Of course.

There's nothing like a visual representation to immediately understand a lot of things. Otherwise you have to ask the computer for various data and then connect the dots in your mind to "get a picture" of what's going on.

This allows our surveillors to make a movie of everyone's life, in a continuously recording virtual world, and rewind that same movie, whenever they want, to know what we were doing on a certain day.

Integrated into the "Total Information Awareness" network, this is especially useful for monitoring interactions between people. Like literally "seeing" you stopping to talk to someone on the street. Or where were you with a certain person, on a certain day. Otherwise a surveillor would have to ask the computer about this and that environmental factor and then mentally combine the different spacial elements, in order to have a better understanding of what's going on.

Combined with TIA, this is like having personal spies following, and gathering detailed records about, everyone, all interacting together and continuously reporting specific analyses whenever asked to - the wet dream of any police state controller.
 
I can already imagine the Big Brother operators going back and forward in time, in a person's life movie, clicking on his or her friend's avatars to see their profile and records, zooming in and out in the virtual world to see people interacting from afar, like they were in Second Life, or, when following a person in real time, immediately locating, contacting and directing the closest police officers to go after that same person, etc.

Je...

I've just tested it, and it works fine as a live CD.

I see you have put the links for the web sites in the "Applications" menus. I suspected you would. But thought you might also put them instead as bookmarks in Firefox, as I, and surely other people in here also, have. I see in another post of yours that you are trying to discover how to do this. Great! That would make it a more "proper" distribution and, I guess, maybe one eligible to appear on DistroWatch? Now that would be great. The day it appeared there. To have all the GNU/Linux users reading the announcement and asking "What the hell..."    hehe  (It would be a great anti-NWO publicity stunt.)

Or, to put it in different words, the movie might have been made to try to pass the idea that there is such a thing as a "good banker". (Something that is not true. The same way that there is no such thing as a "good spy"[1], etc.) And therefore, to make people accept these kind of (criminal) institutions.

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1. like they pretend is this movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266987/, for example

(Theorizing a bit...)
For a start, it's a plot that legitimizes extra-judicial killings.
But generally speaking, one thing I've often seen in movies that depict criminal activities within the "system" is that they will present all the criminal things that usually happen as the actions of some people within the system, but not all, when in reality a well informed person knows better (that all, or almost all, the members of the group in question are a bunch of criminals). They'll then present some "good guys" belonging to the same class as the "bad guys", with the former being against the actions of the latter and actively fighting them. Also, sometimes they'll present the "good guys" using the same criminal and unlawful methods permitted or tolerated by the system either against the bad guys or to practice some "good deed", therefore legitimizing it's use. ("Oh, I guess it's a good thing they use that kind of methods then. 'The end justifies the means, right?'").
So the moral is: it's not the system itself that is wrong, it's only some people within the system.
Or, in other words, there's nothing wrong with a system that facilitates or allows the type of criminal activities that are portraited. The wrong thing about it is that some people take advantage of the wrongfully built system. But don't worry when you hear about this kind of things happening in the real world. (Don't do anything about it.) Surely, like in the movie you saw, there are some good people on the inside fighting against it.

And, by the way. There's no such thing as a "good banker". They're all a bunch of pimps and thieves. If you're not aware of it, learn about fractional reserve banking, fiat currency, etc[1]. Modern banking is an outrageous and incredible form of theft.


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1. a good introduction might be the video "Money as Debt" (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544)

"Democracy is a theater. It's not by some reason that Theater and Democracy were born in the same city-state - Classic Athens. It's a theater in the positive meaning of the term, where people confront each other in the name of ideals, proposals and also of personalities, naturally, but confront each other with words, not weapons, only armed with words. That's what makes the enchantment of Democracy. And then it has a system of control that makes the people, in a last instance, the sovereigns of the reagents."

--- Augusto Santos Silva, in an interview to a Portuguese state TV channel on February of 2009
     (http://www.ps.pt/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1177&Itemid=26)


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"What then is the function of a Parliament or a Congress for Hegetians? These institutions are merely to allow individuals to feel that opinions have some value and to allow a government to take advantage of whatever wisdom the 'peasant' may accidentally demonstrate. As Hegel puts it: 'By virtue of this participation, subjective liberty and conceit, with their general opinion, (individuals) can show themselves palpably efficacious and enjoy the satisfaction of feeling themselves to count for something.'"

--- Antony C. Sutton, "America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones"

"This manipulation of 'left' and 'right' on the domestic front is duplicated in the international field where 'left' and 'right' political structures are artificially constructed and collapsed in the drive for a one-world synthesis."

--- Antony C. Sutton, "America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones"

"Former Soviet Dissident Warns Of EU Socialist Dictatorship"

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/020306socialistdictatorship.htm

"After World War II the world stage was changed. After 1945 it became the Soviet Union on one side versus the United States on the other. The first dialectical clash led to the formation of the United Nations, an elementary step on the road to world government. The second dialectical clash led to the Trilateral Commission, i.e., regional groupings and more subtly to efforts for a merger of the United States and the Soviet Union."

---Antony C. Sutton, "America’s Secret Establishment"

"the drive of the Rockefellers and their allies [is] to create a one-world government, combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control."

--- Congressman Lawrence Patton McDonald, conveniently killed in a CIA-orchestrated civilian airliner shoot-down

"any discussion between left and right, while essential to promote change, is never allowed to develop into a discussion along the lines of Jeffersonian democracy, i.e., the best government is least government. The discussion and the funding is always towards more state power, use of state power and away from individual rights. So it doesn’t matter from the viewpoint of The Order whether it is termed left, right, Democratic, Republican, secular or religious - so long as the discussion is kept within the framework of the State and the power of the State.
"This is the common feature between the seemingly dissimilar positions taken by members - they have a higher common objective in which clash of ideas is essential. So long as rights of the individual are not introduced into the discussion the clash of ideas generates the conflict necessary for change.
"As the objective is also global control an emphasis is placed on global thinking, i.e., internationalism. This is done through world organizations and world law."

---Antony C. Sutton, "America’s Secret Establishment"

"Red Symphony, by Dr. J. Landowsky; translated by George Knupffer"

http://mailstar.net/red-symphony.html

"Marx established that all wars must be for the advancement of International Socialism and Lenin and Trotsky enshrined it in the Communist doctrine. The First World War was fought to (...)"

"The Second World War was fought to (...)"


--- http://www.coleman300.com/Books/RothschildDynasty/Details.aspx

"Karl Marx, in Das Kapital, posed capitalism as thesis and communism as antithesis. What has been completely ignored by historians, including Marxists, is that any clash between these forces cannot lead to a society Which is either capitalist or communist but must lead to a society characterized by a synthesis of the two conflicting forces. The clash of opposites must in the Hegelian system bring about a society neither capitalist nor communist. Moreover, in the Hegelian scheme of events, this new synthesis will reflect the concept of the State as God and the individual as totally subordinate to an all powerful State."

--- Antony C. Sutton, "America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones"

This is not a joke.

I've just found out the strangest fact concerning Bilderberg exposure here in Portugal.

The Portuguese "Monarchical Popular Party" that wants to put back as head of state a King belonging to the House of Bragança - a House member of the Committee of 300[1] and that is part of the Venetian Black Nobility[2] - is campaigning for seats in the European Parliament, from what I see in their blog[3], largely on an anti-Bilderberg stand.

Unless this is the start of an internal war between the NWO's "House of Lords" and the "House of Commons", which I seriously doubt, given the common membership between the two groups for a start, there's something very wrong here.

But knowing that the head of the party's list of people to be elected is a journalist, who used to work for a tabloid, that has been talking about the Bilderberg Club in his blog[4] and that has published some things about "sensitive" issues[5], I suspect he's not trying to become some sort of false leader but the one pushing the Bilderberg issue inside the party and that he doesn't even know what the Committee of 300 is...


"Portuguese party denounces Bilderberg politicians" (news in English)

http://www.mathaba.net/news/?x=620410


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1. http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=43443
2. http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=43444
3. http://ppmeuropa2009.blogspot.com/search/label/Bilderberg
4. http://paramimtantofaz.blogspot.com/search/label/Bilderberg
5. (political, secret services-related stuff) http://ofimdademocracia.blogspot.com/

*late 2006/early 2007, I meant, since about when it was launched, sorry.

