in fact... i haven't bugged you about my neighbor in nearly two years

Derrick Jensen

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So, uhm, I think, looking around me, I better get back on it now.

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And, I'm NEVER going to stop bugging you about Michael Tsarion.

I think I will have much more of him here for you later, too.

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max igan discussing the nukequake and his motives

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An Aussie whose radio show is called "The American Voice"? Anyway, a good listen.

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I am so gonna suck as a revolutionary! I'll need earplugs....

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Is it clear enough for you yet?

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Oh, that nutty Murdoch:

Rupert Murdoch, aside from owning FOX News and the Wall Street Journal has also managed to scoop up a large portion of Britain's newspapers. Well, it ends up Murdoch's papers have been hacking the phones of the liberal politicians and using the info gleaned to chase them out of office, ruin their character, etc. Besides politicians they have been hacking phones of both the rich and the famous...including the Princes of England.

Pfeh.

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only place walking like an egyptian will do any good is ...

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... HERE.

None of the other revolutions stand an ice cube's chance in hell until we do it.... Maybe we're all toast anyway... but it's long past time we stopped letting precious people be slaughtered while we sit on our fat American asses.

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Mayhap they're experimenting to avoid WWIII by simply running the propaganda at full throttle. I mean, give me a break. Bolivians turning on Evo over SUGAR prices? I don't think so. Neither do you. But the handbook states you can get mobs of starving people to rise up anywhere and against anyone for the mere investment of a couple bucks. The return on that couple bucks is too pornographic to mention in polite society.

NOBODY'S going to bring down our dollar because they're being forced to import our inflation at the point of our military's might. So their people will so much the more easily and cheaply be turned against them. No sense in bringing on a nuclear conflagration when you are perfectly capable of starving people into complying with your imperial prerogatives and doing all the killing and dying for you right there where they live. It's sort of like lounging in bed, lazily fooling with the remote control.

They WANT you to think America is losing influence in the world. And you think it because you want it. It isn't true.

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rise up

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I have to wade through all the references to stuff that just doesn't strike me right to read a lot of these people, but most of the time the thrust of their work isn't really that much different from mine or yours.

The U.S. is headed toward total tyranny..... I don’t think this is arguable. The government and its controlling partners are in perpetual war with those who never attacked or threatened to attack us. The military power structure is entrenched in most all countries around the world. We are now a people that are spied upon, groped, x-rayed, harassed, and stolen from on a daily basis. The United States while considered the freest country on earth, has the highest incarceration rate in the world. With less than 5% of the world’s population, the U.S. houses over 23% of the world’s prison population. According to the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1 in every 32 adults, or 3.1% of the population was either on probation, in jail or prison, or on parole in 2009. To add to this insanity, approximately 70 percent of those "criminals" are being held for victimless "crimes"; this due mostly to the evil war on drugs, which is nothing other than an anti-liberty prohibition used to expand the power and scope of the State. The number of normal citizens that are abused and beaten by the domestic police state gendarmes is increasing beyond imagination. Our government can now legally assassinate its own citizens, and is threatening to shut down our main lines of communication should it deem it necessary. This cannot be allowed to happen!

But it is. It is.

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love, 99
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handy at carpentry?

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We need you.

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sunday in egypt uprising — UPDATED

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I know I'm tuning into today's uprising early, but I mistimed my nap. I'm crabby as hell to find the hairdos on al Jazeera now referring to the citizens' watch groups as "vigilantes". That's so much more colorful... and pleasing to plutocrats as a bonus. The truth fills the people on the streets and I am outraged to hear media turning it into lowly words and mind control.

It is Sunday in Egypt, which is the Egyptian equivalent of our Monday. The military has closed off the downtown area, keeping cars out, but letting people walk in. Reports of old people quaking in their homes with clubs, waiting for young men to come take everything they have, but, as of now, that is not happening. The people are policing themselves pretty darn well by what I can see and glean from when they actually interview Egyptians in the middle of it. Too much attention to the crap on the web. But... the day is just beginning... and the people will be out in force again today.

Heh, Chris Floyd seems to be in a similar mood:

Oh, but you know what? We even shouldn't be talking about all this. This whole Egyptian uprising business seems to be making some of our leading progressives feel a bit wiggly. Atrios, for example, has salted several of his brief squibs about these momentous events with grumpy asides. For example:

I get a bit fed up with the ultra-serious tweeting and retweeting the revolution stuff which happens when Big Events are going on.

