Lessig: “I had dinner once with Richard Clark at the table and I said ‘is there an equivalent to the Patriot Act — an iPatriot Act — just sitting waiting for some substantial event just waiting for them to come have the excuse for radically changing the way the Internet works?’ And he said, ‘Of course there is’ — and I swear this is what he said, and quote — ‘and Vint Cerf is not going to like it very much.'”
‘We’re not under threat. We are the threat’ — Oliver Stone
“These violent delights have violent ends” — William Shakespeare
Bill Van Auken: Alongside this official 9/11 rhetoric, which grows more hollow with every passing year, a different discussion is taking place within the ruling political establishment and the military and intelligence apparatus. It centers on a proposal that Washington recruit factions of Al Qaeda […] as its proxy troops in a simultaneous war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad
I’ve been a Pinterest fan for years: One of the best places to find great graphics in almost any category from animals, to people to landscapes to art, news, history, etc. Beyond being able to look at all these great pictures, you can also setup your own filing system and save these pictures to a filing system that suits your needs.
Despite my love of Pinterest and despite its great features, I have watched Pinterest change for the worse over the years. Their visions of additional functionality have overrun their ability to provide an enjoyable end user experience. Many of their improvements have caused the site to run so much slower as to make it almost unusable. One great feature is their AI (Artificial Intelligence) that can fairly accurately guess the category in which you will place a picture you are viewing. Other improvements have caused the user’s browser to fill its cache, lose his place, requiring the user to start over at the beginning of his search for new photos wasting the user’s time reviewing previously viewed photos. In short, it seems that each and every tacked on feature has caused their program to run slower and slower and become more and more inefficient. Through all these improvements, Pinterest has lost its major asset which I call its ‘game play’. There is no game play anymore. What is left is a kludgy, thickly coded behemoth that does not and cannot scale as more and more photos, users and categories are added. So if Pinterest is interested in continued growth, they are faced with some serious decisions. Either they have to slim down and go back to their roots or they must rethink, re-architect and reprogram their codebase from the ground up so that it can scale as they add features.
I’ve been an iHeartRadio fan for years. iHeartRadio gives you access to over 1,500 crystal clear radio stations via your PC or your Cell. If you like news, like I do, you have access a plethora of live news talk shows around the USA via iHeardRadio: Rush, Levin, Clyde Lewis, Coast to Coast AM, etc.
Despite my love of iHeartRadio, with each and every upgrade, they have managed to basterdize the once great end user experience. First off, they try every trick in the book to get you to register. Once you register, it can keep track of your favorite radio stations. The problem is that after each and every very frequent update, this retarded program promptly forgets your registration requiring you to register all over again. This is a Pain in the ass so I have learned to never register to save my valuable time. Other problems for the end user, is that iHeartRadio seems to want to push one of their many music radio stations up in front of my news channels on a consistent basis. They would much rather that I listen to one of their mindless music channels than a news talk show. Maybe the music channels are more profitable than the talk radio news channels or maybe they don’t have enough listeners for their crappy music stations and need to push users to the music channels? Now each and every station is full of the standard ‘cut in commercials’ but that is not good enough for iHeartRadio, they insist on pushing additional commercials in your face before you get access to your favorite radio station. Another pisser is that iHeartRadio will spontaneously load without any user interaction. This can be embarrassing if you are in a meeting when iHeartRadio starts blaring from your coat or pant pocket. I have an application that kills iHeartRadio so that it cannot load spontaneously. Another problem with iHeartRadio and their affiliates is that they confuse Sports with News. Sports is sports and news is news. If I wanted to listen to sports, I would be listening to a sports channel. In short iHeartRadio has no respect for you the end user, just in squeezing out every last penny of revenue they can find.
After the recent Fiat Chrysler recalls and the Jeep hacks revealed the very real and dangerous vulnerabilities of connected cars to cybersecurity attacks, the news media has been inundated with countless articles on how Intel plans to fix this problem.
What none of these technological luminaries ever touch upon however are the two most important issues: Number One: Any honest security expert will tell you that there is no such thing as cyber security. PERIOD!; and Number Two: The CIA and NSA are on record stating their desire to have back-doors installed in any and all security and encryption systems. So if Intel is going to save the day, and if Intel is tied at the belly button to the NSA/CIA what hope of real cybersecurity can we expect? Answer: None. Stop being their fool.
Global warming is Social Engineering… is the snow black? Of course not. Is Global warming actually Global Cooling? How brainwashed are you? Experts say you should believe anything that comes out of their bought and paid for mouths. Can you think for yourself? Are you capable of objective, critical thought? Do you know what the scientific method is or what empirical evidence is? Science by consensus is not science at all but propaganda as anyone capable of critical thought would immediately recognize. Stop being their trained Lemmings and think for your selves.
It may be hoped that in time anybody will be able to persuade anybody of anything if he can catch the patient young and is provided by the State with money and equipment.
This subject will make great strides when it is taken up by scientists under a scientific dictatorship. Anaxagoras maintained that snow is black, but no one believed him. The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. . . . It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. — Bertrand Russell’s “Impact of Science on Society” (Page 30)
Is Climate Change Dangerous?
Published on Aug 10, 2015
David Dilley, former NOAA Meteorologist and current CEO and senior research scientist – Global Weather Oscillations, Inc., gives a presentation on Mind Your Own Business TV with Debi Davis. Mr. Dilley provides the viewer a full picture and understanding of climate change cycles and carbon dioxide cycles. Mr. Dilley combines his own research with peer reviewed research from other scientists and applies it to what is happening today, and to the likely dangerous climate change that will occur between the years 2019 to 2050.
