Didja know Dianne Feinstein's family has interest in a company that makes the tools to put backdoors in chipsets?
Caution! I have some select crude words (also very brief) for the 'elected' senator from my state, and an interesting note on the cyber-stalking of anyone who researches thing like this. The image at the top of this post and text elaborate with documentation.
Also, and more on-topic, on October 01, 2013 Glenn Greenwald was @reddit discussing Snowden's revelations about the federal government's chip tampering. There were some electrical engineers watching, and 'debugging' the thread.
Some interesting conclusions about which chips are compromised, and it's an extensive list.
I speculated humorously at the time that most of them ended up in internet 'privacy appliances'. Dedicated boxes for communicating with paid-for consumer VPN and proxy services now being advertised in the National Enquirer etc, but well hell, "Export" is just as cynically humorous.
Note: All links lead to my Tumblr b/c: Simplicity (and synopsis)
I suppose Captain Finnegan, the "Silver Fox", who ran the NYPD's "Bureau of Special Services" (Red Squad) during the Vietnam War protests is long gone, me having been a teen and his people all middle aged, but THAT anti-war activist stalking Zombie lives on too.
Tumblr's the other day in re the NSA but it's totally apropos...an article at The Economist about the backlash against the use of "Big Data:
”…the risk of spurious correlations—associations that are statistically robust but happen only by chance—increases with more data. Although there are new statistical techniques to identify and banish spurious correlations, such as running many tests against subsets of the data, this will always be a problem."
The difference inferred from wikipedia's definition is an Oligarchy allows the technocrats to have real power and wealth. A Plutocracy does not. In the US, scientists, economists, and other technocrats may often be well-off financially, but typically they do not have a hold any 'reins of power'. They are 'helpers'... "Loyal (in academia 'Peer-reviewed') Subjects"
Oligarchy:
Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning "few", and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning "to rule or to command")[1][2][3] is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, or military control. Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition for the application of this term.
Plutocracy:
Plutocracy (from Greek πλοῦτος, ploutos, meaning "wealth", and κράτος, kratos, meaning "power, dominion, rule") or plutarchy, defines a society or a system ruled and dominated by the small minority of the wealthiest citizens. The first known use of the term is 1652.[1] Unlike systems such as democracy, capitalism, socialism or anarchism, plutocracy is not rooted in an established political philosophy. The concept of plutocracy may be advocated by the wealthy classes of a society in an indirect or surreptitious fashion, though the term itself is almost always used in a pejorative sense...
Personally, I think Herbert Marcuse' concept of "Repressive Desublimination" is in play in Western consumer capitalist societies and it allows for suppressing the knowledge of that plutocratic state-of-government by controlling the other "classes of a society in an indirect or surreptitious fashion" by the simple act of obsessive shopping, with the help of psychologically designed-to-be-predatory advertising and the media... which is now in the hands of six conglomerates in the US.
After all, the reason you never hear about media concentration is BECAUSE OF media concentration.
400% plus and I doubt there's a visible effect on American's petro consumption.
It's going to take a LOT more than solar panels and 'energy saving' TOXIC lightbulbs.
Let's say we stop driving and figure out a way to put work that pays the rent near our homes. Cars may not be the main source of air pollution in the US today but they sure are THE main consumption point for oil. Modern cars it might be noted are also much more gentle on the environment in re the air we breath from their exhaust pipes, but at the end of their relatively short life cycle compared to my air sooting FIFTY YEAR OLD International Travelall. Meanwhile almost none of a modern car made of plasticvs and alloy metals is feasibly recyclable, unlike the IH which will become 2 tons of reusable steel at the end of it's long life.
We REALLY need economists to calculate all this with true-costing. NONE of that is happening, and there's a reason. "Green" is mostly the color of money right now. NOT the technology, which for the most part is incredibly energy intensive and earth raping, causing not-so-inexpensive foreign wars and adventurism.
True cost that in too. Start with the covert proxy war on Africa. Africom's budget has increased dramatically since it's inception just a few years ago.
Personally, I think expecting current technology and the technocrats who make money from it to resolve the problems created by that technology that pays their rent is a fool's game. Like expecting the "Banksters" (a term I despise, of right wing origin) to fix the financial system they INTENTIONALLY broke... even as many Americans wish to get rid of fractional reserve banking... But OF COURSE not their ability to do pretty much the same thing with their all-too-pervasive credit cards.
