When an economist becomes an advocate for domestic death squads

I wish that were the start of a joke.  What I mean is the very unfortunate prospects of longterm unemployed when a so-called free market economist suggests a government solution in a Congressional hearing under a “national emergency” lens.

Unless you are ill acquainted with how national emergency language translates to the American public, let me brief you.  The most recent example would be the military lock down and monitoring of Boston and America’s financial centers on the Tax Day bombings. Martial law prevailed and armed soldiers penetrated American homes in search of the Tsarnaev brothers, accused of crimes of terrorism.  Martial law is sononomous with national emergency.

They are all but indicted already by way of media tampering. There is no way there can be an unbiased fair trial due to the FBI statements released as incriminating evidence.  There are notably two narratives.  The first is the non-stop microanalysis of every detail on the Boston bombings to the exclusion of other news, a full fledged media distraction plying the Tsarnaev brothers as undoubtedly guilty. This now includes bombings that haven’t even happened. The other narrative is that the Tsarnaev brothers were convenient terror suspects zeroed on prememtively by intelligence agencies based on their religion and foreign travel affiliations. They are the PR sacrifices taking the fall for US State sponsored domestic terrorism and “drill exercises” in Boston the day of the bombings.

Here is what I was watching for the day of the bombings: the fiscal crisis in America.  On the day that most Americans were rushing to file their tax returns, everyone would forget that our government is only getting enough tax cash to keep themselves afloat another 6 months. Not enough Americans are working to collect taxes.  Fermented unemployment amid able bodied, energetic and educated people terrifies a national security state hiding behind an cheapening facade.  There is a securitized elite who sees all civilian life as both threat and vermin.  Their economic counterparts, global banking cartels and their D.C. lapdogs will corroborate any story that will keep up any internal illusion of complete universal control based on elite military force.

That is why I wasn’t surprised to read this in my morning newspaper c/o McClatchy

“An economic adviser to the last three Republican presidential candidates, Kevin Hassett, labeled the stubbornly high rates of long-term unemployment a national emergency.

Hassett, who’s now a researcher at the free-market research center the American Enterprise Institute, cited research showing a drop of at least 40 percent in per capita income for people who’ve gone six months or longer without employment. The longer a worker is jobless, the greater the chance of divorce, family strife, suicide and a host of other ills that do permanent damage to children, who’ll become workers someday.”

One would think, great, finally someone from AEI has a fine grasp on a dehumanizing and virtually unlivable problem in America.  Here’s his solution.

“One idea he strongly supported involves subsidies for “work sharing.”  That’s a process in which, say, five workers each take a 20 percent pay cut, or a cut in hours, and none are let go. Rather than having to provide unemployment benefits, the government would provide money to offset that 20 percent pay cut for workers. The incentive for companies is that as the economy improves, they’d already have these skilled workers on their payrolls.”

So what Hassett proposed is not to employ people who need jobs, but cut the pay of existing work forces to reinforce reason of retention.  One of the pressing problems in workplaces across America right now is job absorption.  Due to economic stressors, businesses are taxed more and less able to afford needed staff.  So core staff are being forced into taking on additional job responsibilities to keep businesses afloat.

So the geniuses at AEI are not proposing PT employment increases for skilled workers who need to make a living.  They are proposing government reinforcement of less pay for more work in exchange for hanging to your job.  This keeps job growth smaller and current employees overworked under constant threat of unemployment.  Their solution is to not liberate a labor force to greet the needs of the markeplace but propose that our government pay, with TAX SUBSIDIES, any business who will standardize a lockout for longterm unemployed.   They want an exclusive employers market indoctrination underneath national emergency language and they want US businesses to be taxed for it.

This is the most dangerous thing I have read in my daily paper, past all of the gun death and bombings, fires, nuclear and oil leaks, natural disasters and wars.  AEI suggested to our Congress that longterm unemployment should be a military matter, handled by DHS enabled police militia monitors to keep employed people employed and overworked for 20% less pay. Unemployed civilian vermin can be out of jobs and in the gutters permanently. AEI hopes you starve to death. Good luck to you.