Controversy about Al Jazeera in the US:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=012YuXq3vYE
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/08/28/washington_sketch_live_from_go.html

Great illustrations Brocke.
I've always loved political illustrations and these ones are really good. You really have talent.
Congratulations.

This is the kind of stuff I'm talking about when I say to everybody how great Al Jazeera is.

I've been following this channel since late 2007/early 2008 and, since I've learned that it's funded[1] by the Emir of Qatar - a US military ally[2] - I've tried to look for signs that may indicate it can be a controlled "alternative" news source by pr*xy, like the ones of the kind I talk about in a previous post[3] of mine, but have not seen any.

This really seems to be a great international TV news channel that is honestly trying to be independent!

Apart from having also very good documentaries, the news reporting is fair, air time is given to the different parts involved and the different programmes' themes are very well chosen, like a very good one that every week analysis how biased other news sources are, called the "Listening Post"[4].

Here are some great interviews and programmes I decided to share for you to see how great this channel is:


* Riz Khan interviewing John Perkins - author of the best-seller "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK6B4Uogtso


* American Libertarians, behold, an interview with Jesse Ventura about the ongoing Revolution there in the US:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6_gTstYDws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSsWJ3vWZOU


* And another interview with Ventura in another program, where he mentions the strange facts concerning 9/11:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SoxTEn833I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqXl44Kp8vo


* A fair debate about gun laws in the US:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH0TGaYXrq4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be6-qysOEqE


* And an interesting skeptical, but unbiased and honest, coverage of 9/11 Truth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VplrNT96niY


One programme I'll never forget (but don't have the time now to search through the youtube archive) was an early edition of "Inside Iraq" where at a time a Muslim cleric, I think, mentioned he had proofs that the bomb blasts in Iraq were CIA and Mossad false flag operations, were the occupying forces would blame Sunnis for the Shiite killings and blame the Shiites for the Sunni killings, to which an US government representative only repeatedly responded "That is outrageous!" (not asking for the evidence to be shown). They even used the outrageous part for some weeks in a promo for the programme.


Homepage: http://english.aljazeera.net/
YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish


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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Funding
2. http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/udeid.htm
3. http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=107184.msg651193
4. http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/listeningpost/

http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20001216113700/www.indymedia.org/allies.php3
http://archives.lists.indymedia.org/imc-finance/2003-January/001686.html
http://democratequalssocialist.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/guide-to-the-george-soros-network/
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lahaine.org%2Findex.php%3Fp%3D6178&lp=es_en&btnTrUrl=Translate


"the drive of the Rockefellers and their allies [is] to create a one-world government, combining super-capitalism and Communism under the same tent, all under their control."

--- Congressman Lawrence Patton McDonald, conveniently killed in a CIA-orchestrated civilian airliner shoot-down

For those of you who can read Castilian (Spanish), that I know some do there in the US, I leave here this tip of a very interesting book about the NWO's facade head government:

http://www.amaz*n.com/Onu-Historia-Corrupcion-Espasa-Spanish/dp/8467019336/

This book has been censored[1] in Chile and Uruguay. In this last country, according to the author, because one of the key points of the Uruguayan government's external policy is the participation in UN peace missions and one investigation made by the UN itself discovered that a dozen Uruguayan blue berets raped children during a mission in Congo.

This is the translation I've made from the text in the back of the Portuguese edition. The only other language I know of in which this book exists:


"Since 1945 the UN has assumed a role trough out it's history in many cases contrary to the spirit that used to mark the UN Charter itself and to the ideals it was established with.
"Eric Frattini reports how «Trygve Lie, first secretary-general of the UN, openly cooperated with McCarthy's Un-American Activities Committee in it's "witch hunt" inside the UN; how Dag Hammarskjöld allowed the entry of CIA agents in the UN headquarters and how he helped that entity to manipulate Congo's policy; how U Thant protected six arab diplomats suspected of murdering a north american woman in an orgy of blood and sex in exchange for an important donation; how Kurt Waldheim hid his nazi past and his years of service in Hitler's army; how Javier Pérez de Cuéllar protected and promoted the personal influences and the reckless spending among high UN officials; how Boutros Boutros-Ghali protected high UN officials - personal friends of his - of serious accusations of sexual harassment of female officials of the organization; or how Kofi Annan closed his eyes in relation to the biggest cases of genocide in Rwanda and in Srebrenica and, by "omission", in relation to the biggest case of corruption of all UN's history in the "Oil-for-Food" program, in which his own son, Kojo Annan, was involved».
"This book describes, with all the letters, sixty years of fraud, corruption, favoring, reckless spending, sexual harassments, wastes, rapes and tortures, pederasty, bribes, bad management and a disastrous administration on the UN's part and of it's specialized agencies."


