[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')I think you are confusing the right wing with the Democratic Party, proud inventors of the Klan Bake.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1924_Democratic_National_Convention

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '
')But nice white supremacist talking point about how "liberals are the real racists." Want to explain why people voted for Obama, and can you do it without using a white supremacist talking point? I'm kind of guessing you can't.

[PrestonSturges]

The point remains that white supremacist themes are pervasive on the right.

Did this happen by accident? i don't think so.

The goal is pretty clearly to establish Fascist government at the local or national level, and they are counting on the cooperation of the people who are yapping about "tyranny" now.

[ennui2]

I didn't read the article but I would think quasi-eco-terrorists like Derrick Jensen might want to finally shut their yaps. I don't like radicalization of any stripe--the sort of radicalization that promotes vandalism or violence. I think as things get worse, you're going to have radicals on all sides. Anti-civers will be the lowest number. You'll probably have more right-wing and anarchist types, because these groups only require scapegoats to fire people up. And to me, blaming 'government' IS a scapegoat. It's looking at a symptom rather than the root problem. It's what nutcases like Alex Jones do, or at a lesser level, Glenn Beck and the right wing who constrain their rage at only one party.

[PrestonSturges]

There is no equivalent phenomenon on "the left," not that this country has a "left," or that I'd even join if there were.

Nobody is on the radio every afternoon reading Mao's little red book for instance.

But it is pretty funny that conservatives are now reading "1984" since Orwell was a socialist his whole life.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '
')
But it is pretty funny that conservatives are now reading "1984" since Orwell was a socialist his whole life.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '
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But it is pretty funny that conservatives are now reading "1984" since Orwell was a socialist his whole life.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '
')But it is pretty funny that conservatives are now reading "1984" since Orwell was a socialist his whole life.

[dorlomin]

An undercover police operative co wrote the infamous McLibel document.

[PrestonSturges]

I don't want to divert the thread from the theme of the government being prepared for problems that they may regard as inevitable while keeping us entertained with bread and circuses.

But using that as a starting point, isn't there an obvious power struggle developing where local wealthy billionaires prepare to carve up the country into private landholdings? Oh sure, they'll still have names like "Kansas" and "West Virginia" but they will be run directly by corporations with whatever level of force they need to use.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'I') don't want to divert the thread from the theme of the government being prepared for problems that they may regard as inevitable while keeping us entertained with bread and circuses.

But using that as a starting point, isn't there an obvious power struggle developing where local wealthy billionaires prepare to carve up the country into private landholdings? Oh sure, they'll still have names like "Kansas" and "West Virginia" but they will be run directly by corporations with whatever level of force they need to use.

[PrestonSturges]

Over the long term, the goal is to destroy the idea of government and elections. Don't many conservatives believe they don't control DC because of massive voter fraud?

And even if a conservative is elected and goes to prison, it still advances the goal of destroying the credibility of democracy.

To make way for a ruthless dictator, the public must be convinced Democracy itself is a scam perpetrated by shadowing figures:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')n the country of the "freest democracy," (there is) an almost unlimited dictatorship indirectly through public opinion.....Democratic majority rule has by no means always dominated mankind, but on the contrary is to be found only in brief periods of history, which are always epochs of the decay of peoples and states. (Mein Kampf p451).

[Rod_Cloutier]

World war III has already begun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... LJ9h0#t=1s

(scary stuff) -how will you react?

[Graeme]

Three Steps You Can Take To Protect Yourself From Online Spying

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')ncrypt Everything

Encryption has been around as long as the written word. In fact, written language itself is a form of encryption, albeit with a widely understood and publicly available decoding key (ie the ability to read Mandarin or Portuguese or English). Private data encryption, on the other hand, encodes the information on a hard drive, memory stick, cloud locker, or other storage medium so that without the proper “key” (that hopefully only the sender and intended recipient have access to), all the data appears as gibberish (same as trying to read Mandarin).

Encrypting your drives, both local and remote, is a really easy way to shield your personal data from prying eyes. Both Windows and Mac OS have built-in encryption systems known as Bitlocker and FileVault, respectively. On Mac:

Security and Privacy
FileVault
Turn on FileVault.
For Windows 7 Ultimate or Enterprise and Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise users with computers running Trusted Platform Module chip:

Control Panel
System and Security
BitLocker Drive Encryption
Turn on BitLocker
If your system isn’t equipped with a TPM chip, Bitlocker can’t help you. TrueCrypt, an open-source full-disk encryption program that hides your data on a virtual encrypted drive, and DiskCryptor, which can use any combination of AES, Twofish, and Serpent algorithms, however they aren’t nearly as picky about your hardware.

Plus they’re both free and you can use them to encrypt your cloud lockers and mobile drives with them as well. I mean, services like Dropbox and, um, just Box already encrypt the data on their servers, but it’s still readable to the service’s employees and, consequently, law enforcement. Using TC or DC to generate a virtual drive to store files within the cloud service would prevent that.

[Keith_McClary]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')rusted Platform

[PrestonSturges]

Wow, the Supreme Courts ruling on the Voting Rights Act and the instantaneous rush to enact abusive new laws goes right back to my point about how the GOP no longer gives a rats ass how it looks as they make a mad dash to create their own regional apartheid systems. They really do seem determined to enact some sort of slow ethnic cleansing of these regions even if the local economies go back to the corporate/libertarian plantation system.

But why? Do they see some looming collapse that even dedicated doomers are missing? Is it some private crackpot scenario embraced by a few senile billionaires, or do they have hard data about someting apocalyptic like ocean acidification? Heck, maybe their hatred of greenhouse gas regulation is because global warming is key to their Lex Luthor vision of a world being destroyed for everyone but them.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'W')ow, the Supreme Courts ruling on the Voting Rights Act and the instantaneous rush to enact abusive new laws goes right back to my point about how the GOP no longer gives a rats ass how it looks as they make a mad dash to create their own regional apartheid systems. They really do seem determined to enact some sort of slow ethnic cleansing of these regions even if the local economies go back to the corporate/libertarian plantation system.

But why? Do they see some looming collapse that even dedicated doomers are missing? Is it some private crackpot scenario embraced by a few senile billionaires, or do they have hard data about someting apocalyptic like ocean acidification? Heck, maybe their hatred of greenhouse gas regulation is because global warming is key to their Lex Luthor vision of a world being destroyed for everyone but them.

[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '[')b]Three Steps You Can Take To Protect Yourself From Online Spying

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'E')ncrypt Everything

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', 'W')ow, the Supreme Courts ruling on the Voting Rights Act and the instantaneous rush to enact abusive new laws goes right back to my point about how the GOP no longer gives a rats ass how it looks as they make a mad dash to create their own regional apartheid systems. ...

[PrestonSturges]

Also this week, Texas, Ohio, and North Carolina all try to pass abortion bans at night, in secret.

There is a shadow government at work. They are coordinated, but what do they want and what is driving them?