This is unlivable public policy, America.  If you allow this, you will not recover.

In my  happy place, the true free market, economic justice and fiscal conservative interests show up to work on a full deconstruction of AEI’s elite state sponsored coup attempt on US soil.  If it were even possible to bring them up on charges for global economic sabotage and market rigging, I might even think it should be attempted.

Hasset’s standard is not simply an economists faulty ideas – he is pulling in military meat, bone and muscle to reinforce employment.  He is asking limping businesses to surrender economic power in exchance for more government money and control.  In exchange they will get military protection.

 NOT A LAWYER, NOT A LAWMAKER

Like most Americans who aren’t judges, lawyers or lawmakers, I am relatively directly unconcerned with proving the guilt or innocence of any terrorism suspect.   What I am responsible for is maintaining an assertion of justice when I am innocent.  I find whether or not the Tsarnaev brothers were the convicts, is irrelevant if I am repeatedly stripped of my freedoms for things I had nothing to do with.   This is how natives grow apathetic to terrorism events because the direct translation is that government will now grow aggressive against their privacy, their business and their freedom to travel.  That’s how people begin to connect terrorism with the native government plots whether there is any proof of a real conspiracy or not.

Slate published how it’s Constitutionally viable for military soldiers to go into any Boston home with guns and without a warrant and represent the positive argument for  more surveillance nationally as a knee jerk reaction to Boston’s bombings. They’ve lost the forest for the trees.  If you were scared into the same place you need to work on that traumatic attachment to government.  You’re in denial about what you’re losing, what is happening to you and your freedoms and who you government really is.

No matter how much lip service is paid to civil liberties by the Presidency and corresponding agencies, they are never protecting my freedoms by suppressing or railroading them with increasing military force.

Why I’m not on Tor now.

Here’s a letter to Jacob Applebaum, Tor Router inventor and advocate. It never made it through.

Though I wrote it during late summer/early fall I didn’t think to post it.  Now that news of Skype has flown the coop,  there’s a succession of action to get corporations to start requiring warrants from prying government interests. An open letter is being circulated to try to incite a conscience from Microsoft at Skype to protect journalists, sources and reporting done at the video chat site.

As a default, a lot of journalists have been asked to adopt Tor, the onion router.  I installed this on my machine but it sucked a lot of RAM, gave my laptop a fever and I went through 2 batteries in a year.  Once I uninstalled it, the laptop fevers went away. I still don’t know if it could have been helped because I didn’t know how to operate the program.

There was nothing left to do but tell the creator of the program, hey, I need help with this.

Dear Jacob,

One time at CFP in San Jose,  I got David Huerta to do a brief interview with me about Haystack.  Haystack turned out to be not-that-great for privacy and counterintuitive.  EFF then of course turned to Tor and did a bunch of promotion along with Wikileaks and The Juice News to boost adoption of Tor.

I don’t know much about Tor but I did discuss it with Julian Sanchez this year.  I am usually a skeptical adopter when it’s a product of an IP partnership with government interests (Pentagon, Dept. of State).   He said it did use a Haystack obfuscation that actually functioned better.

That’s great, but I’m still not using Tor.  In fact, I uninstalled Tor because I really didn’t know how to use it and it wasn’t really working on my laptop.  The online tutorial I found was for PCs.  I could have poked around for one on Mac but I was still hedging because of typical issues in the engineering-to-user class translations.

Over a year later I learned that Tor probably required me to enable incoming browser connections.  The reason why you are [not] getting this e-mail today is because I spent over 2 hours trying to figure out why my e-mail  program never connnected with the servers.  Comcast pointed at Apple. Apple rectified the internal connection settings for my browser and THEN I had to cope with a hypervigilant Firewall.  You should know between 3 States and 4 years on the same laptop I have never had one e-mail delivered on my mail program before yesterday.  I was a closed society and didn’t realize it.