Yes, don't you just hate that? People being all ultra-serious and stuff about a brave popular uprising in a long-repressed land? I mean, really: couldn't they just do some cat-blogging or something? That would be, like, way more cool.

Or this:

I get a wee bit uncomfortable at the way people enthusiastically cheer on revolutionary movements in other countries they don't know much about. I'm not defending bad governments, just objecting to the notion that revolution=democracy. It's never clear what will emerge on the other side.

Yeah, that makes me squirm a wee bit in my Barcalounger as well: people being all ignorantly enthusiastic about these breakthrough moments in history, these rare upsurgings of the human spirit. Why, they probably haven't even read an article from the Center for American Progress telling them what to think about it yet! People like that should just shut up.

For my part, it's mostly been about the audacity of what we only call things in this world. I'm chuffed that they're reporting Mubarak's appointments of vice president and prime minister as though Mubarak were pharaoh, as though someone can have proclaimed himself "president" and that means he can impose his will and whim for thirty years and everybody—EVEN when the entire nation is in the streets screaming for him to get out—keeps talking as though he is President of Egypt and those silly swearings-in had anything to do with actuality.

Two people got into the museum night before last, almost certainly police, wrecked a couple mummies and smashed a couple things and left. It continues to be reported as though it just happened and things are really senseless and out of hand. That is getting on my nerves. I know, I know, I suck as a reporter because I have so little patience for this crap. I CARE ABOUT THOSE ANTIQUITIES ALMOST AS MUCH AS I CARE FOR THE PEOPLE, BUT, PLEASE, LET'S JUST MAKE SURE THE ANTIQUITIES ARE VERY WELL GUARDED AND CUT THE SENSATIONALISM, CAN WE?

Anyway, everything is jake so far this morning. I'll try to stay awake into the zone where stuff stops happening.

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Democracy Now!'s Kouddous reports from Cairo....

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I LOVE THEM.

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2:15am PST:

Okay. I just had to snap off al Jazeera. Couldn't take another second of their prattle, despite the occasional infusion of information we can use. The hairdos of this world have ALWAYS sent me over the edge, and my Zen gets very brittle and volatile after a while when faced with them in such heavy rotation. I mean, for sure it's better when they're only images on a screen and I don't have to scare the living snot out of them, which I unerringly do, in person, but, still... not pretty.

It is not pretty.

I've heard guys on the street, local bloggers, a journalist in Suez, I think, and one very riled woman protestor, ALL saying the looting was instigated by the state to frighten people into staying home to protect their belongings. This accounts fully for why the riot police suddenly disappeared from the streets yesterday. I don't know if it has worked. It's after noon in Cairo now and the crowds are still thin. I know they don't hit full stride until later, but I think there should be more people out right now. I don't want to sit here getting angrier and more frustrated over this stupid coverage for which I should be very, very grateful, it being the ONLY coverage of the Egyptian uprising we have.

I have added a bunch of links to this post that ought to keep you busy if you are patient enough to read back through and hunt them down, and I hope you will add links in comments while I'm trying to pull myself back together and/or getting some sleep.

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the people of egypt are back in the streets this morning

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Alexandria, Cairo, Suez... and many other cities....

Military is on the streets to guard banks and museums, etc., but says it is NOT there to fight the people. Riot police have killed some people, and badly, over the last few days, but the people are amassing yet again, right now. Families of the dead are SCREAMING for the ouster of Mubarak, not deterred, quite the opposite.

Protestors are holding up the American-made-and-supplied tear gas canisters and munitions being used against them by the riot police. Those bullets don't look rubber or rubber-coated. Nobody is satisfied with another of Mubarak's bullshit government reshuffles, notwithstanding the propaganda cranking out on TV.

Banners on tanks say: The Army Is With The People.

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mubarak addressing egypt right now

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And he does NOT seem to be conceding his dictatorship... though I'm unclear as to his physical location while addressing the nation....

He's not stepping down.

He's asking the government to step down and will designate a new one tomorrow.

[Doesn't that sound like a big improvement?]

Crowds are yelling "Down, down with Mubarak!" by way of response.

