NetPolitik

In Defense of Twitter

2012-01-27T18:46:00.000-08:00

*DISCLAIMER: 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).

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Why you should consider this post

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...

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.

If you read my last post about #SOPA (or this entire site) you know that I know my stuff; 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 live 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.

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 know things; 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.

So now I must speak out in defense of Twitter.

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What Twitter Did (as opposed to what people think they did)

Twitter has announced that, in order to keep within the legal requirements of other countries in order to continue operating in those countries, their tech allows the company to block tweets or users on a country-by-country basis. Previously, blocking tweets had to be done globally, 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.

At the same time, Twitter slipped users a key to the lock. Think about that.

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. But that's playing the game we all want to get away from. 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!"

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.

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What's going on

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. There was a reason this was named "The Information Revolution" 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. This is war.

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.

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 every trunk line they own, 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.

On the other hand, what Twitter has done is technically comply with these draconian measures to suppress speech, meanwhile dispersing the technical information necessary to route around these measures in order to keep the channel of communications that is Twitter open and in use.

What Twitter could have done

Twitter could have complied like Google and allowed whatever country(s) to dictate whether Twitter could be reached at all. By technically complying with these requests/dictates, Twitter remains open as a tool for communication in war time.

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.

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 listen carefully for information that would be of use to the Resistance.

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This is war

This is war, and you have to think; 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 letter 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.

This took some guts, knowledge of their own system and knowledge of the ignorance of the enemy. 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.

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.

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.

For these reasons, I will not be participating in Op #Twitterblackout.

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SOPA & PIPA: An Internet Legal History Primer

2012-01-17T16:12:00.000-08:00

Today, January 18, 2012, a huge amount of websites will be "going dark" as a protest and demonstration of the damage that the Stop Online Piracy Act [SOPA / HR 3261] and the and the 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] are prepared to do to the functionality of the internet in the name of "protecting intellectual property" at the behest of the media megacorps.

An incredible array of tech and internet sites are taking part in this protest/declaration/demonstration; your internet will not look the same at all [for a day]. The provisions in PIPA and SOPA can actually break the internet's functionality; this is being pushed by a coalition of media and entertainment companies to "protect their intellectual property from pirates." Yes; they'd rather break the internet's functionality than figure out why their old rapacious business models are failing.

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. 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.

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A History of Communications, Privacy and Internet Law

1984: Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984 - set forth strong protections for subscriber privacy by restricting the collection, maintenance and dissemination of subscriber data. The Act prohibited cable operators from using the cable system to collect "personally identifiable information" concerning any subscriber without prior consent, unless the information is necessary to render service or detect unauthorized reception. The Act also prohibited operators from disclosing personally identifiable data to third parties without consent, 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.

[The USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act [Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001] has narrowed/gutted the CCPA privacy provisions considerably]

1986: The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was passed by Congress to expand the scope of existing federal wiretap laws, such as the the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (Wiretap Act) to include protection for electronic communications and expanded the privacy protections of the Wiretap Act in five significant ways:

ECPA broadened the scope of privileged communications to include all forms of electronic transmissions, including video, text, audio, and data.
ECPA eliminated the requirement that communications be transmitted via common carrier to receive legal protection.
ECPA maintained restrictions on the interception of messages in transmission and adds a prohibition on access to stored electronic communications.
ECPA responded to the Supreme Court's ruling in Smith v. Maryland (June 1979) that telephone toll records are not private and restricts law enforcement access to transactional information pertaining to users of electronic communication services.
ECPA broadened the reach of the Wiretap Act by restricting both government and private access to communications.

[The USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act [Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001] narrowed/gutted the ECPA privacy provisions considerably]

1987: The Computer Security Act of 1987 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. However, the Act has since been weakened, primarily as a result of the efforts of the National Security Agency and repealed with the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 [FISMA, see below]

1989: The Secret Service is given authority by Congress over "access device fraud" as an extension of its "wire fraud" authority.

1990: Operation Sun Devil, Steve Jackson Games, Inc. v. United States Secret Service

These two raids and subsequent court cases resulted in the creation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation 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.

The great hacker witch hunt hysteria begins in earnest; "hackers are going to destroy your word perfect documents and steal your credit cards!!!!!"

1991: Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 amended Title II of the Communications Act of 1934 and requires the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") to promulgate rules "to protect residential telephone subscribers' privacy rights." In 2002, a federal judge ruled that the TCPA's ban on sending unsolicited fax advertisements was an unconstitutional restriction on commercial speech.

1994: Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 [CALEA] aka "Digital Telephony Act" was passed by Congress to preserve the Government's ability, pursuant to court order or other lawful authorization, to intercept communications over digital networks. The Act requires phone companies to modify their networks to ensure government access to all wire and electronic communications as well as to call-identifying information. The law also included several provisions enhancing privacy, including a section that increased the standard for government access to transactional data.

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1996: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 [TCA] and Title V of that Act - Communications Decency Act [CDA]

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 - Title V - The Communications Decency Act of 1996 [CDA] - which proposed to "regulate pornographic material on the Internet". This amendment is the precursor to the Child Online Protection Act [COPA] of 1998; the Children's Internet Protection Act [CIPA] of 2000 and the current pending PROTECT IP Act 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.

[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". 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. We'll return to this important proviso later.]

Promises, promises

The TCA was actually a deregulation of the 1975 FCC cross-ownership 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.

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. 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.

[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]

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 $300 billion dollars in excess profits and tax deductions has been collected for this purpose.

(not) Built on lies

But there was a problem with this - the networks couldn't be built at the time the commitments were made. 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.

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: 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.

[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]

What the TCA really was about was deregulation 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.

The Net Speaks Back

Written in outraged response to government's intrusion on the development of the internet through the passage of the TCA, John Perry Barlow, an early and influential voice on the web, published the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace 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.

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:

The Telecommunications Act of 1996:A Commentary on What Is Really Going on Here

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 - Mauer School of Law

Will The New Telecommunications Act Promote Monopoly? Yes, It Will

Digital Robber Barons?

... 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.

Those few who protested and claimed the Act would lead to mass media consolidations were surprised by how quickly 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. 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).

Some Further Reading on the TCA:

1997-2002

False Premises, False Promises: A Quantitative History of Ownership Consolidation in the Radio Industry

Lessons from 1996 Telecommunications Act: Deregulation Before Meaningful Competition Spells Consumer Disaster [Consumer Reports]

Fallout from the 1996 Telecommunications Act [PDF file - Common Cause]

Moyers on America . The Internet @ Risk . Resources . Timeline

Com101- Intro to Mass Communication: Media Economics [Cabrini College]

A Little Analytical Honesty Please...

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1998: Child Online Protection Act [COPA] passed by Congress to protect children's personal information from its collection and misuse by commercial Web sites [the law, however, never took effect, as three separate rounds of litigation led to a permanent injunction against the law in 2009]... but that didn't seem to be enough, as Congress then passed the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) - the "think of the children!" spectre was first being pushed as a way to make people fear the internet.

1999: The Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (GLB), 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 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. The Act also requires administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect the security and privacy of information.

The Wireless Communication and Public Safety Act of 1999 required all mobile telephones created after 2000 to have the capability to map the user's location through the use of global positioning systems. The primary benefit of such a system is that it enables 9-11 operators to locate callers in distress. However, such systems also raise major privacy concerns since they allow mobile telephone users to be located at any time. The Act clarified that telephone companies' must obtain the customer's opt-in consent to collect location information in any non-emergency situation.

2000: Children's Internet Protection Act [CIPA] - proposed to limit children's exposure to pornography and explicit content online. Both of Congress's earlier attempts at restricting indecent Internet content, the Communications Decency Act and the Child Online Protection Act, were held to be unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds.

2002: E-Government Act of 2002 - expanded e-government initiatives in the executive branch. The Act contained privacy protections, such as prohibitions on the secondary disclosure of information obtained for statistical purposes. This Act included the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 [FISMA; Title III], which recognized the importance of information security to the economic and national security interests of the United States, and the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act [CIPSEA; Title V], which establishes uniform confidentiality protections for information collected for statistical purposes by US statistical agencies. The law guides standardized approaches to the idea that a respondent's information should not be exposed in ways that lead to inappropriate or surprising identification of the respondent. By default the respondent's data is used for statistical purposes only. If the respondent gives informed consent, the data can be put to some other use.

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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.

You know this has not happened. You know that these laws have been exploited, twisted or ignored by both government and private corporations. 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."

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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:

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.

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].

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.

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Holiday Carols for Netizens & OWS

2011-12-19T10:55:00.001-08:00

Deck the Halls with Dox of Folly

Deck the halls with dox of folly!
tralalalala lala la la!
Lulzy Xmas should be jolly
falalalala, lala la la!

Don we now our Guy Fawkes gas masks
lalala, lalala, la la la!
Poke the plutarchs in their asses
lalalalala, lala la la!

O Google +

O Google+ O Google+
How tricky are thy branches
You promised us some neato stuff
To get us in your clutches

You signed me up, and led me in
then killed my posts when I used a nym

O Google+, you suckered us
Now do I post my ranting cuss.

O Google+ O Google+
Your motto, "don't be evil"
Was just the words of market turds
The slogan of some weasels

You want to rule identity
So you can then cash in on me

O Google+ O Google+
We see now how
You've betrayed us

Occupy Ride

I hear those cop belts jinglin'
Ring-ting-tinglin' too
Oh ho, it's lovely weather to go
Occupy Together with you!

Outside there's tear gas flying
and friends are crying, boohoo
Come on, it's lovely weather
to go Occupy Together with you!

     Giddyup, giddyup, giddyup, let's go
     We're streaming the show
     Protesting in a wonderland of snow
     Giddyup, giddyup, giddyup, it's grand
     they're cuffing our hands
     We're tweeting it all with a call
     To our Occupy bre-ther-en!

Our tents are nice and rosy
And comfy cozy are we
We're rounded up together
Like free birds of a feather would be

Outside the sirens calling
And pepper spray's falling now too
Oh ho, it's lovely weather to go
Occupy Together with you!

     There's an Occupation at the home of Mayor Grey
     It'll be the perfect ending to a perfect day
     We'll be chanting the songs we love to sing without a single stop
     As we run from the Casually Pepper Spraying Cop!
     Pop-diddly-Op!

     There's a happy feeling nothing in the world can buy
     As we see how many people come to Occupy
     It'll nearly be like a picture print from Revolution times
     These wonderful things are the things
     Our democracy gives our lives

Outside there's tear gas flying
and friends are crying, boohoo
Come on, it's lovely weather
to go Occupy Together with you!

I hear those cop belts jinglin'
Ring-ting-tinglin' too
Oh ho, it's lovely weather to go
Occupy Together with you!

Lulz Xmas

I'm dreaming of a Lulz Xmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where Anon masks glisten
And children listen
To hear pastebins in the snow

I'm dreaming of a Lulz Xmas
With every oligarch I dox
May your days be lulzy and bright
And may all your nfo-grabs be right

God Rest Ye Merry, Netizens

God rest ye merry, netizens
Let nothing you dismay
Remember that the Congressmen
Are noobies and are lame
They threaten us with SOPA's power
But do not know our ways
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy.

In DNS and TCP they do not understand
They think that they can block us out
And use their iron hand
To keep us all from pirate sites
And pages that they ban
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy

For we are ones who built the net
Who live it every day
We let the men of commerce run
For 10 years with their way
But now it's time we claim our power
And show them it's our game
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy
Comfort and joy
Oh, tidings of comfort and joy

Operation Blackout & protect the Internet

2011-11-19T12:11:00.000-08:00

SOPA & PIPA

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!

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.

TRANSCRIPT

Citizens of the United States, We are Anonymous.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive censorship.
We do not forget the denial of our free rights as human beings.
To the United States government, you should've expected us.

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Anonymous on Protect IP Bill

404 FREEDOM NOT FOUND - Message From Anonymous On The IP Act

Message From Anonymous: Protect IP Act

Kill the "Protect IP" Bill!

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Please see the Legal and Resource Material sections of the sidebar here for other legislation designed to break fundamental functions of the Internet. Get active if you love your nets.

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The Implacable Iron Fist of Google

2011-11-08T09:20:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, 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:

"This blog is no longer accessible. The name is unavailable for new accounts."

WTF?!?!

After following the breadcrumb trail left for me by Blogger, I got to a page that informed me:

"There has been suspicious activity 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..."

After I entered a phone number and got the Confirm Code, my blogs were immediately accessible again.

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Google pretends to be helpful

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 handy to have a phone number to use as another confirmation. There's also been a link in that page that said "skip this step" 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.

With Google suggesting 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).

The real deal

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.

"Over the next few days you should see a link on your Google Account Settings page that allows you 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."

Google Adds 2-Factor Security to Gmail, Apps [Krebs]

Here's a big blah-blah page from Google about "two-step verification"

"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. "

"You enable 2-step verification for your domain in your Google Apps control panel. The user enrolls in 2-step verification... Note: You can’t force your users to use 2-step verification, they must opt-in themselves."

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Real security

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 Passkey to hold your passwords.

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 Wayback Machine). So I recommend choosing your question (if this alternative is offered) or using an answer that is completely unrelated to the questions but associated in your mind with the question:

Q. What was your childhood pet's name? A. Squanomish
Q. Where were you born? A. inmymotherswomb
Q. What was your favorite sport? A. escapingbullies

Combine those with the ASCII and spelling variants: Squ@nomiish, inmeyem0therzw0mb, ezkapeingbullieyes and you have a second layer of security, not easily guessed.

And the final simple rule: never use the same password for more than one service.

So the password:
6D9F1$%&3[invisible space/ascii character Alt + 255]15~>#b+

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.

The fact is that, like a house, you can never be completely secure, 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?

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The Google Two-Step

It's obvious by now that all this blah-blah about "enrolling" and "allowing" and "opt-in" is plain bullshit. So is the supposed "security" offered.

The 30-day browser cookie set by users that click the "Remember verification for this computer" checkbox means that if your computer is stolen, the thief can still access your account without having to provide the second step of verification, and likely not even the password if your computer was just sleeping and browser already open.

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 supercookies? Same deal. Google wants to know where you are and what phone number you are using every 30 days.

Go ahead; try to opt-out, sucker

From more than a dozen posts explaining how to "turn off two-step verification" from both Google and many bloggers, you get this information:

Q.16) How can I turn off 2-step verification on my Google Account
A.16) You can turnoff 2-step verification, by going to Google Accounts –> Using 2-step verification –> click on Turn off 2-step verification…

Here's the separate section on "how to turn off two-step verification"

Another article telling you how to turn off two-step verification

"In order to turn off two-step verification, visit this page or log in to your Google account and go to Settings >> Account Recovery Options >> Recovering your password. That page will tell you you can "add more information to your account to increase your account-recovery options."