We've got a LONG way to go and a LOT of educating to do, with some seriously unethical, feudalistic people at the top of the corporate scientific 'food chain' who, by their training and education place profits over people.
The odds are NOT in favor of the planet OR it's average citizen.
> The Declaration of Independence spoke of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Richard Hofstadter along with other US historians have noted that "Liberty" at the time meant liberty to own property without government interference. Including people. SPECIFICALLY. (but not only) Africans... eg. African Slaves
Ihad an interesting twitter exchange regarding Cliven Bundy, Welfare Mother "Rancher" yesterday that speaks to this issue and more.
About my tweet: "#WelfareMother 'ranchers' ALREADY gets dirt cheap to free grazing land from the government. He should be happy w/ what he's got", see this article by Yasha Levine @NSFW from independence day last year "Conservation is an Oligarch's Best Friend" about the benefits of 'ranching' in America today and this Levine article from June 28 last year "Small Government, Huge Hypocrite" where Yasha posits "“Welfare for the rich is the only kind of welfare our political culture can tolerate.”.
Indeed, That's been said in a photo which I dedicate to Xerox, GoldmanSachs, and the rest of the corporate welfare mothers who make their money handling state "Welfare" systems, meaning poverty is profitable. See this study: "Food Stamps: Follow the Money (Are Corporations Profiting from Hungry Americans?) by Michele Simon (PDF @ Mega 1.4 mb 28 pgs)
Those are mostly marketing jobs, selling green stuff to the other 79.999 people who were lucky enough to find marketing jobs in the Greenwash biz selling green stuff to the other 79,998...
Green is just another Ponzi allowing us to go on believing we won't be living in grass shacks a hundred years from now because we the fool mistake of relying on the same technocrats who made the mess to get us out of it, and BTW, next year is Peak Shale Fuel year. Already you say? Just ask the CEO of Chesapeake
Didja know Dianne Feinstein's family has interest in a company that makes the tools to put backdoors in chipsets?
Caution! I have some select crude words (also very brief) for the 'elected' senator from my state, and an interesting note on the cyber-stalking of anyone who researches thing like this. The image at the top of this post and text elaborate with documentation.
Also, and more on-topic, on October 01, 2013 Glenn Greenwald was @reddit discussing Snowden's revelations about the federal government's chip tampering. There were some electrical engineers watching, and 'debugging' the thread.
Some interesting conclusions about which chips are compromised, and it's an extensive list.
I speculated humorously at the time that most of them ended up in internet 'privacy appliances'. Dedicated boxes for communicating with paid-for consumer VPN and proxy services now being advertised in the National Enquirer etc, but well hell, "Export" is just as cynically humorous.
Note: All links lead to my Tumblr b/c: Simplicity (and synopsis)
What Donald Rumsfeld had to say about Doug Feith's OSI domestic disinformation operation comes to mind..
NYPD gave us "The Corpse".
I suppose Captain Finnegan, the "Silver Fox", who ran the NYPD's "Bureau of Special Services" (Red Squad) during the Vietnam War protests is long gone, me having been a teen and his people all middle aged, but THAT anti-war activist stalking Zombie lives on too.
Tumblr's the other day in re the NSA but it's totally apropos...an article at The Economist about the backlash against the use of "Big Data:
”…the risk of spurious correlations—associations that are statistically robust but happen only by chance—increases with more data. Although there are new statistical techniques to identify and banish spurious correlations, such as running many tests against subsets of the data, this will always be a problem."
Why the NSA’s Orwellian Data Suck Should Scare The Crap Out Of Everyone… (Hint: It’s Doesn’t Work Reliably)
Lessig calls it right. Plutocracy NOT Oligarchy
The difference inferred from wikipedia's definition is an Oligarchy allows the technocrats to have real power and wealth. A Plutocracy does not. In the US, scientists, economists, and other technocrats may often be well-off financially, but typically they do not have a hold any 'reins of power'. They are 'helpers'... "Loyal (in academia 'Peer-reviewed') Subjects"
Oligarchy:
Oligarchy (from Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía); from ὀλίγος (olígos), meaning "few", and ἄρχω (arkho), meaning "to rule or to command")[1][2][3] is a form of power structure in which power effectively rests with a small number of people. These people could be distinguished by royalty, wealth, family ties, education, corporate, or military control. Such states are often controlled by a few prominent families who typically pass their influence from one generation to the next, but inheritance is not a necessary condition for the application of this term.
