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Among all the progressive and liberal blogs with which I am familiar, and that’s a lot of bloggers, IMHO the bloggers at Citizens for Legitimate Government have incomparably the best instinct for significant news breaking under the radar of most of the rest of us.
Those guys surprise me all the time, and not with trivia!
I decided to blog about them today instead of privately appreciating their constantly outside-the-box newsletter as usual because of a strangely familiar headline in the New York Times.
“D.E.A. Deployed Mumbai Plotter Despite Warning”
Where had I heard that before?
And then it came back to me, from the CLG newsletter almost three weeks ago, on October 16.
“Feds Confirm Mumbai Plotter Trained With Terrorists While Working for DEA”
With all due credit to Sebastian Rotella at ProPublica.org, who originally broke the story, I never would have seen it three weeks in advance of the Times if the bloodhounds at CLG hadn’t sniffed it out for me.
CLG would be an outstanding blog if they didn’t do anything else except keep me three jumps ahead of the M$M, but their most useful contribution to politics on the internet is headlining stories that never get covered, or only as the after-thoughts of editors who don’t understand their significance.
Bill would let US government block ‘infringing’ websites worldwide.
Yowza! Shut down anything on the internet, whenever they want to? Is that an important story for you and me and the rest of the blogosphere?
And again all due credit to Dan Goodin at TheRegister.co.uk, who broke the story, but why the heck wasn’t it all over the blogosphere? How did the rest of us miss it?
So I’m chasing that story, and if any other bloggers want to take a break from ranting about the same old shit and chase it, too, you can peruse this malignant threat to freedom on the internet under its innocuous title as S.3804: Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act.
“It’s just a harmless little bill to shut down mp3 pirates, and we would never ever use that incredible power to stifle dissent…”
“…unless we could dream up a really good excuse!”
So thanks again to Michael Rectenwald and Lori Price and the rest of their team at Citizens for Legitimate Government for maybe waking us up before our “benevolent” masters shut us down.
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Lori Price. Let her already.
“if any other bloggers want to take a break from ranting about the same old shit ”
My, how you chastise us for not being you, you know, copying and pasting Lori’s work?
I had 6 radio shows in which the kill switch was researched and spoken to in detail. As many about net nuetrality.
Here’s an essay for you on the latter.
http://wildwildleft.com/showDi…
Let Lori be Lori and quit lecturing us about what we already are doing as actual writers and broadcasters.
such diversionary terms like net neutrality which has changed to the concept of shoving lamestream what to think crap into the cell phones of sheeple everywhere. In my circles the latest keyword after the pentacon’s cyberwars bullcrap is COICA, which you found. Excellent. Ok now watch how both left and right lamestream media platforms tie in the recent “news” of cyberbullying to promote and sell these new draconian constraints on truth movements everywhere.
intonation and gesture among many other elements. Yet, just like oral communication, the responding party must construct what appears to be the other’s meaning, creating a set of assumptions that, by themselves, when communicated back to the other, is alternately in need of construction itself by the other party. Both parties are simply playing the language game, but the textual communication leaves the responder/reader without many clues to build a comfortable understanding.
Personally, I love to take long pauses in the middle of a conversation if I so desire, but it cannot be done blogging. Even reading, I often meditate on an idea or phrase so long that I nearly fall asleep. And I cannot look into the eyes of the speaker, especially when he’s/she’s writing while my computer is off.
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Now when we get into American politics, lying is the preferred method of communication with its technologically advanced, camouflaged dissembling. Clear understanding by the people with the possibility of seeing the truth itself is a threat to the political process, as the parties must feint and attack even when it’s totally unnecessary.