Wednesday February 15, 2012

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    Bholder

    please stop with this fallacy of equating personal privacy with what wikileaks has been exposing. wikileaks has just brought back to public what always has been public right: these people are paid by our tax money, operate in our name, their decisions affect billions of lives and finally, they are called PUBLIC servants, not private. it has no similarities with any individual's info either in its nature nor in its scope and I can't fathom where does this line of thinking originates from or what can its justification possibly be?!

    Posted in: In view of what has been happening with WikiLeaks and various file-sharing software, is privacy a lost cause?

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    Bholder

    i think the question should be better formed: In view of what has been happening with WikiLeaks and various file-sharing software, is democracy a lost cause?

    that is, shall we allow both domestic policy as well as diplomacy to be taken out of the general public's sphere of influence and interest and give up the right in participating in deciding our destiny or shall we take those rights back?!

    Posted in: In view of what has been happening with WikiLeaks and various file-sharing software, is privacy a lost cause?

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    i believe mind is like a sort of a hard disk and it needs to cool off during night and sort all the information received during the day, just as you decompose and compress your hard drive. that's why in our dreams we get all sorts of info mixed up, different times and places, seemingly unconnected people etc. basically, the brain sorts recently input info with rarely accessed info etc.

    so i believe both consciousness and subconsciousness to be reflextions of reality and not the other way around. they are completely influenced by our "real lives" but have very limited to none influence on reality.

    Posted in: Do you believe that dreams have a bearing on or are symbolic of something in your real life?

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    "The man who had been admonished for using his cell phone called the police and accused the other man of assault, alleging that the latter had seized him by the wrist."

    OMG, don't say! by the wrist?

    Posted in: 70,000 commuters delayed by quarrel over cell phone on train in Chiba

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    "And if the US weren't there and Japan had their own blue water fleet of carriers you'd be crying about Japanese Imperialism."

    as if consistently repudiating imperialism wherever it's coming from is somehow wrong?

    Posted in: Military maneuvers

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    Speaking to a joint session of Congress on January 18, 1918 as to the principles of peace for the end of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson stated as the very first point of his Fourteen Points: “Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the public view.” He was obliged in part to do this because the rush to war in 1914 had been secured by secret alliances, published by the new communist government of Russia by the time of Wilson’s speech, against Germany by “democratic” France and Britain with the Russian Tsarist dictatorship, agreements which would have been widely opposed by the working class in the period before the spark of war was ignited.

    Posted in: WikiLeaks loses major source of revenue

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    Bholder

    putting information of a private citizen and that of public servants in the same category? these people influence the lives of billions with their backroom secret dealings and alliances they are too afraid of to admit to their own populations! they don't put their own lives on line when starting a war or civil unrest, they count on all of us and our children to fight in their interest! all the while being paid by our taxes and claiming all their doings are for our benefit and with our interests in mind!!! it is this duplicity, this shameless scam that is coming to light. i can see no correlation whatsoever with private info of a regular citizen being breached.

    Posted in: Noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange

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    Bholder

    no one supports anarchy and lawlessness. but you will not find me blindly supporting oppressive laws designed to protect the privileged few over majority also. this is the point wikileaks has made and made it very strongly - the interests of the elite are completely opposed to those of the majority! this fact is covered for by most "media" and it is precisely this that is the biggest point these leaks have proven.

    the very american revolution that established your republic was taking the system down wasn't it?! you made people's militias to rise in arms against what was then the legal state army. it shook the yoke of british imperialism, aristocracy, eclasiastical authority and in short went against all the entrenched interests and prevalent prejudices. it has issued a thoroughly revolutionary proclamation of human rights and equality as self evident and vowed to protect and uphold them.

    Posted in: Noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange

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    The state persecution of Assange—enthusiastically backed by the mass media—is one expression of a far-reaching decay of democracy in the United States and internationally. World governments, led by the United States, are carrying out deeply unpopular policies—the multi-trillion dollar bailout of financial institutions, relentless demands for social austerity and the expanding war and global plunder. The constant proclamations about the need for secrecy, which WikiLeaks has violated by publishing government documents, arises fundamentally from the irreconcilable conflict between the social interests that these governments represent and the needs and aspirations of the vast majority of the population. The persecution of Assange in an effort to silence this exposure is not simply a threat to one individual. The methods employed against WikiLeaks will be used against all opposition to the policies of the corporate and financial aristocracy.

    Posted in: Noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange

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    Bholder

    If the actions of WikiLeaks have helped reveal, in real time, the lies of the American government, they have also exposed the role of the chief propagators of these lies: the American media. For decades, the US government has cultivated the media to the point where it engages in self-censorship as a matter of course, where it does not even blush to declare itself “embedded” with this or that military unit or other state body. The major newspapers regularly clear major articles with the White House and the Pentagon, delaying stories that could be politically harmful. Now, what is supposedly a central obligation of the media—to expose government secrets and provide information to the population—is treated by the media itself as if it were a criminal enterprise.