Operator error, but I’m someone hypervigilant (probably paranoid) when it comes to privacy settings. So I followed all these arcane little tips to shut out hacks.  I’m still probably outgunned, but I don’t want to make it easy for hackers.

Perhaps we both know engineer developement snobbery never actually gets the user anything other than insult for attempts to operate new tech.   That’s kind of the corner where Chris Soghoian is[was] having his tantrum over Cryptocat.  The trouble with this way of thinking is IRL we would never insult someone for not knowing how to wire the guts of say, a toaster, but yet a software development engineer is always tempted shunt the user for not operating their program.

A toaster is simple to use.  You probably learned from watching a family member. Software is not so intuitive oftentimes.

I think one may have more or less become a developer by immersion in the activism process or vice versa by addressing necessities and solutions.  I think it may still be necessary to dial it back and approach activists a bit differently.  You may know Debra Sweet from World Can’t Wait.  If someone can’t show Debra how to use or operate Tor – she’s not going to pass it down to the rest of the hive.  Debra is an enthusiastic technology adopter, but World Cant Wait just discovered how to produce their own podcasts a couple of weeks ago. Technology has to be accessible or skeptical distrusting people (as activists frequently are) won’t adopt.

I wanted to adopt Cryptocat because someone took the time to make a decently produced video explaining how it was useful.  Then Quinn Norton, like a lot of journalists, liked that this was easy to understand and operate and raved about it’s cool benefits.  That happened was because Norton and every other journalist using Skype cannot protect any source who has history on the program c/o Microsoft’s user agreements.  I was thrilled for the same reasons because perhaps I would not get burned this time.

Then someone found a vulnerability.  Then it got academic and political.  {I don’t care about all that bullsh*t. If I can’t be confident of a technology, I won’t use it.}

CASE:  I uninstalled, as best I could manage, Skype when it grabbed my entire contact list internally like a Plaxo or LinkedIn without much permission settings AND becuase it was being groomed for sale to Microsoft.  My intuition said, “Time to get out.”

It’s great that journalists did fantastic work on Skype.  Hell, Julian Assange used skype to bring his truth forward from the UK before absconding to the Ecuadorian Embassy – but now Microsoft can sell his communication to the Pentagon as a COURTESY.

I’m not going to impress you with my lowbrow IT savvy, ever.  My point is that software is created so people who are not engineers can use it.  If Tor can get repoed by the State Dept. or it’s information stores can get articulated and sold off and if I am yelling ” WHY DO I NEED TO KNOW ENCRYPTION TO DO MY REPORTING” in 3 months – there’s a real breakdown in useability!!

Would you like to help someone like me understand Tor better to adopt your software?  At the moment, I can’t.  It’s not personal.  I’m just a dumb user.

Sheila M. Dean

This isn’t an open letter to Tor.  It is a compliment to the Open Letter to Skype, because privacy conventions are getting better but it’s still a landmine for many ignorant users.  We’ll need some tools.

Looks fresh but mined years ago on BS mountain

From the OMFG-RUKM? Dept. - 

Here’s what rolled down BS mountain today.

Rights lost the ‘war on terror‘

- LA Times

This is what it looked like in 2009.

What else will evolve with Military Intelligence tomorrow?  Should we expect more “Oh Yeah?!” journalism?

c/o DangerRoom @Wired

Respecting the fear of Alex Jones

While not a deportable offense, Piers Morgan’s misunderstanding of American base fears, by scoffing at them, is not helping.

Tonight I witnessed the spectacle of Piers Morgan confronting the man calling for his deportation on his national nightly broadcast program.

I actually thought I was witnessing the rarest of events, like a 500 year eclipse or the sighting of an albino tazmanian marsupial.  It was simply Alex Jones, a Texas alternative broadcaster accustomed to the vacuum environs of his bully pulpit, drawn victim to a mainstream media television trap to be prodded into an irrational frenzy.

