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“When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it. It was the saddest darn thing to look at,” said a BP contract worker who took the Daily News on a surreptitious tour of the wildlife disaster unfolding in Louisiana.
and this from “Russia’s Scientists: Toxic Rain From Oil Spill Will Ravage America”:
Technoccult has some useful coverage on the topic as well. See: Some Oil Spill Related Articles Worth Your Attention and Red Star Times’s excellent coverage “Criminals Running the Crime Scene”
Case in point: Not only will the health care bill leave four million people uninsured–to say nothing of the people paying too much for sub-standard coverage–it will fine them for the privilege. So not only are Americans now a captive audience of insurance conglomerates that would sell their organs if a profit could be turned on them, those who can’t afford to provide further profits for insurance companies will be fined.
Why not just pass out prison terms for poverty?
More to the point, what will it take to get the Obamatons to admit that they were wrong? Barack Obama may represent hope for a small layer of financiers and other social parasites, but he certainly doesn’t represent change. I’ve been banging the drum on Obama being Reagan’s eighth term for a while now. Anyone with a shred of intellectual honesty can see a clear progression from Reagan’s attacks on the American working class to Barack Obama’s that runs through both Bushes and Clinton
See Also:Black Sun Gazzette | Enjoy Your Health Care Shit Sandwich
WHEN the Sloan Digital Sky Survey started work in 2000, its telescope in New Mexico collected more data in its first few weeks than had been amassed in the entire history of astronomy. Now, a decade later, its archive contains a whopping 140 terabytes of information. A successor, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, due to come on stream in Chile in 2016, will acquire that quantity of data every five days.
Such astronomical amounts of information can be found closer to Earth too. Wal-Mart, a retail giant, handles more than 1m customer transactions every hour, feeding databases estimated at more than 2.5 petabytes—the equivalent of 167 times the books in America’s Library of Congress (see article for an explanation of how data are quantified). Facebook, a social-networking website, is home to 40 billion photos. And decoding the human genome involves analysing 3 billion base pairs—which took ten years the first time it was done, in 2003, but can now be achieved in one week.
All these examples tell the same story: that the world contains an unimaginably vast amount of digital information which is getting ever vaster ever more rapidly.
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Alex Szalay, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University, notes that the proliferation of data is making them increasingly inaccessible. “How to make sense of all these data? People should be worried about how we train the next generation, not just of scientists, but people in government and industry,” he says.
“We are at a different period because of so much information,” says James Cortada of IBM, who has written a couple of dozen books on the history of information in society. Joe Hellerstein, a computer scientist at the University of California in Berkeley, calls it “the industrial revolution of data”. The effect is being felt everywhere, from business to science, from government to the arts. Scientists and computer engineers have coined a new term for the phenomenon: “big data”.
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Moreover, there are now many more people who interact with information. Between 1990 and 2005 more than 1 billion people worldwide entered the middle class. As they get richer they become more literate, which fuels information growth, notes Mr Cortada. The results are showing up in politics, economics and the law as well. “Revolutions in science have often been preceded by revolutions in measurement,” says Sinan Aral, a business professor at New York University. Just as the microscope transformed biology by exposing germs, and the electron microscope changed physics, all these data are turning the social sciences upside down, he explains. Researchers are now able to understand human behaviour at the population level rather than the individual level.
The amount of digital information increases tenfold every five years. Moore’s law, which the computer industry now takes for granted, says that the processing power and storage capacity of computer chips double or their prices halve roughly every 18 months. The software programs are getting better too. Edward Felten, a computer scientist at Princeton University, reckons that the improvements in the algorithms driving computer applications have played as important a part as Moore’s law for decades.
A vast amount of that information is shared. By 2013 the amount of traffic flowing over the internet annually will reach 667 exabytes, according to Cisco, a maker of communications gear. And the quantity of data continues to grow faster than the ability of the network to carry it all.
Read more about our increasing data and it’s associated problems at The Economist
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Provisions in the measure would have expired on Sunday without Obama’s signature Saturday.
The act, which was adopted in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, expands the government’s ability to monitor Americans in the name of national security.
Three sections of the Patriot Act that stay in force will:
*Authorize court-approved roving wiretaps that permit surveillance on multiple phones.
*Allow court-approved seizure of records and property in anti-terrorism operations.
