tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86618858807103456192024-03-19T04:06:06.545-07:00NetPolitikThe politics of informationMiso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-52473981421545413822012-03-01T16:22:00.003-08:002012-03-01T16:43:01.760-08:00Key Bank, (in)Security & DatafarmingToday I logged into my bank account at Key Bank, and after answering my security questions (crafted with years of experience), instead of being sent to my account pages, I was thrown to this page:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-C94wZW2n9Ukd-E6GixVEzojRWlOAv3F2BSzz854ahsbpPyT0PqwqVgYDNgTkrq9HxIrTm8gNu8p_uT5UNZQlLi9lFQvcM9DTJr-xRS7l4eWCiHWqo98kjTH97q-j-qfVRLtiKSo_Ecg/s1600/KeyBankBS.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-C94wZW2n9Ukd-E6GixVEzojRWlOAv3F2BSzz854ahsbpPyT0PqwqVgYDNgTkrq9HxIrTm8gNu8p_uT5UNZQlLi9lFQvcM9DTJr-xRS7l4eWCiHWqo98kjTH97q-j-qfVRLtiKSo_Ecg/s400/KeyBankBS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5715089740730395394" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />I have no loans with Key Bank. I have no credit line with Key Bank. I have nothing with Key Bank but a checking account, with no Direct Deposit, no tie-ins, nothing; a plain old-fashioned manual checking account.<br /><br />Look at what they are asking for: height (last time it was driver's license number), employment history information, car registration information...<br /><br />This is the second time I have been forced to go through this "verification process" <span style="font-weight: bold;">without ever having given Key Bank this information. Key Bank has absolutely no business having this information.</span> I put money in; I take money out. I do not Direct Pay any bills; I maintain absolute manual control over my banking processes.<br /><br /><br />Not only is this bypassing my own crafted security,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> it is destroying my own security</span>. They are linking my bank account to publicly-searchable information, which is no security at all; it is a menace to security. They are compiling my separate data in one place, which means if they are hacked, the crackers get all of my information in one nice package.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a security threat, Key Bank. This is irresponsible, reprehensible, stupid and way more intrusive than you are allowed to be as a handler of my money, which you make profits from. I am not your child; I am not your consumer. I am your customer, your client.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Key Bank, you are history</span>; I'll be changing bank accounts tomorrow and deleting you from my existence. You are also now the target of an information campaign to spread awareness of exactly how insecure your systems are, how inadequate and possibly-criminally negligent <span style="font-weight: bold;">whatever unqualified bonehead "security IT person" injected this process into your verification system</span> & are under suspicion of selling my data for profit in a way you were never authorized to do. Congratulations. Enjoy the feedback.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-14999986237773846192012-01-27T18:46:00.000-08:002012-01-28T16:57:49.620-08:00In Defense of Twitter*DISCLAIMER: <span style="font-style: italic;">Unlike usual, this is an OP-ED piece. It's a pain day for me, so I'm a bit scrambled on pain & meds - this post won't have the usual links to everything in it. You can trust me, or you can do your research to verify what I set forth as fact (which I recommend anyway).</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why you should consider this post</span></span><br /><br />There's a big wave of discontent against Twitter for announcing that it can/will be censoring tweets by country to comply with their legal requirements. People are "outraged" and want to "show Twitter who's boss" and "communication should be free" and...<br /><br />Please listen to me now: I've been fully-involved in the internet and politically-aware of what concerns it both technically and legally since Operation Sun Devil & the Steve Jackson Games FBI raids. I happened to be a noobie on the net at that time, and SJG/Illuminati site was a place to go for game info and community revolving around Steve's excellent tabletop RPG games.<br /><br />If you read my last post about #SOPA (or this entire site) you know that I <span style="font-style: italic;">know my stuff</span>; I know a lot about the legal shenanigans the government & industry have been using to attempt to control the channels of communication for the last 25+ years. It has been my privilege and my pleasure to consider myself a Netizen (a citizen of the Internet) for longer than most people. Because I <span style="font-style: italic;">live</span> here, more than most, I've considered it my civic duty to watch, learn, investigate and talk about the technology & the implications of it for evolutionary change and human freedom.<br /><br />Also because I have spent as much time here as other people spend on "having a real life" - children, a home, a career - I do <span style="font-style: italic;">know things</span>; I spend a lot of time learning about my environment, the people who live there and the forces arrayed against this historically-unique manifestation of free speech.<br /><br />So now I must speak out in defense of Twitter.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">What Twitter Did (as opposed to what people think they did)</span><br /><br />Twitter has announced that, in order to keep within the legal requirements of other countries <span style="font-style: italic;">in order to continue operating in those countries</span>, their tech allows the company to block tweets or users on a country-by-country basis. <span style="font-style: italic;">Previously, blocking tweets had to be done globally</span>, meaning if an oppressive regime asked Twitter to remove a tweet or block a user, it had to be done for everyone in the world. Now, Twitter can remove that tweet in that country, but allow the world to see it.<br /><br />At the same time, Twitter slipped users a key to the lock. Think about that.<br /><br />With all this chatter lately about "what companies are doing to suppress our rights," it's easy to get caught up in someone's gut reaction, their outrage or their political position. <span style="font-style: italic;">But that's playing the game we all want to get away from</span>. That's the Polarity Game; the Chessboard with two opposing sides, in black and white. But that is not how things work. That is not the Network Model; "it's a trap!"<br /><br />By slipping us the Key, Twitter is walking a minefield, and you should understand just what minefield Twitter is in before you start formulating adamantine black-and-white opinions.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What's going on</span></span><br /><br />If you're reading this, you're one of the people that have become aware of the attempts by governments and industries to contain, alter, geld and control the internet. <span style="font-style: italic;"></span>There was a reason this was named "The Information <span style="font-style: italic;">Revolution</span>" many years ago; it is only now that people are understanding this was no whim, no PR snappy soundbyte; no cute metaphor like "the information superhighway" - this was a dry, technical description of what this technological breakthrough meant/would mean. <span style="font-style: italic;">This is war</span>.<br /><br />The forces arrayed against an open Internet are formidable. This slowly-building, covert war against the technology and implications of an easily-accessible means of mass communication is coming to a head.<br /><br />For a moment, compare Twitter's actions and speech to those of Google, AT&T, Viacom, Comcast & the rest of the Players. Google has not only told users to STFU and take what they offer, its been less-than-forthcoming about its compliance with the US Gov/TSA/DHS/NSA/spook crowd. The same goes for AT&T, who has not only folded and let the spooks install monitoring on <span style="font-style: italic;">every trunk line they own</span>, they've used their muscle and weight to push legislation (hand-in-hand with government) for retroactive immunity for Constitutional violations and illegal operations. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the Players.<br /><br />On the other hand, what Twitter has done is <span style="font-style: italic;">technically comply</span> with these draconian measures to suppress speech, meanwhile dispersing the <span style="font-style: italic;">technical</span> information necessary to route around these measures in order to keep the channel of communications that is Twitter open and in use.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What Twitter <span style="font-style: italic;">could</span> have done</span></span><br /><br />Twitter could have complied like Google and allowed whatever country(s) to dictate whether Twitter <span style="font-style: italic;">could be reached at all</span>. By technically complying with these requests/dictates, Twitter remains open as a tool for communication in war time.<br /><br />On the other hand, if Twitter did not bow to these "regulations" and gave the metaphorical Finger to these communications-fascists, Twitter could have easily been blocked/cut off/removed from an entire country's use (except in cases of VPN/ssh and other tools/techniques which require a bit of technical ability). At this point, I wouldn't trust our own government not to resort to dirty tricks, "business regulations," obscure lines buried in telcomm laws already passed or secret DHS/TSA "orders" to destroy Twitter as a business.<br /><br /><br />Think of the French Resistance, operating under cover in Vichy France. You might wish to run out into the street and scream "Fascist!" at any passing member of the ruling junta... which would get you shot; end of story. But what if communications with the Resistance depended on you to relay messages, supplies and information? Giving in to your (understandable) rage would hurt a lot more people than you... so you wouldn't; you'd bite the bullet, smile and nod to the Jackboots, serve their coffee and <span style="font-style: italic;">listen carefully for information that would be of use to the Resistance</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is war</span></span><br /><br />This is <span style="font-style: italic;">war</span>, and you have to <span style="font-style: italic;">think</span>; the world is not black-and-white - that's the old revolving-gameboard, binary, dualistic model we're trying to get out from under. Twitter has not bent over like the others. Twitter has basically played by the <span style="font-style: italic;">letter</span> of those rules in order to get around those rules with imagination, cleverness and technical know-how while striving to keep the ability to communicate freely open.<br /><br />This took some guts, knowledge of their own system and <span style="font-style: italic;">knowledge of the ignorance of the enemy</span>. Twitter was very clever... much more so than, say, Google. Twitter was also very transparent about what was going on; again in contrast to the Goog, the telcomms and the govt.<br /><br /><br />Twitter has openly danced on the plank like Capt. Jack Sparrow, putting on a good show for the Powers while flashing signals with a concealed mirror to Loyalists and Netizens to be aware, be ready and use the tools provided.<br /><br /><br />For these reasons, in this case, I commend Twitter and I put my experience, my technical, legal and historical knowledge behind that support. Twitter's gone much farther for netizen's rights than almost any other major company I can think of and it is important to me (as it should be to you) to recognize a clever ally in wartime.<br /><br />For these reasons, I will not be participating in Op #Twitterblackout.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-45997780833228056812012-01-17T16:12:00.000-08:002012-01-17T19:15:45.258-08:00SOPA & PIPA: An Internet Legal History PrimerToday, January 18, 2012, a huge amount of websites will be "going dark" as a protest and demonstration of the damage that the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOPA">Stop Online Piracy Act [SOPA / HR 3261]</a> </span><span>and the</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>and the</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PROTECT_IP_Act">Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 [P.R.O.T.E.C.T. IP Act -PIPA - S. 968]</a></span> are prepared to do to the functionality of the internet in the name of "protecting intellectual property" at the behest of the media megacorps.<br /><br />An <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-companies-dark-list/">incredible array of tech and internet sites are taking part</a> in this protest/declaration/demonstration; your internet will not look the same at all [for a day]. The provisions in PIPA and SOPA can <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/computing/109533-how-sopa-could-actually-break-the-internet"><span style="font-weight: bold;">actually break the internet's functionality</span></a>; this is being pushed by a coalition of media and entertainment companies to "protect their intellectual property from pirates." Yes; they'd rather<span style="font-style: italic;"> break the internet's functionality</span> than figure out why their old rapacious business models are failing.<br /><br /><br />You may not know it, but SOPA & PIPA are only the latest in a long line of laws attempting to limit, contain, channel and control the internet. I have lived through these times on the net and offer some historical outline below. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Unfortunately, since Wikipedia will be blacked out today, you'll have to come back tomorrow if you want to explore these links in more depth</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >A History of Communications, Privacy and Internet Law</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1984</span></span>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Communications_Act_of_1984"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984</span></a> - set forth strong protections for subscriber privacy by <span style="font-weight: bold;">restricting the collection, maintenance and dissemination of subscriber data</span>. The Act prohibited cable operators from using the cable system to collect "personally identifiable information" concerning any subscriber <span style="font-weight: bold;">without prior consent</span>, unless the information is necessary to render service or detect unauthorized reception. The Act also prohibited operators from<span style="font-weight: bold;"> disclosing personally identifiable data to third parties without consent</span>, unless the disclosure is either necessary to render a service provided by the cable operator to the subscriber or if it is made to a government entity pursuant to a court order.<br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">The </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_act">USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> [Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism </span><i style="font-style: italic;">Act of 2001</i><span style="font-style: italic;">] has narrowed/gutted the CCPA privacy provisions considerably</span>]<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1986</span></span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Privacy_Act">The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)</a> was passed by Congress to expand the scope of existing federal wiretap laws, such as the the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiretap_Act">Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Wiretap Act)</a> to include protection for electronic communications and expanded the privacy protections of the Wiretap Act in five significant ways:<ol><li>ECPA <span style="font-weight: bold;">broadened the scope of privileged communications to include all forms of electronic transmissions, including video, text, audio, and data.</span></li><li>ECPA <span style="font-weight: bold;">eliminated the requirement that communications be transmitted via common carrier to receive legal protection.</span></li><li>ECPA <span style="font-weight: bold;">maintained restrictions on the interception of messages in transmission and adds a prohibition on access to stored electronic communications.</span></li><li>ECPA responded to the Supreme Court's ruling in Smith v. Maryland (June 1979) that telephone toll records are not private and <span style="font-weight: bold;">restricts law enforcement access to transactional information pertaining to users of electronic communication services.</span></li><li>ECPA broadened the reach of the Wiretap Act by <span style="font-weight: bold;">restricting both government and private access to communications</span>.</li></ol><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">The </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_act">USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> [Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism </span><i style="font-style: italic;">Act of 2001</i><span style="font-style: italic;">] narrowed/gutted the ECPA privacy provisions considerably</span>]<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1987</span></span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Security_Act_of_1987">The Computer Security Act of 1987</a> reaffirmed that the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) is responsible for the security of unclassified, non-military government computer systems. The main purpose of the Act is to protect unclassified information from military intelligence agencies. <span style="font-weight: bold;">However, the Act has since been weakened, primarily as a result of the efforts of the National Security Agency</span> and repealed with the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Security_Management_Act_of_2002">Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 [FISMA, see below]</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />1989</span></span>: The Secret Service is given authority by Congress over "access device fraud" as an extension of its "wire fraud" authority.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >1990</span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil">Operation Sun Devil</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jackson_Games,_Inc._v._United_States_Secret_Service">Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service</a><br /><br />These two raids and subsequent court cases resulted in the creation of the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation" title="Electronic Frontier Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> and provided law enforcement with evidence to convince the US Congress of the need for additional funding, training and overall expansion of Federal law enforcement.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The great hacker witch hunt hysteria begins in earnest; "hackers are going to destroy your word perfect documents and steal your credit cards!!!!!"<br /><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1991</span></span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_Consumer_Protection_Act_of_1991">Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991</a> amended Title II of the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Act_of_1934"> Communications Act of 1934 </a>and requires the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") to promulgate rules "to <span style="font-weight: bold;">protect residential telephone subscribers' privacy rights.</span>" In 2002, a federal judge ruled that the TCPA's ban on sending unsolicited fax advertisements was an <span style="font-weight: bold;">unconstitutional restriction on commercial speech</span>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1994</span></span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Assistance_for_Law_Enforcement_Act">Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994</a> [CALEA] aka "Digital Telephony Act" was passed by Congress to preserve the Government's ability, <span style="font-weight: bold;">pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization</span>, to intercept communications over digital networks. The Act <span style="font-weight: bold;">requires phone companies to modify their networks to ensure government access to all wire and electronic communications as well as to call-identifying information</span>. The law also included several provisions enhancing privacy, including a section that <span style="font-weight: bold;">increased the standard for government access to transactional data</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1996</span></span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_act_of_1996">The Telecommunications Act of 1996 [TCA]</a> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Title V</span> of that Act - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Communications Decency Act [CDA]</span> </a><br /><br /><br />Signed into law on February 8, 1996 by then-President Bill Clinton, this bill purported to foster competition among companies sharing the underlying infrastructure of networked technologies. Buried in that legislation was an amendment - <span style="font-weight: bold;">Title V - </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act">The Communications Decency Act of 1996 [CDA]</a> - which proposed to "regulate pornographic material on the Internet". This amendment is the precursor to the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act"> Child Online Protection Act [COPA]</a> of 1998; the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Internet_Protection_Act">Children's Internet Protection Act [CIPA] </a>of 2000 and the current pending <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_IP_Act">PROTECT IP Act</a> as well as scores of bills passed in the intervening 15 years, using the specter of pornography (later switched to child pornography), terrorism and fear to push through legislation that favors media cartels and the government's interest in strangling the free flow of information.<br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Section 230 of the CDA added protection for online service providers and users from actions against them based on the content of third parties, stating in part that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider". <span style="font-weight: bold;">Effectively, this section immunizes both ISPs and Internet users from liability for torts committed by others using their website or online forum, even if the provider fails to take action after receiving actual notice of the harmful or offensive content.</span> We'll return to this important proviso later.</span>]<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Promises, promises</span></span><br /><br />The TCA was actually a deregulation of the 1975 FCC <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_cross-ownership">cross-ownership</a> rules put in place to limit media concentration and monopolies in the radio and television space, preventing companies from denying accessibility of airspace and broadcast space to other companies through the conglomeration and consolidation of media and denial of the common carrier infrastructure built with US tax dollars as the telegraph and later telephone copper wiring.<br /><br /><br />The TCA was supposed to foster competition, fairly distribute the use of infrastructure paid for by the public and allow for the collection of a levy handed to the telcos to upgrade and improve the national backbone and fiber-optic cables, requiring "fiber to the curb" by 2006. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Bell companies — SBC, Verizon, BellSouth and Qwest, claimed that they would step up to the plate and rewire homes, schools, libraries, government agencies, businesses and hospitals, with a fiber (and coax) wire capable of at least 45 Mbps in both directions, and could handle 500+ channels... if they received financial incentives. This wiring was to be done in rich and poor neighborhoods, in rural, urban and suburban areas equally and would be open to ALL competitors, not a closed-in network or deployed only where the phone company desired.</span><br /><br />[<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">This was not DSL, which travels over the old copper wiring and did not require new regulations. This is not Verizon's FIOS or SBC’s Lightspeed fiber optics, which are slower, can't handle 500 channels, are not open to competition, and are not being deployed equitably. This was NOT fiber somewhere in the network ether or only on the intranets of the telcos but directly to homes. The FCC now defines broadband as 200 kilobytes per second in one direction — 225 times slower than what was promised in 1992</span></span>]<br /><br />In exchange for building these networks, the Bell companies ALL received changes in state laws that handed them excessive profits, tax savings, and other perks to be used in building these networks. It is estimated that <span style="font-weight: bold;">$300 billion dollars in excess profits and tax deductions has been collected for this purpose</span>.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">(not) Built on lies</span></span><br /><br />But there was a problem with this - <span style="font-style: italic;">the networks couldn't be built at the time the commitments were made</span>. TELE-TV and Americast, the Bell companies' fiber optic front groups, spent about $1 billion and were designed to make America believe these deployments were real in order to pass the TCA.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Instead of spending the money on these promised networks, the Bell companies used the money to enter long distance markets, roll out wireless and inferior ADSL services</span>: customers paid for a fiber optic wire and got ADSL over the old copper wiring with old and failing routers, switches and exchanges. Network capacity was lied about and the network was oversold.<br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Verizon and SBC are rolling out new fiber optic services but want the laws changed again. These services are crippled, closed networks. FIOS’s top speed is only 35% of the Asian standard, and yet it cost $199 vs $40 for 100 Mbps in many European countries</span>]<br /><br /><br />What the TCA <span style="font-style: italic;">really</span> was about was <span style="font-weight: bold;">deregulation</span> and an open invitation to telcos, media conglomerates and lobbyists to swoop into the vacuum left by the breakup of ATT on antitrust grounds in 1982-1984. On the promises of the telcos, the FCC succumbed to lobbyist cash and sold out the protected common carrier infrastructure to corporations to use as they saw fit.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Net Speaks Back</span></span><br /><br />Written in outraged response to government's intrusion on the development of the internet through the passage of the TCA, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow">John Perry Barlow</a>, an early and influential voice on the web, published the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/barlow_0296.declaration">Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace</a> on Feb. 8, 1996. Although strident and anthemic, Barlow's opinion was shared by many of the top technicals, theorists and legal scholars of that time, who saw in the TCA and the embedded CDA the beginnings of censorship and control over the channels of communication the net was opening. They also saw the first attempts by corporations to use Congress and lobbyists to shape the net for the convenience and profit of the entrenched entertainment industry, who had already begun consolidating companies and muscling out new businesses built around the net with bagsful of cash to attorneys, congressmen and the FCC.<br /><br /><br />Barlow was not alone in his perception that something underhanded was going on. Articles began appearing online and in print media pointing to something rotten in all this quickly-moving legislation:<br /><a href="http://www.consumersunion.org/telecom/lessondc201.htm"><br /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.watpa.org/telcom.html">The Telecommunications Act of 1996:A Commentary on What Is Really Going on Here</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/pubs/v49/no1/krattenm.html">The Telecommunications Act of 1996 - Mauer School of Law</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www2.fiu.edu/%7Emizrachs/telecom-act-of-96.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Will The New Telecommunications Act Promote Monopoly? Yes, It Will</span></a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/06/opinion/digital-robber-barons.html">Digital Robber Barons?</a><br /><br />... and countless others. Search "Telecommunications Act of 1996" for more information and some awareness that these rats were smelled early by many respectable journalists and newspapers.<br /><br /></div><br />Those few who protested and claimed the Act would lead to mass media consolidations were surprised by how <span style="font-style: italic;">quickly</span> that consolidation happened. Within just a few years, radio stations, over the air TV stations, cable TV stations and telephone companies were eaten up by the larger, richer companies in a feeding frenzy that has resulted in the limited, false "choices" we are forced into today. <span style="font-style: italic;">Rather than "encouraging competition," the TCA allowed consolidation of the media and control of all information received by people to a small group of sources, all of them incestuously feeding content to their own networks in a war for eyeballs (and click-throughs).</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some Further Reading on the TCA:</span></span><br /><br />1997-2002<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.arthurmag.com/2006/12/16/false-premises-false-promises-a-quantitative-history-of-ownership-consolidation-in-the-radio-industry-by-peter-dicola-for-the-future-of-music-coaltion/">False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Ownership Consolidation in the Radio Industry</a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.consumersunion.org/telecom/lessondc201.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lessons from 1996 Telecommunications Act: Deregulation Before Meaningful Competition Spells Consumer Disaster [Consumer Reports]</span></a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.commoncause.org/atf/cf/%7BFB3C17E2-CDD1-4DF6-92BE-BD4429893665%7D/FALLOUT_FROM_THE_TELECOMM_ACT_5-9-05.PDF">Fallout from the 1996 Telecommunications Act [PDF file - Common Cause]</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/print/netatrisk_timeline_print.html">Moyers on America . The Internet @ Risk . Resources . Timeline</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cabrini.edu/communications/masscom/economics.html">Com101- Intro to Mass Communication: Media Economics [Cabrini College]</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://papers.ssrn.com/Sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=557336">A Little Analytical Honesty Please...</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />1998</span></span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Online_Protection_Act">Child Online Protection Act [COPA]</a> passed by Congress to protect children's personal information from its collection and misuse by commercial Web sites [<span style="font-style: italic;">the law, however, never took effect, as three separate rounds of litigation led to a permanent injunction against the law in 2009</span>]... but that didn't seem to be enough, as Congress then passed the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Protection_Act">Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA)</a> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">the "think of the children!" spectre was first being pushed as a way to make people fear the internet</span>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">1999</span></span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act">The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB)</a>, aka Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 regulates the privacy of personally identifiable, nonpublic financial information disclosed to non-affiliated third parties by financial institutions. The Act <span style="font-weight: bold;">requires written or electronic notice of the categories of personal information collected, categories of people the information will be disclosed to, the consumer's opt-out rights, and the company's confidentiality policy</span>. The Act also requires administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security and privacy of information.<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Communications_and_Public_Safety_Act">The Wireless Communication and Public Safety Act of 1999</a> required all mobile telephones created after 2000 to have <span style="font-weight: bold;">the capability to map the user's location through the use of global positioning systems</span>. The primary benefit of such a system is that it enables 9-11 operators to locate callers in distress. However, <span style="font-weight: bold;">such systems also raise major privacy concerns</span> since they allow mobile telephone users to be located at any time. The Act clarified that <span style="font-weight: bold;">telephone companies' must obtain the customer's opt-in consent to collect location information in any non-emergency situation</span>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2000</span></span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Internet_Protection_Act">Children's Internet Protection Act [CIPA]</a> - proposed to limit children's exposure to pornography and explicit content online. Both of Congress's earlier attempts at restricting indecent Internet content, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act, were held to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds</span>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">2002</span></span>: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Government_Act_of_2002"><span style="font-weight: bold;">E-Government Act of 2002</span></a> - expanded e-government initiatives in the executive branch. The Act contained<span style="font-weight: bold;"> privacy protections</span>, such as prohibitions on the secondary disclosure of information obtained for statistical purposes. This Act included the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Information_Security_Management_Act_of_2002">Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 [FISMA; Title III]</a>, which recognized the importance of information security to the economic and national security interests of the United States, and the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidential_Information_Protection_and_Statistical_Efficiency_Act">Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act [CIPSEA; Title V]</a>, which <span style="font-weight: bold;">establishes uniform confidentiality protections for information collected for statistical purposes by US statistical agencies</span>. The law guides standardized approaches to the idea that <span style="font-weight: bold;">a respondent's information should not be exposed in ways that lead to inappropriate or surprising identification of the respondent</span>. By default the respondent's data is used for <i>statistical purposes</i> only. If the respondent gives <i>informed consent</i>, the data can be put to some other use.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br />Reading the above laws in light of current knowledge, you can see a pattern of stretching interpretation, ignoring provisions stated explicitly in those laws regarding privacy and the responsibility of both government and private corporations to protect consumer's privacy, limit the sharing and pooling of information and identifying records.<br /><br />You know this has not happened. <span style="font-weight: bold;">You know that these laws have been exploited, twisted or ignored by both government and private corporations</span>. This is the danger of SOPA and PIPA and their ilk; proponents of the law say "trust us!" when there is ample evidence for the last 28 years that such assertations are not to be believed; that any loophole, clever lawyer word-games or outright bribery or intimidation will be used to turn these laws into a bludgeon against free speech under the rubric of "protecting intellectual property."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />To the people who would say the government "has a right" to do this because "DARPA created the internet" or "companies pay for the servers and lines," let me make a very important point:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The government did not pay for the lines the internet uses, nor did the communications companies. Those (mostly) copper lines were paid for by your parents and grandparents in taxes, surcharges and easements given to The Bell System, AT&T and the rest of the corps, who then taxed you (through Congress) to lay those lines.</span><br /><br />You continue to pay for a 1997 grant of $93 billion dollars to the communications companies to roll fiber out to the home by 2004. None of that has happened; the telcos took that money, in violation of the terms of the deal made with Congress for that purpose, and instead used it to invest in their own wireless market. You have been, and are being, ripped off [check your phone bill; see those "federal excise taxes" and "surcharges"? That's the debt you're paying for something not rendered].<br /><br /><u style="font-weight: bold;">You own the internet. You paid for it; you still pay for the infrastructure.The government does not own the internet, nor do the telcos.</u><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br />46 75 63 6b 20 53 4f 50 41<br /><br />46 75 63 6b 20 50 49 50 41<br /><br />46 75 63 6b 20 74 68 65 20 52 49 41 41<br /><br />46 75 63 6b 20 74 68 65 20 4d 50 41 41<br /><br />46 75 63 6b 20 43 6f 6e 67 72 65 73 73<br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-54540508723324871692011-12-19T10:55:00.001-08:002011-12-19T12:35:31.362-08:00Holiday Carols for Netizens & OWS<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Deck the Halls with Dox of Folly</span></span><br /><br />Deck the halls with dox of folly!<br />tralalalala lala la la!<br />Lulzy Xmas should be jolly<br />falalalala, lala la la!<br /><br />Don we now our Guy Fawkes gas masks<br />lalala, lalala, la la la!<br />Poke the plutarchs in their asses<br />lalalalala, lala la la!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O Google +</span></span><br /><br />O Google+ O Google+<br />How tricky are thy branches<br />You promised us some neato stuff<br />To get us in your clutches<br /><br />You signed me up, and led me in<br />then killed my posts when I used a nym<br /><br />O Google+, you suckered us<br />Now do I post my ranting cuss.<br /><br />O Google+ O Google+<br />Your motto, "don't be evil"<br />Was just the words of market turds<br />The slogan of some weasels<br /><br />You want to rule identity<br />So you can then cash in on me<br /><br />O Google+ O Google+<br />We see now how<br />You've betrayed us<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Ride</span></span><br /><br />I hear those cop belts jinglin'<br />Ring-ting-tinglin' too<br />Oh ho, it's lovely weather to go<br />Occupy Together with you!<br /><br />Outside there's tear gas flying<br />and friends are crying, boohoo<br />Come on, it's lovely weather<br />to go Occupy Together with you!<br /><br /> Giddyup, giddyup, giddyup, let's go<br /> We're streaming the show<br /> Protesting in a wonderland of snow<br /> Giddyup, giddyup, giddyup, it's grand<br /> they're cuffing our hands<br /> We're tweeting it all with a call<br /> To our Occupy bre-ther-en!<br /><br />Our tents are nice and rosy<br />And comfy cozy are we<br />We're rounded up together<br />Like free birds of a feather would be<br /><br />Outside the sirens calling<br />And pepper spray's falling now too<br />Oh ho, it's lovely weather to go<br />Occupy Together with you!<br /><br /> There's an Occupation at the home of Mayor Grey<br /> It'll be the perfect ending to a perfect day<br /> We'll be chanting the songs we love to sing without a single stop<br /> As we run from the Casually Pepper Spraying Cop!<br /> Pop-diddly-Op!<br /><br /> There's a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy<br /> As we see how many people come to Occupy<br /> It'll nearly be like a picture print from Revolution times<br /> These wonderful things are the things<br /> Our democracy gives our lives<br /><br />Outside there's tear gas flying<br />and friends are crying, boohoo<br />Come on, it's lovely weather<br />to go Occupy Together with you!<br /><br />I hear those cop belts jinglin'<br />Ring-ting-tinglin' too<br />Oh ho, it's lovely weather to go<br />Occupy Together with you!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lulz Xmas</span></span><br /><br />I'm dreaming of a Lulz Xmas<br />Just like the ones I used to know<br />Where Anon masks glisten<br />And children listen<br />To hear pastebins in the snow<br /><br />I'm dreaming of a Lulz Xmas<br />With every oligarch I dox<br />May your days be lulzy and bright<br />And may all your nfo-grabs be right<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">God Rest Ye Merry, Netizens</span></span><br /><br />God rest ye merry, netizens<br />Let nothing you dismay<br />Remember that the Congressmen<br />Are noobies and are lame<br />They threaten us with SOPA's power<br />But do not know our ways<br />Oh, tidings of comfort and joy<br />Comfort and joy<br />Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.<br /><br />In DNS and TCP they do not understand<br />They think that they can block us out<br />And use their iron hand<br />To keep us all from pirate sites<br />And pages that they ban<br />Oh, tidings of comfort and joy<br />Comfort and joy<br />Oh, tidings of comfort and joy<br /><br />For we are ones who built the net<br />Who live it every day<br />We let the men of commerce run<br />For 10 years with their way<br />But now it's time we claim our power<br />And show them it's our game<br />Oh, tidings of comfort and joy<br />Comfort and joy<br />Oh, tidings of comfort and joyMiso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-7318037890345495582011-11-19T12:11:00.000-08:002011-12-16T02:25:02.258-08:00Operation Blackout & protect the Internet<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/czY-dZQsd-k" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="420"></iframe><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">SOPA & PIPA</span></span><br /></div><br />EMERGENCY ACTION AUTHORIZED. ORGANIZATION OF LOCAL PROTESTS IS NEEDED. CONVERGE AT FREEWAYS AND HIGHWAYS. LIBRARIES, MALLS, GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, SCHOOLS...ALL ARE ACCEPTABLE AREAS! STARTING TODAY!<br /><br />This is the most important operation in the history of Anonymous. No operation will be executed until we make sure this operation is successful. Any videos uploaded will be updates on this operation.<br /><br />TRANSCRIPT<br /><br />Citizens of the United States, We are Anonymous.<br /><br />This is an urgent emergency alert to all people of the United States. The day we've all been waiting for has unfortunately arrived. The United States is censoring the internet. Our blatant response is that we will not sit while our rights are taken away by the government we trusted them to preserve. This is not a call to arms, but a call to recognition and action!<br /><br />The United States government has mastered this corrupt way of giving us a false sense of freedom. We think we are free and can do what we want, but in reality we are very limited and restricted as to what we can do, how we can think, and even how our education is obtained. We have been so distracted by this mirage of freedom, that we have just become what we were trying to escape from.<br /><br />For too long, we have been idle as our brothers and sisters were arrested. During this time, the government has been scheming, plotting ways to increase censorship through means of I S P block aides, D N S blockings, search engine censorship, website censorship, and a variety of other methods that directly oppose the values and ideas of both Anonymous as well as the founding fathers of this country, who believed in free speech and press!<br /><br />The United States has often been used as an example of the ideal free country. When the one nation that is known for its freedom and rights start to abuse its own people, this is when you must fight back, because others are soon to follow. Do not think that just because you are not a United States citizen, that this does not apply to you. You cannot wait for your country to decide to do the same. You must stop it before it grows, before it becomes acceptable. You must destroy its foundation before it becomes too powerful.<br /><br />Has the U.S. government not learned from the past? Has it not seen the 2011 revolutions? Has it not seen that we oppose this wherever we find it and that we will continue to oppose it? Obviously the United States Government thinks they are exempt. This is not only an Anonymous collective call to action. What will a Distributed Denial of Service attack do? What's a website defacement against the corrupted powers of the government? No. This is a call for a worldwide internet and physical protest against the powers that be. Spread this message everywhere. We will not stand for this! Tell your parents, your neighbors, your fellow workers, your school teachers, and anyone else you come in contact with. This affects anyone that desires the freedom to browse anonymously, speak freely without fear of retribution, or protest without fear of arrest.<br /><br />Go to every I R C network, every social network, every online community, and tell them of the atrocity that is about to be committed. If protest is not enough, the United States government shall see that we are truly legion and we shall come together as one force opposing this attempt to censor the internet once again, and in the process discourage any other government from continuing or trying.<br /><br />We are Anonymous.<br />We are Legion.<br />We do not forgive censorship.<br />We do not forget the denial of our free rights as human beings.<br />To the United States government, you should've expected us.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LxrQvfC37k">Anonymous on Protect IP Bill</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2pQv0Il_1U">404 FREEDOM NOT FOUND - Message From Anonymous On The IP Act</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6PfywhNEcE">Message From Anonymous: Protect IP Act</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_maL77EostU">Kill the "Protect IP" Bill!</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Please see the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Legal </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Resource Material</span> sections of the sidebar here for other legislation designed to break fundamental functions of the Internet. Get active if you love your nets.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div></div></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-39464538100124572432011-11-08T09:20:00.000-08:002011-11-08T10:26:48.407-08:00The Implacable Iron Fist of GoogleYesterday, after a nice walk in the autumn woods, I came home and found several emails and Twitter notices from friends that my blogs were gone. I checked the addresses and this is what I received:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">"This blog is no longer accessible. The name is unavailable for new accounts."</span><br /><br />WTF?!?!<br /><br />After following the breadcrumb trail left for me by Blogger, I got to a page that informed me:<br /><br />"There has been <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">suspicious activity</span> related to this account. To confirm you are the account holder, Google must send you either a text message or a voice message with a code you must enter..."<br /><br />After I entered a phone number and got the Confirm Code, my blogs were immediately accessible again.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">66:75:63:6b:20:47:6f:6f:67:6c:65</span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google pretends to be helpful</span></span><br /><br />For the past two weeks, every time I logged in to post on my blogs I've had an interrupt page from Google, stating that "for my convenience should I lose my passwords" it would be <span style="font-style: italic;">handy</span> to have a phone number to use as another confirmation. There's also been a link in that page that said <span style="font-weight: bold;">"skip this step"</span> so of course I did; my password is very strong, nonverbal and would be pretty hard to break unless under a sustained and targeted attack. No robo-sniffer or password dictionary cracker is going to get it.<br /><br />With Google <span style="font-style: italic;">suggesting</span> it would be a good idea and also offering me a link to skip this step, it's implied that this is not a required condition of using Google products (in this case my blogs on Blogger, unfortunately snapped up by Google recently).<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The <span style="font-style: italic;">real</span> deal</span></span><br /><br />This morning's research session was dedicated to what Google calls "Two-step Verification Process" which was launched in mid-February and is just getting around to all your Google accounts.<br /><br />"<span style="font-style: italic;">Over the next few days you should see a link on your Google Account Settings page that <span style="font-weight: bold;">allows you</span> to enabled 2-step verification. This new feature adds an extra layer of security to your Google account by requiring a special passcode in addition to your normal password</span>."<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/09/google-adds-2-factor-security-to-gmail-apps/">Google Adds 2-Factor Security to Gmail, Apps</a> [Krebs]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1056283&topic=1067530&printable=1">Here's a big blah-blah page from Google about "two-step verification"</a><br /><br />"2-step verification helps protect a user’s account from unauthorized access should someone manage to obtain their password. Even if a password is cracked, guessed, or otherwise stolen, an attacker can’t sign in without access to the user’s verification codes, which only the user can obtain via their own mobile phone. Requirements: a mobile phone that can receive the verification code via text message or phone call, or an Android, BlackBerry, or iPhone. These devices use the Google Authenticator mobile app to generate the verification code. "<br /><br />"You enable 2-step verification for your domain in your Google Apps control panel. The user <span style="font-weight: bold;">enrolls</span> in 2-step verification... <span style="font-weight: bold;">Note: You can’t force your users to use 2-step verification, they must opt-in themselves.</span>"<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">66:75:63:6b:20:47:6f:6f:67:6c:65</span></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Real</span> security</span></span><br /><br />I've talked before about secure passwords: 16-character non-word, alphanumeric+special characters passwords kept on a single password-protected file on your computer/usb key and using copy/paste for logins, or using something like <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.passkey.com/">Passkey</a> to hold your passwords.<br /><br />I've also spoken about the "security measure" of "secret questions" - giving an associated (in your mind) answer to such questions as "What was your childhood pet's name?" in light of social networking and the fact that once something is posted to the net, it's out there forever (using tools like the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.archive.org/web/web.php">Wayback Machine</a>). So I recommend choosing your question (if this alternative is offered) or using an answer that is completely unrelated to the questions but <span style="font-style: italic;">associated in your mind with the question</span>:<br /><br /><br />Q. What was your childhood pet's name? A. Squanomish<br />Q. Where were you born? A. inmymotherswomb<br />Q. What was your favorite sport? A. escapingbullies<br /><br />Combine those with the ASCII and spelling variants: Squ@nomiish, inmeyem0therzw0mb, ezkapeingbullieyes and you have a second layer of security, not easily guessed.<br /><br />And the final simple rule: <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">never use the same password for more than one service</span>.<br /><br />So the password:<br />6D9F1$%&3[invisible space/ascii character Alt + 255]15~>#b+<br /><br />is going to be pretty hard to crack by an automated dictionary-cracker. Combined with the type of answer to the above typical "security questions" and the best-practice of never using the same password for more than one service, your account is going to be much more secure than someone using the password "Fluffy" for all their accounts.<br /><br />The fact is that, like a house, <span style="font-weight: bold;">you can never be completely secure</span>, but you can make it very difficult for a burglar to break in. Given that option most burglars, especially the random, doorknob-turning kind, will go elsewhere to much easier targets. Like a house, if you are the specific target of a dedicated cracker, nothing is going to stop them, but such cases are a lot rarer than you think. I mean, unless you're a multi-billion-dollar CEO, an attorney in a messy divorce case or a bank, who is going to specifically target you?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">66:75:63:6b:20:47:6f:6f:67:6c:65</span></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveler%27s_diarrhea">The Google Two-Step</a></span><br /><br />It's obvious by now that all this blah-blah about "enrolling" and "allowing" and "opt-in" is <span style="font-weight: bold;">plain bullshit</span>. So is the supposed "security" offered.<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">30-day browser cookie</span> set by users that click the "Remember verification for this computer" checkbox means that if your computer is stolen, <span style="font-weight: bold;">the thief can still access your account without having to provide the second step of verification</span>, and likely not even the password if your computer was just sleeping and browser already open.<br /><br />You'll have to repeat this process every 30 days, meaning Google's going to require a constant correlation between your username and your phone number. Change numbers? You're going to have to go through hoops to restore access to your accounts. Change computers between laptop, desktop, netbook or tablet? Delete all cookies on browser close to get rid of trackers, spies and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576508382675931492.html">supercookies</a>? Same deal. Google wants to know where you are and what phone number you are using <span style="font-style: italic;">every 30 days</span>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Go ahead; try to opt-out, sucker</span></span><br /><br />From more than a dozen posts explaining how to "turn off two-step verification" from both Google and many bloggers, you get this information:<br /><br /><p><strong>Q.16) How can I turn off 2-step verification on my Google Account</strong><br />A.16) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://jajodia-saket.sjbn.co/2011/02/how-to-turn-off-and-turn-on-googles-2-step-verification/">You can turnoff 2-step verification</a>, by going to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/accounts/"><strong>Google Accounts</strong></a> –> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/accounts/SmsAuthConfig"><strong>Using 2-step verification</strong></a> –> click on <strong>Turn off 2-step verification…</strong></p><p><strong><br /></strong></p> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=guide.cs&guide=1056283&topic=1067530">Here's the separate section on "how to turn off two-step verification"</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.trishtech.com/internet/turn_off_2step_verification_in_google_accounts.php">Another article telling you how to turn off two-step verification</a><br /><br /><br />"In order to turn off two-step verification, visit <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://accounts.google.com/SmsAuthConfig">this page</a> or log in to your Google account and go to Settings >> Account Recovery Options >> Recovering your password. <span style="font-style: italic;">That</span> page will tell you you can "add more information to your account to increase your account-recovery options."<br /><br />Both ways will take you to this:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMQ5CR-KHnPBAVwoOzBlLMLrmD5JfTR800kjJfVecYdcVvmnv3C20wvnkKlvT8FxiJlrXKS6SaTfDSIe1TFLy-O_WYFfv4WHQeQ68bQDmNIKxTuovF53y3EZLMW0jPeUgcIhpShsTn3so/s1600/GoogleFist.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMQ5CR-KHnPBAVwoOzBlLMLrmD5JfTR800kjJfVecYdcVvmnv3C20wvnkKlvT8FxiJlrXKS6SaTfDSIe1TFLy-O_WYFfv4WHQeQ68bQDmNIKxTuovF53y3EZLMW0jPeUgcIhpShsTn3so/s400/GoogleFist.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5672668148625475122" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">click the picture for the Big Picture</span><br /></div><br /><br />Notice that if you have not "opted-in" or "enrolled" or "allowed" this process previously, <span style="font-style: italic;">you will still have to fork over a phone number, receive a verification code and enroll in the program in order to reach the settings page where you can turn off the process, which will happen every 30 days.</span><br /><br />Remind you of Facebook much? It should. There's no way to opt-out currently <span style="font-weight: bold;">without first opting-in</span>, and all Google's fanboy press and mealy-mouthing about "opting-in" or "enrolling" or "allowing" are straight-out lies. The interrupt-page I was receiving for the previous two weeks whenever I logged in offering to be "helpful" and offering me a link to "skip this step" was a smokescreen.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">66:75:63:6b:20:47:6f:6f:67:6c:65</span> </div><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">FSCK Google</span></span></a><br /><br /><br />Am I alarmed by this? <span style="font-weight: bold;">I certainly am.</span> I am alarmed by Google pretending this is an opt-in service, repeating that idea in various words and meaning absolutely the opposite.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">fsck: a Unix-based system utility for checking the consistency of a file system. Generally, fsck is run automatically at boot time when the operating system detects that a file system is in an inconsistent state.</span> [fsck is analogous to the Windows utility <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHKDSK">chkdsk</a>]<br /><br />I am alarmed by Google's persistent and consistent efforts to delete anonymity from the net; to consolidate its holdings and bring them into line with its stated mission of becoming an "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Eric-Schmidt-Sees-Google-as-an-Identity-Provider-Making-Real-Names-Necessary-219095.shtml">Identity Provider</a>"; Google's connection to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/sso/openid_reference_implementation.html">OpenID</a> and the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/NSTICstrategy_041511.pdf">National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace</a> [PDF link to whitehouse paper], which Google calls the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://kantarainitiative.org/mailman/listinfo/dg-nstic">Kantara Initiative</a> (shades of the <a href="http://lostpedia.wikia.com/wiki/DHARMA_Initiative">D.H.A.R.M.A. Initiative</a>!).<br /><br />I'm not the only one.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.secureconsulting.net/2011/04/identity-crisis-the-delusion-o.html">Identity Crisis: The Delusion of NSTIC</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2105755/Real-Names-Google-Government-The-Identity-Ecosystem">Real Names: Google+, Government & The Identity Ecosystem</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2123513/Google-NSTIC-Leading-the-March-to-Digital-Totalitarianism">Google & NSTIC Leading the March to Digital Totalitarianism?