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'Of course markets stay high with central banks printing huge sums, inflating everything except jobs.'

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25 days ago by adamcrowe

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Forbes -- Robert Wenzel to Federal Reserve: "Leave the Building to the Four-Legged Rats"

'The emperor has no clothes. The noose is tightening on your organization, vast amounts of money printing are now required to keep your manipulated economy afloat. It will ultimately result in huge price inflation, or, if you stop printing, another massive economic crash will occur. There is no other way out. Let’s have one good meal here. Let’s make it a feast. Then I ask you, I plead with you, I beg you all, walk out of here with me, never to come back. It’s the moral and ethical thing to do. Nothing good goes on in this place. Let’s lock the doors and leave the building to the spiders, moths and four-legged rats.'

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26 days ago by adamcrowe

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Klouchebag -- The Standard for Asshattery

'But... but my Klout score is important! No it's not. It's like search engine optimisation, only for yourself. Ignore it. Concentrate on making amazing things, caring about the people around you, and not being a douchebag. If you do that, then you'll soon realise that it doesn't matter one jot what an algorithm thinks of you.'

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29 days ago by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- A Critical Call to Action #OccupyWallStreet

'This is a critical call to action #OccupyWallStreet. We must first end the global central banks and jail the criminals they employ before we can talk demands.' -- A challenger appears

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november 2011 by adamcrowe

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Andrew Gavin Marshall -- Against the Institution: A Warning for ‘Occupy Wall Street’

'This is not simply about “Wall Street,” this is about POWER. Those who have power, and those who don’t. When those who have power offer a hand in your struggle, their other hand holds a dagger. Remain grassroots, remain decentralized, remain outside and away from party politics, remain away from financial dependence. Freedom is not merely in the aim, it’s in the action. The true struggle is not left versus right, democrat versus republican, liberal versus conservative, or libertarian versus socialist. The true struggle is that of people against the institution: the State, the banks, the central banking system, the corporation, the international financial institutions, the military, the political parties, the mainstream media, philanthropic foundations, think tanks, university, education, psychiatry, the legal system, the church, et. al. In order to survive as a movement, money will become a necessity. Do not turn to the non-profits and philanthropic foundations for support. The philanthropies, which fund and created the non-profits and NGOs, were themselves created to engage in ‘social engineering’: to ‘manufacture consent’ among the governed, and create consensus among the governors.'

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october 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Occupy Boston: Fuck the fed
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october 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Daily Bell Helps Blow Up Wall Street Protest Via Drudge, Prison Planet and Google

'Dominant Social Theme: It's all Wall Street's fault. Government needs to write the wrongs of capitalism. -- The human hive mind is at work. It is unstoppable. The elites, so powerful in the 20th century, are seemingly on the wrong side of history in the 21st. Yesterday, Anthony Wile's editorial "Blaming Wall Street Is Wrong" was used, in part, as a basis for a story written by Paul Joseph Watson of Infowars and Prison Planet and then featured as the lede on the Drudge Report, which sets the news agenda for the West's major, mainstream media. The proximate cause of the Infowars article, as well, was a video by journalist Adam Kokesh who interviewed protesters in Washington DC and showed clearly the fascist ideology that motivates the so-called "left." In focusing on the protests, it should be noted that they are not monolithic and include at least some who understand that the nexus of the problem is much larger than Wall Street, even though Wall Street is PART of the problem. But targeting Wall Street, essentially a transactional mechanism, is not only easy, it is convenient for the powers-that-be who operate Wall Street and do not want their OWN roles revealed. A spectre haunts the world and its elites ...'

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october 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Are the Tribes of Europe Ready to Explode?

'Pre-Internet, what's happening in the EU would have been buried under mainstream media misdirection. People might not have understood the larger forces at work. But the EU unraveling along with much else has played out under the merciless glare of the alternative press, and the European tribes are aware of the manipulations that are taking place. It is realization of these manipulations that informs ... a surprisingly good piece of reporting. It is written by Paul Mason, BBC Newsnight's Economics Editor, who is broadcasting regularly from Greece, and it seems to have concentrated his mind, at least for a while, on what's actually happening. The problems are happening to people, individual people, and it is these people, ultimately, who will formulate a response, not "Greece," not politicians, not "working groups" – not even the IMF or ECB. The EU was not an accident. The "crisis" that now affects the EU was long anticipated and was intended to build a closer political union.'

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september 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Chavez Launches War Against US Dollar

'For astute observers of recent history, we have seen what happens when people like Saddam Hussein or Libya's Muammar Gaddafi threaten to create gold backed currencies or international trade (in particular, oil) that could be settled not in US dollars – but gold. These people have very short life expectancies, to say the least. And here we have the little dictator from Venezuela coming along and demanding the repatriation of his country's gold from the Bank of England at that. This is really not going to go over very well with the powers that be, to say the least. The international oil-game has long been a significant piece to maintaining dollar dominance. Having nations go their own way and seek alternative means to settling that trade would be devastating to the dollar. Once again, neither Iraq nor Libya will see that happen – at least not now. Will Chavez get away with this plan? Or will he face a newfound Western attack unleashed, already in place to unfold when needed?'

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august 2011 by adamcrowe

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BFI: Film & TV Database -- EQUINOX SPECIAL The KING OF CHAOS (1998)

Broadcast Channel 4 1/1/1998 -- 'Docu-drama of what the media might be like by the year 2012. EQUINOX's first drama, set in the future, focuses on the facts behind the suspicious death of media mogul, Liam Keller, whose software applications have had a huge impact upon broadcast TV, earning him enemies around the world. In the late 1990s, Keller had devised 'Gambit', a virus which enabled all technologies (the internet, television broadcasting, e-mail) to converge – to communicate with one another. Found floating in the Thames, a television current affairs programme sets out to explore how Keller might have met his death. Through Keller's life story this drama explores the consequences of future technology, reflecting on what might happen to our present day media over the next few years.' -- Keller: "The government is committing large scale larceny... [forcing] you to pay taxes for services that they aren't providing. From a consumer point-of-view, government is a failing brand."

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RT: ‪Press Release from Anonymous‬‏

'In the past weeks there have been several attempts to disparage Anonymous. We have been branded as terrorists, traitors, and forces of evil. This forces us to ask you a question: Which is the greater evil, an organization that coerces its members with force and feels the need to steal from them in order to finance its own bloated corruption, or a voluntary group of [otherwise] free people who choose to expose lies told by those in power? -- Anonymous is an inevitable product of the internet. We are Anonymous. We do not forgive. We do not forget. [We have "government" guns to our heads.] Expect us.'

