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Information flow can reveal malicious intent
…the sneaky behavior employed to cover the corrupt “innovations” at Enron might have been revealed just by diagramming who is e-mailing whom suggests that the structures of social networks might be a good diagnostic tool. Probing the shapes of social networks might help investigators identify electronic dens of intrigue, such as people communicating within a terrorist network… Continue reading
Posted in American, Blog, Blogroll, business, class war, Commentary, Community, culture, Democracy, Economic Democracy, economy, information, information dissemination, Information Theory, life, news, politics, Research, semiotics, Social Media, society, technology
Tagged business, class war, corporate malfeasance, economy, flow of information, Great Depression, politics, Wall Street
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IP Address Hijacking
A couple of years ago, I was watching some streaming video (I forget what it was exactly, probably something like the Daily Show or a music video). Suddenly, the connection slowed to a complete crawl. I looked out my window … Continue reading
Posted in American political discourse, Blog, Blogroll, business, Commentary, Community, culture, information, legal, life, media, news, Opinion, society, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged corporations, economy, flow of information, internet, internet security, IP Addresses, wireless connections
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The Deficit Hawks Target Nurses and Firefighters
To put this in context, the size of this upward redistribution to the richest 1 percent over the last three decades is roughly large enough to double the income of all the households in the bottom half of the income distribution. Continue reading
Posted in activism, Blogroll, business, Civil Rights, class war, culture, disinformation, Economic Democracy, economy, Labor, life, media, news, Political Hypocricy, politics, propaganda, Rights, social engineering, society, Uncategorized, unemployment, work, worker benefits
Tagged Center for Economic and Policy Research, corporate bailouts, Corporate Welfare, deficit hawks, Federal Reserve, Great Depression, Social Security, Wall Street, War on the Middle Css
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How corporations dodge taxes
Our government is in knots over ways to lower the federal budget deficit. Well, what if we told you we found a pot of money – over $60 billion a year [another report claims U.S. companies are holding $1.2 trillion overseas] – that could be used to help out? Continue reading
Dogs of Fashion, Dogs of War
“Wait — aren’t pit bulls also popular among some people in the [upscale] Flatiron District, those brainless, image-is-everything youth who seem most fashionable, who appear at the cutting edge of youth culture? Seen as distinctly postmodern, they are called by some “ravers.” They see themselves as individuals, as rebels. How can their appropriation of pit bulls be explained? These postmodern youth, most of whom have middle- to upper-middle-class backgrounds, have also taken to wearing modified working-class clothing: Baseball hats that say DIESEL on them, used overalls that retain their original label: JOE’S AUTO REPAIR. Many wear tattoos as well…” Continue reading
Posted in Blogroll, class war, culture, Democracy, Economic Democracy, fashion, life, semiotics, social engineering, society, Uncategorized
Tagged dogs and fashion, Dogs of War, Pit Bulls, tattoos, upper-middle-class youth
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All-out Class Warfare!
It starts with the New Deal. The Chamber [of Commerce] “accused Roosevelt of attempting to ‘Sovietize’ America; the chamber adopted a resolution ‘opposing the president’s entire legislative package.’” Opposition to FDR continued, shockingly, through the Lend-Lease program, designed to supply the allies with critical material to fight the Germans, and which brought a tremendous boon to American manufacturing. But more, the Chamber opposed American involvement in the war, the war which “triggered the greatest boom in America’s economic history.” Continue reading
Posted in activism, Blogroll, business, Civil Rights, class war, culture, economy, health, Human Rights, International Policy, life, news, politics, Rights, society, technology, Uncategorized, work
Tagged business, Chamber of Commerce, class war, corporations, globalization, labor, sweatshops, UAW, world order
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Disinformation Campaign Proves Effective as Anti-SOPA Strike-Breaker
Two or three days ago, announcements were broadcast on various Media Outlets stating that two bills in the Congress and the Senate, SOPA and PROTECT-IP were effectively “Dead-in-the-Water,” resulting in the cancellation (or extreme reduction) of what would have been … Continue reading →