Go postal on him.

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Reports coming in that Egyptians who had been watching the situation from home have hit the streets since Mubarak's address to demand he leave....

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Genghis Ponzi Yoo is speaking, now, having finally taken Mubarak's call... and he says now Mubarak must take concrete steps to address the concerns of the Egyptian people. Senator Kerry said similarly from Davos. In other words, they are supporting Mubarak... just in case you were in need of a translation.

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the egyptian military has joined the egyptian people

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To put it bluntly: in earlier times, it was easier to control one million people than to physically kill one million people; today, it is infinitely easier to kill one million people than to control one million people. —Zbigniew Brzezinski

It seems the riot police have stood down. I am loving to hear all the heads of state around the world, and ours, proclaiming publicly for Egypt to respect the citizens' right to protest... but, well, you know they don't mean it. Still, we have to mean it.

And, the internet shutdown there is a bit of confirmation behind Obama's interest in an internet kill switch... yes, yes it is.

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Pertinent diplomatic cable... being faxed in to Egypt... MORE....

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Israel may have faith Mubarak will prevail, but Israel may have to send troops toward that end. Personally, I hope the people of Egypt overflow their borders and squish Netanyahu and everyone who supports him. I think most Egyptians hope that too.

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i've been worrying about this for at least a week

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Notwithstanding the outrage over F. William Engdahl daring to suggest such a thing, this is a real possibility. I'm not getting over having been duped by the so-called Orange Revolution in Ukraine. It reminds me of when my horse kicked me in the head. She was trying to kick another horse, but got me instead, and for many years after my stomach would start trying to trade places with my liver every time I was in a corral with a loose horse. No, just because you've been kicked in the head five or six times by color and flower revolutions doesn't mean every one of them has been incited by our covert ops, but we do have to keep asking that goddam question we learned was key when we got kicked in the head in 2001. I might not have even mentioned this, because I truly am in visceral solidarity with the Egyptians and Tunisians and Yemenis and all those rising up around the world, except for my reaction to seeing ElBaradei's name keep popping up in news accounts of the Egyptian uprising.

We have been hearing about him for Mubarak's post ever since he left the IAEA. Just like we kept hearing Hillary's name for president since the day after Clinton left office. She was going to be president until they realized a black president would be even harder to dis whilst bringing hardcore fascism down around us. You know that's so. THE MEDIA ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS. Their function is to keep us in a specially-crafted consensus trance, they didn't change their tune about Hillary until their bosses decided on Obama, and then we got a veritable cosmic symphony of celebration of Martin's Dream while the McCain/Palin circus kept the bubbas busy... so we DO need to be suspicious as hell right now.

The United States DOES have armies of black ops in every country of strategic interest. That's been shown over and over and over. JSOC has been busily hiring since the advent of Genghis Ponzi Yoo's administration, so think. Find links. Pray The Guardian starts hitting the Cairo cables hard... or at least one of the sites trying to help wade through them.

... and ... just as I was about to mention my worry about whether we should not now suspect Anonymous too, I see THIS... which has made me more suspicious. Mindfuckers Rule the World. We need our own global news operation. We couldn't get it, no matter what, because they would infiltrate it and coöpt it. This. Is. NO. Fun.

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fingers crossed and heart in throat

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Viva Egyptians.

Angry demonstrators in Egypt have torched a police post in the eastern city of Suez, where violence between police and protesters has racheted up amid a security crackdown.

Police fled the post before protesters used petrol bombs to set it on fire Thursday morning, witnesses told the Reuters news agency. Police in Suez responded to other demonstrators by firing rubber-coated bullets, water cannons and teargas.

Dozens of protersters gathered in front of a second police post later in the morning, demanding the release of relatives who were detained during a wave of unprecedented protests that authorities have failed to quell since they began on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, activists calling for the outser of Hosni Mubarak, who has served as Egypt's president for 30 years, clashed with police in the capital, Cairo, in the early hours of Thursday.

While the situation had calmed later in the morning, the protests are likely to gather momentum with the arrival of Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning former head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, and a potential presidential rival to Mubarak.

Responding to a reporter's question as he departed Vienna for Cairo, ElBaradei said on Thursday that he was ready to "lead the transition" in Egypt if asked.