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july 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- NDTV: Migrant Workers Riot in Southern China

'Hong Kong television showed seething crowds of migrant workers from the southwestern province of Sichuan running through the streets of Zengcheng, smashing windows, setting fire to government buildings and overturning police vehicles. Thousands of riots, protests and other forms of unrest break out across China each year over problems ranging from rampant inflation to corruption, a big wealth gap, industrial pollution, forced demolitions and abuse of power. The Chinese Communist Party maintains strict political and media controls to quash any form of organized dissent.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RTAmerica: 'Anonymous' threatens Bernanke

'This video credited to the hacker group Anonymous is calling out Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke to resign. Anonymous has called for public protests beginning on June 14th, continuing "until Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke steps down." To make their case, they have presented a list of recent scandalous Federal Reserve actions.' -- Comment: razeromg: 'why is this on RT? have anonymous hacked RT? xD'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Onion -- Pakistani Intelligence Announces Its Full Cooperation With U.S. Forces During Upcoming Top Secret June 12 Drone Strike On Al-Qaeda At 5:23 A.M. Near Small Town Of Razmani In North Waziristan

'CIA director Leon Panetta praised Lt. Gen. Pasha's announcement, calling his ISI counterpart an indispensable ally in the ongoing fight against terrorism. "We've certainly had our differences, but I appreciate the candidness and transparency he brings to our joint operations," Panetta said. "Though there may be some elements within his organization sympathetic to al- Qaeda, I know we have a trustworthy partner at the head of the ISI." As of press time, the U.S. has given Pakistan more than $20 billion in aid since Sept. 11, 2001.'

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june 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Why Aren't EU Protests Aimed at Central Banks?

'The ability to print money from nothing is the singular achievement of modern elites and the single most ruinous practice of the modern state. It is responsible for most if not all of the abuses of modern history, from torture, to war, to genocide. Money-printing (not money) is at the root of all evil. -- ...if EU protests over austerity are to be effective, it is central banks that have to be peacefully targeted on a consistent basis. A message needs to be sent... There are no good central banks. There is only honest money – gold and silver – and PRIVATE banking (run privately by private individuals) with or without fractional reserve lending: money competition, in other words. What is necessary if EU citizens want the "austerity torture" to stop is for individuals to target central banks with peaceful protests. Not private banks. Not commercial banks. Not savings banks. CENTRAL BANKS! Surround the great, granite temples of money printing and begin!'

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may 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- EU Heart Attacked by Mainstream Press!

'To see this in print in the FT is OUR shocking moment. We think we know why a Tea Party is erupting in Europe, of course. We've explained it many times. The truth-telling of the Internet itself is interacting with the ongoing financial crisis in predictable ways. Unlike past crises, in fact, the Anglo-American power elites have not been able to aim popular anger at private enterprise. The socialism and communism that the elites encouraged in the 20th century (in order to concentrate more power into their own hands) is not working very well now. The anger instead, from what we can tell, is focused mostly where it should be – at the political and banking SYSTEM, not greedy individuals in private enterprise that make convenient, illusory scapegoats. This is surely a problem for the EU but even more of a problem for the power elite itself. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. The financial crisis – which Eurocrats foresaw for decades – was supposed to generate an ever-closer EU.'

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Little Iceland Panics Big Banks

'Notice, please, the overtones of truculence (Icelanders will be sued in the Hague) general viciousness repurposed as false joviality (Iceland needs to have "good relations" with Europe and the rest of the world) and the final notes that linger on the palate (Iceland's ratings will surely "deteriorate"). The wailing and gnashing of teeth can be heard but only faintly. But it is there. Without the impression of inevitability, the Western financial scene becomes a bad joke. It has not brought prosperity (only expanding misery along with the inevitable decline of civil comity). There is nothing left, finally, for many citizens but slaving away into an old age for a pittance. Every time that little Iceland stands up to the combined banking forces of Europe and Britain, continental blood pressure soars. Worse and worse! Icelanders will not pay the stupid money back. The threat of force is all that's left.'

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april 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RussiaToday: US tunnel vision on Libya while whole region on fire

'The revolutionary mood has been spreading across the Middle East and North Africa for almost three months. Syria is the latest country where people are marching to voice their anger. For them, it's about the freedom to speak out. Five people have reportedly been killed after security forces fired on hundreds of demonstrators in the southern city of Daraa. The crackdown was launched after multiple protests sprung-up, defying a ban on marches. In Yemen, at least 45 people died and dozens of others injured after snipers allegedly opened fire on workers who staged a walkout in an anti-government protest in the capital. In Bahrain, the army demolished the 'pearl monument' which had become a symbol of a month-long Shi'ite uprising against the Sunni monarchy. But the foreign interference in these countries is noticeably thin on the ground, compared to the focus being given to Libya right now.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- A99 Operation Empire State Rebellion - Communication #1

"This communication is protected by Anonymous" -- 'We are a decentralized non-violent resistance movement which seeks to restore the rule of law and fight back against the organized criminal class.'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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Wirral Globe -- BREAKING NEWS: Protestors 'arrest' county court judge

'Protestors have "civilly arrested" a judge at Birkenhead county court. A crowd of several hundred people has massed around the court. Police have begun forcibly ejecting protestors from the court in chaotic scenes. Made up of people from across the UK, the marchers say they are exerting their "ancient right to lawful Rebellion under Magna Carta." The crowd, although largely peaceful, is chanting "freedom" and "arrest that judge."' -- If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Mervyn King Caught Spreading a Meme

'King's statement to the Treasury Select Committee as reported in the UK Telegraph is a pitch-perfect defense of central banking using the meme of private-sector blame. ...central banking blows up economies, leading to more regulation which further concentrates power in the hands of a few, allowing government and society to be even more efficiently run by the elite via mercantilism. It's kind of a closed feedback loop. The more chaos, the more regulation, the more leverage the elite has to reignite the process. Power is continually being centralized and the middle classes themselves (the elite's ultimate target) will actually clamor for the regulation that facilitates the process. In order to initiate the process, blame must be cast. There has not been enough anger at the private banking sector, especially in Britain where wrath has been focused – most alarmingly from the elite's point of view – at central banking itself. This is a direct result of the Internet...'