Both ways will take you to this:

click the picture for the Big Picture

Notice that if you have not "opted-in" or "enrolled" or "allowed" this process previously, 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.

Remind you of Facebook much? It should. There's no way to opt-out currently without first opting-in, 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.

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FSCK Google

Am I alarmed by this? I certainly am. I am alarmed by Google pretending this is an opt-in service, repeating that idea in various words and meaning absolutely the opposite.

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. [fsck is analogous to the Windows utility chkdsk]

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 "Identity Provider"; Google's connection to OpenID and the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace [PDF link to whitehouse paper], which Google calls the Kantara Initiative (shades of the D.H.A.R.M.A. Initiative!).

I'm not the only one.

Identity Crisis: The Delusion of NSTIC

Real Names: Google+, Government & The Identity Ecosystem

Google & NSTIC Leading the March to Digital Totalitarianism?

Botgirl's curated “Nymwars News and Commentary” site

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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. I do not like liars 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.

Google has now proven to me that they are in fact dead-set on "doing evil."

Google must have forgotten everything it knew about the net; I can think of a dozen ways to get around this type of forced identification and access 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.

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[double-posted at My So-called Virtual Life]

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Internet Under Fire

2011-11-04T11:33:00.000-07:00

Top news for netizens: The Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011, aka P.R.O.T.E.C.T. IP Act,[S.968] now known as the "Enforcing and Protecting American Rights Against Sites Intent on Theft and Exploitation Act" ie E-Parasites Act [HR 3261] and Stop Online Piracy Act [SOPA] and unofficially known as the Blacklist Bill [watch the name-shifting; confusing eh? It's supposed to be] which also lumps in a House version of the felony streaming bill [S 978] that will make huge swaths of Americans felons for streaming content online is scheduled to be heard in the House Judiciary Committee on Nov. 16.

You can sign the petition on We The People, the White House's "outreach" petition program, here. In order to warrant a response from the White House, it has to reach 25,000 signatures by November 30th.

Also under threat from Google

If you need reasons, you might want to read this Professors’ Letter in Opposition to 'Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011' from July, 2011 by 108 law professors.

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Meanwhile, Net Neutrality, the First Amendment of the digital age, is under fire in the Senate; a vote scheduled next week on a “resolution of disapproval”; 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.

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The elephant in the room

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 suppressing free speech under the cloak of "preventing piracy" 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."

The dirty little elephant in the room 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 Chinese and Taiwanese factories that pump out 10,000 factory-sealed discs daily, complete with top-of-the-line graphics and cd/dvd pressings. This counterfeiting far surpasses any losses from casual tune-swapping or ripping to hard drives for convenience.

Because of our "trade agreements" with these countries, even Microsoft 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.

The facts remain: many studies and factual reports indicate that not only are musicians making more money than ever, 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.

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The RIAA and MPAA lie

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 more product (as cassette tapes didn't have nearly the fidelity of vinyl).

Well, the Industry killed the 45/single format, went to CDs that they told us would cost far less "once we retooled our vinyl factories to produce CDs" and never reduced the selling prices although the cost for producing digital goods has plummeted to a fraction of the cost of vinyl production and shipping, and made back catalog (classic tunes, movies and albums many people would willingly buy) unavailable.

Why did they do this? Because older material has better contracts, balanced between profit for the artist and for the company; new contracts all but impoverish artists while the Company rakes in profit, plays dirty accounting tricks and fraud to show "losses" on multi-platinum releases and makes a mockery of "supporting artists."

For the same reason, they squeezed radio stations with piratical "performing rights" legislation, 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 in order to drive culture, not to celebrate or distribute it.

In fact, the RIAA and MPAA statistics have been repeatedly debunked.

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Breaking the internet - colluding interests

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 we've paid for [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.

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."

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.

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 breaking fundamental functions of the nets:

Security and Other Technical Concerns Raised by the DNS Filtering Requirements in the PROTECT IP Bill [PDF]

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Protect your Internets

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).

Given the recent global dialogues/uprisings started with the 'los indignados' 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.

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.

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Clouting Klout (and etc)

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:

Stop the Social Puppetry for Klout and Other Influence Metrics!
[Social Media Today]

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.

On the same issue, I resent some company trying to tell me how to use my friendships and networks to cash in. My friends are not for sale. 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.

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The Empire Strikes Back... In Oakland

2011-10-25T23:57:00.000-07:00

8th and Washington, Oakland CA, USA

#3OccupySF

punkboyinsf's livestream from Oakland
the chat channel is excellent

Livestreaming from SF

email Oakland officials:
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"

CA Governor Jerry Brown: Phone: (916) 445-2841 Fax: (916) 558-3160

Oakland Mayor Jean Quan: (510) 238-3141

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I guess you know what's happening... or do you? Perhaps if you lived in Norway you would:

85 arrestert i «Occupy»-demonstrasjon
Camper utendørs for å vise sin avsky mot kapitalismen

Or from AlJazeera:
Police clash with Oakland protesters

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, The Weather Space:

ABC 7 News shuts cameras off on Occupy Oakland as police attack with gas
"not something we usually report on but no one else will." - much respect.

Atlanta police have declared media reporting at #OccupyAtlanta to be unlawful. Demand freedom of the press.

US cops tried to erase online evidence of brutality
Google asked by US law enforcement agency to sanitize videos exposing police brutality from You Tube, claiming they "defame law officers."

Occupy Wall Street's Battle Against American-Style Authoritarianism
This is why

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How OWS Has Exposed the Militarization of US Law Enforcement

My livestream filming guy got gassed. He's not doing too good right now. Poor dude.

The arms firm behind the suppression of #OccupyOakland and Palestine's popular struggle [Akhbar]

this is USA democracy? you were a light in the dark. what a shame!

Flash-bangs are a type of hand grenade, being used on non-violent US citizens for "illegal assembly." Not rioting; not criminal acts.

journalism died today at #occupyoakland Cops told media 'don't shoot video' & media went home

Police Fire Tear Gas at Protesters in Oakland, Calif. [NYTimes]

Police used teargas and smoke grenades and rubber bullets on a camp with children in it.

Police tear gas Occupy Oakland protesters [SF Chronicle]

funny how no1 has been charged with anything and the cops had to call it an "unlawful assembly" not vandalism, assault or other

Oakland Police Turn on #OWS With Tear Gas, Flash-Bang Grenades [Mother Jones]

I don't recall gun-totin Tea Partiers being tear gassed for their peaceful protests.

Oakland police chief announces resignation as teargass and rubber bullets fly

OAKland Police Chief resigns in wake of #OccupyOkland police brutality claims

Occupy Oakland Protest: Police Fire Tear Gas And Beanbag Rounds, Clear Out Encampment [HuffPost]

#OccupyOakland is singing Star Wars Imperial March

Police State: Occupy Oakland Turns Dramatically Violent [All Education Matters]

Banks got bailed out, we got tear gassed.

Police Terrorize the Streets of Oakland to Force out #occupy Demonstrators

I wonder what officers say to cops to make them feel it's OK to act like animals. Audio will surface, bet on it.

Mayor ignores clergy to raid Occupy Atlanta
State Sen. Vincent Fort (D-GA) arrested.

why are police arresting and using military-grade weapons on peaceful protestors across the country?

Police brutality charges sweep across the US

When Injustice Becomes Law, Rebellion Becomes Duty.

How To make a Tear Gas Mask | HOWTO Protection at Protest

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The War You Don't See - John Pilger [video]
award-winning video report from CNN on propaganda
thx to LexingtonBilly for this link

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Videos - watch and weep
You really shouldn't download these videos; it's against TOS.

Occupy Oakland - Flashbangs USED on protesters
Grenade deliberately thrown into crowd of people, not street trying to aid Scott Olsen, a Marine veteran of two tours of Iraq, already down and bleeding, who gets it right next to his head. Sickening. UPDATE: as of Wednesday he is in Critical condition.

OWS Cops Tear Gas Occupy Oakland (10/25/11)
Tear gas and flash-bang grenades used on peacful US Citizens

Protesters Clash With Police After ‘Occupy Oakland’ Camp Raided
Good CBS video report on Oakland police violence

RAW VIDEO: Ground footage of Occupy Oakland march and crowd dispersal
No violence; marching, standing; "unlawful assembly"
Woman in wheelchair gassed; fallen man bombed with grenade

Marine Vet wounded, tear gas & flash-bang grenades thrown in downtown Oakland

Protesters Clash With Police After ‘Occupy Oakland’ Camp Raided

Raw Video: Protesters Clash With Oakland Police

Police crackdown on Occupy Oakland [RT]
Tearing down the camp

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Photos

Rubber bullet to the head

Beanbag round to the leg

Woman in wheelchair gassed, rescued
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.

Navy man Holds Fast, carrying copy of Constitution
He's joined by an Iraq vet - two men of great honor; I salute you.

CS grenade and two shotgun shells used to fire beanbag rounds

CS grenade #2 and remains of flash-bang?

Photography of Police dismantling Occupy Oakland

Guess they forgot
2003 news clipping regarding lawsuit and Oakland police banning the use of the weapons ther are using now.

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Occupy The URL

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World Council of Credit Unions
move your money

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L.I. Couple Seeks Trademark For "Occupy Wall St."
Let these people know how you feel about this

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tweets from #ows channels are always shown in italic

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Taking Wall Street by Twitter series:
an exploration of the power of electronic democracy in action

Day 1 & 2: Live Blogging
Day 3: Infolink
Day 4: Arresting
Day 5: Information just wants to be seen
Day 6: Old School Speaks
Day 7/8: Watch:Witness
Day 9 - Netpower Rising

Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet
Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS
Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet
Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message
Day 28: Showdown
Day 29: Just One Victory
Occupation: World - Oct. 15th
Good People Rising - Occupy Souls
The Empire Strikes Back... in Oakland

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Good People Rising - Occupy Souls

2011-10-17T21:47:00.001-07:00

"This is not a war zone! This is not justice!"

USMC Sgt. Shamar Thomas, 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 full video: USMC Sgt. Thomas at Occupy Wall Street. And here is the interview with Keith Obermann on Countdown.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

Thank you, Sgt, 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.

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Happening

Global revolution: protests in 1,000+ cities — in videos [Roar]

From a single hashtag, a protest circled the world [Reuters]

Occupy Wall Street Marks One Month [OccupyWallStreet statement]

10,000 people Occupy San Francisco... and then camp raided, torn down; police brutality continues.

Dr Cornel West, Princeton University professor, is arrested at the Supreme Court along with 16 other protesters from Occupy.

Peaceful revolution rises on 5 pillars: persistence, courage, visibility, numbers, and calm.

Rev. Bernice King, Dr. Martin Luther King's daughter, says that her father would have been heartened by the Occupy and 99% movements.

Today the Reverend Jesse Jackson stood up the NYPD when they came to destroy the Medical Tent.

RT @OccupyWallSt: #nypd is trying to bust down our medical tent, but @revjjackson is in the way

Meanwhile, in my own Cincinnati, a lawsuit was filed today in federal court by Occupy Cincinnati, alleging that the City of Cincinnati’s Parks Rule has kept Cincinnatians from exercising their constitutionally-protected rights to free speech and assembly.

This series of photos from the Berlin Occupation could come right out of a history book.

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Campaigns/strategies

OccupyGeorge: campaign to send messages to the banksters on their own "letterhead"

Occupy The Banks - listserv

Cyberactivism From Egypt to Occupy Wall Street [Nation]

This Cell Phone Guide for Occupy Wall Street Protesters (and Everyone Else) from the Electronic Frontier Foundation is a must-read.

More hand signals from Occupy Wall Street
Non-verbal semantic arts in play

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Hijacking the Movement

Hamsher: Dems Co-opting Occupy Wall St.

Democrats want to hijack Occupy Wall Street? [RT]

A good synopsis of MoveOn.Org's moves from Alex Jones

A Letter From Goldman Sachs [Borowitz Report]
Monetize the Occupation! [HUMOR]

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Meaning

An Inarticulate Articulation of Why Occupy Wall Street Doesn't Need to Articulate a Damn Thing
Beautiful, articulate bullshit-calling.

The Contrasting Psychologies of 'Occupy Wall Street' and the 'Tea Party' [Forbes]
Written by a 20-yr clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst

This article from Frank Pasquale titled "The Moral Authority of Occupy Wall Street" is a concise refutation of all the "talking points" of the OWS deniers/astroturfers/vituperative trolls.

Why Occupy Wall Street is Bigger Than Left vs. Right [Rolling Stone]
Matt Tabibi

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

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"It's the economy, stupid"

Financial crisis protests: the world versus the bankers [Guardian]

The Quiet Coup: the finance industry has effectively captured our government [Atlantic]

Wall Street Buys Washington: Here's How Much Banks Gave To The 2012 Presidential Candidates [Business Insider]

Rabbit-Hole Economics: Paul Krugman examines Tuesday’s Republican debate on the economy [NYT/Opinion]

Royal Dutch Shell: The World's Dirtiest Oil Company
More news the news didn't tell you

Have you noticed that throughout all this no one has said I'M SORRY. Not ONE apology or semblance of responsibility from #the1%

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Questionable

Top CIA clandestine operative is working with the NYPD.
Questions abound as to why

CNN badgers protesters
Just as good as Faux News for pretending to be "news"

Honolulu Police Load Up on Taser Ammo, Pepper Spray, Bean Bags for APEC
My friends know that in the early 90s I traveled to Hawai'i 5 yrs in a row; helped out in the Mau'i Hawai'ian Language Reclaimation Project; helped wire the first cybercafe 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. Real Kanaka are mostly SO POOR outside the one-mile "tourist Hawai'i" strip... this is disgusting.

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Race-Baiting Bigoted Smear Job

Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism --- must-read

Charges Of Occupy Wall Street Anti-Semitism Find Audience On The Right

I want to comment on the ugly assertions 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 Karl Rove. It also goes back hundreds of years and is currently used to stifle debate about Israel's policies.

I question these assertions; I question this entire line of propaganda. I question whether these few people are representative of the movement; I question israel today Magazine's pushing of this issue; according to their own article, they quote the American Nazi Party's website, which has "come out in support of OWS."