"If people, in particularly young people, if they want me to lead the transition I will not let them down," ElBaradei told journalists at Vienna airport.

But ElBaradei added: "My priority right now is to see a new Egypt and to see a new Egypt through peaceful transition."

Demonstraters were planning another major protest for Friday, a day often used for protest in Egypt, and the Muslim Brotherhood - the country's technically banned but largest opposition movement - said on Thursday for the first time that it would participate.

Mubarak's whereabouts questioned

Rumours that Mubarak's son, Gamal, had fled the country have swirled in Egypt since Tuesday, the "day of anger" that ignited the protests. But Al Jazeera's Dan Nolan, reporting from Cairo, said that Gamal remained in Cairo and was attending a meeting of the ruling National Democratic Party. Footage from that meeting were to be broadcast on television later on Thursday.

But little was known about President Mubarak's whereabouts, and a senior government official was unable to confirm whether he was in Cairo or the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula.

"You would imagine, with what we've been seeing here - these are unprecedented protests, certainly unprecedented under President Mubarak's rule - that perhaps it might be a good time to address the nation in a televised broadcast or something like that," our correspondent said.

"There's been no indication that he's going to do that. Not even a televised address by the prime minister, only a brief prime ministerial press statement."

In the statement, Ahmed Nazif, the Egyptian prime minister, said that while people were free to express themselves in a peaceful manner, "there will be swift and strong intervention by police to protect national security".

In protests that some activists have explicitly connected with the uprising in Tunisia, Egyptians have defied a government ban on political rallies and taken to the streets in the thousands across several cities to vent their anger against Mubarak's 30-year rule an the emergency national-security laws that have been in place during his entire tenure.

Since the street protests erupted on Tuesday, police have confronted protesters with rubber-coated bullets, tear gas, water cannons and batons, and arrested more than 860 people.

An independent coalition of lawyers said that at least 1,200 people had been detained. At least six people have also been killed.

The turmoil on the streets affected even the country's stock exchange, where trading had to be temporarily suspended on Thursday after stocks dropped more than six per cent.

Defiant protesters

Our correspondent said the protesters seemed determined and continued to gather at various locations, despite the crackdown.

Protesters have constantly regrouped, using Facebook and Twitter to galvanise and co-ordinate their demonstrations.

Calls for another big protest on Friday gathered 24,000 Facebook supporters within hours of being posted. The Muslim Brotherhood's promise to join the protest means that police are likely to crack down harder.

Web activists seem to have acted largely independently of more organised opposition movements, including the Brotherhood, which boasts the biggest grassroots network in the country through its social and charity projects.

There have been reports of blocked Internet access and mobile service interruptions in an apparent government move to thwart protesters from communicating among themselves.

Twitter on Wednesday said its service had been blocked in Egypt. But Al Jazeera's Nolan reported that the site was up and running on Thursday.

Jillian York, who oversees the Herdict web monitoring service at Harvard University, said that Egyptian Facebook users confirmed to her that the website was blocked. Facebook, however, said it had not recorded "major changes" in traffic from Egypt.

US response

Washington, which views Mubarak as a vital ally and bulwark of Middle Eastern peace, has called for calm and urged Egypt to make reforms to meet the protesters' demands.

"We believe strongly that the Egyptian government has an important opportunity at this moment in time to implement political, economic and social reforms to respond to the legitimate needs and interests of the Egyptian people," Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, said.

Al Jazeera's Patty Culhane said that the US must strike a delicate balance.

"Egypt is by far one of the biggest beneficiaries of US foreign aid when it comes to military financing," our Washington DC correspondent said, adding that Egypt received $1.3bn a year from the US, second only to Israel in that respect.

"It would seem then, that the US has some leverage to push the Egyptian government to not crackdown on the protesters," Culhane said. Whether the US choses to exercise that leverage remains to be seen.

Like Tunisians, Egyptians complain about surging prices, lack of jobs, and authoritarian rulers who have relied on heavy-handed security to keep dissenting voices quiet.

Egypt's population of about 80 million is growing by 2 per cent a year. Two thirds of the population is under 30, and that age group accounts for 90 per cent of the jobless. About 40 per cent live on less than $2 a day, and a third are illiterate.

