US global genocidal policy - Julian Assange interview by RT - Eben Moglen states a position on standing for US President
Assange on ‘US Empire’, Assad Govt Overthrow Plans & New Book ‘The WikiLeaks Files’ http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/25/assange-on-us-empire-assad-govt-overt... youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3HWiydFlJc (~450MiB at highest quality) Sorry folks, USGovMil are the greatest evil on the planet today. There's no other way to cut it. And yes, that's terribly sad. But tell that to the over 250,000 Syrians who are now dead as a result of USA Government foreign policy and CIA and military actions, training, etc. And others all around the world. There seems no way to pull the pin on this evil entity called the United States government - but perhaps every little bit we do can speed the process, educate those who don't understand what is happening, and for citizens of the US of A, what is happening by their implicit authority by acquiescence. Eben Moglen (refer previous thread) has said he will not run for US president. That's not only a great shame, it's a disgrace! If someone is within distance to meet him face to face (I will not be travelling to America, but if you know he is to travel to Australia, I will meet him here face to face, but that will be too late for the current presidential 'race'), -please- meet him face to face and remind him that it is because good men and women with good hearts and intentions such as himself, that do NOT stand for positions of authority in the system within which they find themselves existing, that is, by their acquiescence, that the tyranny of the despots and sociopaths who DO stand prevails, prevails over them, and as regards America, prevails over much of the world. If Eben will not stand personally, then he has a duty of care to everyone and a duty of care to his own principles, to nominate someone whom he knows is of "good spirit" who is willing to stand! If Eben can find no such individual, then he has a DUTY to stand for president, and in this case if he does not stand, he is complicit to the evil of the United States of America - implicitly, but complicit none the less! Feel free to forward him this email, but I find it is always much better to speak with someone face to face. If you plan to do so, perhaps print this email out. Good men and women must stand. Perhaps you know the soccer mom living next door who has demonstrated consistent "ethics" and good intention, and ought be presented with this same position - stand, or be complicit in your acquiescence to the evil. It does not require a million dollar "slush fund", it requires a firm grasp of reality, and of our individual complicity with that reality, and a willingness to communicate the simplicity to others - we are in an age of unprecedented rapidity of communication, of "flash mobs" which are normally co-opted marketing crap, but this does not take away from the reality of what's possible today. We tech people talk far too much. Every part of our "Western" lives is pervaded by politics! We cannot escape this simple fact that while "good" men and women refuse to stand, since 'we' have lives to live, creativity to explore and express, parties and sports events to attend and families to raise, because of all these reasons and many besides, that despots and sociopaths are the only individuals to stand and therefore hold the positions of power! Over us! Over the world!
*stand, or be complicit in your acquiescence to the evil.*
! USGovMil are the greatest evil on the planet today.
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*perhaps every little bit we do can speed the process, educate those who don't understand what is happening* (that's exactly what this post is all about)
! We tech people talk far too much. Every part of our "Western" lives is
pervaded by politics! We cannot escape this simple fact (that's the best answer also to the question "what does THAT has to do with cypher-punks")
! that despots and sociopaths are the only individuals to stand and
therefore hold the positions of power! Over us! Over the world!
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From: Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>
Assange on ‘US Empire’, Assad Govt Overthrow Plans & New Book ‘The WikiLeaks Files’ http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/25/assange-on-us-empire-assad-govt-overt...
youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3HWiydFlJc (~450MiB at highest quality)
Sorry folks, USGovMil are the greatest evil on the planet today. There's no other way to cut it. And yes, that's terribly sad. But tell that to the over 250,000 Syrians who are now dead as a result of USA Government foreign policy and CIA and military actions, training, etc. And others all around the world.
There seems no way to pull the pin on this evil entity called the United States government - but perhaps every little bit we do can speed the process, educate those who don't understand what is happening, and for citizens of the US of A, what is happening by their implicit authority by acquiescence. [snip] At the risk of blowing my own horn (which I haven't been doing very much, recently),almost exactly 21 years ago I began writing my essay, "Assassination Politics".http://cryptome.org/ap.htmWhile I only described the solution to the problem of government in generalterms, there was much more than enough detail to convince many people that I was on the right track. Consider that the US government collects over 3 trillion dollars per year in taxes.Further, recognize that anybody who is forced to pay those taxes would be wantingto reduce or eliminate that cost, and especially if that money was used to fund misconduct. If every taxpayer was willing to pay 1% of the tax he pays to stop it, that's1% of 3 trillion, or $30 billion. If an average death would cost $100,000 with a functioning AP system, that could finance about 300,000 deaths. Does anybody seriously believe that it would take that many deaths to bring the government toheel? And particularly if those deaths start mostly at the top levels of the government,rather than the bottom. And that's only for the first year.Yes, a lot of work still needs to be done. But consider that it is at least as important to society to eliminate governments as it is to implement a new form of digital cash,i.e. Bitcoin. Governments killed perhaps 250 million people in the 20th century. Somebody put a lot of work into Bitcoin, and it is working today, as we speak.Similarly TOR, which despite being initially financed by the US government,points the way to better anonymity on the Internet. Ethereum and Augur are especiallyinteresting, a distributed system of computation that (if it is to be believed) will implement a blockchain system which simply cannot be stop by any realistic methods. Auguris to be a market for predictions: What predictions will it be allowed to handle? Who willdecide? Nick Szabo said, " A sufficiently large market predicting an individual's death is also, necessarily, an assassination market, and similarly other "prediction" markets are alsoact markets, changing incentives to act outside that market to bring about the predicted events. http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2015/05/small-game-fallacies.html If the original quotation, above, is directed at ordinary folks, I can see why Assange might say, "There seems no way to pull the pin on this evil entity called theUnited States government..." But anybody who has read the AP essayknows that there will be, in fact, a way to do that. And it should be quite clear that there is much more reason for this today, in 2016, than there ever was in 1995, when I began writing the AP essay. Jim Bell
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