Sunday, March 18, 2012
#M17 a Grand Success - #OWS Re-Occupies Liberty Plaza in New York
New Media videographer, Tim Pool - who's coverage of Occupy Wall Street has been second to none - sums up yesterday's 6 Month Anniversary, 'Cultural Re-occupation of Liberty Plaza' - #OWS "# M17 March – 6 Month Anniversary" - http://www.nycga.net/events/event/m17-march/.
Tim Pool's Ustream archive - http://www.ustream.tv/user/Timcast
Video streaming by Ustream
Good feeling around these events - reminds of last fall when we had an elan, a sense that we were making a difference.
New York City General Assembly truly is the leader organization of this movement in North America. Their 'Events Calendar' is busy, busy, busy.
If your in New York join the continuing month long anniversary, 'Cultural Re-occupation' of Liberty Plaza.
New York City General Assembly - Events: http://www.nycga.net/events/.
Occupy Toronto Web: http://occupyto.org/
Occupy Toronto Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/OccupyToronto
Occupy Toronto Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/occupytoronto
This article was cross-posted at Occupyto.org - http://occupyto.org/2012/03/m17-a-grand-success-ows-re-occupies-liberty-plaza-in-new-york/
mh
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Transportation Security Administration doesn't want you to watch this
"How To Get Anything Through TSA Nude Body Scanners"
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) - part of U.S. Homeland Security - spent a Billion dollars on Full Body Scan microwave imaging technology for U.S. airport security. The technology became famous a couple of years back because it produces nude images of passangers - and may cause cancer or sterility with repeated exposures.
Apparently - as blogger, Jonathan Corbett's video demonstrates - it's really easy to circumvent - AND - the TSA knew this before they gave their best friends at the scanner corporation the billion dollar contract to supply them.
Now TSA says not to talk about this - and you guessed it - for 'security reasons'.
The would be terrorists absolutely, already know about this - so why the probelem wih re-publishing this video? Perhaps because it rips to shreds you preception that you are safe?
'Security Theatre' as it's known - creates massive government spending and a fear phycosisi in the poulation that enables fear marketing - a really effective, and thus efficient brand - so they can sell us more junk we don't need; plus it lays the physiological foundations for mass marketing more imperialist wars (that sometimes cause "Blow Back" - that enables more 'security' spending, and more wars).
Neat eh?
So the TSA doesn't want you to watch this...
So please, watch and share as broadly as plossible.
Our childern are counting on us.
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Via Bruce Schneier's "Crypto-Gram" Blog - http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1203.html#5
Via "Canal de tsaoutofourpants" - http://www.youtube.com/user/tsaoutofourpants/videos
Blog - "TSA Out of Our Pants!" - http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/
mh
Saturday, March 10, 2012
OpenMedia.ca says, "Stop the Internet Lockdown"
These are two posts, copied and pasted (and re-jigged a little in order that they fit here) - of some content that I produced using OpenMedia.ca media suggestions.
To share in html, copy and paste any part of the content - or the whole thing! Whatever shakes your boot.
Click on the link to each post to go to my original post at Facebook, copy and paste from there - or sign in and 'Share' that way.
I'm on OpenMedia.ca's "Digital Action Team" -
You can be too!
Join here - http://openmedia.ca/team
Link for this post - my original post at Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=259840677432026&id=728231001
Link for this post - my original post at Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=146785165444312&id=728231001
mh
To share in html, copy and paste any part of the content - or the whole thing! Whatever shakes your boot.
Click on the link to each post to go to my original post at Facebook, copy and paste from there - or sign in and 'Share' that way.
I'm on OpenMedia.ca's "Digital Action Team" -
You can be too!
Join here - http://openmedia.ca/team
Link for this post - my original post at Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=259840677432026&id=728231001
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Visit http://openmedia.ca/lockdown to stop the lockdown! Learn more ways to help safeguard our Internet visit http://openmedia.ca/campaigns
Link for this post - my original post at Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=146785165444312&id=728231001
mh
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Blogging comes of age in Charles LeBlanc Criminal Libel case
Found this video on Charles LeBlanc's 'alternate site'.
The recently arrested Fredericton blogger has a new site up after police shut down his Blogger.com blog, seized his computer, and charged him with Criminal Liable against a Fredericton Police Officer.
Since I'm big on bike issues I thought I'd use this nice interview Charles LeBlanc did with an unidetified Fredericton man to show you Charles LeBlanc is a good citizen blogger, not a stupid man and someone who undrstand what the rule of law is supposed to represent. The inidentified interviewee in the video (it looks like) was mistakenly identified by a couple of Constables as a wanted individual.
Acording to the man interviewed, both police officers, with no words directions or orders, tackled, battered, cuffed the man and held him in the back of the cruiser.
