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Mulder commented on the diary post On The Power Of Pledge Based Activism by matthewj.
Sounds like a twist on the public radio pledge drives, where if you’re one of the luck pledges during a certain time period, your pledge is matched by a corporate donor. But in this case, your pledge is “matched” by other pledges for the same cause, and you get a graphic representation of how the [...]
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Mulder commented on the diary post FAQ: Answering Common Questions About No Confidence Protest Vote 2012 by matthewj.
I see that both approaches could work; it all depends on their execution. The Accountability Now project is basically calling for primary challenges, which can be effective, since most congressional incumbents want to hang on to their seat, and if they know they’re going to lose unless they change their ways, that’s a powerful motivator, [...]
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Mulder commented on the diary post FAQ: Answering Common Questions About No Confidence Protest Vote 2012 by matthewj.
Basically, what you appear to be saying is that We the People need to form our own party and implement regime change, thus removing the oligarchs and changing the dynamic of our government.
Sort of what Robert Reich proposed in his blog, albeit not limited to the current budget crisis.
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Mulder commented on the diary post No Confidence Protest Vote 2012 by matthewj.
I’m all for removing the oligarchs from power (maybe we should indefinitely detain them at Guantanamo Bay), but like others, I do fear that it might just end up with more Rethuglicans elected, and we know they’re worse than Democrats and Tea Party crazies. But like Glenn Greenwald says, it’s up to us to hold [...]
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Mulder commented on the diary post No Confidence Protest Vote 2012 by matthewj.
If you want to contact Jesse Ventura, you can do it through his publicist:
Jesse Ventura
Nicole Nassar PR
1111 10th Street
Suite 104
Santa Monica, CA 90403or his agent:
Jesse Ventura
William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
9601 Wilshire Blvd
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Mulder commented on the diary post Photos and Stories from the Protests for Bradley Manning by Brian Sonenstein.
Besides protesting at Quantico and other major cities, it couldn’t hurt to email the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron and pressure him to step up and force the U.S. to stop torturing Manning, who is a British National. At the same time, you can use that opportunity to pressure him to investigate and prosecute the [...]
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Mulder commented on the blog post Pulling Some Threads on Lamo’s Inconsistencies
Encrypted email is nothing more than a message that has been altered with a cryptographic algorithm to be unreadable without the decryption key, which only the recipient has on their computer. Anyone can do this with Public Key Encryption tools such as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) or GNUPG (an open source version of PGP).
Encryption keys are created by the programs on your computer: one “public key” which you provide to anyone you like who wants to send you encrypted email; and one “private key” which you never give out for any reason.
When someone wants to communicate with you privately (because it’s widely believed that the NSA is still intercepting all email traffic), they use your public key to encrypt a message and send it to you; when you receive it, only your private key can decrypt it so that you can read it. As long as you use a key length of sufficient size (1024 bits or larger), it’s impossible to break that key for thousands of years, and whatever is in that message will be of no value long before that time has elapsed.
If you were to lose your private key (maybe you had it stored on some other computer; it was stored on a flash drive and you lost it; or you lost the password for your computer and couldn’t access the key because of that); whatever the reason, you would have to generate new keys and send the new public key to everyone who already had it and tell them to delete the old one.
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Mulder commented on the blog post Pulling Some Threads on Lamo’s Inconsistencies
NSLs or gag orders wouldn’t prevent Wired or any other media organization from publishing the chat logs. That would be prior restraint, which the Supreme Court has ruled to be unconstitutional.
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