The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
This short documentary reveals the hazards of the electronics industry in China profiling workers poisoned by chemicals and their struggle for compensation.
Thousands of young people in China enter export factories to make the West's favorite electronic gadgets, only to find they have contracted occupational diseases or worse, leukemia, by the age of 25.
Benzine is a class one carcinogenic banned everywhere EXCEPT China.
More People Were Paid To Exploit Heartbleed For The NSA Than To Fix It
Infrastructure – Zacqary Adam Green: Unsurprisingly, it turns out that the NSA knew about the Heartbleed bug since shortly after it was added to OpenSSL. While thousands of salaried NSA personnel search for bugs like these to exploit, OpenSSL has only four part-time volunteers maintaining it. Of course this was going to happen.
The idea behind open source software is that “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.” This only works if there actually are enough eyeballs. Code audits can only happen if there are people with the will, expertise, and time to do so. Rusty Foster pointed out the problem with OpenSSL:
The project’s code is more than fifteen years old, and it has a reputation for being dense, as well as difficult to maintain and to improve. Since the bug was revealed, other programmers have had harsh criticisms for what they regard as a mistake that could easily have been avoided.…
Unlike a rusting highway bridge, digital infrastructure does not betray the effects of age. And, unlike roads and bridges, large portions of the software infrastructure of the Internet are built and maintained by volunteers, who get little reward when their code works well but are blamed, and sometimes savagely derided, when it fails. To some degree, this is beginning to change: venture-capital firms have made substantial investments in code-infrastructure projects, like GitHub and the Node Package Manager. But money and support still tend to flow to the newest and sexiest projects, while boring but essential elements like OpenSSL limp along as volunteer efforts.
This point is only compounded by the NSA news. As it turns out, a great deal of funding was going towards meticulously auditing OpenSSL. The problem is that the NSA keeps the results of these audits to themselves. No bugs are fixed. No patches are committed. Critical flaws are kept under wraps so that they can be used to siphon more data and break into more computers.
This is the length to which the Republican Party is willing to go to suppress voting. This is the direct result of the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the activist Robert's court. Voter suppression ought to be the subject of an intense national debate — as it was in the Civil Rights era — covered const! antly by the media since it strikes at the very foundation of democracy. That it is not is highly revealing of where we are as a country.
New Rule Prohibits Voters In Miami-Dade County From Using The Restroom, No Matter How Long The Line
NICOLE FLATOW – Think Progress
Huh?
Uniforms with dogs without a clue. Protesters without a clue as well.
34,286 Views Militant call to arms including plans to use force.
22,267 Views White woman, “people are getting fed up” — group going into DC on May 16th.
15,460 Views Alex Jones' version of what is going on.
Continue reading “Mini-Me: Nevada Stand-Off YouTubes from 773,010 Views On Down”
Note this comment after a recent article on this in Alex Jones:
“When the pigs start killin…..the state of Nevada will ignite…..no cop anywhere will be safe, black, white, whatever….we all know who the MAN is, and we will unite and we will strike back, everywhere……”
What is most striking to me in the videos of the defenders of Cliven Bundy is their intense, near-savage anger. And not just any typical anti-government anger, but an anger erupting volcano-like from an enormous well of frustration at the government combined with an acute sense of personal sufferings from whatever cause. The specific frustrations, angers and fears they have appear to be metastasizing into a kind of seething mass forming into a toxic projectile in search of a target that is or merely looks like government and business authority. For the the fascist nexus of government and business, this is just another routine land-grab and power play done at the expense of one typical group of victims, white poor and proles. Nothing special about it, all done in a day's work. And it could have been done against any other disenfranchised group, whether black, brown, yellow, whatever color. Doesn't matter. The money they rip off from a diversity of social, religious, ethnic groups is still green. But the gov-bus fascists and crony capitalists may have underestimated their would-be victims this time, as the signs are emerging in their sheer numbers they are not “taking it” any more. Clark County Commissioner Tom Collins is very representative of the mega-arrogance and mega-ignorance of the crony-fascist cabals that put such people into positions of authority in order to represent their interests. This arrogance and ignorance always blinds them to essential facets of their own self-interest. As an example of the blindness and lack of imagination of these pathologically self-interested fascists, we notice that when Collins says the defenders of Bundy “better have funeral plans”, it never occurs to him and his fascist backers the blistering rancor they have ignited among the militias members – who have guns and know how to use them – may require Collins and his henchmen to begin plans for their own funeral.
County Commissioner Says Bundy Supporters “Better Have Funeral Plans”
Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas
Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have found that when just 10 percent of the population holds an unshakable belief, their belief will always be adopted by the majority of the society. The scientists, who are members of the Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC) at Rensselaer, used computational and analytical methods to discover the tipping point where a minority belief becomes the majority opinion. The finding has implications for the study and influence of societal interactions ranging from the spread of innovations to the movement of political ideals.
“When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority,” said SCNARC Director Boleslaw Szymanski, the Claire and Roland Schmitt Distinguished Professor at Rensselaer. “Once that number grows above 10 percent, the idea spreads like flame.”
As an example, the ongoing events in Tunisia and Egypt appear to exhibit a similar process, according to Szymanski. “In those countries, dictators who were in power for decades were suddenly overthrown in just a few weeks.”
The findings were published in the July 22, 2011, early online edition of the journal Physical Review E in an article titled “Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities.”