First of all, israel today, you're going to quote Nazis?!?!? Your argument is invalid; Godwin'd right there. You ignore the reports that these people have been shown to be local crazies with a history of showing up at every large gathering for many years, or even wandering the streets randomly. You push this racism using three examples (besides your Nazi Party one). These are the same people that sniff and dig and triumphantly post anti-Muslim diatribes. They are professional agitators and propagandists who whine when someone uses their own tactics against them. I'd like to see them DOX'd and find out exactly who is behind them.

I have nothing against Jews; only the Israeli government; like all governments lately, it show signs of rabid insanity and paranoia. And so does israel today Magazine. I can certainly criticise the government for their actions and policies without being anti-Semitic.

ADL Slams Rush Limbaugh Calling His Remarks 'Borderline Anti-Semitic' [2010]
from the Yiddish News - and here's a transcript of the phone call session

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 policies of the Israeli government? Or is it just an ugly piece of psywar/propaganda warfare to destroy a movement that is shaking the world's governments?

10 Craziest Things Said About Occupy Wall Street

[And don't start flooding my Comments with racist bigoted bullshit from either side 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]

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet
Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS
Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet
Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message
Day 28: Showdown
Day 29: Just One Victory
Occupation: World - Oct. 15th
Good People Rising - Occupy Souls

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"53:48:55:54:20:49:54:20:44:4f:57:4e"

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Occupation: World - Oct. 15

2011-10-15T06:22:00.000-07:00

Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' is played to thousands in Madrid
by the Solfonica Orchestra live, making me cry.

"spirit fingers"

History erupts today. Twitter is the new News [as always, tweets in italics]. Do not count on complete accuracy; all is in motion and churn.

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.

National Lawyers Guild Occupy protest support and hotlines

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I went to OccupyCincinnati 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 my home. Finally, I live in the America (and world) of my 7-yr-old heart again. I wish I had someone to share this moment with tonight... but I am with all of you, so... it's ok ^_^

How To Occupy An Abstraction
The digital domain of the Occupy movement

Thank you, world. TY Internet. TY #OccupyWallStreet #ows #O15

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Today Is The Day

Perhaps these moments are what all those 2012 predictions were about: an apocalypse is a change-state; nothing says it cannot go positive as easy as negative.

From Tahrir Square to Times Square:
Protests Erupt in Over 1,500 Cities Worldwide

Goosebumps all day long. It's been amazing, and it's just the beginning

Israelis launch world protest day with solidarity demo on Syrian border

60,000 plus protested in Chile today!

It's going on all over the world; in Canada, Spain, Melbourne, Barcelona, Rome, Brussels, Paris, Toronto, Oakland, London, Syntagma, Warsaw, Hong Kong, Madrid, Venezuela, Orlando, Regina, Berlin, New York, Bucharest, Dublin, Los Angeles, Finland, Reno, Zurich, Columbus, Santa Rosa, Cibeles Square, Santiago, Amsterdam, China, Tel Aviv...

Flags of #Palestine, #Mohawk Nation flying on Bay Street!

Julian Assange 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 speaking to the OccupyLSX folks. He also says, "This movement is not about the destruction of law, but the construction of law." Unfortunately, he then gets stuck in #OccupyLSX kettle and needs to be back in Norfolk by 5pm to avoid breaching bail ...

Lech Wałęsa to visit at Occupy Wall Street
Former President of Poland, Nobel Peace Prize winner and pivotal in ending the Soviet era in Poland. This is tremendous news.

RT @OccupyWallStNYC: At NYU building at corner of BWay and Waverly streetfront window monitor is playing our livestream!

This lonely, brave woman Occupies the Tundra while this small crowd Occupies the Bering Sea... and at the other end of the world is OccupyAntarctica. In Rome an estimated 200,000 people clog the streets. This video from OccupyPerth has the Perth Clock Tower in it.

Madrid: Must be at least 15,000 here now- from a few hundred half an hour ago. Sudden explosion of noise and chanting

Photos from Times Square say it all, as does t : Occupy is not "a small, rag-tag bunch of hippies."

You can only push decent hard working people so far before they inevitably force change. Check your history books.

#OccupyKorea #OccupySeoul #OccupyYeouido [video]

Over 10 blocks of San Francisco have been taken over. #Occupy your streets! Thousands upon thousands are pouring into Civic Center

A look into the "HOW" of the Occupy Wall Street movement: The consensus process [video]

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.

Young boy's sign: Occupy My Future [photo]

I don't have words to say how inspiring peaceful beautiful cooperative #OWS NYC. Maybe America IS going to be able to save itself.

A Spanish tweet... mentioning French politics. Truly global!
¿Dónde están los señores que decían que este movimiento no tenía comparación con "El gran Mayo francés"? ['Where are the gentlemen who said that this movement was not opposed to "The great French May"?']

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The New Media

Social Media continues to prove itself, particularly Twitter; indicating just how corrupted and beholden to political interests Lamestream Media is. New Media is also about transparency: "we are the eyes of the world." Police, corporations, stores watch us constantly. We can watch back now, but soon we might be unable to:

"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" Yeah, sure. Now you know.

Please see the Legal Section on the right sidebar here for information on protecting your Internet.

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Media blackout... 70% uninstalled.

An Intense Moment of Truth on MSNBC

Occupy Wall Street: On The Scene As The
'Day of Action' Culminates in Times Square [TIME]

From the Arab Spring to the American Fall? [TIME]

Ben & Jerry’s Becomes First High-Profile
Company to Support Occupy Wall Street

Front-page coverage on CNN/US

[Leading coverage in many foreign media]

Congratulations, everyone.

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 [Russia Today]

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The Banksters

Citibank locks protesters (all Citibank customers) inside and starts arresting them for attempting to close thier bank accounts. 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. Let Citibank know this was shameless. BTW, Citigroup paid no taxes and received a $2.5trillion bailout.

And they weren't the only ones: Santa Cruz BofA refuses to close woman's account. Manager: "You cannot be a customer and a protester at the same time - corporate orders." And this was on Oct. 7th.

Move Your Money
Go local and remove the Banksters from your life

Seeing as how banks are refusing customers service, and will even lie to you, during the next week, open an account at a local, small bank or credit union then phone transfer your account balance, or get a bank check for your balance and get it right to your new account. Be sane; be careful with large amounts of cash or checks until they are safe in your new account.

Long ties to Koch brothers
key to Herman Cain's campaign

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Countermoves

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.

500 lock arms in Chicago as police move in [2:33amEDT]

100+ police + horses attack peaceful #OccupySYDNEY protest tearing down tents & putting everything in rubbish trucks – arrests.

They use horses to charge the crowd
I knew they would; been there DNC 2000 LA

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 [8 pm London time].

Police entrapment: given permission to walk, then arrested in 15 seconds

Riot police surrounded fountain. I was one of last to leave. Kicked legal green hats [Observers] out [Washington Square Park, Midnight]

Cops For Sale
The new Praetorian Guard

@BreakingNews: Police in New York, Chicago,Seattle warning Occupy protesters to clear out

How To Escape From Zip-Ties
in case some thug or kidnapper breaks in and uses them on you or your family...

500 arrested including ANSWER Coalition organizers! #OccupyCHI

What We Know About 'Hipster Cop'
You've seen him... now see him.

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

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BUY NOTHING DAY

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.

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Posts

Why I Went to Occupy L.A. Instead of Synagogue
A 14-yr-old girl explains

How the Wall Street Protesters Win
loving advice and encouragement

Why Occupy Wall Street Has Already Won [Slate]

America’s ‘Primal Scream’ [NYT]

Twenty reasons why it's kicking off everywhere
Prescient article from BBC's Paul Mason

Who is Your Leader?
The Entrenched are frustrated in not having a target to attack.

A Billionaire's advice to OccupyWallStreet
very interesting read by Mark Cuban

Meet the Guy Who Snitched on Occupy Wall Street to the FBI and NYPD
Isn't this hacking and assorted computer crimes? See how the double standard works now?

Police Infiltrate Peaceful Protests, Videotape Shows [NYT]

Propaganda Bust: Deconstructing "One of the 53%"
Brilliant expose of propaganda photoshopping & crowdsourced busting

On the front lines in Times Square, NYPD in full fight mode
blow-by-blow account of horrific police action in Times Square

Beyond the Corporate Veil The Good The Bad The Ugly (hidden revealed)
Please read this post

The Guys in the 1% Brought This On
Barbara Ehrenreich

Which 10 Giant Corporations Don't Pay Taxes?
Exxon Mobil, Bank of America, General Electric , Chevron, Boeing, Valero Energy, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Carnival Cruise Lines

Wall Street's Long Occupation of the Middle Class
David Rohde

Turkish media report

Greece's fiscal mess, all thanks to Goldman Sachs

What’s Going On? Protests, Riots, the Internet and a Changing Civilisation

The Truth About Occupy Wall Street: It’s Much Smaller Than It Seems
Walter Shapiro writes a bit too hastily

Photos

International photo set from The Guardian

Huge photoset from NYC

Huge global photoset at Cryptome

BigFatWhale Comic: BofA's future plans
brill, as my Brit friends say

Teach Your Children Well
Reading to kids at #OccupyWallStreet

We Deserve Better [Ottowa]
Yes, we do.

"Someone left a flower outside our tent last night"
more like a bouquet... in Taipei

Hundreds sit at 2am in front of ABC Studios on Broadway
Hard to ignore the news when it's outside your door...

Videos

Hand Signals of the General Assembly [video]

Occupy Dame Street [Ireland]

Police use scooters to ram crowds; mass arrests 10.14

Sean Penn speaks about Occupy Wall Street

Glenn Beck primes people for The Apocalypse; accuses "The Left" of being killers, rapists
Now you see who the real anarchists and terrorists are - people like this, urging their followers to violence and murder.

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I'm not a big name; my blog is small. I haven't been really promoting it that much and I am a Tweet babbler. 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:

This is an #epic face & twitter *^_^*!<3 @misosusanowa yfrog.com/odmnuxj

... and makes me cry even more. TY RazorBladeDoll.

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And this series of tweets from Hollywood Boulevard helped me wash off some of my bitterness from living under this Iron Empire for almost all my adult life:

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.

They've been duped by the machine into fighting for the very interests intent upon using them up & spitting them out.

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.

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.

Eventually, even the conservatives in middle class will come around. They'll begin to get it, & we can be friends again.

Fight & keep fighting, but do it w/ love in your heart. #OWS #OLA #O15 #Occupywallstreet #OccupyLa #Occupyeverywhere

... and made me cry and lose my place typing again. Thx Hollywood.

A post from my friend and fellow-artist, soror

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"One Mind there is; but under it two principles contend"
Philip K. Dick's visionary wisdom

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet
Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS
Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet
Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message
Day 28: Showdown
Day 29: Just One Victory
Occupation: World - Oct. 15th

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Just One Victory - Occupy Wall Street

2011-10-14T22:31:00.001-07:00

5amEDT October 14, 2010 - NYC

6:50amEDT

Denver, 1amCMT

[Tonight's guest post written by the ghost of Dorothy Parker]
[tweets in italics]

Hundreds + hundreds of NYers & ppl from around country got up early today to stand up for something. This is significant.

Of course everyone is celebrating the huge victory this morning for #OccupyWallStreet over the ~~minions of Sauron~~ the "suspension" of the "cleaning" fiction imposed by Mayor "I'm A Billionaire" Bloomberg after a little legal pressure, some fact-finding and a whole lotta cleanup by the protesters themselves.

Arrests continue at Occupy sites, like Boston and Denver while nationwide and worldwide protests aligned with the Occupy movement continue to grow; at this time the count is an amazing 951 cities in 82 countries.

Occupy Together engages today; some cool videos from OccupyHong Kong, OccupyTokyo and this photo of #OccupyLSX [London Stock Exchange]

Things might become more interesting on Bank Transfer Day, Nov 5th.

100+ police + horses attack peaceful #occupySYDNEY protest tearing down tents & putting everything in rubbish trucks Arrests.

We are the 1% and we stand with the 99%, a companion photo series to "We are the 99%" is nice; The Atlantic has a good article comparing media coverage on #OWS across the world.

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Art Dept.

Everyone is all atwitter about art (or is that all Twitter is atweet about art?) because Shepard Fairey has "designed" this poster for Occupy Wall Street. Gosh, you mean the Fairey that "designed" the Obama Hope poster? The one that was ripped off from an AP photo? Sure hope this one wasn't "appropriated," eh Mr Designer-Man?

Some neighbours in Toronto didn't appreciate street artist Joel Richardson's work with images of finance and capitalism. But an art exhibit for Occupy Wall Street sure did.

Who could resist Occupying Goethe? Probably not the same people running from the octapiers... ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu!

There's an excellent cartoon by Jonik mocking the "I don't understand what they want" trolls and this lovely pic of two tiny protesters with signs: "The future is on sale."

Finally, this most-excellent "Occupy Wall Street commercial" is a wrapup of the whole platform for those who can only learn from TV.

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Police on Parade Dept.

How about a little video pleasure? There's this NYPD White Shirt KO'ing a protester (Felix Rivera-Pitre) or this interesting video about police provocateurs and "Black Bloc", or you might be entertained by this video of police tactics if you happen to be a fan of violence.

But many people are fans of this video showing a NYPD scooter cop running over the leg of a National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer, and then parking on it. And to top it off, the Observer was arrested. The arresting cop's name is rumored to be "Officer Dumbass" but this is not confirmed.

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Trolls On The March

A "reporter" named Thomas Ryan and Andrew Breitbart appear to be breaking numerous federal laws and committing felonies in publishing emails from OccupyWallStreet protesters and planners. Forwarded to the relevant legal groups. Of course, Messr. Breitbach is the face of hypocrisy; according to this video, Tea Partiers can't even live up to their own rhetoric [remember "when did we ever disrupt one of your events?"]

The Tea Party trolls 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 Anti-semititic cards; playing both sides of the "dialogue" and creating an ugly and demeaning spectacle of themselves. Fortunately, this video tears their little facade to shreds. Of course, that wouldn't do for their Koch masters.

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 Occupy Wall Street Simplified video.

There's an article at the NYTimes that says "In Private, Wall St. Bankers Dismiss Protesters as Unsophisticated." "These damned filthy peasants," one was alleged 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."

We Don't Want Welfare, We Want Jobs. We Don't Hate Business, We Want Fairness. We Don't Want Handouts, We Want Justice.

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Signs of the Pending Apocalypse Dept.

Tea Party founder Karl Denninger backs Occupy Wall Street; this interesting article about Mike Lee (R-UT), a Senator intimate with the Tea Party, proposing a permanent tax giveaway to multinationals. Perhaps the Tea Party didn't like being hijacked by the billionaire brothers Koch?