A presidential election is due in September. Egyptians assume that the 82-year-old Mubarak plans either to remain in control or hand power to his son. Father and son both deny that Gamal, 47, is being groomed for the job.

Yes, well, if that's the case, you'll have no problem retiring a few months early, now will you?

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Tunisia, Algeria, Yemen, Albania...

Berisha accused the socialist opposition of wanting to trigger "a Tunisian-style scenario for Albania" by staging "a coup to seize power by force," AFP reported.

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets for an anti-government protest called by the socialist opposition on 21 January. The demonstration ended with violent clashes between protesters and the police, and three people were killed. ...

Berisha and opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama blamed one another for the deaths, with each side promising new rallies in an escalating political row. ...

In a move to bolster support, Berisha on Saturday gave a bonus of one month's wages to security officials who patrolled the protest on Friday, and four months' wages for police officials who were wounded.

Security officials have placed coils of barbed wire on the ground around government buildings on the capital's main boulevard.

They're trying to give all kinds of fancy excuses—corruption, bogus elections, partisan bickering, housing, human rights—but the bottom line, the motive force in all these places seems to be FOOD.

[THE CORPORATION, two and a half hour documentary that does bear on all this....]

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UPDATE — And Egypt....

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graffiti not even i can fuck up

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You can scribble, can't you? And you can google.

YOU ARE RESISTANCE

V FOR VICTORY

OCCUPATION OF AMERICA

Come on! It can't get any simpler than this... but it can get a whole lot nastier.

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predators and prey

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It is not enough to riot and revolt, people need to keep at it until the danger of the wrong changes moving in has passed. This would be why movement leaders need to be clear on the goal before they urge people to the streets. Yes, sometimes the people don't wait for enlightened leadership to emerge, and sometimes I wonder if enlightened leadership is even possible anymore, those tending toward it being either completely disinclined to leadership or not enlightened in fact, but more corruptible power freaks is the norm. It's the norm that needs overturning. This means the people have to lose their default settings along with their patience for tyrants.

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Three people were shot dead as protesters fought police outside Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha's office on Friday during a rally to demand the government resign over corruption allegations. ...

This would be the prime reason no one in the United States wants to get out there to demand the resignation of our corrupt government. Fat people find it safer to use sophistry to avoid risk than to eliminate it. The harder it is to reconcile such an attitude with facts, the more superior the tone of the sophistry becomes. When the facts keep heaping up—despite the most elaborate and finely-wrought sophistry, complete with experts—the tone turns shrill, lots of sanctimony gets thrown in for good measure, and polemics turn to hard and heavy shit-slinging. If none of that works, it gets still louder, loftier on one side and lower on the other, by turns, and yet less amenable to even short lulls. We couldn't be lucky enough to have another civil war... let alone another revolution.

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i'm gonna do another trainwreck today

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Which means that if yer on the feed and you care, you should periodically poke back in. I think I'm starting a mild crusade against headline readers. I keep realizing people have the wrong impression of a lot of things on the tubes because they read headlines and maybe give a split-second's splat of their eyeprints and then don't seem to know what is going on. This isn't as awful as it might be in a world where even reading every last word leaves one completely confused, but there are some important things still to be missed, like:

Rudolf Elmer, the former banker who handed WikiLeaks details of rich and famous tax evaders, has been found guilty of coercion.

A Zürich court on Wednesday also found him guilty of breaching Switzerland's strict banking secrecy laws, publicising private client data, and threatening an employee at his former firm Julius Baer, BUT HE FACES NO JAIL TIME.

Judge Sebastian Aeppli rejected prosecution demands to give Elmer an eight-month prison sentence.

Instead the court sentenced him to a fine of 7,200 Swiss francs ($7,505), suspended for two years.

Elmer was accused of stealing information from clients then trying to extort money from his employers after they fired him.

How many people are out there all chuffed that Elmer has to go to jail for being a hero? A lot. I would've been one of them if I hadn't decided not to simply be bummed but instead to know the details of my bummertude.

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Trusted Internet ID:

... US Department of Commerce [is] preparing to create an Internet ID for all Americans. White House Cyber security Coordinator Howard Schmidt said that the Department of Commerce is "the absolute perfect spot in the US government" to build an online "identity ecosystem." ...