*Permit surveillance against a so-called lone wolf, a non-U.S. citizen engaged in terrorism who may not be part of a recognized terrorist group.
The Senate also approved the measure, with privacy protections cast aside when Senate Democrats lacked the necessary 60-vote supermajority to pass them. Thrown away were restrictions and greater scrutiny on the government’s authority to spy on Americans and seize their records.
Tyranny - it’s here to stay.pat
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Dr. Leir, a major player in the world of UFO research, will be appearing as a special guest at an event in Burbank on Sunday, February 7 [2010]. The gathering at Pickwick Gardens also include Jordan Maxwell (“a preeminent researcher and speaker in the fields of secret societies, occult philosophies, and ufology since 1959,” according to the man’s website) giving lectures on “The Hidden Dimensions in World Affairs.” (Both seem to be friends to the Forteans.)
In this special session [Dr. Roger K. Leir] will reveal scientific proof that WE ARE NOT ALONE. Dr. Leir is a podiatric surgeon, in private practice for the past 43 years and has written numerous books including The Aliens and the Scalpel, UFO Crash in Brazil, and Casebook Alien Implants.
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Electronic instrument improv/collab. flasmob descends on Austin’s pedestrian bridge and makes some vicious noise in the name of good fun.
Video from the previous Drum machine circle:
More vids from the 09-09-09 event here. Arranged by the guys @ Awthum Empire - there should be more events in this vein more often. Nice work.
Throbbing Gristle interviewed by Richard Metzger (Chris Carter’s tour setup is kinda lame - Seriously like 4 Korg Kaos products? The Gristleizer Reproductions look nice though.)
Patriot Act Being Used Against a 16 Year Old Boy
Sun’s protective ‘bubble’ is shrinking Also ‘Quiet Sun’ baffling astronomers
US Game Designer Blasts Into Space With DNA Cargo
Roman police find sewer children
Can the Human Lifespan Reach 1,000 Years -Some Experts Say “Yes”
Right where you are sitting now - Ep. 26 - The Three Stigmata of Phillip K. Dick, with Erik Davis
GSpot- Falcon, Falcon, Burning Bright?
Mormon Expose: Part 1 Part2 Part 3 Part 4
‘Til Next time, the Kansas’ Citizen Readiness subcommittee of the Metropolitan Emergency Managers Committee (LOL!) want you to remember You AND everyone you know may be a terrorist:
Senate bills No. 773 and 778, introduced by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., are both part of what’s being called the Cybersecurity Act of 2009, which would create a new Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor, reportable directly to the president and charged with defending the country from cyber attack.
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First, the White House, through the national cybersecurity advisor, shall have the authority to disconnect “critical infrastructure” networks from the Internet – including private citizens’ banks and health records, if Rockefeller’s examples are accurate – if they are found to be at risk of cyber attack. The working copy of the bill, however, does not define what constitutes a cybersecurity emergency, and apparently leaves the question to the discretion of the president.
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According to Granick, granting the Department of Commerce oversight of the “critical” networks, such as banking records, would grant the government access to potentially incriminating information obtained without cause or warrant, a violation of the Constitution’s prohibition against unlawful search and seizure.
From Jay Rockefeller’s entry on Wikipedia:
“Retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies
In 2007, Senator Rockefeller began steering the Senate Intelligence Committee to grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies who were accused of unlawfully assisting the National Security Agency (NSA) in monitoring the communications of American citizens (see Hepting v. AT&T).[9]
This was an about-face of sorts for Senator Rockefeller, who had hand-written a letter to Vice President Cheney in 2003 expressing his concerns about the legality of NSA’s warrantless wire-tapping program. Some have attributed this change of heart to the spike in contributions from telecommunications companies to the senator just as these companies began lobbying Congress to protect them from lawsuits regarding their cooperation with the NSA[10].
Between 2001 and the start of this lobbying effort, AT&T employees had contributed $300 to the senator.[10]. After the lobbying effort began, AT&T employees and executives donated $19,350 in 3 months[10]. The senator has pledged not to rely on his vast fortune to fund his campaigns[11], and the AT&T contributions represent about 2% of the money he raised during the previous year[10].
