw in the fabric to use conditions to enhance the possibilities for everyone....

Reminder....

Well, who among us is going to CHECK?

Probably impossible to maintain empire without the Big Pharma....

Theater....

Tony who?

RIGHT HERE....

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The very existence of the Department of Homeland Security is due in large part to Senator Lieberman. Dating back to the first days after 9/11, he has been an instrumental architect of the very way we work to keep America safe from the evolving threats we face in the 21st century. Senator Lieberman's tireless, nonpartisan efforts have truly made our country more secure, and he has my personal thanks. I wish him the very best in his upcoming retirement, and I look forward to continuing to work with him to secure our country over the next two years.

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Today's Keiser Report....

How much more last millennium can you get?

Gaiavores' dream....

Keystone Kops....

How that hopey/changey thing is working out in the Gulf....

But we can still make fashion statements....

More Lieberman loss lamentation....

Awwwww....

They mindfuck cops too....

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Reports emanating from Central Somalia yesterday indicate that a unit of United States forces descended in an area called Gaan, 18 kilometres north of Haradhere, a former base of the notorious Somali pirates and a current stronghold of Al-Shabaab, the Somali Islamist movement opposing the government.

The marines are said to have used a helicopter to reach the remote location.

According to Shabelle, a broadcaster in Mogadishu, five armed soldiers descended from the chopper and immediately handcuffed three Somali youth that were next to a vehicle being repaired following a breakdown.

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I'm looking forward to a time when I'm not on a secret watch, search, harass, detain, interrogate, delay, annoy and stress list. —Jacob Appelbaum

Churchill Club forum on Why WikiLeaks Matters... video, nearly two hours....

Tsarion on Energy Vampires... video, hour and a half....

Not being a dope about the Baby Doc thing....

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been to yer local cop shop yet?

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I am telling you, they need to be told this won't be tolerated. This world, our communities, are up to us. Leave them to the sociopaths and you dare not even garden.

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somebody shoot the man

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Get 'em off Willie for good.

Willie Nelson charged with pot possession in Texas
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SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas.

Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m. Friday. Brooks says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana.

Brooks says the Hudspeth County sheriff was contacted and Nelson was among three people arrested.

Sheriff Arvin West didn't immediately return a phone message left at his home Friday, but he told the El Paso Times that Nelson claimed the marijuana was his. The singer was held briefly a $2,500 bond before being released.

Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock declined to comment when contacted via e-mail by The Associated Press.

And then the airports.

No. Really.

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i tried not to see this

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I saw it linked on some thread hours and hours ago, and was going to freak and click on it, and then told myself it was probably something from a long time ago that someone was bringing up just to be colorful, but, well, I guess not.

You don't seem to understand. We have to go to the cops and tell them this WILL stop. We have to.

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i'm sick of obama's ugly mug on my blog

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But my big question here is: How does this differ from the Dubya Administration? I'm trying to think. I might be able to give GP Yoo higher marks for patience and smoothness and innovation. Dub's gang totally flunked those. But these qualities are all being put in the service of a fascist police state, so these marks are SO nothing to brag about.

Dubya told Oprah he's proud he didn't sell his soul for the sake of popularity. GP Yoo very clearly did. Of course, Dub didn't have to because his father did it for him, but, still, he can be proud of that... being him....

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Plus, did you ever think we could have a worse Department of Justice than Dubya's? No? Well, we sure managed it lickety split, and if you go so far as to listen to the NPR report, keep a puke bag or well-lined waste basket handy. You're going to need it. When did we get a statute of limitations on TORTURE?

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vicious uniformed pansies

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Nothing worse than spineless losers with badges. When you go into the local cop shop to tell them you want this more-people-being-killed-by-cops-than-saved shit to STOP. You tell them this isn't a war zone. This is not kill or be killed. This is where cops come to make things better, be helpful, restore peace. REMIND THEM THEY ARE PEACE OFFICERS, AND WE DON'T MEAN CLINT EASTWOOD KIND OF PEACE. Tell them to trash their tasers. Tell them it is better to let a perp get away than to shoot anybody unless the perp is known to be a serial killer. Tell them you don't care WHAT color they are, they are humans who deserve REAL respect, not this sickeningly fakey shit where they call you ma'am or sir and then blast you with whatever they've got. Tell them that not following their orders is not an offense justifying bodily harm, that if they can't use better judgment in the face of a twerpy little knife while they've got guns and kevlar suits they are in the wrong line of work.

GO IN THERE AND TELL THEM THESE THINGS.

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okay, i need a few thousand milligrams of ibuprofen now

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STAND UP!

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have you been for a visit to your local cop shop yet?

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If not now, when?

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mox nix

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I mean, uhm, are we supposed to notice a difference, or whut?

At least these guys are doing something... and I think I trust them more....

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html5

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Believe it or not I frequently don't link things when it's too damn depressing, but BB2 is expressing concern. Indeed it is a matter of grave concern. I skipped linking this the other day, but went back and got it.

