Sunday, January 22, 2012

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Sunday, January 2012

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What does it take to get the USA government to do the work of the people?

While the Republicans put Wall Street out of reach of the law, the American people are left virtually helpless to stop the MegaBillions of investment of corporations intent on buying the elections of 2012 as they did in 2010.

There is gross injustice in the USA when protesters of legitimate unaddressed problems are arrested, oppressed, prosecuted, ridiculed and further victimized while the wealthy priviledged 'go forward' uninterrupted with an agenda to end the Middle Class and impose suffering on those that live and work within the borders of the USA.

...In an interview, (click title to entry - thank you) Graham Cluley, a senior technology consultant at Sophos, called the latest technique by Anonymous "devilishly sneaky." In previous attacks, Anonymous enlisted supporters on a volunteer basis by calling on them to download a "low orbit ion cannon" -- a piece of software that launches large packets of data that overwhelm websites of organizations as a means of protest. Distributed Denial of Service attacks, known as DDoS for short, were responsible for helping Anonymous bring down the websites of Visa and Mastercard in 2010 in retaliation for their decision to cut ties with Wikileaks.

Cluley said Anonymous supporters have grown accustomed to clicking on links posted on the group's Twitter accounts, some of which have more than 200,000 followers, to read press releases about their latest exploits. But this time, he said, Anonymous supporters who clicked on the malicious link joined the attack and may have accidentally broken the law.

"If you participate in such an attack, you could find yourself receiving a lengthy jail sentences," Cluley wrote in a blog post.

Law enforcement has cracked down on participants in such attacks. Last July, the FBI announced charges against 14 people dating back to December 2010, when Anonymous members temporarily brought down PayPal's website in retaliation for the company suspending payments to the whistle-blower site Wikileaks....

During the Holiday, demonstrators provided a written note to President Obama stating, "4000 Protesters Have Been Arrested."

Justice is indeed blind.  As millions of Americans were looking with hope at the bailout of Wall Street, they were abandoned.  As they realized a generation of Americans were without hope for a future of work and career, they were coveted for political gains or losses.  As they were validated over and over and over again across the country the problem was indeed a problem, they were held at arms length.  As they were welcome to demonstrate to bring attention to the legitimate problem all too real in their lives, they were arrested, displaced, prosecuted, their personal property confiscated and/or destroyed, their libraries regarded as trash and without ceremony abandoned by their Department of Justice.  There hope for recognition and acceptance left to diminish and fade along with their devotion to purpose.

Not exactly "Google Headquarters."

New Zealand police on Saturday (click title to entry - thank you) revealed bizarre details of the arrest of the suspected kingpin of an Internet copyright theft case against the James Bond-like backdrop of a country mansion hideaway with electronic locks, a safe room and a pink Cadillac.

German national Kim Dotcom, also known as Kim Schmitz, was one of four men arrested on Friday, a day before his 38th birthday, in an investigation of the Megaupload.com website led by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The group was accused of engaging in a scheme that took more than $500 million away from copyright holders and generated over $175 million in proceeds from subscriptions and advertising.

A police official said dozens of officers, backed by helicopters, forced their way into the mansion, nestled in lush, rolling farmland, after Dotcom refused them entry, a scene more reminiscent of a high-octane spy drama than the usual policeman’s lot in rural New Zealand....

"Oppression" and "Protectionism" at a time when communication among the citizens is important to life.

...The popular file-sharing site (click title to entry - thank you) was shut down this week by federal prosecutors in Virginia, who accused the defendants of causing more than $500 million in damages for copyright holders of pirated music, movies, video games and other content. Hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz was revealed as a silent partner and the company's CEO, though he was not included on an initial list of seven defendants. Four of the seven were arrested Friday morning in New Zealand, after a standoff at Dotcom Mansion – named for the site's alleged founder, who goes by the name Kim Dotcom (born Kim Schmitz). The other three defendants reportedly remain at large....

The Injustice of the USA that dominates its benevolence.


Corruption, Politics, Chaos, Legislation for Profit, Profit

VS

Law, Justice, Democracy, Common Sense, Public Opinion.

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Protesters march in disapproval of the Iraq War in March 2003 in downtown Bellingham. Photo courtesy of Tore Ofteness

Written by Jessica Pain
Tuesday, 10 January 2012 06:30

Imagine (click title to entry - thank you) having the energy to march from Western to the Federal Building in downtown Bellingham every Friday.

Now imagine holding signs until your hands are sore, until your voice is gone and your feet are uncomfortable, all in an effort to protest against war or social or economic inequality.

This is Bellingham’s tradition.
 
…Bellingham gets occupied
City governments carry the cost for handling movements that are at the level of federal government, McShane said.

“As for the Occupy movement, I do think this protest is good,” McShane said….


Today, Occupy Bellingham is the community’s most recent social movement.
Written by Jessica Pain   
Tuesday, 10 January 2012 06:30

The citizens are not interested in the "Wall Street Image."

They want their problems to be ADDRESSED. 

They don't care about the status quo.  The status quo abandoned them.

Wall Street Messaging is the last 'image' they want to portray.

If the actions don't support the message, then maybe the victimization of their reality to exploit these people as weird and frauds for political gain should be victimized and defrauded.

Homeless count under way in Austin (click title to entry - thank you)

Multi-agency survey spearheaded by ECHO

Updated: Sunday, 22 Jan 2012, 7:49 PM CST
Published : Sunday, 22 Jan 2012, 4:39 PM CST
Jacqueline Ingles

AUSTIN (KXAN) - More than 150 volunteers are combing Travis County trying to count the number of people that call the streets home .

Sixty teams each consisting of three volunteers divided the county and are looking not only behind businesses and in wooded areas, they are also taking count in area shelters....

#Occupy is a global phenomena.

Police officers in Auckland's Aotea Square wearing the same badge number. (click title to entry - thank you)

Many of the #Occupy movements are learning their voices are chronically confronted with oppression and authority rather than ADDRESS!!!!


Many of the #Occupy movments are living the same oppressed reality as #Occupy Wall Street.


In the USA House Speaker Boner stated today on FOX News Sunday "...the job the American people elected us for was to listen to what the American people have to say..."

There is a problem with governments ignoring the #Occupy movement.  They boast they base their economies; economies that are to benefit the citizens in a sovereign country, are based in "Capitalism."  Yet, the reality these protesters are living are not being benefitted by the economies their governments have fostered.

1.  The #Occupy Wall Street movement as made it completely clear that Wall Street's capitalism has forsaken the very people they turned to in bailout monies. 

2.  The #Occupy Wall Street movement has clearly indicated their plight is an immediate peril.

3.  Yet, the very citizens that are recognized with a legitimate problem, not just a concern, is being shut down, arrested, prosecuted and ridiculed. 

The treatement of these citizens by their governments are the essence of oppression.

Smoke Bomb Thrown Over White House Fence (It wasn't tear gas.)




..."Occupy DC" protesters demonstrating (click title to entry - thank you) against income inequality gathered at the Capitol building in Washington DC before marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, with a brief stop at the Supreme Court before arriving at the White House.
More than 1,000 protesters then held a rally outside the White House where a smoke bomb was propelled over a fence on the north side of the building.

George Ogilvie, a spokesman for the US Secret Service, said the suspected smoke bomb was thrown after the majority of demonstrators had left....

The gas canisters fired at protesters with LEGITIMATE problems and LEGITIMATE rights caused more than smoke and eye irritation.




  • Ex-Marine Scott Olsen, 24, (click title to entry - thank you) suffered fractured skull after he was hit during California protests




  • Surgeons waiting to see if swelling in his brain has eased before they decide to operate





  • Veterans for Peace activist has a good job and home but opted to sleep at protest camp after work




  • 'Nobody goes to work, nobody goes to school, we shut the city down,' vows protest organizer Cat Brooks





  • Anger over Oakland police ‘brutality’ fans across America as protesters march in solidarity with Olsen




  • Conditions in the Oakland camp were thought to have become unsavoury as tented town became semi-permanent



  • Radicalize...

    1.  TO MAKE  an advocate extreme measures to retain or restore a political state of affairs.

    2.  To regain a birth right.

    3.  To correct a "W"rong.

    Income Inequity is a reality. It is not a political pundancy. It is not drug filled stupor.

    It is real. 

    Palpable.

    Based in Facts.

    Measurable.

    Yet protests are ignored, classified as ugly and inappropriate, marginalized as a potential for election fodder or victory, regarded as losers, misfits and definately misinterpreted as an empty threat.

    The truth regarding the economic politics of the USA has to be realized.


    No more lies.
    No more pretending it will all go away.
    No more playing with the future of the USA.
    The Inequity of income in the USA is not a slogan, it is reflected in inequity of the perception of the message.

    It's Sunday Night

    Money Talks and Wall Street Walks

    Staind - Reality (click title of entry for Official Online Community)



    The lights are on but you're not home
    You've drifted off somewhere alone
    Somewhere that's safe
    No questions here
    A quiet place
    Where you hide from your fears

    Sometimes when you're out of rope
    The way to climb back up's unclear
    The walls you build around yourself
    I guess they also keep you here
    Are you afraid of what they think?
    Whoever "they" happen to be
    Or are you hiding
    From the scars of your own Reality?

    So you sedate and drown in vain
    You've got a pill for every day
    A suit and tie to mask the truth
    Its ugly head is starting to show through

    Sometimes when you're out of rope
    The way to climb back up's unclear
    The walls you build around yourself
    I guess they also keep you here
    Are you afraid of what they think?
    Whoever "they" happen to be
    Or are you hiding
    From the scars of your own Reality?

    The monster you're feeding
    Your lack of perception
    The things you will do
    To fulfill addictions
    The light at the end of your tunnel is closing
    What is it that you're so afraid of exposing?
    You'd give it all up
    For what's there for the taking
    Whatever it takes to keep your hands from shaking
    The same things you're thinking
    Might make you feel better
    The same things that probably got you here

    Sometimes when you're out of rope
    The way to climb back up's unclear
    The walls you build around yourself
    I guess they also keep you here
    Are you afraid of what they think?
    Whoever "they" happen to be
    Or are you hiding
    From the scars of your own Reality?

    The monster you're feeding
    Your lack of perception
    The things you will do
    To fulfill addictions
    The light at the end of your tunnel is closing
    What is it that you're so afraid of exposing?
    You'd give it all up
    For what's there for the taking
    Whatever it takes to keep your hands from shaking
    The same things you're thinking
    Might make you feel better
    The same things that probably got you here

    Hi. It has been an odd weekend. Hasn't it?

    I believe Washington, DC is not getting the intended message.  I hope I can emphasis what I discerned and bring whatever importance I can to #Occupy.

    Regardless if the actions lately, the message is a message and not a threat of violence.

    Later.