Audioslave — “Yesterday to Tomorrow” from Out of Exile
Beck — “Lonesome Tears” from Sea Change
56% of registered voters said they'd vote yes if their ballot included the option to replace every member of Congress. - WSJ
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“ If you can’t feed your baby, then don’t have a baby. And don’t think maybe, if you can’t feed your baby.
Michael Jackson
“ If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
“ I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind’s sole purpose on this planet. If you’re wondering what I believe our purpose on this planet is, I’ll give you a hint…it has to do with creating and sharing.
Bill Hicks (via aspiritualsynapse)
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Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra — “Hey Ba Ba Re Bop” (1945)
Do yourself a favor and listen to this — the whole way through.
Pink Floyd — “Us and Them” from The Dark Side of the Moon
“ But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
U.S. Declaration of Independence
Anonymous downs government, music industry sites in largest attack ever — RT
Hacktivists with the collective Anonymous are waging an attack on the website for the White House after successfully breaking the sites for the FBI, Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, RIAA and Motion Picture Association of America.
Anonymous Goes On Megaupload Revenge Spree
Anonymous has sure been quiet lately, but today’s federal bust of Megaupload riled ‘em up good: a retaliatory strike against DoJ.gov has left it completely dead.
DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com is reporting the department’s site as universally nuked, and an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account is boasting success. This is almost certainly the result of a quickly assembled DDoS attack, and easily the widest in scope we’ve seen in some time. If you had any doubts Anonymous is still a hacker wrecking ball, doubt no more.
The combination of the hacking nebula’s SOPA animosity — they’ve been a vocal opponent of the bill since its inception — combined with today’s sudden Megaupload news has made the group bubble over: hundreds upon hundreds of Anon operatives are in a plotting frenzy, chatting about which site will go down next. In Anon’s eyes, the government and media interests are responsible for the undue destruction of Megaupload (and the arrest of four of its operators), so it’ll be exactly those entities that are feeling the pain right now. Pretty much every company that makes movies, TV or music, along with the entirety of the federal government, is in Anonymous’ crosshairs.
Update: Anonymous says they’ve also knocked off the RIAA’s site — looks down for us at the moment as well.
Update 2: Universal Music Group has also fallen off an e-cliff.
Update 3: Goodbye for now, MPAA.org.
Update 4: Affected sites are bouncing in and out of life, and are at the very least super slow to load. Anon agents are currently trying to coordinate their DDoS attacks in the same direction via IRC.
Update 5: The US Copyright Office joins the list.
Update 6: This Anon sums up the mood in their “official” chat room at the moment:
Danzu: STOP EVERYTHING, who are we DoSing right now?
Update 7: Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous’ history — over 5600 DDoS zealots blasting at once.
(Source: solitaryforager)
Anonymous take down Department of Justice, RIAA, MPAA, Universal Music
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Mind-blowing Reminder of the Day
- The United States’ accumulation of federal crimes is 50 volumes, over 23,000 pages in length; and while the exact number of laws is unknown, it is easily over 10,000.
- The number of prisoners per capita in the US is ~715 per 100,000 people, for a total of over 2 million imprisoned.
Seems as though the fear of punishment via incarceration as a method to discourage unwanted behavior isn’t working…
"S&P downgrades euro zone rescue fund, Greece pressured"
Remember how S&P downgraded the credit ratings of 9 EU countries a few days ago? Well, today they also downgraded the credit rating of the EFSF, the bailout fund created to keep EU countries from going under.
Sounds like the whole “buy-debt-with-more-debt” thing isn’t working.
Hmmm… Ya think?
(Source: Yahoo!)
“ We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964)
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