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march 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Greeks Won't Pay, No Matter What

'Dominant Social Theme: Everything's cool. Let the Greek's have "their moment." – The Anglo-American power elite has driven the Western world to ruin with its central banking scheme; it may believe that between food-scarcity and job-scarcity, Europeans will now be less apt to resist increased militarism abroad and increased global centralization. But we have always believed in the era of the Internet that such manipulations are increasingly transparent and apt to be less tolerated. The middle classes were "promoted" into the EU before the collapse, but now middle-class tax dollars are flowing into bank coffers as the Southern PIGS struggle to pay back enormous loans that again benefited a few at the expense of many. Austerity is just one more elite manipulation, neither inevitable nor fair. We would argue that in the era of the Internet, too many within Europe's fractious tribes understand only too well what has taken place.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Farmann TV: Demonstration against Norwegian Central Bank Feb 17. 2011

'May this kind of demonstrations spread all over the world. Respectful, organized, non-violent. Let them know that we know their money scam.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Middle East Dreamtime

'These Middle Eastern uprisings are not entirely spontaneous but are in a sense orchestrated by Western powers that be for a variety or reasons. Even the proximate causes – rising food prices and a lack of employment – can be seen as deliberate Western policies designed to create hopelessness and despair that can then be converted to civil unrest at the opportune moment. Fortunately, the truth-telling of the Internet has helped people wake up from the overwhelming mind-control of the 20th century. We think the same process is occurring in the Middle East. Elite manipulations yet continue. The "color revolutions" constitute a shadow-play, even a Dreamtime; participants may yet not know they are being manipulated. Certainly they will not learn of it from the mainstream media which is covering these events in a purely linear fashion, ignoring evidences of manipulation and promoting the uprisings merely as expressions of grievances that must be addressed by new regimes.'

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february 2011 by adamcrowe

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Slashdot -- Social Media As a Weapon In Egypt

'No centralized leadership: this is not the Muslim Brotherhood, or El Baradei ... This is true grassroots when you see it in action. People coordinating via Twitter and Facebook. No one giving marching orders. Regular people: people from all walks of life are there. Rich actors, poor youth, lawyers, journalists, movie director, women, girls, etc. This is not exclusively for religious or poor people. It is everyone. Different people: see above. Fear barrier has been broken: Egyptians finally got over the fear they have been living with for 60 years, and starting to confront the regime. My father was afraid. I was afraid. The new generation New media: in the 1960s to 1980s, the government could control the media, because it was all state owned, or they can ban it (newspapers). Starting in the 90s, things changed. There was satellite TV that broke borders, and the internet of course. Today, there are ways for people to communicate that the government can't control (completely at least).'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Renesys Blog -- Egypt Leaves the Internet

'...in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air. What happens when you disconnect a modern economy and 80,000,000 people from the Internet? What will happen tomorrow, on the streets and in the credit markets? This has never happened before, and the unknowns are piling up.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Raw Story -- Youth more radically opposed to present government than tea parties, poll finds

'Partisan news missing the point: Youth, poor have greater reason for dissatisfaction than tea parties. Partisanship obfuscates truth. Global revolution?' -- Ya dun goofed and the youth have backtraced it.

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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Infowars.com -- You Are The Resistance Against The DHS Occupation Of America

'V for Victory campaign a mark of defiance against Homeland Security’s takeover of society' -- Poster: 'We are all in danger. A police state control grid is being established in the United States. Now is the time for all lovers of liberty to stand together and speak out against the growing tyranny destroying our republic. We WILL be victorious against the New World Order. Post this V for Victory flyer to warn others and show your peaceful resistance. Learn more at infowars.com.' -- 'Show me a case in history where the government recruiting the citizens to spy on each other led to a more secure, happy, free and prosperous society and I’ll show you a chicken with teeth. The best possible outcome, as in East Germany, was a despotic society in which free speech was silenced and political dissidents were imprisoned. The usual outcome, as in Stalinist Russia or Nazi Germany – was outright tyranny and death camps. Neither have any place in America.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Elite on a Tightrope

'Dominant Social Theme: We shall overcome. Regulatory democracy shall be expanded. Free-Market Analysis: In this article, we hope to show that where the US – and Europe, too – are headed has nothing much to do with business-as-usual. This is a dangerous time. The elite is unfathomably powerful yet; its injuries will make it angry. We will explore why the elite simply cannot fathom that its situation has changed radically and why sooner or later the realization that it may have to take a step back will sink in. The truth-telling of the Internet is forcing changes – and placing the elite on a kind of knife-edge... The global economic downturn has been worse than imagined and aggravated by the communications revolution and globalized network technology. Investments, social systems and the Way the World Works in the 21st century will all be determined by whether the elite can manage to create a version of the New World Order as it evidently and obviously wishes, or whether it cannot.'

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january 2011 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- CyberJustice Versus Monopoly Justice

'Dominant Social Theme: These hackers are simply irresponsible. -- Free-Market Analysis: All of a sudden, as a result of Julian Assange's imprisonment, a dominant theme that we never expected to be challenged so soon is front and center. The idea of state monopoly justice has suddenly come under fire by a group of young hackers that are questioning how the state defines criminality. ...we believe that we are witnessing, therefore, yet another important turning point in the evolution of Internet technology. A meme (state monopoly justice), one we did not imagine would be much questioned for years to come, is right in the middle of the current news cycle and larger news conversation. Whether the it is controlled or not is almost beside-the-point. Larger issues are now on the table. We would anticipate over the next few years that the whole issue of Admiralty law will become a good deal more high-profile.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RT: Winter of Discontent: London fee riots not the end

NEVAR FORGET (when you were young and still believed in the lie called "government").

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RT: Anarchy in UK: Video of Prince Charles's car bottled in London's protests

Doing it wrong.

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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PandaLabs Blog -- ‘Tis the Season of DDoS – WikiLeaks Edition

'#Update – 12/8/2010 – 5:18 AM: Mastercard.com is still down with 940 computers in the voluntary botnet attacking the site all at once. We have 3 hours 57 minutes of recorded downtime so far. #Update – 12/8/2010 – 8:24 AM: Mastercard.com is still selected as the main target and has not came back online since our last report. 7 hours of downtime and counting. The amount of participants in the attackers chat room have soared to over 2200 people and there are currently over 1,700 computers in the voluntary botnet. Check back frequently for updates.' -- What do you mean, "*They* cut the power"? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC News -- Anonymous Mastercard attack 'hits payments'

'Mastercard, which stopped processing payments to the whistle-blowing site, said the attack had had "no impact" on people's ability to use their cards. But the BBC has been contacted by a payment firm that said its customers had "a complete loss of service". In particular, it said that an authentication service for online payments known as Mastercard's SecureCode, had been disrupted. Other readers have also said that have had problems with online payments. The scale of the problems is still unclear. Mastercard has not responded to the claims.' -- MEDIC!

