DRANT #285: Hang On Snoopy

US drafting plan to allow government access to any email or Web search
01/14/2008 @ 9:02 am
Filed by RAW STORY
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/US_drafting_plan_to_allow_government_0114.html

“Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation, he said ... 'We have a saying in this business: ‘Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.'" A zero-sum game is one in which gains by one side come at the expense of the other. In other words -... greater security can only come at privacy's expense.

National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell is drawing up plans for cyberspace spying that would make the current debate on warrantless wiretaps look like a "walk in the park," according to an interview published in the New Yorker's print edition today.

Debate on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act “will be a walk in the park compared to this,” McConnell said. “this is going to be a goat rope on the Hill. My prediction is that we’re going to screw around with this until something horrendous happens.”

The article, which profiles the 65-year-old former admiral appointed by President George W. Bush in January 2007 to oversee all of America's intelligence agencies, was not published on the New Yorker's Web site.



McConnell is developing a Cyber-Security Policy, still in the draft stage, which will closely police Internet activity.

"Ed Giorgio, who is working with McConnell on the plan, said that would mean giving the government the autority to examine the content of any e-mail, file transfer or Web search," author Lawrence Wright pens.

“Google has records that could help in a cyber-investigation, he said," Wright adds. "Giorgio warned me, 'We have a saying in this business: ‘Privacy and security are a zero-sum game.'"

A zero-sum game is one in which gains by one side come at the expense of the other. In other words -- McConnell's aide believes greater security can only come at privacy's expense.

McConnell has been an advocate for computer-network defense, which has previously not been the province of any intelligence agency.

According to a 2007 conversation in the Oval Office, McConnell told President Bush, “If the 9/11 perpetrators had focused on a single US bank through cyber-attack and it had been successful, it would have an order of magnitude greater impact on the US economy.”

Bush turned to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, asking him if it was true; Paulson said that it was. Bush then asked to McConnell to come up with a network security strategy.

"One proposal of McConnell’s Cyber-Security Policy, which is still in the draft stage, is to reduce the access points between government computers and the Internet from two thousand to fifty," Wright notes. "He claimed that cyber-theft account for as much as a hundred billion dollars in annual losses to the American economy. 'The real problem is the perpetrator who doesn’t care about stealing—he just wants to destroy.'"

The infrastructure to tap into Americans' email and web search history may already be in place.

In November, a former technician at AT&T alleged that the telecom forwarded virtually all of its Internet traffic into a "secret room" to facilitate government spying.

Whistleblower Mark Klein said that a copy of all Internet traffic passing over AT&T lines was copied into a locked room at the company's San Francisco office -- to which only employees with National Security Agency clearance had access -- via a cable splitting device.

"My job was to connect circuits into the splitter device which was hard-wired to the secret room," Klein. said "And effectively, the splitter copied the entire data stream of those Internet cables into the secret room -- and we're talking about phone conversations, email web browsing, everything that goes across the Internet."

"As a technician, I had the engineering wiring documents, which told me how the splitter was wired to the secret room," Klein continued. "And so I know that whatever went across those cables was copied and the entire data stream was copied."

According to Klein, that information included Internet activity about Americans.

"We're talking about domestic traffic as well as international traffic," Klein said. Previous Bush administration claims that only international communications were being intercepted aren't accurate, he added.

"I know the physical equipment, and I know that statement is not true," he added. "It involves millions of communications, a lot of it domestic communications that they're copying wholesale."
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DRANT #267: URGENT! STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING! THOUGHT PREVENTION ACT

STOP what you're doing.
Read this.
Read it ALL.
Of all the draconian totalitarian abusive laws passed by our government, this may be the scariest.
Of course, Nancy Pelosi pushed this through.
Today, it passed the House 404-6.
DEMOCRAT Jane Harman sponsored it, with 14 bi partisan co sponsors.
Barbara Lee voted yes. Maxine Waters voted yes. Henry Waxman and Pete Stark voted yes.

