Bankers 1, Hackers 1

Cyber-Hackers Break Into IMF Computer System

Live video feed from END THE FED – Atlanta

For those of you who can't make it, I will be providing a LIVE FEED from the END THE FED Rally in Atlanta on Saturday, November 22, 12:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern Time. (There will be rallies in 38 cities nationwide.)

I have just discovered an application for jailbroken iPhones called Qik.

This allows me to STREAM LIVE VIDEO from my iPhone to the web. Since I have a holster, I can clip it onto my belt or the top front collar of my shirt for first-person perspective.

Once again, I will be broadcasting LIVE from the END THE FED rally at 1000 Peachtree Street in midtown Atlanta. Check back soon for the link to the stream.

But don't just sit at home and watch. Get out of the house and stand up for freedom!

Worth 1,000 Words

LOL@McCain

If you got several minutes of spare time and want a good laugh...

LOL@McCain

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And this is simply unbelievable.

Palin is so dumb...

It's Time to Wake Up

Sometimes the truth hurts.

Thesis

The following is my thesis for a research paper in one of my classes at Georgia Tech, "Innovation in America." The paper will be done by early December.

Our world is rapidly approaching the greatest paradigm shift in human history. We are on the precipice of a quantum leap in human awareness. Technological progress has been improving at an ever-increasing rate since man crafted the first stone tools. We presently find ourselves in a world of unprecedented, accelerating change. The Internet, born less than a fraction of a second ago on the clock of evolutionary time, has already revolutionized our lives. For the first time in the history of this planet, the earth’s parts are being connected together and linked up to a “global brain,” an intelligence greater than anything we have ever known. The union of human consciousness with artificial intelligence will create a civilization so far advanced as to be completely alien to our current selves.

The pace of change has now become so swift that our aging governmental, corporate, and financial institutions can no longer adapt; they are inherently oriented toward the status quo, thus impeding progress. The current economic crisis we are experiencing is the first sign of a breakdown in the world’s monetary-based production systems. The static, bureaucratic organizations running the show are simply incompatible with this rate of change. A new order will soon emerge to replace these obsolete systems. We now have the technological means to produce an overabundance of food, housing, and other goods using automated machines in place of human labor. Once scarcity is eliminated and the earth’s resources are intelligently managed–instead of foolishly fought over–there will be no basis for wars, poverty, or servitude. People will then have the freedom to explore, learn, and create as their heart demands. We are entering an era of unbounded innovation.

Join the Revolution

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)


Watch an inspirational video, eleven minutes in length.

Voting: An Exercise in Futility

This recent, brief article from The Onion is just plain awesome.

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Struggling Lower-Class Still Unsure How Best To Fuck Selves With Vote

WASHINGTON—As election day nears, millions of the nation's poorest voters have reportedly yet to settle on the most profound and enduring way to completely fuck themselves over when they head to the polls this year.

"On the one hand, I'm pretty sure Barack Obama will undermine my best interests by maintaining the same centrist, pro-corporate policies of previous Democratic administrations," said Jim Estey, 34, a recently laid-off assembly-line worker. "Conversely, I agree with McCain and Palin on abortion, which might just balance out the fact that they'll further marginalize people like me by supporting deregulation and slashing social programs. So it's pretty much a toss-up at this point."

Though such behavior appears to directly undermine their own well-being, lower-income voters have historically supported candidates determined to screw them six ways to Sunday, including Bill Clinton, who incarcerated them in record numbers and cut the welfare benefits many depended on for day-to-day sustenance, and George W. Bush, who widened the gap between them and the rich and sent thousands of them to die in Iraq. This year's election is reportedly unique in that the nation's poor must not only weigh how deeply and painfully their chosen candidate will penetrate their rectums, but must also consider unforeseen outside circumstances—such as economic collapse and terrorism—that might allow the next president to bend them over and brutally rape them in ways they never thought possible.

The latest polls indicate that a majority of lower-class citizens might choose not to vote at all Nov. 4, preferring instead to leave the details of how they get fucked to the moneyed classes.

Source Page

Simcity

So I'm looking at the new Google Earth app for iPhone and I realize, hey, that looks exactly like SimCity.

I remember when I was a kid, about 10 or 11, playing Simcity 2000, and thinking the city I made was so cool, and I wished I could live in it.

Now I look at Google Earth's satellite view of Atlanta and realize I'm living in that city.


Scene from Simcity 5


Viewing Atlanta in Google Earth for iPhone

Pointless Polls

Look at this recent poll found on the front page of Drudge. It's pretty self-explanatory (at least in one sense): roughly half of people are voting for one guy, and roughly half for the other, and for some reason we make a big deal out of the marginal difference.

The election is never split 40/60 or 30/70. Why? Because both candidates are the same. You could just have everyone flip a coin and you'd end up with the same pattern, roughly half for this guy and half for that guy.

I'm not quite sure how to say it; it just looks silly to me. All these polls, every day, about who's ahead by so many percent, or behind so many percent. Can't we find something more productive to do than constantly bicker about who the next president's gonna be?

Mindless Robots

This is what happens when you allow yourself to be brainwashed by religion, television, nationalism, and other forms of propaganda. The mind closes shut, critical thinking stops, and you become...well, just click play.

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Republicrats & The Plutocracy

The following letter was forwarded to me by a friend. More and more people are declaring our political system broken.