Thanks to a nearly dead technology known as “history books”, we know that the US government has a long history of misinterpreting the commerce clause and that their many attempts to micromanage most aspects of the economy and centralize economic authority have been well documented. Historically this is a new low for them.

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke ... "We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities."

Internet and technology expert hit Lauren Weinstein ... “This entire scheme rests on the ability to link Internet presence/roles with real-world identities. So even if no physical card ever exists, the system as currently understood would very much equate to a national ID card for accessing the Internet.”

... right now it doesn’t look like Americans will have any say in how this Internet ID goes down.

"Sure, you don't have to get a credential. But then again, you don't have to access the Internet either. Just like you don't have to get a driver's license — unless you want to be able to legally drive anywhere."

But, oh, uhm, CERTAINLY they're not talking about a national ID card. Nooooo.

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Ellsberg dreaming....

Hey, I think it's Poirot's kid....

Just shove 'em through and shoot 'em if they don't like it....

Today in global famine....

Today in climate sophistry....

Today in token populist legislatin'....

The obvious is beating us over the head again....

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The deputy speaker of Britain's House of Commons has asked lawmakers not to use Twitter while sitting in the chamber. Lindsay Hoyle intervened after Kevin Brennan, a Labour lawmaker, noted midway through a debate on education that two other lawmakers there were tweeting about the debate on Twitter.

Brennan complained the lawmakers should have voiced their arguments in Parliament so other lawmakers could have a chance to rebut them, instead of making comments online.

Hoyle warned Wednesday that lawmakers should not use Twitter to update followers while they sit in the Commons.

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Today in the audacity of opacity....

Today in the audacity of capitulation....

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And this, of course, has been the point all along: the WikiLeaks disclosures are significant precisely because they expose government deceit, wrongdoing and brutality, but the damage to innocent people has been deliberately and wildly exaggerated — fabricated — by the very people whose misconduct has been revealed. There is harm from the WikiLeaks documents, but it's to wrongdoers in power, which is why they are so desperate to malign and then destroy the group.

Just as was true in 2003 — when the joint, falsehood-based government/media demonization campaign led 69% of Americans to believe that Saddam Hussein participated in the planning of the 9/11 attacks (the Bush era's most revealing fact about American politics) — this orgy of anti-WikiLeaks propaganda has succeeded, with polls reliably showing the American public largely against the group and even favoring its prosecution (citizens in countries not subjected to this propaganda barrage view the group far more favorably). As has been demonstrated over and over, when the U.S. Government and its media collaborate to propagandize, its efficacy is not in doubt. And as Marcy Wheeler notes, these lies were told not only to distort public opinion and justify prosecuting WikiLeaks for doing nothing more than engaging in journalism, but also to coerce private corporations (MasterCard, Amazon, Visa, Paypal) to cut all services to the group.

The case against WikiLeaks is absolutely this decade's version of the Saddam/WMD campaign. It's complete with frivolous invocations of Terrorism, grave public warnings about National Security negated by concealed information, endlessly repeated falsehoods, a competition among political and media elites to advocate the harshest measures possible, a cowardly Congress that (with a few noble exceptions) acquiesces to it all on a bipartisan basis and is eager to enable it, and a media that not only fails to subject these fictions to critical scrutiny, but does the opposite: it takes the lead in propagating them. One might express bewilderment that most American journalists never learn their lesson about placing their blind faith in government claims, but that assumes — falsely — that their objective is to report truthfully.

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I do so hope the fears of a youth rebellion are well-founded. People are SO squeamish about this stuff, but somehow don't feel squeamish about the PTB culling masses of people at will. It doesn't make SENSE. I know some people try to make sense of it by use of the delusion that one can comport oneself such that the genocide machine will pass one by unharmed. That's too easy to debunk anymore, okay?

Still, I hope all these kids aren't rising up only to get Obama-style hope and change. That's a REAL possibility, and you can BET—their farms, their houses, their yachts, their jets, their gold cards, their Swiss bank accounts, and your life—it's covered already. Capice? Check?

People need to be ON providing real alternatives before that ugliness can be substituted in for the present ugliness. It isn't enough to merely rise up. You have to STAY up until REAL improvement is in place.