You MUST read it.
And scariest of all- there has not been ONE PEEP about this anywhere-
no NY Times, no CNN.
Not even the leftie blogs, except Rogue Government and Blacklisted News.
Plus today's Counterpunch.
BUT - the Counterpunch article blithely forecasts that this bill would get the usual, constitutional congressional due process- referral to committee, negotiation, floor debate, scrutiny.
It got NONE of these things. It was shoved through and passed with NO debate, no scrutiny-
by Nancy Pelosi and her Republican co-conspirators. Just like all the others-

The terms of this law are horrendous, unthinkable.
But the METHOD used to make it law makes manifest the true degree of the fascism under which we are now living.
And, the complete lack of any opposition, the screaming silence of the press and the People, tells us the worst of the tale.
If we let this happen, and we are, then we deserve everything that's happening to us.
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House Passes Thought Crime Prevention Bill
Published on Thursday, October 25, 2007.
http://www.blacklistednews.com/view.asp?ID=4596

Source: Rogue Government - Lee Rogers

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed HR 1955 titled the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. This bill is one of the most blatant attacks against the Constitution yet and actually defines thought crimes as homegrown terrorism. If passed into law, it will also establish a commission and a Center of Excellence to study and defeat so called thought criminals. Unlike previous anti-terror legislation, this bill specifically targets the civilian population of the United States and uses vague language to define homegrown terrorism. Amazingly, 404 of our elected representatives from both the Democrat and Republican parties voted in favor of this bill. There is little doubt that this bill is specifically targeting the growing patriot community that is demanding the restoration of the Constitution.

First let’s take a look at the definitions of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as defined in Section 899A of the bill.

The definition of violent radicalization uses vague language to define this term of promoting any belief system that the government considers to be an extremist agenda. Since the bill doesn’t specifically define what an extremist belief system is, it is entirely up to the interpretation of the government. Considering how much the government has done to destroy the Constitution they could even define Ron Paul supporters as promoting an extremist belief system. Literally, the government according to this definition can define whatever they want as an extremist belief system. Essentially they have defined violent radicalization as thought crime. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below.

`(2) VIOLENT RADICALIZATION- The term `violent radicalization' means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change.

The definition of homegrown terrorism uses equally vague language to further define thought crime. The bill includes the planned use of force or violence as homegrown terrorism which could be interpreted as thinking about using force or violence. Not only that but the definition is so vaguely defined, that petty crimes could even fall into the category of homegrown terrorism. The definition as defined in the bill is shown below.

`(3) HOMEGROWN TERRORISM- The term `homegrown terrorism' means the use, planned use, or threatened use, of force or violence by a group or individual born, raised, or based and operating primarily within the United States or any possession of the United States to intimidate or coerce the United States government, the civilian population of the United States, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Section 899B of the bill goes over the findings of Congress as it pertains to homegrown terrorism. Particularly alarming is that the bill mentions the Internet as a main source for terrorist propaganda. The bill even mentions streams in obvious reference to many of the patriot and pro-constitution Internet radio networks that have been formed. It also mentions that homegrown terrorists span all ages and races indicating that the Congress is stating that everyone is a potential terrorist. Even worse is that Congress states in their findings that they should look at draconian police states like Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom as models to defeat homegrown terrorists. Literally, these findings of Congress fall right in line with the growing patriot community.

The biggest joke of all is that this section also says that any measure to prevent violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism should not violate the constitutional rights of citizens. However, the definition of violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism as they are defined in section 899A are themselves unconstitutional. The Constitution does not allow the government to arrest people for thought crimes, so any promises not to violate the constitutional rights of citizens is already broken by their own definitions.

`SEC. 899B. FINDINGS.

`The Congress finds the following:

`(1) The development and implementation of methods and processes that can be utilized to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States is critical to combating domestic terrorism.

`(2) The promotion of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence exists in the United States and poses a threat to homeland security.

`(3) The Internet has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens.

`(4) While the United States must continue its vigilant efforts to combat international terrorism, it must also strengthen efforts to combat the threat posed by homegrown terrorists based and operating within the United States.

`(5) Understanding the motivational factors that lead to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence is a vital step toward eradicating these threats in the United States.

`(6) The potential rise of self radicalized, unaffiliated terrorists domestically cannot be easily prevented through traditional Federal intelligence or law enforcement efforts, and requires the incorporation of State and local solutions.

`(7) Individuals prone to violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence span all races, ethnicities, and religious beliefs, and individuals should not be targeted based solely on race, ethnicity, or religion.

`(8) Any measure taken to prevent violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism in the United States should not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.

`(9) Certain governments, including the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have significant experience with homegrown terrorism and the United States can benefit from lessons learned by those nations.

Section 899C calls for a commission on the prevention of violent radicalization and ideologically based violence. The commission will consist of ten members appointed by various individuals that hold different positions in government. Essentially, this is a commission that will examine and report on how they are going to deal with violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. So basically, the commission is being formed specifically on how to deal with thought criminals in the United States. The bill requires that the commission submit their final report 18 months following the commission’s first meeting as well as submit interim reports every 6 months leading up to the final report. Below is the bill’s defined purpose of the commission. Amazingly they even define one of the purposes of the commission to determine the causes of lone wolf violent radicalization.