Fox News publishes a pro-Occupy Wall Street article (perhaps they were stung by the Faux Mock, the results of their own online "poll" or maybe they didn't like being clubbed and maced? Maybe they forgot these editorials? Who knows; it's Faux Gnus.

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The Other Media Dept.

This interesting op-ed from a Stanford student charts how corporations are influencing education for the worse.

This article from The Guardian 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.

It could be entertaining or enlightening, this article outlining the 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement Around the Country.

On the Op-Ed front, there's this thoughtful post by Jayel Aheram warning of partisan hijacking and an interesting audio conversation by Liliana Segura and Laurie Penny on Hacktivism and Social Change.

This Is What Compassion Looks Like: A Buddhist View of Occupy Wall Street

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We've been waiting so long,
we've been waiting for the sun to rise and shine
Shining still to give us the will...

Can you hear me, the sound of my voice?
I am here to tell you I have made my choice
I've been listening to what's been going down
There's just too much talk and gossip going 'round

You may think that I'm a fool, but I know the answer
Words become a tool, anyone can use them
Take the golden rule, as the best example
Eyes that have seen will know what I mean

The time has come to take the bull by the horns
We've been so downhearted, we've been so forlorn
We get weak and we want to give in
But we still need each other if we want to win

[Hold that line, baby hold that line
Get up boys and hit 'em one more time]
We may be losing now but we can't stop trying
[So hold that line, baby hold that line]

If you don't know what to do about a world of trouble
You can pull it through if you need to and if
You believe it's true, it will surely happen
Shining still, to give us the will
Bright as the day, to show us the way

Somehow, someday,
we need just one victory and we're on our way
Prayin' for it all day and fightin' for it all night
Give us just one victory, it will be all right

We may feel about to fall but we go down fighting
You will hear the call if you only listen
Underneath it all we are here together shining still

Todd Rundgren, Just One Victory

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet
Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS
Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet
Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message
Day 28: Showdown
Day 29: Just One Victory

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OccupyWallStreet: Showdown

2011-10-12T00:51:00.001-07:00

Day 28 - 04:00amEDT

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.

EMERGENCY CALL TO ACTION: Keep Bloomberg and Kelly From Evicting #OWS

Update: Occupy Wall Street Responds to Bloomberg’s Cleaning ‘Eviction Notice’

OWS protesters confront Bloomberg while he dines at top restaurant as dawn showdown looms

NY protesters clean park, some may resist removal

Russell Simmons Offers To Pay For Clean-up To Avoid Violence

An Open Letter to the Men and Women of the New York City Police Department

Occupy Wall Street's Liberty Plaza Technically A "Bonus Plaza", Not Private Property

Global Revolution LIVE STREAM

Interactive map of protests, arrests

OccupyTogether: comprehensive list of occupations

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Oct. 15 - National Call To Action
Occupy Everywhere

RT @ xxxx: Tomorrow oct 15 we the people of the wired
Civil Society are going to make emergent history

The next 2 days are going to be very important to the revolution.
Today they try to stop us but tomorrow we fight back.

wired nation

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Collected week's links and tweets below -

Chelsea Elliott, Pepper-Sprayed by NYPD, Plans
to Join Kaylee Dedrick in Pressing Charges

Conservative journalist says he infiltrated, escalated D.C. museum protest
... and a capture of the modified and them removed article
Yes, Virginia, there are agent provocateurs; this is no "conspiracy theory"

Human Blunder Loses Occupy Wall Street $144,000

A Radical Proposition: #OccupyHomes

Fox News poll: 69.77% say the OWS protests represent their views
Surprising, eh? Maybe not so surprising; just surprising that Faux let a LivePoll make them look like idiots ^_^

Art

A message from Anonymous to Wall street, New York and the protestors

A message from anonymous to the American Autumn

I Am Not Moving - a short film about #OccupyWallStreet and Hypocrisy
stunning.

Writers In Support of the Occupations
an impressive list

OccupyComics - Occupy art

'Lost Causes'
climactic speech from Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr Smith Goes To Washington'

National Treasure Declaration of Independence
Nicholas Cage dramatizes

4o Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes
more like taglines but still; cultural amalgam

Occupy Boston, At The Line [photo]

What's So Funny Bout Peace, Love and Understanding? [photo series]
The human element; what the protesters are fighting for

Information

The Charts Tell The Story
Every fact and figure you need to justify #OccupyWallStreet

100 Things Every American Should Know About The Current State Of The US Economy

The Yes Men Want Another Depression
No, this was no prank. An insider's view of the stock market.

Vibe: open source messaging system
About and links

Tear Gas? Pepper Spray? Nothing $20 won't solve

The Other Occupation: How Wall Street Occupies Washington

400 People own as much as almost all the rest of us together

The Power of DOXing
You snoop us; we snoop you. Transparency should work both ways.

Bloombergville: the earlier Occupation

The Hypnosis Of America
akadjian explains the psychological conditioning of America

The All-American Occupation
A Century of Our Streets Vs. Wall Street

Nice Choke-hold, Officer Psycho [photo]

The Hipster Cop [photo]
an instant meme

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
Call For Arrest Of George W. Bush

A Little Hilarity
one of our chief weapons is teh funneh

Lingerie of the 1%
scandalous *o*

In Kapitalist Amerika, Bank Robs You! [photo]
It had to come sometime :D

Fox News gets routed
teehee ^_^ take that again, Geraldo :P [old feud]

Breitbart: I Have E-Mails Showing Organized Plan For
#OccupyWallStreet Protests To Destabilize Government
agitprop/disinformation

OP-ED

A message from the 1% standing with the 99% [photo]

The Littlest Protestors: Kids Come To Occupy Wall Street
Teach... your children well...

Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party
with a nice Venn diagram

David Korton explains why Occupy Wall Street is valid

Occupy Wall Street’s ‘Political Disobedience’

Open Letter to that 53% Guy

native perspective on “occupy” movement

An Open Letter to the Occupiers from a Veteran Troublemaker
Jim Wallis

Ralph Nader Wants Mike Bloomberg to Run for President
Well, that's it for you, Ralph.

MoveOn.Org and Friends Attempt to Co-Opt Occupy Wall Street Movement
You are the weakest link; goodbye.

Occupy Wall Street: Who Wants to Hijack the Movement?
Indeed.

Warren Buffett's son Howard defends occupy Wall St to 'make things happen'

Immortal Technique [hip-hop artist, activist] at
Occupy Wall Street: "This is not an Obama rally"
a great interview by RT [Russia Today]

Twisting Law

Calif. Governor Veto Allows Warrantless Cellphone Searches

Controversial secret court order targets private email

The real danger from classified leaks
The NY Times publishes more damaging information than Wikileaks leaked

Man accosted and detained for taking a picture of his 5-yr-old daughter in a mall
How "privacy laws" are turned against us; how they can photo us, but we can't photo them

Renting Police as Paid Detail: The Economics of Policing in NY
The new Praetorian Guard is for rent by the Masters of the Universe

Facebook: Releasing your personal data reveals our trade secrets
much more than Faceboook would like you to know

Government Aims to Build a ‘Data Eye in the Sky’

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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:

PLEASE decide on some goals so we can attack them and quit looking silly! - The #OccupyWallStreet Trolls Association.

Dear Protesters: my arguments are: take a bath, hippie!, your momma and [fart noises]. Sincerely, Just An American - The Komedic Trolls

Dear Protesters: I am pretending to be a huge money-earner while trolling your channel on non-working hours. - The Komedic Trolls

Dear Protesters: your message is invalid unless you give up all human progress and become cavemen.

Dear Protesters: There's injustice all over the world. You can't fix everything so you are being fake.

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

Dear Protesters: "This isn't the democracy you're looking for." *waves hand* - The Komedic Trolls

Dear Protesters: Your movement is already over. You might as well go home and never try anything again. - The Komedic Trolls

Dear Protesters: some of you look different from me. That's good enough for me to attack you as an American. - The Komedic Trolls

Playwright needed for remix, "Wall Street Story." Must know music, choreography, lyrics. Inquire within.

Dear Protesters: here are my counter-arguments: nyah nyah; you're ugly; you smell; you don't have guns. - The Komedic Trolls

Dear Protesters: After more than 28 days and all your explanations I still don't understand #OccupyWallStreet . - The Komedic Trolls

Dear Protesters: Get a job! No, my firm isn't hiring with the "stimulus" money we got. Go find someone else. - The Komedic Trolls

Hey #OccupyWallStreet! I'm pretending to be "just an american" and not a sockpuppet to attack you. - The Komedic Trolls

Dear Protesters: all is futile; everything dies. Never do anything. Just sit and be a cow. - The Komedic Trolls

SCOOP: I have emails that I SWEAR reveal all kinds of #ows plots and secrets. Just believe me. - The Komedic Trolls

Gosh I hope these #ows protests end soon. My television brain can't follow anything longer than 10 minutes. - The Komedic Trolls

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...and the usual fave repeating tweets [memes]:

The time has come for giraffes' shorter cousins to take back this country!!! #okapiwallstreet
[someone else with a sense of humor]

#OccupyDallas is under threat right now, Homeland Security, Fire Marshall & US Marshall present, alongside detectives. #OWS” #occupyphilly

Remember this moment. For it is the time the whole world saw the corruption of a police state run by the 1%

Facts: More Tea Partyers on drugs than insinuated at #Occupywallstreet - Xanax, Paxil, Prozac, Vicodin, Ambien, Valium, etc.

@xxxxx #OWS is creating a network of microvillages in public areas, run by leaderless consensus, for purposes not yet articulated.

US now ranks 93rd in the world in "income equality," behind China, India, and Iran.

The 1% controls art culture by investment. They have robbed art from the people.

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet
Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS
Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet
Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message
Day 28: Showdown

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Someone's Comrade Kitty av! ^paw

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The Medium Is The Media... and the message

2011-10-06T16:54:00.000-07:00

Day 20/21 - OccupyWallStreet

Mayor Bloomberg says OccupyWallStreet protests are hurting workers

Occupy Art!

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

EVOLUTION REVOLUTION [video]
Lance Link, Secret Chimp has something to say about #OccupyWallStreet

Tonight, no editorial; just a celebration of the power of the Internet and links to information and debate - the power of the Last Free Press: an invention that has never been protected by patent, copyright or trademark; has changed the present and future of humanity in a vast and previously unimaginable way forever. It has reformed societies and toppled tyrants, revolutionized old cultures and inspired new ones.

Save The Internet Coalition
2 million people united to protect the net from corporate control

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Information
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Adbusters' Kalle Lasn Talks About OccupyWallStreet

The Revolution IS televised: Livestreams from New York, Los Angeles, Reno, Tampa, Ireland, Dallas, DenHaag, Boston, St Louis, Baltimore, Knoxville

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
From the New York General Assembly direct

Donate to OccupyWallStreet [official NYC General Assembly]

@OccupyInfo World Wide Real-Time Guide

Anonymous: Mass Protest Survival Guide #OccupyWallStreet [video]

OccupyDC, OccupyAustin, OccupyMinneapolis
OccupyPittsburgh, OccupyUSA Network, OccupyAmsterdam

#OWS has spread to 850 cities worldwide

Columbia President Bollinger and 200+ Columbia Faculty
Members Support Occupy Wall Street [Ivygate]

Debugging/disinfo bust

OccupyParty.Org - not affiliated; questionable [NPR]

DailyKOS busts The Daily Caller's "paid protesters" lie

JPMC isn’t alone “Donating” to NYPD, Bank of America, Barclays Capital, Goldman Sachs… others did also!

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MEDIA
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OP-ED

Occupy Wall Street: The Most Important Thing in the World Now
Naomi Klein's speech at Occupy Wall Street 10.06.11- uncut/edited

True Patriots: I am the 99%

Confronting the Malefactors [Paul Krugman]
"If the protests goad pols into doing what they should have, #OWS will have been a success."

An Open Letter From FedUpUSA To Occupy Wall Street Protestors All Over The Country
one of the original Tea Parties calls for ditching partisan politics

Pay close attention to the Occupy Wall Street
David Cay Johnston, respected journalist for 4 decades

Black 'Occupy' Protesters Start Occupy The Hood

Why Occupy Wall Street Should Scare Republicans

Citizen Journalists Document Protests Nationwide [huff-po]

Why Lists of Demands Don’t Matter in Zuccotti Park

A warning: Rise to the defense of the revolutionary

We choose our own heroes

Tea Party Senator Proposes Permanent Tax Giveaway To Multinational Corporations

Occupy Wall Street: Social Media's Role In Social Change [Huff-Po]

10 Things to Know About Wall Street's Rapacious Attack on America

Obama admin may be accessory to murder with ‘Fast and Furious’

Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Controversy Shows How Wall Street Is Occupying U.S. Gov’t [Naomi Klein]

Corporate profits’ share of pie most in 60 years
Profits soar even as GDP and people limp along

Essays on the trap of US student debt

RBA officials hid details of secret commissions [theage.com.au]

Lifting the Veil
Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist 'democracy'

Guantánamo film shows plight of Canadian national detained at 15 [guardian]

Confronting the Malefactors

Dispelling the ‘Young Dirty Hippies’ Myth Surrounding #OccupyWallStreet

The Book That Predicts Occupy Wall Street:
Bruce Sterling’s ‘Distraction’

VIDEOS

Never question authority - ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS MUST-SEE

WikiLeaks' MasterCard Commercial

Patriots all ... Military men speak out [powerful]

This is what democracy looks like + we are the 99%

Beast1333 (Templars of Hip Hop) - Occupy Wall Street Vlog

OccupyWallStreet spreads to South Florida

Obama weighs in and trys to 'jack the power

NYPD Gone Wild - Motor Bike charge

OccupyBofA in Los Angeles

The Bailout Money and Why You Dont have to Pay Your Mortgage

Occupy Wall Street Music Video: Greed (Let 'em Starve)
Botgirl Questi makes a video

The Age Of Reason: Thosmas Paine [audio book]

Growing Number of Americans Only One Paycheck Away from Homelessness

Protesters converge on America's capital to 'Occupy DC'

The Money Masters - Full
Long video examination of the banking system and the original American Revolution

PHOTOS

Wired: Tech-focus picture gallery
How are they doing that?

OccupySesameStreet!

Cookie Monster meets Tony Bologna!

Pic from John Perry Barlow

Police Love: Cops help #OccupyDallas load water

#firstfriday #hawaii #ows #occupyoahu
aloha!

99% spelled out in people

Nice photospread at The Atlantic [spread 3]

Medica arrested:8 Medics discouraged: 0

Class War Criminals

'Damn dirty hippies'? I don't think so

Great collection at The Daily Mail

OccupyCHI

At The Fed

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Tweets
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This country has never seen a movement from our generation. They have never seen a movement from the children of the internet. [*cough* I've been writing about it for 20 yrs...]