</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.scoop.it/t/plusgate">Botgirl's curated “Nymwars News and Commentary” site</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">66:75:63:6b:20:47:6f:6f:67:6c:65</span> </div><br />After yesterday's little adventure and today's research, I am accelerating my efforts to completely remove myself from the Google ecosystem by using viable alternatives to every single product Google offers. <span style="font-weight: bold;">I do not like liars</span> and Google has proven to be no better than Facebook in regarding me as a slab of meat to be bought and sold for their profit, telling press about "optional" services that are in fact compulsory now.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google has now proven to me that they are in fact dead-set on "doing evil."</span><br /><br />Google must have forgotten everything it knew about the net; <span style="font-weight: bold;">I can think of a dozen ways to get around this type of forced identification and access</span> off the top of my head and during the coming weeks I will be researching even more ways to keep my electronic privacy protected. What you do is up to you.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:85%;">66:75:63:6b:20:47:6f:6f:67:6c:65</span> </div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">[double-posted at <a href="http://gomiso.blogspot.com/2011/11/implacable-iron-fist-of-google.html">My So-called Virtual Life</a>]<strong></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >66:75:63:6b:20:47:6f:6f:67:6c:65</span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-270844942359497782011-11-04T11:33:00.000-07:002011-11-08T10:33:45.659-08:00Internet Under Fire<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span>Top news for netizens: The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011</span>, aka <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_IP_Act">P.R.O.T.E.C.T. IP Act</a>,[<span style="font-weight: bold;">S.968] </span>now known as the <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act"</span> ie <span style="font-weight: bold;">E-Parasites Act</span> [<span style="font-weight: bold;">HR 3261] </span>and <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221339/Opposition_to_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act_grows"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Stop Online Piracy Act</span></a> [<span style="font-weight: bold;">SOPA</span>] and <span style="font-style: italic;">unofficially</span> known as the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Blacklist Bill</span> [<span style="font-style: italic;">watch the name-shifting; confusing eh? It's supposed to be</span>] which <span style="font-style: italic;">also</span> lumps in a House version of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">felony streaming bill</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">[S 978]</span> that will make huge swaths of Americans <span style="font-style: italic;">felons</span> for streaming content online is scheduled to be heard in the House Judiciary Committee on <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nov. 16</span>.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#%21/petition/stop-e-parasite-act/SWBYXX55">You can sign the petition on We The People, the White House's "outreach" petition program, here.</a> In order to warrant a response from the White House, it has to reach 25,000 signatures <span style="font-weight: bold;">by November 30th</span>.<br /><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/11/implacable-iron-fist-of-google.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Also under threat from Google</span><br /></a><br />If you need reasons, you might want to read this <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/59241037/PROTECT-IP-Letter-Final">Professors’ Letter in Opposition to 'Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011'</a> from July, 2011 by 108 law professors.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/11/11/03/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Net Neutrality</span></a>, the First Amendment of the digital age, is under fire in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Senate</span>; <span style="font-weight: bold;">a vote scheduled next week</span> on a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/11/11/03/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know">“resolution of disapproval”</a>; a measure in Congress that would strip the FCC of the authority to enforce Net Neutrality rules or any other safeguards for the open Internet.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The elephant in the room</span></span><br /><br />These measures are no joke, seeing as how the Net has become the Free Press of the digital age. Given the interaction between social networking and popular uprisings, these measures would go far towards<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship"> </a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship">suppressing free speech under the cloak of "preventing piracy"</a> </span>and are sponsored by the huge media companies, whose revenues are plummeting not because of "piracy" but because of garbage product, broken DCMA software and trying to dictate "culture" and "popular taste."<br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">dirty little elephant in the room</span> is not college students using P2P software to trade cool music because of the destruction of real radio at the hands of those who would dictate what you should listen to regardless of your own preferences but <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_copyright_infringement_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China">Chinese</a> and <a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3577/is_2_39/ai_n29274177/pg_2/">Taiwanese</a> factories</span> that pump out 10,000 factory-sealed discs daily, complete with top-of-the-line graphics and cd/dvd pressings. This counterfeiting <span style="font-style: italic;">far surpasses</span> any losses from casual tune-swapping or ripping to hard drives for convenience.<br /><br />Because of our "trade agreements" with these countries, even <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-microsoft-chief-china-piracy-costly.html">Microsoft</a> will not go after them despite huge shipments of counterfeit discs from these countries being seized repeatedly both at Customs and already inside country borders.<br /><br />The facts remain: many studies and factual reports indicate that not only are <a href="http://boingboing.net/2009/11/13/labels-may-be-losing.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">musicians making more money than ever</span></a>, dvd movie and cd music sales are actually up. It's the middlemen, the parasites, that are losing what they consider their rightful, obscene profit margins.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The RIAA and MPAA lie</span></span><br /><br />I personally remember making "mix tapes" off the radio when I was younger; I'd listen to them, decide if I really liked a song enough to buy the album or if I only wanted the 45 single. I'd still buy as much music as I did before; in fact, radio helped me find out about artists I didn't know about and encourage me to buy <span style="font-style: italic;">more</span> product (as cassette tapes didn't have nearly the fidelity of vinyl).<br /><br />Well, <span style="font-weight: bold;">the <a href="http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/01/11/the-2010-numbers-are-in-albums-sales-are-still-fucked/">Industry killed the 45/single format</a></span>, went to CDs that they told us would cost far less "once we retooled our vinyl factories to produce CDs" and <span style="font-weight: bold;">never reduced the selling prices</span> although <span style="font-weight: bold;">the cost for producing digital goods has plummeted</span> to a fraction of the cost of vinyl production and shipping, and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> made back catalog</span> (classic tunes, movies and albums many people would willingly buy) <span style="font-weight: bold;">unavailable</span>.<br /><br />Why did they do this? Because <span style="font-weight: bold;">older material has better contracts</span>, balanced between profit for the artist and for the company; new contracts all but impoverish artists while the Company rakes in profit, plays<span style="font-weight: bold;"> <a href="http://www.negativland.com/albini.html">dirty accounting tricks</a></span> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tech.mit.edu/V122/N32/long6-32.32w.html">fraud</a> to show "losses" on multi-platinum releases and makes a mockery of "supporting artists."<br /><br />For the same reason, they squeezed radio stations with piratical <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=performance+rights+act">"performing rights" legislation</a>, dictated playlists and ended up reducing radio to a handful of songs endlessly ground into your ears in the attempt to tell you what's cool and what you should buy, because they geared a whole advertising and backscratching tie-in campaign <span style="font-weight: bold;">in order to <span style="font-style: italic;">drive</span> culture</span>, not to celebrate or distribute it.<br /><br />In fact, the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html">RIAA and MPAA statistics have been repeatedly debunked</a>.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Breaking the internet - c</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">olluding interests </span></span><br /><br />This collusion between lawmakers and the entertainment industry is being used to not only limit our selections of what and where we want to see or hear something <span style="font-style: italic;">we've paid for</span> [like ripping a cd or dvd to a hard drive] but to set dangerous precedent in law, allowing commercial interests to trump consumer rights. These subversions and twistings of law are then taken up by government interests, who use these precedents to further attack the open and free flow of information and discussion on the Net.<br /><br />The entertainment industry is funneling enormous amounts of money into lobbying Congress to pass these bills. In many cases, motions and bills are presented in last-minute "midnight sessions" with little or no public notice or debate. The semantic shift from "copyright violation" and "counterfeiting" to "piracy" is being used to equate digital copying with terrorism, stifling debate and questions as to the figures being presented by the RIAA and MPAA as to their "loss of profits."<br /><br />The exposes of the entertainment industry's shady and misleading accounting practices are manifold. The reports of the underhanded tactics of their lobbyists and bribed Congresscritters are also legion.<br /><br />Lawmakers are being bought by the entertainment and communications companies, which are playing into the interests of a government that would like to see free speech curtailed and the Internets "brought to heel," incidentally <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/breaking_the_internet_howto">breaking</a> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2011/08/26/protect_ip_threatens_the_future_of_dns_security">fundamental functions</a> of the nets:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.shinkuro.com/PROTECT%20IP%20Technical%20Whitepaper%20Final.pdf">Security and Other Technical Concerns Raised by the DNS Filtering Requirements in the PROTECT IP Bill [PDF]<br /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Protect your Internets</span><br /><br />The Internets are the democratic free press of our age. Cost-of-entry is within reach for a majority of people. No media has been this accessible to the common man since the invention of the printing press and the distribution of books (which the Church tried vainly to suppress).<br /><br />Given the recent global dialogues/uprisings started with the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.economist.com/node/18959259">'los indignados'</a> movement in Spain earlier this Spring and the continuing communications sweeping the globe, the free Internet is crucial to the future of this planet. The distribution of information regarding corporate collusion with lawmakers, bribery through lobbyists, facts and data now accessible and distributable can go a long way to untangling and uncovering some of the mechanisms that have resulted in this current global meltdown.<br /><br />Please take a few moments to learn what you can do to protect the Internets that you love. Follow the links at the top of this page; look over the links in the right sidebar under 'Legal' and 'Resource Material' and get involved; it's your home.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Clouting Klout (and etc)</span><br /><br />Finally, just a little post I liked about Klout, social metrics and why the hell I'd follow someone just because "they have a huge Klout score" instead of what they have to say:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://socialmediatoday.com/pammoore/383184/stop-social-puppetry-klout-and-other-influence-metrics">Stop the Social Puppetry for Klout and Other Influence Metrics!</a><br />[Social Media Today]<br /><br />I've been aware of this since the early days of ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger and hit counters, "badges" and other early web cruft. I read a lot of heavy science, networking and other esoteric posts I consider interesting, informative and backed with skill and insight; I don't need a scorecard or number to tell me they are important or have something viable and useful to say. I'm sure a lot of what I seek out and read would have a low "Klout" or "social metric" score.<br /><br />On the same issue, I resent some company trying to tell me how to use my friendships and networks to cash in. <span style="font-weight: bold;">My friends are not for sale.</span> I Follow someone because of what they have to say, not because they have a big "score." That kind of thing went out for me sometime in my freshman/sophomore high school years.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">70:72:6f:74:65:63:74:20:74:68:65:20:69:6e:74:65:72:6e:65:74:73</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-33791406870877344422011-10-25T23:57:00.000-07:002011-10-29T23:56:18.272-07:00The Empire Strikes Back... In Oakland<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbJnlsf0s-ujkgFmklFRaAfrqSCcMptMq30w5ddQiZfcvyREhoxOypbQDG6E3YJGtI1NVKCAtsXkc0cgMh1_vl2GiwjF2I1qKdWn3HdputakrHi1kcFW0LyDG6qK0SKFd6UMa_LL122CQ/s1600/Oakland01.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 199px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbJnlsf0s-ujkgFmklFRaAfrqSCcMptMq30w5ddQiZfcvyREhoxOypbQDG6E3YJGtI1NVKCAtsXkc0cgMh1_vl2GiwjF2I1qKdWn3HdputakrHi1kcFW0LyDG6qK0SKFd6UMa_LL122CQ/s400/Oakland01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667747541117496994" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">8th and Washington, Oakland CA, USA</span><br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZSMDjABmMfrqfov_b1MrBL8sZnoV0i3XQ-9LF8iLYhTKIsiDoAmMIqoKSWEsZlJPjU90RySEWZTPZFcwSIahUBb0SowV0YGDRA2qWnnPGL6JQLrY9w58UAl71RzNbFS4nBTCouOuoFM/s1600/Oakland02.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 358px; height: 198px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZSMDjABmMfrqfov_b1MrBL8sZnoV0i3XQ-9LF8iLYhTKIsiDoAmMIqoKSWEsZlJPjU90RySEWZTPZFcwSIahUBb0SowV0YGDRA2qWnnPGL6JQLrY9w58UAl71RzNbFS4nBTCouOuoFM/s400/Oakland02.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667747640706823858" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/j%27tao%27s-webcam-in-cyberspace%21%21%21#utm_campaign=synclickback&source=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/25/watch-live-occupy-oakland-attacked-by-police/&medium=316210">#3OccupySF</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">punkboyinsf</span>'s livestream from Oakland<br />the chat channel is excellent<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ktvu.com/video/29587714/index.html">Livestreaming from SF</a><br /></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">email Oakland officials: </span><br />cityadministrator@oaklandnet.com, atlarge@oaklandnet.com, officeofthemayor@oaklandnet.com, SPiper@oaklandnet.com, jbrunner@oaklandnet.com, zwald@oaklandnet.com, pkernighan@oaklandnet.com, nnadel@oaklandnet.com, tjackson@oaklandnet.com, lschaaf@oaklandnet.com, idelafuente@oaklandnet.com, dbrooks@oaklandnet.com, "lreid@oaklandnet.com"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CA Governor Jerry Brown: Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oakland Mayor Jean Quan: (510) 238-3141</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Vb9kPVMVYA_FsgmvA-y2ecHx7wfzJVLV440jn6kffKAgjEw5Hu8yVdGVD5qP0sgypSn3rycIvX6aszNpA5m-Q9XKMgnBuGvFJb-POsruTwiv0Kc4ShOJKaFG8R76Zz9zVW69QytNclU/s1600/Oakland03.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 361px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Vb9kPVMVYA_FsgmvA-y2ecHx7wfzJVLV440jn6kffKAgjEw5Hu8yVdGVD5qP0sgypSn3rycIvX6aszNpA5m-Q9XKMgnBuGvFJb-POsruTwiv0Kc4ShOJKaFG8R76Zz9zVW69QytNclU/s400/Oakland03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5667747687175007634" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">4f:72:77:65:6c:6c:20:77:61:73:20:72:69:67:68:74<br /></span></div><br /><br />I guess you know what's happening... or do you? Perhaps if you lived in Norway you would:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10015259">85 arrestert i «Occupy»-demonstrasjon<br />Camper utendørs for å vise sin avsky mot kapitalismen </a><br /><br />Or from AlJazeera:<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/10/201110266201951908.html?utm_content=automateplus&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=SocialFlow&utm_term=tweets&utm_medium=MasterAccount">Police clash with Oakland protesters </a><br /><br />More probably you'd have to rely on blogs, Twitter, You Tube and Flickr, except for a few articles in a few mainstream papers... or this beautiful post from of all places, <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Weather Space</span>:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-102511_occupy-oakland-police-cameras-news.html">ABC 7 News shuts cameras off on Occupy Oakland as police attack with gas </a><br />"not something we usually report on but no one else will." - much respect.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Atlanta police have declared media reporting at #OccupyAtlanta to be unlawful. Demand freedom of the press. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://rt.com/news/google-report-police-brutality-767/">US cops tried to erase online evidence of brutality </a></span><br />Google asked by US law enforcement agency to sanitize videos exposing police brutality from You Tube, claiming they "defame law officers."<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-streets-battle-against-american-style-authoritarianism/1319570241"><br />Occupy Wall Street's Battle Against American-Style Authoritarianism</a><br />This is why<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">4f:72:77:65:6c:6c:20:77:61:73:20:72:69:67:68:74</span></div><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternet.org/world/152812/why_are_police_attacking_peaceful_protesters_how_ows_has_exposed_the_militarization_of_us_law_enforcement">How OWS Has Exposed the Militarization of US Law Enforcement</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">My livestream filming guy got gassed. He's not doing too good right now. Poor dude. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/blogs/gadfly/arms-firm-behind-suppression-occupyoakland-and-palestines-popular-struggle">The arms firm behind the suppression of #OccupyOakland and Palestine's popular struggle </a>[Akhbar]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> this is USA democracy? you were a light in the dark. what a shame! </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_grenade#Stun">Flash-bangs are a type of hand grenade, being used on non-violent US citizens for "illegal assembly." Not rioting; not criminal acts.</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"> journalism died today at #occupyoakland Cops told media 'don't shoot video' & media went home </span><br /><br /><a href="http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/police-said-to-fire-tear-gas-at-protesters-in-oakland-calif/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters in Oakland, Calif.</span></a> [NYTimes<span style="font-style: italic;"></span>]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Police used teargas and smoke grenades and rubber bullets on a camp with children in it.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/25/BAUB1LLTC9.DTL">Police tear gas Occupy Oakland protesters</a> [SF Chronicle]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">funny how no1 has been charged with anything and the cops had to call it an "unlawful assembly" not vandalism, assault or other</span><br /><br /><a href="http://analpoetnl.visibli.com/share/bxYQ4Q"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oakland Police Turn on #OWS With Tear Gas, Flash-Bang Grenades</span></a> [Mother Jones]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I don't recall gun-totin Tea Partiers being tear gassed for their peaceful protests.</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/11/BAD41LG93T.DTL"><br />Oakland police chief announces resignation as teargass and rubber bullets fly</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">OAKland Police Chief resigns in wake of #OccupyOkland police brutality claims</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/25/occupy-oakland-protest-police-protesters-clash_n_1031879.html">Occupy Oakland Protest: Police Fire Tear Gas And Beanbag Rounds, Clear Out Encampment </a>[HuffPost]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#OccupyOakland is singing Star Wars Imperial March</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://alleducationmatters.blogspot.com/2011/10/police-state-occupy-oakland-turns.html">Police State: Occupy Oakland Turns Dramatically Violent</a> [All Education Matters]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Banks got bailed out, we got tear gassed. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://weirdloadreboot.com/blog/2011/10/25/breaking-police-terrorize-the-streets-of-oakland-to-force-out-occupy-demonstrators/">Police Terrorize the Streets of Oakland to Force out #occupy Demonstrators</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I wonder what officers say to cops to make them feel it's OK to act like animals. Audio will surface, bet on it. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupyatlanta.org/2011/10/26/mayor-ignores-clergy-to-raid-occupy-atlanta/">Mayor ignores clergy to raid Occupy Atlanta</a><br />State Sen. Vincent Fort (D-GA) arrested.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">why are police arresting and using military-grade weapons on peaceful protestors across the country?</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/22/police-brutality-charges-us"><span style="font-size:130%;">Police brutality charges sweep across the US</span><br /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">When Injustice Becomes Law, Rebellion Becomes Duty. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2011/01/28/how-to-make-a-tear-gas-mask-howto-protection-at-protest/">How To make a Tear Gas Mask | HOWTO Protection at Protest</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">4f:72:77:65:6c:6c:20:77:61:73:20:72:69:67:68:74<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afqoBBuPu8s"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >The War You Don't See - John Pilger [video]</span></a><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">award-winning video report from CNN on propaganda</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">thx to <span style="font-weight: bold;">LexingtonBilly</span> for this link<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;">4f:72:77:65:6c:6c:20:77:61:73:20:72:69:67:68:74<br /><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Videos</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">- watch and weep</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">You really shouldn't download these videos; it's against TOS. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqNOPZLw03Q">Occupy Oakland - Flashbangs USED on protesters</a><br />Grenade deliberately thrown <span style="font-style: italic;">into crowd of people</span>, not street trying to aid <span style="font-weight: bold;">Scott Olsen, a Marine veteran of two tours of Iraq</span>, already down and bleeding, who gets it right next to his head. Sickening. UPDATE: as of Wednesday he is in Critical condition.<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv87D36n8MQ">OWS Cops Tear Gas Occupy Oakland (10/25/11)</a><br />Tear gas and flash-bang grenades used on peacful US Citizens<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6386440-protesters-clash-with-police-after-%E2%80%98occupy-oakland%E2%80%99-camp-raided/">Protesters Clash With Police After ‘Occupy Oakland’ Camp Raided</a><br />Good CBS video report on Oakland police violence<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ktvu.com/video/29587714/index.html">RAW VIDEO: Ground footage of Occupy Oakland march and crowd dispersal</a><br />No violence; marching, standing; "unlawful assembly"<br />Woman in wheelchair gassed; fallen man bombed with grenade<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMUgPTCgwcQ"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marine Vet wounded, tear gas & flash-bang grenades thrown in downtown Oakland </span></a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/6386440-protesters-clash-with-police-after-%E2%80%98occupy-oakland%E2%80%99-camp-raided/">Protesters Clash With Police After ‘Occupy Oakland’ Camp Raided</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpO-lJr2BQY"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Raw Video: Protesters Clash With Oakland Police </span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_SmVnjoA08">Police crackdown on Occupy Oakland</a> [RT]<br />Tearing down the camp<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">4f:72:77:65:6c:6c:20:77:61:73:20:72:69:67:68:74</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Photos</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/75wrpb">Rubber bullet to the head</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/gz5rkrzj">Beanbag round to the leg</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/h8dgtfxjj">Woman in wheelchair gassed, rescued</a><br />This woman's batteries ran out in her wheelchair, stranding her in clouds of tear gas. Three protesters braved the gas to rescure her; lifting her chair and running with it.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/75w5hc">Navy man Holds Fast, carrying copy of Constitution</a><br /><a href="http://twitpic.com/75vvvy"><span style="font-weight: bold;">He's joined by an Iraq vet</span></a> - two men of great honor; I salute you.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/75wov1">CS grenade and two shotgun shells used to fire beanbag rounds</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/75wthq">CS grenade #2 and remains of flash-bang?</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://jpdobrin.com/blog/2011/10/photography-of-police-dismantling-occupy-oakland/#.TqbFKzzJP4d.twitter">Photography of Police dismantling Occupy Oakland</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyduck/6282521118/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter#/photos/eyduck/6282521118/lightbox/">Guess they forgot</a><br />2003 news clipping regarding lawsuit and Oakland police banning the use of the weapons ther are using now.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://mashable.com/2011/10/25/occupy-url/?WT.mc_id=en_my_stories&utm_campaign=My%2BStories&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy The URL</span></span></a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.woccu.org/">World Council of Credit Unions</a><br />move your money<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/occupy-wall-street-trademark-986531">L.I. Couple Seeks Trademark For "Occupy Wall St."</a><br />Let these people know how you feel about this<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">tweets from #ows channels are always shown in italic</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/information-disinformation-ows.html">Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-and-internet.html"><span>Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/medium-is-media-and-message.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message </span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-showdown.html">Day 28: Showdown</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-one-victory-occupy-wall-street.html">Day 29: Just One Victory</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupation-world-oct-15.html">Occupation: World - Oct. 15th</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/good-people-rising-occupy-souls.html">Good People Rising - Occupy Souls</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/empire-strikes-back-in-oakland.html">The Empire Strikes Back... in Oakland</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieezljoGCd5AmmV4MRMPMuHACsgCgw_s0GdtfTsHdVhUhZHXvMNUZKczovgR0YvFwrnjGGCEwMA8GfydtnfEMlm7OKL8H90NcUkoDSFouqq9DfQ6V2jIjPhl4k5sb0_W33h80GoTs5-OA/s1600/0-failav.png"><br /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">"<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdNmCXFMoN4">74:68:69:73:20:69:73:20:6e:6f:74:20:41:6d:65:72:69:63:61</a>"</span><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-77616804004798234062011-10-17T21:47:00.001-07:002011-10-29T23:55:41.307-07:00Good People Rising - Occupy Souls<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMhQuPQpO3cA-0JmMT0r-My8bMH1jRmS97cCO8KRvfBWddefvlm9cGIJQIdKiQ6tCsdJd5KS8-5eLSAj21aiNNZcoKss7_b1u6dippuIRCOOtFztGFdRMeJ1kTtW3JsRH-_GY4YJxoCz4/s1600/0usmc.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 139px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMhQuPQpO3cA-0JmMT0r-My8bMH1jRmS97cCO8KRvfBWddefvlm9cGIJQIdKiQ6tCsdJd5KS8-5eLSAj21aiNNZcoKss7_b1u6dippuIRCOOtFztGFdRMeJ1kTtW3JsRH-_GY4YJxoCz4/s400/0usmc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664537679419203138" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >"This is not a war zone! This is not justice!"</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"> </span></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.demotix.com/news/881527/us-marine-sergeant-defends-occupy-wall-street-protestors">USMC Sgt. Shamar Thomas</a>, a 24-year-old Marine Veteran who comes from a long line of people who sacrifice for their country - Mother, Army Veteran (Iraq), Step father, Army, active duty (Afghanistan), Grand father, Air Force veteran (Vietnam), Great Grand Father Navy veteran (World War II) - takes on police at Occupy Wall Street. Here is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">full video</span>: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dY9-ARvX1VM">USMC Sgt. Thomas at Occupy Wall Street</a>. And here is<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzBn5X_hsIs"> the interview with Keith Obermann on Countdown</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thank you, Sgt</span>, for defending your country in two places: (2) tours in Iraq, and at Occupy Wall Street. Your courage is exemplary; your honesty is heart-breaking; your upholding of the Constitution which you fought for is heroic. You are one of the "few good men." You gave me hope today.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Happening</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://roarmag.org/2011/10/global-revolution-mass-protests-in-1000-cities-in-videos/">Global revolution: protests in 1,000+ cities — in videos</a> [Roar]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/17/us-wallstreet-protests-social-idUSTRE79G6E420111017">From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world</a> [Reuters]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupywallst.org/article/occupy-wall-street-marks-one-month/">Occupy Wall Street Marks One Month</a> [OccupyWallStreet statement]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3FmDL4L1lM">10,000 people Occupy San Francisco</a>... and then <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXI-u14P8eg">camp raided, torn down;</a> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV9uZ00bqD8">police brutality continues</a>.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West">Dr Cornel West</a>, Princeton University professor, is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQNH4wphca0">arrested at the Supreme Court</a> along with 16 other protesters from Occupy.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Peaceful revolution rises on 5 pillars: persistence, courage, visibility, numbers, and calm. </span><br /><br />Rev. Bernice King, Dr. Martin Luther King's daughter, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/10/17/345391/mlks-daughter-my-father-would-have-supported-99-percent-movement/">says that her father would have been heartened</a> by the Occupy and 99% movements.<br /><br />Today the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://animalnewyork.com/2011/10/jesse-jackson-occupies-medical-tent-saves-it-from-being-evicted-by-nypd/"><span>Reverend Jesse Jackson</span> stood up the NYPD</a> when they came to destroy the <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Medical Tent</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @OccupyWallSt: #nypd is trying to bust down our medical tent, but @revjjackson is in the way </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span>Meanwhile, in my own Cincinnati, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.occupycincy.org/media-and-press">a lawsuit was filed today in federal court by Occupy Cincinnati</a>, alleging that the City of Cincinnati’s Parks Rule has kept Cincinnatians from exercising their constitutionally-protected rights to free speech and assembly.<br /><br />This <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://plus.google.com/photos/110490228668720918395/albums/5663921193718947649/5663921997174554658#photos/110490228668720918395/albums/5663921193718947649/5663922036060834962">series of photos from the Berlin Occupation</a> could come right out of a history book.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Campaigns/strategies<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupygeorge.com/">OccupyGeorge</a>: campaign to send messages to the banksters on their own "letterhead"<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.occupythebanks.com/">Occupy The Banks</a> - listserv<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/163922/cyberactivism-egypt-occupy-wall-street">Cyberactivism From Egypt to Occupy Wall Street</a> [Nation]<br /><br />This <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/10/cell-phone-guide-occupy-wall-street-protesters-and-everyone-else">Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else)</a> from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Electronic Frontier Foundation</span> is a must-read.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2011/10/defcon-speakers-guide-to.html">More hand signals from Occupy Wall Street</a><br />Non-verbal semantic arts in play<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Hijacking the Movement</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUCZ_j950kY">Hamsher: Dems Co-opting Occupy Wall St. </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://rt.com/usa/news/occupy-wall-street-democrats-487/">Democrats want to hijack Occupy Wall Street?</a> [RT]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.infowars.com/obama-machine-prepares-to-hijack-occupy-wall-street/">A good synopsis of MoveOn.Org's moves from Alex Jones</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.borowitzreport.com/2011/10/17/a-letter-from-goldman-sachs/">A Letter From Goldman Sachs</a> [Borowitz Report]<br />Monetize the Occupation! [HUMOR]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Meaning</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2011/10/inarticulate-articulation-of-why-occupy.html">An Inarticulate Articulation of Why Occupy Wall Street Doesn't Need to Articulate a Damn Thing</a><br />Beautiful, articulate bullshit-calling.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2011/10/16/the-contrasting-psychologies-of-occupy-wall-street-and-the-tea-party/2/">The Contrasting Psychologies of 'Occupy Wall Street' and the 'Tea Party'</a> [Forbes]<br />Written by a 20-yr clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst<br /><br />This article from Frank Pasquale titled "<a href="http://balkin.blogspot.com/2011/10/moral-authority-of-occupy-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Moral Authority of Occupy Wall Street</span></a>" is a concise refutation of all the "talking points" of the OWS deniers/astroturfers/vituperative trolls.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/why-occupy-wall-street-is-bigger-than-left-vs-right-20111017">Why Occupy Wall Street is Bigger Than Left vs. Right</a> [Rolling Stone]<br />Matt Tabibi<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You can't fix today's problems with yesterday's thinking. So move over, the millennials are here, #ows; bring ideas, leave party at home<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >"It's the economy, stupid"</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/17/editorial-financial-protests-world-bankers">Financial crisis protests: the world versus the bankers</a> [Guardian]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/05/the-quiet-coup/7364/">The Quiet Coup</a>: the finance industry has effectively captured our government [Atlantic]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/wall-street-banks-donations-2011-10?op=1">Wall Street Buys Washington</a>: Here's How Much Banks Gave To The 2012 Presidential Candidates [Business Insider]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/14/opinion/rabbit-hole-economics.html?_r=2&ref=opinion">Rabbit-Hole Economics</a>: Paul Krugman examines <a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/10/vicodin-live-blogging-the-bloomberg-debate.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tuesday’s Republican debate</span></a> on the economy [NYT/Opinion]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://watchingfrogsboil.com/royal-dutch-shell-the-worlds-dirtiest-oil-com">Royal Dutch Shell: The World's Dirtiest Oil Company</a><br />More news the news didn't tell you<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Have you noticed that throughout all this no one has said I'M SORRY. Not ONE apology or semblance of responsibility from #the1%<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Questionable</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_NYPD_INTELLIGENCE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Top CIA clandestine operative is working with the NYPD</a>.<br />Questions abound as to why<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hx_4mBZBjk">CNN badgers protesters</a><br />Just as good as Faux News for pretending to be "news"<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.civilbeat.com/posts/2011/09/26/12961-honolulu-police-load-up-on-taser-ammo-pepper-spray-bean-bags-for-apec/">Honolulu Police Load Up on Taser Ammo, Pepper Spray, Bean Bags for APEC</a><br />My friends know that in the early 90s I traveled to Hawai'i 5 yrs in a row; helped out in the Mau'i <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternative-hawaii.com/hacul/language.htm">Hawai'ian Language</a> Reclaimation Project; helped wire the first <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cybercafemaui.com/">cybercafe</a> there; collected legends from the Aunties and Oncles, walked the volcanos for Pelé and studied the politics of Hawai'i, Matson Shipping Lines and C&H Sugar<span class="st"><em></em></span>. <span style="font-style: italic;">Real</span> Kanaka are mostly SO POOR outside the one-mile "tourist Hawai'i" strip... this is disgusting.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Race-Baiting Bigoted Smear Job</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/10/2011101510466829989.html?utm_content=automateplus&utm_campaign=Trial6&utm_source=SocialFlow&utm_medium=MasterAccount&utm_term=tweets">Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism </a><span style="font-weight: bold;">--- must-read</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/charges_of_occupy_wall_street_anti_semitism_find_audience_on_the_right.php">Charges Of Occupy Wall Street Anti-Semitism Find Audience On The Right</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span>I want to comment on the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2011/10/14/occupy-chicago-calls-the-destruction-of-israel/?utm_source=FAM_Blog&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+FireAndreaMitchell+%28Fire+Andrea+Mitchell%21+Exposing+Liberal+bias+cause+the+MSM+doesn%27t+have+to.%29">ugly assertions</a> surfacing of "Anti-Jewish" propaganda being currently spewed. This is one of the lowest, insanest, ugliest political smear campaigns I have ever witnessed; it is something I'd expect from <span style="font-weight: bold;">Karl Rove</span>. It also goes back hundreds of years and is currently used to stifle debate about <span>Israel's</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> policies</span>.<br /><br />I question these assertions; I question this entire line of propaganda. I question whether these few people are representative of the movement; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/News/tabid/178/nid/22978/language/en-US/Default.aspx">I question israel today Magazine</a>'s pushing of this issue; according to their own article, they quote the <span style="font-style: italic;">American Nazi Party</span>'s website, which has "come out in support of OWS."<br /><br />First of all, israel today, <span style="font-weight: bold;">you're going to quote </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Nazis?!?!?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Your argument is invalid</span>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law">Godwin'd</a> right there. You ignore the reports that these people have been shown to be <span style="font-weight: bold;">local crazies</span> with a history of showing up at every large gathering for many years, or even wandering the streets randomly. You push this <span style="font-weight: bold;">racism</span> using <span style="font-weight: bold;">three examples</span> (besides your Nazi Party one). <span style="font-weight: bold;">These are the same people that sniff and dig and triumphantly post anti-Muslim diatribes</span>. They are professional agitators and propagandists who whine when someone uses their own tactics against them. <span style="font-weight: bold;">I'd like to see them DOX'd</span> and find out exactly who is behind them.<br /><br />I have <span style="font-style: italic;">nothing</span> against Jews; only the Israeli <span style="font-style: italic;">government</span>; like <span style="font-style: italic;">all</span> governments lately, it show signs of rabid insanity and paranoia. And so does israel today Magazine.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> I can certainly criticise the government for their actions and policies without being anti-Semitic</span>.<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vosizneias.com/47614/2010/01/22/new-york-adl-slams-rush-limbaugh-calling-his-remarks-borderline-anti-semitic/">ADL Slams Rush Limbaugh Calling His Remarks 'Borderline Anti-Semitic'</a> [2010]<br />from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Yiddish News</span> - and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.jewishjournal.com/bloggish/item/rush_limbaugh_tells_the_caller_from_michigan_why_jews_back_obama_20081023/">here's a transcript of the phone call session</a><br /><br /><br />Maybe they don't read the Yiddish News? Maybe israel today thinks the Yiddish News is anti-Semitic? Maybe this is a way to shut off debate about the <span style="font-weight: bold;">policies of the Israeli government?</span> Or is it just<span style="font-weight: bold;"> an ugly piece of psywar/propaganda warfare</span> to destroy a movement that is shaking the world's governments?<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternet.org/story/152782/10_craziest_things_said_about_occupy_wall_street?page=entire">10 Craziest Things Said About Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br />[And don't start flooding my Comments with <span style="font-weight: bold;">racist bigoted bullshit from either side</span> of this. If you are exclusionist, you're wasting your wind on me; I've seen what you do for the last 25 years. You aren't part of any change or justice to me, and if you start out bigoted, that is your message and I hear nothing more]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/information-disinformation-ows.html">Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-and-internet.html"><span>Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/medium-is-media-and-message.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message </span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-showdown.html">Day 28: Showdown</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-one-victory-occupy-wall-street.html">Day 29: Just One Victory</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupation-world-oct-15.html">Occupation: World - Oct. 15th</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/good-people-rising-occupy-souls.html">Good People Rising - Occupy Souls</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieezljoGCd5AmmV4MRMPMuHACsgCgw_s0GdtfTsHdVhUhZHXvMNUZKczovgR0YvFwrnjGGCEwMA8GfydtnfEMlm7OKL8H90NcUkoDSFouqq9DfQ6V2jIjPhl4k5sb0_W33h80GoTs5-OA/s1600/0-failav.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieezljoGCd5AmmV4MRMPMuHACsgCgw_s0GdtfTsHdVhUhZHXvMNUZKczovgR0YvFwrnjGGCEwMA8GfydtnfEMlm7OKL8H90NcUkoDSFouqq9DfQ6V2jIjPhl4k5sb0_W33h80GoTs5-OA/s400/0-failav.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664688875160552642" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">"53:48:55:54:20:49:54:20:44:4f:57:4e"</span><br /><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-55931560190264380302011-10-15T06:22:00.000-07:002011-10-29T23:55:10.543-07:00Occupation: World - Oct. 15<div style="text-align: center;"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheBgk2HYQLHLce_SPWVXvyfXTItL_K4-96Vnyai_FQHqoWx2nCGqh56JXBKFiXtcEInIo3ztaoo8E4Bhd7wys0ZMdeS8d3l4enzc9fZCRCE8VYE4-oLUAVGOU0CygvpweKX-rkS_96x6s/s400/0OccupyMadrid15.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663959689383712178" border="0" /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJ7s59aLSo"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' is played to thousands in Madrid</span></a><br />by the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puShQvxVIHM">Solfonica Orchestra live</a>, making me cry.<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJ7s59aLSo"></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://periodismohumano.com/sociedad/libertad-y-justicia/las-cronicas-del-15o.html"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 217px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhi4s42VecBpBHDy_e_0ndiNTWObg1TdFH267Zx-4NkXEFh1Nc_x00SrUdBwqiSn7T5IO9apL1KiUksVsgYqsMwCfoW9coUOrL1D3vG4Eedra5xgSqflssQjKuTazvJ5lkLQhHlqOqSIJo/s400/0OccupyMadrid152.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663961849585073490" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">"spirit fingers"</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">History erupts today</span>. Twitter is the new News [as always, <span style="font-style: italic;">tweets in italics</span>]. Do not count on complete accuracy; all is in motion and churn.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://download.cnet.com/I-m-Getting-Arrested/3000-10440_4-75593164.html">I'm Getting Arrested app for Android: lets you quickly notify your family, friends, and legal team (if you have one) of your situation with a single tap of your finger.</a></div></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nlg.org/occupy/">National Lawyers Guild Occupy protest support and hotlines</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br />I went to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT7HHl2q31s">OccupyCincinnati</a> today as long as I could; illness forced me to go home. I do what I can from here for my beloved Internet, which is justifying the faith I have placed in it for 25 years. My heart is bursting with pride for the people of my neighborhood and <span>my home</span>. Finally, I live in the America (and world) of my 7-yr-old heart again. <span>I wish I had someone to share this moment with tonight... but I am with all of <span style="font-style: italic;">you</span>, so... it's ok ^_^</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.versobooks.com/blogs/728">How To Occupy An Abstraction</a></span><br /><span>The digital domain of the Occupy movement</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thank you, world. TY Internet. TY #OccupyWallStreet #ows #O15</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Today Is <span style="font-style: italic;">The</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Day</span></span><br /><br />Perhaps these moments are what all those <span style="font-weight: bold;">2012 predictions</span> were about: an apocalypse is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">change-state</span>; <u>nothing says it cannot go positive as easy as negative</u>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/27834-from-tahrir-square-to-times-square-protests-erupt-in-over-1500-cities-worldwide-.html">From Tahrir Square to Times Square:</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/latest-national/27834-from-tahrir-square-to-times-square-protests-erupt-in-over-1500-cities-worldwide-.html"> Protests Erupt in Over 1,500 Cities Worldwide </a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Goosebumps all day long. It's been amazing, and it's just the beginning </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://972mag.com/israelis-kick-start-global-protest-day-with-solidarity-demo-on-syrian-border/">Israelis launch world protest day with solidarity demo on Syrian border</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">60,000 plus protested in Chile today!</span><br /><br />It's going on <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-15320678">all over the world</a>; in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/10/15/occupy-canada-saturday.html">Canada</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://fotograccion.org/wp/2011/10/directo-por-el-cambio-global-15-octubre/">Spain</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.yfrog.com/h7izvosj">Melbourne</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/KAlnammari/status/125222953079144449/photo/1">Barcelona</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.peykeiran.com/Content.aspx?ID=39494">Rome</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lesoir.be/regions/bruxelles/2011-10-15/6500-indignes-ont-manifeste-a-bruxelles-870243.php">Brussels</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.yfrog.com/kgxn2uvj">Paris</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/58105776@N03/sets/72157627777770705/">Toronto</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://convozine.com/occupy/c/23892">Oakland</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/70qkad">London</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/70r1gw">Syntagma</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-74020-7.html">Warsaw</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.correntewire.com/the_banner_says_it_all">Hong Kong</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/70r861">Madrid</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lapatilla.com/site/2011/10/15/los-indignados-venezolanos-497-protestas-en-septiembre/">Venezuela</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Occupy_2012/status/125388905204822017/photo/1/large">Orlando</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/715q4x">Regina</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://kosmos.welt.de/2011/10/fotos-der-raumung-am-reichstag-bei-occupyberlin/">Berlin</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">New York</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/7175wr">Bucharest</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/mfcayajj">Dublin</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/grumpgirl/6248242702/">Los Angeles</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2011/10/wall_street_protest_fever_hits_finland_2951781.html?origin=rss">Finland</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4552qUzbQs">Reno</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/7177we">Zurich</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0kxoVlBiOo">Columbus</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20111015/ARTICLES/111019644/1350?Title=Over-2-500-turn-out-for-Occupy-Santa-Rosa-protest">Santa Rosa</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fperiodismohumano.com%2Fsociedad%2Flibertad-y-justicia%2Flas-cronicas-del-15o.html&act=url">Cibeles Square</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/717azj">Santiago</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anoncentral.tumblr.com/post/11478501849/photos-from-amsterdam-occupyamsterdam-ows-live15o">Amsterdam</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://m.chinatimes.com/content.aspx?cid=1&id=112011101600329">China</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://972mag.com/occupying-rothschild-a-wild-night-out/25503/">Tel Aviv</a>...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Flags of #Palestine, #Mohawk Nation flying on Bay Street! </span><br /><br /><a href="http://yfrog.com/mfa"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Julian Assange</span></a> gets taken into custody in London for wearing mask to the demo; "detained" of course, not arrested... he is freed about 25 minutes later and says, "I can't wear masks and be anonymous but swiss bank accounts can be" while <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCMB-A35M4">speaking to the OccupyLSX folks</a>. He also says, <span style="font-weight: bold;">"This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law."</span> Unfortunately, he then gets stuck in #OccupyLSX kettle and needs to be back in Norfolk by 5pm to avoid breaching bail ...<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://mobile.gothamist.com/2011/10/12/nobel_prize-winning_former_presiden.php"><b>Lech Wałęsa</b> to visit at Occupy Wall Street </a><br />Former President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner and pivotal in ending the Soviet era in Poland. This is tremendous news.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @OccupyWallStNYC: At NYU building at corner of BWay and Waverly streetfront window monitor is playing our livestream!</span><br /><br />This lonely, brave woman <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/bethel-occupy-the-tundra-facebook.html">Occupies the Tundra</a> while <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/nzs5tltj">this small crowd Occupies the Bering Sea</a>... and at the other end of the world is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/occupyantarctica.jpg">OccupyAntarctica</a>. In <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kCrVY1VyxQ">Rome an estimated 200,000 people</a> clog the streets. This <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=B9fuIWT8OV4">video from OccupyPerth</a> has the <span>Perth Clock Tower</span> in it.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Madrid: Must be at least 15,000 here now- from a few hundred half an hour ago. Sudden explosion of noise and chanting</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/johndeguzman/6248019380/">Photos</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/Disarm/status/125357878939893760/photo/1/large"> from</a> <a href="http://live.nydailynews.com/Event/Occupy_Wall_Street_Showdown_at_Zuccotti_Park">Times</a> Square</span> say it all, as does <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P0hrOU4Feo">t</a> : Occupy is not "a small, rag-tag bunch of hippies."<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P0hrOU4Feo"></a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">You can only push decent hard working people so far before they inevitably force change. Check your history books. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tvpot.daum.net/clip/ClipView.do?clipid=36440964&q=%EC%97%AC%EC%9D%98%EB%8F%84">#OccupyKorea #OccupySeoul #OccupyYeouido</a> [video]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Over 10 blocks of San Francisco have been taken over. #Occupy your streets! Thousands upon thousands are pouring into Civic Center </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dtD8RnGaRQ">A look into the "HOW" of the Occupy Wall Street movement: The consensus process</a> [video]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">SF:10,000 NY:60,000 Denver:3,000 Chicago:2,000 Seattle:2,000 L.A:15,000 The 1% has probably crapped their pants. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/713pi2">Young boy's sign: Occupy My Future</a> [photo]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I don't have words to say how inspiring peaceful beautiful cooperative #OWS NYC. Maybe America IS going to be able to save itself.</span><br /><br />A Spanish tweet... mentioning French politics. Truly global!<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">¿Dónde están los señores que decían que este movimiento no tenía comparación con "El gran Mayo francés"?</span> ['<span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span class="hps">Where are the</span> <span class="hps">gentlemen</span> <span class="hps">who said that</span> <span class="hps">this movement</span> <span class="hps">was not</span> <span class="hps atn">opposed to "</span><span class="">The great</span> <span class="hps">French May</span><span class="">"?']</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The New Media</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.kgw.com/home/Inside-the-Occupy-Portland-camp-131876418.html">Social Media continues to prove itself</a>, particularly <span style="font-weight: bold;">Twitter</span>; indicating just how corrupted and beholden to political interests Lamestream Media is. New Media is also about <span style="font-weight: bold;">transparency</span>: "we are the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9_LaSyPKaE">eyes of the world</a>." Police, corporations, stores watch us constantly. <span style="font-weight: bold;">We can watch back now</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> but soon </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">we might be unable to</span>:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N6KRcFeG5o">"The Federal Reserve is planning on monitoring social networking sites because they want to see what the public's response will be to economic policy"</a> Yeah, sure. Now you know.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Please see the Legal Section on the right sidebar here for information on protecting your Internet.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b<br /><br /></span></div></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media blackout... 70% uninstalled. </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCRnkamitVk">An Intense Moment of Truth on MSNBC</a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/16/occupy-wall-street-on-the-scene-as-the-day-of-action-culminates-in-times-square/">Occupy Wall Street: On The Scene As The </a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/16/occupy-wall-street-on-the-scene-as-the-day-of-action-culminates-in-times-square/">'Day of Action' Culminates in Times Square</a> [TIME]<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ideas.time.com/2011/10/12/from-the-arab-spring-to-the-american-fall/">From the Arab Spring to the American Fall?</a> [TIME]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/149476/ben-jerrys-becomes-first-high-profile-company-to-support-occupy-wall-street/">Ben & Jerry’s Becomes First High-Profile<br />Company to Support Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/16/us/occupy-wall-street/?hpt=us_c1">Front-page coverage on CNN/US</a><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">[Leading coverage in many foreign media]<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Congratulations, everyone.</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Wall to wall coverage of Arab Spring in the US cable nooooz media. #OWS? Maybe 3 mins/day, tops. Oh well, there's still Al Jazeera and RT </span>[Russia Today]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Banksters</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/10/15/dont-close-your-citibank-account-today-theyre-arresting-people/">Citibank locks protesters (all Citibank customers) inside and starts arresting them for attempting to close thier bank accounts</a>. Watch the video - a woman in a business suit, entirely calm, a customer, is manhandled and shoved into the locked bank with the rest of the protesters. Police are claiming the act was announced as a sit-in so that is why they decided to make arrests, but this video blows that excuse to smithereens. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/10/15/dont-close-your-citibank-account-today-theyre-arresting-people/">Let Citibank know this was shameless</a>. BTW, <a href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/bernie-sanders-top-10-tax-avoiders"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Citigroup paid no taxes and received a $2.5trillion bailout</span></a>.<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/10/15/dont-close-your-citibank-account-today-theyre-arresting-people/"><br /></a><br /><br />And they weren't the only ones: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK0O30aFT7g">Santa Cruz BofA refuses to close woman's account</a>. Manager: "<span style="font-weight: bold;">You cannot be a customer and a protester at the same time - corporate orders.</span>" <span style="font-style: italic;">And this was on Oct. 7th.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Move Your Money</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Go local and remove the Banksters from your life</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Seeing as how <a href="http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/10/15/dont-close-your-citibank-account-today-theyre-arresting-people/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">banks are refusing customers service</span></a>, and will <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2011/oct/12/stringers-alleged-bank-america-official-/">even lie to you</a>, during the next week, open an account at a local, small bank or credit union then <span style="font-weight: bold;">phone transfer</span> your account balance, or get a <span style="font-weight: bold;">bank check</span> for your balance and get it right to your new account. <u>Be sane; be careful with large amounts of cash or checks until they are safe in your new account</u>.<br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=UpZvFYSl">Long ties to Koch brothers</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_16026/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=UpZvFYSl"> key to Herman Cain's campaign</a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Countermoves</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><br />I am praying tonight to all Goddesses/Gods and the thousands of men and women who have fought for freedom for hundreds of years. Please help us.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/712n3q">500 lock arms in Chicago as police move in</a> [2:33amEDT]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />100+ police + horses attack peaceful #OccupySYDNEY protest tearing down tents & putting everything in rubbish trucks – arrests.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY9GzBRaJig">They use horses to charge the crowd</a><br />I knew they would; been there DNC 2000 LA<br /></div></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Occupy London reporting police using shields and batons on demonstrators who are sitting peacefully. The demonstrators set up a camp that the police are in the process of trying to disperse</span> [8 pm London time].<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w44titOkKE">Police entrapment: given permission to walk, then arrested in 15 seconds</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Riot police surrounded fountain. I was one of last to leave. Kicked legal green hats </span>[Observers] <span style="font-style: italic;">out </span>[Washington Square Park, Midnight]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/14/cops-for-sale/">Cops For Sale</a><br />The new Praetorian Guard<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">@BreakingNews: Police in New York, Chicago,Seattle warning Occupy protesters to clear out </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.itstactical.com/skillcom/lock-picking/how-to-escape-from-zip-ties/">How To Escape From Zip-Ties</a><br />in case some thug or kidnapper breaks in and uses them on you or your family...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">500 arrested including ANSWER Coalition organizers!</span> #OccupyCHI<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2011/10/what-we-know-about-hipster-cop-occupy-wall-street/43710/">What We Know About 'Hipster Cop'</a><br />You've seen him... now <span style="font-style: italic;">see</span> him.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">St Paul's deacon happy for assemblies to happen during mass. The word used was "co-existence" - tells police "we are in support of the protest" #occupylsx </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.buynothingday.org/">BUY NOTHING DAY</a></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">Buy Nothing Day is your special day to unshop, unspend and unwind. Relax and do nothing for the economy and for yourself - at least for a single day.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div></div></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Posts</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sophie-johnson/why-i-went-to-occupy-la-i_b_1002987.html?ref=tw"><span>Why I Went to Occupy L.A. Instead of Synagogue<br /></span></a><span>A 14-yr-old girl explains</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><span><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/10/14/how-occupy-wall-street-can-avoid-cooptation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How the Wall Street Protesters Win</span></a><br />loving advice and encouragement</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_best_policy/2011/10/occupy_wall_street_s_victory_it_has_shaken_up_american_politics_.html">Why Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won</a> [Slate]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/opinion/sunday/kristof-americas-primal-scream.html?_r=1&src=tp">America’s ‘Primal Scream’</a> [NYT]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2011/02/twenty_reasons_why_its_kicking.html">Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere</a><br />Prescient article from BBC's Paul Mason<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/15/1026592/-Who-is-Your-Leader-">Who is Your Leader?</a><br />The Entrenched are frustrated in not having a target to attack.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blogmaverick.com/2011/10/14/my-soapbox-advice-to-the-ows-movement-and-then-some/">A Billionaire's advice to OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">very</span> interesting read by Mark Cuban<br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gawker.com/5850054/meet-the-guy-who-snitched-on-occupy-wall-street-to-the-fbi-and-nypd">Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD</a><br />Isn't this hacking and assorted computer crimes? See how the double standard works now?<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/22/nyregion/22police.html">Police Infiltrate Peaceful Protests, Videotape Shows</a> [NYT]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://i.imgur.com/yarZ7.jpg">Propaganda Bust: Deconstructing "One of the 53%"</a><br />Brilliant expose of propaganda photoshopping & crowdsourced busting<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" id="titleHref" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/15/1026847/-On-the-front-lines-in-Times-Square,-NYPD-in-full-fight-mode">On the front lines in Times Square, NYPD in full fight mode</a><br />blow-by-blow account of horrific police action in Times Square<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://iamblogging.net/awareness/">Beyond the Corporate Veil The Good The Bad The Ugly (hidden revealed)</a><br />Please read this post<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.progressive.org/one_percent_barbara_ehrenreich.html">The Guys in the 1% Brought This On</a><br />Barbara Ehrenreich<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/which-10-giant-corporations-dont-pay-taxes-1587/">Which 10 Giant Corporations Don't Pay Taxes?</a><br />Exxon Mobil, Bank of America, General Electric , Chevron, Boeing, Valero Energy, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Carnival Cruise Lines<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rohde/wall-street-middle-class-_b_1010785.html?ref=tw">Wall Street's Long Occupation of the Middle Class </a><br />David Rohde<br /><br /><a href="http://www.donuz.com/occupy-times-square-new-york/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Turkish media report</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/greeces-fiscal-mess-all-thanks-to-goldman-sachs-yv-reddy_599822.html">Greece's fiscal mess, all thanks to Goldman Sachs</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://matthewhyde.wordpress.com/2011/10/13/whats-going-on/">What’s Going On? Protests, Riots, the Internet and a Changing Civilisation</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/96303/occupy-wall-street-zuccotti-park-media-coverage">The Truth About Occupy Wall Street: It’s Much Smaller Than It Seems</a><br /><span>Walter Shapiro writes a bit too hastily</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Photos</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2011/oct/15/occupy-wall-street-movement-global">International photo set from The Guardian</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/carnivillain">Huge photoset from NYC</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cryptome.org/info/ows-16/ows-16.htm">Huge global photoset at Cryptome</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://i.imgur.com/bNQfH.png">BigFatWhale Comic: BofA's future plans</a><br />brill, as my Brit friends say<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/nvs2mhqj">Teach Your Children Well</a><br />Reading to kids at #OccupyWallStreet<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/710a49">We Deserve Better</a> [Ottowa]<br />Yes, we do.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/296046_235598953164823_227389813985737_701236_727211046_n.jpg">"Someone left a flower outside our tent last night"</a><br />more like a bouquet... in Taipei<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/ntpo2xgj">Hundreds sit at 2am in front of ABC Studios on Broadway</a><br />Hard to ignore the news when it's outside your door...<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Videos</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VfcpX55ThE">Hand Signals of the General Assembly</a> [video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWaU7shrZZ4">Occupy Dame Street </a>[Ireland]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9iB-_-Gsok">Police use scooters to ram crowds; mass arrests 10.14</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO7R1eFumTk">Sean Penn speaks about Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://bushittinus.tumblr.com/post/11508703731/glenn-becks-ows-meltdown-follow-my-videos-on">Glenn Beck primes people for The Apocalypse; accuses "The Left" of being killers, rapists</a><br />Now you see who the real anarchists and terrorists are - people like this, urging their followers to violence and murder.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /></div>I'm not a big name; my blog is small. I haven't been really promoting it that much and I am a Tweet <span style="font-style: italic;">babbler</span>. The media blackout has at least been breached; there are finer and more experienced writers out there. But every once in awhile, some kind soul tweets something like this:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This is an #epic face & twitter *^_^*!<3 @misosusanowa yfrog.com/odmnuxj</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNIfLEXKHinB0skhE1Uv7MXNT91SeXRRuXxETW41jWq_3sZ1sfBpxmIjBG1jUtuOowmneqSkZBUam_SDzAM4QxBUz5kBvLdGGCW6_jWGLO8rA_CCoeyCVHSaX9nZYft2p8bYs2ZwbxMc/s1600/015octTweet.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqNIfLEXKHinB0skhE1Uv7MXNT91SeXRRuXxETW41jWq_3sZ1sfBpxmIjBG1jUtuOowmneqSkZBUam_SDzAM4QxBUz5kBvLdGGCW6_jWGLO8rA_CCoeyCVHSaX9nZYft2p8bYs2ZwbxMc/s400/015octTweet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5664002254446439298" border="0" /></a>... and makes me cry even more. TY RazorBladeDoll.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br />And this series of tweets from Hollywood Boulevard helped me wash off some of my bitterness from living under this <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://deoxy.org/pkd_tcs.htm">Iron Empire</a> for almost all my adult life:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Don't hate the conservatives who mock u & argue w u. Don't respond to their anger in kind. Love them. They can't help it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">They've been duped by the machine into fighting for the very interests intent upon using them up & spitting them out.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">They can't understand that what we want is what they need & that in most cases we're doing it 4 them more than 4 ourselves. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We're trying 2 help & if they'll just let us, we can help get that paw fixed, but they don't know, they can't think straight. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Eventually, even the conservatives in middle class will come around. They'll begin to get it, & we can be friends again.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Fight & keep fighting, but do it w/ love in your heart. #OWS #OLA #O15 #Occupywallstreet #OccupyLa #Occupyeverywhere</span><br /><br />... and made me cry and lose my place typing <span style="font-style: italic;">again</span>. Thx Hollywood.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://sorornishi.is/archives/1472">A post from my friend and fellow-artist, soror</a></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://deoxy.org/pkd_tcs.htm">"One Mind there is; but under it two principles contend" </a><br />Philip K. Dick's visionary wisdom<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/information-disinformation-ows.html">Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-and-internet.html"><span>Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/medium-is-media-and-message.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message </span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-showdown.html">Day 28: Showdown</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-one-victory-occupy-wall-street.html">Day 29: Just One Victory</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupation-world-oct-15.html">Occupation: World - Oct. 15th</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">779:6f:75:20:61:72:65:20:74:68:65:20:65:79:65:73<br />6f:66:20:74:68:65:20:77:6f:72:6c:64</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-18545593534192640092011-10-14T22:31:00.001-07:002011-10-29T23:54:38.235-07:00Just One Victory - Occupy Wall Street<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTENhd7RWbkYayegmh37YV5rRLjRYiCFvVe991zisGk6KNnJiuG2ZmpIHHfg6QfT_Ba_Nh9F_of9aSRfjvLxL_Py-c8telO1um-InPC44JhOoFiqMEmNUvUxN-r9hPlDBhCGAVHS08XVg/s1600/owslight1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTENhd7RWbkYayegmh37YV5rRLjRYiCFvVe991zisGk6KNnJiuG2ZmpIHHfg6QfT_Ba_Nh9F_of9aSRfjvLxL_Py-c8telO1um-InPC44JhOoFiqMEmNUvUxN-r9hPlDBhCGAVHS08XVg/s400/owslight1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663587479938673506" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">5amEDT October 14, 2010 - NYC<br /><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZGT94CCgnkAmHkB49Ht4nC1qkl2lpVfJai_4v5jnBpNO2Lg2Kuo5wyK-_qGnfH1p8sWc_nX88zV8Etcui5Wkwn1I70vAz5I_lBa974H2H3PvnIuW3fokykwjRdoaWAOXzIW8wTzvhdE/s1600/owslight2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_ZGT94CCgnkAmHkB49Ht4nC1qkl2lpVfJai_4v5jnBpNO2Lg2Kuo5wyK-_qGnfH1p8sWc_nX88zV8Etcui5Wkwn1I70vAz5I_lBa974H2H3PvnIuW3fokykwjRdoaWAOXzIW8wTzvhdE/s400/owslight2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663587412496126546" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;">6:50amEDT<br /></span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58qovHuuLUs4Bc_0GPUMuLp2CnxAL6J8k9zyDK2uZvKQSW2SYeDpW5LzAuF2mii6PWFP8IRg1zoZ5Y2qNxePgDjh2SUHEAyPjQOVmufJDaz34f4Jk7eXR64O4fQLD13cGSKU1rs6afUw/s1600/owslight3.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 220px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58qovHuuLUs4Bc_0GPUMuLp2CnxAL6J8k9zyDK2uZvKQSW2SYeDpW5LzAuF2mii6PWFP8IRg1zoZ5Y2qNxePgDjh2SUHEAyPjQOVmufJDaz34f4Jk7eXR64O4fQLD13cGSKU1rs6afUw/s400/owslight3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663587342586825890" border="0" /></a>Denver, 1amCMT<br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">[Tonight's guest post written by the ghost of Dorothy Parker]</span><br />[tweets in italics]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hundreds + hundreds of NYers & ppl from around country got up early today to stand up for something. This is significant.</span><br /><br />Of course everyone is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9D33hr4CW0">celebrating </a>the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/10/15/wall_street_protesters_energized_by_park_decision/">huge victory</a> this morning for #OccupyWallStreet over the <del>minions of Sauron</del> the "suspension" of the "cleaning" fiction imposed by Mayor "I'm A Billionaire" Bloomberg after a little legal pressure, some <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-liberty-plaza-technically-bonus-plaza-not-private-property.php">fact-finding</a> and a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-Je9NXKcV0">whole lotta cleanup</a> by the protesters themselves.<br /><br />Arrests continue at Occupy sites, like <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/11/us-wallstreet-protests-boston-idUSTRE79A0P320111011">Boston</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.chieftain.com/news/local/police-dismantle-occupy-denver-tent-city/article_0e57ffbc-f6f0-11e0-bd6b-001cc4c002e0.html">Denver</a> while <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/us/occupy-wall-street/index.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter">nationwide</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/14/protesters-london-stock-exchange">worldwide</a> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-asia-pacific-protests-tokyo-sydney-seoul-wellington-corporate-greed.html?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed">protests</a> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/10/201110154143743457.html">aligned</a> with the Occupy movement <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15319924">continue to grow</a>; at this time the count is an amazing <span style="font-weight: bold;">951 cities in 82 countries</span>.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.occupytogether.org/">Occupy Together</a> engages today; some cool <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB5oeXwZfYE">videos from OccupyHong Kong</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ShIrsgF_o">OccupyTokyo</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/70lqtu">this photo of #OccupyLSX</a> [London Stock Exchange]<br /><br />Things might become more interesting on <span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RFXzwbR6wY">Bank Transfer Day, Nov 5th</a></span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">100+ police + horses attack peaceful #occupySYDNEY protest tearing down tents & putting everything in rubbish trucks Arrests. </span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://westandwiththe99percent.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We are the 1% and we stand with the 99%</span></a>, a companion photo series to "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/">We are the 99%</a>" is nice; The Atlantic has a good article <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/10/how-world-media-is-covering-occupy-wall-street/246677/#.Tph4rCFW2bs.twitter"><span style="font-weight: bold;">comparing media coverage on #OWS across the world</span></a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Art Dept.</span></span><br /><br />Everyone is all atwitter about art (or is that all Twitter is atweet about art?) because <span style="font-weight: bold;">Shepard Fairey</span> has "designed" <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/oct/14/hope-artist-shepard-fairey-designs-wall-street-protest-invite/">this poster</a> for Occupy Wall Street. Gosh, you mean the Fairey that "designed" the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30302/for-obama-image-ap-accuses-fairey-of-copyright-infringement/">Obama Hope poster? The one that was ripped off </a>from an AP photo? Sure hope <span style="font-style: italic;">this</span> one wasn't "appropriated," eh Mr Designer-Man?<br /><br />Some neighbours in Toronto didn't appreciate street artist <span style="font-weight: bold;">Joel Richardson</span>'s work with images of finance and capitalism. But <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://torontoist.com/2011/10/this-art-is-occupied/">an art exhibit for Occupy Wall Street</a> sure did.<br /><br />Who could resist <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://picplz.com/user/praxis22/pic/ftt39/">Occupying Goethe</a>? Probably not the same people running from the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://i56.twitgoo.com/20r92mg.jpg">octapiers</a>... ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu!<br /><br />There's an<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://dissidentvoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Corporations-Out.jpg"> excellent cartoon by Jonik</a> mocking the "I don't understand what they want" trolls and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/70m76l">this lovely pic of two tiny protesters </a>with signs: "The future is on sale."<br /><br />Finally, this most-excellent "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O_Ao9w1u7c">Occupy Wall Street commercial</a>" is a wrapup of the whole platform for those who can only learn from TV.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Police on Parade Dept.</span></span><br /><br />How about a little video pleasure? There's this <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxZ8_JdKm0Q">NYPD White Shirt KO'ing a protester</a> (<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gothamist.com/2011/10/15/nypd_alleges_protester_attempted_to.php">Felix Rivera-Pitre</a>) or this interesting video about<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2ui7VmMYv4"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">police provocateurs and "Black Bloc"</span></a>, or you might be entertained by <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRCtAHuRao0">this video of police tactics</a> if you happen to be a fan of violence.<br /><br />But many people are fans of <span style="font-style: italic;">this</span> video showing a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/legal-observer-under-arrest-after-being-injured-by-nypd-police-scooter.php?ref=fpb">NYPD scooter cop running over the leg of a National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer</a>, and then<span style="font-style: italic;"> parking on it</span>. And to top it off, the Observer was <span style="font-style: italic;">arrested</span>. The arresting cop's name is rumored to be "Officer Dumbass" but this is not confirmed.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Trolls On The March</span></span><br /><br />A "reporter" named <span style="font-weight: bold;">Thomas Ryan and Andrew Breitbart</span> appear to be <span style="font-weight: bold;">breaking numerous federal laws</span> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://biggovernment.com/thomasryan/2011/10/14/the-email-archive-of-the-occupywallstreet-movement-anarchists-socialists-jihadists-unions-democrats/">committing felonies</a> in publishing emails from OccupyWallStreet protesters and planners. Forwarded to the relevant legal groups. Of course, Messr. Breitbach is the face of <span style="font-weight: bold;">hypocrisy</span>; according to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.breitbart.tv/tea-partiers-invade-occupy-dc-mock-protesters/">this video</a>, Tea Partiers can't even live up to their own rhetoric [remember "when did we ever disrupt one of <span style="font-style: italic;">your</span> events?"]<br /><br /><br />The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tea Party trolls</span> have shifted tactics: rather than keep repeating their 3rd-grade insults about "smelly" and "dirty" and "potsmoking" and so on, they have geared up with some real nasty <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/10/anti-semitism-at-occupy-wall-street.html">Anti-semititic</a> </span>cards; playing both sides of the "dialogue" and creating an ugly and demeaning spectacle of themselves. Fortunately, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEPgAp5Mkyc"><span style="font-weight: bold;">this video tears their little facade to shreds</span></a>. Of course, that wouldn't do for their <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/161973/alec-exposed-koch-connection">Koch masters</a>.<br /><br />If the trolls can't "understand" Occupy Wall Street, or maintain their disingenuous pose of "just wanting to know what it's all about" they might try this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en&v=ScS9Re_osac"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Wall Street Simplified</span></a> video.<br /><br />There's an article at the NYTimes that says "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/business/in-private-conversation-wall-street-is-more-critical-of-protesters.html?hpw">In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as Unsophisticated</a>." "These damned filthy peasants," one was <span style="font-style: italic;">alleged</span> to have said, "they should be mucking out the stalls and sending us their maiden daughters to ravish and despoil like in the old days. Let's hang them all and eat their children's hearts on soda crackers."<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We Don't Want Welfare, We Want Jobs. We Don't Hate Business, We Want Fairness. We Don't Want Handouts, We Want Justice. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Signs of the Pending Apocalypse Dept.</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://www.rt.com/usa/news/tea-occupy-denninger-wall-819/?mid=50165">Tea Party founder Karl Denninger backs Occupy Wall Street</a>; this interesting article about <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mike Lee (R-UT)</span>, a Senator intimate with the Tea Party, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/06/338250/lee-repatriation-permanent/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews">proposing a permanent tax giveaway to multinationals</a>. Perhaps the Tea Party didn't like being hijacked by the billionaire brothers <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html">Koch</a>?<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/10/14/understanding-occupy-wall-street/">Fox News publishes a pro-Occupy Wall Street article</a> (perhaps they were stung by the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCDne9fa87g">Faux Mock</a>, the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8837">results of their own online "poll"</a> or maybe they <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/occupy-wall-street-protest-broadens-scope-20111005">didn't like being clubbed and maced</a>? Maybe they forgot <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.politicususa.com/en/fox-news-occupy-wall-street">these editorials</a>? Who knows; it's <span style="font-style: italic;">Faux Gnus</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Other Media Dept.</span></span><br /><br />This <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/10/11/op-ed-stop-the-wall-street-recruitment/">interesting op-ed from a Stanford student</a> charts how corporations are influencing education for the worse.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049137/Occupy-Wall-Street-Violence-erupts-police-clash-protesters.html">This article from The Guardian</a> happens to have a very interesting first photo. Notice that it is the only photo of a "protester" doing violence to police. Debate whether this "protester" is not a provocateur. Observe how this is the only picture stolen and retransmitted among several Lamestream Media outlets to slant the story.<br /><br />It could be entertaining or enlightening, this article outlining the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternet.org/occupywallst/152743/12_most_absurd_laws_used_to_stifle_the_occupy_wall_st._movement_around_the_country?page=entire">12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement</a> Around the Country.<br /><br /><br />On the Op-Ed front, there's this thoughtful post by Jayel Aheram <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://aheram.tumblr.com/post/11469035177/it-is-not-anarchists-you-should-worry-about-but">warning of partisan hijacking</a> and an interesting <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thenation.com/audio/163860/nation-conversations-liliana-segura-and-laurie-penny-hacktivism-and-social-change">audio conversation</a> by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Liliana Segura</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Laurie Penny</span> on Hacktivism and Social Change.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roshi-joan-halifax/buddhism-and-occupy-wall-street_b_1010228.html?ref=tw">This Is What Compassion Looks Like: A Buddhist View of Occupy Wall Street </a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br />We've been waiting so long,<br />we've been waiting for the sun to rise and shine<br />Shining still to give us the will...<br /><br />Can you hear me, the sound of my voice?<br />I am here to tell you I have made my choice<br />I've been listening to what's been going down<br />There's just too much talk and gossip going 'round<br /><br />You may think that I'm a fool, but I know the answer<br />Words become a tool, anyone can use them<br />Take the golden rule, as the best example<br />Eyes that have seen will know what I mean<br /><br />The time has come to take the bull by the horns<br />We've been so downhearted, we've been so forlorn<br />We get weak and we want to give in<br />But we still need each other if we want to win<br /><br />[Hold that line, baby hold that line<br />Get up boys and hit 'em one more time]<br />We may be losing now but we can't stop trying<br />[So hold that line, baby hold that line]<br /><br />If you don't know what to do about a world of trouble<br />You can pull it through if you need to and if<br />You believe it's true, it will surely happen<br />Shining still, to give us the will<br />Bright as the day, to show us the way<br /><br />Somehow, someday,<br />we need just one victory and we're on our way<br />Prayin' for it all day and fightin' for it all night<br />Give us just one victory, it will be all right<br /><br />We may feel about to fall but we go down fighting<br />You will hear the call if you only listen<br />Underneath it all we are here together shining still<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7N3b4f_I6oM">Todd Rundgren, Just One Victory</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/information-disinformation-ows.html">Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-and-internet.html"><span>Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/medium-is-media-and-message.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message </span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-showdown.html">Day 28: Showdown</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/just-one-victory-occupy-wall-street.html">Day 29: Just One Victory</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">6f:63:63:75:70:79:20:65:76:65:72:79:77:68:65:72:65</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-54053277396347029732011-10-12T00:51:00.001-07:002011-10-29T23:53:53.621-07:00OccupyWallStreet: Showdown<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEMD5Ff04JQdDwf4n9kqORAPnc9azPe8xzQV1sc9A_az95c50JElcbjpeUrE8ELp6EtZN9aQxxRhIYy1ebcPRySoYkPnPAvL8lymq7YT7L2Enkhsa9T3bYJXERV2MmwdrbrtcRNURt0M/s1600/OWS-day28.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaEMD5Ff04JQdDwf4n9kqORAPnc9azPe8xzQV1sc9A_az95c50JElcbjpeUrE8ELp6EtZN9aQxxRhIYy1ebcPRySoYkPnPAvL8lymq7YT7L2Enkhsa9T3bYJXERV2MmwdrbrtcRNURt0M/s400/OWS-day28.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5663271518387691666" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 28 </span></span>- 04:00amEDT<br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span><span style="font-size:100%;">The Mayor of New York has determined to clear the park at the insistence of the owners of the park today, using safety and sanitation rules to skirt the 1st Amendment in a "reasonable" way. Demonstrators are keyed up waiting for the police to come. Arrests have been ongoing at #OccupySeattle, San Francisco, Denver, Boston and other places over the last few days and it seems like tonight it is a co-ordinated effort to dislodge the entire #Occupy movement simultaneously.<br /><br /></span></span></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupywallst.org/article/emergency-call-action-prevent-forcible-closure-occ/">EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: Keep Bloomberg and Kelly From Evicting #OWS</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-responds-to-bloombergs-eviction-notice/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update: Occupy Wall Street Responds to Bloomberg’s Cleaning ‘Eviction Notice’</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2048754/NYC-Mayor-Michael-Bloomberg-orders-Occupy-Wall-Street-protesters-clean-unsanitary-park.html">OWS protesters confront Bloomberg while he dines at top restaurant as dawn showdown looms</a><br /><br /><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WALL_STREET_PROTEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-10-14-00-09-15"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NY protesters clean park, some may resist removal </span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/occupy-wall-street-cleanup-russell-simmons_n_1010213.html?ref=tw">Russell Simmons Offers To Pay For Clean-up To Avoid Violence</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nplusonemag.com/an-open-letter-to-the-men-and-women-of-the-new-york-city-police-department">An Open Letter to the Men and Women of the New York City Police Department</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-liberty-plaza-technically-bonus-plaza-not-private-property.php">Occupy Wall Street's Liberty Plaza Technically A "Bonus Plaza", Not Private Property</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution">Global Revolution LIVE STREAM</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-map#map">Interactive map of protests, arrests</a><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/">OccupyTogether: comprehensive list of occupations</a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oct. 15 - National Call To Action</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Everywhere</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;">RT @ xxxx: Tomorrow oct 15 we the people of the wired<br />Civil Society are going to make emergent history<br /><br />The next 2 days are going to be very important to the revolution.<br />Today they try to stop us but tomorrow we fight back.<br /><br />wired nation<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br />Collected week's links and tweets below -<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/chelsea_elliott_pepper_spray_nypd.php">Chelsea Elliott, Pepper-Sprayed by NYPD, Plans<br />to Join Kaylee Dedrick in Pressing Charges</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/conservative-journalist-says-he-infiltrated-escalated-dc-museum-protest/2011/10/09/gIQAIKxCYL_blog.html?hpid=z2">Conservative journalist says he infiltrated, escalated D.C. museum protest</a><br />... <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://uloadr.com/u/rA44.png">and a capture of the modified and them removed article</a><br />Yes, Virginia, there are agent provocateurs; this is no "conspiracy theory"<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business/2011/10/human-blunder-loses-occupy-wall-street-144000/">Human Blunder Loses Occupy Wall Street $144,000</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupyhomes.tumblr.com/">A Radical Proposition: #OccupyHomes</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnG_49jYpXPVmj5RFyp8ZMraxRGRHxbBW4zuTTzwC6VBZ_CLJ4aRFoyQjyztBs0REykFhN8VuopaWB51-H9gptgy4vakLPaLUXh3qz0HKc7GYSz9Yi-TspkJFuGSGu1yKt1ip2uS1uhMU/s1600/OccupyFoxPoll.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 339px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnG_49jYpXPVmj5RFyp8ZMraxRGRHxbBW4zuTTzwC6VBZ_CLJ4aRFoyQjyztBs0REykFhN8VuopaWB51-H9gptgy4vakLPaLUXh3qz0HKc7GYSz9Yi-TspkJFuGSGu1yKt1ip2uS1uhMU/s400/OccupyFoxPoll.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662784224472336946" border="0" /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8837">Fox News poll: 69.77% say the OWS protests represent their views</a><br />Surprising, eh? Maybe not so surprising; just surprising that Faux let a LivePoll make them look like idiots ^_^<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Art</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC9Vyt1ZBpQ">A message from Anonymous to Wall street, New York and the protestors</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZA3y05Dcz8">A message from anonymous to the American Autumn </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjfhOPCPJnE"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I Am Not Moving - a short film about #OccupyWallStreet and Hypocrisy</span></a><br />stunning.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupywriters.com/">Writers In Support of the Occupations</a><br />an impressive list<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/10/occupy-comics/">OccupyComics - Occupy art</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAjDmw6IrFg"><span style="font-weight: bold;">'Lost Causes'</span></a><br />climactic speech from Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr Smith Goes To Washington'<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZK2CF3mZ8">National Treasure Declaration of Independence</a><br />Nicholas Cage dramatizes<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVcdZvxrnCQ">4o Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes</a><br />more like taglines but still; cultural amalgam<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/33682789@N07/6235186634">Occupy Boston, At The Line</a> [photo]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://motherjones.com/slideshows/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-photos-nyc-update/yom-kippur-dancing-0">What's So Funny Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?</a> [photo series]<br />The human element; what the protesters are fighting for<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Information</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1">The Charts Tell The Story</a><br />Every fact and figure you need to justify #OccupyWallStreet<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-top-100-statistics-about-the-collapse-of-the-economy-that-every-american-voter-should-know-2011-10?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=moneygame-contributor">100 Things Every American Should Know About The Current State Of The US Economy</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/29/alessio-rastani-no-prank">The Yes Men Want Another Depression</a><br />No, this was no prank. An insider's view of the stock market.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/29/vibe-the-anonymous-anarchist-version-of-twitter-being-used-at-occupy-wall-street/">Vibe: open source messaging system</a><br />About and links<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amazon.com/Israeli-Civilian-Mask-Nato-Filter/dp/B0002XJ2OU">Tear Gas? Pepper Spray? Nothing $20 won't solve</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/12/341801/the-other-occupation-how-wall-street-occupies-washington/">The Other Occupation: How Wall Street Occupies Washington</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/145705/the_richest_1%25_have_captured_america%27s_wealth_--_what%27s_it_going_to_take_to_get_it_back">400 People own as much as almost all the rest of us together</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20118929-245/digital-activists-release-more-banker-data/">The Power of DOXing</a><br />You snoop us; we snoop you. Transparency should work both ways.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.indypendent.org/2011/06/20/bloombergville/">Bloombergville: the earlier Occupation</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/10/1024591/-99:-A-Warning-to-OWS-and-the-Rest-of-Us">The Hypnosis Of America</a><br />akadjian explains the psychological conditioning of America<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175453/tomgram%3A_steve_fraser%2C_the_street_of_torments/#more">The All-American Occupation</a><br />A Century of Our Streets Vs. Wall Street<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/Yp0t.JCgpO.iBdeVJ27M5Q--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9aW5zZXQ7aD00MjE7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2011-10-11T170123Z_01_BOS104_RTRIDSP_3_USA-WALLSTREET-PROTESTS-BOSTON.jpg">Nice Choke-hold, Officer Psycho</a> [photo]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6yht6x">The Hipster Cop</a> [photo]<br />an instant meme<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/13/amnesty-international-hum_n_1009403.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003">Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch<br />Call For Arrest Of George W. Bush </a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Little Hilarity</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">one of our chief weapons is teh funneh</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.forbes.com/2006/02/10/cx_sy_0213featslide2.html?thisSpeed=35000">Lingerie of the 1%</a><br />scandalous *o*<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://i.imgur.com/lXNlu.jpg">In Kapitalist Amerika, Bank Robs You!</a> [photo]<br />It had to come sometime :D<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCDne9fa87g">Fox News gets routed</a><br />teehee ^_^ take that <span style="font-style: italic;">again</span>, Geraldo :P [old feud]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.breitbart.tv/breitbart-i-have-e-mails-showing-organized-plan-for-occupywallstreet-protests-to-destabilize-government/">Breitbart: I Have E-Mails Showing Organized Plan For<br />#OccupyWallStreet Protests To Destabilize Government</a><br />agitprop/disinformation<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OP-ED</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6yxdpu">A message from the 1% standing with the 99%</a> [photo]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kiriblakeley/2011/10/10/the-littlest-protestors-kids-come-to-occupy-wall-street/">The Littlest Protestors: Kids Come To Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfH186Y7ilQ"><span style="font-style: italic;">Teach... your children well...</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://howconservativesdrovemeaway.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-vs-tea-party.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party</span></a><br />with a nice Venn diagram<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhzwgIxqOc0">David Korton explains why Occupy Wall Street is valid</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/occupy-wall-streets-political-disobedience/?hp">Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Political Disobedience</a>’<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/12/1025555/-Open-Letter-to-that-53-Guy">Open Letter to that 53% Guy</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://networkedblogs.com/orvFT">native perspective on “occupy” movement</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-wallis/an-open-letter-to-the-occ_b_1009483.html">An Open Letter to the Occupiers from a Veteran Troublemaker</a><br />Jim Wallis<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.politickerny.com/2011/10/11/ralph-nader-wants-mike-bloomberg-to-run-for-president/">Ralph Nader Wants Mike Bloomberg to Run for President</a><br />Well, that's it for you, Ralph.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truth-out.org/moveonorg-and-friends-attempt-co-opt-occupy-wall-street-movement/1318259708">MoveOn.Org and Friends Attempt to Co-Opt Occupy Wall Street Movement</a><br />You are the weakest link; goodbye.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-who-wants-to-hijack.html">Occupy Wall Street: Who Wants to Hijack the Movement?</a><br />Indeed.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/global-markets/warren-buffetts-son-howard-defends-occupy-wall-st-to-make-things-happen/articleshow/10346675.cms">Warren Buffett's son Howard defends occupy Wall St to 'make things happen'</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC77HGZLTkA">Immortal Technique [hip-hop artist, activist] at<br />Occupy Wall Street: "This is not an Obama rally"</a><br />a great interview by RT [Russia Today]<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Twisting Law</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/warrantless-phone-searches/">Calif. Governor Veto Allows Warrantless Cellphone Searches</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203476804576613284007315072.html">Controversial secret court order targets private email</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/10/the_real_danger_from_classified_leaks/singleton/">The real danger from classified leaks</a><br />The NY Times publishes more damaging information than Wikileaks leaked<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Boycott-Braehead/288861364476077?_fb_noscript=1">Man accosted and detained for taking a picture of his 5-yr-old daughter in a mall</a><br />How "privacy laws" are turned against us; how they can photo us, but we can't photo them<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://ampedstatus.org/this-is-what-fascism-looks-like-financial-giants-put-new-york-city-cops-on-their-payroll/">Renting Police as Paid Detail: The Economics of Policing in NY</a><br />The new Praetorian Guard is for rent by the Masters of the Universe<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-releasing-your-personal-data-reveals-our-trade-secrets/4552">Facebook: Releasing your personal data reveals our trade secrets</a><br />much more than Faceboook would like you to know<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/science/11predict.html?_r=4&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26">Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tweets</span></span><br />* * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I decided to mock the trolls and give peeps some comic relief from their bile - the following tweets were attributed to "The Komedic Trolls" and are mirror-reversals of the angry troll/sockpuppet tweets:</span><br /><br /><br />PLEASE decide on some goals so we can attack them and quit looking silly! - The #OccupyWallStreet Trolls Association.<br /><br />Dear Protesters: my arguments are: take a bath, hippie!, your momma and [fart noises]. Sincerely, Just An American - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Dear Protesters: I am pretending to be a huge money-earner while trolling your channel on non-working hours. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Dear Protesters: your message is invalid unless you give up all human progress and become cavemen.<br /><br />Dear Protesters: There's injustice all over the world. You can't fix everything so you are being fake.<br /><br />Dear Protesters: I work 3 jobs a day for 8 yrs, no health coverage. I don't think I'm a slave. I am The 53% - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Dear Protesters: "This isn't the democracy you're looking for." *waves hand* - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Dear Protesters: Your movement is already over. You might as well go home and never try anything again. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Dear Protesters: some of you look different from me. That's good enough for me to attack you as an American. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Playwright needed for remix, "Wall Street Story." Must know music, choreography, lyrics. Inquire within.<br /><br />Dear Protesters: here are my counter-arguments: nyah nyah; you're ugly; you smell; you don't have guns. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Dear Protesters: After more than 28 days and all your explanations I still don't understand #OccupyWallStreet . - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Dear Protesters: Get a job! No, my firm isn't hiring with the "stimulus" money we got. Go find someone else. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Hey #OccupyWallStreet! I'm pretending to be "just an american" and not a sockpuppet to attack you. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Dear Protesters: all is futile; everything dies. Never do anything. Just sit and be a cow. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />SCOOP: I have emails that I SWEAR reveal all kinds of #ows plots and secrets. Just believe me. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br />Gosh I hope these #ows protests end soon. My television brain can't follow anything longer than 10 minutes. - The Komedic Trolls<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * *<br /><br /></div>...and the usual fave repeating tweets [memes]:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The time has come for giraffes' shorter cousins to take back this country!!! #okapiwallstreet</span><br />[someone else with a sense of humor]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#OccupyDallas is under threat right now, Homeland Security, Fire Marshall & US Marshall present, alongside detectives. #OWS” #occupyphilly</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Remember this moment. For it is the time the whole world saw the corruption of a police state run by the 1% </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Facts: More Tea Partyers on drugs than insinuated at #Occupywallstreet - Xanax, Paxil, Prozac, Vicodin, Ambien, Valium, etc.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">@xxxxx #OWS is creating a network of microvillages in public areas, run by leaderless consensus, for purposes not yet articulated.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">US now ranks 93rd in the world in "income equality," behind China, India, and Iran.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">The 1% controls art culture by investment. They have robbed art from the people. </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/information-disinformation-ows.html">Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-and-internet.html"><span>Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/medium-is-media-and-message.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message </span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-showdown.html">Day 28: Showdown</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4f:43:43:55:50:59:20:57:41:4c:4c:20:53:54:52:45:45:54</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc4S-SLZJfEjANZcF_FNT6sbW3H9M3MZzrJeXaaUbgNjSBgDkdDdFTNS89b72FO8ixH8LCI0LZqmU8OtJ6utelwVjtmX33CHPHK4CHLrK0C3SVtDsECjdb_hV9NpVXfDXmFKCaZIKLwZ8/s1600/OccupyComradeKitty.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 48px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc4S-SLZJfEjANZcF_FNT6sbW3H9M3MZzrJeXaaUbgNjSBgDkdDdFTNS89b72FO8ixH8LCI0LZqmU8OtJ6utelwVjtmX33CHPHK4CHLrK0C3SVtDsECjdb_hV9NpVXfDXmFKCaZIKLwZ8/s400/OccupyComradeKitty.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662738407427965074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-weight: normal;">Someone's Comrade Kitty av</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">!</span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-style: italic;">^paw</span></span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-45184086213693366742011-10-06T16:54:00.000-07:002011-10-29T23:52:44.080-07:00The Medium Is The Media... and the message<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 20/21 - OccupyWallStreet</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDttAqs9QdZlQQBfDnD7Q9O73u83QyUDBYhjcLXZLD_x9wJc8mRq8PDSxKlS6JC9z_jen4TwDNnEKwHW9sj7kkSKmC3jHLs99UTQWqMGOI3VMqzO68_VvQg_fwkTLFa9Hq6RK6LpJnvIw/s1600/0SHOOTTHISDOG.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 381px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDttAqs9QdZlQQBfDnD7Q9O73u83QyUDBYhjcLXZLD_x9wJc8mRq8PDSxKlS6JC9z_jen4TwDNnEKwHW9sj7kkSKmC3jHLs99UTQWqMGOI3VMqzO68_VvQg_fwkTLFa9Hq6RK6LpJnvIw/s400/0SHOOTTHISDOG.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661011393662191490" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.forexfactory.com/showthread.php?t=319140"><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Mayor Bloomberg says OccupyWallStreet protests are hurting workers</span><br /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://wallstreetoccupennial.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Occupy Art!</span></a><br /></div><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />If you have been paying attention to #OWS reach out to those who have not. #OWS is growing & media cant do the job, its up to all of us. RT</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmTmvBzNFY4">EVOLUTION REVOLUTION</a> [video]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Lance Link, Secret Chimp has something to say about #OccupyWallStreet</span><br /></div><br />Tonight, no editorial; just a celebration of <span style="font-weight: bold;">the power of the Internet</span> and links to information and debate - the power of the Last Free Press: an invention that has <span style="font-style: italic;">never been protected by patent, copyright or trademark</span>; <span style="font-weight: bold;">has changed the present and future of humanity</span> in a vast and previously unimaginable way forever. It has <span style="font-weight: bold;">reformed societies and toppled tyrants, revolutionized old cultures and inspired new ones</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/">Save The Internet Coalition</a></span><br />2 million people united to protect the net from corporate control<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Information</span><br />* * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/10/07/Kalle-Lasn-Occupy-Wall-Street/">Adbusters' Kalle Lasn Talks About OccupyWallStreet<br /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://dskvry.com/ows/">The Revolution IS televised: Livestreams from New York, Los Angeles, Reno, Tampa, Ireland, Dallas, DenHaag, Boston, St Louis, Baltimore, Knoxville</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city/">Declaration of the Occupation of New York City </a><br />From the New York General Assembly direct<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nycga.cc/donate/">Donate to OccupyWallStreet [official NYC General Assembly]</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupyinfo.tumblr.com/">@OccupyInfo World Wide Real-Time Guide</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOit6CzX6M8">Anonymous: Mass Protest Survival Guide #OccupyWallStreet</a> [video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4813">OccupyDC</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livestream.com/occupyaustin">OccupyAustin</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.startribune.com/local/blogs/131291569.html">OccupyMinneapolis</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11279/1180098-53-0.stm">OccupyPittsburgh</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.world-revolutions.info/occupy-usa/">OccupyUSA Network</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJwtsxaoRbQ">OccupyAmsterdam</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-protest-thursday.html">#OWS has spread to 850 cities worldwide</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ivygateblog.com/2011/10/columbia-president-bollinger-and-200-columbia-faculty-members-support-occupy-wall-st/">Columbia President Bollinger and 200+ Columbia Faculty<br />Members Support Occupy Wall Street </a>[Ivygate]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Debugging/disinfo bust</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/10/06/141119164/seemingly-bogus-website-uses-occupy-party-name-to-sell-ads?sc=fb&cc=fp">OccupyParty.Org - not affiliated; questionable</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>[NPR]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/08/1024100/-The-Daily-Caller-and-Fox-Doocy-Bag-Bogus-BS-Ows-Story">DailyKOS busts The Daily Caller's "paid protesters" lie</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://stopforeclosurefraud.com/2011/10/07/jpmc-isnt-alone-donating-to-nypd-bank-of-america-barklays-capital-goldman-sachs-others-did-also-occupywallstreet-ows/">JPMC isn’t alone “Donating” to NYPD, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs… others did also!</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEDIA</span></span><br />* * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OP-ED</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/64-64/7763-focus--occupy-wall-street-the-most-important-thing-in-the-world-now">Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now</a><br />Naomi Klein's speech at Occupy Wall Street 10.06.11- uncut/edited<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cityofnidus.blogspot.com/2011/10/true-patriots.html#comment-form">True Patriots: I am the 99%</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-the-malefactors.html?_r=3&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">Confronting the Malefactors</a> [Paul Krugman]<br />"If the protests goad pols into doing what they should have, #OWS will have been a success."<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.fedupusa.org/2011/10/an-open-letter-from-fedupusa-to-occupy-wall-street-protestors-all-over-the-country/">An Open Letter From FedUpUSA To Occupy Wall Street Protestors All Over The Country</a><br />one of the original Tea Parties calls for ditching partisan politics<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/10/07/idINIndia-59766620111007">Pay close attention to the Occupy Wall Street </a><br /><span id="articleText">David Cay Johnston, respected journalist for 4 decades</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://loop21.com/content/black-occupy-protesters-start-occupy-hood">Black 'Occupy' Protesters Start Occupy The Hood</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/7767-why-occupy-wall-street-should-scare-republicans">Why Occupy Wall Street Should Scare Republicans</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-citizen-journalism_n_998529.html?ref=tw">Citizen Journalists Document Protests Nationwide </a>[huff-po]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/10/06-7">Why Lists of Demands Don’t Matter in Zuccotti Park</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://kasamaproject.org/2011/10/06/a-warning-to-those-who-think-they-are-conscious-revolutionary/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed">A warning: Rise to the defense of the revolutionary</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/110407">We choose our own heroes</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4813"><br /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/06/338250/lee-repatriation-permanent/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews">Tea Party Senator Proposes Permanent Tax Giveaway To Multinational Corporations</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/06/occupy-wall-street-social-media_n_999178.html?ref=tw&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008">Occupy Wall Street: Social Media's Role In Social Change</a> [Huff-Po]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternet.org/story/152629/10_things_to_know_about_wall_street%27s_rapacious_attack_on_america/">10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/05/congressman-obama-admin-may-be-accessory-to-murder-with-fast-and-furious/">Obama admin may be accessory to murder with ‘Fast and Furious’</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/10/6/naomi_klein_keystone_xl_oil_pipeline">Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Controversy Shows How Wall Street Is Occupying U.S. Gov’t</a> [Naomi Klein]<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5SyQIAKwY"><br /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/corporate-profits-share-of-pie-most-in-60-years-2011-07-29">Corporate profits’ share of pie most in 60 years</a><br />Profits soar even as GDP and people limp along<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://boingboing.net/2011/10/07/122076.