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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PandaLabs Blog -- ‘Tis the Season of DDoS – WikiLeaks Edition

'DDoS attacks are flying across the Internet like there is no tomorrow. Check back frequently for updates.'

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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WikiLeakiLeaks.org

'For all its championing of transparency, secret-sharing website Wikileaks.org is more secretive than almost any media organization. You can help us shed some light on Wikileaks by submitting your tips and documents to: leaks@wikileakileaks.org. Anonymity guaranteed. We will process this data using the highly-scientific criteria of “does it look legit?” and post it here with commentary. (More info at Gawker.)' -- Whose responsible this?

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december 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Speaking Truth to Euro-Power

Nigel Farage: "Good morning, Mr. van Rompuy. Your fanaticism is out in the open. Just who the hell do you think you people are? You are very, very dangerous people, indeed." -- http://youtu.be/2gm9q8uabTs -- 'We'd seen a previous video by Farage that was quite impressive. He stands up in the Parliament in front of all of them – the ones who are basically building a fascist state, not to put too fine a point on it – and gives them the business, good and hard. It is as if someone stood up in the legislature in pre-war Germany. It takes a lot of nerve. He doesn't come across as forced to us but as passionate and committed. It is even more satisfactory (if you are anti-EU) to watch the expressions on the faces of those who continue to pursue the EU experiment at the behest of the Anglo-American elite that began this wretched exercise some 60 years ago. It seems the truth is sinking into the august deliberative body that they may have pushed too far and too fast.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- RT: Keiser Report: 'Crash JP Morgan' Special (ft. Alex Jones)

'A special 'Crash JP Morgan' edition of the Keiser Report. This time Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, look at the call from Eric Cantona to withdraw money from the banks and at the viral 'Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver' campaign by Max Keiser. In the second half of the show Max talks to Alex Jones about Google bombs, naked body scanners and 'Crash JP Morgan Buy Silver'.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- G20 Goes Wrong?

'The G20 seems to be confirming our perspective that a formal, international realignment of control giving rise to additional institutions controlled by the Western elite is not going to happen easily or quickly, if at all. We return to a previous question, then: How does one build an "new world order" without fully dominating the world? And if one is willing to give up control for this goal, then the power-sharing itself invalidates the result. Either someone "rules the world" ... or not. A consortium would seem to be a contradiction-in-terms. There are perhaps potential solutions: a new world war, a massive false flag event that would jolt the world into a new crisis mode and demand solutions that only the Western elite is in the position to provide. And yet even these seem to us not to address the fundamental problem of Western weakness in the face of a new century and a new communications technology that is undermining the secrecy of money power.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Britain Rises Up?

'...now, in Britain, a further protest has been made. A bill has been introduced to support full-reserve banking. The gentleman who has done the introducing is Douglas Carswell and the idea that such a bill could be introduce in Britain – where many of the most powerful elite families congregate – is absolutely astounding. We are truly living in miraculous times. And yet it is perfectly possible that intellectual war being generated by the Internet has only just begun. The concepts of honest money – mentioned numerous times in the introduction to this bill – have only now begun to percolate once again. All across the West people are beginning to rediscover the intellectual heritage of humankind. The Anglo-American power elite has tended to downplay anything that did not directly enhance or support its goal of world domination, but much is being recovered now. It is from our point of view for the moment an unstoppable tide.' -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGr-OuXihg

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Libertarian Wave?

'The American electorate seems to be writhing in a kind of agony. Americans are not angry at a political class but at the system itself. They are seeking to regain control of it by "throwing out" incumbents, and this is a comment about how the system is working—and not the people that function within it. Americans, both and right and left are increasingly seeking the party that is not being offered to them. It is a party that rejects the economic meddling of the left and the behavioral/moral constraints on the right. The elite intended to use economic difficulties and the "war on terror" as a way to move toward global government. But they are doing so under the lens of a new communications technology, and this is exposing its secrets and undermining its plans. In Europe, we believe the unrest that has occurred will continue as something of a class war. In America, because of cultural differences, electoral dissatisfaction is increasingly emphasizing a small-L libertarian viewpoint.'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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zero hedge -- December 7 Is The Unofficial Pan-European Bank Mutiny Day

'Since virtually all actions in 2010 by the global central banking cartel have been geared toward stabilizing the European banking system which continues to wobble on the edge of a complete systemic collapse, perhaps the marginal withdrawal of a few billion in deposits could be just the straw that forces a reset first in Europe, and shortly thereafter in the rest of the globalized developed world. ...in just 24 hours 1,500 readers have pledge their support to the action's various Facebook support sites, and another 48,000 are on the waitlist. We hope that more alternative media (the mainstream will unlikely support such a radical venture) catches on, and more Europeans realize they have all to gain and little to lose from forcing the balance of power to shift away from the banks, and into the hands of the people. ...below are the various facebook support pages: Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Great Britain, Greece'

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november 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Is Unrest the EU's New Normal?

'Basically, the EU poured billions into the Southern PIGS, ostensibly to ensure that the PIGS state finances were bolstered and made ready for the stricter EU monetary and fiscal discipline. But in fact, the money poured from the EU into the pockets of those who led these countries—and these individuals were then motivated to ensure that their nations joined the EU. Basically it was a pay off. The pay off was further enhanced when chosen EU banks extended further questionable loans to these PIGS. The amount of money that poured through the PIGS was incredible. And now it is gone. And PIGS' citizens are told they must adopt austerity. -- The Internet is a process not an episode. Much the same sort of enlightenment is taking place in the United States as well. Britain is lagging, but we expect that to change. ...we believe that in the near future, more and more will perceive that the free-market thinking now taking hold throughout the West is not an aberration but the "new normal."'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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Adam Curtis Blog -- LADA'S THEME

'Colin is convinced that it is the unions and the Communist party committee that really control the plant. Not the managers. The managers, he tells us, in both commentary and questions, have no power any longer. This is because they have become trapped by the growing absurdities of the Soviet Plan. But in reality the very opposite was true. The absurdities of the plan were actually beginning to allow the managers to become much more powerful. They were using the chaos and incompetence of central control to construct their own alternative economic systems. Which they controlled for their own benefit. In the case of Togliatti, senior managers were running an ever-growing shadow economy selling spare parts and even cars on the black market. It was supplying the needs that the Plan couldn't. And the "Red Directors" as they were called, were beginning to make a lot of money.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Day the Earth Shook; China Dictates to G20

'Unlike many others..., we do not believe that the elite actively seeks to create conditions to impose martial law (though that may be the end result of its deranged policy making). Imposing martial law is always an act of desperation by any leadership. It flies in the face, too, of the elite's overwhelming emphasis on fear-based dominant social themes that have been intended to concentrate wealth while accumulating power for extra-curricular, globalist entities such as the IMF, UN, WHO, etc. The idea was to boil the frog slowly. But what is going on today is more like a bonfire. On every level it makes little sense. It seems undeniable that countries like Brazil, China and India are now pursuing their own monetary policies extant of the Anglo-American axis. In the 20th century, countries that did this sort of thing were attacked by the CIA and their leaders were overthrown and the nations were brought back into line, often with brutal results. But the 21st century is not the 20th.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- France: Can You Hear Us Now?