(b) Purpose- The purposes of the Commission are the following:

`(1) Examine and report upon the facts and causes of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in the United States, including United States connections to non-United States persons and networks, violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence in prison, individual or `lone wolf' violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence, and other faces of the phenomena of violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence that the Commission considers important.

`(2) Build upon and bring together the work of other entities and avoid unnecessary duplication, by reviewing the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of--

`(A) the Center of Excellence established or designated under section 899D, and other academic work, as appropriate;

`(B) Federal, State, local, or tribal studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence; and

`(C) foreign government studies of, reviews of, and experiences with violent radicalization, homegrown terrorism, and ideologically based violence.

Section 899D of the bill establishes a Center of Excellence for the Study of Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism in the United States. Essentially, this will be a Department of Homeland Security affiliated institution that will study and determine how to defeat thought criminals.

Section 899E of the bill discusses how the government is going to defeat violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism through international cooperation. As stated in the findings section earlier in the legislation, they will unquestionably seek the advice of countries with draconian police states like the United Kingdom to determine how to deal with this growing threat of thought crime.

Possibly the most ridiculous section of the bill is Section 899F which states how they plan on protecting civil rights and civil liberties while preventing ideologically based violence and homegrown terrorism. Here is what the section says.

`SEC. 899F. PROTECTING CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES WHILE PREVENTING IDEOLOGICALLY-BASED VIOLENCE AND HOMEGROWN TERRORISM.

`(a) In General- The Department of Homeland Security's efforts to prevent ideologically-based violence and homegrown terrorism as described herein shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights, and civil liberties of United States citizens and lawful permanent residents.

`(b) Commitment to Racial Neutrality- The Secretary shall ensure that the activities and operations of the entities created by this subtitle are in compliance with the Department of Homeland Security's commitment to racial neutrality.

`(c) Auditing Mechanism- The Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Officer of the Department of Homeland Security will develop and implement an auditing mechanism to ensure that compliance with this subtitle does not result in a disproportionate impact, without a rational basis, on any particular race, ethnicity, or religion and include the results of its audit in its annual report to Congress required under section 705.'.

(b) Clerical Amendment- The table of contents in section 1(b) of such Act is amended by inserting at the end of the items relating to title VIII the following:

It states in the first subsection that in general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to prevent so called homegrown terrorism.

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404 representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by a group of traitors at all levels of government.

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DRANT #248: DEMOCRACY CAN BE FATAL

They are ALL in it together.
Google, ATT, Verizon, Yahoo, all of them.
One big happy family.
The very definition of Little Eichmanns.
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The New York Times
http://select.nytimes.com/mem/tnt.html?emc=tnt&tntget=2007/08/24/washington/24nsa.html&tntemail1=y
August 24, 2007
Role of Telecom Firms in Wiretaps Is Confirmed
By ERIC LICHTBLAU

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — The Bush administration has confirmed for the first time that American telecommunications companies played a crucial role in the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program after asserting for more than a year that any role played by them was a “state secret.”

The acknowledgment was in an unusual interview that Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, gave last week to The El Paso Times in which he disclosed details on classified intelligence issues that the administration has long insisted would harm national security if discussed publicly.

Mr. McConnell made the remarks apparently in an effort to bolster support for the broadened wiretapping authority that Congress approved this month, even as Democrats are threatening to rework the legislation because they say it gives the executive branch too much power. It is vital, he said, for Congress to give retroactive legal immunity to the companies that assisted in the program to help prevent them from facing bankruptcy because of lawsuits over it.

“Under the president’s program, the terrorist surveillance program, the private sector had assisted us, because if you’re going to get access, you’ve got to have a partner,” Mr. McConnell said in the interview, a transcript of which was posted by The El Paso Times on Wednesday.

AT&T and several other major carriers are being sued over their reported role in the program, which permitted eavesdropping without warrants on the international communications of Americans suspected of terrorism ties. The administration has sought to shut down the lawsuits by invoking the state-secrets privilege, refusing even to confirm whether the companies helped conduct the wiretaps.

Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which is heading up the lawsuit against AT&T, said her group might ask the appeals court to consider Mr. McConnell’s comments in deciding whether the state-secrets argument should be thrown out.

“They’ve really undermined their own case,” Ms. Cohn said.

Mr. McConnell said those suits were a driving force in the administration’s efforts to include in this month’s wiretapping legislation immunity for telecommunications partners. “If you play out the suits at the value they’re claimed,” he said, “it would bankrupt these companies.”

