Alinsky Refined

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How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations Government plans to monitor and influence internet communications, and covertly infiltrate online communities in order to sow dissension and disseminate false information, have long been the source of speculation. Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein, a close Obama adviser and the White House’s former head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote a controversial paper in 2008 proposing that the US government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-”independent” advocates to “cognitively infiltrate” online groups and websites, as well as other activist groups.  Sunstein also proposed sending covert agents into “chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups” which spread what he views as false and damaging “conspiracy theories” about the government. Ironically, the very same Sunstein was recently named by Obama to serve as a member of the NSA review panel created by the White House, one that – while disputing key NSA claims – proceeded to propose many cosmetic reforms to the agency’s powers (most of which were ignored by the President who appointed them). The Full Deal ... Looks like Alinsky Refined

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Ann Coulter returns

Tout ça pour vous Monsieur le Président “ In the current fight over the government shutdown, Republicans are simply representing the views of the American people. Americans didn't ask for Obamacare, they don't want it, but now their insurance premiums are going through the roof, their doctors aren't accepting it, and their employers are moving them into part-time work -- or firing them -- to avoid the law's mandates. Contrary to Obama's promises, it turns out: You can't keep your doctor, you can't keep your insurance -- you can't even keep your job. In other words, it's a typical government program, but this one wrecks your health care. Also, the president did raise taxes on the middle class in defiance of his well-worn campaign promise not to. Indeed, Obamacare is the largest tax hike in U.S. history. Among the other changes effected by this law are: Obamacare will allow insurers to charge 50 percent higher premiums for smokers, but prohibits insurers from increasing premiums for those with HIV/AIDS. Nationally, Obamacare will increase men's individual insurance premiums by an average of 99 percent and women's by 62 percent. In North Carolina, for example, individual insurance premiums will triple for women and quadruple for men.  Health plans valued at $27,500 or more for a family of four will be taxed at a rate of 40 percent.  No doctors who went to an American medical school will be accepting Obamacare. A 62-year-old man earning $46,000 a year is entitled to a $7,836 government tax [Full Wonderfulness] Why should you have this in your wallet?  Because this is the prevailing argument that even my local rag presents as factual re the CR showdown: Our say: Government keeps digging holes, then falling in October 13, 2013 12:00 am ... With important issues stacked up on its docket, Congress has so far spent October allowing the federal government to shut down for lack of a continuing budget resolution. This happened because a minority of hotheads in the House of Representatives had the absurd idea that they could force President Barrack Obama to back down on the health care law that is his signature accomplishment. ... Giving meaning to the "LoFo" meme ”

Gummint's War Against We The People

Category Gummint's War Against We The People

License plate readers help police scan 30 plates a second At one time I'd have bet money that this use of technology could never have passed in referendum, even if it was put to a vote which it was not.  Now, I'm not so sure. Yeah-yeah,  I know.  The people elected the bureaucracy that enacted it .  Here's a nice example of what passes for critical thinking today.  What was that quote about giving government the means to enslave us, and then thanking them when they do? “   "In real time, it's just a great opportunity," said Ashland Police Chief Scott Rohmer, whose department bought a plate reader last year. "With the technology, it's just another tool to allow the officer to be better at their job and process information faster." ” Even if Massachusetts wasn't a sanctuary state, finding and arresting illegal aliens does not bring in revenue.  Catching some poor shlub who forgot to renew his license does.  Does anyone doubt that all of these— speed cams, traffic cams, manufacturer installed trip monitors, license plate scans — are about tax revenue?  That's today.  Tomorrow it will be finding enemies of the state.  That would be you and me, most likely.