Morgan, who sat there like a right chuffed old gentleman, cut to commercial as Jones started to get really loud.

Of course, Jones responded like a cornered animal.  He lashed out at Morgan, as he represents everything essential to what he fears.  For Jones can only be terrified by a Eurocentric, blithely elitist, white man from the old country whose comparative dominance comes like a long lost relative hanging around for the moment of American economic death. Jones might fear this will result in some comprehensive windfall to displace US real estate to Old Europe; which is a hard boiled reason to keep secession on the stove of any Texan.

Coming back from the commercial break we heard words from governor, Chris Christie, who moderated that we can’t treat our schools like prisons by staffing them with armed guards.

I watched this media circus continue as Morgan dragged out a Harvard analyst promoting gun bans on all assault weapons because it is what Europe does. His law professor  then debased the notion that Americans are competent to elect their own government and because they  choose to own guns. Morgan, who was comparatively terrified by Jones literal gun ownership, may believe that there ARE other people better qualified to run American lives better than Americans. Our mentally ill run the streets and assault children “for God’s sake”!

This act was followed by another legal extremist caricature, Sheriff Joe “pink underwear” Arpaio. Arpaio openly frustrated Morgan’s efforts by disclosing he would be equipping his Lords of The Border with AR-15 and related assault weapons.  [Can you blame, Arpaio? If the ATF is feeding military grade weapons to Mexican drug cartels floating on loans from HSBC, a European old world bank, he’s got to step up his game.]  Morgan sniffed it up and moved to a commercial.

Morgan’s final play was to see us a pair of Kennedys, a useful equivalent to American royalty, for a full flush. The gambler relied on the idea this will galvanize his effort to be believable, credible, understandable and non-threatening to other Canadians. The Kennedy’s managed, amid the floral gasps of indignation, to sliver in the identified problem of allowing America’s mentally ill to access to firearms. No resounding policy elucidation on how to fix this problem from the pair of Kennedys.

Apparently, Morgan does not understand American fear. The Kennedy’s did get an edge out on a very tangible fear. Even they do not have enough protection from imagined threat of violence.  We overincarcerate against crimes that aren’t violent.  We are armed to the teeth and yet we are still terrified every day. Of what?  An efficacy arc of controlling personality, greed and corruption out of reach from the cleansing might of the people. A power out of touch with the increasingly grinding everyday unkindness in our lives. The same one riding the elephant in the midst of the room; which no one can speak of.  And you wonder why we are so insecure.

The pains of being 3rd world America never really left the national soul.

The fears of Alex Jones are based on being recolonized by an external remote control, totalitarian, extortionist society of slave owners, crushing tax leviathans with no representative government. Jones fears his life as an American debtor would mean he could die an indentured servant in wars started for profit by old royal families from across the pond.

What? It’s not like it’s never happened before in human history. If it was dissimilar to what we are actually doing to ourselves now, Jones might have bought himself some psychic distance from this cycle of depravity. Unfortunately, he doesn’t really have that luxury.

It’s not dissimilar enough from fears of common Britons, perhaps even mirroring the fears of Mr. Piers Morgan. Jones presence on primetime evening television suggests, in undertone only, that we are being recolonized if only between our ears.

Morgan has a broadcast in America, but he doesn’t deliver America to Americans. He delivers bewildered, clippy milquetoast commentary, all edges cut away for television. What’s entertaining about it is watching Morgan trying to figure out our celebrities, our pain and our diversity.  However, Morgan never broadcasts a single evening episode based on his ability to necessarily relate, but to float over the concept of America. Which is why he is so easy to wave away by the serious living and deep public reform work agonized over by real, naturalized and invested American citizens vs. media props set up by teevee producers at CNN.

That is why it was such a wistfully sad moment to watch Alex Jones, so terrified by the clandestine serial erosion of our nations basic Constitutional Liberties, reduced to an emotional last stand, hysterically pounding out notes of resistance at CNN’s unsympathetic anchor.