Number of American homes destroyed by Al Qaeda last year: 0. by banks 1,200,000 who are the real terrorists?

@misosusanowa You will not change our Constitution...is that your goal? Wow.

"I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving in." –Rosa Parks

Dear #Teaparty: It's not too bad that you were a fake rebellion. But perhaps a real one might interest you?

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!

@xxxxxx I'm a marketing executive, not a hippy #ows lives strong! Get your own damn latte #occupy will change the world be ready.

Obama Machine Prepares 2 Hijack #OccupyWallStreet
"We have picked a fight with the most powerful forces on the planet" - Naomi Klein

Should Politicians Wear Uniforms Like NASCAR Racers? To Identify Their Corporate Sponsors?

That is the 1% media arm. Weds, Oct 12th - HUGE RALLY @ 1211 Ave of the Americas Fox News HQ #OWS #OccupyWallStreet

The OccupySF camp was effectively busted up, and their belongings confiscated.

10yrs ago we had Steve Jobs, Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash... Now we have no jobs, no hope, and no cash..

Barricades around #OWS were places by Dept of Homeland Security, not NYPD.

Seen at #occupyportland, 5 guys in dark blazers guarding the doors to the Wells Fargo tower against 4,000 protestors. #occupywallstreet

Just had a heartfelt talk w a middle-aged man named Greg. He's been out of work for 11 months. Wanted to connect.

RT @**** 'There is a Jewish commandment - "Tikkun Olam" - You must repair the world.' #occupyyomkippur

#OccupyWallStreet is the only place in this country where anything makes any sense anymore. Well... sorta.

hope everybody understands the Patriot Act can be used against #OWS the 99% can end up with zero rights!

Over 300 000 people expected to show for #occupywallstreet protests across Canada on Oct 15th. An Anonymous individual stated "Expect Us"
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.

Everything will be okay in the end, if it's not okay, it's not yet the end.

Revolution is a violent cycle. Evolution is change. Civil war is a revolution. Improving the human condition is evolution.

I understand why I raised my kids to question everything, even authority. It was for this very moment.

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Corporations are a metaspecies. Neither human nor concerned with the long-term survival of humans.

"...Democrats are being given what amounts to a second chance. "

Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is a Roof Over My Head. Signed, Hungry Kids

If women ruled the world there would be no war. Just jealous countries not talking to each other.

My family is hungry. I must feed them. My family is cold. I must house them. For the 99%, it is not that complicated.

I love that vendor across the street from the protest. He makes awesome philly cheese steaks. <3 the white/hot sauce.

Every Time a Youth Decides Not to Go To College b/c They Know They Can't Afford it, This Country Gets Dumber.

@xxxxx I'm a marketing executive, not a hippy #ows lives strong! Get your own damn latte #occupy will change the world be ready.

The conservatives objecting to #occupywallstreet :remember our Country was founded by rebels and radicals and people protesting oppression.

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet
Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS
Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet
Day 20/21: The Medium Is The Media... and the message

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The 1% controls art culture by investment.
They have robbed art from the people.

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#OccupyWallStreet and the Internet

2011-10-05T23:18:00.000-07:00

It's out of the box now

Over 200 solidarity events for Occupy Wall Street
[list & info]

OccupyWallStreet.org

OccupyTogether.org

With the colleges and unions joining in, Occupy Wall Street expands massively in volume. Lamestream Media coverage is still spotty and unbelievable: approx. 10-20,000 or more people in the march today; people getting pepper-sprayed, clubbed by police and still nothing from President Obama...

Good cops protect people. Cowards beat people in crowds. [tweets]

Some eye-opening videos:

Police Club, Pepper Spray
#occupywallstreet Protestors
*** must-watch ***

Cops clubbing people at occupy wall street 8:45pmEDT [video]
The NY Observer has the guts to publish this video.

Police beating at wall street #ows by We are Change

"My little nightstick's going to get a workout tonight" [video]
NYPD's finest, speaking with professionalism -_-

OWS Occupy Wall Street Media Team Arrested
from inside a paddy wagon

Moving First-hand account of arrests tonight
'This has to stop... it's wrong... and they were laughing."

"This is not acceptable police procedure"

1st Precinct: +1 (212) 334-0611
NYPD Switchboard: +1 (646) 610-5000
NYPD Central Booking: +1 (212) 374-3921
NYPD Internal Affairs: +1 (212) 741-8401
Mayor Bloomberg: +1 (212) NEW-YORK or +1 (212) 374-3921

Once again, Netpolitik reports rumors that people are allegedly downloading and redistributing these videos in case of censorship/sanitization; saving history. As always, Netpolitik does not endorse or encourage any violations of TOS

Obama has time to issue a statement about Steve Jobs' death

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 cannot keep up with the huge volume of data and information being produced by Occupy Wall Street.

Occupy Wall Street Protest Arrests;
Fox 5 Crew Hit by Mace, Baton
You getting it now, Fox?

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...

D-NY Senators Say We've Got Too Much
Free Speech; Introduce Bill To Fix That

It is crystal clear now: 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.

RIP Steve
"here's to the crazy ones"

"the cool thing is that we are omnipresent: we are watching the media, we are watching what's going on, we are watching ourselves" - Jason on Global Revolution live

Occupy Wall Street (the theory)
Another open-source fan

If you checked or read this blog because of OccupyWallStreet, then please research the topics under "Legal" here in the right sidebar. Occupy Wall Street could not have been possible without the Internet, and the Internet is under assault by corporate money working in harmony with corrupt lawmakers to destroy or massively limit the functionality of the Internet.

A message from Anonymous to the 99%
[video]

Put the same energy you do into Occupying Wall Street into protecting the LAST AND ONLY FREE PRESS. It's the only real, uncensored news media we have now.

This is what Democracy looks like:
screen capture from live feed

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I would send out for assistance but there's someone on the signal wire
And the corporation logo is flashing on and off in the sky
They're putting all your names in the forbidden book
I know what they're doing but I don't want to look

You think they're so dumb, you think they're so funny
Wait until they've got you running to the
Night rally, night rally, night rally

Elvis Costello, Night Rally

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MEDIA
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Global Revolution Livestream Feed

NYPD Manhattan Precincts 1-23 and
Citywide 1-3 Live Scanner Audio Feed

The Occupy Wall Street Journal [PDF file]

Occupy Wall Street: The Direct Action Committee
Driving the Protest's Success

Some Basic Rules For Successful Radicals

Info on pepper spray & tear gas

Map of Liberty Square

'Occupy Wall Street' and the First Amendment
a sobering article from the New York Law Journal

The policing of Occupy Wall Street: we are watching [Guardian]
Democracy Now!'s Amy Goodman details her arrest at the 2008 RNC

#OccupyWallStreet Is a Church of Dissent, Not a Protest
Matt Stoller, former Senior Policy Advisor to Rep. Alan Grayson and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute.

WeOccupy (because)

Letters: Occupy Wall Street -- the people's voice
vs. corporate power [Detroit Free Press]

Are the NYPD and FBI Trying to Frame
Anonymous, Occupy Wall Street?
probably.

An Open Letter From Two White Men to #OccupyWallStreet

Why Aren't There More Blacks At Occupy Wall Street?
They were abandoned years ago

Brown Power at Occupy Wall Street

Reflections on Occupy Wall Street

An Open Letter To Occupy Wall Street

The Real Reason Why Police Cage Peaceful Protestors
A look at how kettling was used on protesters during the London riots

Why the police aren't on our side

An Open Letter to Wall Street

Unions, thousands join Occupy Wall Street's fight [Nation/Kilkenny]

Live Blog Coverage from The Guardian

Something Big Is Happening: Occupy Together [truthout]

Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it [CNN]

Who Are The 99%? [Washington Post]

Occupy San Francisco Takes Over Downtown (photos, video)

Fox News Launches An All Out Assault Against Occupy Wall Street
"ur doin it wrong," they say, after being maced and clubbed by NYPD.

If You Went to #OccupyWallStreet, Someone
Might Be Looking to Bone You on Craigslist
[Gizmodo]

Uber-Vultures: The Billionaires Who Would Pick Our President

9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes

BofA, JPMorgan, Wells Accused of Charging Veterans Illegal Fees [Bloomberg]

Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales [Bloomberg]

Wall Street's Bailout Hustle [Rolling Stone -2.17.2010]
"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"

VIDEO

Beat Kidz - Who did you exploit today?
Kids #occupywallstreet!

Right Here, All Over (Occupy Wall St.)
* * * serious documentary * * *

Occupy Wall Street - The Real Protestors Interview

Michael Moore's speech: This Is A Historic Day

Keith Olbermann Reads The Statement Released By OccupyWallStreet

Horse Police move in; huge crowd

Elizabeth Warren about why Wall Street is to blame

OccupyDC interviews

PHOTOS

We Are The 53%
ex-Marine gets schooled in Comments

Nurses Union leading cheers

Let Them Eat Pepper Spray
cartoonist Rob Roberts scores

Batter UP: Lt. Brian Connoly, awarded the Medal for Valor in 2007 .
Photo sequence

The lovely Monica on Global Revolution's Livestream

Of course the Dept of Homeland Security is there

Restaurant owners send tasy lamb chops

Aerial shot of huge crowd at #OccupyWallStreet [CBS]

Due to recent budget cuts, the light at
the end of the tunnel has been cut off

cop with protester: peace out

Harvard Men for economic justice

Faceoff

crowd

Great photo collection

Photo collection

Night Rally

Night Rally #2

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TWEETS
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Today: #revShuttlesworth dies, unions join in on #ows, #stevejobs dies, #NYPD criminals attack #ows ppl, #clarencethomas investigated - whew

@BarackObama Shame on you! Protestors getting sprayed, penned, and beat in the street and you don't even acknowledge them.

@PresidentObama @whitehousegov How can you ignore #OccupyWallStreet? True colors showing.

"I believe in capitalism, but I believe in a level playing field" Michael Meyers

The battle is not left vs. right. The battle is corporatism vs. humans.

We watched in horror as protestors were beaten in other countries, and now in America, NYPD is doing the same to Americans Citizens.

We appear to have moved to "then they fight you" stage. RT @xxxxxxx Girl near me coughing "they pepper sprayer everyone"

Adbusters still running #OccupyWallStreet feed; there is no "official" Occupy wall st. hashtag. Any assertion otherwise is rumor.

Given typical ignorance/apathy toward rather transparent corporate takeover of education, only #OWS gives me hope

Couple of 'protesters' with badges move out of the back of the crowd and join the police. #ows

RT @xxxxxx: Cops dressed as civilians

White shirted NYPD now ordering their officers to "Walk with them!" Crowd remains peaceful, no confirmed arrests.. #OWS

Breaking: Frick allegedly employs Pinkertons to infiltrate #OccupyWallStreet #GoonSquad #OWS

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

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.

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

Never been more disappointed of the media until today. Just browsed all the news shows and not ONE mention of the march today. Shame!

Steve Jobs has died. RIP Steve

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes." Thank you, Steve Jobs. #ows

interesting MSM announces Steve Jobs Death and then not so much time later The Kettling/Pepper Spray starts on #OWS.

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.

RT @xxxxx: are the nypd really trying to kettle and arrest 20k protesters? really?

The protesters are holding a consensus meeting at the gates of Mordor, er, the entrance to Wall St.

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

For every dollar you make, a CEO makes roughly $475

Why is it easier to believe that 150,000,000 Americans are being lazy than 400 Americans are greedy?

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

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet
Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS
Day 18/19: #OccupyWallStreet and the Internet

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The 1% controls art culture by investment.
They have robbed art from the people.

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Information - Disinformation @OWS

2011-10-04T22:10:00.000-07:00

OCCUPY COLLEGES:

NATIONAL COLLEGE STUDENT WALKOUT
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2011
12 NOON
supporting Occupy Wall Street

List of colleges participating

American Students 'walk out' for Occupy Wall Street [Examiner]

Students plan campus walkout in ‘solidarity’ with ‘Occupy Wall Street' [Daily Caller]

Occupy Colleges Plans National Walk Out Wednesday [Daily Californian]

Huge NYC Union March October 5

USA Jobs Party March October 5

Virtual March On Wall Street Oct. 5
sponsored by Rebuild the Dream & MoveOn.Org

Occupy CNN - 10/14
'Change The Channel" at CNN HQs in Atlanta, NY, LA, DC

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Can't you smell the cultural appropriation?

disInformation Wars

'Anonymous' vs Anonymous

An example of the disinformation/propaganda war swirling around Occupy Wall Street is the release of a communiqué purporting to be from "Anonymous" and entitled "Operation Invade Wall Street" declaring a cyber-attack on Wall Street firms in retaliation for the mass arrests on the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday, October 1.

This was quickly followed by the posting ANONYMOUS Message concerning Invade Wall Street at Pastebin, denying association with "Operation Wall Street":

"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."

Anonymous further issued this statement [image]:

"Greetings fellow Anons: As brothers and sisters, we have to look out for one another in times like these.

We have taken notice to a planned attack which has been named #InvadeWallStreet, which is to be held out on October 10th.

We strongly advise against this action and everything it entails to.

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.

We do not want history to repeat itself and are sincerely worried.

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.

Please change these tactics for this Op to spare our movement the loss and to spare OccupyWallStreet of the bad press.

Thank you and we hope we have made our point.

We are Anonymous.
We are Legion.
We do not forgive.
We do not forget.
Expect us."

Speculation runs high that this is a reverse-sting operation to both lure in crackers and to discredit OWS positions on non-violent and lawful protest.

[Interestingly, the SHFTplan site is a distributor of this "information", as well as the example below; as of this writing, no similar retraction to the BofA Bank Run video mentioned below is showing on the page, despite the communique direct from AnonOps denouncing Operation Invade Wall Street]

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That BofA - SWAT Team video...

Another example: a link to a video is being endlessly tweeted today -

SWAT Teams in St. Louis Protecting Bank of America;
Refusing Customer Withdrawal

This video is being passed around without the information that it was published in August 2011 and does not have a direct bearing on the actions urged by OWS 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 Senator Dick Durbin on the Senate floor a day before.

This video and story is from the Midwest Rising event on August 10, 2011. 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 SHFT.plan website. A later retraction/apologetic post on the site states:

"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."

... but this information is left out of the tweets and subsequent retweets, which are numerous currents in today's tweetstream -

@OccupyPhilly SWAT Teams in St. Louis Protecting Bank of America; Refusing Customer Withdrawals.