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1. http://www.corrupcionenlaonu.com/jornal.pdf

http://bilderbergbook.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=65&Itemid=1


Author Provides Partial List of Participants and Peek at 2009 Bilderberg Group Proceedings

(Spain—May 23) International best-selling investigative author Daniel Estulin has received from his sources the 73-page Bilderberg Group meeting wrap-up for participants. In the report no one is identified by name, only as an American or European, or by a description of the speaker’s position, i.e. member of the IMF. There appears to be some disagreement about who was in attendance at this year’s secretive conclave held at a 5-star resort in Greece. According to sources in Greece and the Bilderberg Netherlands “office,” US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and US General David Petraeus were at this year’s gathering. Both men have denied this, according to a conversation held with a Washington, DC reporter, who stated that Mr. Geithner was attending a private function and General Petraeus was at Central Command.

Using a purported participant list, a “smear” campaign has seemingly been launched against Estulin. On a French “left-wing” website (www.bellaciao.org/fr/), and then posted in English on a populist forum in the US (http://forum.prisonplanet.com), it is claimed that Estulin was a known participant in this year’s conference. “Hardly,” said Estulin, who laughed at the prospect, saying that the Group has tried many things including threats and bribes to keep him from reporting on its activities, but had never asked him to attend. Estulin did his reporting this year from Spain, knowing from years of coverage that the location in Greece physically precluded any photographing of the participants. His book on the shadowy clique, The True Story of the Bilderberg Group broke through the barrier that the Group even existed with help from numerous photographs exposing the elite that were taken by Estulin from 600-800 meters. The book has been translated into 48 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. Estulin’s reportage of the annual meetings has led to many correct predictions of world events, including the timing of the 2003 Iraqi War, the rise and fall of oil prices, as well as the current economic calamity and housing mess.

There have been many posts floating around the Internet claiming to be actual participant lists. Daniel has a copy of an official list, and has confirmed much of it through photo identification by staff at the hotel, a gentleman responsible for group bookings there, and the Bilderberg executive secretary in the Netherlands, who confirmed assisting Mr. Geithner with arrangements for the meeting.

Here is a confirmed list of the US delegation (more may be known later):

Keith B. Alexander, Director of the National Security Agency
Roger Altman, Former U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton
George David, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola HBC
Timothy Geithner, United States Secretary of the Treasury
Donald Graham, CEO and chairman of the board of The Washington Post Company
Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Vernon Jordan, Senior Managing Director with Lazar Freres & Co. LLC, Boards of American Express, J.C. Penney Corporation, Xerox, Asbury Automotive Group and the Dow Jones & Company
Robert Kagan, Senior Associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Member of the Order of Skull & Bones
Henry Kissinger, Political scientist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Kissinger Associates, Kissinger McLarty Associates, Board of directors of Hollinger International, and Gulfstream Aerospace.
Jessica Matthews, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Craig Mundie, Chief research and strategy officer at Microsoft
Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute
David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command
David Rockefeller, Banker and statesman, Founder of Trilateral Commission
Dennis Ross, Special adviser for the Persian Gulf and Southwest Asia to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Paul Volcker, Former Federal Reserve director, Chair of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
James Wolfensohn, Former president of the World Bank
Paul Wolfowitz, Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, president of the World Bank, currently AEI scholar
Fareed Zakaria, Journalist, author, and CNN host. Member of the Order of Scroll & Key

According to Estulin’s reading of the report, it looks as if there are serious disagreements within the group. The hardliners, led by people like Kissinger, are for dramatic decline and a severe, short-term depression, but there are those who think that things have gone too far and that the fallout from the global economic cataclysm cannot be accurately calculated if Kissinger’s model is chosen. Among them is Richard Holbrooke. What is unknown at this point: if Holbrooke’s point of view is, in fact, Obama’s.