By now we’ve all heard that “Hillary Clinton Can’t Name A Top Accomplishment While Secretary Of State”. Of course most of us have watched her staunchest supporters struggle with this question for years so this is no surprise. Smartly, up until recently, Hillary has been able to avoid this question entirely. But seriously, a person who has become first lady, a senator and head the State Department of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth must have some accomplishments, and she does. The first and most obvious is that she married a serial rapist from Arkansas who became governor and then President. Secondly, Democrat Jerry Zeifman said she was fired from the Watergate investigation for lying. She was a student and pen pals with Saul Alinsky and she’s become rich selling political influence to foreign governments. Can you think of other Hillary accomplishments?
Sometimes it is a bit frustrating to debate people who have not taken the time to read Quigley’s ‘Anglo-American Establishment’ or the many historical accounts of Antony C Sutton; but I must take the world as I find it. Most of these people are smart and well-intentioned but lack key information. Faced with similar frustrations, Joe Plummer would give away Quigley’s books in the hope someone would read them, only to find out the challenge was too great. Rather than give up, however, Joe decided to write his own slimmed-down, easier to understand and updated book on Quigley called appropriately Tragedy and Hope 101. In this sea of ignorance, how can we have an intelligent or sane conversation without 1) key information on the real players; 2) fundamental knowledge of methods and procedures and 3) the proven historical backdrop provided by Quigley and other researchers? That is the question. Without the historical context and an understanding of the genealogy and pedigree of the current batch of oligarchs, how can we advance our mutual understanding and how can we engage in an effective contest for our freedom as the collective noose is tightened around our collective necks?
We are encouraged by the rapid spread of information through the internet; and we are encouraged to understand, historically, the information wars can be won by as few as 5% of the populations. I am also encouraged by the many people who have not read Quigley, yet by the sheer force of their own intellectual skills and keen observations, can impute without the direct information provided by Quigley. Without Quigley, they point to inconsistencies in the official historical record and the official stories of finance, geopolitics and social engineering that deserve a complete accounting and then demand an explanation. The interview below with Paul Craig Roberts is a very good example of the brilliant intellect of PCR who struggles without the benefit of Quigley.
Another good example of brilliance overcoming ignorancewithout the benefit of Quigley can be seen in the excellent interview of NSA Whistleblower William Binney by Richard Grove here.
Obviously, Mr. Grove is well versed in Quigley, but the question must be asked: How much more effective would Binney or PCR be if they had the benefit of Quigley’s and Sutton’s documented evidence?
I’ve often said …
“There are two kinds of people: Those who have read Quigley and those who have not; and it is very easy to tell the difference.”
I didn’t say this to be offensive or elitist or to prove I’m smarter than anyone else. I said it simply because it is true. Once the truth of what Quigley said hits you, you can never go home again, you can never see the world the same way again. Your innocence is lost. Your naive belief in the goodness of so many institutions is forever shattered by documented fact. You see with clear eyes and so you are more difficult to fool by those who build the walled-gardens of propaganda where most of your fellows live out their intellectual lives; never questioning the construction of these walls, built of ‘well-established’ assumptions which are in fact lies.
But even with the revelations provided by Quigley, Sutton and others, the picture is never complete and of course changes over time. The old guards die, providing room for the new oligarchs and their attendant power structures; but these changes are mostly traceable and predictable. The footprints of the past are seen everywhere in the present. Today, we have a new generation of brave, brilliant investigators and heroes who have continued –sometimes at great personal sacrifice– to peel back the curtain so that we can observe those who seek to enslave the rest of us for their own selfish purposes. See the Julian Assange interview below.
Assange on ‘US Empire,’ Assad govt overthrow plans & new book ‘The WikiLeaks Files’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Published on Sep 9, 2015
Afshin Rattansi goes underground with the world’s most wanted publisher – the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. He has just co-authored a book – the WikiLeaks Files, and it paints a picture of systemic US torture and killing as well as the destruction of the lives and livelihoods of billions of people right around the world.
There are many examples of our Superstars who have read and understand Quigley and Sutton:
Antony C Sutton gave an interview back in 1980 discussing his research on the funding of World War II, when American and European financiers were funding both the Nazi party and the communists.
Sutton was an economics professor at California State University, Los Angeles and a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution from 1968 to 1973.
In 1973, Sutton published a popularized, condensed version of the three volumes called National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union and was thereby forced out of the Hoover Institution. His conclusion from his research on the issue was that the conflicts of the Cold War were “not fought to restrain communism”, since the United States, through financing the Soviet Union “directly or indirectly armed both sides in at least Korea and Vietnam”; rather, these wars were organised in order “to generate multibillion-dollar armaments contracts”
For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton’s Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development: 1917–1930, which argues that ‘Soviet economic development for 1917–1930 was essentially dependent on Western technological aid’ (p.283), and that ‘at least 95 per cent of the industrial structure received this assistance.’ (p. 348).
2015 Unfortunate Truth JFK, 9/11, and Beyond – The World We Live in.
Published on Feb 18, 2015: Length 4:37:51
The Real History – of the world from an historical perspective to the present day. This video explains the Facts of who, how & why of the JFK assassination and 9/11 complete with names and motives.
Meet Lee Harvey Oswald, Sheep-Dipped Patsy from James Corbett – short and to the point.