The Data Prevention Manifesto

2016-11-11 Thread birds
http://dataprevention.net/ The Data Prevention Manifesto ...by the Plumbing Birds The privacy discourse sputtered out of steam. This has lead to the current stalemate: we know we're observed, traced and tracked, but pretend it's not happening or nothing to fret about. The question is not when

Re: [SPAM] PTS post trump syndrome - the suicide of the

2016-11-11 Thread Alex Foti
honestly? i don't think that the bern would have made a difference - too white, too old to have blacks, latinos, millennials turn out in the numbers sufficient to beat that horrific guy and the hooverist id he incarnates. people cite polls but who can believe the polls in the new age of extremes?

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

2016-11-11 Thread Laura Chimera
> Automation, offshoring and the cynical exploitation of the > most defenceless immigrant workers are expressions of pure > capitalist principles (profit at any cost). Pure capitalism is > self-destructive, unless it is tempered and corrected by a social > democracy that changes some of its basic

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

2016-11-11 Thread Keith Sanborn
A lot of theorectical speculation. One of my female students had this experience, the day after Trump was elected. She was walking down the street around 14th street, on the West side in New York. A man approached her and said: “Now I can grab your pussy any time I want.” She is afraid to go

Re: What is the meaning of Trump's victory?

2016-11-11 Thread Angela Mitropoulos
Brian, re this: The great achievement of the US Democratic Party since 1968, which I don't mean to deny in any way, is to to have made all those groups formerly called "minorities" into crucial components of a voting bloc. That's a starting point. Now let's ditch the financial elites that

Re: [SPAM] PTS post trump syndrome - the suicide of the

2016-11-11 Thread Michael Eisenmenger
Controlling the language of dissent in the media has been the domain of Republicans for more than 30 years. Seems the Democrats are always lost for words. Sander's captured it perfectly and had traction - but then he wasn't exactly a Democrat, only an old guy trying to save them from themselves: