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quote:Speech before the US House of Representatives, 02/12/09
What if it is finally realized that war and military spending is always destructive to the economy?
What if all wartime spending is paid for through the deceitful and evil process of inflating and borrowing?
What if conservatives understood once again that their only logical position is to reject military intervention and managing an empire throughout the world?
What if the American people woke up and understood that the official reasons for going to war are almost always based on lies and promoted by war propaganda in order to serve special interests?
What happens if my concerns are justified and ignored - nothing good!
quote:https://www.accessnow.org/page/s/just-say-no-to-acta
Just Say ‘No’ to ACTA
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which has already been signed by eight countries, poses a dangerous threat to the inherent freedom and openess of the Internet. Under ACTA, ISPs and websites will be given more power to track what we do online, while forcing them to turn over our information and reporting our activity to the authorities -- all in the name of copyright protection! This controversial intellectual property accord, which was negotiated in secret, violates our fundamental rights to free speech and access to our culture.
The European Parliament, which will soon hold a final consent vote on ACTA, may be our only hope to stop this dangerous agreement. A "No" vote on ACTA by the Parliament will dismantle ACTA in its current form and make countries back to the negotiating table. Call on the EU Parliament to take a stand and vote “NO” on ACTA!
quote:Ritholtz: OWS - The Risks Facing America Today
I will be attending one of the local protests. With a bullhorn. With others. With people in the political sphere. I am going both to talk to those who want to listen (if there are such people) and to listen and observe myself, and will take pictures while there.
Yes, at the end of that day I will go home. But some others may not. In fact, many others may not.
Here's the thing: Even today, CNBC is still talking about "recapitalizing the banks." What's "recapitalize" mean? It means steal from you. See, the reason you need to "recapitalize" these firms is that they*****ed away their own capital by doing dangerous, risky, even fraudulent things.
The corporate media and politicians are still claiming that "we made a profit from TARP" and that "everything was repaid."
This is a bald lie. AIG didn't repay their money. Neither did GM. Money was shuffled around in a complex shell game to appear that all was repaid but in fact what happened was that you, the taxpayer, were looted.
You were looted through higher prices at the gas pump, higher prices at the grocery store, lower wages and at the same time zero interest rates so those of you who were prudent got ****ed THREE TIMES instead of twice!
Representative government? Where? By anywhere from 100:1 to 300:1 the people demanded that TARP NOT pass. That the banks that did foolish and in some cases criminal things be forced to eat the consequences.
Again, as I've said for four years: We need a banking system because we do indeed need a way to clear payments so you can pay a bill or buy gasoline and food - so commerce can flow. We do not need these banks that committed these acts.
But rather than do the right thing, our politicians were bought and paid for on both sides of the aisle. It's particularly telling - and galling - that when allegedly being "grilled" by Hank Paulson in 2008 the banksters left the meeting smiling and yucking it up.
First they ****ed you, then the government paid them to **** you again.
Lees ook de commentsquote:Bloomberg: Wall Street Sees ‘No Exit’ From Financial Decline as Bankers Fret Future
Wall Street executives, facing demonstrators camped for a fourth week in New York’s financial district, say they’re anxious and angry for other reasons.
An era of decline and disappointment for bankers may not end for years, according to interviews with more than two dozen executives and investors. Blaming government interference and persecution, they say there isn’t enough global stability, leverage or risk appetite to triumph in the current slump.
“I don’t think it’s a time to make money -- this is a time to rig for survival,” said Charles Stevenson, 64, president of hedge fund Navigator Group Inc. and head of the co-op board at 740 Park Ave. The building, home to Blackstone Group LP Chairman Stephen Schwarzman and CIT Group Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Thain, was among those picketed by protesters yesterday. “The future is not going to be like a past we knew,” he said. “There’s no exit from this morass.”
quote:Yeah, the theft business ain't what it used to be. Poor wittle masters of the universe!
quote:“This is very demoralizing to people,” Karp said.
“Especially young guys who have gone to college and wanted to
come onto the Street, having dreams of becoming millionaires.”
Wow, don't we feel bad for them. The rest of us simply had hopes of holding onto our jobs, our houses, our retirement funds. Better that the rest of us got scr#wed over so these boys can fulfill their dreams of becoming millionaires, huh?
quote:Golly those business and finance guys talk tough when they are grabbing other peoples' money but when the backlash for that comes they are running to New Zealand?
quote:We do not have an economic problem, we have a leadership problem of epidemic proportions on a global basis. Combined with greed, it's all about me attitude and the highest corporate tax rate in the world, we have created the perfect economic storm.
quote:Oh poor dears! "Everybody" hates them. I wonder why. Obama doesn't love and adore them. In fact, they are lucky to still be alive. If this were France in 1789-92 they would all have lost their heads by now just like Louis and Marie Antoinette.
quote:So the banks essentially want to play heads I win, tails you lose. When the investment banks went public they were able to transfer risk to shareholders while reaping huge gains for themselves. If the purpose of. Wall Street is creation of capital that is to be used to create businesses to employ people, why is it that has merely become a mechanism to substitute debt for equity. Wall Street has turned into a whorehouse where people screw everyone just for money. No wonder capitalism will sow its own seeds of destruction. 99% will always beat 1%.
quote:500,000? If I made 500,000 in a year I'd be ecstatic. If, the following year, I made somewhat less than 500,000, I'd still be ecstatic. Many of us in this country feel the same way. Imagine our demoralization at reading this article. We are trying to feed families, trying to pay bills, trying to find work, while someone complains about making less than 500,000. The trader's complaint is infuriating. The disconnect between the trader and the rest of us is ultimately unsustainable.
Wat een stelletje ongewassen hippies zitten daar te commenten zegquote:Yep..Things are bad...We won't be able to rape and Pillage the peasants like we used to in the good old days..And we've shut down just about every factory we could and moved the jobs offshore...How about Wall Street actually tries to grow the economy and create jobs instaed of looking for the easy buck using mind bogglingly complicated financial devices devised by MIT Math geniuses so that no one can figure out what they are doing...these people are morally bankrupt.
.... Aaron Barr?quote:Housewives, students and security pros among Anonymous members
Members of the infamous hacking collective Anonymous range from housewives to information security professionals, according to a panel of security experts who claim to have infiltrated the group.
Speaking to the press at RSA Conference Europe, Akamai director of security intelligence Joshua Corman argued that the group has a diverse range of constituents, with varying levels of technological know-how.
Some are "very political", some are housewives, some have no hacking skills – while others are so-called "greyhats" with day jobs in information security, and a lot are students, he said.
He added that the large numbers of students in Anonymous represents a failure on the part of the IT security industry to engage with kids who have an interest in hacking and want to develop their skills in the area.
The panel also included Aaron Barr, who was famously chief executive of security firm HB Gary when Anonymous targeted him in retaliation for his investigatory work into the group.
He explained that LulzSec initially broke off from Anonymous, headed by members frustrated that decision making within the group took too long, adding that it operates almost like a "special operations group".
Also present was Will Gragido, senior product line manager at HP's DVLabs, who advised firms keen to mitigate the risk of attack by hacktivist groups to consider a defence-in-depth approach, including DDoS mitigation and web app security.
"Preparedness is key," he said. "It would be foolish to prepare for only one type of attack where there are several to be concerned about."
Ik kan me herinneren dat poll's erg populair zijn bij Anons.quote:Op vrijdag 14 oktober 2011 15:02 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Screenshots van een Fox News(!!) poll:
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twitter:st4rbuck_ twitterde op vrijdag 14-10-2011 om 22:21:41#OpSyria: Tango down: http://t.co/4NAUYTsL More info on IRC: http://t.co/MWqN7kRA #Anonymous #Syria #OpFreedom reageer retweet
http://www.shell.com/ doet het weer/nog.quote:The Syrian government is waging war against its citizens. Shell is a major investor in Syria. It is a key associate of the state oil company which controls the internal market.
Shell believes that companies should play an active role in supporting human rights and that it needs a licence to operate from society. But it has no such license now in Syria and it is doing business with an elite that commits gross and systematic human rights violations, including torture, arbitrary killing, and collective punishment
"It is noted that Shell, Total, BP, and OMV have purchased Syrian crude since the uprising, thus directly contributing to the budget the Assads what he has used for buying weapons to kill innocent civilians. Royal Dutch Shell bought 586400 barrels on 29 May 11, Austrias OMV bought 586400 barrels on 28 Jun 11, BP bought 586400 barrels on 10 Apr 11, and another 586400 barrels on 20 Apr 11."
"The EU sanctions prohibit European customers from buying Syrian oil but dont prohibit European companies with operations inside Syria from continuing their ventures there. Firms with existing contracts to buy Syrian oil have until Nov. 15 to do so."
All the while, Dick Benschop, head of Shells Dutch arm claims, "Halting the Shells operation in Syria would hurt the Syrian people more than its government"
This shows Shell does not care about human rights abuses in Syria.
Shell must recognize that the Syrian people are being killed by bullets that Shell has paid for. Shell officials have failed to understand that when people are massacred, the last thing they care about is the availability of petrol and petrol prices.
Shell must stop production immediately and show that human rights abuses and killing civilians are not acceptable.
Shell must recognize that once the Syrian people gain their freedom, they may not welcome Shell again if it appears sympathetic to the Assad regime.
Our objective is to urge Shell to reconsider its stand and stand with the people of Syria by halting its operations in Syria. It does not need to wait for orders from the EU to do so. If it does wait, it proves the point that it is willingly supporting murderous dictators for cheap oil.
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Twitter:
https://twitter.com/#!/Op_Syria
https://twitter.com/#!/RevoluSec
https://twitter.com/#!/Syrian_MAJOR
We Are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
quote:Occupy Wall Street live: protests spread around the world
5.08pm: In between gossiping about the celebrity and media life of New York, the scurrilous website Gawker does some notworthy journalism. It has just posted a great story under the headline"Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD", detailing the role of "security consultant" Thomas Ryan, who it says has infiltrated the Occupy Wall Street organisers.
Since the Occupy Wall Street protest began on September 17, New York security consultant Thomas Ryan has been waging a campaign to infiltrate and discredit the movement. Ryan says he's done contract work for the U.S. Army and he brags on his blog that he leads "a team called Black Cell, a team of the most-highly trained and capable physical, threat and cyber security professionals in the world." But over the past few weeks, he and his computer security buddies have been spending time covertly attending Occupy Wall Street meetings, monitoring organizers' social media accounts, and hanging out with protesters in Lower Manhattan.
As part of their intelligence-gathering operation, the group gained access to a listserv used by Occupy Wall Street organizers called September17discuss. On September17discuss, organizers hash out tactics and plan events, conduct post-mortems of media appearances, and trade the latest protest gossip. On Friday, Ryan leaked thousands of September17discuss emails to conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is now using them to try to smear Occupy Wall Street as an anarchist conspiracy to disrupt global markets.
What may much more alarming to Occupy Wall Street organizers is that while Ryan was monitoring September17discuss, he was forwarding interesting email threads to contacts at the NYPD and FBI, including special agent Jordan T. Loyd, a member of the FBI's New York-based cyber security team.
You can read more here. Interestingly, Gawker says it was Ryan who revealed himself as a snitch. Ryan leaked an archive of emails on Friday in the hope of undermining the Occupy Wall Street movement, but, it appears he accidentally included some of his own forwarded emails in the dump.
Knorrepot.. op verreweg de meeste plaatsen verliep 't vreedzaam.quote:Op zondag 16 oktober 2011 10:13 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
In Rome konden we goed zien wat een feestje dit is...
Mijn impressie in Brussel was dat het vooral de gebruikelijke anti-globalistische en anderszins naar links hangende kringen zijn die zich onder deze banier hebben geschaard, te zien aan de meegevoerde spandoeken en vlaggen. En dan zijn er zesduizend mensen: dat is welgeteld een half procent van de populatie van Brussel, voor een demonstratie die een pan-Europees karakter zou moeten hebben. Ik heb zo mijn vragen bij zowel de nieuwheid als de werkelijke massa van deze 'Occupy'-acties.quote:Op zondag 16 oktober 2011 10:13 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
In Rome konden we goed zien wat een feestje dit is...
Het protest moet zich nog vormen, maar er zit volgens mij voldoende reele grond in. Het gaat MI om een afrekening met de tijdgeest van de afgelopen 25 jaar. Uiteraard zijn protest bewegingen niet helemaal rationeel en populistisch. Je kun het niet beoordelen door naar enkele boze of domme mensen te luisteren onder degene die zich verzameld hebben.quote:Op zondag 16 oktober 2011 11:33 schreef Reya het volgende:
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Mijn impressie in Brussel was dat het vooral de gebruikelijke anti-globalistische en anderszins naar links hangende kringen zijn die zich onder deze banier hebben geschaard, te zien aan de meegevoerde spandoeken en vlaggen. En dan zijn er zesduizend mensen: dat is welgeteld een half procent van de populatie van Brussel, voor een demonstratie die een pan-Europees karakter zou moeten hebben. Ik heb zo mijn vragen bij zowel de nieuwheid als de werkelijke massa van deze 'Occupy'-acties.
Bizar...quote:Op zondag 16 oktober 2011 14:10 schreef rene29 het volgende:
Weet niet of onderstaand filmpje al voorbij is gekomen.
Mensen gearesteerd omdat ze hun eigen geld wilden opnemen...
quote:Is it a Crime? The Transgressive Politics of Hacking in Anonymous
Michael Ralph and Gabriella Coleman are professors at New York
University and are collaborating on an article on the role of dissent
and direct action within Anonymous and in the 2011 "Arab Spring"
uprisings across Africa and southwest Asia. They seek to bring
anthropological knowledge and perspectives to bear on public
discussion and debates.
Anti-nonymous?quote:http://www.knoxvilletechnology.com/
Business Protection Group is an anonymous group of network security professions that provide Internet Security to Private Firms. Our staff provides companies with the information on hackers which they need to present a case to the courts. We wish to keep our members anonymous to protect their families from retaliation for what we do. We are not affiliated with any Government or Local Police Department. Our members decided that Governments have too much red tape that is allowing most if not all of the serious hacking offenders get away with millions of dollars in sensitive Trade Secrets. we were founded in 2011 shortly after the huge increase of bold attacks from Anonymous, Lulzsec, and Antisec on government and Private Company computers. Business Protection Group brings accountability to a lawless Internet.
Maar ze werken niet samen met een overheid?quote:If there is a network of computers connected to the Internet, it is at risk of attack and loss of secret information. Most hackers do it for fun, while others do it for profit. we do not draw a line between which is more serious of a offense. Our stance is that any breach of security of a private firm is against the law and should carry the same punishment. The Maximum Penalty.
Once caught, these individuals should never be allowed to access another computer in their lifetime.
Ah, DDOS = terrorism.quote:Distributed Denial Of Service attacks are the most common form of Internet related crime against businesses. While it does not create a risk of stolen data, it does prevent access to your companies assets. If your company requires the Internet for revenue or communications, this attack can cost you millions. There is however very little that can be done to stop an attack in progress, and this is why we believe shutting down the criminal hacker groups is the best method to combat it.
Ik neem aan dat ze door PayPal geboycot gaan worden?quote:Our operation runs entirely on donations and our target queue is prioritized by the donation size. The donations help cover normal business expenses, including air travel to various countries as we track down these criminals. We ask that any company that submits a investigative request to please donate the amount you feel it is worth for the legal and or personal destruction of your hackers life.
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