And I may relate to Alex Jones. I am not some sheep who heeds him like a pied piper as Morgan, suggests. I might relate to him because he doesn’t insist on icing over facts about why American life has drastically changed since the Bush Administrations policy takeovers. These same policies are being amplified without reason by Obama, leaving most of us without basic agency, 4th Amendment protections or an economy.

I may relate to RT.com’s Abby Martin more. She reports what is egregiously omitted in our political engines and news dialect. It doesn’t slide on unnoticed.

Morgan at CNN provides no such public service as the 4th Estate.

Morgan is not discussing the criminal insanity of his network, CNN, for handing the policy mic to Pentagon interests. Morgan isn’t paid to do that. Morgan is paid to ensure effete New York elderly will have some television programming at night. [Michael Bloomberg]

Our government may rule, but it has been divested from a lot of public trust. If you are an American patriot today you are using your right to dissent before that gets criminalised by a Dept. of Defense contractor lobby.

While Piers Morgan may have agitated Alex Jones’ emotional on camera blowout with his challenging rhetoric, there’s simply no prospect of  him moving me. I know the hidden menace under every American bed, tricking us out of our sanity, our national fiscal solvency and our Liberty isn’t Piers Morgan.  It isn’t the guns, the commies, the jews or illegal aliens.

[So what is it?]

Apparently, I can’t know because it’s a matter of national security.

It may have something to do with the War on Terror.

If so, maybe the cultural answer is as simple as a goal to stop the fear itself so government can’t confound us out of our natural rational senses and personal power.

4409 works hard to inform on HAARPzilla

Zillamod —  December is a time to reward good works, with good gifts.

4409, a skilled video producer from Arizona’s media activism scene, is an organizer in the 2012 Arizona Activist Awards. We toast your role in the awards, for your foresight and your creativity lent to bringing a sunlight cure to the worst-of-the-worst Govzillas.

The following 4409 video posits HAARP to be one cause of global weather disaster at the hands of a cloaked, or invisible Govzilla.

Jamiroquai also deserves honorable mention for his prophetic role in the production of his video Deeper Underground in 1998; which I discovered days before Hurricaine Sandy hit the coast of the US Eastern Seaboard. Many people believe it was HAARPzilla.  Please help your fellow man clean up this mess: www.121212concert.org

 

2012 might be time for something else than Godzilla Govt.

Earlier this year I cited the words and wisdoms of indigenous elders in America concerning 2012 hysterias.

At my last musing, I concluded that if you haven’t heard from the orginial sources, the Maya, on their own calendar you shouldn’t spend personal energies on flawed cultural misappropriations.

Since that time I have discovered a Mayan spokesman who believes among other things that pole reversals have been strategically attempted, to the point of increasing earthquakes and resulting in global man made disasters.   Mayan science contributions recall the use and evidence of proton or anti-matter accelleration and decelleration. Ac Tah, a Mayan spokesman for a galactic alignment, claims this is to maintain a specific energetic frequency, prolonging the resonances of  December 21st’s galactic alignment for up to 3 months.  He believes that Mayan temple architectures were constructed to contain the goals of this science.

A 2012 PROJECTION according to an actual Mayan

Ac Tah claims that a window of global “elevated consciousness” will exist for 8 minutes.These 8 minutes will be felt across the globe and will constitute an ascension for some.  During this 8 minutes people may experience something similar to the Bible’s judgement day.  Reportedly all of your deeds good and bad will be revealed to you and a collective conscience. New ideas and knowledge about the soul’s mission in this existence would be revealed to the individual.This is followed by a couple of days where the world goes dark.  The sun will rise and set normally. However, daylight will seem more like an eclipse at that time.