Estulin says that the consensus dealt a blow to those in the group who were hoping for economic revival, agreeing that the recession will be deeper, and the road to recovery longer and harder, than the happy talk coming from world leaders. The terms used were “relatively slow and protracted.” Estulin says pay attention to the press dailies: you will see quite a bit of these two terms in the weeks and months to come.

Estulin notes that some of those who attended the annual conference will give another more moderate view, stating that “the economy requires a period of healing and that it will take time.” While this helps create a dialectic in the press from two Bilderberg camps, both will pay heed to the idea of “great uncertainty over the outlook.” According to Estulin, over the next several months the Bilderbergers will purposely refuse to commit to any specifics, simply pointing out “that there exist big risks to a recovery still reeling from financial turmoil, making it very difficult to assess developments.”

Estulin reports that some leading European bankers faced with the specter of their own financial mortality are extremely concerned, calling this high wire act “unsustainable,” and saying that US budget and trade deficits could result in the demise of the dollar. Recent fears about their own survival have not been quelled because, as one Bilderberg attendee pointed out, “the banks themselves don’t know the answer to when [the bottom will be hit].” According to the group’s report, however, all agreed that the level of capital needed for the American banks may be considerably higher than the US government suggested through their recent stress tests.

Estulin says that someone from the IMF pointed out that its own study on historical recessions suggests that the US is only a third of the way through this current one; therefore economies expecting to recover with resurgence in demand from the US will have a long wait. As another individual pointed out, “Equity losses in 2008 were worse than those of 1929.” This individual then added, “The next phase of the economic decline will also be worse than the ’30s, mostly because the US economy carries about $20 trillion of excess debt. Until that debt is eliminated, the idea of a healthy boom is a mirage.”

Estulin reports that according to a World Bank representative at the meeting, government officials around the world have proposed more than sixty new trade restrictions since the beginning of the financial crisis, which some attendees found distressing, as governments, in a downward spiraling economy embrace protectionist policies to try and protect employment and generate internal economic activity.

George Ball, back in 1968 at a Bilderberg conference in Canada, presented an outline of the advantages of a neo-colonial world economic order based on the concept of a world company. According to Ball, the first and most important thing that had to be eliminated was the “archaic political structure of the nation-state.”

According to Estulin, for Bilderberg the very structure of the nation-state and the idea of the commonwealth represent the main obstacles to the creation of a neo-colonial world empire.

This is the first of a series of reports based upon Daniel Estulin’s readings of the 2009 Bilderberg Group report. Limited interviews with Daniel Estulin are available, please contact:

Kris Millegan or Kent Goodman at publicity@trineday.net or 1.800.556.2012.

URLs:
www.bilderbergbook.com
www.trineday.com
www.danielestulin.com

Yep. I ended up spending the whole night in front of the PC and just thought about testing the alarm plugin with the Internet stream at 6:36 am after I saw an answer to my post. It works. The plugin has the option of stop playing after a certain amount of time (like 4 hours, that is the show duration), you can choose at which days of the week you want it to play, and choose the hour at which you want it to start for each day. You can therefore configure it to play the show for 4 hours during the week days, skip Saturday and play it on Sunday at a different time. The only thing that won't work as we would like it to, is that it will play the Sunday edition for 4 hours also (live and first refeed).

It still won't let me put bigger values than 13 in the hour field and 49 in the minutes field. I didn't have this problem before. I'll make a bug report tomorrow about it.

"The Running Man"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/

This one I also checked because it was mentioned at prisonplanet.com. I'll just post the text shown at the introduction. I guess you can find more information about it on the IMDb link, and other sites, if you're curious to know more about the plot.
"By 2017 the world economy has collapsed. Food, natural resources and oil are in short supply. A police state, divided into paramilitary zones, rules with an iron hand.
"Television is controlled by the state and a sadistic game show called 'The Running Man' has become the most popular program in History. All art, music and communications are censored. No dissent is tolerated and yet a small resistance movement has managed to survive underground.
"When high-tech gladiators are not enough to suppress the people's yearning for freedom...
"...More direct methods become necessary."