When they realize the mis-identification - instead of admitting their mistake, and apologizing to the Frederictonian, they try to justify their actions with the appropriate fraudulent paper work - releasing the man and issuing him with a traffic ticket - for riding his bike on the sidewalk. An action he says he took after while riding his bike on the road, the police used their vehicle as a weapon to intimidate him - rather than communicating to him what they wanted to talk to him about.
Give it time - it gets real good.
More about Charles LeBlanc's arrest in this video (made by him).
The CBC Fredericton has a good piece up that lays it all out pretty concisely I think, "Controversial blogger charged with libel".
This video embedded is from the same CBC article - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/01/20/nb-blogger-arrest-640.html
Interesting, at the end of the CBC video the section of the criminal code police are charging LeBlanc under has been ruled unconstitutional in three other provinces. So is this an order from the Province to Police to charge someone with this so Provicial Lawyers can get a day in supreme court on this? Some sort of Provincial power pay?
So, two birds with one stone: a test case going up the though the court system so the Attorney General of New Brunswick gets his test case --- and by laying it on a powerless, poor, troublesome blogger, who local police have heard just about enough from, will shut him up while the case is before the courts - in this case, that could be years.
Police higher ups might find this amusing, ironic - screwing with people's lives can be funny when you're the bully. On the other hand I suppose they might think it's cold justice - since LeBlanc, from their point of view, has been making Officers lives miserable...
What this says about the professionalism of the Fredricton Police Force - I'll leave to your judgement.
mh
The recently arrested Fredericton blogger has a new site up after police shut down his Blogger.com blog, seized his computer, and charged him with Criminal Liable against a Fredericton Police Officer.
Since I'm big on bike issues I thought I'd use this nice interview Charles LeBlanc did with an unidetified Fredericton man to show you Charles LeBlanc is a good citizen blogger, not a stupid man and someone who undrstand what the rule of law is supposed to represent. The inidentified interviewee in the video (it looks like) was mistakenly identified by a couple of Constables as a wanted individual.
Acording to the man interviewed, both police officers, with no words directions or orders, tackled, battered, cuffed the man and held him in the back of the cruiser.
When they realize the mis-identification - instead of admitting their mistake, and apologizing to the Frederictonian, they try to justify their actions with the appropriate fraudulent paper work - releasing the man and issuing him with a traffic ticket - for riding his bike on the sidewalk. An action he says he took after while riding his bike on the road, the police used their vehicle as a weapon to intimidate him - rather than communicating to him what they wanted to talk to him about.
Give it time - it gets real good.
More about Charles LeBlanc's arrest in this video (made by him).
The CBC Fredericton has a good piece up that lays it all out pretty concisely I think, "Controversial blogger charged with libel".
This video embedded is from the same CBC article - http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2012/01/20/nb-blogger-arrest-640.html
Interesting, at the end of the CBC video the section of the criminal code police are charging LeBlanc under has been ruled unconstitutional in three other provinces. So is this an order from the Province to Police to charge someone with this so Provicial Lawyers can get a day in supreme court on this? Some sort of Provincial power pay?
So, two birds with one stone: a test case going up the though the court system so the Attorney General of New Brunswick gets his test case --- and by laying it on a powerless, poor, troublesome blogger, who local police have heard just about enough from, will shut him up while the case is before the courts - in this case, that could be years.
Police higher ups might find this amusing, ironic - screwing with people's lives can be funny when you're the bully. On the other hand I suppose they might think it's cold justice - since LeBlanc, from their point of view, has been making Officers lives miserable...
What this says about the professionalism of the Fredricton Police Force - I'll leave to your judgement.
mh
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
"Legacy Schools" - Orwellian Neo-con Privatization Formula
As part of a budget process in the City of Chicago, schools in poor neighbourhoods are funded without an appreciation that they need a 'leg up' to prosper (funding for social workers, nurses, food programs - all working together to counter balance social problems caused by unemployment, low wages, health and mental problems associated with low income communities).
Under funding the schools causes them to 'fail' (a metric from Bush II's 'No child Left Behind' federal funding formula) - and then they are closed and school districts amalgamated - and then the remaining over crowed schools are privatized. All unionized staff including Principals, Teachers, Administration, Janitors) are fired and a private education company takes over the management of the school, hiring all non-union staff.
This is the neo-con template for privatizing the public school system.
This is functioning right now in Chicago, and it's success there (but not with out a growing public out cry) and is spreading to New York and other cities.
Expect it here in Canada - soon.
The Real News Network has a piece on this - and Democracy Now did a whole show on it.
The Real News Network - "Despite public outcry, Chicago approves closure of 17 schools"
Democracy Now - "Occupy Education: Teachers, Students Resist School Closings, Privatizations, Layoffs and Rankings"
Understand the template, share, discuss with your neighbours, your elected representatives - and learn how we can fight it when it comes here to Canada.
mh
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