big heist?

ok, so there's been a lot of this countermedia stuff lately. no idea on how legit any of it is (/me + econ == fail)...

it didn't seem like anything about protests about the bailout bubbled up to a worthwhile story in the mainstream media, but i mighta missed it...

so supposition is: is it possible that the US is getting knocked off like a big ass bank?

big oil and corp types are elected, soo:

policy of deregulation & big business breaks put into place for 8 years == $$$
huge ongoing war started (iraq) == $$$
mindset of perpetual conflict (terror) == $$$
huge oil prices (xfer of wealth from US to uber-rich and oil-rich actors) == $$$
huge bailout to corps who failed in the free market by being retarded == $$$



i really hate the 9/11 conspiracy stuff too btw, and i've been debating whether or not to post. i've just got nothing to add to the space except mb to say that didn't people always say that a big govt coverup won't work b/c too much shit would leak and be known... could one make an argument that there is an ever broadening set of legit questions which aren't addressed by the US govt surrounding 9/11? i donno...

what i do know, is that post 9/11 the US as a nation has lost touch w/ some of the wisdom of the founding fathers about keeping the gov't from getting all up in your business. and the fact is, w/ warrentless wiretapping, echelon-type information gathering has been hugely expanded. now it is theoretically possible for govt to:

- listen in on your voip and/skype calls
- track significant data relating to online behavior (activies, patterns, interests)
- discreetly activate cell phones for audio surveillance
- track physical location via cell phone tower triangulation
- have eyes-on of physical activity in all-weather (?) at a resolution approaching 1m (out of my ass) whenever you can see the sky?

personally, i think people who say "well if you don't have anything to hide" are out of touch w/ the constitution as well as relevant historical precedent... really, they do this stuff (linkage legality not disputed here, btw)

and if you think i'm just a nut, you might be right, but lemmie point out that this falls in line w/ talks being given by potter (in that a lot can be found in applying stats to loads of raw data) and arguably dead addict (iirc: suppressing information footprints in datasets which are subject to statistical analysis can be more of a flag than existing normally within the mainstream data-set).

speaking to that latter point, you can note that hans reiser took the battery out of his cell phone when he buried his wife. the cops with him to recover her body said they walked right past it in their search, and would've never found it (read in some article i'm too lazy to cite, sry).

dropping off the grid could be raising red flags on someone's radar. similarly, using strong encryption more than the avg joe could be a flag that you warrant further watching.

stretching too far, one could speculate that subtle attacks on CA and trusted crypto infrastructure would clearly be highly guarded information, given how valuable evesdropping "secure" communications proved during wwII and prolly ever since...

anyway, i hear that someone slipped subtle verbage into the bailout bill that allows the taxpayer to have some option to have some ownership in the companies being bailed out. maybe there are good-guys out there slayin dragons in the shadows... who knows...

bottom line, there is a reason that the fight for punishing your friendly telecom (who aren't interested in helping you, btw) has all but been abandoned. there's a reason no candidate is talking about this. who would want to give up that much power?

give a few $$$ to EFF, they are good peeps fighting for all of us normal folk... (i in no way speak for them, btw, they prolly think i'm a nut ;)

someday i'll post real sec stuff again... really ;)