"Enemy of the State"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/

The surveillance society. The NSA super spy grid. Killing politicians who don't go along with the police state and people who know too much. Government hiring of criminals to do the dirty work. Passing laws that take away your (electronic) privacy and naming them "protection of privacy" (just like they did here in Europe post-9/11!). The characters in the movie debate a little the liberty for security exchange issue and the movie ends saying that there's no problem with living in a police state surveillance society as long as there is proper "monitoring" of the state activity by the state itself. Also, the "good guys" in the plot also use the surveillance techniques on the "bad guys", therefore legitimizing it's use. But a most interesting part in the movie (and this is why I checked the film, because I heard Alex mentioning it once on it's radio show) is when the "good guys" get access to the head "bad guy's" profile. In other profile searches in the movie, no dates are mentioned, but in this one they mention the birth date. The date: 9/11/40. (Is this an allegory for the birth of the surveillance society?) Might be just a coincidence, but it's an interesting one.

From what I understand, you can create software packages with anything you want inside.
A .deb package is like a .tar or .zip file. A bunch of different files wrapped up together.
Not to promote this particular ideology, but if you try, for example, executing "sudo apt-get install anarchism" in a Debian-derived distro, it downloads you a package with only html and text documents inside. Not any kind of program.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_(file_format)

(take a look at the "External links" section on the wikipedia page on how to create .deb packages)

For some reason I can't test now the alarm plugin in Audacious (can't put a bigger value that 13 in the hour field), but since the program also plays Internet streams, it should be possible to configure the alarm to start playing the show at any time we want.

One thing I've done, though, was to create a simple script that I can edit before I go to sleep, to wake me up with the show refeed after a certain amount of time, like:


Anyone else here waking up with "The Alex Jones Show"?

I can't recall much about the EFF, from a few years ago when I was closely following the loss of electronic privacy.

But I think it was the "Electronic Privacy Information Center" that had a very good page about the subject:

http://epic.org/privacy/

(An equivalent at the EFF's site:)

(http://www.eff.org/issues/privacy)

NWO-related


- http://www.coleman300.com/ (to order the best NWO books and monographs)

- http://www.danielestulin.com/ (now inactive, unfortunately; good archive with important information though)


Alternative news


- Al Jazeera English (It's too bad that most of you don't have it on cable there in the US, it's really good. Maybe worthy of the term "alternative", because it's different than any other international TV news channel. Only place I know where you can get decent mainstream news.)

(RSS news feed, youtube channel and direct link to watch it online)

http://english.aljazeera.net/Services/Rss/?PostingId=2007731105943979989
http://www.youtube.com/user/aljazeeraenglish
http://english.aljazeera.net/watch_now/

- http://www.globalresearch.ca/ ("Centre for Research on Globalization")

- http://slashdot.org/ (the latest in computers, technology and the loss of electronic privacy)

- http://www.statewatch.org/ (for EU citizens; "monitoring the state and civil liberties in Europe")

(and maybe)

- http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/ (for those of you who believe in Peak Oil; good source for links to news concerning economic and pandemic-related issues)



I'm most curious to know which sites do other members usually check.

Just to check, you're talking about making a GNU/Linux distribution, is that it?

Damn right is what they want.

http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=79600.0

"Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUASiDg-kg4

"In a later conversation, Rockefeller asked Russo what he thought women's liberation was about. Russo's response that he thought it was about the right to work and receive equal pay as men, just as they had won the right to vote, caused Rockefeller to laughingly retort, 'You're an idiot! Let me tell you what that was about, we the Rockefeller's funded that, we funded women's lib, we're the one's who got all of the newspapers and television - the Rockefeller Foundation.'

"Rockefeller told Russo of two primary reasons why the elite bankrolled women's lib, one because before women's lib the bankers couldn't tax half the population and two because it allowed them to get children in school at an earlier age, enabling them to be indoctrinated into accepting the state as the primary family, breaking up the traditional family model.

"This revelation dovetails previous admissions[1] on behalf of feminist pioneer Gloria Steinem (pictured) that the CIA bankrolled Ms. Magazine as part of the same agenda of breaking up traditional family models."