- implying that this is currently happening. It is not. This is an old video.

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It's definitely related to the issues and concerns of OWS, but the use of it to imply that SWAT Teams are standing by at BofA locations right now because of something OWS has called for is alarmist and deceptive. It would have been more powerful as " an example of the kind of things banks have done and are prepared to do", ie real data instead of spun data [manipulative propaganda]. As it is, it was quickly debunked in the same sort of crowdsourcing seen with the other stories coming out of Occupy Wall Street.

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Another possibility exists: that this is weaponized disinformation broadcast from opposing forces, designed to attack and discredit the honesty of the OWS occupiers 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 the use and misuse of data as a weapon; social engineering.

It might have been an overly-enthusiastic sharing of "information" which illustrates some of the concerns of the OWS movement [bank/financial conduct] but the manner in which it was done, without clearly stating it was supportive 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 casts suspicion and shadows on OWS and its supporters that Occupy Wall Street cannot afford, no matter how "well-meaning" or "supportive".

In the same way, graphic artist Scott Lickstein's print was appropriated without his permission and used to imply huge crowds at Liberty Square until the perpetrator was caught and outed, 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 radical transparency 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?

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The net allows for hundreds or thousands of people researching [debugging] and diseminating information faster than the disinformationalists can control the story [spin; munitions]. There's a lot of real-time fact-checking 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 why open-source is powerful [many fact-checkers/debuggers] and why it is open to abuse [the original tweeter; injection of mis- or disinformation].

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Data is not information

These are only two examples of the psychological warfare 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 use that data for information or disinformational purposes. Data is only data [facts, figures, quotes, reports, video, audio, graphic, photos]. Information is not data; 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].

RT @xxxxx: #TeaParty is upset with #WallStreet sending our jobs overseas...so is #OccupyWallStreet

#OccupyWallStreet is Racist. Where were they when Bush was president? They just hate the fact that a black man is president

Wall Street protest movement spreads across US, Canada, Europe:

I have some advice for the #occupywallstreet losers. Pull your accounts from $BAC oh wait, I'm sorry I forgot you are dirty hippies.

RT @xxxxxxx: #TeaParty people are afraid #WallStreet sold out our futures...so are the #OccupyWallStreet people.

This morning I was disgusted by MSM. CNN, Fox and MSNB: Bear riding a bike, a monkey and a puppy.

walk like an egyptian, fight like a libyan, camp like an american

In the dataset above, which is a random sampling of repeating/retweeting memes, there are only two actual pieces of information. See if you can find them.

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INFORMATION
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OccupyWallStreet.org
about

NYC General Assembly
current information

SUPPLIES NEEDED

OWS medical team is asking for supplies for makeshift medical kits:
milk of magnesia, bandanas and vinegar, 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!" And tarps, bug repellent and calamine lotion, space blankets, gauze. And water; lots of water. Warm coats and blankets. Toothbrushes and Tupperware.

Shipping address:

THE UPS STORE
118 A #205
NEW YORK, NY 10038

RE: Occupy Wall Street

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How Not To Get Arrested
some basic rules for being cool

Live GlobalRevolution stream from Liberty Plaza

First OFFICIAL Release from OCCUPY WALL STREET

Proposed List of Demands [official OccupyWallStreet]
A democratic poll

Huge List of Locations for #OccupyWallStreet Demonstrations
Actually, OccupyEverywhere

OccupyWallStreet's Flickr photostream

Wikipedia: Occupy Wall Street

List of places that will deliver food to Liberty Plaza

Occupy Wall Street's Arts & Culture Committee

Here's a theoretical tutorial about getting out of Zip-tie cuffs [youtube]
for entertainment purposes only
Here's how a magician would escape plastic cuffs [front] [youtube]
presented for entertainment purposes only

New York Patrol Guide Procedure Number 212-95 [Pepper Spray]

Pepper spray and tear gas - things to know about it

According to this NYCLU post, you have the right to stand or march on sidewalks without a permit.

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MEDIA
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Citing Police Trap, Protesters File Suit
Class-action lawsuit against the NYPD for the Bridge arrests

Occupy Wall Street Draws Donations [NY Daily News]

Make Revolution, Not Reform: A Warning to the 'Occupy' Movement [video]
A smart warning about co-option by philanthropists and about repeating the same ineffective cycles

Nobel-winning Economist Joseph Stiglitz and Jeff Madrick
speak to Occupy Wall Street occupiers [video]
Stiglitz and Madrick are very qualified to speak about economic inequalities

Los Angeles lawmakers cheer on OccupyLA protesters outside City Hall

Second Wave of Protests Unleashed: Targets the Federal Reserve [Veterans Today]

Occupy Wall Street Getting Expensive For the NYPD
Part of the story not being transmitted is that the NYPD was due for mass layoffs until the Occupy Wall Street protests began.

Op-Ed

Occupy Wall St.: This Is Not a Head Scratcher
Jared Bernstein: "Like, duh."

Anonymous accuses Chaoda of fraud
Anonymous analytics?

Why Occupy Wall Street Should Be Permanent
from Cryptome

From Occupy to Withdraw: The Simple Plan to Let Wall Street Be Its Own Undoing
A proposed plan of action

Obama Machine Prepares To Hijack ‘Occupy Wall Street’

We cannot track $2.3 trillion in [Pentagon] transactions" - Donald Rumsfeld [2009]
Money that would fund health, education and Social Security programs

The Recession’s ‘Silent Mental Health Epidemic’

Audio/Visual

Another Decomm'd Marine at Occupy Wall Street [photo]

More cops, more bull [photo]

The 1% does Windows [photo]

Occupy Wall Street Protester End the Fed - Best Rant! [video]

Andrew Breitbart Compares ‘Anonymous’ Video To ‘Nazi Propaganda’ [video]

Derric Jensen on Pacifism [video]

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Tweets
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No org. no celebrity, no politician , no one hijacks #ows The People #occupywallst #occupytheplanet #ourwallstreet #occupytucson OURS.

"The problem isn't big government, the problem is BOUGHT government."

experts are not the only ones who have a right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society. -Einstein

Anyone calling for/tolerating any form of violence in #OccupyWallStreet is not on the side of the people. Watch out for agent provacateurs.

Two brokers walking down the street. One says: "Look! It's my wife and mistress-together!" The other says: "Mine too!"

As John said, “One hero cannot do it. Each one of us have to be heroes.” And you are. Thank you. love, yoko

#OccupyWallStreet isn't about Right versus Left. It's about Right versus Wrong.

Yeah, like Amnesty Int"l is a liberal John Birch Society. MT @cnnAM: Talk Back: Is #OWS the dawn of a liberal Tea Party?

Those who think #occupywallstreet is a "hippie" thing, you don't have a clue. I'm part of it as a senior Vietnam vet.

My cause is more worthy of protest than your cause. The proof is that it is my cause. Please abandon your cause. [almost perfect summation of troll-tweet, except he forgot "you smell dirty hippie" but maybe not enough room :D

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.

It's an Omen...... men men men men

We have cut taxes for the richest Americans for 10 years now. Are we better off for it as a nation?

The #occupiers are to free assembly what #Anonymous is to free speech.

#TeaParty wishes someone would fix that bridge...#OccupyWallStreet wants to fix it right now, today.

Glenn Beck says #OccupyWallStreet will lead to gas chambers, guillotines, and Mao. Labeling the guy as "crazy" would be an understatement.

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet
Day 17: Information - Disinformation @OWS

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The 1% controls art culture by investment.
They have robbed art from the people.

61:72:74:20:69:73:20:6d:79:20:77:65:61:70:6f:6e

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pDOSing OccupyWallStreet

2011-10-02T20:54:00.000-07:00

What IS our ONE demand?

More network analysis tonight, starting off with this post from Joshua Kopstein with a view that shares a concern of this blog:

Inside Occupy Wall Street's Information War:

Whose Message Is It Anyway?

... and this one from Patrick Meier:

Theorizing Ushahidi: An Academic Treatise

And that's the topic for tonight. [tweets in italics per usual]

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Definition: pDOS - Political Distribution of Services - a social network brute-force attack based on buffer overflow; used to overwhelm a political network in order to override the operating system [message]. - The Political Hacker's Handbook

we are simply watching. #OWS stay on Target, stay on Target...

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We've seen the professional astroturfers and sockpuppets ramp up over the last 8 days in the Twitter, FB and Google+ services; the assault troops [trolls] with their bag of tricks, port-scanning for vulnerabilities and exploits in the system resources [people]. They've followed the standard curve 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: hacking from within.

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What's the frequency, Kenneth?

OccupyWallStreet has its own operating system; it's nodes and ports, servers and terminals. It has it's BIOS [get the money out of politics] and software [Glass-Steagall Act; Revoke corporate "personhood"; Campaign donations limit, etc]. These are the protocols of the OWS position; they have been stated openly on the OccupyWallStreet.Org site and are being continually updated [hotfix].

This is the message that galvanised the movement. This is the chosen broadcast signal:

"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."

A secondary signal runs in parallel with this carrier wave: 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.

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Comparing closed and open source models

OWS

It's a pretty straightforward and clear signal. It shares some basic information and parameters of the original Tea Party manifestos [I hear you yelling at me now; just hang in; this is a religious debate on par with Mac vs MS]. It recognizes that the financial sector has been mismanaged to a frightful degree several times in recent memory and the cost of this irresponsible financial conduct has descended on the middle class, devastating much of the population of "ordinary America."

Where it splits and configures its own network is at the Government junction. OccupyWallStreet has identified a crucial network problem: there's a pwned subnet in the system. The political and legal system servers have been financially hacked. That's where the root of many system instabilities lie.

TP-OS

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 polymorphous virus - "Te Leaderz sux" - that offers no new model for an cyclical and self-reinforcing infinite loop.

I am a Republican. The #occupywallstreet people are correct if they want the government to get its stinking fingers out of the economy.

But all of us know - we who live in the world and not in imagination or fantasy - that money buys law and lobbyists in this country; power is green, not Red or Blue (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 back in the old money-bag. And that's 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.

[you'd expect that, of course. The Tea Party runs on a completely-different operating system, uses completely-different protocols and is a broadcast system, drawing its power from nodes and overriding their individuality. It is a closed-source system]

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TP-OS is the antithesis of the OWS model of self-configuring neural network. OWS is learning by making connections, establishing a common language 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; SYN and ACK]. 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 cybernetic feedback loop, sharing analogs and metaphors with biological as well as digital models.

OWS is open-source. And with that comes one danger that has sidelined and weakened other open-source projects: fracturing of focus.

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Broadcast Signal Intrusion (it's a trap!)

Not only the Big Politico networks rumbling into action; I've been watching for the last three days as every splinter group and cause has flooded the channels with their grievances... with OccupyWallStreet. "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... "

Funny how the conditions blacks have been living under are suddenly unacceptable now that whites are also experiencing it

A refutation of the 'exclusion' charges from someone who went down there

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 inclusive message of OccupyWallStreet.

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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 keeping within the same system parameters. After the pepper-spray and police violence amplified the signal strength and visibility of the OccupyWallStreet network, all kinds of groups are asking for access privileges.

Virtual March on Wall Street [MoveOn.org]

Beware "support" from @moveon, the Democratic Party's online astroturf operation. It's a Trojan Horse.

It's fun watching mainstream Dems maneuver to co-opt #OccupyWallStreet the same way Republicans wrestled the Tea Party from the grass roots.

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 OWS Terms-Of-Service are compatible with these other pre-established networks.

An open letter and warning
from a former tea party movement
adherent to the Occupy Wall Street
movement.

Don't dismiss this; very valuable insight from an ex-Tea Party member about how outside networks can attempt to invade and hijack focus. +4 Stars****

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The Frequency is 99%

The strongest principle the OccupyWallStreet network has maintained from the beginning is inclusion. The forming of the General Assembly; the participation of electronic supporters and the open nature of its data and information distribution are observable and well-known.

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... the chords OccupyWallStreet are striking resonate with a large cross-section of America [when the word finally got out]. The frequency is 99%.

I would think the established alternate-networks would understand the value of OccupyWallStreet's BIOS and network signal, 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 they should add some resources; some representative people go down there and do OccupyWallStreet. 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 OWS' Terms Of Service, processes and authority.

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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 match protocols with external system resources; a bigger network is always better for robustness and flexibility. I hope they have good internal security, auditing and trust certificates 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.

Nader, Ron Paul, Kucinich Speak to Occupy Wall Street

*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 metaphorically inclusive.

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MEDIA
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[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]

Information

Radio #OccupyWallStreet
a practical and simple communications system currently operating.

Donate to the General Assembly
Can't be there? Support from where you are

Declaration of the Occupation of New York City
From the NYC General Assembly

Full Congressional Record Transcript of Sanders Filibuster [Sanders]
This is why OWS likes Bernie Sanders

Occupy: Map
Interactive clickable toy

ANONYMOUS Message concerning 'Operation Invade Wall Street'
a warning to examine all signals carefully [Operation Invade Wall Street]

Transit Workers Do Not Want to Transport Arrested Wall Street Protesters

Occupy Wall Street Protestor on Federal Reserve [video]

Firsthand

Understanding Wall Street's 'Occupation'
Four activists discuss goals of OWS as it gains nationwide momentum.

First Hand Account by the 15 year old Kid
Almost Arrested on the Brooklyn Bridge

I was on the Brooklyn Bridge [DailyKOS; pics + video]

The Story of the Brooklyn Bridge 'trap' [Guardian]
Those who were arrested tell their story

Media antics/censoring

Occupy Wall Street Activist Slams Fox News Producer In Un-Aired Interview
Grab it before it vanishes - you'll want to hear Jesse LaGreca speak

How the New York Times manipulated blame for arrests
More on that NYT editing

TrendsMap Proves Scary Twitter Censorship Of
#OccupyWallStreet From Trending Topics
more on that censorship testing

On You Tube's Censoring [general, govt compliance]

Op-Ed

Myth-busting On Wall Street
Meme crossover: Zombies!!!!!

#OccupyWallStreet & the failure of institutions

The Young Are on the Streets Because They Have the Most to Lose
From the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute

The Big Picture: A 40-Year Scan of the Right-Wing Corporate Takeover of America

Rightbloggers Denounce Occupy Wall Street [Village Voice]
exploring the Right Wing blogosphere

The debate at Occupy Wall Street: To what end?
Glenn Greenwald

You Can’t Judge A Revolution By Its Cover
Occupy Wall Street, Guest Post

Decolonize Wall Street
another good analysis of why existing systems don't meet the need

Why Occupy Wall Street is More than Just a Protest [Forbes]
“something entirely different and much more important” than merely a protest

Why #OccupyWallStreet?
THREE answers from Videogame Voice Actor:

'We’ve had a shortage of mass movements.’
An interview with Stephen Lerner from SEIU

The Reign of the One Percenters
Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City

Hacktivism Meets Wall Street
a nice analysis

Occupy Wall Street: "It Is a Revolution"

Background information

Some 3,000 Millionaires Claim Jobless Benefits, IRS Data Show
sure they can, but should they?

Cozy relationships and ‘peer benchmarking’ send CEOs’ pay soaring
How CEOs of badly-performing companies get million-dollar salaries

Lamestream/International Media

ウォール街」敵視の若者、逮捕も熱気衰えず
["Wall Street" hostile [to] youth, enthusiasm unabated [by] arrest]
[Yorumi Online]

Wall St protests spread across US [NHK]
More Japanese coverage of OccupyWallStreet

Anti-Wall Street protests spread nationwide [China Daily]

Occupy Chicago" protest enters 10th day [ People's Daily]

Rachel Maddow on MSNBC

How To Support OccupyWallStreet [Nation]

Wall Street Protests Spread To Other Cities [NPR]
Don't bother with the proprietary format audio; there's a transcript

Anti-Wall Street protesters vow to keep up fight [Reuters]

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Photos

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Marine at OccupyWallStreet

Marine 2 with meme poster

Girl arrested for riding her bicycle on the sidewalk
wasn't part of the protest at all; wandered into the war zone

Grey Panthers On The March
They don't look like college kids to me...

TIME photo slideshow

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Videos

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[Again, I'd like to note rumors saying people are downloading many of the OWS videos in case of media sanitization; Netpolitik doesn't, of course, recommend nor endorse anything naughty]

OccupyLA footage
You are all legal observers

10/1/2011 Brooklyn Bridge :: Step by Step

Russian TV on the Bridge busts

Inside Story - Wall Street protests [Al Jazeera]

Wikileaks truck pulled over by police

Police use chainsaw on arrested girl's bike

Geraldo Rivera horns in an appearance

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Take Brooklyn Bridge - 700+ Arrested

Police warning protesters they would be arrested on Bridge
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."

Counter-signals/jamming

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 << classic troll bait

CNN Anchor Erin Burnett mocks OccupyWallStreet
Seriously, this is what they call news now

Occupy Wall Street; Protester Becoming the Oppressor?
"The ForexTV NewsDesk is about money, passion and life. Focusing on social side of the trader's life"

An Open Letter to the Occupy Wall Street Activists
From a Native American

Revolution Is Not For Children
Someone who really is on a rant.

The Left's Pathetic Tea Party
another manufactured position; they just can't get a grip on a non-dualistic model :D

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Tweets
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[these are repeated and amplified signals; continuous, indicative of underlying problem conditions; proto-memes]

PEN TESTING IN PROGRESS: media network... political network... money network... communications network...

X is censoring X

20 Minutes To Shift The Blame

Facebook is now censoring #OccupyWallStreet ....they just shut off the posting rights for the wall on its FB page.

The slow minimal coverage of #occupywallstreet indicators that US's problems lie very deep. Who owns the #press? What happened to open?

That your morning newspaper professes not to understand why you are protesting may be reason in itself to protest.

Nice to hear detailed coverage on BBC Radio Five Live in UK. It was at 2am of course.

"You can fool some people sometimes but you can't fool all the people all the time" ~ Bob Marley
[actually

#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.

#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!

*Remember ~ This Country Is NOT Broke. The Money Is In The WRONG Hands!!

The problem isn't big government, the problem is BOUGHT government.

#Occupywallstreet isn't about ending business in America- it's about the fact that business has been running American politics.

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..."

Semper Fi: Marines Coming To Protect Protesters On Wall Street

Anti-Wall Street Protests Spread Nationwide

Awesome to see CUNY undergrads here, writing papers on their laptops, studying under street lamp light!

The debate at Occupy Wall Street: To what end?

0 Bankers Arrested After Crashing Our Economy. 1,000 Arrested 4 Speaking Up About it.

Republicans Have Controlled the House for 272 Days. They have Created 0 Jobs & Killed Every Jobs Bill Proposed

Why is it easier 2 believe that 150,000,000 Americans are being lazy than 400 Americans are greedy?

NYPD is one layoff away from joining us

Here's the Real John Galt story- Ayn Rand was on both Social Security and Medicare

It's weird seeing Wall Street filled with people who still have their souls.

keep bringing the homeless to Liberty Plaza so they can eat [this doesn't smell right to me; sentiment is good but logistics are not, and why does OWS have to stand for everything to be valid?

Heard [Glenn] Beck today say #OWS is just pushing for socialism and anarchy.

Even being a timid subversive is OK. Print "Occupy" on a sheet of paper at work. Leave it at the sandwich shop at lunchtime

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode
Day 16/17: pDOSing OccupyWallStreet

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Art is my weapon
plus I know computers

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Network:Bridge Mode

2011-10-01T16:47:00.000-07:00

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NYPD precinct where most of those arrested went: 212-788-1400.

The National Lawyer's Guild in NYC: 212-679-6018.

American Civil Liberties Union NY: 212-607-3300

How Not To Get Arrested

Two Questions to ask any officer: "Am I being arrested? Am I free to go?" If no, "I would like to speak to a lawyer.”

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RT @: Everyone at #OccupyWallStreet is #reading and #writing .. it's like an #engaged #education project .. exactly why this is interesting - chaotic network mapping, pen testing, opening new nodes and adding capacity; defragmenting and reconfiguring the network. The network only looks incoherent to those using an incoherent map.

The story tonight is The Brooklyn Bridge (never take a nap in the middle of an internet revolution -_- ) The story from this blog's POV is the incredible explosion of signal transmission; Twitter, You Tube and now Lamestream Media nodes are multiplying; signal crossover has been achieved -

RT@ #occupywallstreet has gone from a press blackout to articles saying the protest is unfocused and pointless. That's progress.

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The Occupy Wall Street group was joined by various unions, including the Transit Workers Union, United Federation of Teachers and Communications Workers of America 1109 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. Arrests being reported into the hundreds [one figure repeated is 400-500 from the NY Times/AP posts. Hours later, the Washington Post says +700]

[a tweet reminds me this is Saturday: D.A's office will be busy on Mon. RT @ And no ones getting arraigned tonight. Or tomorrow. That BLOWS.]

Reports now @11:22pmEDT that one of the New York Lawyers Guild Legal Observers was arrested. If true, that won't be very good :D

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.

7:20amEDT 10.02 - I got let go. After hours on police bus. Most ppl still handcuffed on buses. Trying to find space for us in precincts

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Who's obstructing whom? [network collisions]

According to this NY Times report, 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 no plans to occupy the Bridge; merely to march to Brooklyn and One Chase Manhattan Plaza.

#occupywallstreet NYTimes Blog is now reporting on NYPD purposefully misleading protesters from legal zone to arrest zone.

RT @: #occupywallstreet NYPD mislead 400 protesters off legal path into illegal road then arrested them for being there.

#occupywallstreet corralled onto Brooklyn Bridge by the police, then media reports that police responded to them 'blocking traffic'. #SetUp.

Police corralled protesters onto the Brooklyn Bridge, where they had paddy wagons waiting to load them into #occupywallstreet

Police explanation for #occupywallstreet arrests: not enough cops on roadway, so couldn’t hold marchers back.

This audio report , made to a Democracy Now reporter, seems to confirm deliberate misdirection/entrapment on the part of NYPD, as does this video: Police Leading #OccupyWallStreet Protesters Onto The Brooklyn Bridge Traffic Lane .
Many of the released protesters are saying that they thought they were following NYPD directions and steered on to the bridge.

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Whichever, chaos or deliberation, it was a bad decision on the part of NYPD Tactical to block off both ends of the bridge. 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. Instead, NYPD turned it into a debacle, tying up the Bridge for hours and blocking vehicular traffic, including ambulances.

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Media Pen Testing

NYT
The New York Times is being closely observed after people noticed it changing its online copy. The meme being generated off this is "20 minutes to shift the blame" -

A comparison of the changes the NYT is making on the fly in its online report:

Original version * Revised version

Here's a side-by-side comparison

"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."

This post seems to refute the spinning charges

Although this paragraph [from the original article posted]:

"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."

... looks a lot different in tone and content from the text:

"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."

As you can see in the copy I have, Robert Stolarik [Times photographer]'s name was added at some point.

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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, NewMedia publishes in realtime, which leads to unreliable informational content 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: fact-checking and error-correction; NewMedia is an inherently-unstable network.

It could simply be a case of revision in style and writing and still look 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 new is that OldMedia doesn't have the time it used to have to polish and present a story in keeping with their editorial platform.

It's worth noting that #occupywallstreet is not the first popular reaction to the economic crisis. 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 huge 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.

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.

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Another broadcast signal is the continual media blackout and Twitter censoring:

BS leads with #OccupyWallStreet protests on web, ABC 2nd headline, CNN 7th headline, MSNBC 3rd

This just in: Brooklyn Bridge occupied by #OccupyWallStreet still not big enough news to make @CNN's top stories.

I don't like being too political, but while #occupywallstreet protestors have shut-down the BK Bridge @CNN is showing Elmo... seriously.

#occupywallstreet Mass arrests on Brooklyn Bridge. WHERE ARE THE NEWS NETWORKS? @CNN @MSNBC @NBCNews @ABC @CBSNews @CNBC DO. YOUR. JOBS.

Although this is not precisely true, as evidenced by the links below under Media, what definitely is true is the paltry coverage in US and allied lamestream media as compared to Tea Party protests & international coverage.

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The "Twitter is censoring the hashtag" meme seems 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:

Yes. RT @jorge_lingo: Seems weird that #BrooklynBridge is a trending topic on Twitter in the U.S. but #OccupyWallStreet isn't. what gives?

RT @- #OccupyWallStreet is trending everywhere on Twitter, except in the US! [Daily KOS measurements]

This post tries to explain Twitter's 'Trending' mechanisms...

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Another interesting phenomena seems to be being documented by a bunch of people: Norton Antivirus popping up warnings that OccupyWallStreet.org is "malicious site" . No evidence seen yet. Of course, it's Norton, so you got a problem right there :D

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Information

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Feed The Protest is now accepting bitcoin

Five Twitter Secrets About Censored Trending Topics
An explanation of Twitter's filtering criteria

Proposed List of Demands [OWS official]
Get involved!

An Occupy Wall Street Media Wiki
"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]

The Occupy Wall Street Journal debuts with a print-run of 50,000 [NYT]

How Banks profit off of unemployent through debit cards
Despicable.

Koch Industries sold petrochemical equipment to Iran and paid bribes in six countries

Rally Puts Police Under New Scrutiny [NYT 1992]
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.

Resistance to Civil Government [Thoreau, 1849]

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Media

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In #occupywallstreet we see what "real transparency" looks like, instead of the one-way scrutiny we've been being conditioned to.

Is JP Morgan Getting a Good Return on $4.6 Million “Gift” to NYC Police?
This post has good reporting on the march

A Twitter Conversation with Yoko Ono on Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street: Brooklyn Bridge occupied, mass arrests, solidarity events [DailyKOS]

The Gothamist story is mirrored at MichaelMoore.com

Breaking: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Blocking Off Brooklyn Bridge, Police Arresting Scores [Current]

Occupy Wall Street protesters arrested on Brooklyn Bridge [Guardian]

Police: Hundreds of 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters get tickets [CNN]
That trustworthy spokesman Paul J. Browne, deputy commissioner for the NYPD, says "over 700 summonses and desk appearance tickets were issued."

About 400 arrested in Wall Street protest [Reuters]

700 Arrested After Protest on Brooklyn Bridge [AP video]

Hundreds arrested in US protest [BBC]

700 busted as Wall St. protesters clog Brooklyn Bridge [NY Post]

700 Arrested After Wall Street Protest on N.Y.'s Brooklyn Bridge [Fox]

Marchers confront officers in heated exchange on the Brooklyn Bridge [MSN]

OP-ED

The Best Among Us [Chris Hedges]

What the Media Aren't Telling You About American Protests

Support Independent Media Reporting
Support independent media!

Our One Demand is instead an offering

In Praise Of #OccupyWallStreet — An Apology

Two datasets of two posts contrasted:

The bankers and the revolutionaries [NYT]
Gunning for Wall Street, With Faulty Aim [NYT]
One well-written article and one absolute hatchet-job

The Obama Disconnect: What Happens When Myth Meets Reality [Sifry]
The Sifry Disconnect: When cynicism kills hope [Karoli]

#OccupyWallStreet: There's Something Happening Here, Mr. Jones
Hey, didn't I just use that Dylan reference in Monday's post?

Wall Street Protests and Police Thuggery
Nice analysis

Working it out in public: What’s my problem with #OccupyWallStreet?
This post seems reasonable, for a minute until it mentions comparison to Tahrir "repellent"; I guess he didn't see the video from Tahrir Square supporting OWS :D Unfortunately, this post blindly refuses to accept the operating premise that the system is compromised. You cannot work on a virus-riddled system; you must reformat it.

Rich people are being ‘demonized’ for flaunting their wealth. Poor dears! [Washington Post]

Photos/Videos

One thing that IS emerging is of course tons of data: videos and photographs which do more for awareness and attention than anything [viral media population]:

The TRUTH About The Occupy Wall Street Protests [agitprop video]
This dood is like a young Alan Ginsberg :D

The Bankers Are The Problem [agitprop video]
This "Anonymous" offering looks like something right out of Max Headroom

OccupyWallStreet's Flickr stream

Arresting what appears to be a very young girl [video]

Photo of the young protester arrested (Little Red Haired Girl)
You know she knows she's gonna be famous now. Totally deserving; kawaii! She is wearing a hat designed on anime character Gir's dog disguise in Invader Zim. thx Abel! +1 internets +1 anime

Mass arrests at the Bridge [video]

live arrest at brooklyn bridge #occupywallstreet by We are Change [video]

Protesters-kettled-arrested-on-Brooklyn-Bridge [video]

Police Arrest Occupy Wall Street Protesters on the Brooklyn Bridge - October 1, 2011 [video]

Photo set at The Gothamist

People struggle to keep protester from police

Vietnam vet protesting

#OccupyGA City Hall

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Best statement uttered today, from the mouth of one of the returning arrestees:
"You say that our aims and goals are kind-of vague, but I don't believe they are. Look, everybody knows that things are really bad, all around, everywhere: the growing gap in income, the ecological disasters, the collapsing of the economy. Everybody knows this." Indeed; this is the elephant in the room.