    Posted in: Noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange

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    Bholder

    The documents obtained by WikiLeaks—only a small fraction of which have been released so far—help expose what is a permanent conspiracy against the democratic rights of the world’s population: from covering up US bombings of civilians in Yemen, to working behind the scenes to obstruct the prosecution of CIA agents guilty of torture, to spying on UN officials in violation of international treaties. Those who are leading the campaign against WikiLeaks are themselves responsible for horrific atrocities. In the face of allegations from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that WikiLeaks had placed lives in danger, Assange gave an appropriate response in an interview with Time magazine. WikiLeaks, he noted, “has never caused an individual … to come to any sort of physical harm or to be wrongly imprisoned and so on. That is a record compared to the organizations that we are trying to expose who have literally been involved in the deaths of hundreds or thousands or, potentially over the course of many years, millions.”

    Posted in: Noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange

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    Bholder

    the very american revolution that established your republic was taking the system down wasn't it?! it shook the yoke of british imperialism, aristocracy, eclasiastical authority and in short went against all the entrenched interests and prevalent prejudices. it has issued a thoroughly revolutionary proclamation of human rights and equality as self evident and vowed to protect and uphold them.

    now another revolution in thinking is necessary more than anything. it is for this end that the info such as wikileaks provides is needed and every progressive thinking human should support the leaks and fervently oppose political hunt on assange.

    Posted in: Noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange

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    Bholder

    mikehuntez, taking down any country's system on the contrary becomes the duty of every thinking and sensible human when that system is corrupt beyond repair and when it has clearly become an obstacle to human progress.

    every important improvement in human morality, philosophy, politics, science etc. has emerged via struggling against prevalent superstitions and traditions embodied in the institutions of the state etc.

    Posted in: Noose tightens around WikiLeaks' Assange

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    Bholder

    can you not see that BOTH of your so called parties are nothing but an extension of the big business and operate directly under the influence of the financial capital? people are having their thanksgiving meals in the community kitchens! any of us can be next.

    elite and political class including both parties must be done with and the power of the state placed in the hands of the population before we even have a chance at a change we can believe in. as beelzebub said: to the barricades!

    Posted in: 2 million Americans lose jobless benefits as holiday season arrives

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    Bholder

    maybe data dump does not equal journalism but consulting with the pentagon about what can and what cannot be published beforehand as "major responsible media" are doing is even less so, it's mere propaganda!

    this exposes the interests for which the peoples of the world are made to fight and hate each other, and these are most certainly not the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population! this is the second time in history general public has been given the glimpse of the dirty dark side of spying game misnamed diplomacy; last time it was the workers of russia exposing the back-room dealings of the imperialist powers of the time: russia, germany, france etc. it's time for another revolution of information

    Posted in: WikiLeaks: Espionage? Journalism? Something else?

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    Bholder

    Religions, more often than not, are but masks for objective social forces. Ex: Catholicism expresses the interests of the landed nobility and of the feudal order, while Calvinism (or Puritanism) represents those of the bourgeoisie or capitalism, Judaism mirrors the interests of a precapitalist mercantile class.

    Organized religion is often nothing more than an attempt (albeit a somewhat successful one) to conceal the true driving forces of social dynamics from the masses in order to exploit them easier into toiling and fighting for interests they wouldn't consider worthy otherwise.

    It is in this that religion reveals its most destructive role in the world.

    Posted in: Is religion more of a destructive or benign force in the world today?

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    Commenting on this process, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung noted: “The financial crisis has come round to where it all started: the banks. And they have grown cheekier. While Lehman had to go bust to prove the need for tax payers to bail out banks, potential crises are now to be ‘preempted’ by EU taxpayers. Thus the banks will not be held liable for the risk—TO COVER WHICH THEY CHARGE ABUNDANT INTEREST—that a calamity will occur and a major debtor will default.”

    Posted in: Gloom, anger spreads as European economies teeter

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    The bailout of Ireland by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund makes clear that society confronts a disaster if the international banks are allowed to continue their plundering of national treasuries and dismantling of social welfare systems built up over decades. The financial rescue package has exposed the role of every European institution and national government as the servant of a global financial aristocracy. Not a single government, nor a single parliamentary party is either willing or able to check the ever-expanding power of international finance capital. Only a continent wide grassroots movement to expropriate and democratize banksters' empires and redirect those means towards the benefit of the society as a whole can lead us forward from this impasse. Or you can blame Muslims, immigrants, Chinese, N Koreans etc

    Posted in: Gloom, anger spreads as European economies teeter

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    Bholder

    "Officials say such a move will reduce the number of families and children who are considered poor based on the new supplemental measure, which will be used as a guide for federal and state agencies to set anti-poverty policies."

    I believe this is the whole point of the article. The headline should read: "Government using bogus research to justify fixing statistics in order to look less incompetent".

    All that while this is happening: "Some 15 percent of US households, 17.4 million families or about 50 million people, were too poor to buy adequate food last year, according to a new report from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). More than a third of these households, with as many as one million children, were missing meals on a regular basis, the study found."

    Posted in: 4 in 10 say marriage is becoming obsolete in U.S.

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    Bholder

    160 km above the pacific? that's outer space, above 100 km. is this article accurate? can they shoot something that high?

    Posted in: Japanese ship intercepts ballistic missile in test off Hawaii

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