-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/06/2017 11:09 AM, grarpamp wrote:

2017 will have more Flubby, Poki and Nimbus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKm48e2kEKs

I Predict: * More conflict between U.S. State power and "civil society" groups. Now that the DNC can safely "point fingers" at joint DemoPublican policies that are offensive to Liberals, a big well funded push for "protest rally" level actions will happen. Radical factions will use these events as recruiting venues and may often succeed in co-opting the message. * A paradigm shift from Protest to Direct Action in populist politics. Example: Last year's rapid assembly of a larger than battalion strength force of veterans in defense of the Standing Rock action: The Home Team wants that to be a watershed event setting a big precedent, the Other Guys want it to be a one-off fluke which will not be seen again. I think the resulting war for hearts, minds, wallets and feet will present something Our Side can work with. * New alliances between formerly Left and Right activists. As shit continues to get more real on a week to week basis, a lot of people who "thought they were" Liberal or Conservative because they identified with emotional appeals wired into one or the other flavor of propaganda will start to actually think about politics for the first time. Not many will go rogue, but those who do will be disproportionately influential. * NeoLiberal billionaires will wage covert wars on U.S. soil. This is pure crystal ball stuff, don't ask me to explain why: When I load my current "war map" of the world in my imagination and run it, I see private armies at work all over the U.S. Their principal targets will be economic and political. Deniability will be their watchword, exposure their Achilles' heel. * No net gain or loss on the network privacy/security front. Real progress on technical fronts will be counter balanced by growing popular demand for fully automatic security, hidden behind a seamless User Experience design paradigm. Don't bother telling folks that total ignorance and reliable security are mutually exclusive; they want an instant E-Z one step solution, and Millennials seem to think this is a human right. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJYcIkIAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqvUsH/2Gr7j3A7ElOQP17sl7Nf+h3 gZz+5V4xpPeYdLz0boiQ5xrynYFAu7IGWEwQ3GCxZ2j64NJXHwPimNPgN57UVq8k 44za2PkzJ+gfy/O+gzOBgpvWA8QpqK/HCb+ANzwV6y/bdSzfS0SijFUF7+Wik9Op GMgWew2OLV2e5Zz4vGhBg7U3gx+QeikKTuDYH6butA7gcu9gqPqrTVt2SSVU/GwJ KvSglaBo60CiTkGbl7h5HX5Uojma1JBFTX08+B973ETRLqwuQeXWN1jIQnaHGivK OqeFbAk5g4vL1iY+jXCMdXLS8v+2V8LZ8QVoXaA4I+GPpZHxAYGJoghyy0P5ssA= =/6UE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----