This wasn’t quite what I thought would happen, but I was close:

I’m calling 4pm CDT May 17th, a raid on a workshop, all personal electronics confiscated, 27 people taken in to “custody”, based on information from “inside sources”.

There’s still time for the CPD to round up something other than beer making supplies. Workshops should have a raid plan.

This is standard procedure:

The FBI spied on and infiltrated an antiwar group that was organizing against…

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The guy pushing for the most violent action is the plant. Following him will lead you to jail.

We will all do well to remember that.

Also

The FBI had an undercover agent named “Karen Sullivan” infiltrate the antiwar movement in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

If it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

There’s a song for that

We mean to make things over,
We are tired of toil for naught
With but bare enough to live upon
And ne’er an hour for thought.
We want to feel the sunshine
And we want to smell the flow’rs
We are sure that God has willed it
And we mean to have eight hours;
We’re summoning our forces
From the shipyard, shop and mill

Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest
Eight hours for what we will;
Eight hours for work, eight hours for rest
Eight hours for what we will.

Best line:

sifting through the bullshit and laying the rest out in whatever medium is handy at the moment.

Can we get that on a t-shirt?

With a big FDL on the other side?

Weak ass game wiped Santorum off ~15 of 66 delegate spots in Ohio. Voters in at least 3 CDs won’t even be able to make Santorum their choice. If Romney can’t beat that spread he deserves to be pounded by the media.

The point that gets missed is that the problem Rush is exploiting isn’t that someone is a slut (BC costs the same whether she has sex with 8 guys every day or just one time a month). It’s that she’s too poor to afford the medicine prescribed by her doctor. As long as Rush can make this about someone’s sexual behavior, the point that Republicans think there is an income level required to be able to have sex goes unaddressed. Republicans think that if you can’t afford your prescribed medicine, you should avoid PIV sex. I’m sure they see it as electoral gold.

Cory Doctorow’s review of Lawrence Lessig’s new book One Way Forward

Lessig ascribes to this corruption the outrage that mobilizes both Occupy and the Tea Party, and he believes that the corruption can’t be ended until both the left and right realize that though they don’t have a common goal, they do share a common enemy, and unite to defeat it.

So if a Havahd prof says it, will it mean more than if some film school grad says it?

Will anyone listen?

EFF Starts a series about the creators of digital surveillance software in the EU:

Western companies marketing and selling mass surveillance technology to authoritarian regimes. This technology has been linked to harassment, arrests, and even torture of journalists, human rights advocates, and democratic activists in many Middle East countries over the past year.

So $11M to General Dynamics for what we’re not exactly sure, but I’m going to bet that whatever process they learned will be resold to the rest of the world. This is the central argument of Tor’s Jason Applebaum. He and Roger Dingledine gave a very good talk about this at the Chaos Computer Congress in December that is worth the time to watch.

I think we should start laying bets on when the first raid-on-suspicion will be. What will the pretext be- overcrowding? anonymous tip?

Very likely it will provided by the agents provocateur.

The person calling for the most extreme position is likely working for the police.

I’m calling 4pm CDT, a raid on a workshop, all personal electronics confiscated, 27 people taken in to “custody”, based on information from “inside sources”.

In case anyone missed it, Harry Shearer interviewed Yves Smith on le Show yesterday. An excellent discussion of the rampant crime wave in the mortgage markets and the dive taken by the Gov in the “settlement.”

You can stream or podcast it at the KCRW website.

The post up at Yves’ blog Naked Capitalism is for a NYC march today to Occupy the SEC.

I hope the NY AG remembers what happened to Spitzer.

I was thinking about this today when I found a newspaper from 2003 in a file drawer. One of the stories on the front page was about how Jack Grubman and Henry Blodget and 10 Wall Street firms were going to pay a $1.4B fine + “disgorgement” for basically selling stocks as winnners that they knew or should have known were crap. Grubman and Blodget were also barred for life from the securities industry. The firms had to contribute to a fund to provide free independent research and investor education. Spitzer was in the media spotlight for his work focused on Merill Lynch.
NYT story
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The firms involved settled for a wee portion of their ill-gotten gains, and Ralph Nader pointed it out at the time. But the net effect is that the firms switched their criminal conduct from internet/telcom stocks to housing related program activities. 5 years later Spitzer was out of the way and the criminal enterprises continued the same pattern of behavior.

Who will be barred for life as a result of this newest fraud unit? Who will be required to “disgorge” ill-gotten profits? Who will be given relief funded by the FIRE industry?

WILL I GET TO SEE SOME MOTHREFCUKER IN CHAINS?

I can always hope.

Like Jason Applebaum says, because a US client pays for the R&D, Iran doesn’t have to pay for it. VOCUS should be very proud of their accomplishments. Handmaiden to the surveillance state.

Take some time and watch:
http://boingboing.net/2011/12/29/state-of-the-arms-race-between.html

I especially liked: It’s on my hand! In ink! Therefore TRUE!

Less discussed is..

Also, can I get my fcuking money back from Lockheed Martin?

Stealth? Really? And did we leave all the ports wide open too? How do you spell h@xx0r in Farsi?

Assuming this whole thing wasn’t intentional, of course.

tbogg-

If you ever again produce anything that causes me to imagine Newt naked and/or engaged in sexual activities with a human(1), I will sue you for the value of the entire internet.

You have been warned.

(1)I am willing to accept that “Callista” isn’t really human but merely a sophisticated simulacra produced by Rosen Industries, recently escaped from the colonies. It actually would be more believable if her name was Jackie Monroeville. Which would then make Newt Gomer Tatum. But still, unless the discussion involves Newt preforming acts with farm animals or other obvious non-human entities, my position remains um firm.

Hatmandu beat me to it but so what:

“The Draining of The Will.” (That last one sounds like a film on penile abscesses directed by Leni Riefenstahl.)

Classic.

Did you say the Republicans were investigating poor financial decisions?

The Defense Department is unable to properly account for $8.7 billion out of $9.1 billion in Iraqi oil revenue entrusted to it between 2004 and 2007, according to a newly released audit that underscores a pattern of poor record-keeping during the war.

Of that amount, the military failed to provide any records at all for $2.6 billion in purported reconstruction expenditure, says the report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, which is responsible for monitoring U.S. spending in Iraq.

The oil money that was supposed to pay for the war?

Andycakes, instead of resorting to the Mexlamofascist usted, several Americanisms would suffice to indicate the plural you

y’all

youse

yinz…

Seriously Andy, why do you hate America?

Shorter White House:

Clap Louder!!

So basically this hostage taking event will be solved by creating a new hostage taking event?

What part of the New Deal will get blown up in December?