--- Paul Joseph Watson, http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2007/290107rockefellergoal.htm


[1] http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20America/Feminism/gloria_steinem-feminism.htm

A good place to get to know the different distributions and try them out:

http://distrowatch.com/

I'll bother answering your post vCFy7W3SFb, again, this time just to make it clear to someone who doesn't know much yet about GNU/Linux.

- NVIDIA graphic cards work well in GNU/Linux. I have one and have great 3D graphics and colors, which I didn't with an ATI ("The NVIDIA Linux unified drivers are always right on, supporting the latest, greatest features."---Mark Brown, VP Technology for Rhythm & Hues)
- I have a desktop, a notebook and a netbook, all running GNU/Linux with no problems

It just hit me today when I was hearing a news report in a TV station about the impact on Mexican economy of the fact that people are being told to stay at home.
I don't know yet what to think of this pandemic, but the number of deaths *confirmed* to have being caused by this flu doesn't seem to justify such an alarm.
We are in the middle of an engineered economic collapse. Could this be another push to help it?

Two excerpts from an online news by Reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE53N22820090430


Mexico begins shutting down as flu fears spread
Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:30pm EDT

By Catherine Bremer

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico began shutting down parts of its economy on Thursday to slow the spread of a new flu strain as officials urged increased worldwide precautions against an imminent pandemic.

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In Mexico, the worst hit country with up to 176 deaths, President Felipe Calderon told government offices and private businesses not crucial to the economy to stop work beginning on Friday to avoid further spreading a virus that is striking across age and class lines."

"There is no safer place than your own home to avoid being infected with the flu virus," Calderon said in his first televised address since the outbreak started.

In Mexico City, where the virus has already brought public life to a standstill, some were skeptical while others vowed not to take part in the shutdown.

"Closing businesses is not right and not fair. What are we going to live on? Air?" said Andres Garcia, who works in a tailor shop in the old colonial center of the capital.

CURE WORSE THAN DISEASE?

Mexico's assembly for export factories known as maquiladoras, a pillar of the economy, said it would defy the shutdown call while some of the country's mines also vowed to stay in operation.

"We have commitments that we have to meet, and if we don't meet them, the cure will end up being worse than the disease," council head Cesar Castro told reporters.

With its tourism industry savaged, shoppers staying home and exports to the United States in steep decline, Mexico could find itself in the longest, deepest recession it has seen in years, according to analysts.

Mexico's peso was hammered by flu fears on Thursday and its stock market slid. But most global markets were taking the flu news in stride as traders focused on hopes that a deep U.S. recession may be nearing its end.

"The information that we have at this stage is it is a relatively minor (economic) event," International Monetary Fund chief economist Olivier Blanchard said, although he added that some countries and sectors could see "quite dramatic" fallout from the outbreak.

Previous studies at the World Bank have said a severe flu pandemic which triggers a clampdown on trade could cost the global economy trillions of dollars.


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Only 7 swine flu deaths, not 152, says WHO
("The Sydney Morning Herald" - April 29, 2009)

http://www.smh.com.au/world/only-7-swine-flu-deaths-not-152-says-who-20090429-aml1.html

Not wanting to transform this thread into a GNU/Linux help center (there are other forums for that), I'll just say, concerning previous comments:

- ATI cards, the last time I used one, about 2 years ago, were still not well supported in GNU/Linux, so I ended up buying a NVIDIA. but this is ATI's fault because they didn't/don't bother making decent drivers for GNU/Linux
- copying a CD/DVD iso image to a USB stick may not be easy, but can be done. search the Internet for a good tutorial
- GNU/Linux runs on desktops, laptops and netbooks (with wifi) with no problems. there may be exceptions for more exotic non-desktop models(?), but normally you just need to choose the best distribution for your specific model or maybe do some extra manual configuring, not automatically made during installation, to make everything work
- if you use more professional programs, that don't run on GNU/Linux, or have an application that doesn't run well (yet) on GNU/Linux, you can always leave a partition in your hard drive with Windows installed and switch to it whenever you need it, using a GNU tool called GRUB that let's you choose, when your computer boots, which OS you want to use. if you decide to do this: repartition your hard drive, install Windows first in one of the partitions, and your GNU/Linux distribution will install GRUB for you at the same time it installs the OS itself

Using elementary logic, if they were doing this 10 years ago, it's very likely, to say the least, that they are still doing it now, no?