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."

[Remember Kyle MacDonald's One Red Paperclip experiment? A model of bootstrapping]

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Disinformation/noise on all sides

This doctored photo from an "OWS supporter" has given people something to run with - bad idea. This protest doesn't need manufactured propaganda; there's plenty-nuff real stuff out there for use. It only opens an opportunity to discredit. This website details that Photoshopping. And then... there's the website of the guy who actually did the photo for a print (sans the captioning), Scott Lickstein, who says he "released the teaser for this print last week " and openly states that it is a 'shopped print and never intended to be deceptful.

The age of the Red-Haired Girl 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 National Bullying Prevention Month.

It would be great if all the "debaters" could learn the difference between false flag, straw man and ad hominem attacks. I see the terms thrown around frequently; it doesn't impress me with their arguments.

Which neatly segues into...

Trolls/Astroturfing/pDOS Attack [political Denial of Services]

The astroturfers and sockpuppets 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 this post.

However, the game is being upped by some seriously nasty implications; these are the pros; the signal disruptors, 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.

The previous insult/belittling tweets have given way to real ugliness: anti-semetic/racist slurs/abortion/anti-intelligence/sexual/violence blasts; the rhetoric of the extreme. No debating, no arguing; just attacking. Noise jamming; disrupting the network, seeking vulnerabilities:

Because when the racists can't protest "the Jews", they can still protest "the bankers" and mean the same damned thing.

Wall Street Protest Starting to Look Like Egypt

needs to be denounced as terrorists nowadays, it's not the 50s anymore.

Time to go Kent State on #occupywallstreet

A few are even saying... (wait for it)... "comrade". I know :D But they really are.

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.

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After documenting some of my troll interactions I couldn't help but be amused when I got this one: Tea Party wants the same thing. So how are you getting it accomplished down there? after days of watching Tea Partiers/sockpuppets/astroturfers attack OWS and vehemently deny there was any common ground.

Here's a snowcone making the rounds: "It's the inequality, stupid," a reference to the well-known slogan of Bill Clinton's 1992 Presidential campaign.

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Troll/Sockpuppet Debug Routines

Framing the Debate: It makes me ill to think #OccupyWallStreet is somehow the ANTI Tea Party. Does the Tea Party dislike Corporate corruption?

Hotfix: I don't know much about the Tea Party's position; this is my own position.

Mirror argument: (regarding tea party vs OWS media)
When pro-lifers peacefully pray outside abortion ctrs liberals pass laws to suppress. But #occupywallstreet gets tons of favorable media cov

Hotfix: copy them the other tweets saying there's no media coverage because it's stupid (see below)

Futility Of Your Argument: Why would they cover it. It is a waste of time and irrelevant - like you.

Hotfix: Point them to the lamestream media stories.

You're Bums: So glad the white privileged #OccupyWallStreet kids don't have to get up and go to work, raise a family, volunteer in their communities.

Hotfix: Point them at the pilots, teachers, First Responders, photos, stories.

No Argument: What the hell are they trying to accomplish? #occupywallstreet I've listened to interviews and I feel like they don't even know

Hotfix: LMGTFY [Let Me Google That For You] + Wikipedia

Ur Doin' It Wrong: You're all being distracted by the wrong target; the crooks are in Washington ie You Really Should Be With Us

Hotfix: Actually, you're ignoring the stated premise: money has corrupted government.

Attack on Rationality: Because their obnoxious professor told them to.....RT @hippojuicefilm: Statistics from #OccupyWallStreet 99% of people do not know why they are there.

Hotfix: *laughter*

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"Wall Street is like any other machine; it's either a benefit or a hazard.
If it's a benefit, it's not my problem." - Anonymous Cop in Wall Runner

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet
Day 15: Network:Bridge Mode

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Art is my weapon
plus I know computers

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Meme in Motion: Two Weeks of Occupy Wall Street

2011-10-01T01:21:00.000-07:00

Saturday Oct. 1, 2011

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)

Other cities are checking in now; many US and some international with panned or ongoing demonstrations; the 99% movement is going national and transnational...

Republican Party? Democratic Party? Tea Party? NET PARTY! #occupywallstreet #occupymedia #occupyinternet

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So today while hanging, I'm retransmitting some infolinks from the first weeks; medical supply requests, the shipping address for OWS at Liberty Plaza, some handy tutorials and official statements from Occupy Wall Street in the INFORMATION section below, plus the usual media roundup.

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.

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Information
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Recap of pertinent information from weeks 1&2

How Not To Get Arrested
some basic rules for being cool

The National Lawyer's Guild in NYC: 212-679-6018.

American Civil Liberties Union NY: 212-607-3300

Live GlobalRevolution stream from Liberty Plaza

First OFFICIAL Release from OCCUPY WALL STREET

Proposed List of Demands [official OccupyWallStreet]
A democratic poll

Huge List of Locations for #OccupyWallStreet Demonstrations
Actually, OccupyEverywhere :)

OccupyWallStreet's Flickr photostream

Google Search: 'Occupy Wall Street' - About 6,140,000 results (0.30 seconds)

Wikipedia: Occupy Wall Street

List of places that will deliver food to Liberty Plaza

Here's a theoretical tutorial about getting out of Zip-tie cuffs [youtube]
for entertainment purposes only
Here's how a magician would escape plastic cuffs [front] [youtube]
for entertainment purposes only

New York Patrol Guide Procedure Number 212-95 [Pepper Spray]

Pepper spray and tear gas - things to know about it

According to this NYCLU post, you have the right to stand or march on sidewalks without a permit.

MEDICAL SUPPLIES NEEDED

Shipping address:
THE UPS STORE
118 A #205
NEW YORK, NY 10038

RE: Occupy Wall Street

Nice downloadable-printable posters from OccupyTogether

Occupy Wall Street's Arts & Culture Committee

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Media
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Adbusters: Occupy Wall Street
The starting-point of it all

The Occupy Wall Street Journal
who says print media is dead?

Calling All Military Veterans on Reddit [Reddit]
A plea from 15 veteran US Marines

National Nurses United Statement in Support of OccupyWallStreet [press release]

Second Life Virtual OccupyWallStreet gathering
I'll be there :)

United Steelworkers Union announces support for Occupy Wall Street
Full statement from Leo W. Gerard, International President of the United Steelworkers

Op-eds

The Best Among Us [Chris Hedges]

The Left-Right Paradigm Is Over
It's you vs corporations

On The Streets with Occupy San Francisco [SF Bay Guardian]

From Heroes To Pigs: The Metamorphosis of the NYPD [Counterpunch]

Nice deconstruction of 'class warfare'

MLK: Why the US needs an economic justice movement [1967]

The Left Drops the Ball
Nice callout to the 'Progressives'

JP Morgan recently donated $4.6mil the New York City Police Foundation
*Mr Spock raises eyebrow* "Fascinating."

The GOP War on Voting

Photos

50 Portraits from Occupy Wall Street
No, they aren't "all dirty smelly hippies' :D

We Are The 99%
Excellent photo compilation from electronic supporters writing out their stories for the camera.

OccupyWallStreet in 35 photos [Atlantic]

Coppin' The Bull
one of the classic OccupyWallStreet pics!

Occupy Wall Street at night
Poignant photo of sleepers

Goethe spotted at Occupy Wall Street

The Occupied Wall Street Journal

Videos

Support 99% from Tahrir Square ....... to protesters in USA

Anonymous - #OccupyWallStreet - We are the 99%

We The People: The 99% March to Police NYPD HQ 9.30.2011

Sen. Bernie Sanders on Kieth Olbermann

'On The American Dream'
This George Carlin video from "Life Is Worth Losing" (2005) gets around constantly.

3 months before OWS, nurses asked WallStreet to pay their fair share too.

Frank Zappa at the PMRC Senate Hearings
Hot Rats!

Foreign

CHINA calls out the US Lamestream Media blackout
Nǐ zěnme yàng?

Les New Yorkais se rebiffent contre Wall Street [LeMonde]
Inde, Israël, Etats-Unis : le mouvement des "indignés" gagne tous les pays [RTBF]

'Occupy Wall Street' Protesters in NYC Decry Corruption, Greed [Turkish Weekly]

#OccupyWallStreet – Cronaca del 12° giorno di una
rivoluzione neanche tanto silenziosa

USA werden zum Billiglohnland [Linke Zeitung]

Miles de personas secundan la marcha silenciosa
bajo el lema 'Occupy Wall Street' [europapress]

'Occupy Wall Street' realiza protestas a lo largo de EEUU [Publico]

Wall Streetin "valtaus" jatkuu - NYPD:tä syytetään kovista otteista [Finnish TV]

Lamestream

The NY Times gets nasty with the spin verbiage
Excellent example of corporate media spin and semantic warfare. Maybe it's story-envy.

Nice video deconstructing Fox News spin on Pepper Spray Video

BBC finally prints a story... cause it has Radiohead in it
+1 starfsckerz

The New York Observer has a 'OccupyWallStreet For Dummehs' piece
Ya put ya left foot in, ya put ya left foot out...

Not to be outdone, The Nation publishes an OWS FAQ
No, really. I don't think it's a joke...

"Officer" cop forum found, outed; tries to redact
Ooooo they talks nasty! But you knew that. But they didn't know what caches are for; now they do. That's why I love the internet; so educational!

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Tweetstream
a sampling of the semantic network
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Next time I hear "liberal media", I'll remember said "liberal media" failed to cover #occupywallstreet

#occupywallstreet has taught me where real news comes from ...#twitter

Russia Times covering #OccupyWallstreet. Wash Post covering Moscow clamp-down on gay rights march. Two-way hypocrisy.

Latest email from #OccupyWallStreet: I got hoaxed. Radiohead was never confirmed. Completely our fault. Apologies. Band victims of hoax too

@xxxxxxxx #anonymous have cross the line AGAIN keep family out of it, simple RULE to follow #Dammit

Your most lethal weapon is your mind. Keep it peaceful & creative.

when you have awoken the fear in the 1% and the fight intensifies, remember peaceful action only non-violence rises above

"Fear is the foundation of most governments." - John Adams

Dear the Internet, please make it stop raining on #occupywallstreet k thx bye.

Sometimes the only difference b/w a hippie and Miss America is a shower and a crown. Don't we all want peace?

We've moved from racial profiling to facial profiling in america. Now that's progress.

I am so proud of all the protesters! #occupywallstreet and especially like the father and his children=real families fed up!

You Should Fight Back This Weekend by Pulling Your Money Out of the Bank & Joining a Credit Union

I may not be able to #OccupyWallStreet, but I can take my money out of their banks.

Get your money out of Bank of America (or other big banks) and into a regional bank or credit union.

I am going to repeat what I said before. I remain skeptical. That doesn't matter. #occupyWallstreet can teach us much.

A jug is filled one drop at a time - Buddha

Borders should not stop human dignity. Stop using immigrants as boogeymen

when the government bails out corporations and provides them with special treatment...that fascism, not capitalism.

les tweets internationale

To all the people demonstrating in #occupywallstreet : you have my respect and support - from Paris, France
Les New Yorkais se rebiffent contre Wall Street

RT @pablomp2p: Noche decisiva en Nueva York, cientos aguantan en los parques a pesar de la lluvia en #occupyWallStreet
Volg dit, de media doen het niet! RT @OccupyWallSt Two weeks strong! Our third week will only be stronger!

Demonstratie die niet op tv is, omdat t niet gezien mag worden volgens de rijken. Hij duurt nu al 15 dagen

Vel, som #OccupyWallStreet nå viser, litt "kommunisme" er ingen dum ting. Vi trenger regler som forhindrer plutokratene.

Una pizzería cercana ha llevado muchas pizzas gratis a #occupyWallStreet. En Sol pasó exactamente lo mismo la segunda mañana. #globalchange

Eins noch: Guter Stream gerade live aus New York von #OccupyWallstreet - viele Menschen auf der Straße. Auf livestream gibt es ihn

Noam Chomsky Anuncia Solidariedade com #occupywallstreet - Portal Vermelho: http://t.co/l3xso9iX via @AddThis 'Precariato' vai à luta.

Democracia? 1% de la poblacion controla politicos de todos los partidos, mafia financiera responables del desastre

A Micro Conversation:

MS: This is a hostage situation. Gamblers are holding America hostage. Negotiators urgently needed.

BACK: @misosusanowa They put it all on a the hard eight, didn't they ; )

MS: @BACK *laughing so hard* you gotta know when to roll 'em, and when to smoke 'em :D

BACK: @misosusanowa I love me some Dorothy Parker!

Funz [sass + whack-a-mole]

@GirlScouts Y U No #occupywallstreet? WE LOVE YOU. PLS BRING THIN MINTS.

MT @OccupyWallStNYC: 4 #nypd choppers circling above.Have they found our missing tax $$'s? #occupywallstreet ||Nah, just looking for bonuses

Hey #occupywallstreet trolls - You should #OccupyUranus

RT @ariannahuff: Come visit us at the AOL HPMG Oasis at the NYC Wine & Food Festival this weekend! || I'd prefer you visit #OccupyWallStreet

Hawt Troll Nite
I gave in to my base instincts and went troll-hunting:

[to a fellow troll-hunter] @trollhunter *slow clap* well played, sir! Well played!

[got tired of all the "wtf" tweets and sent this out]: WHAT THE HECK IS OCCUPY WALL STREET? LMGTFY - Wikipedia: bit.ly/n8BnCX . You're welcome.

[in response to all the "anti-zionist smelly dirty hippies" tweets]: Ancient Mayans, underground dwellers and flying saucer people with no jobs are the ones who #occupywallstreet . #FrumSum Troll

Troll #1
RT @TROLL: When you #OccupyWallStreet and complain about huge corporations be sure to tweet about it on your expensive cell phone.

MS: @TROLL2: sure, no problem; do you know any good cuneiform chiselers? +1 troll.

Troll #2
TROLL: what is there to know? that it's aimless? Our govt is in bed with wall street. #wrongSPOToccupied

MS: @troll first you must disconnect the vampire from his victim in order to drain his power.

TROLL: @misosusanowa vampires don't actually exist. you won't find one on Wall Street either. #occupywallstreet anyway. lol

MS: @troll so sorry your metaphor processing lobe is on the fritz. Stay trollin!

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Day 10 - Propagating Signal

Day 11 - Who Watches the Watchmen? WE DO.

Day 12: Trolls & Signal Jamming
Day 13: Op Disinformation
Day 14: Meme In Motion: Two Weeks of OccupyWallStreet

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Art is my weapon

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