'The EU is an increasingly, profoundly anti-democratic institution. It has launched a torrent of job-killing regulations at the nations suffering beneath it. It has achieved power by pretense, but those running it behind the scenes no show indication of slowing down. Every arrogant, anti-democratic trick has been used to turn an obscure trade treaty into an over-bearing empire. What worked before will work again, or so it was thought. From our point of view, the Internet era only made things worse. The truth-telling of the 'Net noted each phony vote and every contemptuous and condescending statement. People doubtless grew angrier. But, as in America, it took bad times to turn the Internet from a social network into a instrument of freedom. As austerity rumbled across Europe, people doubtless went online and found plenty of chat rooms and alternative news articles to confirm their fears and incite their resentment. And now they protest.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Global Economy on Brink - Where's Lady Gaga?

'What do you know about Lady Gaga's concert schedule? The riots in France have kept her from honoring several commitments in Paris, and there were a good many articles on the subject (generally) last time we checked Google. But we could not find a single one on a topic we consider nearly as important—the G20 meetings in Korea in early November that may help determine the rest of the world's economic history in the 21st century. Sub dominant social theme: "Please read up on Lady Gaga because she's an interesting entertainer and economics and the G20 are boring subjects." From OUR point of view, the world is increasingly approaching a tipping point and people who wish the best for their families and also for their portfolios will want to watch what is unfolding in Korea. If the West and the IMF can pull it off, then true global governance moves one step closer—maybe a big step. If they do not, then a 100-year's worth of planning may begin to be in jeopardy. This is important, is it not?'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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Vimeo -- English Freemen Standing In Court - Council Tax Hearing - The Takedown Begins!

'Here we see Englsih Freemen standing in court as Lay Advisors to another Freemen. This is for a Council Tax Liability Order hearing in Cwmbran Magistrates Court in South Wales, There were 14 Freemen in attendance. The court was never convened as the Freemen never handed juridiction to magistrates or the clerk by standing up when ordered to do so and the magistrates never sat down. The magistrates twice abandoned the court (the ship) and it was the Freemen who called the Police and at one point the Lay advisor can clearly be heard calling attending Police Constables to arrest the magistrates for impersonating judges. There were many criminal acts committed this day by the company personnel (Magistrates, solictors, security and the clerk) and Police complaints are under way pending prosecutions for Fraud among other things. But for the real shocker of how these people think they are above the law ... Watch until the end!' -- Haha! WHO IS LIABLE FOR THE NAME?!

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- EU Gripped by Growing Class War?

'...we would argue that what is going on now is increasingly a protest against the EU itself and the perspective that the EU elites expect middle class and working-class Europeans simply accept the radical diminishment of their lifestyles and opportunities. We see signs that these protests represent a populist statement that has as much to do with EU policies generally as any specific austerity measures. ...if the tribes were left alone, Europe would be peaceable. Trade would flourish. Even the most bloody-minded tribes prefer commerce to violence. But far be it from the sociopathic European and Anglo-American elites to leave Europe alone. The world was to be split into various ethnic areas – Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, etc. – and these areas were to be merged into one-world eventually. But something went wrong on the way to this Orwellian Nirvana; the Anglo-American elites mainly behind the one-world vision began to try to move more quickly than was prudent.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- Magnetic Man: The Bug

'When all of our minds collide / You will confide / Everyone stays inside / Penniless golden rush / Government hush / Billions of souls in the crush / Open the heavenly gates / Nobody waits / Nobody contemplates / We are a cog in the wheel / Cut us a deal / What are we supposed to feel? / Automate all of the fears / Scan our tears / We are my eyes and ears / See how the lovers click / Totem to pick / Monitor sexual rhetoric / Up in the swelling storm / You can be born / After we fill out the form / Remotely feed my desire / Intimate liar / Take evolution higher / Take evolution higher'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- As Goes Iceland, so Goes the EU?

'When Iceland borrowed money from the IMF, the news was seemingly everywhere. When angry Icelandic citizens chase their own politicians out the back door, the news seems a good bit more ... subdued. When the socialist government of Iceland attempted to sign off on a deal that would have put every Icelandic household into debt for about a century, there was a good deal of publicity. But then the media lapsed into silence. And the silence has continued, in large part because Iceland's 300,000 residents are simply refusing to allow their government to sign off on wage slavery. We don't think the Icelandic standoff is going to be resolved any time soon. We would be surprised if tensions didn't grow between Iceland's citizens and the inept government and the IMF, too. We notice the happy talk about joining the EU seems to have died down for the moment, and we are not surprised about that either. Scratch the surface and the EU is increasingly unpopular.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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JoNova -- Another 10:10 parody

'I know a few people would prefer the parodies were not here. I understand. But sadly this is tribal warfare. Bullies don’t respond to reason, but they do respond to ridicule. We can’t make them un-do their original noxious nasty shocker (they made it a private video — meaning their “friends” are still enjoying watching it). It’s out there, it’s feeding the empty minds of zealots. Whether we like it or not, we are compelled to use their own images to limit the damage. When the parodies rate well on YouTube the creators of the originals see their own sick-job out-rated, out-scored, and know that people are laughing at them. Their sick video gives every no-name bully on their team a cheap thrill. We turn that thrill into a cringe. Note the really important thing about the parodies is that we don’t use them to threaten the lives of others. We are not blowing up people who disagree with us. Our versions are fundamentally different to theirs. Our parodies show how dangerous they are…'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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zero hedge -- Gonzalo Lira On The Coming Middle-Class Anarchy

'Ilsa is quietly, constantly insisting that they stop paying the mortgage altogether: “Everybody else is doing it—so why shouldn’t we?” A terrible sentence when a law-abiding citizen speaks it: Everybody else is doing it—so why don’t we? Fuck the rules. Fuck playing the game the banksters want you to play. Fuck being the good citizen. Fuck filling out every form, fuck paying every tax. Fuck the government, fuck the banks who own them. Fuck the free-loaders, living rent-free while we pay. Fuck the legal process, a game which only works if you’ve got the money to pay for the parasite lawyers. Fuck being a chump. Fuck being a stooge. Fuck trying to do the right thing—what good does that get you? What good is coming your way? Fuckit. When the backbone of a country starts thinking that laws and rules are not worth following, it’s just a hop, skip and a jump to anarchy. Once enough of these J. Crew Anarchists decide they no longer give a fuck, it’s over for America—because they are America.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- A Coming Republican Onslaught?