Plutocracy:
Plutocracy (from Greek πλοῦτος, ploutos, meaning "wealth", and κράτος, kratos, meaning "power, dominion, rule") or plutarchy, defines a society or a system ruled and dominated by the small minority of the wealthiest citizens. The first known use of the term is 1652.[1] Unlike systems such as democracy, capitalism, socialism or anarchism, plutocracy is not rooted in an established political philosophy. The concept of plutocracy may be advocated by the wealthy classes of a society in an indirect or surreptitious fashion, though the term itself is almost always used in a pejorative sense...
Personally, I think Herbert Marcuse' concept of "Repressive Desublimination" is in play in Western consumer capitalist societies and it allows for suppressing the knowledge of that plutocratic state-of-government by controlling the other "classes of a society in an indirect or surreptitious fashion" by the simple act of obsessive shopping, with the help of psychologically designed-to-be-predatory advertising and the media... which is now in the hands of six conglomerates in the US.
After all, the reason you never hear about media concentration is BECAUSE OF media concentration.
400% plus and I doubt there's a visible effect on American's petro consumption.
It's going to take a LOT more than solar panels and 'energy saving' TOXIC lightbulbs.
Let's say we stop driving and figure out a way to put work that pays the rent near our homes. Cars may not be the main source of air pollution in the US today but they sure are THE main consumption point for oil. Modern cars it might be noted are also much more gentle on the environment in re the air we breath from their exhaust pipes, but at the end of their relatively short life cycle compared to my air sooting FIFTY YEAR OLD International Travelall. Meanwhile almost none of a modern car made of plasticvs and alloy metals is feasibly recyclable, unlike the IH which will become 2 tons of reusable steel at the end of it's long life.
We REALLY need economists to calculate all this with true-costing. NONE of that is happening, and there's a reason. "Green" is mostly the color of money right now. NOT the technology, which for the most part is incredibly energy intensive and earth raping, causing not-so-inexpensive foreign wars and adventurism.
True cost that in too. Start with the covert proxy war on Africa. Africom's budget has increased dramatically since it's inception just a few years ago.
Personally, I think expecting current technology and the technocrats who make money from it to resolve the problems created by that technology that pays their rent is a fool's game. Like expecting the "Banksters" (a term I despise, of right wing origin) to fix the financial system they INTENTIONALLY broke... even as many Americans wish to get rid of fractional reserve banking... But OF COURSE not their ability to do pretty much the same thing with their all-too-pervasive credit cards.
We've got a LONG way to go and a LOT of educating to do, with some seriously unethical, feudalistic people at the top of the corporate scientific 'food chain' who, by their training and education place profits over people.
The odds are NOT in favor of the planet OR it's average citizen.
> The Declaration of Independence spoke of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
Richard Hofstadter along with other US historians have noted that "Liberty" at the time meant liberty to own property without government interference. Including people. SPECIFICALLY. (but not only) Africans... eg. African Slaves
Ihad an interesting twitter exchange regarding Cliven Bundy, Welfare Mother "Rancher" yesterday that speaks to this issue and more.
https://twitter.com/AuntieImperial/status/459759147131482112
About my tweet: "#WelfareMother 'ranchers' ALREADY gets dirt cheap to free grazing land from the government. He should be happy w/ what he's got", see this article by Yasha Levine @NSFW from independence day last year "Conservation is an Oligarch's Best Friend" about the benefits of 'ranching' in America today and this Levine article from June 28 last year "Small Government, Huge Hypocrite" where Yasha posits "“Welfare for the rich is the only kind of welfare our political culture can tolerate.”.
Indeed, That's been said in a photo which I dedicate to Xerox, GoldmanSachs, and the rest of the corporate welfare mothers who make their money handling state "Welfare" systems, meaning poverty is profitable. See this study: "Food Stamps: Follow the Money (Are Corporations Profiting from Hungry Americans?) by Michele Simon (PDF @ Mega 1.4 mb 28 pgs)
Those are mostly marketing jobs, selling green stuff to the other 79.999 people who were lucky enough to find marketing jobs in the Greenwash biz selling green stuff to the other 79,998...
Green is just another Ponzi allowing us to go on believing we won't be living in grass shacks a hundred years from now because we the fool mistake of relying on the same technocrats who made the mess to get us out of it, and BTW, next year is Peak Shale Fuel year. Already you say? Just ask the CEO of Chesapeake
http://business.time.com/2012/05/03/fracked-why-chesapeake-energys-aubrey-mcclendon-is-in-hot-water/