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29">Essays on the trap of US student debt</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theage.com.au/national/rba-officials-hid-details-of-secret-commissions-20111004-1l7db.html">RBA officials hid details of secret commissions</a> [theage.com.au]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://vimeo.com/20355767">Lifting the Veil</a><br />Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist 'democracy'<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/05/guantanamo-film-rights-child-soldier?CMP=twt_gu">Guantánamo film shows plight of Canadian national detained at 15</a> [guardian]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-the-malefactors.html?_r=4&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss">Confronting the Malefactors</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2sO0kZ/freakoutnation.com/2011/10/07/disspelling-the-young-dirty-hippies-myth-surrounding-occupywallstreet/">Dispelling the ‘Young Dirty Hippies’ Myth Surrounding #OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/10/07/338518/the-book-that-predicts-occupy-wall-street-bruce-sterlings-distraction/">The Book That Predicts Occupy Wall Street:</a><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/10/07/338518/the-book-that-predicts-occupy-wall-street-bruce-sterlings-distraction/"><br /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2011/10/07/338518/the-book-that-predicts-occupy-wall-street-bruce-sterlings-distraction/"> Bruce Sterling’s ‘Distraction’ </a><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">VIDEOS</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qmFm6b5JUo">Never question authority</a> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS MUST-SEE</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seOTKnexVVk">WikiLeaks' MasterCard Commercial</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-CpCUOygqU">Patriots all ... Military men speak out</a> [powerful]<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81n4kDlxW50"><br />This is what democracy looks like + we are the 99% </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IKETvTnTnc">Beast1333 (Templars of Hip Hop) - Occupy Wall Street Vlog </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyyc3Z3356I">OccupyWallStreet spreads to South Florida</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv5SyQIAKwY">Obama weighs in and trys to 'jack the power</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZqQZZLSbf0#%21">NYPD Gone Wild - Motor Bike charge<br /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAQA8fKhUR4">OccupyBofA in Los Angeles</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClIwSdUVKs">The Bailout Money and Why You Dont have to Pay Your Mortgage</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9UbO_SiBss">Occupy Wall Street Music Video: Greed (Let 'em Starve) </a><br />Botgirl Questi makes a video<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://librivox.org/the-age-of-reason-by-thomas-paine/">The Age Of Reason: Thosmas Paine [audio book]</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmqfWNyNyNA">Growing Number of Americans Only One Paycheck Away from Homelessness </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZN_0TVQ6WQ">Protesters converge on America's capital to 'Occupy DC'<br /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXt1cayx0hs">The Money Masters - Full</a><br />Long video examination of the banking system and the original American Revolution<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PHOTOS</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/10/political-hackathon/?utm_source=feedburner&pid=1212&viewall=true">Wired: Tech-focus picture gallery</a><br />How are <span style="font-style: italic;">they</span> doing that?<br /><br /><a href="http://i.imgur.com/Q35Dl.jpg"><span style="font-weight: bold;">OccupySesameStreet!</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6wpcwt">Cookie Monster meets Tony Bologna!</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/JPBarlow/status/122534754728939520/photo/1/large">Pic from John Perry Barlow</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupydallas.org/police-love">Police Love: Cops help #OccupyDallas load water</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6ww0hn">#firstfriday #hawaii #ows #occupyoahu</a><br />aloha!<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6w7bk2">99% spelled out in people</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-spreads-beyond-nyc/100165/">Nice photospread at The Atlantic</a> [spread 3]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6vbqs7">Medica arrested:8 Medics discouraged: 0</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/o0lqwenxgj">Class War Criminals</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6w6x5a">'Damn dirty hippies'? I don't think so</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2046029/Occupy-Wall-Street-NYPD-officer-caught-bragging-beating-protesters.html">Great collection at The Daily Mail</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6w75e0">OccupyCHI</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://lockerz.com/s/145276514">At The Fed</a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Tweets</span><br />* * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">This country has never seen a movement from our generation. They have never seen a movement from the children of the internet. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>[*cough* I've been writing about it for 20 yrs...]<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Number of American homes destroyed by Al Qaeda last year: 0. by banks 1,200,000 who are the real terrorists?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">@misosusanowa You will not change our Constitution...is that your goal? Wow.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving in." –Rosa Parks </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dear #Teaparty: It's not too bad that you were a fake rebellion. But perhaps a real one might interest you?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I will go to #OWS with my walker. I will go as soon as I'm not sick anymore. I want to be there & exercise my RIGHT to #PeacefullyAssemble!<br /><br />@xxxxxx I'm a marketing executive, not a hippy #ows lives strong! Get your own damn latte #occupy will change the world be ready.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Obama Machine Prepares 2 Hijack #OccupyWallStreet </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"We have picked a fight with the most powerful forces on the planet" - Naomi Klein </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Should Politicians Wear Uniforms Like NASCAR Racers? To Identify Their Corporate Sponsors? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">That is the 1% media arm. Weds, Oct 12th - HUGE RALLY @ 1211 Ave of the Americas Fox News HQ #OWS #OccupyWallStreet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The OccupySF camp was effectively busted up, and their belongings confiscated. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">10yrs ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash... Now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash.. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Barricades around #OWS were places by Dept of Homeland Security, not NYPD.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Seen at #occupyportland, 5 guys in dark blazers guarding the doors to the Wells Fargo tower against 4,000 protestors. #occupywallstreet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Just had a heartfelt talk w a middle-aged man named Greg. He's been out of work for 11 months. Wanted to connect.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @**** 'There is a Jewish commandment - "Tikkun Olam" - You must repair the world.' #occupyyomkippur</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">#OccupyWallStreet is the only place in this country where anything makes any sense anymore. Well... sorta. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">hope everybody understands the Patriot Act can be used against #OWS the 99% can end up with zero rights! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Over 300 000 people expected to show for #occupywallstreet protests across Canada on Oct 15th. An Anonymous individual stated "Expect Us"</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Goldman Sachs started derivative Ponzi scheme to sell their debt. At the time USA Congress voted 635-3 in favour of it and allowed it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Everything will be okay in the end, if it's not okay, it's not yet the end.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Revolution is a violent cycle. Evolution is change. Civil war is a revolution. Improving the human condition is evolution.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I understand why I raised my kids to question everything, even authority. It was for this very moment.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Corporations are a metaspecies. Neither human nor concerned with the long-term survival of humans. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"...Democrats are being given what amounts to a second chance. "</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is a Roof Over My Head. Signed, Hungry Kids </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If women ruled the world there would be no war. Just jealous countries not talking to each other.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">My family is hungry. I must feed them. My family is cold. I must house them. For the 99%, it is not that complicated.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I love that vendor across the street from the protest. He makes awesome philly cheese steaks. <3 the white/hot sauce. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Every Time a Youth Decides Not to Go To College b/c They Know They Can't Afford it, This Country Gets Dumber. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">@xxxxx I'm a marketing executive, not a hippy #ows lives strong! Get your own damn latte #occupy will change the world be ready.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The conservatives objecting to #occupywallstreet :remember our Country was founded by rebels and radicals and people protesting oppression.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/information-disinformation-ows.html">Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-and-internet.html"><span>Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/medium-is-media-and-message.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message </span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The 1% controls art culture by investment.<br />They have robbed art from the people. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4f:43:43:55:50:59:20:57:41:4c:4c:20:53:54:52:45:45:54</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">61:72:74:20:69:73:20:6d:79:20:77:65:61:70:6f:6e</span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-18803016673073390532011-10-05T23:18:00.000-07:002011-10-29T23:51:39.738-07:00#OccupyWallStreet and the Internet<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw5VbsejbrjLgNwYJ-OtztYVWDeLqvZsWsszJsvDDXMpVfcvJV9nzXA-Cu48NvyIKdr__mMb0pdxhlUwsNOW64BAdKlNdRMIsg2lCvLEGNodTaF8K8tdhb5YOonZmy1NCPbMLkd2q1PvA/s1600/ows1006.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw5VbsejbrjLgNwYJ-OtztYVWDeLqvZsWsszJsvDDXMpVfcvJV9nzXA-Cu48NvyIKdr__mMb0pdxhlUwsNOW64BAdKlNdRMIsg2lCvLEGNodTaF8K8tdhb5YOonZmy1NCPbMLkd2q1PvA/s400/ows1006.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660186945983231266" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">It's out of the box now</span><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/04/1022722/-Occupy-Wall-Street:-List-and-map-of-over-200-US-solidarity-events-and-Facebook%C2%A0pages">Over 200 solidarity events for Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/04/1022722/-Occupy-Wall-Street:-List-and-map-of-over-200-US-solidarity-events-and-Facebook%C2%A0pages"> [list & info]</a><br /><br /><a href="http://occupywallst.org/">OccupyWallStreet.org</a><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.occupytogether.org/">OccupyTogether.org</a></span><br /></div><br />With the colleges and unions joining in, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Wall Street expands massively in volume</span>. Lamestream Media coverage is still spotty and unbelievable: approx. <span style="font-weight: bold;">10-20,000 or more </span>people in the march today; people getting pepper-sprayed, clubbed by police and still <span style="font-weight: bold;">nothing</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> from President Obama</span>...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Good cops protect people. Cowards beat people in crowds.</span> [tweets]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Some eye-opening videos:<br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELEBAGIool0">Police Club, Pepper Spray<br />#occupywallstreet Protestors</a></span><br />*** must-watch ***<br /></div></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpOMlDVaXzc">Cops clubbing people at occupy wall street 8:45pmEDT</a> [video]<br />The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.observer.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-megamarchs-violent-aftershocks-senior-police-officer-beats-protesters-with-baton-video/">NY Observer</a> has the guts to publish this video.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW6HUf9cLt4">Police beating at wall street #ows by We are Change </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBxPzhXFT6c">"My little nightstick's going to get a workout tonight"</a> [video]<br />NYPD's finest, speaking with professionalism -_-<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpZwzLVUm9I">OWS Occupy Wall Street Media Team Arrested</a></span><br />from inside a paddy wagon<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnZe7a3t5ww">Moving First-hand account of arrests tonight</a></span><br />'This has to stop... it's wrong... and they were laughing."<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">"This is not acceptable police procedure"</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">1st Precinct: +1 (212) 334-0611<br />NYPD Switchboard: +1 (646) 610-5000<br />NYPD Central Booking: +1 (212) 374-3921<br />NYPD Internal Affairs: +1 (212) 741-8401<br />Mayor Bloomberg: +1 (212) NEW-YORK or +1 (212) 374-3921<br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Once again, Netpolitik reports rumors that people are <span style="font-weight: bold;">allegedly</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">downloading</span> and redistributing these videos <span style="font-weight: bold;">in case of censorship/sanitization</span>; </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span>saving history</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">. As always, Netpolitik does not endorse or encourage any violations of TOS</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/barack-obama-on-steve-job_n_997373.html?1317866938&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008">Obama has time to issue a statement about Steve Jobs' death</a><br /><br />Lamestream Media continues to attempt to downplay and spin - look for yourself at the videos; that's no "couple hundred people" or "buncha hippies - but <span style="font-weight: bold;">cannot keep up</span> with the huge volume of data and information being produced by Occupy Wall Street.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/occupy-wall-street-protest-broadens-scope-20111005">Occupy Wall Street Protest Arrests;</a><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/occupy-wall-street-protest-broadens-scope-20111005"> Fox 5 Crew Hit by Mace, Baton</a></span><br />You <span style="font-style: italic;">getting</span> it now, Fox?<br /></div><br />Occupy... Wall Street; Denver; Cleveland; Dallas; Los Angeles; Boston; Seattle, Portland... Prague, Frankfurt, Toronto, Melbourne, Tokyo, and Cork, London... universities checking in every day... 50 professors walk out in solidarity with NY students...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://volokh.com/2011/09/30/four-new-york-democratic-senators-proponents-of-a-more-refined-first-amendment-argue-that-this-freedom-should-be-treated-not-as-a-right-but-as-a-privilege/"> D-NY Senators Say We've Got Too Much<br />Free Speech;</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://volokh.com/2011/09/30/four-new-york-democratic-senators-proponents-of-a-more-refined-first-amendment-argue-that-this-freedom-should-be-treated-not-as-a-right-but-as-a-privilege/"> Introduce Bill To Fix That</a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">It is crystal clear now:</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">the mainstream media called out suppressing and distorting information, President Obama at least compromised if not completely bought by Corporate Money, and the Internet is people's most powerful tool for democracy.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpY1Vrsl_wM_ima4_wNNXyMKbk8K0OeooYSeFegSEEGMRl64RbiC7p3fMmP13JsrQbREbTw86xHC2kRldD0kjGfzcGYZcunvJVXqXu3RoAL32i0J62bSFZixHM8gpSYccUMYFx8AwbR0/s1600/0Jobs.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 170px; height: 180px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYpY1Vrsl_wM_ima4_wNNXyMKbk8K0OeooYSeFegSEEGMRl64RbiC7p3fMmP13JsrQbREbTw86xHC2kRldD0kjGfzcGYZcunvJVXqXu3RoAL32i0J62bSFZixHM8gpSYccUMYFx8AwbR0/s400/0Jobs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660241246299148930" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">RIP Steve<br />"<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://9to5mac.com/2011/10/05/steve-jobs-narrates-the-first-think-different-commercial-heres-to-the-crazy-ones/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">here's to the crazy ones</a>"</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"the cool thing is that we are omnipresent: we are watching the media, we are watching what's going on, we are watching ourselves"</span> - Jason on Global Revolution live<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-the-theory.html">Occupy Wall Street (the theory)</a><br />Another open-source fan</div><br />If you checked or read this blog because of OccupyWallStreet, then please research the topics under <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Legal"</span> here in the right sidebar. Occupy Wall Street could not have been possible without the Internet, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">the Internet is under assault by corporate money working in harmony with corrupt lawmakers to destroy or massively limit the functionality of the Internet.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzbTlY1uOJk">A message from Anonymous to the 99%</a></span><br />[video]<br /></div><br />Put the same energy you do into Occupying Wall Street into protecting <span style="font-weight: bold;">the LAST AND ONLY FREE PRESS.</span> It's the only <span>real</span>, uncensored news media we have now.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht5uJaayniKDBJyVo3cJtMEyGQdNfUOz7XNzVfk_iqudzNjtQIn7czDeXz6zAKfolwKiiZEnTy91yNNlCTxPoRmoRUn61gJlFFtj-omyue0_LoCCBfsO_AJrzPA2GNS9012MKxIULQpTc/s1600/0whiteshirts.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht5uJaayniKDBJyVo3cJtMEyGQdNfUOz7XNzVfk_iqudzNjtQIn7czDeXz6zAKfolwKiiZEnTy91yNNlCTxPoRmoRUn61gJlFFtj-omyue0_LoCCBfsO_AJrzPA2GNS9012MKxIULQpTc/s400/0whiteshirts.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660210130032135506" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >This is what Democracy looks like:<br />screen capture from live feed<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I would send out for assistance but there's someone on the signal wire<br />And the corporation logo is flashing on and off in the sky<br />They're putting all your names in the forbidden book<br />I know what they're doing but I don't want to look<br /><br />You think they're so dumb, you think they're so funny<br />Wait until they've got you running to the<br />Night rally, night rally, night rally<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWQGMWG3rEo">Elvis Costello, Night Rally</a><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEDIA</span></span><br />* * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution">Global Revolution Livestream Feed</a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tunein.com/radio/NYPD-Special-Operations-Division-and-Traffic-s131462/">NYPD Manhattan Precincts 1-23 and</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tunein.com/radio/NYPD-Special-Operations-Division-and-Traffic-s131462/"> Citywide 1-3 Live Scanner Audio Feed</a><br /></div><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://t.co/lLqQxc2n">The Occupy Wall Street Journal</a> [PDF file]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/05-8">Occupy Wall Street: The Direct Action Committee<br />Driving the Protest's Success</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theygaveusarepublic.com/diary/9368/some-basic-rules-for-successful-radicals?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+TheyGaveUsARepublic-FrontPage+%28They+gave+us+a+republic...%29">Some Basic Rules For Successful Radicals</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.twitlonger.com/show/cafq18">Info on pepper spray & tear gas</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/10/05/nyregion/how-occupy-wall-street-turned-zuccotti-park-into-a-protest-camp.html?ref=nyregion"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Map of Liberty Square</span></a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202517769612&Occupy_Wall_Street_and_the_First_Amendment&slreturn=1">'Occupy Wall Street' and the First Amendment</a><br />a sobering article from the New York Law Journal<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/05/policing-occupy-wall-street-amy-goodman">The policing of Occupy Wall Street: we are watching</a> [Guardian]<br />Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman details her arrest at the 2008 RNC<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/09/matt-stoller-occupywallstreet-is-a-church-of-dissent-not-a-protest.html">#OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest</a><br />Matt Stoller, former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Alan Grayson and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://weoccupy.com/">WeOccupy (because)</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.freep.com/article/20111006/OPINION04/110060423/Letters-Occupy-Wall-Street-people-s-voice-vs-corporate-power?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed">Letters: Occupy Wall Street -- the people's voice<br />vs. corporate power</a> [Detroit Free Press]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cyberguerrilla.info/?p=3058">Are the NYPD and FBI Trying to Frame<br />Anonymous, Occupy Wall Street? </a><br />probably.<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://pococcupywallstreet.tumblr.com/post/11029757355/an-open-letter-from-two-white-men-to-occupywallstreet">An Open Letter From Two White Men to #OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://srandallthomas.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-post.html">Why Aren't There More Blacks At Occupy Wall Street?</a><br />They were abandoned years ago<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://henaashraf.com/2011/09/30/brown-power-at-occupy-wall-street/">Brown Power at Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://rdacbx.blogspot.com/2011/09/reflections-on-occupywallstreet.html">Reflections on Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://mzzainal-straten.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-occupy-wall-street.html">An Open Letter To Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternet.org/vision/152606/the_real_reason_why_police_cage_peaceful_protestors?page=entire">The Real Reason Why Police Cage Peaceful Protestors</a><br />A look at how kettling was used on protesters during the London riots<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://socialistworker.org/2011/10/06/why-police-arent-on-our-side">Why the police aren't on our side</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truth-out.org/open-letter-wall-street/1317680703#.TosrnltC6fM.facebook">An Open Letter to Wall Street</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=8661885880710345619">Unions, thousands join Occupy Wall Street's fight</a> [Nation/Kilkenny]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/oct/05/occupy-wall-street-protests-live#block-34">Live Blog Coverage from The Guardian</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truth-out.org/something-big-happening-occupy-together/1317837367#.ToxX8Lc5PlU.twitter">Something Big Is Happening: Occupy Together</a> [truthout]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/05/opinion/rushkoff-occupy-wall-street/index.html">Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it</a> [CNN]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/who-are-the-99-percent/2011/08/25/gIQAt87jKL_blog.html">Who Are The 99%?</a> [Washington Post]<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/05/occupy-san-francisco_n_997262.html?ref=tw"><br />Occupy San Francisco Takes Over Downtown </a>(photos, video)<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.politicususa.com/en/fox-news-occupy-wall-street">Fox News Launches An All Out Assault Against Occupy Wall Street</a><br />"ur doin it wrong," they say, after being maced and clubbed by <span style="font-weight: bold;">NYPD</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gizmodo.com/5846964/if-you-went-to-occupywallstreet-someone-might-be-looking-to-bone-you-on-craigslist/gallery/1">If You Went to #OccupyWallStreet, Someone</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gizmodo.com/5846964/if-you-went-to-occupywallstreet-someone-might-be-looking-to-bone-you-on-craigslist/gallery/1"> Might Be Looking to Bone You on Craigslist</a><br />[Gizmodo]<br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truth-out.org/uber-vultures-billionaires-who-would-pick-our-president/1317769580">Uber-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/9-things-the-rich-dont-want-you-to-know-about-taxes/Story?oid=3971382">9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-05/bofa-jpmorgan-wells-accused-of-charging-veterans-illegal-fees.html">BofA, JPMorgan, Wells Accused of Charging Veterans Illegal Fees</a> [Bloomberg]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-02/koch-brothers-flout-law-getting-richer-with-secret-iran-sales.html">Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales</a> [Bloomberg]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/wall-streets-bailout-hustle-20100217?print=true">Wall Street's Bailout Hustle</a> [Rolling Stone -2.17.2010]<br />"Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren't just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy — they're re-creating the conditions for another crash"<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">VIDEO</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwvrGHsjD7g">Beat Kidz - Who did you exploit today?</a><br />Kids #occupywallstreet!<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://vimeo.com/30081785">Right Here, All Over (Occupy Wall St.)</a><br />* * * serious documentary * * *<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhK0SdtigHM">Occupy Wall Street - The Real Protestors Interview</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtYnoOpLYAE">Michael Moore's speech: This Is A Historic Day</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8o3peQq79Q">Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement Released By OccupyWallStreet </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/mvd88z">Horse Police move in; huge crowd</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://front.moveon.org/this-powerful-clip-is-exactly-why-we-support-occupywallstreet/#.Toz12-RHqwh.twitter">Elizabeth Warren about why Wall Street is to blame</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.breitbart.tv/occupy-dc-protestors-call-for-reelection-of-obama/">OccupyDC interviews</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PHOTOS</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/nyy2x8j">We Are The 53%</a><br />ex-Marine gets schooled in Comments<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6vmumo">Nurses Union leading cheers</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://entershikari.visibli.com/share/dxj1qM">Let Them Eat Pepper Spray</a><br />cartoonist Rob Roberts scores<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://publicintelligence.net/crazy-baton-swinging-nypd-lieutenant-brian-connolly/">Batter UP: Lt. Brian Connoly, awarded the Medal for Valor in 2007</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://publicintelligence.net/crazy-baton-swinging-nypd-lieutenant-brian-connolly/">.</a><br />Photo sequence<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gomiso/6216045893/in/photostream">The lovely Monica on Global Revolution's Livestream</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6vn7gv">Of course the Dept of Homeland Security is there</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6vrbu0">Restaurant owners send tasy lamb chops</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Wall-Street-Protests-Arrests-Occupy-Wall-Street-Rally-March-Foley-Square-131144823.html">Aerial shot of huge crowd at #OccupyWallStreet</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>[CBS]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6voonk">Due to recent budget cuts, the light at<br />the end of the tunnel has been cut off</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/310841_228253957232326_100001431703156_608033_90546813_n.jpg">cop with protester: peace out</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6vmwh6">Harvard Men for economic justice</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/49086815@N04/6203860794/in/pool-1819100@N22?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">Faceoff</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/h37zanfj">crowd</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://web.stagram.com/tag/occupywallstreet/?vm=grid">Great photo collection</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://jenrossphoto.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-wall-st-oct-5th-2011.html">Photo collection</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/z/nz83jidj">Night Rally</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/z/nxp4ggulj">Night Rally #2</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TWEETS</span></span><br />* * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Today: #revShuttlesworth dies, unions join in on #ows, #stevejobs dies, #NYPD criminals attack #ows ppl, #clarencethomas investigated - whew</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">@BarackObama Shame on you! Protestors getting sprayed, penned, and beat in the street and you don't even acknowledge them.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">@PresidentObama @whitehousegov How can you ignore #OccupyWallStreet? True colors showing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"I believe in capitalism, but I believe in a level playing field" Michael Meyers </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">The battle is not left vs. right. The battle is corporatism vs. humans. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We watched in horror as protestors were beaten in other countries, and now in America, NYPD is doing the same to Americans Citizens.<br /><br />We appear to have moved to "then they fight you" stage. RT @xxxxxxx Girl near me coughing "they pepper sprayer everyone"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Adbusters still running #OccupyWallStreet feed; there is no "official" Occupy wall st. hashtag. Any assertion otherwise is rumor.</span><br /><br /><a style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/OccupyWallSt/statuses/121786129912561665"></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Given typical ignorance/apathy toward rather transparent corporate takeover of education, only #OWS gives me hope<br /><br />Couple of 'protesters' with badges move out of the back of the crowd and join the police. #ows</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @xxxxxx: Cops dressed as civilians</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">White shirted NYPD now ordering their officers to "Walk with them!" Crowd remains peaceful, no confirmed arrests.. #OWS</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Breaking: Frick allegedly employs Pinkertons to infiltrate #OccupyWallStreet #GoonSquad #OWS</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">No offense meant but if you're a news operation and you're not covering #OWS tonight, you're not a news operation any more </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">How is it, in this world of instant news all the time, that there is so little coverage of the #OWS protests? It fucking stinks.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">People trying to bring about change and bring some power back to the people, and the news agencies fall over themselves to black it out</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Never been more disappointed of the media until today. Just browsed all the news shows and not ONE mention of the march today. Shame!</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Steve Jobs has died. RIP Steve</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes." Thank you, Steve Jobs. #ows</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">interesting MSM announces Steve Jobs Death and then not so much time later The Kettling/Pepper Spray starts on #OWS.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">mayor bloomberg comes out to make a statement on the passing of steve jobs, just few days after saying #OWS attacks 40-50,000$/yr ppl.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @xxxxx: are the nypd really trying to kettle and arrest 20k protesters? really?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The protesters are holding a consensus meeting at the gates of Mordor, er, the entrance to Wall St.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If you see a black male, Green sweater, 190 pounds, hand bag and back pack. Tell him to change clothes etc etc Scanner mentioned him. #OWS</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">For every dollar you make, a CEO makes roughly $475</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Why is it easier to believe that 150,000,000 Americans are being lazy than 400 Americans are greedy?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">nice to meet our fellow #ows people fly in from alaska and sad to see a woman crying because wall street stole her pension and she is dying</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/information-disinformation-ows.html">Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupywallstreet-and-internet.html"><span>Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The 1% controls art culture by investment.<br />They have robbed art from the people. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">4f:43:43:55:50:59:20:57:41:4c:4c:20:53:54:52:45:45:54</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;">61:72:74:20:69:73:20:6d:79:20:77:65:61:70:6f:6e</span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-13960772860850393542011-10-04T22:10:00.000-07:002011-10-07T03:45:47.226-07:00Information - Disinformation @OWS<div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:180%;">OCCUPY COLLEGES:</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NATIONAL COLLEGE STUDENT WALKOUT</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2011</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">12 NOON</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">supporting Occupy Wall Street</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://occupycolleges.org/?p=45"><span style="font-weight: bold;">List of colleges participating</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.examiner.com/feminism-in-chicago/american-students-walk-out-for-occupy-wall-street">American Students 'walk out' for Occupy Wall Street</a> [Examiner]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2011/10/04/students-plan-campus-walkout-in-solidarity-with-occupy-wall-street/">Students plan campus walkout in ‘solidarity’ with ‘Occupy Wall Street'</a> [Daily Caller]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailycal.org/2011/10/03/occupy-colleges-plans-national-walk-out-wednesday/">Occupy Colleges Plans National Walk Out Wednesday</a> [Daily Californian]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/10/04/huge-nyc-union-march-set-to-spotlight-occupy-wall-street-protest/">Huge NYC Union March October 5 </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.jobparty.us/community_labor_march_to_wall_street">USA Jobs Party March October 5</a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.civic.moveon.org/joinvirtualwallstreet/">Virtual March On Wall Street Oct. 5</a><br />sponsored by Rebuild the Dream & MoveOn.Org<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://occupycnn.tumblr.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy CNN - 10/14</span></a></span><br />'Change The Channel" at CNN HQs in Atlanta, NY, LA, DC<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fNfN1odAkHyuYKnvX98TlapesewnNK6GLm-IXrxrzvU043TGrcIyMfO3Q5RopaiJ6dHlp5KBzmUcLx6bRthgpEvbnD3mAD-rah_i1kLITZFfbqUAQsj9lw4eO3LrJ1fR0dcCHtju6BY/s1600/iOccupy.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fNfN1odAkHyuYKnvX98TlapesewnNK6GLm-IXrxrzvU043TGrcIyMfO3Q5RopaiJ6dHlp5KBzmUcLx6bRthgpEvbnD3mAD-rah_i1kLITZFfbqUAQsj9lw4eO3LrJ1fR0dcCHtju6BY/s400/iOccupy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659943825568203106" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >Can't you smell the cultural appropriation?</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">disInformation Wars</span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">'Anonymous' vs Anonymous</span></span><br /><br />An example of the disinformation/propaganda war swirling around Occupy Wall Street is the release of a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz0swK0mpMk"><span style="font-weight: bold;">communiqué purporting to be from "Anonymous"</span></a> and entitled "<span style="font-weight: bold;">Operation Invade Wall Street</span>" declaring a cyber-attack on Wall Street firms in retaliation for the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday, October 1.<br /><br />This was quickly followed by the posting <a href="http://pastebin.com/MCT1L3Kf"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">ANONYMOUS Message concerning Invade Wall Street </span></a>at Pastebin, <span style="font-weight: bold;">denying association with "Operation Wall Street"</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Operation Invade Wall Street is bullshit! It is a fake planted operation by law enforcement and cyber crime agencies in order to get you to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement.</span>"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Anonymous further issued</span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://i.imgur.com/HTuDe.png">this statement [image]</a>:<br /><br />"Greetings fellow Anons: As brothers and sisters, we have to look out for one another in times like these.<br /><br />We have taken notice to a planned attack which has been named #InvadeWallStreet, which is to be held out on October 10th.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">We strongly advise against this action and everything it entails to.</span><br /><br />Many of our brothers and sisters have gone down in the fight for using such tactics, like the wikileaks defendants who took down Visa, Paypal and Mastercard which led to mass arrests.<br /><br />We do not want history to repeat itself and are sincerely worried.<br /><br />Using such a tool as LOIC to get your message across would be deemed irresponsible and you would be signing your own ticket to jail.<br /><br />Please change these tactics for this Op to spare our movement the loss and to spare OccupyWallStreet of the bad press.<br /><br />Thank you and we hope we have made our point.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">We are Anonymous.<br />We are Legion.<br />We do not forgive.<br />We do not forget.<br />Expect us."<br /></div><br /><br />Speculation runs high that this is a reverse-sting operation to both lure in crackers and to discredit <span style="font-weight: bold;">OWS positions on non-violent and lawful protest</span>.<br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">Interestingly, the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/SHFT.plan">SHFTplan</a> site is a distributor of this "information", as well as the example below; as of this writing, </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/a-day-that-will-never-be-forgotten-anonymous-hackers-declares-war-on-nyse-threaten-to-erase-the-nyse-on-october-10th_10052011">no similar retraction to the BofA Bank Run video mentioned below is showing</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> on the page, despite the communique direct from AnonOps denouncing Operation Invade Wall Street</span>]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">That BofA - SWAT Team video...</span></span><br /><br />Another example: a link to a video is being endlessly tweeted today -<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0vp4wrNTFI">SWAT Teams in St. Louis Protecting Bank of America;<br />Refusing Customer Withdrawal</a><br /><br />This video is being passed around without the information that <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/swat-teams-in-st-louis-protecting-bank-of-america-refusing-customer-withdrawals-directing-customers-to-broken-bofa-web-site_10042011">it was published in August 2011</a> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">does not have a direct bearing on the actions urged by OWS</span> during the past week to "withdraw your money from the banks" and to trigger a bank run as a form of economic protest for BofA recently announcing $5 "debit card fees" and similar to the "Run on the Bank" issued by D-Senate Majority Whip <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65121.html">Senator Dick Durbin</a> on the Senate floor a day before.<br /><br />This video and story is from the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://convergence2011.org/about-the-convergence/faq/">Midwest Rising</a> event on August 10, 2011</span>. Many bloggers reported on this video and used it as part of their OWS coverage without stating the date nor the source. The You Tube account used to post this video is associated with the <a href="http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/swat-teams-in-st-louis-protecting-bank-of-america-refusing-customer-withdrawals-directing-customers-to-broken-bofa-web-site_10042011">SHFT.plan</a> website. A later retraction/apologetic post on the site states:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"It has come to our attention that this video was originally published in August of this year, thus is not a reflection of OccupyProtests currently taking place in New York and the rest of the U.S. We apologize to our readers for the mistake and inconvenience. While not exactly timely, the video nonetheless reflects what we believe will be the response by police departments the country over if bank runs were to become reality."</span><br /><br />... but this information is left out of the tweets and subsequent retweets, which are numerous currents in today's tweetstream -<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">@OccupyPhilly SWAT Teams in St. Louis Protecting Bank of America; Refusing Customer Withdrawals. </span><br /><br />- implying that this is currently happening. <span style="font-weight: bold;">It is not.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">This is an old video.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br />It's definitely related to the <span style="font-style: italic;">issues and concerns</span> of OWS, but the use of it to imply that SWAT Teams are standing by at BofA locations <span style="font-style: italic;">right now</span> because of something OWS has called for is <span style="font-weight: bold;">alarmist and deceptive</span>. It would have been more powerful as " an example of the kind of things banks have done and are prepared to do", ie <span style="font-weight: bold;">real data</span> instead of spun data [manipulative propaganda]. As it is, it was quickly <span style="font-weight: bold;">debunked</span> in the same sort of <span style="font-weight: bold;">crowdsourcing</span> seen with the other stories coming out of Occupy Wall Street.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br />Another possibility exists: that this is weaponized <span>disinformation broadcast from opposing forces</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">designed to attack and discredit the honesty of the OWS occupiers</span> and supporters in the same way the suspicious "Radiohead is playing today at 4pm" was designed to do. It does have echoes of many of the "oppositional" tweets - the subtle twisting of position or implications of wildy-unrelated themes. This is <span style="font-weight: bold;">the use and misuse of data as a weapon; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_%28security%29">social engineering</a>. </span><br /><br />It might have been an overly-enthusiastic sharing of "information" which illustrates some of the <span style="font-style: italic;">concerns</span> of the OWS movement [bank/financial conduct] but the manner in which it was done, without clearly stating it was <span style="font-style: italic;">supportive</span> material [like much of the information being dug up and disseminated through Twitter] and not a reaction to people's call for a "bank run" on BofA in solidarity protest with OWS <span style="font-weight: bold;">casts suspicion and shadows on OWS</span> and its supporters that Occupy Wall Street cannot afford, no matter how "well-meaning" or "supportive".<br /><br />In the same way, graphic artist <a href="http://blog.timparkinson.net/2011/09/30/lies-damn-lies-and-photoshop/">Scott Lickstein's print</a> was appropriated without his permission and used to imply huge crowds at Liberty Square until the <a href="http://blog.timparkinson.net/2011/09/30/lies-damn-lies-and-photoshop/">perpetrator was caught and outed</a>, casting doubt on OWS until the whole story came out [it was not a sanctioned action by OWS]. One of Occupy Wall Street's greatest strengths and protections lies in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_transparency">radical transparency</a> and its open-source model. Why? Because... twisting and lying about information is what the creeps do that we are all protesting... isn't it?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div>The net allows for hundreds or thousands of people researching [<span style="font-weight: bold;">debugging</span>] and diseminating information faster than the disinformationalists can control the story [spin; munitions]. There's a lot of <span style="font-weight: bold;">real-time fact-checking</span> going on (which is good). Seeing the quick identification, debunking and clarification of this "information" in only a few hours is another demonstration both of <span style="font-weight: bold;">why open-source is powerful</span> [many fact-checkers/debuggers] and <span style="font-weight: bold;">why it is open to abuse</span> [the original tweeter; injection of mis- or disinformation].<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Data is not information</span><br /></span><br />These are only two examples of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare"><span style="font-weight: bold;">psychological warfare</span></a> that has flooded the net via Twitter and blogs swirling around Occupy Wall Street. The ability to input immense amounts of data into the nets is countered by the ability to <span>use that data for information or <span style="font-style: italic;">dis</span>informational purposes</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Data is only data</span> [facts, figures, quotes, reports, video, audio, graphic, photos]. <a href="http://www.differencebetween.net/language/difference-between-data-and-information/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Information is not data</span></a>; it is the processing and interpretation of data. In the example above, the data [video] has been interpreted [slanted; spun] in a way to distort the meaning of the video in support of a position. It lies by omission [the date] and by implication [connection to OWS].<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @xxxxx: #TeaParty is upset with #WallStreet sending our jobs overseas...so is #OccupyWallStreet </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#OccupyWallStreet is Racist. Where were they when Bush was president? They just hate the fact that a black man is president</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Wall Street protest movement spreads across US, Canada, Europe: </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I have some advice for the #occupywallstreet losers. Pull your accounts from $BAC oh wait, I'm sorry I forgot you are dirty hippies.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @xxxxxxx: #TeaParty people are afraid #WallStreet sold out our futures...so are the #OccupyWallStreet people.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This morning I was disgusted by MSM. CNN, Fox and MSNB: Bear riding a bike, a monkey and a puppy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">walk like an egyptian, fight like a libyan, camp like an american</span><br /><br /><br />In the dataset above, which is a random sampling of repeating/retweeting memes, there are only two actual pieces of <span style="font-style: italic;">information</span>. See if you can find them.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">INFORMATION</span></span><br />* * * * * * * * * * * *<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupywallst.org/about/">OccupyWallStreet.org</a></span><br />about<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nycga.cc/">NYC General Assembly</a></span><br />current information<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">SUPPLIES NEEDED</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">OWS medical team is asking for supplies for makeshift medical kits:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">milk of magnesia, bandanas and vinegar</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">, Milk of Magnesia, Bandanas, finger and leg splints, ice packs/cold packs, rubber gloves, cpr masks & swim goggles rated to 10m, water bottles with spray tops and big (#10) ziplock baggies to make kits. And "tobacco! We all smoke; we shouldn't but we do. Please send tobacco!"</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> And tarps</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">bug repellent and calamine lotion, space blankets, gauze. And water; lots of water.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Warm coats and blankets.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Toothbrushes and Tupperware.</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Shipping address:<br /><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">THE UPS STORE<br />118 A #205<br />NEW YORK, NY 10038<br /><br />RE: Occupy Wall Street</span></div><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/29/1021096/--OccupyWallStreet-How-Not-To-Get-Arrested">How Not To Get Arrested</a><br />some basic rules for being cool<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution">Live GlobalRevolution stream from Liberty Plaza</a><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><a href="https://occupywallst.org/forum/first-official-release-from-occupy-wall-street/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">First OFFICIAL Release from OCCUPY WALL STREET</span> </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-please-help-editadd-so-th/">Proposed List of Demands [official OccupyWallStreet]</a><br />A democratic poll<br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anon.elementfx.com/index.php/anonymous/occupywallstreet/828-huge-list-of-locations-for-occupywalstreet-demonstrations.html">Huge List of Locations for #OccupyWallStreet Demonstrations</a><br />Actually, OccupyEverywhere<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/occupywallstreet/">OccupyWallStreet's Flickr photostream</a><br /><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=occupy+wall+street&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a"></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street">Wikipedia: Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11aEYlrHbWsYw9UFLmnR3V62NRdN0EtN5aVFJs_YXbg8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1">List of places that will deliver food to Liberty Plaza</a><br /><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hyperallergic.com/37003/occupywallstreets-artsculture-committee/">Occupy Wall Street's Arts & Culture Committee</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F97t_vgN6NE">Here's a theoretical tutorial about getting out of Zip-tie cuffs</a> [youtube]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">for entertainment purposes only</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB_gwYz5Mqs">Here's how a magician would escape plastic cuffs [front]</a> [youtube]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">presented for entertainment purposes only<br /><br /><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/nypd-pepper-spray-procedure.html">New York Patrol Guide Procedure Number 212-95 [Pepper Spray]</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://medic.wikia.com/wiki/Pepper_spray_and_tear_gas">Pepper spray and tear gas - things to know about it</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/nyclu-scene-wall-street-protests">According to this NYCLU post, you have the right to stand or march on sidewalks without a permit. </a></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEDIA</span></span><br />* * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/nyregion/citing-police-trap-protesters-file-suit.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss">Citing Police Trap, Protesters File Suit</a><br />Class-action lawsuit against the NYPD for the Bridge arrests<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/05/2011-10-05_big_money_in_wall_st_protest_cash_coming_in_from_around_the_world.html">Occupy Wall Street Draws Donations</a> [NY Daily News]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oneVFYeMHjU">Make Revolution, Not Reform: A Warning to the 'Occupy' Movement</a> [video]<br />A smart warning about co-option by philanthropists and about repeating the same ineffective cycles<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TF8L2DWhpw">Nobel-winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Jeff Madrick</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TF8L2DWhpw"> speak to Occupy Wall Street occupiers</a> [video]<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stiglitz">Stiglitz</a> and <a href="http://www.jeffmadrick.com/">Madrick</a> are very qualified to speak about economic inequalities<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/10/occupy-la-city-hall.html">Los Angeles lawmakers cheer on OccupyLA protesters outside City Hall</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/10/04/second-wave-of-protests-unleashed-targets-the-federal-reserve/">Second Wave of Protests Unleashed: Targets the Federal Reserve</a> [Veterans Today]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/oct/05/occupy-wall-street-getting-expensive-nypd/">Occupy Wall Street Getting Expensive For the NYPD</a><br />Part of the story not being transmitted is that <span style="font-style: italic;">the NYPD was due for mass layoffs until the Occupy Wall Street protests began</span>.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Op-Ed</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/occupy-wall-st-this-is-no_b_994388.html">Occupy Wall St.: This Is Not a Head Scratcher </a><br />Jared Bernstein: "Like, duh."<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/3434c82a-e8c5-11e0-902c-00144feab49a.html">Anonymous accuses Chaoda of fraud</a><br />Anonymous analytics?<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cryptome.org/0005/ows-permanent.htm"><br />Why Occupy Wall Street Should Be Permanent</a><br />from Cryptome<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.scuttledd.com/2011/10/from-occupy-to-withdraw-the-simple-plan-to-let-wall-street-destroy-itself-withdrawfromwallstreet/">From Occupy to Withdraw: The Simple Plan to Let Wall Street Be Its Own Undoing</a><br />A proposed plan of action<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.infowars.com/obama-machine-prepares-to-hijack-occupy-wall-street/">Obama Machine Prepares To Hijack ‘Occupy Wall Street’</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml">We cannot track $2.3 trillion in [Pentagon] transactions" - Donald Rumsfeld [2009]</a><br />Money that would fund health, education and Social Security programs<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-recessions-silent-mental-health-epidemic-2011-10?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=yourmoney-contributor">The Recession’s ‘Silent Mental Health Epidemic’</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Audio/Visual</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6u9ydo">Another Decomm'd Marine at Occupy Wall Street</a> [photo]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/18/article-2038700-0DF3ABE700000578-903_634x437.jpg">More cops, more bull</a> [photo]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cdn1.alexanderhiggins.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Unbelievable-Elisist-Sign-Place-In-Building-Window.jpeg">The 1% does Windows</a> [photo]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQow0Fhua1A">Occupy Wall Street Protester End the Fed - Best Rant!</a> [video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.addictinginfo.org/2011/10/03/andrew-breitbart-compares-anonymous-video-to-nazi-propaganda-will-they-retaliate/">Andrew Breitbart Compares ‘Anonymous’ Video To ‘Nazi Propaganda’</a> [video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e75I4ysssoA">Derric Jensen on Pacifism</a> [video]<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tweets</span></span><br />* * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">No org. no celebrity, no politician , no one hijacks #ows The People #occupywallst #occupytheplanet #ourwallstreet #occupytucson OURS.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The problem isn't big government, the problem is BOUGHT government." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">experts are not the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society. -Einstein </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Anyone calling for/tolerating any form of violence in #OccupyWallStreet is not on the side of the people. Watch out for agent provacateurs.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Two brokers walking down the street. One says: "Look! It's my wife and mistress-together!" The other says: "Mine too!" </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">As John said, “One hero cannot do it. Each one of us have to be heroes.” And you are. Thank you. love, yoko</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#OccupyWallStreet isn't about Right versus Left. It's about Right versus Wrong.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Yeah, like Amnesty Int"l is a liberal John Birch Society. MT @cnnAM: Talk Back: Is #OWS the dawn of a liberal Tea Party? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Those who think #occupywallstreet is a "hippie" thing, you don't have a clue. I'm part of it as a senior Vietnam vet.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">My cause is more worthy of protest than your cause. The proof is that it is my cause. Please abandon your cause. </span>[almost perfect summation of troll-tweet, except he forgot "you smell dirty hippie" but maybe not enough room :D<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I can guarantee at least 250 million people in this great country has purchased food 2 eat at a dollar/discount type store. I have. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It's an Omen...... men men men men</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We have cut taxes for the richest Americans for 10 years now. Are we better off for it as a nation? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The #occupiers are to free assembly what #Anonymous is to free speech. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#TeaParty wishes someone would fix that bridge...#OccupyWallStreet wants to fix it right now, today. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Glenn Beck says #OccupyWallStreet will lead to gas chambers, guillotines, and Mao. Labeling the guy as "crazy" would be an understatement.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/information-disinformation-ows.html">Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The 1% controls art culture by investment.<br />They have robbed art from the people. </span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> 61:72:74:20:69:73:20:6d:79:20:77:65:61:70:6f:6e<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;"></span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-92200756540524608822011-10-02T20:54:00.000-07:002011-10-04T08:02:22.538-07:00pDOSing OccupyWallStreet<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtGIrWX4DRi22h6ozPcTVSfbQz_wTrTqGT4x_XeMSMb44BZzniK4sucCkkbArTLo-RENtLMwBZox4jTfO-QyCf1sF5qPoy1HoyldTDa4j4iDslj_VdVMnONS2Uoyk0kzlKNuUXba9zgNk/s1600/0whatIS1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtGIrWX4DRi22h6ozPcTVSfbQz_wTrTqGT4x_XeMSMb44BZzniK4sucCkkbArTLo-RENtLMwBZox4jTfO-QyCf1sF5qPoy1HoyldTDa4j4iDslj_VdVMnONS2Uoyk0kzlKNuUXba9zgNk/s400/0whatIS1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659498740467491298" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">What IS our ONE demand?</span><br /></span></div><br />More network analysis tonight, starting off with this post from <a href="http://motherboard.tv/profiles/joshua_kopstein">Joshua Kopstein</a> with a view that shares a concern of this blog:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://motherboard.tv/2011/10/3/inside-occupy-wall-street-s-information-war-whose-message-is-it-anyway">Inside Occupy Wall Street's Information War:</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://motherboard.tv/2011/10/3/inside-occupy-wall-street-s-information-war-whose-message-is-it-anyway"> Whose Message Is It Anyway? </a><br /></div><br />... and this one from <a href="http://irevolution.net/bio/">Patrick Meier</a>:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://irevolution.net/2011/10/02/theorizing-ushahidi/">Theorizing Ushahidi: An Academic Treatise<br /></a></div><br /><br />And that's the topic for tonight. [<span style="font-style: italic;">tweets in italics per usual</span>]<br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WARNING!</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This software is rated M for Mature</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">USE OF MIND REQUIRED</span><br />* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br />Terms Of Service<br /></div><span style="font-size:78%;"><br />By reading this license you agree to abide by its terms and conditions, which are as follows:<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">1. Use of your brain is required. This software will not operate without minimal system resources.<br />2. You certify that by continuing reading this article, you are a qualified engineer and can maintain professional composure in data analysis and speculation.<br /></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">3. You don't blame me for anything said in this post. Er *cough* you legally absolve me from any and all conditions, problems, implications and conclusions as well as objections, legal or theosophical, you might make or get from this post.</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);">4. You may not read this post without agreeing to these terms.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);font-size:78%;" >By continuing to read the rest of this post, you agree to abide by and honor the terms of this license.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Definition: pDOS - Political Distribution of Services</span> - a social network <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute-force_attack">brute-force attack</a> based on <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overflow">buffer overflow</a>; used to overwhelm a political network in order to override the operating system [message]. - <span style="font-size:85%;">The Political Hacker's Handbook</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">we are simply watching. #OWS <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMDV3eISLPs">stay on Target, stay on Target...</a></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div>We've seen the professional <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing">astroturfers</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_%28Internet%29">sockpuppets</a> ramp up over the last 8 days in the Twitter, FB and Google+ services; the assault troops [trolls] with their bag of tricks, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacking:_The_Art_of_Exploitation_Second_Edition">port-scanning</a> for <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_security">vulnerabilities</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploit_%28computer_security%29">exploits</a> in the system resources [people]. They've followed the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">standard curve</a> from semi-benign to all-out attacks on both the sentiments and statements of supporters, many becoming downright threatening and vicious. This is fine; this is what network security is all about and is prepares for; system disrupters and crackers. But there's another attack vector to worry about: <a href="http://www.wright.edu/rsp/Security/V1comput/Threats.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">hacking from within</span></a>.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWkMhCLkVOg&ob=av2e">What's the frequency, Kenneth?</a></span><br /><br />OccupyWallStreet has its own operating system; it's nodes and ports, servers and terminals. It has it's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS">BIOS</a> [<span style="font-weight: bold;">get the money out of politics</span>] and software [<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass-Steagall">Glass-Steagall Act</a>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_personality">Revoke corporate "personhood"</a>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_in_the_United_States">Campaign donations limit, etc</a>]. These are the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United_States">protocols of the OWS position</a>; they have been stated openly on the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupywallst.org/">OccupyWallStreet.Org site</a> and are being continually updated [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotfix">hotfix</a>].<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is the message that galvanised the movement.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">This is the chosen broadcast signal</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">:</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;">"Wall Street" is the symbol for the corporate money interests, who have brought the country to dire financial condition several times; who claim record profits while outsourcing the jobs they used as bait for a federal bailout to save money on cheap (exploitive) labor; who play gambling games with other people's money and then lay the costs back on the public, whose money they gambled with in the first place, claiming they are 'too big to fail."</span><br /><br />A secondary signal runs in parallel with this carrier wave: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 153); font-weight: bold;">money is being used to corrupt politics and the people's will for the profit of corporations who pervert the clear intention of law with legal sophistries, damaging and destroying the foundations of justice, creative progress, financial health and infrastructure in America.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Comparing closed and open source models</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">OWS</span><br /><br />It's a pretty straightforward and clear signal. It shares some basic information and parameters of the original Tea Party manifestos [<span style="font-size:85%;">I hear you yelling at me now; just hang in</span>; <span style="font-size:85%;">this is a religious debate on par with Mac vs MS</span>]. It recognizes that the financial sector has been mismanaged to a frightful degree <span style="font-style: italic;">several times in recent memory</span> and the cost of this irresponsible financial conduct has descended on the middle class, devastating much of the population of "ordinary America."<br /><br />Where it splits and configures its own network is at the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Government</span> junction. OccupyWallStreet has identified a crucial network problem: <span style="font-style: italic;">there's a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn">pwned</a> subnet in the system.</span> The political and legal system servers have been <span style="font-weight: bold;">financially hacked</span>. That's where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_directory">root</a> of many system instabilities lie.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TP-OS</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">The Tea Party's platform is basically the same-old-same-old "Git Gummint Outta Mah Face." This political nag, nebulous and insubstantial, has proven adaptable by Right, Left, Center, Extreme and Fringe for several thousand years. It is a chameleon; a shapeshifter; easily-suborned and reprogrammed by lobbyists; a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphic_code">polymorphous virus</a> - "Te Leaderz sux" - that offers no new model for an cyclical and self-reinforcing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_loop">infinite loop</a>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I am a Republican. The #occupywallstreet people are correct if they want the government to get its stinking fingers out of the economy.</span><br /><br /><br />But<span style="font-style: italic;"> all </span>of us know - we who live in the world and not in imagination or fantasy - that <span style="font-weight: bold;">money buys law and lobbyists in this country; power is green, not Red or Blue</span> (I think any intelligent adult would grant that common observation). Lobbyists twist the democratic republic's operating system; even the Tea Party declares it but aims at that old sawhorse "Government" in the same way it has done forever... and ends up <span style="font-weight: bold;">back in the old money-bag</span>. And <span style="font-style: italic;">that's</span> what OccupyWallStreet is about and why the Tea Party instantly went into attack/suborn mode despite a common ground with many of their stated grievances.<br /></div><br />[you'd expect that, of course. The Tea Party runs on a completely-different <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol">operating system</a>, uses completely-different <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell_Netware">protocols</a> and is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_media">broadcast system</a>, drawing its power from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node">nodes</a> and overriding their individuality. It is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_source">closed-source</a> system]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br />TP-OS is the antithesis of the OWS model of self-configuring <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network">neural network</a>. OWS is learning by making connections, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.yale.edu/pclt/COMM/TCPIP.HTM">establishing a common language</a> and exchanging and comparing data and information in the same way tribal councils, flash-mobs and internet memes work: by group participation and discussion [handshaking; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_%28TCP%29">SYN and ACK</a>]. This is a network model based on horizontal hierarchy instead of vertical hierarchy [hegemony]. The network is learning from itself even as it configures itself in a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetic">cybernetic</a> feedback loop, sharing analogs and metaphors with biological as well as digital models.<br /><br />OWS is <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source">open-source</a>. And with that comes one danger that has sidelined and weakened other open-source projects: fracturing of focus.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_signal_intrusion"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Broadcast Signal Intrusion</span></a> (<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dddAi8FF3F4">it's a trap!</a>)</span><br /><br />Not only the Big Politico networks rumbling into action; I've been watching for the last three days as<span style="font-weight: bold;"> every splinter group and cause has flooded the channels</span> with their grievances... <span style="font-style: italic;">with OccupyWallStreet.</span> "You aren't representing Latinos/Native Americans/the Homeless/Black people/Blind people/Pets/Rape victims/moderates/extremists/pot smokers/gays/women/the Old/Vegetarians/Allergenic people... "<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Funny how the conditions blacks have been living under are suddenly unacceptable now that whites are also experiencing it </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.racialicious.com/2011/10/03/so-real-it-hurts-notes-on-occupy-wall-street/#more-18224">A refutation of the 'exclusion' charges from someone who went down there</a><br /></div><br />A dense multiplicity of signal, all clamoring for a chunk of the OWS bandwidth. They are pinging the network and requesting allocation of resources, clamoring for an individual voice in the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">inclusive</span> message</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">of OccupyWallStreet</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br />Many of these positions have had organized groups for themselves for years. Each little splinter and fragment; each tiny subnet circulating on its own, exchanging information with other groups yet <span style="font-style: italic;">keeping within the same system parameters</span>. After the pepper-spray and police violence amplified the signal strength and visibility of the OccupyWallStreet network, all kinds of groups are asking for <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:User_access_levels">access privileges</a>.<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.civic.moveon.org/joinvirtualwallstreet/">Virtual March on Wall Street</a> [MoveOn.org]<br /></div><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Beware "support" from @moveon, the Democratic Party's online astroturf operation. It's a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_horse_%28computing%29">Trojan Horse</a>. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It's fun watching mainstream Dems maneuver to co-opt #OccupyWallStreet the same way Republicans wrestled the Tea Party from the grass roots.</span><br /><br />The tweets above are representative of many. Some are trolls, but many more are sincere in expressing caution and solidarity/unification/inclusion with OccupyWallStreet's objectives, aims and process against outside signals until it is established that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">OWS Terms-Of-Service</span> are compatible with these other pre-established networks.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/kyjo2/an_open_letter_and_warning_from_a_former_tea/">An open letter and warning<br />from a former tea party</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/kyjo2/an_open_letter_and_warning_from_a_former_tea/"> movement</a><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/kyjo2/an_open_letter_and_warning_from_a_former_tea/"><br /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/occupywallstreet/comments/kyjo2/an_open_letter_and_warning_from_a_former_tea/"> adherent to the Occupy Wall Street<br />movement.</a><br /></div><br />Don't dismiss this; <span style="font-weight: bold;">very valuable insight</span> from an ex-Tea Party member about how outside networks can attempt to invade and hijack focus. <span style="font-weight: bold;">+4 Stars****</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Frequency is 99%</span></span><br /><br />The strongest principle the OccupyWallStreet network has maintained from the beginning is <span style="font-weight: bold;">inclusion</span>. The forming of the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street">General Assembly</a>; the participation of electronic supporters and the open nature of its data and information distribution are observable and well-known.<br /><br />Sure, there's a lot of "go us!" from the youth bloc; after all, this was mostly their idea to start with; the other groups have been hanging around for some time now... yet the message of OccupyWallStreet resonates with grannies, middies, students, laborers, teachers, First Responders, airline pilots, decommissioned Marines...<span style="font-weight: bold;"> the chords OccupyWallStreet are striking resonate</span> with a large cross-section of America [when the word finally got out]. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The frequency is 99%.</span><br /><br /><br />I would think the established alternate-networks would <span style="font-weight: bold;">understand the value of OccupyWallStreet's BIOS and network signal</span>, which is very strong and has galvanised people everywhere. I have seen no evidence of exclusion; if certain groups, causes or organizations feel under-represented there, then <span style="font-weight: bold;">they should add some resources</span>; <span style="font-style: italic;">some representative people go down there and </span>do<span style="font-style: italic;"> OccupyWallStreet</span>. No one's stopping you; no one's excluding you; but you could add to OccupyWallStreet's network by pitching in some resources, some people or some services as long as you adhere to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_service">OWS' Terms Of Service</a>, processes and authority.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div>The OccupyWallStreet network is strong; it has learned under harsh evolutionary pressures and is still learning; that is its model. I hope OWS will be able to <span style="font-weight: bold;">match protocols</span> with external system resources; a bigger network is always better for robustness and flexibility. I hope they have good internal security, auditing and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_authority"><span style="font-weight: bold;">trust certificates</span></a> from external networks before they decide if those resources are compatible with OccupyWallStreet's process and operating system. It's a good one; robust and flexible with a rock-solid core. I wouldn't want to see it lose identity in a code rewrite.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blacklistednews.com/Nader%2C_Ron_Paul%2C_Kucinich_Speak_to_Occupy_Wall_Street%3A_Repeal_the_Federal_Reserve_Act/15978/0/38/38/Y/M.html">Nader, Ron Paul, Kucinich Speak to Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">*any organizations named or graphically depicted in this essay are symbolic only of the diversity of signal being directed at OWS network and not an indemnification of those organizations or their messages. The position stated in this essay is a generic observation and aimed at no particular group or platform. Like OccupyWallStreet, it is <u>metaphorically inclusive</u>.<br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEDIA</span></span><br />* * * * * * *<br /></div><br />[merged: lamestream and independent media; now that the Lamestream Blackout is a slowly-clearing greyout, I'm picking here and there on including it, mostly for contrast with independent media or for comparative study]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Information</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://mobius1ski.tumblr.com/post/11008451367/radio-occupywallstreet-a-potential-end-run-around">Radio #OccupyWallStreet</a><br />a practical and simple communications system <span style="font-weight: bold;">currently operating</span>.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nycga.cc/donate/">Donate to the General Assembly</a><br />Can't be there? Support from where you are<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city/">Declaration of the Occupation of New York City</a><br />From the NYC General Assembly<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/index.cfm?id=e35eddb4-0d83-4c55-92c0-e448c55526ff">Full Congressional Record Transcript of Sanders Filibuster</a> [Sanders]<br />This is why OWS likes Bernie Sanders<br /><br /><a href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/10/occupy-wall-street-protest-map"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy: Map</span></a><br />Interactive clickable toy<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://pastebin.com/MCT1L3Kf">ANONYMOUS Message concerning 'Operation Invade Wall Street'</a><br />a warning to examine all signals carefully [<a href="http://i.imgur.com/t8c5l.png">Operation Invade Wall Street</a>]<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/316-20/7702-transit-workers-do-not-want-to-transport-arrested-wall-street-protesters">Transit Workers Do Not Want to Transport Arrested Wall Street Protesters</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98ny9FvSyMs"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Wall Street Protestor on Federal Reserve</span></a> [video]<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Firsthand<br /><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/10/201110322544595588.html">Understanding Wall Street's 'Occupation'</a><br />Four activists discuss goals of OWS as it gains nationwide momentum.<br /><br /><a href="http://freakoutnation.com/2011/10/02/first-hand-account-by-the-15-year-old-kid-almost-arrested-on-the-brooklyn-bridge/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">First Hand Account by the 15 year old Kid </span></a><br /><a href="http://freakoutnation.com/2011/10/02/first-hand-account-by-the-15-year-old-kid-almost-arrested-on-the-brooklyn-bridge/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Almost Arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/02/1021993/-I-was-on-the-Brooklyn-Bridge-EXCLUSIVE-Video-and-Pics-of-OccupyWallStreet-march"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I was on the Brooklyn Bridge </span></a>[DailyKOS; pics + video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/oct/03/occupy-wall-street-brooklyn-bridge-arrests?CMP=twt_gu">The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge 'trap'</a> [Guardian]<br />Those who were arrested tell their story<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media antics/censoring</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yrT-0Xbrn4">Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview</a><br />Grab it before it vanishes - <span style="font-weight: bold;">you'll want to hear Jesse LaGreca speak</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://roarmag.org/2011/10/how-the-new-york-times-manipulated-blame-for-mass-arrests/">How the New York Times manipulated blame for arrests</a><br />More on that NYT editing<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/29/trendsmap-proves-scary-twitter-censorship-occupywallstreet-trending-topics-72701/">TrendsMap Proves Scary Twitter Censorship Of</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/29/trendsmap-proves-scary-twitter-censorship-occupywallstreet-trending-topics-72701/"> #OccupyWallStreet From Trending Topics</a><br />more on that censorship testing<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://current.com/community/93466154_government-orders-you-tube-to-censor-protest-videos.htm">On You Tube's Censoring </a>[general, govt compliance]<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Op-Ed</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://reportergary.com/2011/10/myth-busting-on-wall-street/">Myth-busting On Wall Street</a><br />Meme crossover: <span style="font-style: italic;">Zombies!!!!!</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.buzzmachine.com/2011/10/03/occupywallstreet-the-failure-of-institutions/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+buzzmachine+%28BuzzMachine%29">#OccupyWallStreet & the failure of institutions</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.newdeal20.org/2011/10/03/the-young-are-on-the-streets-because-they-have-the-most-to-lose-60389/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Young Are on the Streets Because They Have the Most to Lose</span></a><br />From the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternet.org/story/152605/the_big_picture:_a_40-year_scan_of_the_right-wing_corporate_takeover_of_america__/">The Big Picture: A 40-Year Scan of the Right-Wing Corporate Takeover of America</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/rightbloggers_d_7.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Rightbloggers Denounce Occupy Wall Street </span></a>[Village Voice]<br />exploring the Right Wing blogosphere<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://politics.salon.com/2011/09/29/at_occupy_wall_street/">The debate at Occupy Wall Street: To what end?</a><br />Glenn Greenwald<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2011/10/02/occupy-wall-street-guest-post-you-cant-judge-a-revolution-by-its-cover/">You Can’t Judge A Revolution By Its Cover</a><br />Occupy Wall Street, Guest Post<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/03/de-colonize-wall-street/#.Tor6XlAiRgw.twitter">Decolonize Wall Street</a><br />another good analysis of why existing systems don't meet the need<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/10/03/why-occupy-wall-street-is-more-than-just-a-protest/">Why Occupy Wall Street is More than Just a Protest</a> [Forbes]<br />“something entirely different and much more important” than merely a protest<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.myvoiceoverguy.com/voice-over/occupywallstreet-occupy-los-angeles-ows/">Why #OccupyWallStreet?</a><br />THREE answers from Videogame Voice Actor:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/we-havent-had-a-shortage-of-demands-and-solutions-weve-had-a-shortage-of-mass-movements/2011/08/25/gIQAqE6aIL_blog.html?wprss=ezra-klein">'We’ve had a shortage of mass movements.’ </a><br />An interview with Stephen Lerner from SEIU<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6470/">The Reign of the One Percenters</a><br />Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://tumeke.blogspot.com/2011/10/hacktivism-meets-wall-st.html">Hacktivism Meets Wall Street</a><br />a nice analysis<br /><br /><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/01"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Wall Street: "It Is a Revolution"</span></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Background information</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-01/almost-3-000-millionaires-claimed-jobless-benefits-in-2008-irs-data-show.html">Some 3,000 Millionaires Claim Jobless Benefits, IRS Data Show</a><br />sure they <span style="font-style: italic;">can</span>, but <span style="font-style: italic;">should</span> they?<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/cozy-relationships-and-peer-benchmarking-send-ceos-pay-soaring/2011/09/22/gIQAgq8NJL_story.html?hpid=z2">Cozy relationships and ‘peer benchmarking’ send CEOs’ pay soaring</a><br />How CEOs of badly-performing companies get million-dollar salaries<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lamestream/International Media</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/world/news/20111002-OYT1T00728.htm?from=tw">ウォー ル街」敵視の若者、逮捕も熱気衰えず</a></span><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()" style=""><br />[<span>"Wall Street" hostile [to] youth, enthusiasm unabated [by] arrest</span></span>]<br />[Yorumi Online]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/02_18.html">Wall St protests spread across US</a> [NHK]<br />More Japanese coverage of OccupyWallStreet<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/us/2011-10/04/content_13837055.htm">Anti-Wall Street protests spread nationwide</a> [China Daily]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://english.people.com.cn/90783/91321/7610100.html">Occupy Chicago" protest enters 10th day</a> [ People's Daily]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/vp/44766376#44766376">Rachel Maddow on MSNBC</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/163749/how-support-occupy-wall-street">How To Support OccupyWallStreet</a> [Nation]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.npr.org/2011/10/03/141019162/wall-street-protests-spread-to-other-cities">Wall Street Protests Spread To Other Cities</a> [NPR]<br />Don't bother with the <span style="font-style: italic;">proprietary format audio</span>; there's a transcript<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/03/us-usa-protests-wallstreet-idUSTRE7911BZ20111003?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29">Anti-Wall Street protesters vow to keep up fight</a> [Reuters]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Photos</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/AElMassry/status/120705137646903297/photo/1/large">Marine at OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/z/kge2rucj">Marine 2 with meme poster</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/tdsamuelson/status/120678902791286784/photo/1/large">Girl arrested for riding her bicycle on the sidewalk</a><br />wasn't part of the protest at all; wandered into the war zone<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/occupywallstreet/6210443252/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter">Grey Panthers On The March</a><br />They don't look like college kids to me...<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2094925,00.html">TIME photo slideshow</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * *<br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Videos</span></span><br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * *</div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ></span><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">Again, I'd like to note rumors saying <span style="font-weight: bold;">people are downloading</span> many of the OWS<span style="font-weight: bold;"> videos in case of media sanitization</span>; Netpolitik doesn't, of course, recommend nor endorse anything naughty</span>]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86cHhBhk9gg">OccupyLA footage</a><br />You are all legal observers<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXXeV95Cpew">10/1/2011 Brooklyn Bridge :: Step by Step</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSDu6i-nbss">Russian TV on the Bridge busts</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFOZlOnIjiA">Inside Story - Wall Street protests</a> [Al Jazeera]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s67r9tjUbW4">Wikileaks truck pulled over by police</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abo1Ni2i3kk">Police use chainsaw on arrested girl's bike</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6zFvLknC-U">Geraldo Rivera horns in an appearance</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1tCYAEDl6g">Occupy Wall Street Protesters Take Brooklyn Bridge - 700+ Arrested</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.blogger.com/City%20Room:%20N.Y.P.D.%20Video%20of%20Occupy%20Wall%20Street%20protest">Police warning protesters they would be arrested on Bridge</a><br />from comments: "The police are asking them to leave the CLOSED BEFORE OUR ARRIVAL , Brooklyn bridge that the police lead us onto with an escort, then blocked off our way to leave the bridge with orange nets and a wall of police officers."<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Counter-signal</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">s/jamming</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Can someone send link that explains the GOAL of #occupywallstreet? I want to be supportive, but I just can't see this bringing about change</span> << classic troll bait<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/03/cnn-anchor-mocks-occupy-wall-street-protesters-over-tarp-bailout/">CNN Anchor Erin Burnett mocks OccupyWallStreet</a><br />Seriously, this is what they call news now<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.forextv.com/forex-news-story/occupy-wall-street-protester-becoming-the-oppressor-opinion">Occupy Wall Street; Protester Becoming the Oppressor?</a><br />"The ForexTV NewsDesk is about money, passion and life. Focusing on social side of the trader's life"<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://mzzainal-straten.blogspot.com/2011/09/open-letter-to-occupy-wall-street.html#comment-form">An Open Letter to the Occupy Wall Street Activists </a><br />From a Native American<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://mikecanex.wordpress.com/2011/10/02/revolution-is-not-for-children/">Revolution Is Not For Children</a><br />Someone who really is on a rant.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/279057/left-s-pathetic-tea-party-rich-lowry">The Left's Pathetic Tea Party</a><br />another manufactured position; they just can't get a grip on a non-dualistic model :D<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tweets</span></span><br />* * * * * *<br /></div><br />[these are repeated and amplified signals; continuous, indicative of underlying problem conditions; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme">proto-memes</a>]<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">PEN TESTING IN PROGRESS: media network... political network... money network... communications network...<br /><br />X is censoring X<br /><br />20 Minutes To Shift The Blame<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Facebook is now censoring #OccupyWallStreet ....they just shut off the posting rights for the wall on its FB page. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The slow minimal coverage of #occupywallstreet indicators that US's problems lie very deep. Who owns the #press? What happened to open?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">That your morning newspaper professes not to understand why you are protesting may be reason in itself to protest. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Nice to hear detailed coverage on BBC Radio Five Live in UK. It was at 2am of course.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"You can fool some people sometimes but you can't fool all the people all the time" ~ Bob Marley</span><br />[actually<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet Abbie Hoffman caused a riot on floor of NYSE back in the 60’s by dumping a basket of dollar bills from visitors’ gallery.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet should set up a large fan get all to tear up a dollar into confetti and create a 'snow globe' effect Break fiat slavery!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">*Remember ~ This Country Is NOT Broke. The Money Is In The WRONG Hands!! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The problem isn't big government, the problem is BOUGHT government.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#Occupywallstreet isn't about ending business in America- it's about the fact that business has been running American politics.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">US Marine at #OccupyWallStreet - "This is the 2nd time I have fought for my country, but it's the 1st time I've known my enemy..." </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Semper Fi: Marines Coming To Protect Protesters On Wall Street </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Anti-Wall Street Protests Spread Nationwide </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Awesome to see CUNY undergrads here, writing papers on their laptops, studying under street lamp light! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The debate at Occupy Wall Street: To what end?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">0 Bankers Arrested After Crashing Our Economy. 1,000 Arrested 4 Speaking Up About it. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Republicans Have Controlled the House for 272 Days. They have Created 0 Jobs & Killed Every Jobs Bill Proposed </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Why is it easier 2 believe that 150,000,000 Americans are being lazy than 400 Americans are greedy? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">NYPD is one layoff away from joining us</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Here's the Real John Galt story- Ayn Rand was on both Social Security and Medicare</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It's weird seeing Wall Street filled with people who still have their souls. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">keep bringing the homeless to Liberty Plaza so they can eat </span>[this doesn't smell right to me; sentiment is good but logistics are not, and why does OWS have to stand for <span style="font-style: italic;">everything</span> to be valid?<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Heard [Glenn] Beck today say #OWS is just pushing for socialism and anarchy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Even being a timid subversive is OK. Print "Occupy" on a sheet of paper at work. Leave it at the sandwich shop at lunchtime</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/pdosing-occupywallstreet.html">Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> Art is my weapon<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">plus I know computers</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-80489792545569027052011-10-01T16:47:00.000-07:002011-10-03T04:30:07.902-07:00Network:Bridge Mode<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsyJNV2wBKLDjczAy-jJahTS7M2iR-vddRC70vcM6NV2qekN54uqXKiTi05pXpoSnrV47i8LpJsvrqG4qmmG_AHm9bMgN3jNWlUQrNmnO2bLmj556lyxf-sENzkFTtVE9WGpue6ioPP8/s1600/0redhairedgirl.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSsyJNV2wBKLDjczAy-jJahTS7M2iR-vddRC70vcM6NV2qekN54uqXKiTi05pXpoSnrV47i8LpJsvrqG4qmmG_AHm9bMgN3jNWlUQrNmnO2bLmj556lyxf-sENzkFTtVE9WGpue6ioPP8/s400/0redhairedgirl.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658677884329684354" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >Photo ©</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.adriankinloch.net/photography/"><span style="font-style: italic;" class="tweet-user-block-full-name">Adrian Kinloch </span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6f:63:63:75:70:79:20:77:61:6c:6c:20:73:74:72:65:65:74</span><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />NYPD precinct where most of those arrested went: 212-788-1400.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The National Lawyer's Guild in NYC: 212-679-6018.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American Civil Liberties Union NY: 212-607-3300 </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/29/1021096/--OccupyWallStreet-How-Not-To-Get-Arrested">How Not To Get Arrested<br /></a><br /><span>Two Questions to ask any officer: "Am I being arrested? Am I free to go?"</span><span> If no, "I would like to speak to a lawyer.”</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><span>RT @: Everyone at #OccupyWallStreet is #reading and #writing .. it's like an #engaged #education project</span> .. </span>exactly why this is interesting - <span>chaotic</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_mapping">network mapping</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penetration_testing">pen testing</a></span>, <span style="font-size:100%;">opening new <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_node">nodes</a> and </span><span style="font-size:100%;">adding <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_capacity_measurements">capacity</a>; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_%28computer%29">defragmenting</a> and </span><span style="font-size:100%;">reconfiguring the network. The network only looks incoherent to those using an incoherent <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nmap.org/">map</a>.<br /><br /></span><br />The story tonight is <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Brooklyn Bridge</span> (never take a nap in the middle of an internet revolution <span>-_-</span> ) The story from this blog's POV is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">incredible explosion of signal transmission</span>; Twitter, You Tube and now Lamestream Media nodes are multiplying; signal <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.termpro.com/articles/xover.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">crossover</span></a> has been achieved<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>-</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">RT@ #occupywallstreet has gone from a press blackout to articles saying the protest is unfocused and pointless. That's progress.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></div><br />The Occupy Wall Street group was joined by various unions, including the <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.twulocal100.org/">Transit Workers Union</a>, </span><a href="http://www.uft.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">United Federation of Teachers</span></a> and <a href="http://cwa1109.org/MarchonWallStreet"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Communications Workers of America 1109</span></a> in the march to Brooklyn; the unions' arrival was known for a day or so in advance and should have had police prepared; professing to be "caught by surprise" is either incredibly disingenuous or stupid. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arrests being reported into the hundreds</span> [one figure repeated is <span>400-500</span> from the NY Times/AP posts. Hours later, the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/brooklyn-bridge-shuts-down-in-1-direction-after-wall-street-protesters-spill-onto-roadway/2011/10/01/gIQAfxUUDL_story.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost">Washington Post says +700</a>]<br /><br />[a tweet reminds me this is Saturday: <span style="font-style: italic;">D.A's office will be busy on Mon. RT @ And no ones getting arraigned tonight. Or tomorrow. That BLOWS.</span>]<br /><br />Reports now @11:22pmEDT that one of the New York Lawyers Guild <span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.nlg.org/resources/legal-observing/">Legal Observers</a> was arrested</span>. If true, <span style="font-style: italic;"> that</span> won't be very good :D<br /><br />Reports coming back at 12:00amEDT of arrestees returning - some were fingerprinted, some given appearance tickets and some merely being detained for hours under uncomfortable conditions only to be released with no charges.<br /><br />7:20amEDT 10.02 - <span style="font-style: italic;">I got let go. After hours on police bus. Most ppl still handcuffed on buses. Trying to find space for us in precincts</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who's obstructing whom?</span></span> [network collisions]<br /><br />According to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arresting-protesters-on-brooklyn-bridge/?hp">this NY Times report</a>, either the city planners and police are incredibly incompetent and uninformed or people were entrapped in a style I've seen before at various demonstrations over the years. Speakers on the Livemedia stream is confirming there were <span style="font-style: italic;">no plans to occupy the Bridge</span>; merely to march to Brooklyn and One Chase Manhattan Plaza.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet NYTimes Blog is now reporting on NYPD purposefully misleading protesters from legal zone to arrest zone.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @: #occupywallstreet NYPD mislead 400 protesters off legal path into illegal road then arrested them for being there.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet corralled onto Brooklyn Bridge by the police, then media reports that police responded to them 'blocking traffic'. #SetUp.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Police corralled protesters onto the Brooklyn Bridge, where they had paddy wagons waiting to load them into #occupywallstreet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Police explanation for #occupywallstreet arrests: not enough cops on roadway, so couldn’t hold marchers back.</span><br /><br />This <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hw.libsyn.com/p/9/d/a/9da64a6ac141d1fc/Ryan5.mp3?sid=39421f486079c950b894314ffc82366a&l_sid=18778&l_eid=&l_mid=2733439">audio report , made to a Democracy Now reporter</a>, seems to confirm deliberate misdirection/entrapment on the part of NYPD, as does this video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz67fULXc-0"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Police Leading #OccupyWallStreet Protesters Onto The Brooklyn Bridge Traffic Lane </span></a>.<br />Many of the released protesters are saying that they thought they were following NYPD directions and steered on to the bridge.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br />Whichever, chaos or deliberation, it was a bad decision on the part of NYPD Tactical to block off both ends of the bridge. <span style="font-weight: bold;">If they would have let the protesters go, they would have marched across the bridge to Brooklyn, clearing the bridge in 15-30 minutes and arrested them there.</span> Instead, NYPD turned it into a debacle, tying up the Bridge for hours and blocking vehicular traffic, including ambulances.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media Pen Testing</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >NYT</span><br />The New York Times is being closely observed after people noticed it changing its online copy. The meme being generated off this is "<a href="http://twitpic.com/6twjke"><span style="font-weight: bold;">20 minutes to shift the blame</span></a>" -<br /><br /><span>A comparison of the changes the NYT is making on the fly in its online report:</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://crocodoc.com/kfDMvVo">Original version</a> * <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://crocodoc.com/wRSkbCT">Revised version</a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://i51.tinypic.com/296i2iq.jpg">Here's a side-by-side comparison </a><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Fucked. Up. Did some googling - Colin Moynihan is the East Village community editor for the City Room blog, whereas Al Baker, the second writer whose credit was added to the revised article, is the Times’ police bureau chief. Explains the difference in perspective; one of them wants to tell the real story and the other wants to tell it from the cops’ point of view."</span><br /><br /><a href="http://shortformblog.tumblr.com/post/10920288219/occupy-wall-street-nyt-rewrite"><span style="font-weight: bold;">This post seems to refute the spinning charges</span></a><br /><br />Although this paragraph [from the original article posted]:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"After allowing marchers from the Occupy Wall Street protests to claim theBrooklyn-bound car lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge and get partway across, the police cut themarchers off and arrested dozens of demonstrators."</span><br /><br />... looks a <span style="font-style: italic;">lot</span> different in tone and content from the text:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Robert Stolarik for The New York TimesSome demonstrators that walked from Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan to the Brooklyn Bridge were arrested on Saturday when they blocked traffic on the Brooklyn-bound lanes."</span><br /><br /><br />As you can see in the copy I have, Robert Stolarik [Times photographer]'s name was added at some point.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br />It is a mark of the old media meeting the new: whereas OldMedia might hold onto a story until a fact-checker or editor could run through it, <span style="font-weight: bold;">NewMedia publishes in realtime</span>, which leads to <span style="font-weight: bold;">unreliable informational content</span> from raw data. However, OldMedia is trying to "catch up" to the new media in order to monetize it, and by doing so they make distinguishing between the two information streams difficult (and diminish their importance in the eyes of NewMedia) by not utilizing their traditional strength: <span style="font-weight: bold;">fact-checking and error-correction</span>; NewMedia is an inherently-unstable network.<br /><br />It could simply be a case of revision in style and writing and still <span style="font-style: italic;"> look</span> like a spin or a slant; newspapers have always been known for their individual liberal, conservative or radical (outsider) characters and have revised a story to an editor or publisher's taste and sentiment; this is nothing new. What's <span style="font-style: italic;">new</span> is that OldMedia doesn't have the <span style="font-style: italic;">time</span> it used to have to polish and present a story in keeping with their editorial platform.<br /><br /><br />It's worth noting that <span style="font-weight: bold;">#occupywallstreet is not the first popular reaction to the economic crisis</span>. Remember the Tea Party? This is a dynamic mirror of that one, in terms of the curve that is being expressed: the real data is that there is a <span style="font-style: italic;">huge</span> strata of society, crossing many boundaries, that is very frightened and unhappy at the current state of affairs in this and other countries and is getting restless.<br /><br />The only thing to do in such a situation is try to pick out patterns that keep reverberating or turning up and glean whatever information seems to agree in both streams as an approximation of what is actually happening.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7cW2_pmNwEJthRaWsH_Pa-B1rYSCaRlY8Sm1Qv1uKe7JgjaqJH8A0rPsWLzeKpi6ziIimG7zQWx8IsU-YmddXuTiMc2iygxxbFAPhc4hkM2_-o91N7Y6L2875D5e59PQxVMKANq-_AUg/s1600/0blackout.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7cW2_pmNwEJthRaWsH_Pa-B1rYSCaRlY8Sm1Qv1uKe7JgjaqJH8A0rPsWLzeKpi6ziIimG7zQWx8IsU-YmddXuTiMc2iygxxbFAPhc4hkM2_-o91N7Y6L2875D5e59PQxVMKANq-_AUg/s400/0blackout.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658745198969423970" border="0" /></a><br />Another broadcast signal is <span style="font-weight: bold;">the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">continual media blackout</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">and Twitter censoring</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">BS leads with #OccupyWallStreet protests on web, ABC 2nd headline, CNN 7th headline, MSNBC 3rd</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This just in: Brooklyn Bridge occupied by #OccupyWallStreet still not big enough news to make @CNN's top stories.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I don't like being too political, but while #occupywallstreet protestors have shut-down the BK Bridge @CNN is showing Elmo... seriously.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet Mass arrests on Brooklyn Bridge. WHERE ARE THE NEWS NETWORKS? @CNN @MSNBC @NBCNews @ABC @CBSNews @CNBC DO. YOUR. JOBS.</span><br /><br />Although this is not precisely true, as evidenced by the links below under Media, what definitely <span style="font-style: italic;">is</span> true is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">paltry coverage in US and allied lamestream media</span> as compared to Tea Party protests & international coverage.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span>The "Twitter is censoring the hashtag" meme <span style="font-style: italic;">seems</span> to be testing out, as the added tag #BrooklynBridge is trending heavily... but not #occupywallstreet despite the OWS stream being too fast to read as compared to the #brooklynbridge one:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Yes. RT @jorge_lingo: Seems weird that #BrooklynBridge is a trending topic on Twitter in the U.S. but #OccupyWallStreet isn't. what gives?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @- #OccupyWallStreet is trending everywhere on Twitter, except in the US!</span> [<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/01/1021949/-Is-Twitter-blocking-Occupy-Wall-Street-from-trending-in-the-USA">Daily KOS measurements</a>] <span style="font-style: italic;"><twitter should="" be=""></twitter></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blog.bufferapp.com/five-twitter-secrets-about-censored-trending-topics">This post tries to explain Twitter's 'Trending' mechanisms...</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span>Another interesting phenomena seems to be being documented by a bunch of people:</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Norton Antivirus popping up warnings that OccupyWallStreet.org is "malicious site"</span> . No evidence seen yet. Of course, it's <span style="font-style: italic;">Norton</span>, so you got a problem right there :D<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Information</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.feedtheprotest.com/node/223">Feed The Protest is now accepting bitcoin</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blog.bufferapp.com/five-twitter-secrets-about-censored-trending-topics">Five Twitter Secrets About Censored Trending Topics</a><br />An explanation of Twitter's filtering criteria<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-please-help-editadd-so-th/">Proposed List of Demands [OWS official]</a><br />Get involved!<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://owswiki.ettruck.com/wiki/Main_Page">An Occupy Wall Street Media Wiki</a><br />"This wiki is here for the people in what started out as the Occupy Wall Street movement to use for whatever uses they have, or can find, for it... just to offer some space and bandwidth to the cause and provide one more node to be available if they needed it" - from the page [offer of load-sharing/distributing resources]<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/occupying-and-now-publishing-too/?src=tp">The Occupy Wall Street Journal debuts with a print-run of 50,000</a> [NYT]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://articles.cnn.com/2009-03-13/us/unemployment.fees_1_debit-card-fees-america-and-wells-fargo?_s=PM:US">How Banks profit off of unemployent through debit cards</a><br />Despicable.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/10/in-new-bombshell-story-bloomberg.html">Koch Industries sold petrochemical equipment to Iran and paid bribes in six countries<br /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/1992/09/27/nyregion/rally-puts-police-under-new-scrutiny.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm">Rally Puts Police Under New Scrutiny [NYT 1992]</a><br />Someone else overran the Bridge and attacked Police Hall and weren't arrested: 10,000 off-duty police officers. You have to love the internet.<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.constitution.org/civ/civildis.htm">Resistance to Civil Government </a> [Thoreau, 1849]<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media</span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In #occupywallstreet we see what "real transparency" looks like, instead of the one-way scrutiny we've been being conditioned to.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/is-jp-morgan-getting-a-good-return-on-4-6-million-gift-to-nyc-police-like-special-protection-from-occupywallstreet.html">Is JP Morgan Getting a Good Return on $4.6 Million “Gift” to NYC Police?</a><br /></span><span>This post has good reporting on the march</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><a href="http://flips.bz/yoko-ono-supports-occupy-wall-street-exclusive/">A Twitter Conversation with Yoko Ono on Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br /></span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/01/1021936/-Occupy-Wall-Street:-Brooklyn-Bridge-occupied,-mass-arrests,-solidarity-events?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29">Occupy Wall Street: Brooklyn Bridge occupied, mass arrests, solidarity events</a> [DailyKOS]<br /><br />The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gothamist.com/2011/10/01/breaking_occupy_wall_street_protest.php">Gothamist story</a> is mirrored at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/">MichaelMoore.com</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://current.com/community/93473103_breaking-occupy-wall-street-protesters-blocking-off-brooklyn-bridge-police-arresting-scores.htm">Breaking: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Blocking Off Brooklyn Bridge, Police Arresting Scores</a> [Current]<br /><br /><a href="http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/02/occupy-wall-street-protesters-brooklyn-bridge?cat=world&type=article"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge</span></a> [Guardian]<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://edition.cnn.com/2011/10/01/business/wall-street-protests/">Police: Hundreds of 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters get tickets</a> [CNN]<br />That <a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-analysis-pepper-sprayed-at.html">trustworthy spokesman Paul J. Browne</a>, deputy commissioner for the NYPD, says "over 700 summonses and desk appearance tickets were issued."<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/02/us-wallstreet-protests-idUSTRE7900BL20111002?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=59363">About 400 arrested in Wall Street protest</a> [Reuters]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2uqm8QNDs0">700 Arrested After Protest on Brooklyn Bridge</a> [AP video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15140671">Hundreds arrested in US protest</a> [BBC]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/take_it_to_the_bridge_y7J79cxIG4jLVHUILORoPO?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=%23OccupyWallStreet&utm_content=%23News&utm_source=twitterfeed">700 busted as Wall St. protesters clog Brooklyn Bridge</a> [NY Post]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/10/01/500-arrested-after-wall-street-protest-on-nys-brooklyn-bridge/?test=latestnews">700 Arrested After Wall Street Protest on N.Y.'s Brooklyn Bridge</a> [Fox]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44742659/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/#.Toeac3PEWuk">Marchers confront officers in heated exchange on the Brooklyn Bridge</a> [MSN]<br /></div></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />OP-ED</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29271.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Best Among Us</span></a> [Chris Hedges]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://open.salon.com/blog/lisa_romero/2011/09/26/what_the_media_arent_telling_you_about_american_protests">What the Media Aren't Telling You About American Protests </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nigelparry.com/news/occupywallstreet-appeal.shtml">Support Independent Media Reporting</a><br />Support independent media!<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://wagingnonviolence.org/2011/09/wall-street-occupiers-inch-toward-a-demandby-living-it/">Our One Demand is instead an offering</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://movementvision.org/rants-polemics/in-praise-of-occupywallstreet-an-apology/">In Praise Of #OccupyWallStreet — An Apology</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Two datasets of two posts contrasted:</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/kristof-the-bankers-and-the-revolutionaries.html?_r=2&src=tp">The bankers and the revolutionaries</a> [NYT]<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/nyregion/protesters-are-gunning-for-wall-street-with-faulty-aim.html?_r=1&src=tp">Gunning for Wall Street, With Faulty Aim </a>[NYT]<br />One well-written article and one absolute hatchet-job<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/the-obama-disconnect">The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality [Sifry]</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2010/01/01/the-sifry-disconnect-when-cynicism-kills-hope/">The Sifry Disconnect: When cynicism kills hope [Karoli]<br /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://techpresident.com/blog-entry/occupywallstreet-theres-something-happening-here-mr-jones">#OccupyWallStreet: There's Something Happening Here, Mr. Jones</a><br />Hey, didn't I just use that Dylan reference in <a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Monday's post</a>?