Ron Paul Speaks Truth (aka; Ron Paul acts as normal)

Sickness unto Debt; Article on Slate

Fundamentals of Non Violent Protest Part I

Campaign Preparation:

Step 1: Self-Education and Grouping
- RESEARCH/study groups, workshops, conferences

Step 2: Where to focus efforts?
- Find weak points in opponent's armor
- Point out the nonsense, use science, statistics, news, scandals, lies, etc not to simply make them look "bad," but WRONG, as they are.

Step 3: Set short range goals
- Long range goals are obvious and easily set, but short range goals are often not so easy.
- Must be:
-Achievable
-Measurable
-Have timetable
-Significant to long range goals!

Step by Step actions from least drastic to outright revolutionary
- Investigation
- Negotiation
- Public forum
- Picketing/leafletting
- Demonstration/rally/march
- Limited strike
- Boycott
- Limited noncooperation
- Massive illegal action
- General strike
- Establish parallel gov't

This is just some base-level stuff to think about, more to come. School work has to happen, even if it doesn't seem to come first...
Be well, and be aware

Martial Law Threats Part of Bailout Push

Check out Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) talking about how our decision makers that ended up passing the bail out bill were threatened with martial law if the bill didn't go through...
Another article about it

Also, Patrick just told me about and I looked up a page for this:
FEDERAL RESERVE PROTEST IN CHARLOTTE, NC!!!!
NOVEMBER 22, 2008 SATURDAY 8 a.m. (thanks for edit dude)
FEDERAL RESERVE BUILDING
530 Trade St.
Charlotte, NC 28202

Y'all mawfuckaz know I'm gonna be there.
There are conflicting messages about the possible date, but this meetup.com page says the info I posted above, so I'm going with that for now. Will edit if necessary.
I'll make a post on nonviolent protest fundamentals later, I've been looking into it some.


** Update: by filabusta **
It is definitely going to be on the 22nd.
“On the night of November 22, 1910, a group of newspaper reporters stood disconsolately in the railway station at Hoboken, New Jersey. They had just watched a delegation of the nation’s leading financiers leave the station on a secret mission. It would be years before they discovered what that mission was, and even then they would not understand that the history of the United States underwent a drastic change after that night in Hoboken.”
From Secrets of the Federal Reserve, by Eustace Mullins.

I saw this on Pandatron

Woa


Um, sorry

1st Brigade Combat Team and Martial Law

Please read this article guys...
Are we about to see the shit hit the fan?

“If the American People ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency ... the corporations that will grow up around them will deprive them of their property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” — Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President."

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”
-President Woodrow Wilson

Why is this happening? I think we all know.
I'll post again when I can.

Just My Kind of Thing

Holy shit dude... I can't wait for the PS4. I wonder what sort of games they could make with something like that.

I just wish they would talk about the Fucking issues....

Back on our feet

So I've been wanting to write in this for a while now, but for some reason every time I never actually end up posting what I write. So it goes without saying that this blog has been lacking lately, but I would like to try to start again. Matt and I agree that we really liked it when this was in full swing, so lets try to get it back that way. Just a quick post from the computer lab for me today.

The guys who made Zeitgeist have come out with a second installment called "Zeitgeist: Addendum". Check it out if you have two hours of free time. Even if you disagree with the movie, it still makes you think. And if you haven't seen the first one it is definitely worth your time.

Another documentary I watched recently that I've been telling absolutely every body about is called "The Revolution Will Not be Televised". These two Irish film makers went to Venezuela to make a film about Hugo Chavez, and while they are there, there is a coup on the Chavez government organized by the CIA. The film makers capture everything and it is crazy. Just check it out, you won't regret it.

Watch this video

I'm sure you've all been paying attention to the financial crisis and our government's various responses to it. I'm in class, so no real time to write about it, but listen to Bush in this video. "Congress must act!" "It matters little what path a bill takes to become law, what matters is that it becomes law"
"Wa wa wa, I have to get what I want, let's run our country's people into the ground"
I'm pissed

About the election

If you follow the election at all, peep this site called perspctv. It monitors blogs and tweets that discuss the candidates in real time. Plus it contains graphs measuring how much news coverage each candidate gets compared to the other. I'm still not voting, but this site is fucking tite.