'...the Internet is gradually doing to the political system what is had done to the mainstream media—shove socialism and conservativism to one side and then present minarchism or libertarianism (anti-statism) as the alternative. This movement is gathering energy, though it has been manipulated by such political entrepreneurs as Dick Armey and Sarah Palin who have attempted to reintroduce "national honor" (as if a country can be "honorable") and militarism into the dialectic. This is the current, ongoing struggle. What is our point in all this? Only that while a Republican "victory" seems in the offing during the November mid-term elections, upcoming in the United States, the mainstream and even pollsters may be misreading what is taking place. ...we would argue, that it is only going to take a few more political cycles before the frustration and anger aimed at Democratic socialism spills over into the military industrial complex.'

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october 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- IMF: It Falls Apart

'The problem the power elite is having currently is that its Deus ex machina has been thoroughly exposed via the Internet... We use the term capitalism to describe the current economic system in the West as opposed to a "free market" one. The capitalism that the West has installed features the price fixing of money via central banks, a boom/bust economy and resultant war-based recovery mechanism. Every part of the current system emphasizes state power rather than individual entrepreneurship. The result is a system woefully divorced from underlying realities. Perhaps it is arrogance? Perhaps merely impatience? We are not sure. But it seems to us that even as the elite's fear-based promotions continue to fade and fail, the elite has stepped up its activity and is striving more strongly than ever for increasingly centralized, worldwide governance. Whether social unrest expresses itself in violence or in mass protest, we do not know. But we tend to believe it is different this time.'

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september 2010 by adamcrowe

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America Via Erica -- Coxsackie-Athens Valedictorian Speech 2010

'I am graduating. I should look at this as a positive experience, especially being at the top of my class. I cannot say that I am any more intelligent than my peers. I can attest that I am only the best at doing what I am told and working the system. I am supposed to be proud that I have completed this period of indoctrination. I will leave in the fall to go on to the next phase expected of me, in order to receive a paper document that certifies that I am capable of work. But I contest that I am a human being, a thinker, an adventurer – not a worker. A worker is someone who is trapped within repetition – a slave of the system set up before him. But now, I have successfully shown that I was the best slave. I did what I was told to the extreme. -- I am now enlightened, but my mind still feels disabled. We are the new future and we are not going to let tradition stand. We will break down the walls of corruption to let a garden of knowledge grow throughout America.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Facebook's battle with privacy and profit

'It is a game of privacy cat and mouse that has prompted some users to rebel and others to unconsciously outsmart Facebook. Social technology commentator Laurent Haug believes changes to the privacy settings are altering the way people use Facebook. "People understood that their privacy was at risk and therefore they will falsify the information. Fewer of us are putting down our real details, many of us fabricate our lives online and some even have multiple identities on Facebook. There is a real possibility then that much of the personal data Facebook has been collecting from us might actually be false.' -- Haha! Poison the well.

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Globalism Is for Adults?

'And now we see querulous articles justifying the meme of globalization. This one by Rudd is astonishing in many ways. The elites are "gaining in wealth and sophistication, embracing cosmopolitan values," he points out, but most people are not able to act globally. Reading between the lines, we can sense the concern of the globalist Carnegie Endowment. Europe is blazing with anger of "austerity" measures; the United States has its Tea Party movement to contend with and now social discontent seems to have spread to Australia as well. Just a few years ago, regulatory democracy was firmly entrenched, its memes virtually unassailable; today it is generally under attack. The entire 21st century globalist meme seems to be unraveling at the seams. It is being held together by increasingly authoritarian legislation, but we don't see how that will last. Six thousand of the power elite might wish to think twice before bullying six billion. The 21st century is not going according to plan.'

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Encyclopedia Dramatica -- Operation Earl Grey

'On late July, 2010, a picture depicting a well-known Anonymous slogan being used by the Oregon Tea Party appeared on reddit. Since the Oregon Tea Party has chosen to claim Anon's modus operandi and—in effect—become one with the hivemind, Anon is encouraging oldfags to embrace the new "Anons" and 'join' them in their crusade against whatever it is they're against. If they want to be associated with Anon, Anon will associate the fuck out of them. All future Anon raids will be conducted not by ebaums but by the Oregon Tea Party be it epilepsy or uploading pr0n to YouTube. And don't forget to let the press (and anyone who'll listen) know that you're doing it for the lulz and for the Oregon Tea Party. Rules 1 & 2 are out the window on this raid and any future raids on behalf of the Oregon Tea Party. The whole world shall feel the wrath of <strike>ebaums</strike> the Oregon Tea Party.' -- OH SHIII

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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Tyndall Report -- American TV Networks Grapple with Stateless WikiLeaks.org

'...this was the problem the network nightly newscasts had with Assange and his scoop-—not the quality of his information but his indifference to the security of this nation. The domestic debate between supporters and opponents of the war in Afghanistan can always be framed as a debate over what is in the best interest of the United States. Assange's intervention cannot be covered that way—nor can it be covered as an intervention on behalf of an ally nor of an adversary nor of Afghanistan itself. WikiLeaks.org exists outside of the category of making nations secure or insecure. ...what really rattles the American news media about the independence of WikiLeaks.org ... is not its opposition to the US war effort in Afghanistan—but the site's baffled indifference to the entire notion of national security as a category.' -- Let's get Mikey! Mikey will read it; he'll read anything. Mikey likes it—he likes it!

