Anonymous Revolution Online

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Some elements of Anonymous, the notorious 4chan griefers, seem to have matured, graduating from mere lulz to more substantial political engagement.


A campaign against Scientololgy a few years ago gained them some notoriety, but recent direct action support for Wikileaks brought a more serious note.


Anonymous launched mirror sites to keep the Wikileaks website online in the face of presumed US government hack attacks, and coordinated retaliatory Anon DOS attacks against Amazon, Paypal, Mastercard and Visa for cutting off Wikileaks accounts.

Most recently Anon has been heavily involved in assisting the uprising in Tunisia, providing substantial internet resources for agitation, communication and coordination of street actions on twitter, facebook, IRC, etc. including secure anonymous internet access via proxy servers.

The ensuing popular democratic insurrection, which quickly succeeded in ousting the corrupt government of Tunisia, is being touted as the first successful revolution by means of networking online with social media, and it seems to be spreading to the rest of the region.

For some good background on Anon involvement, the latest news on what's happening on the ground in Tunisia, and what you can do now to help provide ongoing support:

Anonymous Op Swift Assist: Tunisia


Right now, Anon operations are expanding to include Algeria, Egypt, and an expanding list of other nations, including Albania, Syria and Libya, where similar popular uprisings are also brewing.


For the latest report on what's going down in Algeria:


Anon OpAlgeria

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Democrats Attack Republicans

Ernest Newman

US Democratic Party Propaganda Attacks Republicans

The US Democratic Party has taken off the gloves, in attacking Republicans for causing, and refusing to allow correction of, the present economic "collapse" ("oops...somebody goofed!", my ass).

Characterizing Republican looting of the Treasury, and anti-democratic obstructionist oppositionalism toward necessary changes, as a "hit and run" on the American people, with sirens sounding in the background, Democrats are no longer pulling their punches nearly as much.

In current commercial mass media ads being fielded against local and state Republican candidates, leading up to the pivotal 2010 and 2012 interim Congressional elections (when fully half of the House of Representatives, and all of the Senators, will be up for re-election, or replacement by more progressive candidates) the Democratic Party is hitting hard, with fighting words, against the Republican Party.

This is stronger rhetoric than we have previously seen on the national level. It basically is saying the Republicans should be arrested, and that they have left our nation reeling, like the lady victim of the hit and run (by a speeding red convertible, lol).

This is so much more sophisticated, than the crude proto-fascist Republican line, which is basically that the commie nigger bastard should be shot, and everyone who likes him, too. A rhetorical civil war is now underway, in the US.

The right is much harsher, more explicit, and more vicious in it's rhetoric and propaganda, aimed at provoking personal violence toward, and fear by "liberals", and everyone anywhere near or to the left of them. They threaten us with death.

Sarah Palins' close affinity with Joel's Army is bonechilling, once you look into the "Christian" cult plans to enslave and slaughter "non-believers". They are as whack as any Al Queda.

Of course, the Democrats aren't going there...yet. But they are standing up and slugging it out, at this point, more than they have done for a long time.

The Republicans are freaking out, insane with hatred and bile. They really are dangerous.

For the Democrats to attack the Republicans in this manner indicates that the Democrats feel emboldened by a surge of popular democratic sentiment against the Republican line and practice.

This is a good thing, even if the Democrats are merely fronting and posing. To the extent that more radical, progressive and determined elements in the Democratic Party are involved in pushing the contradictions within and between the parties, or become involved in this propaganda war, it could get interesting.

2010 and 2012 will be pivotal. They will make or break the Obama revolution, more or less. They will make the difference, between the all out chaos of full-blown civil war, or a sufficient popular democratic mandate, in terms of progressive plurality in the Congress, to quickly and effectively suppress the right wing reactionary conservative fundamentalist fascist counter-revolution.

LOL, you can laugh, nitpick and cuss all you want, but Obama does symbolically represent a genuinely revolutionary fundamental popular demand for real hope and change for the future, for justice and peace, to save the planet. This is the clear popular democratic mandate of his election.

It will not be denied.

All Power to the People!

Death to Capitalism, and it's moribund form, Fascism!

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Viva Cuba Libre!

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution. Despite my reservations about the course of post-revolution Cuba under Castro's rule, I continue to view the revolution itself as an important historic event, and to admire the many social accomplishments of post-revolutionary Cuba, not least the fact that it has withstood a half-century of U.S. blockade and aggression. Here's a video I made to mark the occasion, with music by Michael Hall.

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David & Goliath

(Image shamelessly ripped from the Boston Globe)

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Largely unreported in the west, but great news for Paraguay

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RAVE-LUTION!! TONIGHT! JOIN THE REVOLUTION!

Anniversary Party!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isla%20Montevideo/116/134/26
TONIGHT!

All on the Luna Box Sim from 9pm GMt 2PM PDT (3rd Nov)

The SLLU GIG and fair!

Go wild with Mike Mission from 9pm GMT

Chillout from 11 with Wildo Hofmann

Experience the fairground, the kart track, the catapult and the exhibitions! Freebies all night...

All on the Luna Box Sim from 9pm GMt 2PM PDT (3rd Nov)

SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Isla%20Montevideo/116/134/26

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