Congress agreed to give immunity to telecommunications partners in the measure , but refused to make it retroactive.

Mr. McConnell, who took over as the country’s top intelligence official in February, warned that the public discussion generated by the Congressional debate over the wiretapping bill threatened national security because it would alert terrorists to American surveillance methods.

“Now part of this is a classified world,” he said in the interview. “The fact we’re doing it this way means that some Americans are going to die.”.

Asked whether he was saying the news media coverage and the public debate in Congress meant that “some Americans are going to die,” he replied: “That’s what I mean. Because we have made it so public.”

Mr. McConnell, though, put new information on the public record in the interview, on Aug. 14 while in Texas for a border conference.

Mr. McConnell said, for instance, that the number of people inside the United States who were wiretapped through court-approved warrants totaled “100 or less” but on the “foreign side, it’s in the thousands.” The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which approves national security wiretaps, told Congress it approved 2,181 eavesdropping warrants last year. The court and the administration have not been willing to break out how many Americans were in those orders.

Mr. McConnell did not make clear the time frame for his estimate, nor was it clear whether he was referring to the security agency’s program of eavesdropping without warrants, which was brought under the oversight of the intelligence court in January. Officials in his office refused to clarify what he meant.

Mr. McConnell also offered the administration’s first public discussion about a classified series of rulings by the intelligence court that he said had restricted the agency’s ability to collect foreign intelligence.

He said one judge this year gave broad approval for the agency’s eavesdropping program. But another judge, he said, ruled in the spring that the administration would have to obtain a warrant for any “foreign to foreign” communications that passed through an American telecommunications center.

The administration obtained a stay of that ruling until May 31, he disclosed, but after that date he intelligence officials had “significantly less capability” to track foreign communications. The ruling sent the administration “in the wrong direction,” he added.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has petitioned the intelligence court to make public its secret wiretapping rulings, expressed frustration on Thursday with the timing of Mr. McConnell’s comments.

“If this ostensibly sensitive information can be released now, why could it not be released two months ago, when the public and Congress desperately needed it?” asked Jameel Jaffer, director of the group’s national security project.

Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy for the Federation of American Scientists, said the interview “was quite striking because he was disclosing more detail than has appeared anywhere in the public domain.”

“If we’re to believe that Americans will die from discussing these things,” Mr. Aftergood said, “then he is complicit in that. It’s an unseemly argument. He’s basically saying that democracy is going to kill Americans.”
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DRANT #228: VICTORY IN IRAQ!!!