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august 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Two Modern Divinities Better Than One

'What the power elite did not anticipate was that the remedies that had worked so well in the 20th century would be entirely penetrated by this new electronic media. What was justifiable became questionable. And what was once beyond question became dubious indeed. Still the power elite and its enablers sally forth. They bail out banks because they always have – unaware perhaps that by doing so in this day and age they are raising tremendous questions about money and its control. They regulate and re-regulate, unaware of the massive resentment that is aimed not only at the private sector these days but at regulators as well. They intend to play on popular resentments but do not understand that the resentment now extends to governance as well. The meme of regulatory democracy has become, you could say, a victim of the crack up boom. It will not in our opinion benefit King to proclaim a combined regulatory and central banking Divinity. The conversation has moved past that.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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JoNova -- The Green exodus from the Big Scare

'Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt is a former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa (as green as they come), and has officially bailed out of the man-made global warming movement. Climate Depot has released a video of Dr. Rancourt: Man-made global warming is nothing more than a “corrupt social phenomenon.” “It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else. Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass.” Rancourt is scathing of universities (and rightly so): “They are all virtually all service intellectuals. They will not truly critique, in a way that could threaten the power interests that keep them in their jobs. The tenure track is just a process to make docile and obedient intellectuals that will then train other intellectuals.” Climate Depot has <choice excerpts> and a list of other greens who have jumped ship.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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Douglas Rushkoff -- Taking Back the World: The Web Comic

'Artist Seth Kushner’s web comic interpretation of me and Life Inc.' -- http://activatecomix.com/104-12-1.comic

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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GodBlock - Protect your children

'GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content. It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts, and from being indoctrinated into any religion before they are of the age to make such decisions.'

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july 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Obama's Contribution to Peace: Congress Declares War on Iran?

'War is the elite's answer to social enlightenment as well as transformative technology ...the larger strategy is a pincer-like movement that uses both military conflicts and censorship to control the flow of knowledge and the growing comprehension of just how manipulated Western societies have been over the past century. Will it work? ...not in the long run ...the difference between the human ape and any other species is mostly in the dexterity with which we wield tools ...humanity has evolved along with such tools and perhaps our brains have even adapted to their advancing complexity. Young people, especially, males in their sexual prime, see the utilization of the most advanced toolkits as a way of enhancing genetic desirability. ...if the power elite believes it can control such cutting edge technologies, it is going to end up battling human biology. (Given that the power elite is indeed the power elite, it will do so anyway, we have no doubt.)'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Eurozone Still Failing

'...the evil lurking at the heart of the EU is all the more evident in our view for its hidden nature – the iron fist in the velvet glove. Make no mistake about it; the EU was and still is an empire-in-the-making with all the features of empire, the endless, corrupt prerogatives at the top and the glib manufacture of regulations for everyone beneath. Thousands upon thousands of regulations, in fact, more than Babylon's Hammurabi code, issuing out in a torrent from the dysfunctional nation state of Brussels and ruining – literally ruining – people's livelihoods and lives. But now it may be coming to an end. The smooth-talking, silk-suited thugs of Brussels, those who dished out this horror on behalf of their elite paymasters are coming up against a wall that they cannot climb, a stumbling block they cannot intimidate, a barrier they cannot cross. It is the free-market itself, and right now it is having its way with a vengeance. There is a showdown coming.' -- Europe. No Future.

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Mainstream Media Predicts Euro Death

'There is the idea that Europeans are content to work a few hours a day and then live off the government and go on as many vacations as possible. This has been purveyed as a "social contract" – and Europeans as naively joining in. We would argue it is not a social contract. It is the cynicism of tough tribes. The Americans, perhaps, are the naïve ones, trusting government (in the modern era anyway) to do the right thing. In Europe, there is little trust but much rhetoric. Moist summer heat rises; memes fall. The quest to impose Western-style regulatory democracy on the Middle East is not going well. Even central banking has come under increasing fire as its anti-market/price-fixing operations are increasingly revealed. Now the survival of the EU itself is being questioned. And so to war – the final solution. In war, the elite finds the chaos necessary to realign sociopolitical systems, extend governance and promote the further health of the state. And yet ... maybe not this time.'

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june 2010 by adamcrowe

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Software Freedom Law Center -- Freedom In the Cloud (Anti-Facebook Rant)

'What do we need? We need a really good webserver you can put in your pocket and plug in any place. It should know how to collect all your stuff out of the social networking places where you’ve got it. It should know how to send an encrypted backup of everything to your friends’ servers. It should know how to microblog. ...it should know how to be you in a free net that works for you and keeps the logs. You can always tell what’s happening in your server and if anybody wants to know what’s happening in your server they can get a search warrant. Then we go to people and we say $29.99 once for a lifetime, great social networking, updates automatically, software so strong you couldn’t knock it over it you kicked it, used in hundreds of millions of servers all over the planet doing a wonderful job. You know what? You get “no spying” for free. -- Mr. Zuckerberg richly deserves bankruptcy. Let’s give it to him. For Free.'

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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Software Freedom Law Center -- Freedom In the Cloud (Anti-Facebook Rant)

'The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record: he has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Because he harnessed Friday night. That is, everybody needs to get laid and he turned it into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human personality and he has to a remarkable extent succeeded with a very poor deal. Namely, “I will give you free web hosting and some PHP doodads and you get spying for free all the time”. And it works. Facebook is the Web with “I keep all the logs, how do you feel about that?” It’s a terrarium for what it feels like to live in a panopticon built out of web parts. -- I’m not lamenting progress of a sort of democratizing kind. On the contrary, I’m lamenting progress of a totalizing kind. I’m lamenting progress hostile to human freedom. We have to fess up if we’re the people who care about freedom, it’s late in the game and we’re behind. '

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may 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Ron Paul Ties Obama in Polls, US Polarization Grows

'Central banks issue great gouts of paper money that causes booms and then busts. And with every bust, jobs are lost and never regained and government steps in to "help" those who have lost their livelihoods. Ron Paul's classical liberal views (gold-as-money, a modest, Constitutional government and a revivified, entrepreneurial middle class) have struck a chord. The current system of Western governance has been all-but-shattered by freedom-oriented solutions promoted by the Internet. There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Western society is polarized today. But increasingly the polarization is between those who believe in freedom and those who cling to destructive status-quo that has been organized and implemented by a power elite using spurious dominant social themes. These themes—promotions really—have intimidated the West and continually concentrated power and wealth in the hands of a few. Tomorrow such promotions may be increasingly difficult to implement.'