"nah...don't vote" - Lupe Fiasco

Raw Story wrote a rundown of a few VP options for Obama, personally I don't give a shit, because no choice could redeem his mad sellout, but I present the article because it has an intro explanation into the very sellout that I mentioned before. To get to the level of politician on the national scale you have to compromise yourself consistently, which sucks, but that's what our electoral system inspires. Anyway, Obama sold out, in my eyes, when he voted in favor of the new FISA bill that granted telecoms immunity for their crimes of supplying private information to the government. Fucking crimes, straight up everyone knows they're criminals, but nobody can do shit because of this bill. Thanks for being a leader Obama... I'm tired of the lesser of two evils is still a choice, fuck that. That's some shit. Another Lupe quote from that night, "We're gonna overthrow the motherfucker." I'm not voting this year, politicians are all (yeah all) full of shit. I'm in favor of democracy, but the "act" in itself won't bring us democracy. A little girl doesn't actually use tea in her imaginary tea party (democracy being the tea in America's democracy). Bush should be impeached, not just impeached, but actually removed from power.

The Solar Revolution

This is AMAZING. I knew that they were developing this kind of technology, but I didn't know how far away we were from completion. Now, hopefully with a President Obama, we can change the American infrastructure to ease off of non-renewable resources. They were understating the importance of this find when they said, "this is a major discovery with enormous implications for the future prosperity of humankind." It's good to be able to play on the internet like I used to. I've been catching up on my Colbert and Stewart, and definitely my world news. Some more good news, Karl Rove is being held for contempt of Congress for not showing up to a hearing on the Partisanship of the Justice Department. I hope he rots in jail. China is great, and I'll be back extremely soon so we can all catch up over a few beers. Take care everybody.

Hearings on the Imperial Presidency of George Bush

Sounds like fun.

NOT "tasteless and offensive..."

But hysterical. I'm calling it the terrorist fist bump from now on. No more knuckle bumps for me.
I do think this is one of the best New Yorker covers I've seen, though. Not subtle at all, but I still don't see why the Obama team doesn't understand the premise behind it. Well, I know it must be understood but that they're afraid some average American might for some reason put down their People and Entertainment Weekly to stumble upon a piece of enlightened work like the New Yorker and not pick up on its sarcasm.
Something I figured you folks would dig was this article on futuristic materials.
More cool technology here and here

Aight, that's about it for me for now
Cory

Kinda funny, and yes, Wikileaks is back.

Just thought this was funny.
Also, I was happy to look at Wikileaks a minute ago and see that it was indeed back. I guess this is old news since Patrick's post was from quite a bit ago. Now that it's back and pretty again, I can scan it for real.
I hope we can get this blog rolling again. I haven't been keeping up with the news like I used to because it's just so ridiculous. I'm afraid for the future of our country and the world these days. I'm afraid that with all the environmental issues we face, coupled with a culture of willful ignorance, distraction, and disconnection from reality, that it's going to be too late before people realize that the world we live in and the ways of live we lead are ensuring our destruction. (that sentence needs editing)
On top of it, our brand of government based on the empowerment of the corporation and the marginalization and economic enslavement of the majority of the citizens has led to masses of people living check to check, in debt with no end in sight, and with a misguided patriotic duty to consume. The American dream is indeed a dream, but I'm afraid that waking up is going to leave a lot of people grumpy and confused about how to live.
Even with new leadership and a drastic change in leadership, we're going to need to make some serious headway in energy consumption and independence, as well as efficiency in general with regards to our resource management (material, mineral, water, energy, waste).
What are you guys going to do? (I have interesting answers)
Do you see the problems as being as large as I see them?
Do you consider yourself to be well-informed about environmental issues and their connections to politics and the economy? (Mostly, but I must learn more every day)
What is going to happen? (hmmm)
Will our generation be witness to the end of suburbia and the "American dream?" (I hope so)

Enjoying summer? (YES)

I just might just...
Cory