Today and next week signify the anniversaries of the massacres at Kent State and Jackson State (1970), barely observed in the pimp media, scarcely noted by network news, and hardly discernible in the world of Google Search. Not quite the voracious media pigout of May 2003, when the idiot George in his green USAF monkey suit, complete with regulation USAF codpiece, strod arrogantly across the flight deck of the USS Lincoln, where the huge "Mission Accomplished" banner yet waved, and declaimed to tumultuous near-unanimous cheering that the major military operations in Iraq were over, and we had won.
He was right.
Make no mistake: George Bush has WON his war. He has won his war in Iraq, and he has won his war against Us as well.
We have lost, the Iraqis have lost, the world has lost, our progeny have lost, and the planet has lost, but Bush and Cheney and the murderers they work for have WON, and won big time. THEIR mission has been accomplished.
They have basically achieved their every objective. Here is a short list: ( I know you can easily add to this)
1- They control the OIL in Iraq, and have created a chaotic mess, breaking Iraq up into warring fiefdoms, which purposefully and effectively eliminates any possibility of organized opposition.
2- They have built and will forever inhabit gargantuan armed Garrisons in Iraq, throughout the region, and around the world. The new US "Embassy" in Baghdad stands as the perfect example of endless armed occupation and military control of Iraq's resources. The co-conspirators in Congress can blather and pass bills and do the talk shows and "re-deploy" til doomsday, but the U S of A is never leaving Iraq, whether the "troops" withdraw or not.
3- They have fundamentally destroyed Individual rights and fundamental constitutional protections, and continue to do so with little or no effective opposition.
4- They have essentially neutered the other branches of Government: they have castrated Congress, eliminated Congressional Oversight, and transmogrified the Supreme Court into an ideological servant which has reversed fundamental legal precedent in the pursuit of ideology.
5- They have greatly expanded a tiny and increasingly omnipotent ruling class, whose income, possessions, and access to resources has exploded logarithmically, while concomitantly diminishing the quality of life for all the rest of us, dooming us to ever increasing financial hardship and drastically circumscribed prospects.
6- They have pursued an environmentally genocidal policy of global rape in the name of near-term profit, while the profits earned by their global bosses have likewise swollen geometrically to the largest in history.
7- They have "privatized" every possible aspect of our lives, destroying the traditional concept of The Common, and by drastically reducing funding and support for public services, profoundly changed the way we (and our children) will eat, drink and breathe.
8- They have put the United States under military command (NORTHCOMM) -- and implemented their plan for military takeover/martial law, including the construction and enforced population of widespread prison camps and "detention" centers.
9- They have greatly expanded the prison system (also "privatized") and the prison population.
10- They have created and funded (50 BILLION DOLLARS for 2008) an un-regulated and un-scrutinized Department of so-called "Homeland Security" which now has control over all domestic security in the USA, outside any ostensible Congressional or civilian oversight, employing "privatized" armies and spy networks, and creating unregulated draconian governmental gestapo like the I.C.E.
11- They have shackled us and countless future generations under onerous un-countable debt, in the pursuit of war and the abandonment of social services, and funded this debt by borrowing from those who are unquestionably our greatest rivals.
12- They have created the concept of "illegal" immigrants, and pursued a policy of racist aggression against those of us who are most defenseless, while importing virtual slave labor for their industries, thereby eliminating collective bargaining and actually reducing real wages and benefits for all workers.
13- They have created a Theocracy, violating one of the most fundamental concepts in the Constitution.
14- They have politicized and subverted historically independent and apolitical government operations, those branches of government most responsible for the protection and safeguarding of our rights, property, health and well-being, and turned them instead into instruments of private profit and public plunder, run by stooges of the very people and industries they are charged with regulating.
15- They have implemented and financed a policy of racial/ethnic cleansing in Palestine that recalls nothing less than the German Holocaust, Slavery, the mass genocide of Indigenous People in the Americas, and Apartheid in South Africa.
16- They have made imprisonment and torture basic and ubiquitous tools of domination.
17- They have created an environment where continual intrusive personal searches, ID checks, XRAY detectors, security alerts, pat downs, and baggage inspections have become an ingrained and barely perceived part of life's daily routine.
18- They have stolen two elections, and are in place to steal the next.

Now what exactly have they lost ? Name ONE goddamned thing they have lost.

They don't count dead bodies. They don't count lives destroyed, nor environments ruined. These are merely collateral damages.
They WANT Africans and the countless "Others" dead, the fewer mouths to feed.
They WANT Americans poor and uneducated, the more helpless cannon fodder for their future armies and occupiers and police. The more workers for their prison factories.
They WANT resources concentrated in the hands of a very few, and they WANT scarcity- not merely for profit, but further to dominate and control the rest of us.
They WANT us divided and angry and jealous of each other, further to enslave us.
They WANT us to have guns and ammo everywhere; they WANT crackpots killing innocent bystanders, further to inculcate an atmosphere of fear and mutual distrust, paranoia and violence.
They WANT all of this, and they have gotten it.

They have WON. Mission accomplished.

And all the while, the great majority of us live our lives as if nothing whatever is going on.
As if there is no war, as if there are no victims, no corpses, no mutilated.
As if we have lost nothing, as if we have nothing to fear, as if its all going to happen sometime down the road, in some vague future, where magically there will be enough for everyone, and everything will work itself out like it always has.
As if American Idol is crucial and Arctic Ice is not.
And ultimately- as if what happens to our children and their children is of no consequence in our rapacious pursuit of immediate instant gratification and greed.
Given all that has been done- what more could possibly be necessary to incite us to act ? Must there be a Kent State or Jackson State again before we are awakened ?
As Paul Rieckhoff said --
“The president can say we’re a country at war all he wants. We’re not.
The military is at war. And the military families are at war. Everybody else is shopping.”

They have WON. Mission accomplished.

Except - if we do something. Drastic. Urgent. Revolutionary. Now.
Don't tell me any more about marches and demonstrations and signs.
Calling Congress, writing letters, blogging.
We've tried all of that. Its very lack of effect makes it attractive to us, so we can lose, but proclaim how hard we tried.
To make us feel better, cause we did our best, but well you know....
Its time for much much more than that.
In the face of the comic parade of so-called "opposition" candidates trotted out on stage by the Democratic Party last week, we better not expect any changes from those people. Especially not from the ones most heavily supported by the DLC and the Democratic Party establishment.
Its time to take this on ourselves.

Quote of the day:

"In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us." Thich Nhat Hanh - Vietnamese monk, activist and writer.
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