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april 2010 by adamcrowe

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Telegraph -- Johnson Beharry, Victoria Cross ["hero"], refuses to shake Gordon Brown's hand

'The winner of the Victoria Cross said Mr Brown had repeatedly disrespected him, his uniform and the Armed Forces. He said that Mr Brown had not looked him or any other servicemen in the eye at a reception in Downing Street in November 2008. Then in Westminster Abbey during the Remembrance Day service last Nov. he said the Prime Minister was “fidgeting and moving” during the two minute silence. “I've got head and back injuries that put me back in hospital in a lot of pain quite regularly, so if I could do it there's no reason he couldn't," he said. "It was very rude. “I was absolutely furious with him. All that was going through my head was to knock him out. “When he offered his hand to me I just turned around and walked away. I wanted him to think about his actions and it worked.” L/Cpl Beharry added: "This is nothing to do with the election, or who I want to be PM. My problem is with him personally, Gordon Brown the man."' -- All soldiers are toys. This one thinks he's a 'real' boy.

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The Daily Bell -- Chinese Inflation - the Final Unraveling?

'The current forms of governance, central banking and even military power, seem entirely entrenched and formidable today (even worldwide). But tomorrow they could be seen as far less persuasive. Once society loses faith in its dominant social themes, society changes, governance evolves and even military power can prove less-than-formidable. That's why we often write about how gold and silver could re-establish themselves as honest money within a free-banking environment. It seems incredible today, but stranger things have happened. A communications revolution can be most unpredictable and powerful. Marry the Internet to ongoing failures of Western economic governance and you may well have a recipe for real, social change. China is the proverbial last man standing, and that's why the story about China's surge in price inflation is so important. The exposure of the wizard behind the curtain is detrimental to the smooth workings of the entire bait-and-switch enterprise.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- The Desperation of Quantitative Easing

'We figure there is increased worry at the top that the system is going to come under another sustained attack and that MORE money printing – and other equally dramatic measures – will be necessary to bail out not just private concerns but whole countries. Once every 50 or 100 years in a fiat-money mercantilist/central banking economy monetary distortions become so bad that the whole system begins to fall apart. We increasingly believe this is such a time. If it is, all the money printing in the world will not prevent it. The trouble the elite foresees, and we see it too, is that patience is just about gone for such maneuvers. Thanks especially to the Internet, people see what's going on and they are finding it increasingly unfair. What is the elite to do if people do not believe anymore in central banking – and by extension the mercantilist money system that has been built up over this past century?'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Daily Bell -- Internet Icon Marc Andreessen: Burn Old Media Model

'The reality of the mainstream media is that it is meant to reinforce power elite themes. But the alternative media, which is not, has millions of readers. Therefore, it is too late for the power elite to stop the spread of "truthful" sociopolitical and economic information – much of it free-market oriented. Additionally, technology is moving so rapidly – and the Internet is so intertwined with people's consciousness and with corporate business strategies – that radically pruning the 'Net through selective censorship will be most difficult. At some point such efforts (which are certainly underway) may run into a judicial standoff. The resultant publicity may make further attempts ever more problematic. Andreessen believes the mainstream media is somewhat technology-phobic. But in fact it is probably a much larger and more terrible problem. By purveying lies, mainstream media has forfeited the trust of its audience.'

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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Invoke – An ARG to Save The World Bank

‘Beware of white women who come bearing Nigerian proverbs.' – Nigerian proverb. -- To play, post a comment explaining your Nobel-Prize-winning idea for how the World Bank can successfully whitewash its international public image. Note: All of your ideas are valid, except any solution that suggests that the World Bank make online propaganda in the form of a game. They already did that – it’s called EVOKE! -- Our game INVOKES the guise of progressive social activism and community organising to promote pro-capitalist ideology. Its implicit message is that the problems of the world – including hunger, poverty, environmental destruction, injustice and disease – can and must be solved within the logic of the free market system.' -- Well it could, if it were actually free. +9000 internets for the parody and righteous anti-debt campaigning, -10000 burned-out braincells for the lack of economic understanding – which is precisely what enables these parasitic institutions to take hold.

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march 2010 by adamcrowe

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YouTube -- anonpublicmessage: Anonymous to Australia

'Your choice to make moves against the pornography industry are not the sole focus of our actions, rather this is the final straw in a long chain of choices that inform us that you are preparing to censor your people, that you are no longer acting in their best interest. You are acting in direct opposition to the best interest of your citizens, and we intend to help them realize this, along with the rest of the globe as a message that we will not allow the internet to be censored by any group, organization, or government. We shall free your people from a country that is oppressing their right to access information; we shall be the shining beacon in the darkness that you are casting over the single most powerful tool available to humanity.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Encyclopedia Dramatica -- Operation Titstorm

'In A.D. 2010, war was beginning and on February 10th, Anonymous unleashed a massive Blitzkrieg on Australian government websites in a Shock and Awe commando raid dubbed Operation Titstorm. This marked the opening salvo of a war that had been brewing since March, 2009 when Wikileaks published an Xbox hueg list of dox on websites that The Final Boss of Australia and his sidekick -Communications Minister Stephen Conroy- had decided were too hot for Ausfags to handle without leading to the ruination of the nation and that were to be permab& from the country's delicate Internets tubes by the biggest set of dog curtains this side of The Great Firewall of China. -- ...[after] mocking Anon on national TV, the ceasefire was done for and Anon picked up Conroy's thrown gauntlet and announced that hostilities would resume and that this time, they weren't fucking around. -- "The Australian government will learn that one does not mess with our porn." —Anon'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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Vimeo -- Google PSA: The More You Know 1/3

'Web 3.0: The grand retreat to our own servers.'

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february 2010 by adamcrowe

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BBC -- Why do people often vote against their own interests?

Every vote is against your own interest. As for the healthcare discussion, the words "appear to be" and "seem to be" particularly stand out. -- '...authenticity has replaced economics as the driving force of modern politics. The authentic politicians are the ones who sound like they are speaking from the gut, not the cerebral cortex. Of course, they might be faking it, but it is no joke to say that in contemporary politics, if you can fake sincerity, you have got it made. This is a culture war but it is not simply being driven by differences over abortion, or religion, or patriotism. And it is not simply Red states vs. Blue states any more. It is a war on the entire political culture, on the arrogance of politicians, on their slipperiness and lack of principle, on their endless deal making and compromises. And when the politicians say to the people protesting: 'But we're doing this for you', that just makes it worse. In fact, that seems to be what makes them angriest of all.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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The Market Ticker -- To All US Citizens: Time to BOYCOTT China

'This means no more Chinese access to our networks. It means no more purchases of Chinese goods. It means no more Chinese anything. And it means DEMANDING that the United States Treasury VOID all Chinese-held Treasury Debt as liquidated damages for the theft of our military secrets and civilian intellectual property. From this American to China: SCREW YOU.'

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january 2010 by adamcrowe

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