<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blackstarnews.com/news/135/ARTICLE/7680/2011-10-02.html">Wall Street Protests and Police Thuggery</a><br />Nice analysis<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2011/10/01/working-it-out-in-public-whats-my-problem-with-occupywallstreet/">Working it out in public: What’s my problem with #OccupyWallStreet?</a><br />This post seems reasonable, for a minute until it mentions comparison to Tahrir "repellent"; I guess he didn't see <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamiUa1_jok">the video from Tahrir Square supporting OWS</a> :D Unfortunately, this post blindly refuses to accept the operating premise that <span style="font-weight: bold;">the system is compromised</span>. You cannot work on a virus-riddled system; <span style="font-weight: bold;">you must reformat it</span>.<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rich-people-demonized-for-flaunting-their-wealth-are-under-attack/2011/09/28/gIQAcJn4AL_story.html">Rich people are being ‘demonized’ for flaunting their wealth. Poor dears!</a> [Washington Post]<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Photos/Videos</span></span><br /><br />One thing that IS emerging is of course tons of data: <span style="font-weight: bold;">videos and photographs</span> which do more for awareness and attention than anything [viral media population]:<br /><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title=""The TRUTH About The Occupy Wall Street Protests" - MOC #80"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9BKKr_CAAI">The TRUTH About The Occupy Wall Street Protests</a></span> [agitprop video]<br />This dood is like a young Alan Ginsberg :D<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=013gL5AMZbE">The Bankers Are The Problem</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>[agitprop video]<br />This "Anonymous" offering looks like something right out of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom:_20_Minutes_into_the_Future">Max Headroom</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/occupywallstreet/">OccupyWallStreet's Flickr stream</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvzpHJ7VJzM">Arresting what appears to be a very young girl</a> [video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/adriankinloch/status/120278748179337216/photo/1">Photo of the young protester arrested (Little Red Haired Girl)</a><br />You know she knows she's gonna be famous now. Totally deserving; kawaii! She is wearing a hat designed on anime character <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.invaderzim.tv/char.php?charid=gir">Gir</a>'s dog disguise in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invader_Zim">Invader Zim</a>. thx Abel! +1 internets +1 anime<br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWEPwuIYtA">Mass arrests at the Bridge</a> [video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yULSI-31Pto">live arrest at brooklyn bridge #occupywallstreet by We are Change </a>[video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://redux.com/stream/item/2117744/Protesters-kettled-arrested-on-Brooklyn-Bridge-Occupy-Wall-Street?fid=47208">Protesters-kettled-arrested-on-Brooklyn-Bridge</a> [video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqWEPwuIYtA">Police Arrest Occupy Wall Street Protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge - October 1, 2011</a> [video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gothamist.com/2011/10/01/breaking_occupy_wall_street_protest.php">Photo set at The Gothamist</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/10/1/1317508598230/Occupy-Wall-Street-005.jpg">People struggle to keep protester from police</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/hsa4pbxj">Vietnam vet protesting</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://yfrog.com/j227ivwj">#OccupyGA City Hall </a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Best statement uttered today, from the mouth of one of the returning arrestees: </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"You say that our aims and goals are kind-of vague, but I don't believe they are. Look, <span style="font-weight: bold;">everybody knows that things are <a href="http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/first_official_statement_from_the_occupy_wall_street_movement/">really bad</a></span>, all around, everywhere: the growing gap in income, the ecological disasters, the collapsing of the economy. Everybody knows this."</span> Indeed; this is the elephant in the room.<br /><br />And one more from the livestream: "People in the group are trying to reach their own positions, but first they're agreeing on their principles."<br /><br /><br />[Remember <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_red_paperclip">Kyle MacDonald's One Red Paperclip</a> experiment? A model of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping">bootstrapping</a>]<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Disinformation/noise on all sides</span></span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://plus.google.com/103056961644777255745/posts/7z5nY9QqvND#103056961644777255745/posts/7z5nY9QqvND">This doctored photo</a> from an "OWS supporter" has given people something to run with - bad idea. <span style="font-weight: bold;">This protest doesn't need manufactured propaganda</span>; there's plenty-nuff real stuff out there for use. It only opens an opportunity to discredit. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blog.timparkinson.net/2011/09/30/lies-damn-lies-and-photoshop/">This website details that Photoshopping</a>. And then... there's the website of the guy who actually <span style="font-style: italic;">did</span> the photo for a print (sans the captioning), <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://scottlickstein.com/news/occupywallstreet-2.html">Scott Lickstein</a>, who says he "released the teaser for this <span style="font-style: italic;">print</span> last week " and openly states that it is a 'shopped print and never intended to be deceptful.<br /><br /><br />The age of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Red-Haired Girl</span> keeps dropping; 13, 12... in an attempt to elicit instinctive fury. No one really knows how old she is at this point. A real irony: NYPD arrested a minor on the 1st day of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.pacer.org/bullying/nbpm/">National Bullying Prevention Month.</a><br /><br /><br />It would be great if all the "debaters" could learn the difference between <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag">false flag</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man">straw man </a>and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem">ad hominem</a> attacks. I see the terms thrown around frequently; it doesn't impress me with their arguments.<br /><br />Which neatly segues into...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Trolls/Astroturfing</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">/pDOS Attack</span> [political Denial of Services]<br /><br />The <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing">astroturfers</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sock_puppet">sockpuppets</a> have come out in force after the pepper spray/Bologna videos broke out. Most of the attacks can be boiled down to the set I delineated in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">this post</a>.<br /><br />However, the game is being upped by some seriously nasty implications;<span style="font-weight: bold;"> these are the pros; the signal disruptors</span>, attempting to introduce fractures into the dialogue and divide the focus. The more "sophisticated" ones keep pushing "focus down to one demand!" as a staple; they cannot deal with a multiplexed mode of communication. They also are trying to maneuver people into "picking a position" so they can assail it.<br /><br />The previous insult/belittling tweets have given way to real ugliness: anti-semetic/racist slurs/abortion/anti-intelligence/sexual/violence blasts; the <span style="font-weight: bold;">rhetoric of the extreme</span>. No debating, no arguing; just attacking. <span>Noise jamming</span>; disrupting the network, seeking vulnerabilities:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Because when the racists can't protest "the Jews", they can still protest "the bankers" and mean the same damned thing.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Wall Street Protest Starting to Look Like Egypt </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">needs to be denounced as terrorists nowadays, it's not the 50s anymore.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Time to go Kent State on #occupywallstreet</span><br /><br />A few are even saying... (wait for it)... "<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">comrade</span>". I know :D But they really are.<br /><br /><br />Give a troll 3-4 tweets and they immediately lose all pretense of "reasoned debate" and descend into childish and vicious personal attacks, scatter-shot jabbing for a tender spot; this is a reliable hallmark of the species.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br />After documenting some of my troll interactions I couldn't help but be amused when I got this one: <span style="font-style: italic;">Tea Party wants the same thing. So how are you getting it accomplished down there?</span> after days of watching Tea Partiers/sockpuppets/astroturfers attack OWS and vehemently deny there was <span style="font-style: italic;">any</span> common ground.<br /><br />Here's a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowclone">snowcone</a> making the rounds: "<span style="font-weight: bold;">It's the inequality, stupid,</span>" a reference to the well-known slogan of Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Troll/Sockpuppet Debug Routines</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Framing the Debate</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">It makes me ill to think #OccupyWallStreet is somehow the ANTI Tea Party. Does the Tea Party dislike Corporate corruption?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hotfix</span>: I don't know much about the Tea Party's position; this is my own position.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mirror argument</span>: (regarding tea party vs OWS media)<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">When pro-lifers peacefully pray outside abortion ctrs liberals pass laws to suppress. But #occupywallstreet gets tons of favorable media cov</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hotfix</span>: copy them the <span style="font-style: italic;">other</span> tweets saying there's no media coverage because it's stupid (see below)<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Futility Of Your Argument</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">Why would they cover it. It is a waste of time and irrelevant - like you.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hotfix</span>: Point them to the lamestream media stories.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">You're Bums</span>: So glad the white privileged #OccupyWallStreet kids don't have to get up and go to work, raise a family, volunteer in their communities.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hotfix</span>: Point them at the pilots, teachers, First Responders, photos, stories.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">No Argument</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">What the hell are they trying to accomplish? #occupywallstreet I've listened to interviews and I feel like they don't even know</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Hotfix</span>: LMGTFY [Let Me Google That For You] + Wikipedia<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ur Doin' It Wrong</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">You're all being distracted by the wrong target; the crooks are in Washington </span><span>ie You Really Should Be With U</span><span style="font-style: italic;">s<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Hotfix</span>: Actually, you're ignoring the stated premise: money has corrupted government.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Attack on Rationality</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">Because their obnoxious professor told them to.....RT @hippojuicefilm: Statistics from #OccupyWallStreet 99% of people do not know why they are there. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hotfix</span>: *laughter*<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">"Wall Street is like any other machine; it's either a benefit or a hazard.<br />If it's a benefit, it's not my problem." - Anonymous Cop in <span style="font-style: italic;">Wall Runner</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/network-bridge-mode.html">Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> Art is my weapon<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: normal; font-style: italic;">plus I know computers</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-8351600455757310122011-10-01T01:21:00.000-07:002011-10-02T07:47:48.151-07:00Meme in Motion: Two Weeks of Occupy Wall Street<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil3mX_EUdGWpA_aeONe0bYECtasTAOQ6pBPUK4r5stvWCBMtcKuxaYQjhG2JgeHbzbb-nQNOXvNf1SUTID_Fm5P_OhmFAiuJPdvewaI7sycZpqaN4Vpl8iSdQXSMw7rTbBtjo-fSDMAEg/s1600/OWS1stPoster.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 379px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil3mX_EUdGWpA_aeONe0bYECtasTAOQ6pBPUK4r5stvWCBMtcKuxaYQjhG2JgeHbzbb-nQNOXvNf1SUTID_Fm5P_OhmFAiuJPdvewaI7sycZpqaN4Vpl8iSdQXSMw7rTbBtjo-fSDMAEg/s400/OWS1stPoster.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658476002674284402" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Saturday Oct. 1, 2011</span><br /><br />Today is a big day; two weeks, 14 days for Occupy Wall Street and electronic democracy. There's a big march planned for today, with numbers potentially in the thousands because of all the Lamestream Media attention on police brutality and several unions expressing support (as predicted, Lamestream Media has roused itself, having been shown-up by the efforts of citizen-journalists, and started chasing the Occupy Wall Street story)<br /><br />Other cities are checking in now; many US and some international with panned or ongoing demonstrations; the 99% movement is going national and transnational...<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Republican Party? Democratic Party? Tea Party? NET PARTY! #occupywallstreet #occupymedia #occupyinternet</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br />So today while hanging, I'm retransmitting some <span style="font-weight: bold;">infolinks</span> from the first weeks; <span style="font-weight: bold;">medical supply requests</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">the shipping address for OWS at Liberty Plaza</span>, some handy tutorials and official statements from Occupy Wall Street in the INFORMATION section below, plus the usual media roundup.<br /><br />I also decided to feature some of the foreign independent media, loving all the tweets from internationales adding their voices and cities to what's now being spoken of as OccupyEverywhere.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">***********************<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Information</span><br />***********************<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Recap of pertinent information from weeks 1&2</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/29/1021096/--OccupyWallStreet-How-Not-To-Get-Arrested">How Not To Get Arrested</a><br />some basic rules for being cool<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">The National Lawyer's Guild in NYC: 212-679-6018.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">American Civil Liberties Union NY: 212-607-3300 </span><br /></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution">Live GlobalRevolution stream from Liberty Plaza</a><br /><br /></span><br /><a href="https://occupywallst.org/forum/first-official-release-from-occupy-wall-street/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">First OFFICIAL Release from OCCUPY WALL STREET</span> </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/forum/proposed-list-of-demands-please-help-editadd-so-th/">Proposed List of Demands [official OccupyWallStreet]</a><br />A democratic poll<br /></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anon.elementfx.com/index.php/anonymous/occupywallstreet/828-huge-list-of-locations-for-occupywalstreet-demonstrations.html">Huge List of Locations for #OccupyWallStreet Demonstrations</a><br />Actually, OccupyEverywhere :)<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/occupywallstreet/">OccupyWallStreet's Flickr photostream</a><br /><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.google.com/search?q=occupy+wall+street&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a">Google Search: 'Occupy Wall Street' - About 6,140,000 results (0.30 seconds) </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street">Wikipedia: Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11aEYlrHbWsYw9UFLmnR3V62NRdN0EtN5aVFJs_YXbg8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1">List of places that will deliver food to Liberty Plaza</a><br /><br /></span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F97t_vgN6NE">Here's a theoretical tutorial about getting out of Zip-tie cuffs</a> [youtube]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">for entertainment purposes only</span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB_gwYz5Mqs">Here's how a magician would escape plastic cuffs [front]</a> [youtube]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">for entertainment purposes only<br /><br /><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/nypd-pepper-spray-procedure.html">New York Patrol Guide Procedure Number 212-95 [Pepper Spray]</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://medic.wikia.com/wiki/Pepper_spray_and_tear_gas">Pepper spray and tear gas - things to know about it</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/nyclu-scene-wall-street-protests">According to this NYCLU post, you have the right to stand or march on sidewalks without a permit. </a></span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEDICAL SUPPLIES NEEDED</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">OWS medical team is asking for supplies for makeshift medical kits:<br />milk of magnesia, bandanas and vinegar</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">, Milk of Magnesia, Bandanas, finger and leg splints, ice packs/cold packs, rubber gloves, cpr masks & swim goggles rated to 10m, water bottles with spray tops and big (#10) ziplock baggies to make kits. And "tobacco! We all smoke; we shouldn't but we do. Please send tobacco!"</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> And tarps</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">bug repellent and calamine lotion, space blankets, gauze. And water; lots of water.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Warm coats and blankets.</span> <span style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Toothbrushes and Tupperware.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">These supplies should be sent to Josh & Chris at Medical Table or at Media Center</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Shipping address:<br />THE UPS STORE<br />118 A #205<br />NEW YORK, NY 10038<br /><br />RE: Occupy Wall Street</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.occupytogether.org/downloadable-posters/">Nice downloadable-printable posters from OccupyTogether</a><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://hyperallergic.com/37003/occupywallstreets-artsculture-committee/">Occupy Wall Street's Arts & Culture Committee</a><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br />6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br />* * * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media</span></span><br />* * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.adbusters.org/campaigns/occupywallstreet">Adbusters: Occupy Wall Street</a><br />The starting-point of it all<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/09/3561383/who-believes-print-newspapers-have-future-occupy-wall-street-journal">The Occupy Wall Street Journal</a><br />who says print media is dead?<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/kwtjl/calling_all_military_veterans_of_reddit_we_took/">Calling All Military Veterans on Reddit</a> [Reddit]<br />A plea from 15 veteran US Marines<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/national-nurses-united-statement-in-support-of-the-occupywallstreet.org-act/#taxwallstreet">National Nurses United Statement in Support of OccupyWallStreet</a> [press release]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://slleftunity.blogspot.com/">Second Life Virtual OccupyWallStreet gathering</a><br />I'll be there :)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.istockanalyst.com/business/news/5450446/usw-supports-the-occupy-wall-street-protest-movement"><span style="font-weight: bold;">United Steelworkers Union announces support for Occupy Wall Street</span></a><br />Full statement from Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Op-eds</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29271.htm">The Best Among Us</a> [Chris Hedges]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/09/you-vs-corporations/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Left-Right Paradigm Is Over</span></a><br />It's you vs corporations<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.sfbg.com/politics/2011/09/30/streets-occupy-san-francisco">On The Streets with Occupy San Francisco</a> [SF Bay Guardian]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/09/30/the-metamorphosis-of-the-nypd/">From Heroes To Pigs: The Metamorphosis of the NYPD</a> [Counterpunch]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/152512/6_ways_the_rich_are_waging_a_class_war_against_the_american_people?page=entire">Nice deconstruction of 'class warfare'</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://culturekitchen.com/liza/blog/mlk_on_why_the_united_states_need_an_economic_justice_movement_way_before_occupywallstreet">MLK: Why the US needs an economic justice movement</a> [1967]<br /><br /><a href="http://plutocracyfiles.blogspot.com/2011/10/left-drops-ball.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Left Drops the Ball</span></a><br />Nice callout to the 'Progressives'<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/Home/article/ny-13.htm">JP Morgan recently donated $4.6mil the New York City Police Foundation</a><br />*Mr Spock raises eyebrow* "Fascinating."<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-gop-war-on-voting-20110830?print=true">The GOP War on Voting</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Photos</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.observer.com/2011/09/50-portraits-from-occupy-wall-street-slideshow/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">50 Portraits from Occupy Wall Street</span></a><br />No, they aren't "all dirty smelly hippies' :D<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/">We Are The 99%</a><br />Excellent photo compilation from electronic supporters writing out their stories for the camera.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/09/occupy-wall-street/100159/">OccupyWallStreet in 35 photos</a> [Atlantic]<br /><br /><a href="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/occupy093011/s_o03_57968784.jpg"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Coppin' The Bull</span></a><br /><span>one of</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> the</span> classic OccupyWallStreet pics!<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/_truthsetfree/status/120110094980628480/photo/1">Occupy Wall Street at night</a><br />Poignant photo of sleepers<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/occupy093011/o23_00000001.jpg">Goethe spotted at Occupy Wall Street</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6tiy1u">The Occupied Wall Street Journal</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Videos</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gamiUa1_jok">Support 99% from Tahrir Square ....... to protesters in USA </a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://anoncentral.tumblr.com/post/10841688009/anonymous-occupywallstreet-we-are-the-99"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="Anonymous Supports the OCCUPY EVERYWHERE Global Occupation Protests (mirror)">Anonymous - #OccupyWallStreet - We are the 99%</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ht08vBra9M">We The People: The 99% March to Police NYPD HQ 9.30.2011</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFo4EGHn1xc&feature=youtube_gdata_player">Sen. Bernie Sanders on Kieth Olbermann</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://shoqvalue.com/george-carlin-on-the-american-dream-with-transcript">'On The American Dream'</a><br />This George Carlin video from "Life Is Worth Losing" (2005) gets around constantly.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tme5bc3cXwA&">3 months before OWS, nurses asked WallStreet to pay their fair share too.</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxB-ZePpS7E">Frank Zappa at the PMRC Senate Hearings</a><br />Hot Rats!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Foreign</span><br /><br /><a href="http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/opinion/2011-09/30/content_13824807.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">CHINA</span> calls out the US Lamestream Media blackout</span></a><br /><span lang="zh-Latn">Nǐ zěnme yàng?</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/portfolio/2011/10/01/les-new-yorkais-se-rebiffent-contre-wall-street_1580818_3222.html#xtor=AL-32280258">Les New Yorkais se rebiffent contre Wall Street</a> [LeMonde]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rtbf.be/info/societe/detail_inde-israel-etats-unis-le-mouvement-des-indignes-gagne-tous-les-pays?id=6840273#.TobSVIzqAaA.twitter">Inde, Israël, Etats-Unis : le mouvement des "indignés" gagne tous les pays</a> [RTBF]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/124360/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=%23OccupyWallStreet&utm_content=%23News&utm_source=twitterfeed">'Occupy Wall Street' Protesters in NYC Decry Corruption, Greed</a> [Turkish Weekly]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://informarexresistere.fr/2011/09/30/occupywallstreet-12%C2%B0-giorno-di-una-rivoluzione-neanche-tanto-silenziosa/">#OccupyWallStreet – Cronaca del 12° giorno di una<br />rivoluzione neanche tanto silenziosa</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.linkezeitung.de/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11919&Itemid=1">USA werden zum Billiglohnland</a> [Linke Zeitung]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.europapress.es/internacional/noticia-miles-personas-secundan-marcha-silenciosa-lema-occupy-wall-street-20111001085233.html">Miles de personas secundan la marcha silenciosa<br />bajo el lema 'Occupy Wall Street'</a> [europapress]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.publico.es/internacional/399235/occupy-wall-street-realiza-protestas-a-lo-largo-de-eeuu">'Occupy Wall Street' realiza protestas a lo largo de EEUU</a> [Publico]<br /></div><br /><a href="http://www.nelonen.fi/uutiset/kaikki/ulkomaat/wall-streetin-valtaus-jatkuu-nypdt%C3%A4-syytet%C3%A4%C3%A4n-kovista-otteista"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wall Streetin "valtaus" jatkuu - NYPD:tä syytetään kovista otteista</span></a> [Finnish TV]<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lamestream</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/nyregion/wall-street-occupiers-protesting-till-whenever.html?_r=2&hp">The NY Times gets nasty with the spin verbiage</a><br />Excellent example of corporate media spin and semantic warfare. Maybe it's story-envy.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_y5fkoWqXg">Nice video deconstructing Fox News spin on Pepper Spray Video</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15134806">BBC <span style="font-style: italic;">finally</span> prints a story... cause it has Radiohead in it</a><br />+1 starfsckerz<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.observer.com/2011/09/wall-street-faces-the-wrath-of-anonymous-during-weekend-protest-pics/">The New York Observer has a 'OccupyWallStreet For Dummehs' piece</a><br />Ya put ya left foot in, ya put ya left foot out...<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thenation.com/article/163719/occupy-wall-street-faq">Not to be outdone, The Nation publishes an OWS <span style="font-style: italic;">FAQ</span></a><br />No, really. I don't <span style="font-style: italic;">think</span> it's a joke...<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:uco-dMN7yxUJ:forums.officer.com/forums/showthread.php%3F171023-Dirty-stinky-hippies-in-NY-dont-like-how-theyre-treated-when-they-azz-up..%26goto%3Dnewpost+Dirty-stinky-hippies-in-NY-dont-like-how-theyre-treated-when-they-azz-up+cached&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a">"Officer" cop forum found, outed; tries to redact</a><br />Ooooo they talks nasty! But you knew that. But they <span style="font-style: italic;">didn't</span> know what caches are for; now they do. That's why I love the internet; so <span style="font-style: italic;">educational!</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;">****************<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Tweetstream</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">a sampling of the semantic network</span></span><br />****************<br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Next time I hear "liberal media", I'll remember said "liberal media" failed to cover #occupywallstreet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet has taught me where real news comes from ...#twitter</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Russia Times covering #OccupyWallstreet. Wash Post covering Moscow clamp-down on gay rights march. Two-way hypocrisy.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Latest email from #OccupyWallStreet: I got hoaxed. Radiohead was never confirmed. Completely our fault. Apologies. Band victims of hoax too</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">@xxxxxxxx #anonymous have cross the line AGAIN keep family out of it, simple RULE to follow #Dammit</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Your most lethal weapon is your mind. Keep it peaceful & creative. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">when you have awoken the fear in the 1% and the fight intensifies, remember peaceful action only non-violence rises above</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"Fear is the foundation of most governments." - John Adams </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dear the Internet, please make it stop raining on #occupywallstreet k thx bye.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Sometimes the only difference b/w a hippie and Miss America is a shower and a crown. Don't we all want peace? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We've moved from racial profiling to facial profiling in america. Now that's progress. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I am so proud of all the protesters! #occupywallstreet and especially like the father and his children=real families fed up!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You Should Fight Back This Weekend by Pulling Your Money Out of the Bank & Joining a Credit Union </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I may not be able to #OccupyWallStreet, but I can take my money out of their banks.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Get your money out of Bank of America (or other big banks) and into a regional bank or credit union.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I am going to repeat what I said before. I remain skeptical. That doesn't matter. #occupyWallstreet can teach us much.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A jug is filled one drop at a time - Buddha</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Borders should not stop human dignity. Stop using immigrants as boogeymen </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">when the government bails out corporations and provides them with special treatment...that fascism, not capitalism.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">les tweets internationale</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">To all the people demonstrating in #occupywallstreet : you have my respect and support - from Paris, France</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Les New Yorkais se rebiffent contre Wall Street</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @pablomp2p: Noche decisiva en Nueva York, cientos aguantan en los parques a pesar de la lluvia en #occupyWallStreet</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Volg dit, de media doen het niet! RT @OccupyWallSt Two weeks strong! Our third week will only be stronger! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Demonstratie die niet op tv is, omdat t niet gezien mag worden volgens de rijken. Hij duurt nu al 15 dagen</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Vel, som #OccupyWallStreet nå viser, litt "kommunisme" er ingen dum ting. Vi trenger regler som forhindrer plutokratene.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-style: italic;">Una pizzería cercana ha llevado muchas pizzas gratis a #occupyWallStreet. En Sol pasó exactamente lo mismo la segunda mañana. #globalchange</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Eins noch: Guter Stream gerade live aus New York von #OccupyWallstreet - viele Menschen auf der Straße. Auf livestream gibt es ihn</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Noam Chomsky Anuncia Solidariedade com #occupywallstreet - Portal Vermelho: http://t.co/l3xso9iX via @AddThis 'Precariato' vai à luta.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Democracia? 1% de la poblacion controla politicos de todos los partidos, mafia financiera responables del desastre </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A Micro Conversation:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">MS: <span style="font-style: italic;">This is a hostage situation. Gamblers are holding America hostage. Negotiators urgently needed. </span><br /><br />BACK: <span style="font-style: italic;">@misosusanowa They put it all on a the hard eight, didn't they ; )</span><br /><br />MS: <span style="font-style: italic;">@BACK *laughing so hard* you gotta know when to roll 'em, and when to smoke 'em :D</span><br /><br />BACK: <span style="font-style: italic;">@misosusanowa I love me some Dorothy Parker!</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Funz</span> [sass + whack-a-mole]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">@GirlScouts Y U No #occupywallstreet? WE LOVE YOU. PLS BRING THIN MINTS. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">MT @OccupyWallStNYC: 4 #nypd choppers circling above.Have they found our missing tax $$'s? #occupywallstreet ||Nah, just looking for bonuses</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Hey #occupywallstreet trolls - You should #OccupyUranus</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @ariannahuff: Come visit us at the AOL HPMG Oasis at the NYC Wine & Food Festival this weekend! || I'd prefer you visit #OccupyWallStreet</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Hawt Troll Nite</span><br />I gave in to my base instincts and went troll-hunting:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">[to a fellow troll-hunter] <span style="font-style: italic;">@trollhunter *slow clap* well played, sir! Well played!</span><br /><br />[got tired of all the "wtf" tweets and sent this out]: <span style="font-style: italic;">WHAT THE HECK IS OCCUPY WALL STREET? LMGTFY - Wikipedia: bit.ly/n8BnCX . You're welcome.</span><br /><br />[in response to all the "anti-zionist smelly dirty hippies" tweets]: <span style="font-style: italic;">Ancient Mayans, underground dwellers and flying saucer people with no jobs are the ones who #occupywallstreet . #FrumSum Troll</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Troll #1</span><br />RT @TROLL: <span style="font-style: italic;">When you #OccupyWallStreet and complain about huge corporations be sure to tweet about it on your expensive cell phone.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">MS: @TROLL2: sure, no problem; do you know any good cuneiform chiselers? +1 troll. </span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:85%;" >Troll #2</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">TROLL: <span style="font-style: italic;">what is there to know? that it's aimless? Our govt is in bed with wall street. #wrongSPOToccupied</span><br /><br />MS: <span style="font-style: italic;">@troll first you must disconnect the vampire from his victim in order to drain his power</span>.<br /><br />TROLL: <span style="font-style: italic;">@misosusanowa vampires don't actually exist. you won't find one on Wall Street either. #occupywallstreet anyway. lol</span><br /><br />MS: <span style="font-style: italic;">@troll so sorry your metaphor processing lobe is on the fritz. Stay trollin!<br /><br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/10/meme-in-motion-two-weeks-of-occupy-wall.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> Art is my weapon<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-60196568019362796512011-09-30T12:23:00.000-07:002011-10-01T09:42:29.093-07:00Op Disinformation<span style="font-weight: bold;">Radiohead Edit</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscsCHO1IWcAXWZ952PovrX_bovtvpomIGBxLsvPueTgiR1OajoZOoOA0rqNiKszuBtVxt7k2Cxo856F9jfGTKbpOU1dt6rtO9YDH0xZ2HxZM_s4yv-HUCtvpgARUmMEgYwrsvtfeeftY/s1600/0radiohead.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhscsCHO1IWcAXWZ952PovrX_bovtvpomIGBxLsvPueTgiR1OajoZOoOA0rqNiKszuBtVxt7k2Cxo856F9jfGTKbpOU1dt6rtO9YDH0xZ2HxZM_s4yv-HUCtvpgARUmMEgYwrsvtfeeftY/s400/0radiohead.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658238870076220258" border="0" /></a><br />Begun by a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gawker.com/5845443/is-radiohead-going-to-play-for-wall-street-protesters-today">rumor posted on Gawker at 10:53am</a>, <a href="http://radiohead.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Radiohead</span></a>, in town for two performances at the Roseland Ballroom, <span style="font-weight: bold;">was purported to be playing a free concert at Liberty Square today</span> at 4pmEDT.<br /><br />This<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/article/radiohead-4pm/"> rumor was reposted on the OccupyWallStreet website</a> at 12:13pmEDT. It was picked up and retransmitted by The Gothamist at 12:20pmEDT entitled <a href="http://gothamist.com/2011/09/30/rumor_alert_radiohead_playing_occup.php"><span style="font-weight: bold;">CONFIRMED: Radiohead Playing Occupy Wall Street TODAY!</span><br /></a><br />Even CNN was sucked in:<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23Radiohead" title="#Radiohead" class=" twitter-hashtag pretty-link" rel="nofollow"><s class="hash">#</s><b>Radiohead</b></a><span style="font-style: italic;"> to play impromptu concert at </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://twitter.com/#%21/search?q=%23OccupyWallSt" title="#OccupyWallSt" class=" twitter-hashtag pretty-link" rel="nofollow"><s class="hash">#</s><b>OccupyWallSt</b></a> protest in NYC at 4pm this afternoon [Jeremy Ryan]<br /><br />The twitter stream was going wild, as you can imagine: every other tweet said they are performing; every between-tweet says they are not; the #occupywallstreet channel was flooded with this since early morning. The trolling was massive today.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/09/radiohead_occupy_wall_street_september_30.php">The Village voice publishes 'Radiohead not playing" post</a> at 12:30pmEDT.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://gawker.com/5845500/radiohead-spokesman-says-radioheads-not-playing-at-occupy-wall-street?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed">Gawker publishes retraction (or not?)</a> at 1:18pmEDT.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nme.com/news/radiohead/59536">NME publishes Radiohead denial</a> at 1:50pmEDT<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/radiohead-deny-free-show-at-wall-street-protests-20110930">Rolling Stone publishes Radiohead's denial </a>at 2:10pmEDT.<br /><br /><br />The Rolling Stone article isn't sure if Radiohead was <span style="font-style: italic;">supposed</span> to play and canceled out on management's fear of the crowds getting out of hand or whether this was a repeated rumor. The Gawker retraction is wishy-washy<br /><br />A tweet at 3:42pmEDT: Officialish RT @radiohead: We wish best of luck to protesters, <span style="font-weight: bold;">contrary to earlier rumours, we will not be appearing at #occupywallstreet</span><br /><br />Radiohead also posted the same retraction on their <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.facebook.com/radiohead?_fb_noscript=1">Facebook page</a>.<br /><br /><br />and here's a tweet that runs to my own thinking at 3:46pmEDT:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This was their moment! RT @NYTMetro Now #Radiohead says show "definitely not going to happen," and #OccupyWallStreet put out "false rumor"</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />I just watched a massive, ugly and very-well-planned <span>disinfo foray to discredit OccupyWallStreet</span>. <span style="font-weight: bold;">This is how a smear campaign is done and is a classic example of disinformation, psyops and information warfare.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Did OccupyWallStreet get hoaxed</span>, buying into a wish-fulfillment? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Or did they get <span style="font-style: italic;">played</span></span>; a deliberate disinformation operation to discredit them and to possibly incite a riot of disappointed fans, flooding into the Square only to see Radiohead?<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />Could this have been "push-politics"? Could some at OWS have tried to <span style="font-weight: bold;">use social media pressuring</span> to get Radiohead to play, seeing as they were in town, or to draw an inflated crowd? If so, it's <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> a good technique. I am not sure; from watching and tweeting for the last 14 days, I've gotten a pretty good feel off the organizers and the people running support and logistics at the protests and my feeling is that it was <span style="font-weight: bold;">not done deliberately</span>.<br /><br /><br />But... <span style="font-weight: bold;">couldn't someone from OWS have checked with Radiohead's business manager</span> earlier than the breaking music industry stories? Did the rumor race ahead too fast? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Where did Gawker's Adrien Chen get his information?</span> Why did OWS publish that rumor at 12:13pmEDT if they had not confirmed anything? <span style="font-weight: bold;">That doesn't look particularly good for them</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">infowar</span></span><br /><br />Since the Lamestreasm Media has been fairly-successful in keeping OWS out of the mainstream news (until the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-analysis-pepper-sprayed-at.html">pepper-spraying video</a> caught everyone's focus), and watching the gleeful trolls mix in other band names (Justin Bieber, Rick Astley, REM, Michael Jackson) to the "playing at 4pm" swirl, my suspicion is that this was <span style="font-weight: bold;">a planned invasion of Twitter</span>, which has been the media outlet for OccupyWallStreet since it's beginning, in an operation to sow disruption and suborn the Twitter channel while <span style="font-weight: bold;">placing mistrust and resentment onto OccupyWallStreet</span>.<br /><br />Pay attention to the names being "offered" to play: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ">Rick Astley</a> is famous for generating the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickrolling">rickrolling</a> bait-and-switch spoof; Michael Jackson is of course <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cdn.showbizspy.com/static/mjackson_ambulance.jpg">dead</a>. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/r-e-m-break-up-after-three-decades-20110921">REM broke up</a> 9 days ago. Justin Bieber is an obvious joke.<br /><br /><br />Was it just low-grade malice ala a 4chan op, first sowing the seeds and then mocking afterwards? If it <span style="font-style: italic;">is</span> the Chans, I'd expect Anonymous, which has been announcing its solidarity with OccupyWallStreet, to spank some Chan ass... although I did see these RTs:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @AnonymousIRC: 3 hours until Radiohead at #OccupyWallstreet. Hurry up, New Yorkers, get down there!</span><br /><br />Of course that means nothing, as anyone can title a Twitter account anything. If it's <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> Anon/Chan, it's a <span style="font-weight: bold;">counter-jamming signal</span> from the Troll Party, who have been ramping up a lot in the past 2 days on the Twitter channel.<br /><br />Either way, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">information war is definitely <span style="font-style: italic;">on</span></span> at OccupyWallStreet. Did anyone believe the opposition would not fight back?<br /><br /><br />More disinfo: <span style="font-style: italic;">Note: the #<a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/occupy_wall_str_8.php">OccupyWallStreet Journal </a>is NOT a <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://theyesmen.org/">Yes Men</a> project at all, though we do love it. </span>@<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://boingboing.net/2011/09/29/yes-men-plan-to-publish-occupy-wall-street-journal.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&dlvrit=36761">BoingBoing</a> [who published this "information"]<br /><br /><br />UPDATE: 10.01.11:<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/10/occupy_wall_street_radiohead.php">Village Voice produces spoofed email re:Radiohead & OccupyWallStreet</a><br />So there you have it. Or do you? Media warfare is like that.<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">No starfucking</span></span>;<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" > steady as she goes</span><br /><br />my own tweet: <span style="font-style: italic;">DON'T BE STARFUCKERS. You're being played; Op Disinformation is in progress. VERIFY SOURCES. </span><br /><br />I've watched the <span style="font-weight: bold;">gushiness</span> with which protesters greeted each Lamestream Media pickup of the story after holding off/blacking out for over 9 days. I've tried to get the idea across in numerous tweets that <span style="font-weight: bold;">the Lamestream Media is not a prize or a score; it is the worst enemy of the New Media </span>[Twitter, You Tube, blogs, alternative press] and people should quit courting it like lovestruck cows; they've already been shown that it's a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Trojan horse</span>. It makes you vulnerable to the same kind of thing that happened today.<br /><br /><br />Likewise, this infatuation with being "media stars" works to the detriment of the press which has been there all along; the <span style="font-weight: bold;">independent and participatory media</span> that have underpinned all of this. It opens them with promises of cookies and pie and makes them vulnerable to standard media disinfo ops. I will continue my preference for listing independent media links above Lamestream Media links for this and other reasons. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Please support and cherish your independent media system!</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DON'T SUCK UP TO THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA!</span> The protesters have been great so far; peaceful, showing restraint. But the Lamestream Media will want <span style="font-style: italic;">action</span>, and <span style="font-weight: bold;">they aren't above creating it</span> to feed their voracious maw. Be aware, be careful; verify your sources. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Assume you are now under media/disinformation attack</span>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">March to 1 Police Plaza 09.30.2011</span></span><br /><br />True to their <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/a-massive-union-just-voted-to-side-with-the-wall-street-protesters-2011-9">promises</a>, a huge swatch of <span style="font-weight: bold;">TWU [Transportation Workers Union]</span> appearing en masse today at Liberty Square in a show of support for the OccupyWallStreet protest.<br /><br />Watching the live video from NY's Fox 5 shows the police being very circumspect, keeping distance from protesters and allowing them to walk on sidewalks... which is a result of the Bologna pepper-spray video going viral, forcing a hard look at police tactics at the protest.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjewZob1WhB6lSfOAGG_MpQowc8TlJPVNjBxCGWYX762lKS7manu9sR9kPUlrLa_MnynWOWTBwA6IZAMG2GOal0JfxOWmTZJr9ocg5XHqLe0HSbrJNwcV-tRnf5kviWFkRISmcbIaoxp9M/s1600/0ows930.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjewZob1WhB6lSfOAGG_MpQowc8TlJPVNjBxCGWYX762lKS7manu9sR9kPUlrLa_MnynWOWTBwA6IZAMG2GOal0JfxOWmTZJr9ocg5XHqLe0HSbrJNwcV-tRnf5kviWFkRISmcbIaoxp9M/s400/0ows930.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5658278560245392866" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Someone got smart and had the Grannys Peace Brigade march in front<br /></span> [bottom right panel]</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Maybe the presence of the TWU Union is keeping the cops' dicks in their pants, or perhaps it's because most of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">NYPD Blues</span> don't subscribe to the same predilection for violence that the <span style="font-weight: bold;">White-Shirts</span> (Lieutenant-or-above) appear to have, judging from all of the police brutality videos posted on You Tube.<br /><br />There have been unconfirmed reports [more rumors] that many police were calling in <span style="font-weight: bold;">"<a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/blue+flu">The Blue Flu</a>"</span> in internal rifts over the conduct of many White-Shirts at the protest, including Anthony Bologna's "loose cannon" approach. No one knows if it's true, but most people on the scene and from observing the videos agree that, <span style="font-weight: bold;">for the most part, the Blues have been firm but polite</span>, engaging the protesters in amiable dialogue and doing very little of the violence seen unless under orders from a White-Shirt. Even the protesters claim that often.<br /><br />So, <span style="font-weight: bold;">a bit more disinformation being sown</span>, this against the police, in order to incite violence and hatred. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Not all cops are bad cops</span>. Don't fall for these tricks. Use your own eyes, ears, mind. Many of those cops are <span style="font-style: italic;">also</span> "the 99%".<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I won't support anyone's call to violence</span></span><br /><br />Watching live stream now at 7:00pmEDT, some woman with a group with "Cop Watch" is going on and on about 'police brutality' and 'police murder." <span style="font-weight: bold;">I find this aggressive and provocative</span>; I also see it as a hijacking of energy and focus. Sorry lady, but you look to me like a gasoline-thrower. I saw your kind explode the crowd at the Democratic National Convention in LA - the little black-masked anarchy boys who push their own agenda and discredit and disrupt public protests.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I don't appreciate anyone who urges or stirs emotions towards violence. They do not speak for me. I hope they don't speak for most of the protesters at OccupyWallStreet.</span><br /><br />Better now, 2nd speaker a preacher, appealing to the police "in the First Amendment", talking about his nice cop neighbor, etc. and inviting the police to also be part of the 99%.; to be <span style="font-style: italic;">inclusive</span> instead of <span style="font-style: italic;">ex</span>clusive. <span style="font-weight: bold;">This is wisdom</span>, and also appeals to the crowds' memory; people have been speaking up <span style="font-style: italic;">for</span> most of the police throughout the protest.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;">"<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imb4tYOk8GE">But when you talk about destruction<br />Don't you know that you can count me out</a>"<br /></div><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Media</span></span><br />* * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city/">Declaration of the Occupation of New York City</a></span><br />from the <span style="font-weight: bold;">New York General Assembly</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nyclu.org/content/knowing-your-rights-first-step-standing-them">Know Your Rights in demonstrating</a> - NY Civil Liberties Union<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2011/09/28/2011-09-28_occupy_wall_street_protesters_in_new_york_use_iphone_android_app_vibe_to_communi.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">People are using Vibe app to communicate anonymously</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> and avoid police eavesdropping</span></a> [NY Daily News]<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/29/trendsmap-proves-scary-twitter-censorship-occupywallstreet-trending-topics-72701/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Excellent mapping of the 'Twitter censorship' question</span></a> [Alexander Higgins]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://occupyamerica.ning.com/profiles/blogs/occupy-america-cumulative-list-of-worldwide-occupy-events?xg_source=activity">Occupy America - Cumulative List of Worldwide “Occupy” Events</a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/30/huge-crowd-5000-occupywallstreet-protests-wave-union-support-arrives-73461/">Huge Crowd at Occupy Wall Street as unions join protest</a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://solight111.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/occupywallstreet-a-manifesto-for-change/" rel="bookmark" title="Read #occupywallstreet – A Manifesto for Change">#occupywallstreet – A Manifesto for Change</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-street-protest-links-locked-out-teamsters/1317314640">Locked-out Sotheby's union art handlers disrupt auction in support of OWS</a><br />You <span style="font-style: italic;">know</span> why I had to include this one<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/kw3fx/to_all_occupy_wall_street_participants_here_is/">Please dress the part if you want help from regular people</a><br />An appeal to OWS to help their message get across, interesting comment thread<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://mctracey.com/2011/09/29/anthony-bologna-national-disgrace/">Anthony Bologna: National Disgrace<br /></a>There goes Tony Bologna's Navy application<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6t1f67">Cops filming protesters [photo]</a><br />You think they respect <span style="font-style: italic;">the crowd's</span> privacy rights? No. You think they will whine about the You Tube videos of open police brutality violating <span style="font-style: italic;">their</span> privacy rights? I do.<br /><br /><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/09/30/333038/mayor-bloomberg-wall-street-make-ends-meet/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NY Mayor Bloomberg claims bankers struggling to make ends meet</span></a><br />Awww da poor bankwers are swilling Cook's champagne because they can't afford <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.outofaces.com/pernod-ricard-perrier-jouet-champagne/">Pernod-Ricard Perrier-Jouet</a> anymore!!! A tiny tear trickles down my cheek... or not.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/163737/afl-cios-trumka-hails-occupy-wall-street-protests" title="AFL-CIO's Trumka Hails "Occupy Wall Street," as Key Unions Begin to Endorse Protests">AFL-CIO's Trumka Hails "Occupy Wall Street,"<br />as Key Unions Begin to Endorse Protests</a> [The Nation]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/09/occupy_wall_str_8.php">'OccupyWallStreet Journal' surpasses Kickstarter Goal</a> [Village Voice]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/van-jones/wall-street-protests-whic_b_988854.html">Wall Street Protests: Which Side Are You On?</a> [Huffington Post]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/29/us-usa-protests-wallstreet-idUSTRE78S4HK20110929?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews">Wall Street now home to protest campground</a> [Reuters]<br />Well, well; Reuters waddles in 14 days after the protest began.<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tweets</span></span><br /></div><br />I'm leaving out the troll tweets this time; they only troll and no use giving them attention, except to say this is the heaviest trolling I have seen on #occupywallstreet since the protest started. If you really want to know what they are, just page back one post; they don't really change much.<br /><br /><br />[EDIT: ok, wait, just had to include tonight's classic example of troll gambit]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">TROLL: <span style="font-style: italic;">9-11 conspiracy theorists, pot smokers, anti- Zionists and anti-sematics. These are the ppl of #OccupyWallStreet don't support them.</span><br /><br />MS: @TROLL <span style="font-style: italic;">you are hilarious. Really. +1 troll #occupywallstreet</span><br /><br />TROLL: <span style="font-style: italic;">@misosusanowa glad you think racism is so funny. I don't. Sick of seeing anti Jewish signs and posts around #OccupyWallStreet. Sue me.</span><br /><br />MS: LULZ <span style="font-style: italic;">Classic troll; you're immortalized </span>[link to here]<br /></span><br /><br />Ok, back to the best tweets o' the day:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Best sign at right now at the #OccupyWallStreet march: "A Radiohead rumor was the tipping point in Cairo too."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">NYC...it's the howl of the siren...flashing lights blinding sight...saxophone singing from a balcony above...protests </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Today, the richest 400 American families own more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Dude has a donut on a fishing pole so so good </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">impressed with #OccupyWallStreet protests, when they come to london i'll be there. if gov't wont hold financial sector to account, we will!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You can carry an Assault Rifle to a Tea Party but you can't carry a Sign to #OccupyWallStreet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">+1 RT @nyclu The NYCLU is sending a team of 'legal observers' to #occupywallstreet today @ 6pm until 10 pm & again tomorrow @ the same times</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Crime doesn't spray... but I do! - Tony Baloney</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Police have riot geer on @ #occupywallstreet. Wierd the kids are completely non violent. ... Nyc blue relax! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Do not fear what will happen if you go to #occupywallstreet ~ fear what will happen if you don't.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">In just 6 months, Wall St.-related interests <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indus.php?id=F&year=2011">spent about $237m lobbying</a> the federal government. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">this isnt about being democrats, republicans or teaparty members. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">..keep up the fight. as a small business owner...I'm also a supporter of this. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">This is a true grass-roots movement. Not secretly funded by billionaires #Kochbrothers #teaparty.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Finally figured out why vampire motif is so popular these days, they are allegory for #banksters</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">@GeraldoRivera: "#occupywallstreet is Reverse #TeaParty"-Ploy to Divide & Conquer. #TP & #Occupy both REJECT merger of statism & corporatism</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> A bunch of Marketeers have invaded the channel today</span>, spamming cutsey "teaser" links with the #occupywallstreet tag that lead to stores and get-rich-quick bullshit. More disinformation/signal jamming:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Excellent Fashion Advice For The #OccupyWallStreet Participants</span> [link]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">music so excellent i just bothered to download it</span> [link]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I can't believe I saw this at #occupywallstreet! </span>[link]<br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/op-disinformation.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Day 13: Op Disinformation</span></a><br /></span><br />6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"> Art is my weapon<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /></div></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-91503871038022140452011-09-29T17:06:00.000-07:002011-10-01T09:00:19.074-07:00Trolls & Signal Jamming OccupyWallStreet<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blackout: censoring?</span></span><br /><br />More and more analysis tools are being focused on Twitter's apparent "censorship" or downplaying of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">#occupywallstreet</span> hashtag. One good measurement graphic can be found <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/OccupyInfo/status/119171751866408960/photo/1/large"><span style="font-weight: bold;">here</span></a>. Even taking into account the observable traffic on that channel and the throttling Twitter and associated apps (Tweetdeck, etc) will do when a stream exceeds the bandwidth you've set for it, there does seem to be some sort of downgrading of that hashtag's Trending measurement from inside Twitter. External tools are recommended for more measurement testing.<br /><br />There are people also investigating what appears to be censoring/deleting comments off You Tube pages on OccupyWallStreet videos. More investigation is needed.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Trolling</span></span> <span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">the channels</span></span><br /><br />What I'm looking at tonight, beyond the usual media roundup of stories, is the Rebuttalists. These are the people supposedly "debating" and flooding the channel with "common sense" in order to drown out the signals being propagated at #occupywallstreet. It's an ancient technique of internet disinformation called "<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29">trolling</a>."<br /><br />A troll does not seek to engage in reasoned debate. A Troll is not there to make points; a troll is there to stir up action; to divide people, to steal focus. A troll is a thief, hijacking a thread and enjoying the resulting chaos and fractioning of the issue by nitpicking here, there; changing positions. A troll does not have a position or focus; the troll's aim is to disrupt dialoge. It is a method of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_warfare">psyops and disinformation</a>.<br /><br />So tonight is deconstruction & analysis night. I'm going to look at some "positions" being touted by these trolls and compare them to protester/supporter tweets.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Quick-and-dirty semantic analysis of tweets 9/29/11</span></span><br /></div><br />[Tweets in italics as usual]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Trolls</span><br />Almost all of the "opposition" tweets come in a few narrow sets:<br /><br />1. they are young snots<br />2. they are old hippies<br />3. they are young dirty hippie kids with no jobs.<br />3. you use corporate made tools you hypocrites<br />4. no one's talking about you (on lamestream media)<br />5. It's already over so don't bother<br />6. Bad things are happening in other parts of the world and you are being selfish because you're only protesting here and not about all the other injustices in the world.<br />7. You won't tell us what you want; you have no position.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The smelly hippies will get bored and go home. Or they'll do something stupid and get their asses beat</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#OccupyWallStreet The interviews are hilarious. The signs are adorable. At least the hippies of the 60s could thread together a sentence.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The hippies, bongo drums and police are multiplying but the press are largely gone. Guess it's old news now</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Stop crying. You break the law, you get arrested. No one is picking on you. #occupywallstreet is a joke.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">BREAKING: #OccupyWallStreet has personally assaulted hygiene</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The #OccupyWallStreet loons will prove they have a clue when they go protest outside of Solyndra. #morons</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Wall St won't have to do nothing. So far #OccupyWallStreet has shown folk don't like/trust WallSt. That's been old news for 70yrs.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I think #occupywallstreet would be better off trying to occupy a job and some responsibility.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I find the #occupywallstreet protests stupid. Wall Street isn't guilty of Crony Capitalism, Wash. DC is! #locationfail #wrongtarget</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">so apparently people have started this #occupywallstreet thing because they want to get rid of the rich who have worked their way to success</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sadly, tea party protesters couldn't sit on sidewalks for two weeks, having, you know, jobs and stuff. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Those #OccupyWallStreet people are still there? Funny how no one is talking about you or what you think you're accomplishing. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The Fed isn't on Wall Street anymore, nincompoops</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Shorter #OccupyWallStreet: "We're going to sit here for as long as it takes." Normal people: "For what?" Hippies: "Not sure yet."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Has the so-called people's assembly at #occupywallstreet agreed on anything or are they still just repeating themselves?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Can somebody tell me whether #OccupyWallStreet has any clear vision/purpose whatsoever?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Been wondering the same thing... RT @JustBeinHonest: What's the purpose of this #OccupyWallStreet mess?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Proof #occupywallstreet is clueless about economics: They want to start their own newspaper.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You don't know who/what you're protesting and I'm sure 3/4 of you don't know the first thing about business. </span><br /><br />So, the attack is basically: You are all unwashed old/young hippies/college snots; no one's talking about you; it's already over so don't try; you're ungrateful louts; you should attack Washington because the enemy is government, not moneymen; there's injustice in Somalia (or wherever) and you are hypocrites because you are using tools made by corporations to talk bad about money; get a job, kid!<br /><br /><br />And... <span style="font-weight: bold;">that's about it</span>; repeated endlessly with variation. The same "talking points," which are not points of debate or even positions other than "you suck." You can read the same kind of trash talk in any history book; I incorporated a 1931 Slavik poster in my <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQDRmmzywDg">State of Mind </a>exhibit which translates: "Gypsies are smelly and need a bath." No lie. I'm sure other archeologists besides a friend of mine is aware of Ancient Greek graffiti saying much the same thing: "You sucketh."<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let's contrast that with tweets from the OccupyWallStreet supporters:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet has demands, including re-instating </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act">Glass–Steagall</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and eliminating </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood">corporate personhood</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">demands are coalescing around a simple boildown: get money out of politics</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The way I see it, we're out to demand accountability and responsibility and financial reform.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I see a real protest of financial sector recklessness, power </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">one of the biggest issues with the movement is #getmoneyout</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">It's about big, established companies bankrolling laws that support big, established companies.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Massive financial losses, ten's of thousands of layoffs in the last 3 years @Liberty Mutual. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">46 000 000 - the number of Americans on foodstamps.<br /><br />Banks profit from food stamp and unemplyment benefits "debit cards"<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;">BoFA plans to start charging customers who make purchases with a debt card a fee of $5 per month starting early next year</span>..<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Today, 1 in 4 credit card holders are paying interest rates of more than 20%. That is usury.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The media is asking "what's it all about?" to #occupywallstreet. Where were those questions regarding derivatives and default swaps? huh?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Let's not be so critical of #occupywallstreet for their organizational issues. Every movement in history began w/o a Master Plan.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">How many </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://blog.buzzflash.com/alerts/646">teabaggers, carrying menacing signs & guns</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> to a POTUS appearance, got pepper sprayed by police?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Would believe what U say abt #OccupyWallStreet if I had not seen press falling all over to cover 2 doz Teabaggers at a waffle house.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Democratic process takes time to resolve; position, grievances need be heard, collated, discussed.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Every story needs new wrinkles and new angles to keep going, so just keep talking about the story.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If there was ever a case to be made that #occupywallstreet is just a bunch of hippies, that case doesn't make even a shadow of sense anymore</span><br /><br /><br />... many more tweets <span style="font-weight: bold;">distributing information</span> like you will find linked on my past posts and this one under "Media." Hard information, gleaned from the web: analyses of the Wall Street Bailout; where the money went and who it came from; <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act">Glass-Steagall</a> being repeated endlessly as a kind-of rock-solid inclusion; financial analyses of CEO salaries vs company performance; endless retweeting of each major lamestream media story that's been published/televised in the last 7 days; unemployment figures; tax tables; Constitutional amendments, NY civil law and police procedure...<br />a self-organizing <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_network">neural network</a> composed of human-net interlinks, distributing information.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br />You <span style="font-style: italic;">do</span> see certain positions coalescing; most of them revolving around people's awareness of the lobbyist's corruption of law and decency by subverting the representative process of democracy ie "<span style="font-weight: bold;">get the money out of the political process</span>".<br /><br /><br />You also see the <span style="font-weight: bold;">experimentation with the controls of the media channels</span>; the questioning of ownership, the reporting or blacking-out of the demonstrations, the Twitter, Yahoo Mail, Facebook and You Tube <span style="font-weight: bold;">"censorship" issues</span>; a great deal of comparison between lamestream media coverage of Tea Bag protests (they carry <span style="font-style: italic;">guns</span> and "dangerous" signs, tie up traffic and are not pepper-sprayed or given "hard takedowns" ie police brutality) to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">non-coverage</span> by major outlets (some are running to catch up now because of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Pepper Spray Martyrs</span></a>) of mostly peaceful, non-abusive protesters. Sure they are shouting! They are protesting, <span style="font-style: italic;">duh</span>.<br /><br />There is comparison worldwide of the coverage of foreign media; who's been there from the first; who's catching up or opened up and who continues to sit on the story in line with US lamestream media. People are<span style="font-weight: bold;"> exploring the parameters of the media network</span> and finding out which nodes are free, which nodes are compromised and where alternate nodes of information lie. <span style="font-style: italic;">They are mapping the system.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br />The picture is of a bunch of reasonable <span style="font-weight: bold;">people struggling to coalesce a democratic consensus</span>. It's only been 12/13 days and you are talking about many thousands of people, including the ones who only have netpresence in this protest. <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress">The First Continental Congress lasted 51 days</a> [Sept. 5 to Oct 26, 1774]<br /><br />The continual badgering about "what's your point/position/protest?" is easily countered by the information being retweeted; by a little web searching; by a little reading. People point the trolls to this information as a good-faith answer to "what is this all about anyways" [the disingenuous troll 'hook']<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But that is not at all what a troll wants</span>; a troll isn't seeking to debate you. He's seeking to make you take the bait with his initial, harmless-looking statement. When you engage, the dialogue goes like this [taken from one of many exchanges I have had in the last few days]:<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TROLL</span>:<span style="font-style: italic;"> What exactly is OccupyWallStreet about? Can anyone enlighten me?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MS</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">Best thing to do is review this channel, follow some of the links, read. There's a lot of material</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TROLL</span>:<span style="font-style: italic;"> OIC in other words you don't have any ideas.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MS</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">The history of economics and finance is a bit long to go into in a Twitter format.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TROLL</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">So you don't have any REAL ideas.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MS</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">I'm not here to teach lazy students. What are YOUR ideas on why this is happening?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TROLL</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">a bunch of dirty smelly unemployed hippies with nothing to say.</span><br /><br /><br />another example:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TROLL</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">You don't know who/what you're protesting and I'm sure 3/4 of you don't know the first thing about business.</span><span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MS</span>:</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> oh, we know business. MONKEY BUSINESS. That's why we'd like to see it out of real capitalism.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TROLL</span>: Explain to me in great detail what the 'MONKEY business' is and how you plan on resolving it.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">MS</span>: then send me your email because that won't work in a Twitter format. Or just follow some of the links in the channel<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">TROLL</span>: [<span style="font-style: italic;">cricket sounds</span>]<br /><br /><br />That's how a troll works. It's pretty apparent to anyone who's spent time on the nets. <span style="font-style: italic;">They only want to maneuver you into a false position, created by them, in order to attack that position and force you into defending it. </span>Trolls throw up <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man">strawmen</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem_attack">ad hominem attacks</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_fallacy">informal fallacies</a> and the rest of the weapons in a bad debater's arsenal of semantic tricks and strategies.<br /><br />These are the people who only consider "winning the debate" and not actually debating the merits of any issue. Their goal is <span style="font-style: italic;">power</span>, not reasoned dialogue. They don't care for reason unless it can be used as a tool for winning. They see debate as a contest of power and "winning" as silencing opposing views. <span style="font-weight: bold;">That is not winning anyone over to your side with information or appeals to reason; that is semantic warfare.</span> Their other goal is also simple: to disrupt the debate and drain off energy, derailing a conversation or honest debate into one-way back alleys of bickering feints.<br /><br /><br />Ok, enough about trolls; it's boring, right? They have nothing to contribute and steal your energy, so it's not worth engaging; just ignore their little personal attacks and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=proj-on">proj on</a>. Because as this tweet says,<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Folks, when the professional right wing astro-tweeters start hammering on #occupyWallstreet tag, you know they're getting worried. </span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Media/Infolinks</span><br />* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution">Live stream from Liberty Square</a></span><br /></span></div><br />A bunch of nice stuff tonight; first, links to coverage in Independent and Lamestream Media, then some nice posts/op-eds and some informative article links being passed around as the protesters and supporters find information that is central and focused to the protest on certain issues:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wikipedia - OccupyWallStreet page</span></a><br />w00t! Something easy to point the "what is this all about?" people to<br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F97t_vgN6NE">Here's a handy tutorial about getting out of Zip-tie cuffs</a> [youtube]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/nypd-pepper-spray-procedure.html">New York Patrol Guide Procedure Number 212-95 [Pepper Spray]</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nycga.cc/2011/09/29/general-assembly-minutes-929-7pm/">General Assembly Minutes 9.29 &pmEDT</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/article/day-eleven/">A Message from Occupied Wall Street - Day Eleven</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://coupmedia.org/occupywallstreet/occupy-wall-street-official-demands-2009">OccupyWallStreet Official Demands</a><br />Your chance to make your voice heard and considered by the General Assembly<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6rjl4k">A Map of the Occupy***** demonstrations now in progress or planning has been posted</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Everyone is excited about several big unions and <span style="font-style: italic;">personalities</span> coming out in support of OccupyWallStreet: </span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/28/1021124/-Transport-Workers-Union-votes-to-support-OccupyWallstreet%21">Transport Union Workers to support OccupyWallStreet</a> [Dailoy KOS]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/labor_unions_and_leftist_group.html">United Federation of Teachers, 32BJ SEIU, 1199 SEIU, Workers United</a> [NYmag]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20110929/FINANCE/110929865#ixzz1ZMunkUxe">Some of the bigger alternate-orgs are getting involved</a> finally: MoveOn.org, Coalition for the Homeless, Working Families [NYbusiness]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/sen-bernie-sanders-praises-occupy-wall-street-protests/" title="Sen. Bernie Sanders praises ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests">Sen. Bernie Sanders praises ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protests</a><br /><br /><a href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/29/russell-simmons-joins-occupy-wall-street-bring-hundreds-thousands-73301/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media Mogul Russel Simmons comes out for Occupy Wall Street</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/ex-guv-david-paterson-occupy-wall-street-very-well-organized-1.3211064">Former NY Gov. David Paterson tours Liberty Square</a> [AM New York]<br /><br /><a href="http://gawker.com/5845321/jon-stewart-takes-on-occupy-wall-streets-pepper+spraying-cop"><span style="font-weight: bold;">John Stewart Takes On Tony Bologna: The Vigilogna</span><br /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Editorial/Info</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=563">5 Things that #OccupyWallStreet Has Done Right</a><br />This is a reply to the Mother Jones article that <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/146187/ny-times-nprs-mother-jones-dismissal-of-occupy-wall-street-bespeaks-an-out-of-touch-left-press/">pissed people off</a> [including me]<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://wearethe99percent.tumblr.com/"><br />We are the 99%</a><br />Great collection of photos/statements sent in to #occupywallstreet of protesters who cannot be there.<br /><br /><h4 style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://ampedstatus.org/a-report-from-the-frontlines-the-long-road-to-occupywallstreet-and-the-origins-of-the-99-movement/">A Report from the Frontlines: The Long Road to<br />#OccupyWallStreet and the Origins of the 99% Movement</a></h4><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://studentactivism.net/2011/09/29/what-i-saw-at-occupywallstreet-last-night/">What I Saw at #OccupyWallStreet Last Night, and What I Saw When I Left</a><br />Thoughtful opinion from a protester<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://phenobarbarella.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/connecting-the-dots-2/">Connecting the Dots </a><br />Maybe yer <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> doin' it wrong<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/29/occupy-wall-street-protest?CMP=twt_gu">Occupy Wall Street and the limits of spontaneous street protest</a><br />Another post that doesn't understand the network model of democracy<br /><br /><a href="http://www.mypeace.tv/video/occupy-wall-street-l-new-york-city-l-2011"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Beautiful statement video from MyPeace Media</span></a><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html?xid=tweetshare">25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis</a><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1877351_1877350_1877339,00.html?xid=tweetshare"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></a>[Time]<br />Good roundup of what's connected to what<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105">Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%</a> [Vanity Fair May 2011]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-isnt-wall-street-in-jail-20110216">Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?</a> [Rolling Stone Feb. 2011]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=543352">States' unemployment debit cards often carry hidden costs, fees</a><br />How banks profit off unemployment<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/25/1020114/-Wall-Street-is-SCREWING-the-NYPD-too-OccupyWallStreet-live-blog">Wall Street is SCREWING the NYPD too</a> [DailyKOS]<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lamestream media</span><br /></div><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fQakL4L0I">Fox News attacks female protesters</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-fQakL4L0I"> for being pepper-sprayed</a><br />Disgusting, and typical. I guess they don't read the NY Times...<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2011/09/29/protestors-continue-occupy-wall-street-demonstration-in-zuccotti-park/">Protestors Continue ‘Occupy Wall Street’ Demonstration In Zuccotti Park</a> [CBS-NY]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2011/09/occupy-wall-street-ray-kelly.html?mbid=social_retweet">Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly</a>, trying to save face after the police brutality videos gained widespread recognition, <span style="font-weight: bold;">says that the protesters cannot be removed from Zucotti Park </span>(now Liberty Plaza) [New Yorker]<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/29/1016836/-CNN-FINALLY-covers-OccupyWallStreet,-then-just-happens-to-have-technical-difficulties-" style="font-weight: bold;">CNN FINALLY covers OccupyWallStreet,</a><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/29/1016836/-CNN-FINALLY-covers-OccupyWallStreet,-then-just-happens-to-have-technical-difficulties-"> </a><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/29/1016836/-CNN-FINALLY-covers-OccupyWallStreet,-then-just-happens-to-have-technical-difficulties-" style="font-weight: bold;">then just happens to have technical difficulties </a>[DailyKOS]<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><a href="http://www.vancourier.com/Adbusters+sparks+Wall+Street+protest/5466332/story.html">Adbusters sparks Wall Street protest</a></span><br />Canadian media trundles in<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>[although Canadian <span style="font-style: italic;">Tweeters</span> have been steadfast from the beginning. Here's a cold one to ya, eh!]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />.. and of course. my favorite <span style="font-weight: bold;">Tweets O' the day</span>:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">John Perry Barlow, founder of the EFF, now heading to #occupywallstreet 9/29 6:30EDT</span> and tweets "<span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet is lovely. Calm, polite, intelligent, young, efficiently self-organizing. I'm proud to be an American."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">CONFIRMED: former Gov David Paterson (NY) arrives at #Zuccotti Park.. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You can now look up on Google maps Zuccotti Park as One Liberty Plaza. Try it for yourself. #occupy #occupywallstreet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">One pizza sent to the #OccupyWallStreet protests came all the way from South Korea! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Does anyone else find it ridiculous. That we get better news from comedy central. Than the MSM?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT: #occupywallstreet has 3107 tweets/hr but is still not trending. Harold and Kumar is trending with only 323 tweets/hr</span>. [one of many stat-analysis monitoring tweets using Twitter monitors and mappers external to Twitter]<br /><br /><br />These next three deal with the fact that the Dr Conray Murray trial, involving the death of Michael Jackson, is getting more media coverage than OccupyWallStreet:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">RT @BorowitzReport: BREAKING: CNN Announces Plan to Cover #OccupyWallStreet Once Michael Jackson Trial is Over</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Disappointed that CNN wld rather spend HOURS on the MJ trial than just a minute on #occupywallstreet @cnn @AC360 @andersoncooper</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Rumors state that Michael Jackson's body has been exhumed and supports #occupywallstreet</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Please raise my taxes. I will not accept a country that neglects the poor and the most vulnerable.</span> [<span style="font-weight: bold;">Uncle Rush</span>, a well-known entrepreneur and social activist]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I don't need 2agree wth everything they say.But I believe tht they have the right 2say it w/out boots on their necks! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Oh #OccupyWallStreet? You could probably get support for untangling business and government from the people who work in those buildings.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Not on same page as #OccupyWallStreet culturally, but great to </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Do the protestors think protesting about a range of grievances dilutes their message? </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">So, Bank of America is really about to institute this $5 fee for debit card use, but "premium" accounts are exempt</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#OccupyWallStreet is experiencing a burst of rapid visibility and support. Established groups are now getting involved </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Egypt inspired, planning repeat tahir square</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Write in big letters OCCUPY WALL STREET on your $ bills and pass them on! </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Did you know that our 'economy' only grows if people go into debt, or borrow 'money'?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The #OccupyWallStreet thing going on and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/29/michelle-obama-target_n_987991.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009">this is what @HuffingtonPost is talking about?!</a></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - Netpower Rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/trolls-signal-jamming-occupywallstreet.html">Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming</a></span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVO9jIu8joVggLtuydyLcQXfCSmuItdUF-NCB9WwNbwao63uPVtHDQaLEmOpeF-oiXmIFO1ttGzm_Gll6g3X5jHVn_Edtw0XG2t6Co_P2ZoeEEDcTLLjEtwH632c4vd8Z5az1_Zo3vefw/s1600/anonkitty.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVO9jIu8joVggLtuydyLcQXfCSmuItdUF-NCB9WwNbwao63uPVtHDQaLEmOpeF-oiXmIFO1ttGzm_Gll6g3X5jHVn_Edtw0XG2t6Co_P2ZoeEEDcTLLjEtwH632c4vd8Z5az1_Zo3vefw/s400/anonkitty.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657328007814735826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">My name is Anonymous Kitty<br />and I approve this message<br /></span> =^.^=</span><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-7596751466581977182011-09-29T00:32:00.000-07:002011-09-29T05:08:38.073-07:00Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.More <span style="font-weight: bold;">crowdsourcing</span> illustrating the validity of the self-organizing <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/08/riding-wave-function.html">network theory</a> of the body politic emerges from the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/">Occupy Wall Street</a> movement:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbMgU6_FCtgjYatCdFyInRgGXrJo4W5Inh1jaboJkml3-x3d-5zmKCsByFsE_O_cndGPNCH-jHij6P1J_jU-vTY6jbGNs0ymsaBsZ92MeMS3ek1yTHG0u0Z4ItvrRLKh11_46Jzq10hX8/s1600/0balogna2.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbMgU6_FCtgjYatCdFyInRgGXrJo4W5Inh1jaboJkml3-x3d-5zmKCsByFsE_O_cndGPNCH-jHij6P1J_jU-vTY6jbGNs0ymsaBsZ92MeMS3ek1yTHG0u0Z4ItvrRLKh11_46Jzq10hX8/s400/0balogna2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657713453705228402" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbMgU6_FCtgjYatCdFyInRgGXrJo4W5Inh1jaboJkml3-x3d-5zmKCsByFsE_O_cndGPNCH-jHij6P1J_jU-vTY6jbGNs0ymsaBsZ92MeMS3ek1yTHG0u0Z4ItvrRLKh11_46Jzq10hX8/s1600/0balogna2.jpg"><br /></a><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Pepper Spray Videos - Bologna porked<br /></span> </span><br />All 4 of the videos of Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna pepper-spraying penned female protesters are in wide circulation now, including this the key one:<br /><span id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="Occupy Wall Street - Police Aggression"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="Occupy Wall Street - Police Aggression"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jJyUCK0OhE">Occupy Wall Street - Police Aggression </a></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jJyUCK0OhE">[You Tube]</a><br /></span></div><br />... which is <span style="font-weight: bold;">a 1st-person view from inside the kettle.</span> Some events are much clearer here, as was my observation (argued with by many) that the black White-Shirt is grabbing that black-haired woman by her <span style="font-style: italic;">hair</span> (and <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> her backpack as some attempted to argue) and that she is shaking the barricade in shock and distress at witnessing the brutal assault in front of her (not attempting to "tear it down or otherwise obstruct [it's] placement")<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf6m_w7K8XM"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="Simultaneous perspectives on "Occupy Wall Street" kettling and pepper spray / mace incident">Simultaneous perspectives on "Occupy Wall Street" </span><br /><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="Simultaneous perspectives on "Occupy Wall Street" kettling and pepper spray / mace incident">kettling and pepper spray / mace incident </span><br /></a></span></div><br /><br />This is a <span style="font-weight: bold;">superb right-left syncronization of videos #1 and #3</span> <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-analysis-pepper-sprayed-at.html">supporting my claims</a> that the videos could be matched up in timing and sequence to refute police spokesperson <span>Paul J. Browne</span>'s claim that "the video was edited" and pepper spray used "appropriately."<br /><br /><br />It certainly was enough evidence for <span style="font-weight: bold;">USLaw.com</span> to publish this:<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.uslaw.com/occupywallstreet#response1">USLAW.COM RESPONSE TO NYPD's ACCUSATIONS</a><br /></div><br />... in which USLaw takes views the videos, making the same observations and coming to the same conclusions.<br /><br />It also seems to have been enough for the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/police-department-to-examine-pepper-spray-incident/">New York Times to call for an investigation of Bologna</a> (which I was calling out to the NYT for on Monday/26th in <a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/video-analysis-pepper-sprayed-at.html">my video analysis post</a>). Good thing too, because <span style="font-style: italic;">another</span> video has surfaced (5 public so far) of the same event:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-eTi5-qNgA">Bologna sprays people indiscriminately </a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-eTi5-qNgA">moments after the penned-women incident.<br /></a></span></div><br />This video is taken right after Bologna sprays the penned women; you can both see and hear them in the background, matching actions in the same way; <span>all the videos that have surfaced have been used to</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> build a multiple-perspective, <span style="font-style: italic;">virtual reconstruction</span> of the event</span>.<br /><br />So it's pretty clear from this quilted, multiplexed reconstruction that <span>Bologna was walking around pepper-spraying protesters in direct contravention of both NY civil law and accepted police procedures.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You are the eyes of the world</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixmo-l8mUcxRleoKAgl5gA-fNMWA4heOu3Z6MimCEJ8U2OmvFZt1cgGbSl-qgTrzOa6gdhWWRCfSdoAv423KKCtmbd2EVuEQ22ac0SYDQ4tV1bFwc6MYo8GW1me3MSNtz8zN-82rzlxhM/s1600/0redjacket.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixmo-l8mUcxRleoKAgl5gA-fNMWA4heOu3Z6MimCEJ8U2OmvFZt1cgGbSl-qgTrzOa6gdhWWRCfSdoAv423KKCtmbd2EVuEQ22ac0SYDQ4tV1bFwc6MYo8GW1me3MSNtz8zN-82rzlxhM/s400/0redjacket.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657680739807432706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Another crowdsourcing effort</span> is underway to identify this officer (<span style="font-weight: bold;">Red Coat</span>) as being observed in many of the videos of Occupy Wall Street allegedly encouraging, directing and singling out individuals for brutal tactical examples as well as digging his hands in for some action.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBX5lupbjQ">He's the guy that gave</a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBX5lupbjQ"> this protester a concussion</a></span><span style="font-weight: normal;font-size:85%;" ></span><br /></div><br /><br />UPDATE: and the sheer <span style="font-style: italic;">speed</span> of the net: <span style="font-style: italic;">as I'm writing this post</span>, this information is posted: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://policeleak.com/post/10800112573/over-the-past-13-days-of-occupywallstreet#notes">Red Jacket has been identified as Officer Kenneth O'Donnell Badge # 7432</a> and the details of the accusations against him are off that link. Only a few hours from call to conclusion... done by people, by hand. That should make you <span style="font-style: italic;">gasp</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> in wonder.</span> This is a non-professional, non-hierarchical method of using the technological power of a motivated crowd for a purpose - <span style="font-weight: bold;">electronic democracy</span> in action.<br /><br /><br /><br />As videos and photographs continue to multiply and afford the same multiplexing capability for reconstructing events, <span style="font-weight: bold;">the sheer power of unbridled communication</span> is being revealed - the same power that has been up til now in a small set of hands because of cost-of-entry and political barriers. You're also seeing the virtual reconstruction of a live event through <span style="font-weight: bold;">multiplicity of sources</span> and co-operative publishing.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The net is egalitarian</span>. The same technology that has been being used against citizens is now being turned around to observe the mechanisms of power... <span style="font-style: italic;">and the people who grew up with this stuff know how to use it much better.</span> The Information Revolution in action.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Framing the debate {power plays}</span></span><br /><br /><br />This tweet strikes to the heart of the debate being pushed for Occupy Wall Street to "present a list of demands" and is very observant:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">People are trying to rush #OccupyWallStreet into making "Demands" so they can rush to demagogue them & divide the protest. </span><br /><br />We have watched the <span>peer-to-peer networking in action</span> with the crowdsourcing of Bologna and O'Donnell, we are observing an attempt to use <span style="font-weight: bold;"> the network model as democratic process<br /></span>the way it has been used in popular net culture<span style="font-weight: bold;">.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>From the first day, people have been offering suggestions both wild and reasonable through live participation, blogs and Twitter as a codification of their perceptions that many things are wrong in this state of things, and that many more are connected to a very few levers. <span>These points and suggestions are being taken up by the <span style="font-weight: bold;">General Assembly</span>.</span><br /><br />The situation reminds me greatly of the meetings, public forums and debates that led to the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress">First Continental Congress</a>. They didn't rush either.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Still not enough real Lamestream Media to make a big thing about it (although they are catching on, smelling blood and <span style="font-weight: bold;">fueled by citizen-journalists' efforts in breaking this story</span><span>)</span> so infolinks are mixed in, as many links from the past 11 days are being retweeted [<span style="font-style: italic;">proliferation of signal</span>, the important ones reverberating as the crowd makes it's choices on-the-fly as to what is expressive of their intent and feelings and worth retransmission; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory">chaotic math</a>].<br /><br />For more media links, see my past posts in this series.<br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">tweets in italic</span>]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzke07SiwFs"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="NYPD Caught On Camera Punching #OccupyWallStreet Protestor In The Face">NYPD Caught On Camera Punching </span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzke07SiwFs"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="NYPD Caught On Camera Punching #OccupyWallStreet Protestor In The Face">#OccupyWallStreet Protestor In The Face </span></a></span><br />more nice White Shirt brutality, this one showing a definitely-not-standard-practices haymaker punch. [youtube]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.daylife.com/photo/08L94Nt34xdAI?q=pilots+wall+street">Over 700 pilots march for Occupy Wall Street</a></span><br />Awesome.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/nyregion/a-burst-of-pepper-spray-like-a-punch-in-the-face.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Interview with Chelsea Elliot</span></a></span> [NYT]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/news/2011/09/observations-of-a-jailed-journalist/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Observations of a Jailed Journalist</span></a></span><br />is a first-person account of MetroFocus reporter John Farley, documenting the pepper-spraying incident.<em><em><br /><br /></em></em><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/28/protests/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What's behind the scorn </span></a><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/09/28/protests/index.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">for the Wall Street protests? </span></a></span>[salon]<br />Glen Greenwald analyzes.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://twitpic.com/6s2g4a">This pic is worth 1,000,000 bytes</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/9/28/something_has_started_michael_moore_on"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Moore: 'Something Has Started'</span></a></span><br />But you don't know what it is; do you <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lbr3EAiu0EE">Mother Jones</a>...<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/freeganism-dumpster-diving-buck-spending-trend/story?id=14242371">ABC News Suggests Eating Out of a Dumpster </a><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/freeganism-dumpster-diving-buck-spending-trend/story?id=14242371"><br /></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/freeganism-dumpster-diving-buck-spending-trend/story?id=14242371">as Viable Alternative to "Spending"</a></span><br />This one has people chuckling hysterically in absolute scorn.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.channel4.com/news/us-police-maced-peaceful-protesters-in-new-york">UK Channel 4 News tentatively floats a story</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.channel4.com/news/us-police-maced-peaceful-protesters-in-new-york"> </a>late to the party :D</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet has 3107 tweets/hr but is still not trending. Harold and Kumar is trending with only 323 tweets/hr.</span> [more public use of analysis tools used by the marketeers]<br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >THIS IS A TEST OF THE EMERGENCY BROADCAST SYSTEM. KEEP BROADCASTING. THANK YOU. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >Rosa Parks occupied a bus seat & peacefully refused 2 remain invisible. Expect us.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">re: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_Act">Glass Steagall</a>: I agree, good concrete goal eventually. But for now, #occupywallstreet is a purely cathartic.</span><br /><br />[many tweets repeating #hashtags in other cities starting Occupy momevents/demonstrations]</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - netpower rising</span></a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/who-watches-watchmen-we-do.html">Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.</a></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /></div></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-20228457577734226382011-09-27T21:53:00.001-07:002011-10-15T06:48:53.819-07:00Taking Wall Street by Twitter - Propagate SignalA fifth video has surfaced of a first-person view of the kettling and pepper-spraying incident.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbNMPTWezQ"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="Occupy Wall Street 9/24/11 - first person perspective of being pepper sprayed by Bologna">Occupy Wall Street 9/24/11</span></a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbNMPTWezQ"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="Occupy Wall Street 9/24/11 - first person perspective of being pepper sprayed by Bologna"> </span></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbNMPTWezQ"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="Occupy Wall Street 9/24/11 - first person perspective of being pepper sprayed by Bologna">first person perspective of being pepper sprayed by Bologna </span></a><br /></div><br />This one is very chaotic, but gives a good perspective of the time leading up to the pepper-spraying by police officer Anthony Bologna and supports many of the assertions by the protesters that the "obstructing the barricading" claims by police are, at best, disingenuous.<br /><br />You can see in the video (supported by the other videos) that police are running ahead of the crowd, along the street, unrolling the barricade, and then cross it over onto the sidewalk, cutting people off suddenly. This video also supports the position that the protesters were behaving legally; according to the NY Civil Liberties Union, you absolutely have the right to walk and stand on a sidewalk in NYC. You can hear the cameraperson and a few others stating this to the police.<br /><br />You can also observe in many videos, as in this one, police grabbing sidewalkers and forcing them INTO the orange net kettles. People <span style="font-style: italic;">absolutely legally allowed to walk on public sidewalks in New York.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Technology, the great equalizer</span></span><br /><br />Before I do the usual media roundup on Occupy Wall Street, I'd like to talk about something I've spoken publicly about for 25 years: technology as the great equalizer [particularly in politics] and the theme of this blog: <span style="font-weight: bold;">the politics of information</span>.<br /><br />You can see, in almost all of the videos and many photographs, the<span style="font-weight: bold;"> police using video cameras</span> on the crowds. We also have reports that police are using the <span style="font-weight: bold;">iPhone app for retinal scanning and identification</span> of arrestees.<br /><br />Yet these are the same sort of police that will <span style="font-weight: bold;">twist privacy laws</span> to prevent citizen-journalists (ok, 'documentarians' for the picky) from recording police actions, when the recorder is in no way interfering with the police action.<br /><br />In most of the videos and pictures, you will see the technique of <span style="font-weight: bold;">police "swarming"</span> in order to obscure what is happening from observation and recording by civilians. Most of the officers are not involved in the actual takedown; they are surrounding the action and creating a barrier to observation and monitoring so that they can later assert any view of the incident they wish to, painting themselves as above reproach and turning it into "your word against the police."<br /><br />This is both childish and ominous. It does nothing to reassure the public that the police are doing their lawful job; it only makes the public question the police more.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">If they can, why can't we?</span></span><br /><br />The police never worry about<span style="font-style: italic;"> my</span> privacy rights when they are recording on a dashcam. Even if I am not at all involved in the action but merely a passer-by, I am recorded. The police can demand surveillance footage from nearby private property, where I might have walked by on my way to a store; they do not ask <span style="font-style: italic;">me</span> for my permission or respect my own privacy rights. They are recording <span style="font-style: italic;">everyone</span> in the Wall Street area.<br /><br />The same type of people demand access to everything I write online, and all my personal details from any business or utility I use, but hold last-minute midnight meetings out of public scrutiny to pass public laws. They <span style="font-weight: bold;">stall for years</span> on Freedom of Information requests but squeal like little girls having their diary purloined and read when anyone dares to dig in to a request, or film officers using unnecessary force or liberate online documents supporting criminal charges against corporations, government or police.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">They twist the intent of privacy laws</span> to shield their own misdoings. They claim "terrorism" for Anonymous actions which are designed to reveal the lies and dangerous misconduct of banks, media companies and governments who assure us that our "privacy" is being respected and our personal details are "secure." They make it a big "hacking thing" when in fact their websites are riddled with first-year web designer's elementary mistakes; open SQL tables, putting credit card information in open URLs, password limitations (alphanumeric, 8 characters only) that are completely inadequate as security measures. <span style="font-weight: bold;">They buy and sell our information to anyone who sends them money without any kind of validity check.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;">So we get monitored, photographed and databased with no consideration at all for our privacy or security, <span style="font-weight: bold;">yet the laws that are supposed to shield us from tyranny and misconduct are used against us</span> to protect the people who are stealing from us, brutalizing us, manipulating us and passing laws in ways to make public debate and participation in the democratic process moot.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span></div> <span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The war against information</span></span><br /><br />There are legal actions going on behind the scenes, unreported by the majority of Lamestream Media, that will affect many of our freedoms and actions online [ACTA]. These laws are being shoved through with little public debate [President Obama has lobbied heavily for secrecy in the ACTA process, even threatening other countries with sanctions if they do not bend to the will of US interests] in contravention of the principles of open democracy and fair representation.<br /><br />Many of these laws are <span style="font-weight: bold;">collusions between Big Media and government</span> in the form of lobbyists with bushels of cash to give to Congressmen and representatives, suborning the democratic process to the interests of corporations and government in "taming," channeling and ultimately controlling the distribution of information according to the old Gatekeeper model.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The importance of the internets cannot be understated</span>. The low-cost-of-entry for the nets escapes the control of Big Media, who can tailor and shape and edit and suppress information because the cost of owning and maintaining a traditional broadcast radio or television station was out of the reach of the ordinary citizen. The internet is not.<br /><br />The internet also allows for a multiplicity of source and debate; information is propagated repeatedly, escaping the confines of a single channel. That information is available to anyone with the skills to use Search effectively and the determination and stamina to pursue a story. Alternate views and opinions abound; alternate supporting information is available for almost anything. <span style="font-weight: bold;">This is a truly democratic medium</span>... and the first since the printing press was available.<br /><br />There has been a war on for control of the internets for over 25 years.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Propagating signal</span></span><br /><br />We are now seeing what the internet can do; in Egypt, Syria, Greece, Spain, Wall Street... we are watching the democratic propagation of signals. First-hand reports, video and photographs are escaping the tailoring process and going to the nets raw, where they are taken up and retransmitted to multiple sources and outlets. It's impossible to rein them in. <span style="font-weight: bold;">It's impossible to stop a signal once it is out on the nets. </span> And this is <span style="font-style: italic;">mighty frightening</span> to the Powers That Be, who have built their whole cartels of commerce and control on the old, linear model.<br /><br />The Old Model is subject to suborning by special interest groups who control the channels of information and are vulnerable to bribery, coercion and threat because of the incredible expense and legal breaks needed to operate. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The FCC, once a model of government regulation, is in the pockets of Big Media.</span> The US Copyright Office has become the lapdog of industry, granting absurdly-broad and vague patents on "business methods" to restrict competition and destroy common culture.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The internets are not.</span> The internets are open to anyone with a modem and telephone line. It does not take the resources of a newspaper to publish commentary, observation, op-ed pieces or information. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Anyone can become a node of transmission</span>. It is truly peer-to-peer networking.<br /><br />This is the glory and hope of the internet. <span style="font-weight: bold;">This is The Last Free Press,</span> and it is under attack for that very reason. If you are reading this now, you have reason to become informed about your network; about the movements underfoot to destroy the functionality of that network and devolve it into the old broadcast model, limiting the availability of information and your right to be informed <span style="font-style: italic;">and participate</span> in public dialogue.<br /><br />The Lamestream Media blackout currently going on around Occupy Wall Street is a visible and stark illustration of why <span style="font-weight: bold;">the internet must remain free, open and democratic</span> to the transmission and propagation of information. If you love your internet, please get involved. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Propagate signal.</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Wall Street - Day 10</span></span><br /></div><br />First, I'd like to say that there are rumors of people <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">allegedly</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> downloading/capturing the videos surfacing from OccupyWallStreet in case of "sanitizing" </span>of the media channels. (not that I am <span style="font-style: italic;">at all </span>advocating anything illegal or in contravention of Terms of Service. That wouldn't be nice) :D<br /><br />Second, people are recognizing that some major media has hung in there and been reporting from the earliest; <span style="font-weight: bold;">props out to Keith Olbermann, the Guardian, <a href="http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/09/201192785419837365.html">Al-Jazeera</a>, many Spanish and Russian media stations</span> for keeping the name of <span style="font-style: italic;">real</span> journalism alive.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Information</span></span><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">tweets as usual in italics</span>]<br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://medic.wikia.com/wiki/Pepper_spray_and_tear_gas">Pepper spray and tear gas - things to know about it</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Officer Anthony Bologna</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/occupy-wall-street-anthony-bologna"> stands accused of false arrest and civil rights violations</a> in a claim brought by a protester involved in the 2004 demonstrations at the Republican national convention.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><a href="http://www.politicolnews.com/new-york-state-government/">New York State Government and Wall Street</a></span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.loop21.com/channel/occupy-wall-street-becomes-nationwide-movement?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theloop21+%28TheLoop21.com+Comprehensive+Feed%29"><span style="font-weight: bold;">'Occupy Wall Street' Becomes Nationwide Movement </span></a><br />observed in tweets also: <span style="font-style: italic;">#occupyboston #occupywallstreet #occupyLA #occupydenver #occupytexas #occupynola #occupychi #occupyphoenix”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Occupy[redacted].org appears to be a fake site for scamming money. <a href="http://reverseinternet.com/">Do a whois search</a> to find out the owner's name #OccupyWallStreet</span> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">People<br /><br />there is a quickly growing trend - FAKE donation sites for #occupywallstreet 1 right now in [redacted] - please -KNOW THE SOURCE</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blog comment at the Guardian:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"The cop who maced the girls has </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">oak leaves</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> on his collar. That makes him a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Deputy Inspector </span><span style="font-style: italic;">in the NYPD. An inspector in US police forces is a much higher rank than in the UK police. It's the equivalent of a major in the army. </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">All the white shirted police you see in the videos hold the rank of lieutenant or above.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">They--the high ranking officers--are the ones instigating the violence.