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I have been a registered Republican since I was 18. I am now 54. I have voted every year for every candidate, local, state, and national who was a Republican because I believed that because they SAID a lot of things I agree with, that they would actually DO what they said. I am sorry to say that the Republican Party has been hijacked and has left me completely. I could go on and on with a list of reasons but it would bore you all to tears, and might even convert some of my old time Republican buddies who still have scales on their eyes and can't see that these neoconservatives have screwed us to the wall (with our permission).

I am no longer blindly supporting the Republican Party. I am not supporting the Democratic Party either. They are one in the same. We can have war mongering socialism or welfare spending socialism. It is still socialism. By the way, in case you haven't noticed, the welfare state has prospered quite well (and hasn't gotten any smaller) since our compassionate conservative George W. Bush has been in office pissing our money away.

There are more Obama supporters who agree with Ron Paul and a true "Freedom Agenda" than there are McPain supporters. I know I know, it just shouldn't be. But it is. The "Christian Right" has been totally supportive of unconstitutional pre-emptive war against a country which had done nothing to us, incredible, out of control socialistic spending which has DOUBLED the national debt (from about $5,000,000,000,000 to over $10,000,000,000,000) in 8 years of Mr. Bush (who I voted for twice). We just concluded the fiscal year with the largest deficit ever recorded in our history - almost $500 BILLION in one year, and that doesn't even count the bailout. We may even be set up for a TRILLION DOLLAR deficit in the next fiscal year if we're lucky.

We now have a true Big Brother government who has spent 2 trillion dollars making the "illegal" drug market incredibly profitable and ruinous to our nation. Who really gives a rat's ass if I sit on my porch and smoke a left handed cigarette? We will make nearly ONE MILLION arrests this calendar year for the terrible crime of pot possession. And how much more is this war on drugs really costing us when you look at the costs of taking a potentially productive person out of society and putting him in a cage and feeding him and we pay for it? How many lawyers and courts and judges and jails and wardens are sucking the milk from that gigantic tit?

Oh, and they can now spy on us whenever and wherever they please. Oh, and we now have TSA screwing up airports everywhere, and just this week, those geniuses let me right through security with a knife in my carry on luggage while my wife had a bottle of shampoo and a bottle of lotion confiscated. Geniuses. Any WE are paying for this horseshit!

Oh, and another small endeavor. We have military bases in over 100 countries around the world, making sure the world does what we tell them to do. Oh, and this is only costing you, me and all the other suckers paying the bill about ONE TRILLION DOLLARS per year. And more to come. Of course, Halliburton and all those other who patriotically "support" our military love it. They do actually get paid you know.

If anyone who considers themselves to be a true patriotic American, who believes in the values this once great country was founded on, then you should take a couple of hours and read Ron Paul's "The Revolution; A Manifesto". http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Manifesto-Ron-Paul/dp/0446537519 You will begin to have the scales peeled back from your eyes and see what this crazy establishment has done to our country.

Not me. Not anymore. I will not support either of these socialists. There is no such thing as the lesser of two evils. I thought there was up until I finally had my eyes opened. Was George W. Bush really less evil than Al Gore? They are both socialistic idiots.

Is John McCain less evil than Barack Obama? They are both socialists. One is a complete idiot socialist who has been latched on to the government tit his whole life, and his father's whole life. The other is a young, charismatic, pretty intelligent socialist who talks change. What a joke!

In Support of Anarchy

Most people, when confronted with the idea of anarchy, casually assume it could never work. "Wouldn't we all just go around killing each other?" is the standard reaction.

But what if there were no law against murder. Would everyone just start killing each other? I don't think so.

We live in a world that is organized in a hierarchical structure. Authority and power are wielded by a handful of men at the top of the pyramid, who make decisions which affect the lives of everyone below them. They will never be able to elicit lasting happiness for their subjects, simply because they cannot know each and every desire of each and every individual below them.

This top-down organizational paradigm is an anomaly in nature. Look at ant colonies, for example. There is no king or queen ant directing the rest of the ants. (The queen ant just lays eggs.) Each ant behaves autonomously; it knows what to do. There is spontaneous communication going on, through feelers and chemical messengers. But the whole colony is one super-organism, self-organizing itself. This concept is also known as swarm intelligence. Other examples of decentralized systems include the Internet, and more specifically, peer-to-peer networks like Gnutella.

So why not human society? Anarchy, the absence of government, is the natural order of man. To be governed is tragic; to govern is pathetic. I believe we would all be happier in the absence of government. Sure, there would be problems, but the U.S. government seems to create more problems than it solves. The drug war, a monopolized monetary system, endless laws, taxes going to pay for bloated bureaucracies that do nothing, stupid wars. The list goes on and on.

Chaos creates order. Order creates chaos. The state imposes artificial order onto this land, creating chaos in the forms of crime, poverty, and depression. If we dismantled the government and let anarchy ensue, a new order would arise out of the chaos. An order that reflected the needs and desires of each and every individual. An order whereby each local community could direct its own fate. An order based on mutual respect and understanding. An order where people would come together to solve problems instead of relying upon unresponsive elected officials.

Is it possible to live in a world where everyone's desires are fulfilled? A world free of boring work? A world where every day is another day in heaven? Or should we just settle for this so-so world? The change starts inside of you. As you change, people around you begin to change. And slowly (or quickly) our world/consensus reality starts to reflect our most imperative dreams. I will end with the following quote from Nelson Mandela.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Finally, ABC recently aired a great segment by John Stossel questioning the necessity of government. He uses an ice skating rink as an analogy for anarchy. Really gives you something to think about... (Skip ahead to 5:10)