His recommendations in the 36 hour period prior to December 21st, 2012 is that you prepare spiritually and energetically by doing things that help you experience joy, lead you to a place of happiness, peace and thanksgiving.   He recommends having a paper and pen for writing, sketching and placing ideas and notions understood by you at the time of the great revelation, rather than simply committing the tale to memory.

Some will be willing to understand the messages given to them at the time to benefit themselves and mankind. Since the vibration can’t be maintained it will be a forgettable experience.  So if you use Dragon transcripting, for instance, you would document any undertsanding you get about the world, your mission corrections, and what you should really be doing with your life as a balanced, morally restored being.

It gives humbling new meaning to the phrase “cleaning the clock”.  This lends an idea to how power, debt, money and global policing will move away from some of the confining norms but also how some of the events we see with surveillance attempt to mimic the power of the ascended consciousness.

THE ROLE OF ALL SIGHT

There are common threads amid many cultures reflecting more of a marriage between science and spirituality.  According to AcTah, the pyramid shape containing the all seeing eye we have found across the globe: from the US dollar, to the Iraqi histories in Bablyon, to our government’s use of the icon in a Total Information Awareness full spectrum surveillance program.  The Mayan spokesman speaks to its use of energetic records of knowledge frequencies.

I found similarities I can draw upon that exist here that are representational of what exists in the Maya’s evolved age of consciousness.  There is something called the Akashic Record, according to occult theory; which contains the whole human history of experience and existence recorded as an enegy form.  A pale imitation would be the data center in Utah and an existing data center in Israel which captures all mobile conversations worldwide.  The point of these data centers would be to house all conversant or transactional evidence of human use or actions using digital media or mobile technologies.  Digital infrastructures are reliant on energy to function. There may be an attempt to mimic the Akashic Record in our current experience.

Allowing governing societies to move ahead with a totalitarian surveillance does not lead to any form of spiritual liberation. In fact, the point of virtual surveillance is base in its execution. It is a tool to submlimate integral boundaries between human enforcement structures and the normal individual.  These tools in the hands of an unevolved, dominantly paranoid government and banking structures will fail in their mission. Government trends using mass surveillance are to limit and imprison the individual in order to express animal domniance and a predatory place in the natural world against its own species. That’s not spiritual at all.  Ruling frequencies are far too low and unevolved compared to the spiritual resources accessible during a Mayan 2012 acsension.

This might certainly be bad news for anyone invested in mass debasement of human society, destruction of the earth, violence and extinction of living things on the earth to some predatory and exclusive self-servicing benefit.  Higher lifeforces will depose the low living standard.

For those who want a world with much less pain, suffering and who find human happiness useful they will be the haves in a world reconnected with healed nature.  The rule of higher vibration might be expressed in the image of a powerful laughing Bhuddah.

The good news is that you have a couple of weeks to rethink things just like everyone else.

You could always chalk it up to sensational psudeoscientific spirtual debris of the age. You might decide after reading this the Maya are just a ruined indigenous nation in a 3rd world country whose technologies can’t hold a match to eurocentric infrasturctures, if you’re a cynic.

To those who believe they have it all figured out, you haven’t seen anything yet.  You can’t prep your way out of this and you can’t call FEMA to come bucket you out of your spiritual disaster.

I will be holding out for the better standard if it can be had.

REPLAY: The The – Mind Bomb

Zillamod –  Every generation we retrace ideas, thoughts and have discussions we had 20 years prior.  Someone is hearing and exploring concepts about truth, religion, finance, ideology, politics and human nature for the first time.

Right now there’s a cold war for control over what people know and whether or not to continue freedom of speech en masse.  There is a segment of the population who have other plans.

The The’s Mind Bomb explores the eurocentric problems of  what we believe and how belief is manipulated by people who actually don’t care about you. They just care about your daily transactions and how that gives them oxygen, relevance and power as a parasitic coalition called “government”.

This is how I heard hard news for the first time.  It wasn’t CNN.  It wasn’t the NYTimes.  It wasn’t American Family radio or Disney/Murdoch/Clearchannel affiliates.