</span> They are giving the lower ranking cops (in blue) a demonstration of how to treat protesters. They are showing them how far they can go." </span>[this conforms to my own observation of many hours of viewing these videos: the white-shirts are the most violent and frequent offenders]<br /><br /><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="The People Occupy Wall Street While Wall Street Dreams of Another Recession"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMOfMEsQuSk"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The People Occupy Wall Street While Wall Street Dreams of Another Recession </span></a></span><br />about 50 seconds into this video, a retransmitted BBC interview with a trader that is <span style="font-weight: bold;">absolutely shocking</span>; even the news staff is boggled. Well-worth watching. Kudos for this guy for being so completely honest... or just brazen :D<br /><br />[experiments are being run with <span style="font-weight: bold;">adding certain old #hashtags to #occupywallstreet</span> for measuring Trending topic mechanism on Twitter. So far, the experiments seem to <span style="font-weight: bold;">support allegations that the hashtag #occupywallstreet is being dropped or blocked from Trending</span> in some or all countries/locations]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Stock Traders in Bloomberg's NY Stock Exchange are NOT bonded. </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media</span></span><br />[now including Lamestream Media]<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/occupy-wall-street-reconstruct-pepper-spray">Help Us Reconstruct The Pepper Spray Incident [GuardianUK]</a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Please help the Guardian with this crowdsourcing effort.<br /></span></span></div><br /></div><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.orchestratedpulse.com/2011/09/99-response-rightwing-smear-campaign/#comment-39">A sad and brave post from a<span style="font-style: italic;"> double</span> victim of OccupyWallStreet</a><br />Mockery and harassment, the same thing poor Officer <span style="font-style: italic;">Tony Baloney</span> complains about.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr3DiqWYCI">ABSOLUTELY great report on MSNBC by Lawrence McDonnell</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zgr3DiqWYCI">'NYPD Police Brutality at OccupyWallStreet'</a><br /><br /><a href="http://news.intercom.gs/anonymous-arrested-protesters-account-s17-occ"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><a href="http://news.intercom.gs/anonymous-arrested-protesters-account-s17-occ" style="font-weight: bold;">Anonymous Arrested Protester's Account #S17 #occupyWallStreet</a><br />a nice post with sanity regarding respecting <span style="font-style: italic;">good</span> police. They aren't all thugs.<br /><span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/occupy-wall-street-drawing-the-battle-lines-20110927">'Occupy Wall Street': Drawing the Battle Lines</a></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/occupy-wall-street-drawing-the-battle-lines-20110927"> [Rolloing Stone]</a><br /><br />[<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRPbe3fVDcE">Michael Moore</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FjIrUqcSTg">Roseanne Barr</a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWKyg7k6HNc">Immortal Technique, </a> <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-27/wall-street-protesters-joined-by-susan-sarandon.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Susan Sarandon</span></a>, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/forum/Cornel-west-GA/">Cornel West</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/article/noam-chomsky-solidarity/">Noam Chomsky</a> continue to speak up for Occupy Wall Street]<br /><br /><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="The People Occupy Wall Street While Wall Street Dreams of Another Recession"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="The People Occupy Wall Street While Wall Street Dreams of Another Recession"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Op-Ed</span></span></span><br /><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="The People Occupy Wall Street While Wall Street Dreams of Another Recession"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span></div><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="The People Occupy Wall Street While Wall Street Dreams of Another Recession"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="The People Occupy Wall Street While Wall Street Dreams of Another Recession">Blog comment: </span><span style="font-style: italic;">"Yesterday, NPR’s Executive Editor, Dick Meyer, <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/ombudsman/2011/09/26/140815394/newsworthy-determining-the-importance-of-protests-on-wall-street">said</a> NPR wasn’t covering the Occupy Wall Street protests because they did not “involve large numbers of people, prominent people, a great disruption or an especially clear objective.”"</span><br /><br /><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="The People Occupy Wall Street While Wall Street Dreams of Another Recession"><br /></span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/09/27/why-establishment-media-the-power-elite-loathe-occupy-wall-street/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street">Why Establishment Media & the Power Elite Loathe Occupy Wall Street</a> [op-ed]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.economist.com/node/21530171?fsrc=scn/tw/te/ar/theviewfrothetopandbottom&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed">The view from the top, and bottom [Economist]</a> </span><span>[op-ed]</span><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.observer.com/2011/09/beating-the-street-is-occupy-wall-street-the-battle-of-the-battery-or-the-bonfire-of-the-humanities-majors/">The New York Observer squeals and opines about the Rabble</a> [hilarious]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://rt.com/usa/news/cia-nypd-unit-investigation-577/">CIA to investigate NYPD spies</a> [followup to below article]<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://rt.com/usa/news/nypd-demographic-ap-muslim-571/">Secret NYPD Demographic Unit revealed</a> [past article]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. Margaret Mead</span> [yay! Someone mentioned one of my heros!]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">45 Million Americans are below the poverty line, do you want 45 million more? Speak up, stand up for-#OccupyWallStreet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">protesters should be seen as 'conservatives' because 'they call for the restoration of the rule of law.' </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#OCCUPYAMERICA is now in progress</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Howard Beale's quote from </span><a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WINDtlPXmmE">'Network'</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> is being passed around ('Im mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!')</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">'Banks got bailed out; we got sold out'</span> a popular slogan both on Twitter and in meatspace<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - netpower rising</span></a><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter.html">Day 10 - Propagating Signal</a></span><br /></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVO9jIu8joVggLtuydyLcQXfCSmuItdUF-NCB9WwNbwao63uPVtHDQaLEmOpeF-oiXmIFO1ttGzm_Gll6g3X5jHVn_Edtw0XG2t6Co_P2ZoeEEDcTLLjEtwH632c4vd8Z5az1_Zo3vefw/s1600/anonkitty.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVO9jIu8joVggLtuydyLcQXfCSmuItdUF-NCB9WwNbwao63uPVtHDQaLEmOpeF-oiXmIFO1ttGzm_Gll6g3X5jHVn_Edtw0XG2t6Co_P2ZoeEEDcTLLjEtwH632c4vd8Z5az1_Zo3vefw/s400/anonkitty.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657328007814735826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">My name is Anonymous Kitty<br />and I approve this message<br /></span> =^.^=</span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></div><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-4279087667128945072011-09-26T15:59:00.001-07:002011-09-29T04:35:43.205-07:00Video Analysis- Pepper Sprayed at OccupyWallStreet<span style="font-weight: bold;">The names of three of the women are Kelly Schomberg, Chelsea Elliot and Jeanne Mansfield. If you are one of the original camerapersons for this incident, please make all attempt to contact them; they will need your footage in court.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">[btw... one of the girls sprayed was <span style="font-style: italic;">deaf</span>. With her eyes out of commission she was completely isolated from what was happening, and could not see or lip-read to comply with officer's demands or orders. Or even shout for help. Think about it.]<br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />In the making of my protest video, <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6GdWciykBA">"Demonstration: A Video for OccupyWallStreet"</a>, I have viewed 9+ hours of Occupy Wall Street video, repeatedly, for timing, focus and flow.<br /><br />I particularly focused on the <span style="font-weight: bold;">videos of the women being kettled inside orange netting and pepper-sprayed</span>, because of the horrendous nature of that incident. I have watched in slow(2x) and ultra-slow(4x) speeds in order to understand what exactly is going on.<br /><br />I am not a professional agitator; I looked with a very critical eye, knowing how things can be obscured on video and how the result can look different or slanted as to what really happened; how video "magic" is made.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">HOWEVER - </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I would like, as an artist and video editor, to publicly call bullshit on Police Department chief spokesman Paul J. Browne, who asserts in this NYT article that the pepper spray was "used appropriately" and that "the video was edited."</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">You, sir, are either automatically denying everything or you are a stone-cold liar.</span><br /><br /><br />Mr. Browne is obviously thinking of<span style="font-style: italic;"> film</span>; he is technologically ignorant. Not to go into intense technical detail here, but besides the fact that the original camera files will be stamped and dated for authenticity, digital editing would be revealed at the bit-level by a good forensic video analyst.<br /><br />There's an easier way to <span style="font-weight: bold;">call bullshit</span> on this lying apologist:<span style="font-weight: bold;"> there are 4 camera feeds </span>from civilians; on study of the videos, <span style="font-weight: bold;">it is also apparent that there are police cameras taking video;</span> I'd like to see those sources too.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://youtu.be/moD2JnGTToA">The video that started everything is here.</a> This is the one that initially propagated and then showed up in The Atlantic and the NY Times. It's bad enough...<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMoKsZp5iao">But in my search for any related video,</a></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMoKsZp5iao"> I came upon this one.</a></span><br /></div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7QvsLAsxmmD-PXyABKVkh-ojIkiM7szpOjoxLcKDMrAyOlRWv_QQib_3cRDnhroOUbHu3HmyD4XhxN8U1RIuGTF8M7KTu7Bc_pdIUozkVdqlPXdQ_Y6vLoVEjLzQJFFKSyh0GzpIpxOY/s1600/0pighair.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 352px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7QvsLAsxmmD-PXyABKVkh-ojIkiM7szpOjoxLcKDMrAyOlRWv_QQib_3cRDnhroOUbHu3HmyD4XhxN8U1RIuGTF8M7KTu7Bc_pdIUozkVdqlPXdQ_Y6vLoVEjLzQJFFKSyh0GzpIpxOY/s400/0pighair.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656855773973889666" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here is an analysis of that video, which shows a forward-looking angle from inside the pen:</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">0:32 </span>- a large black-haired woman who is inside the pen is shown protesting to an officer regarding the rather-heavy-handed takedown of a male protestor in front of them on the street (you can see this in the video and also in the other three videos.) She is <span style="font-style: italic;">shaking</span> the barrier in distress, but is <span style="font-style: italic;">not</span> trying to get over it or rip it down; this is clear.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />0:44</span> - the women penned in start shouting because they have observed a takedown (over to the right) of a protester by<span style="font-weight: bold;"> police ramming his head into a car bumper</span> (this shot is included in my video from the side angle). In the other, viral video, you can see 3 women shouting, "what are you doing?!?!?" and "Shame!" In this video, you can hear either the cameraperson or the woman right next to her moaning softly "what the fuck!?!"<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">0:56 </span>- camera swings back to the black-haired woman, <span style="font-weight: bold;">who is being grabbed by her hair and dragged over the orange netting. </span>The cop has a firm and deep grip on her hair or it is entangled in the backpack strap and is yanking her by it. This is what the women are turning towards in the viral video, with their hands over their mouths in shock and horror.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:02</span> - The black-haired woman is dragged and the penned women are taking videos of it. You can see them doing it from the viral video also.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:06 </span>- Officer Bologna is briefly seen in the background, hands on hips, observing (white shirt)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:11</span> - <span style="font-weight: bold;">the women are asking what the police want them to do</span>: "Into the garage? Is that where you want us to go?" No one is answering them.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:23</span> - the mace is sprayed. This video does not show it, but has excellent sound, allowing for time-matching and progression from the other three angles.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:32</span> - the blue shirt on the right says, <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Jesus! He just fucking maced us!"</span> which you can see clearer on the viral video but the sound here is clear and unmistakable. That officer is shown wiping his eyes in distress after being oversprayed.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1:40</span> - cameraperson is turning in circles in panic and shouting out for water for the sprayed women.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br />It is simple to match up the timing, sound and shadows from all 4 videos to see that there could be no editing; one or more of the videos would show discrepancies in sky, shadow and timing of cue markers [sound; glimpses of people and objects].<br /><br />Of course, this is remote analysis; the court will need the original digital files from the camerapersons to be analysed by a videographer. But from manipulating video myself, I cannot see any evidence that these videos were "edited" and I cannot see any justification for the pepper-spraying; neither it appears can the blue-shirt cop who gets oversprayed; he's totally in disbelief.<br /><br />The videos serve as <span style="font-weight: bold;">elements in a multiplexing technique to</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">virtually reconstruct</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">an event</span>. This is exactly the kind of technique used in building 3D and virtual worlds and using those 'surround' cameras; multiple plane and angle views stitched together to create a 360-degree reproduction.<br /><br /><br />So<span style="font-weight: bold;"> the word of NYPD Spokesperson Paul J. Browne is highly-suspect</span>. It is a knee-jerk reaction to automatically justify any conduct on the part of any officer, regardless of the evidence or truth of the matter. It's also an incredibly stupid thing to do, showing ignorance of modern digital video, editing techniques and forensic digital analysis of video. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Either that, or it's a bald-faced lie.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">And he's caught flat-footed.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">And I'm also calling out The New York Times for its bullshit research in giving this apologist column space and demand a <span style="font-style: italic;">real</span> investigation by the NYT if they want me to continue to believe they are a real newspaper.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.edrants.com/occupy-wall-street-was-the-nypd-authorized-to-pepper-spray-peaceful-observers/">Another discovered video analysis</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.edrants.com/occupy-wall-street-was-the-nypd-authorized-to-pepper-spray-peaceful-observers/"> done by Edward Champion</a></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br />ps: shoutouts to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/occupy-wall-street?INTCMP=SRCH">The Guardian</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqwpq9yawaI">Keith Olbermann </a><br />for having the guts to do real reportage and their<br />continued reporting on this issue. Thanks.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - netpower rising</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-27308990174181455222011-09-26T04:21:00.001-07:002011-09-27T17:34:28.014-07:00Taking Wall Street by Twitter: Netpower Rising<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/b6GdWciykBA" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><div style="text-align: center; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Demonstration - A Video for OccupyWallStreet</span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">dedicated to <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://rosinhabela.tumblr.com/post/10676011699/my-name-is-kelly-schomburg-im-the-girl-with-the">Kelly Schomburg</a>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chelsea Elliot</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jeanne Mansfield</span> and the other brave ones.</span><br /></div><br />Since word seems to be getting out after 8 days (in some major lamestream media) and the power of the networked communications model of culture has made its initial strength known, I'd like to switch focus from documenting to analysis tonight in keeping with this blog's study.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Watching the Watchmen</span></span><br /><br /><br />First there were confirmed reports from released arrestees that they were being iris-scanned. Read the linked article for a summary of how an<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/13/police-adopting-iphone-based-facial-recognition-device/">iPhone app is being used by police</a><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/13/police-adopting-iphone-based-facial-recognition-device/"> to scan and record irises</a> as an identification. If you've kept up on the tech, you'll know that this kind of identity print is far harder to falsify than fingerprints (at least for now).<br /><br />Also expected and taken for granted, as well as being evidenced on crowd videos uploaded to You Tube, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">police are using their own camera crews to film protesters</span> as well as being able to access the surveillance cameras all around the square.<br /><br />Furthermore, take into account all the recent cases of police getting video thrown out of court and arresting mere bystanders/civilian reporters for filming police actions (in no way interfering with those actions) by <span style="font-weight: bold;">claiming their "privacy rights</span>," which is absurd on the face of it and a Machiavellian twisting to civil rights legislation.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A cop is a civil servant</span>, performing in a public place, paid by my tax dollars and ostensibly on my side as an upholder of the laws to which I adhere in the civil contract, not a free-range thug who can do what he wants behind a badge.<br /><br />I may <span style="font-style: italic;">argue</span> with the law or the reason for it; I may<span style="font-style: italic;"> peaceably object</span> to the law verbally and intellectually, but I understand a cop has a job to do. <span style="font-weight: bold;">I </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">do</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> claim the right to the same sort of surveillance and overview that police claim on me.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://venturebeat.com/2010/07/02/facial-recognition-camouflage/">Using makeup to distort facial recognition</a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Crowdsourcing Ascendant</span></span><br /><br />It comes as no surprise that, <span style="font-weight: bold;">as we are surveilled, we have the same tools to watch back</span>; in fact, for most of the technical generations, <span style="font-style: italic;">we made the tools in the first place</span>. We understand how to use them far better than bureaucratic types.<br /><br />So today, less than 12 hours after the needlessly brutal pepper-spraying of chanting but peaceful female protesters, videos and photographs have<span style="font-weight: bold;"> crowdsourced</span> out the acting policeman's name and badge number:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://davidscameracraft.blogspot.com/2011/09/occupy-wall-street-march-violence.html">Badge Photo Closeup<br />David's Camera Craft</a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">IDENTIFIED:</span><br />Captain Anthony Bologna<br />1st Precinct, NY<br /></div><br />Here's the tweet that's racing around tonight:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Crowdsourced identification of abusive NYPD police officer Anthony Bologna: democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboar…</span><br /><br />A phone number is also making the Twitter rounds, that of the NYPD's 1st Precinct:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Call Mr. Bologna and ask him why he </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">pepper sprayed innocent people?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(212) 334-0611</span><br /></div><br />Police Department chief spokesman Paul J. Browne asserts in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/nyregion/videos-show-police-using-pepper-spray-at-protest.html?_r=1&ref=nyregion">this NY times article</a> that the video was "edited" and pepper spray was used "appropriately." Watch it yourself. I don't think so -_-<br /><br />UPDATE 09.26.11 - the officer has also been <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dox">DOX'ed</a>, but I will not provide that link here. Call the station, call his job out; fair game. Family, relatives? No, I don't support that. That's <span style="font-style: italic;">their</span> ways and means; I won't make it mine; that's part of what I want to see changed.<br /><br />UPDATE 09.27.11 - Bologna has also been identified as <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/27/occupy-wall-street-anthony-bologna">being accused of civil rights violations involving the misuse of pepper spray at the 2004 Republican National Convention.</a><br /><br />crowdsourcing ftw :)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br />Irony being appreciated among this crowd, it's also a small giggle that his bio states he "previously owned a deli " and of course his name does "Tony Baloney" -<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">She don't like salami, she don't want pastrami</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">She don't want a chicken, she don't want a roast</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">She just wants her double dose of my</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Beef, beef, beef, beef bologna</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Fear,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPvLRrXyIok"> Beef Bologna</a></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Controlling the Channels</span></span><br /><br /><br />Twenty-one years ago, the effects of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sundevil"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Operation Sundevil</span></a> served to politicize the nascent net community, ultimately resulting in <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perry_Barlow">John Perry Barlow</a> and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Kapor">Mitch Kapor</a> forming the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation">Electronic Frontier Foundation.</a><br /><br />After this milestone of civil rights discussion and litigation, the political net seemed to simmer down for the next 20 years as the business-builders arrived to get a foot in the door and some monetary income from the new technology.<br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">although a friend just reminded me of my participation in the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cult of the Dead Cow</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;">'s </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_versus_the_Internet">information warfare with Scientology</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> back in 1995</span>]<br /><br /><br />This is an echo of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television"><span style="font-weight: bold;">television</span></a>, which was first conceived as a community medium; a way for people to exchange information with each other in neighborhoods, schools and personal life. It was taken over by the sellers of soap and its revolutionary potential was co-opted by mercantilism.<br /><br />These sellers of soaps, of lifestyles and of politics have had control of the most-immediate and most-widely-distributed means of communications for over 3 generations. They have said, in the famous words of the visionary TV show '<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CtjhWhw2I8"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Outer Limits</span></a>' -<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can change the focus to a soft blur... or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly, and we will control all that you see and hear."</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Taking back the platform</span></span><br /><br /><br />Lately, the collusion between Big Money Media and government to use the parallel streams of copyright and security to limit or control the structure and information-exchange of the net have been widely-noted. The Gatekeepers present all sorts of rationales for this control, but at its heart is fear: the fear of losing old models of control.<br /><br />Charted, channeled and controlled, monetized and suborned to moneyed interests and propagandist messages, this generation (and the past one, those of us who did not passively accept our world but studied it) has moved away from the one-way broadcast medium's content and message.<br /><br />Creating content and messages of our own, we have watched them be taken up by the Lamestream Media in its urge to "be part of what's happening" and to monetize those common social and cultural creativities [<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fvTxv46ano">all your base are belong to us</a>]. In further insult, some of these shared cultural riches have then been locked up by copyright and stolen from us to use in our remixes, our dialogues with the world presented to us (<span style="font-style: italic;">and this includes the media ocean, which we cannot readily escape</span>).<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Netpower rising</span></span><br /><br />The net is rising to an awareness of its own political power and potential. Maybe most of my generation couldn't see the potential in this medium or were intimidated by the technology. Perhaps they couldn't think outside the box that they had been coerced into by years of television propaganda; perhaps they were lazy and preferred their entertainment to be given to them rather than produce it as a participatory thing. I never had this trouble, being an artist, musician and generally-curious sort of person.<br /><br />We have watched the rise of the surveillance state, in which the tools of our livelihood and our passion are used against us for the purposes of control. We have watched Gatekeeper Media attempt to limit, destroy and subvert the net in their quest for Ultimate Monetization Of Everything and artificial scarcity as a means of economic control. We've seen "privacy laws" twisted to protect brutal thug-police and then denied to citizen-witnesses.<br /><br />The latest actions in Egypt, England, Syria, Spain and countless other places will show you why They are afraid of messages outside their propaganda machine. The bypassing of Big Media cartels in the creation and distribution of emergently-high quality music and video entertainment will also tell you why those corporatocracys are afraid.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Their control over the channels of information is slipping.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><br />Tonight's crowdsourcing of the abusive police officer's badge, name, links to his precinct's telephone number and the rest of it are only the first small ripple in the use of the same tools that these control-freaks are using against us to fight back. <span style="font-weight: bold;">You want transparency, police, governments? I want transparency too</span>: I want to be able to lawfully videotape an officer's actions. I want cameras in the "secret sessions" of Congress and the Senate and I want to be informed, in a timely manner and with full disclosure, when laws are being passed in quick midnight sessions with no oversight; I want transparency on the lobbyist sponsors of those bills and donations paid to politicians to sponsor those bills.<br /><br />Now we've seen a taste of what the net and the crowd, the body politic, can do when it takes back the tools that it created and starts using them. <span style="font-weight: bold;">We are not just "endusers" and "consumers" - we make up the network, using technology to do it.</span> Viva la Information Revolution.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">We now return you to our irregularly-scheduled revolution in keeping with this blog's mission of transmission of information.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media</span></span><br /><br />Of course the big story today is the video of the female protesters being maced, which has finally caught the attention of Lamestream Media. Kudos to The Atlantic for including it:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/09/an-important-video-to-watch-pepper-spray-by-a-cruel-and-cowardly-nyc-cop/245629/">The Atlantic: An Important Video to Watch: Pepper-Spray by a Cruel and Cowardly NYC Cop</a><br /><br />... and the crowdsourced identification and location of Captain Bologna.<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2011/09/201192543845281801.html">Al-Jazeera continues its coverage.</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://news.windowstorussia.com/wall-st-protests-police-harsh-media-silent-2.html">Wall St protests: Police harsh, media silent? [Russian News From Russia]</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/25/occupy-wall-street-protest?newsfeed=true"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Occupy Wall Street Rediscovers the Radical Imagination [Guardian]</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7K_PHuFzFM">ABC broadcast news Sept. 25 [you tube]</a><br />again with the 'protest turns violent' <span style="font-weight: bold;">propaganda</span> message: no one was violent but police, as shown on many, many videos on You Tube.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/whatever-happened-to-the-american-left.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">NYT: Whatever Happened to the American Left?</span></a><br />a good analysis and suggestions<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Independent Media</span><br /><br />* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Words & Pix</span></span> <span style="font-size:85%;">[tweets in italic]</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">This being tweeted repeatedly: NL9 National Lawyer's Guild - 212-679-6018 - write on arm with Sharpie</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">SEND A CARE PACKAGE TO:The UPS Store Re: Occupy Wall Street 118A Fulton St. #205 New York, NY 10038</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/nyclu-scene-wall-street-protests">According to this NYCLU post, you have the right to stand or march on sidewalks without a permit. </a></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11aEYlrHbWsYw9UFLmnR3V62NRdN0EtN5aVFJs_YXbg8/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1">List of places that will deliver food to Liberty Plaza</a><br /><br /></span><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/article/Day9/">A Message from Occupied Wall Street (Day 9)</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.fugginsuggin.com/2011/09/chomsky-supports-occupy-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">An email exchange with Professor Noam Chomsky regarding OccupyWallStreet</span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/violent-pictures-from-occupy-wall-street-protests">Buzzfeed: 32 Pictures Of Police Brutality From Occupy Wall Street Protests</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://themassesareangry.blogspot.com/2011/09/hyper-objectivity-and-failure-of.html">Post: Hyper-objectivity and a Failure of American Journalism</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/txup/6168612169/in/photostream/">Another iconic photo from Giles Clarke</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">NEVER rub your eyes if maced or pepper sprayed!</span><br /><br />this tweet: <span style="font-style: italic;">I'd rather slave away for a good cause than to slave away for a tyrannous organization</span>. and my response: <span style="font-style: italic;">I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels But I would slave to learn the way to sink your ship of fools. </span>Dead :)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#occupywallstreet has made me realize a horrifying truth: that in today's North America, I am afraid to take part in peaceful protest.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Now occupying Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose solidarity w/ #OccupyWallStreet</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">* * * * *<br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Video</span></span><br />* * * * *<br /></div><br />- reporting from the <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution">Global Revolution live feed</a> at 6:10amEDT says there are at least 8 lamestream media news trucks now at Liberty Square.<br /><br />This video is purported to be from Anonymous and is very good:<br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWInp75ua0">Nobody Can Predict The Moment Of Revolution ( Occupy Wall Street )<br /></a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRHXIvuqBsE">Occupy Wall Street/Backtraced Security</a> [ an anon video]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWE7mNiacY0">September 24 - police riot</a> [you tube asks for age verification on this one]<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q4Z96pNedU">Video from OccupyLosAngeles<br /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 1 & 2</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 3: Infolink</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 4: Arresting</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 6: Old School Speaks</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</span></a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-netpower_26.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Day 9 - netpower rising</span></a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8661885880710345619.post-88948184837631115172011-09-24T17:47:00.000-07:002011-09-29T03:33:12.195-07:00Taking Wall Street By Twitter - Day 8 - Watch:WitnessA disturbing video is making the rounds of female protestors, mostly<span style="font-weight: bold;"> peaceful and merely chanting</span>,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> corraled, penned up with orange plastic nets</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">[<span style="font-style: italic;">kettling</span>] and maced/pepper sprayed</span>:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><object height="320" width="500"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/moD2JnGTToA&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/moD2JnGTToA&rel=0&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="320" width="500"></embed></object><br /></div><br />It's really stirring people up, and seems the <span style="font-style: italic;">meat</span> the Lamestream Media was looking for as coverage starts leaking out around the edges. You can watch on You Tube but a sign-in is required. If it doesn't show on this page,<a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/25/1020012/-NYPD-pepper-spray-women-behind-barricade-at-OccupyWallStreet-goes-viral-DESPITE-Youtube-suppression"> go here [Daily KOS]</a>, which has a secondary, slow-motion video of the spraying showing the women clearly non-violent.<br /><br />UPDATE: <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMoKsZp5iao">another video/angle has surfaced, showing what those women were "shouting about": </a>look carefully and you will see a cop with his hands buried in a black woman's hair, twisting and pulling and wrenching. I'd be screaming too (and probably be maced).<br /><br /><br />And try watching this one and remaining unmoved:<br /><br /><span id="eow-title" class="long-title" dir="ltr" title="UNEDITED - COP KNEE ON THROAT 9/24/2011 #OCCUPYWALLSTREET" style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rbXfelyIoM">Knee choke of downed protester and police punching people wildly</a> </span><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">>>> W.... T... F <<<<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDswdFEyuIk6tRNpxqxrnj-cbfENeLyWLMEDBaS3CVxo3q2Gd-ydRwYk5U1ybCMAS1K08TeqobAggUq9OUgLK8iXz9j8QsvCRuEO7he0cyvF4CJemKkqM6FxIQSNO-UvWMQ1nLLqn5qQ/s1600/ospray.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTDswdFEyuIk6tRNpxqxrnj-cbfENeLyWLMEDBaS3CVxo3q2Gd-ydRwYk5U1ybCMAS1K08TeqobAggUq9OUgLK8iXz9j8QsvCRuEO7he0cyvF4CJemKkqM6FxIQSNO-UvWMQ1nLLqn5qQ/s400/ospray.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5657727575805094002" border="0" /></a><br /></div>I dare anyone to watch these videos and justify the actions of NYPD in this situation. This is unconscionable. Much outrage across all independent media about this action.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.livestream.com/globalrevolution">Live GlobalRevolution stream from Liberty Plaza</a></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.adbusters.org/"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >A second source of live stream from Liberty Square</span></a><br /></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">MEDICAL SUPPLIES NEEDED</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">OWS medical team is asking for supplies for makeshift medical kits:<br />milk of magnesia, bandanas and vinegar</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">, Milk of Magnesia, Bandanas, finger and leg splints, ice packs/cold packs, rubber gloves, cpr masks & swim goggles rated to 10m, water bottles with spray tops and big (#10) ziplock baggies to make kits. And "tobacco! We all smoke; we shouldn't but we do. Please send tobacco!"</span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);"> And tarps</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">bug repellent and calamine lotion, space blankets, gauze. And water; lots of water.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">These supplies should be sent to Josh & Chris at Medical Table or at Media Center</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Shipping address:<br />THE UPS STORE<br />118 A #205<br />NEW YORK, NY 10038<br /><br />RE: Occupy Wall Street<br />or<br />Courtesy OccupyWallStreet<br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Info Links:</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Police Department<br />1 Police Plaza New York, NY 10038 </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">tel: (646) 610-5000</span></span><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >misconduct towards #OccupyWallStreet protesters can be reported at: </span><br /><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Civilian Complaint Review Board</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> 1-800-341-2272</span></span><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">NY Atty General Eric's office</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> 800-771-7755 </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">cue thru 2 civil rights</span><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/%21/petition/recognize-men-and-women-who-are-occupying-wall-street/tX0ZX8Z7"><span style="font-size:130%;">Online White House Petition<br />to recognize OccupyWallStreet</span><br /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://coupmedia.org/occupywallstreet/occupy-wall-street-official-demands-2009"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Occupy Wall Street<br />Official Demands</span></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Vote HERE for All Proposed Demands to be included</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><br />in a The Formal Occupy Wall Street Document </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Groundside folks:</span> Record every badge number any & all officers you deal with. They must provide it if asked. </span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Corollary:</span> If any refuse to give you their badge number, photograph them for later identification.</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br />6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div>[<span style="font-style: italic;">as usual, tweets and RTs are in italics</span>]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">#occupychicago and #occupyLA begin.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Twitter</span> is going <span style="font-style: italic;">wild</span> today; back to the traffic that was seen in the early 2 days of the protest, and with good reason. Major American media outlets (<span style="font-weight: bold;">the Lamestream Media</span>) continue to ignore what is happening down on Wall Street despite other countries (noticeably absent: the BBC) continue to report on this protest. A few outlets are racing to catch up, smelling bread-and-butter finally -_-<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Boy, now that twitter has stopped blocking #occupywallstreet it's trending like crazy. Don't know if it's listed officially.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">alternative media - Twitter, You Tube, blogs and social networks</span> -<span style="font-weight: bold;"> are continuing to show strongly</span> and demonstrate exactly why the net needs to be protected from such legal strategies as currently being pushed to "reign in," limit and control the channels of information by the media-government cartel.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></span><br />Protesters continue to use the "mass repeat" or "<span style="font-weight: bold;">peer-to-peer networking</span>" model to speak to the crowd after arrests for using bullhorn [against local regulations], as they do with Twitter and the You Tube videos; propagating the signal which is being degraded and establishing alternate nodes to transmit information.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Some</span> Lamestream media appears to be hanging in, like <span style="font-weight: bold;">ABC 7 and WCBSTV</span>, and are repeatedly recognized and thanked in tweets, just as Steven Colbert, Michael Moore and <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/olbermann-calls-out-media-hypocrisy-on-occupy-wall-street-protest/">Keith Olbermann</a> have been over the last few days. People do recognize that some media crews are doing their jobs [see previous posts for links]<br /><br />And I see more older people in the crowd feeds and photos; 40s-80s, including this little <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/occupywallstreet/6179765878/">Grannys For Peace Brigade member being cuffed.</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Media</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/article/a-message-from-occupied-wall-street-day-six/">A Message from Occupied Wall Street - Day 6</a><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://occupywallst.org/article/A-Message-From-Occupied-Wall-Street-Day-Eight/">A Message from Occupied Wall Street - Day 8</a><br /><br /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/670831/%23occupywallstreet_is_more_than_a_hashtag:_how_technology_has_helped_%28and_hurt%29_the_movement/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Post @ AlterNet -#OccupyWallStreet Is More Than a Hashtag: How Technology Has Helped (and Hurt) the Movement</span></a><br /></div><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/world/5653450/Rage-against-Wall-Street-clogs-New-York-streets">NZ Business Day reports</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/24/occupy-wall-street-protes_n_979367.html">Huffington Post: Occupy Wall Street Protest Escalates On Eighth Day (VIDEO) </a><br /><br /><a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elpais.com%2Farticulo%2Finternacional%2Fcentenar%2Findignados%2Fneoyorquinos%2Farrestados%2Fdurante%2Fmarcha%2Fpacifica%2Felpepuint%2F20110925elpepuint_1%2FTes&act=url"><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()"><span style="font-weight: bold;">El Pais [France] Nearly a hundred outraged New Yorkers arrested during a peaceful march</span></span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/sep/25/occupywallstreet-occupy-wall-street-protests?CMP=twt_iph"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Guardian: Police crack down on 'Occupy Wall Street' protests</span></a><br />The Guardian's been there almost from the start - props out.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Froteironews.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F09%2Fviolencia-da-policia-de-ny-contra.html&act=url"><span onmouseover="_tipon(this)" onmouseout="_tipoff()">NY Police Violence against protests on Wall Street</span></a></span><br />Roteiro De Cinema News [Portuguese translated]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">PBS reporter spends 9 hours in jail despite credentials for interviewing maced woman from #OccupyWallstreet</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div><br />A lot of interesting agitprop media clippings showing up now on You Tube and Global Revolution; the artists are getting involved, including <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IvPIWzQcUY">Charlie Chaplin's final speech from The Great Dictator.</a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31167233@N08/6179409404/in/photostream">This pic</a> gets tweeted frequently under the heading "NYPD sexually-assaulting female protester"</span><br /><br />Some incredibly-moving and beautiful late-night interviews off the Global Revolution live feed, including <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Mary,"</span> who came down as a middle-aged mother to support "the young people." Just lovely and ernest.<br /><br />Another released arrestee reports that <span style="font-weight: bold;">a movie theatre on 12th Street</span> took maced protesters in and helped them with bandanas soaked in vinegar, phone calls and first aid. Wonderful.<br /><br />Some plans are emerging to "get off the plastic and disposable cycle" through using plastic camping utensils.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br />People are using <span style="font-weight: bold;">media analysis tools </span>to track media stories and tweeting the results of "what's getting more coverage than OccupyWallStreet." It's pitiful:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Things getting more coverage than #occupywallstreet: </span><br />Duck a l'Orange<br />major news stations debating the merits of a time line<br />key lime pie<br />Alec Baldwin<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Lamestream Media</span></span> lurches into action finally:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/24/80-arrested-as-financial-district-protest-moves-north/?smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto">NY Times: 80 Arrested as Financial District Protest Moves North</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">"</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">...In addition to bicycle riding, camping gear and sleeping bags were now also banned."</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">UPDATE/CLARIFICATION</span>: Tarps <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> allowed; sleeping bags <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> allowed; just must not be hung from or attached to any structure/tree/sign.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/Majority-Continue-Distrust-Media-Perceive-Bias.aspx"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Gallup Poll: Majority in U.S. Continues to Distrust the Media, Perceive Bias</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view.bg?articleid=1368523&srvc=rss"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Boston Herald: 80 people arrested at ’Occupy Wall Street’ protest</span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_WALL_STREET_PROTEST?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Associated Press [AP]: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="headline entry-title">80 people arrested at 'Occupy Wall Street' protest </span></a><br /><br /><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203890804576591364076524234.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wall Street Journal: 80 'Occupy Wall Street' Protesters Arrested </span></a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/">MSNBC finally stumbles on to the story </a><br /><br /><br />Funny about how most of the Lamestream Media <span style="font-weight: bold;">stories are about arrests... and not about the issues.</span> And of course, you aren't seeing the nasty videos there... luckily we have alternative sources, yes?<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">[from live camera feed at 10:30pmEDT: People holding up just-released issues of <span style="font-size:130%;"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/09/24/2011-09-24_police_clashes_with_protestors_calling_for_greater_financial_reform_at_union_squ.html">The NY Daily News with OccupyWallStreet front page.</a></span> W00t!]</span></div></div><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tweets & RTs</span></span><br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">many tweets repeated asking President Obama to address the protests in one of his weekly You Tube messages</span>]<br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">a bunch of tweets to celebrities that start Y U NO #occupywallstreet [celebrity name]</span> - I toss mine into the pot: <span style="font-style: italic;">Y U NO #occupywallstreet @christopherwalken - needs more cowbell!</span>]<br /><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">bunch of tweets mentioning the problem with Trending and a $400 million investment from JP Morgan Chase in Twitter</span>]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You know, @WSJ the Wall Street Journal has been the one Major NYC newspaper covering #OccupyWallStreet, thank you. Give credit when its due.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">80 people ARRESTED on Wall St. more than TOTAL that show up at TeaParty rallies that draw headlines</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. ~Abraham Lincoln </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">U measure a democracy by freedom it gives its dissidents not freedom it gives its assimilated conformists. Abbie Hoffman </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Thanks @CBS News #occupywallstreet Shoutout to CBS - their news van is following the police cars down Trinity. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If there's one thing that #OccupyWallStreet taught me that I had forgotten: There's an awful lot of good peeps out there</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The biggest threat to our national security is thinking everything is a threat to our national security.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">For me, the MSM not covering #occupywallstreet makes me wonder what else they aren't covering. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">#BurgerKing has refused to serve paying customers who are activist in the #OccupyWallStreet movement. DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY, BOYCOTT!</span><br />[<span style="font-style: italic;">and many supporting tweets using BK's old ad slogan <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Where's the beef?"</span></span>]<br /><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />It's going to take a lot more than pepper spray to make me leave </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">just called abc australia an asked why no coverage, "oh! we haven't heard anything about it, thank you," hangs up.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A simple message from #occupywallstreet: "corporation arent people". This is why we're here </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">am tired of being a cynic. afraid of dying a bitter cynic. #occupywallstreet makes me hope for positive change in US-cannot live w/out HOPE</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Tea party protests w/ guns 0 arrests.Peaceful protest in NY today many arrests.Equal justice?No</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The 2003 protest against the Iraq War was the largest protest in history, and went uncovered by major media. Be heard. </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">10:45pmEDT - Tweets and now live stream indicating many protesters arrested earlier are being released and returning to the Square.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">We are unions, students, teachers, veterans, first responders, families, the unemployed & underemployed. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Imagine if the #OccupyWallStreet protesters were carrying guns and threatening to use them, like the Tea Party?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything. ~ Malcolm X</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Quote of the day "It's not about left and right, it's about right and wrong." Love it. </span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">More videos:</span></span><br /><span id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="ANONYMOUS - message to the mainstream media (CNN)"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span id="eow-title" class="" dir="ltr" title="ANONYMOUS - message to the mainstream media (CNN)"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57cyJG0u68"><span style="font-size:130%;">ANONYMOUS</span></a><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57cyJG0u68"><span style="font-size:130%;">message to the mainstream media (CNN) </span></a></span></span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Police continue their "swarming" technique in order to block video and photos</span> but some manages to get filmed:<br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNyMr6VmGJo">Shoulder-throw takedown for trying to comply</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87wKK7Wdll4">Protester thrown over barricade during arrest</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcBX5lupbjQ">Police tripping and throwing down protester, causing concussion</a><br /><br /><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://vimeo.com/29538163">Arrest of Glenn Daniels Jr at Occupy Wall Street march in Union Square</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li1JEpd3yY8"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Arrested girl gives her account of abuse </span></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/txup/6168611497/" title="Occupy Wall Street by Time's Up! Environmental Organization, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6168/6168611497_137c9e9926.jpg" alt="Occupy Wall Street" height="374" width="500" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">iconic photo via iPhone by Giles Clarke</span><br /></div><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">It's being acknowledged and recognized</span> (at least by cooler heads) that <span style="font-weight: bold;">"many, many" of the police are showing some sympathy</span> with the positions being raised and the protestor's actions, especially because the protest has been peaceful. Doesn't mean that they won't go through the mechanism's motions because they are required to, but <span style="font-weight: bold;">many of the police are not thugs</span> (like some of these videos and photos show) and <span style="font-weight: bold;">"this is not an action against the police."</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Free Avatars</span><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-PIeC9UEumNdRmv1r8C1dC_GGfTnZXfi3AphgNtID5EfwSLRphdazY1NnDukCK_LSqfp99Iaf3L_xlgFl_kDRtOvxDpZL9M4jB5cu5lQr3EjKzEx3tPVaAeRBnO6asH_UGsjTKfcpjG4/s1600/anonkitty.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-PIeC9UEumNdRmv1r8C1dC_GGfTnZXfi3AphgNtID5EfwSLRphdazY1NnDukCK_LSqfp99Iaf3L_xlgFl_kDRtOvxDpZL9M4jB5cu5lQr3EjKzEx3tPVaAeRBnO6asH_UGsjTKfcpjG4/s400/anonkitty.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656187704050292914" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Anonymous Kitty</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwUl8AvhSogZiLhbrwUmqoGVRHOnUmzuHi4o_Zqh84KAIjrBHpS2nUXIgBe9P2yAi-0smmdgB4gHIZSazPBSUp4a8ZqRZXskalxwCqjfWdyoFhng7LJ6_WVDZUHmTNgh7NVz6Fgjz5Yc/s1600/SailorAnon.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSwUl8AvhSogZiLhbrwUmqoGVRHOnUmzuHi4o_Zqh84KAIjrBHpS2nUXIgBe9P2yAi-0smmdgB4gHIZSazPBSUp4a8ZqRZXskalxwCqjfWdyoFhng7LJ6_WVDZUHmTNgh7NVz6Fgjz5Yc/s400/SailorAnon.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656246467508332226" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Sailor Anonymous</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEnYySwFy-z8-3x_frB-aQYxgQOnkeXktmN8JvdWmOdAdDZ3mXHIuBIorMnMkImO4RVw6cg7vDzHYZW55QrHUIpaGT1FYypwiN5apmBTtkV8y2OZ3JFqhdywB2WItVf7FgDD-t9-qYx0M/s1600/av-rorschach.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEnYySwFy-z8-3x_frB-aQYxgQOnkeXktmN8JvdWmOdAdDZ3mXHIuBIorMnMkImO4RVw6cg7vDzHYZW55QrHUIpaGT1FYypwiN5apmBTtkV8y2OZ3JFqhdywB2WItVf7FgDD-t9-qYx0M/s400/av-rorschach.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656251489917319186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Anonymous Watchman</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDtY7Ph-fuKc0QJa4oLOtf10bdArJbSQUN0mfd7miSMLvchlU6eLEjbWM97QzRQtzuguHn8hSn9MMlzDX-stSiO8FDwFXqFdW7kaKt_IdbAswaYNETEhp7z7-VX0hWNh3GmP_FHfcuAo/s1600/av-batman.png"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 50px; height: 50px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsDtY7Ph-fuKc0QJa4oLOtf10bdArJbSQUN0mfd7miSMLvchlU6eLEjbWM97QzRQtzuguHn8hSn9MMlzDX-stSiO8FDwFXqFdW7kaKt_IdbAswaYNETEhp7z7-VX0hWNh3GmP_FHfcuAo/s400/av-batman.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5656251665690935186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Anonymous Caped Crusader</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:</span><br />an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" ><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/take-wall-street.html">Day 1 & 2</a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-3.html">Day 3: Infolink</a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-4.html">Day 4: Arresting</a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-5.html">Day 5: Information just wants to be seen</a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-old.html">Day 6: Old School Speaks</a><br /><a href="http://netpolitiks.blogspot.com/2011/09/taking-wall-street-by-twitter-day-7.html">Day 7/8: Watch:Witness</a><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">6e * 65 * 74 * 77 * 6f * 72 * 6b</span></span><br /><br /></div>Miso Susanowahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14628657533849686313noreply@blogger.com0