[edit] Retroactive immunity for torture
Though publicly deploring torture, Rockefeller was one of two Congressional Democrats briefed on waterboarding and other secret CIA practices in the early years of the Bush Administration, as well as the existence of taped evidence of such interrogations (later destroyed).[12] In December 2007, Rockefeller opposed a special counsel or commission inquiry into the destruction of the tapes, stating “it is the job of the intelligence committees to do that.”[13]
On September 28, 2006, Rockefeller voted with a largely Republican majority to suspend habeas corpus provisions for anyone deemed by the Executive Branch an “unlawful combatant,” barring them from challenging their detentions in court. Rockefeller’s vote gave a retroactive, nine-year immunity to U.S. officials who authorized, ordered, or committed acts of torture and abuse, permitting the use of statements obtained through torture to be used in military tribunals so long as the abuse took place by December 30, 2005.[14] Rockefeller’s vote authorized the President to establish permissible interrogation techniques and to “interpret the meaning and application” of international Geneva Convention standards, so long as the coercion fell short of “serious” bodily or psychological injury.[15][16] The bill became law on October 17, 2006.”
A protester throws a computer terminal taken from the Royal Bank of Scotland offices at the smashed windows of its branch near the Bank of England
“Many City workers have dressed in casual clothes after banks and other institutions were warned they may be targeted.” - Setting up an “Us Vs. Them” mentality to isolate the working class and keep them in fear while idolizing their protectors - the police?
Whether that was the intent or not it seemed to work:
“Fearing they would be targeted by protesters, some bankers swapped their pinstripe suits for casual wear and others stayed home. Bolder financial workers leaned out their office windows Wednesday, taunting demonstrators and waving 10 pound notes at them.”
On a Similar note:
“Five people are being held under the Terrorism Act.“ from the arrest made prior to the protest and linked to it. - More fear mongering by the press in their hyping this story? It’s somewhat reminiscent of the treatment received by the RNC protest organizers here stateside.
“Royal Bank of Scotland is at the center of protesters’ anger because it had to be bailed out by the British government after a series of disastrous deals brought it to the brink of bankruptcy. The bank is now majority-owned by the British taxpayer.
Despite that, its former chief executive Fred Goodwin — aged just 50 — managed to walk off with a tidy $1 million annual pension for life, while unemployment in Britain now tops 2 million and is heading towards 3 million by the end of this year. Goodwin has been vilified by the British press.”
“Police have turned their attention to the masterminds of yesterday’s violent G20 protests. At 12.20 today officers raided two squats in east London that they say where headquarters for several groups involved in organizing. Officers are pouring over CCTV footage and shots by Met photographers as well as monitoring internet chatter to identify known troublemakers that were at yesterdays demonstrations.” - Technology is awesome for catching yr political dissidents.
“Demonstrators hoisted effigies of the “four horsemen of the apocalypse,” representing war, climate chaos, financial crimes and homelessness.”
Various tidbits from Gaza Solidarity:
This man died during the protest, denied attention by the medical police services in the wake of the chaos. His name has not been released.
Protesters are let out of the pens one by one, but only after they’ve been photographed by police Forward Intelligence Teams.
George Monbiot has an excellent article on police brutality in the Guardian today:
“The trouble-makers are out in force again. Dressed in black, their faces partly obscured, some of them appear to be interested only in violent confrontation. It’s almost as if they are deliberately raising the temperature, pushing and pushing until a fight kicks off. But this isn’t some disorganised rabble: these people were bussed in and are plainly acting in concert. There’s another dead giveaway. They are all wearing the same slogan: Police”
The Guardian reports:
“After the charge against the sit-down protest at students, there were complaints that officers had been heavy handed. ‘When people surrounded RBS, I could understand police tactics,’ said Jack Bright, 19. ‘We were sat down, trying to have a peaceful protest, but they started whacking us.’”
Police are using anti-terror laws to force people to delete pictures from their cameras.
Police have arrested six demonstrators they describe as being in an ‘armoured vehicle’.
fuckthepolice
Some Condescending-ass reporters:
The bottomline price tag on the G20 summit:
a total of $1.1 trillion
Number of Arrest? Alot of different numbers handed out by the media and alot of references to people being “driven away”
G20 will be meeting in NY in the fall and will hopefully be greeted with greater levels of chaos as people see the ineffectual nature of this current consolidation of financial power.
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