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I had gone to a church basement to hear Auster and Arriaga talk. That was odd because to me church basements are where antiwar protests and freedom movements are born, but this time it was to listen to these great authors talk about novels and screenplays and liking directing because you can look at the beautiful women. It's a very, very engaging discussion and I'm having a fine time.

When they are done and the lights come up in the audience, Robin is sitting about two seats from me, and even though he is smiling, I can't tell if he recognizes me. I get him to move to the seat next to me. Now HE seems shy. Yes, yes, he remembers. "You would write and write and write and then face-to-face... fwoosh." He made a hand motion of a young girl disappearing swiftly and smoothly into the pages of time. I said something about how crazy it was to run into him like this, clear out here in the boondocks. He cracked a half smile. He looked genuinely pleased, but also a little distracted with little winces of discomfort so I left him to himself.

Auster and Arriaga were jumping off the stage and talking happily with everyone in their path. We all went out into the parking lot to make for our various cars. I said good-bye to Robin as he hurried to his car. The other two stuck near me, and I got a chance to tell them how I enjoyed their talk so much that now I really had to read their books, telling Auster that a friend had heavily recommended at least half his books to me. He was very pleased about this. I thought this was going to be the end of it, but, no, we were going back in for another.

Inside now there were about ten of us and the church basement was now in Jenner instead of Smith River. [I so love that about dreams. Easiest trip between those two points ever not even conceivable.] Now it wasn't just authors and people coming to listen to a literary discussion. Now it wasn't set up for an audience facing the stage. It was set up like a meeting was to take place and the people doing the staff work keep flipping back and forth between church member volunteers and hotel staff and back. There was a wife there for one or the other of them, and Auster had been showing a great deal of interest in me, but suddenly it was Arriaga who was engaging me in the very friendliest exchanges, and it seemed to be his wife with him, but not taking any of our banter in any way awry... letting us start turning into close friends completely unimpeded by wife energy.

I saw a desk with a mound of cards and papers on it. Right on top was something clearly with my handwriting on it. It had been a card to Bradley Manning wherein I had enclosed some paltry sum toward his defense. I was going to become alarmed, but noticed that there was a note attached to it that they were sorry but they couldn't deliver the donation and had to return it. Things were very busy in preparation for something, and the whole energy stayed a big roiling leaving from the former situation and planning for another one and setting up to do something right now. The energy was seamlessly leaving / staying / returning / conspiring / planning and all of it in an extremely satisfyingly friendly... no... essentially loving atmosphere. Arriaga was saying very wonderful things to me. He made The Connection.

This couldn't have anything to do with my mp3 player continuing to replay until I get up and turn it off, or the fact that my crazy tiredness and need to get back in bed eighty times today was all about me needing to have one of those bouts where I do all my Phase Four and REM for the month at once. My sinuses are taking their turn being the part with the ice picks in them. It moves around my head. It sometimes is my ears, one or the other, and sometimes my EYES, and sometimes my sinuses, with varying participation in the little necklace of lymph nodes at the top of my neck. Anyway, when it is my sinuses all inflamed, I snore so loudly I keep waking myself up... which was what I kept doing every time I tried to succumb to a nap all day. It was just the gods of dreaming finally grabbing me by the throat and slamming me down on my bed that let me get the dreaming in before the snores could prevent it.

So. Now I'm going to pretend I am back at the monastery, getting my coffee and puffing my carcinogens before hitting the Zendo at five. I'm going to—in honor of this pleasant dreaming—pretend that I have finally trained my haywire circadian rhythms to go to sleep at nine and be up by five. The IDEAL schedule for anyone like me.

IS there anyone like that?

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crash jp morgan — buy a silver keiser

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Do it for all living things.

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if you won't take it from me

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Will you take it from Glenn?

They HAVE to be afraid of us. They're NOT afraid of us as long as we're fighting each other.

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He says it even more forcefully in an interview with the editor of The Progressive — half hour mp3....

For some reason that mp3 has ceased working—temporarily or permanently, I don't know— but you can still get it on the player here....

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submitted for your consideration

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Don't want to rise up to smack down the sociopaths? Fine. Let's dose them with psychedelics.

It would work.

[For all those on the feed, I've added a ton of links to today's epic fails post.]

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we're under attack

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We gotta get our act together. We gotta.

Here's yesterday's Keiser Report that was late being put online....

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