Already we notice our computers coming with all kinds of amazingly "handy" features. Macs come with Time Machine. If you get yerseff a backup hard drive you can use this program to restore your computer to whatever condition it was in on any given date. Isn't that handy? Now if you delete something you didn't want to delete, no worries mate, IT'S NOT DELETED.

They're too goddam lazy to just do the good old forensics to retrieve stuff you've deleted. Now they want it on a platter. And anyone who wants to make it, or keep making it, in any business having to do with these puppies or the internet, is going to have to be providing you with all these handy "tools". Look at your address book. There are fields for every possible thing you might want to put down about your contacts, and when it's attached to your email program, so much the better. So beside MyTwitFace being any stalker's wet dream, your computer, which can be switched on or awakened remotely, wifi-ready, with all those cookies and handy password-remembering features, and histories for every page you go to, caches, flash cookies, now there's other stuff that bypasses your browser cookies, and your flash cookie cleaner, that reside in the dank depths of your computer.

Vastly easier to hire people with this level of understanding of how to get what they want from you than to find the guys who know how to get your hard drive to reveal its past.

This is what happens when only sociopaths have the drive to get things done, to make things happen.

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i guess i need to be grateful for some journalists

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I wish they'd nail bigger mass murderers, but damn, this is important too. I was watching the Katrina hearing where the residents were testifying. The sound went out on a bunch of the testimony. I was pissed. I just KNEW it wasn't a mistake, but was left unable to state exactly why until I went to play the hearing again from the video archive. In the archive there were still spots with blanked-out audio, but NOT just blanketly for the ones they knew were on the bridge.

It still makes me crazy that they call it "looting" when aid and services were withheld for so long. Would you sit there and die? And it pisses me off that FRONTLINE is spewing all the cops' excuses, just as though it was their job.

Here, read this book and then tell me what you think of what happened and didn't happen in New Orleans five years ago.

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globalization involves much more than merely finances

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The police state must accompany it, or it can't be pulled off. It seems cops everywhere are about as avid as ours to show off their prowess with gizmos and special training and authority over worthless pieces of shit. The dumbing down has not been limited to the United States. Oh. Nossirreebob. It's not just here. Here is just where the power to pull it off originates. The lives of everyone, everywhere are being poured into the coffers of a tiny minority who very seldom bother to interface with the public. They have their goons for that.

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suppose it's terrible enough yet that whistles will start blowing their ears out?

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All those people who have pertinent knowledge they daren't ever utter in public might just dare as the police state gets bolder. What about that little tantrum of burning books at the Pentagon? How many more REAL men in the military will come forth now?

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You may disregard my glee over the way Parenti eviscerates the posturing jackasses of leftism, the patronizing prig Chomsky, and the name-dropping twerp Cockburn, in this lecture. Those two posturing jackasses also share the denial of 9/11 truth... and yet pretend to intellectual rigor.

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Oh, goody! I don't think I've heard this one before....

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the obama years: don't you DARE protest our wars

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No problem reporting the straight dope when it will serve to terrify us:

FBI serves terrorism warrants in Minn., Chicago
By STEVE KARNOWSKI (AP) – 28 minutes ago

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI said it searched eight homes in Minneapolis and Chicago as part of a terrorism investigation on Friday, and two subjects said the agency is targeting leaders of the anti-war movement.

FBI spokesman Steve Warfield told The Associated Press agents served six warrants in Minneapolis and two in Chicago.

"These were search warrants only," Warfield said. "We're not anticipating any arrests at this time. They're seeking evidence relating to activities concerning the material support of terrorism."

The homes of Minneapolis anti-war activists Mick Kelly and Jess Sundin were among those searched, they told the AP.

"The FBI is harassing anti-war organizers and leaders, folks who opposed U.S. intervention in the Middle East and Latin America," Kelly said before agents confiscated his cell phone.

Sundin said she believes the searches are connected with the Minnesota Anti-War Committee's opposition to U.S. military aid to Colombia and Israel, as well as its opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"It's kind of outrageous that citizens of the United States could be targeted like this," Sundin said.

Warfield said he couldn't comment on whose homes were searched or give details on why because it's an ongoing investigation. "There's no imminent threat to the community," he said.

The searches were first reported by the Star Tribune.

Both Sundin and Kelly were organizers of a mass march on the first day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul two years ago, and recently appeared at a news conference to announce plans for another protest if Minneapolis is selected to hold the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

Police estimated the peaceful march drew 10,000 protesters; organizers put the figure at 30,000. Other protests were marked by destructive acts by anarchists. More than 800 people were arrested during the four days of the convention, including Sundin and Kelly.

The FBI's spokesman in Chicago, Ross Rice, would only say two searches were conducted Friday in Chicago and that there were no arrests. He declined comment further.

Asked about the reports, the U.S. Attorney's office spokesman in Chicago, Randy Samborn, confirmed warrants were served in the city "in connection with a law enforcement investigation." He also declined to provide details.

Fuck.

Wake up.

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