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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Net Neutrality Under Attack AGAIN | "Resolution of Disapproval" Introduced

Never Rest...Fight goes on. 

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of (R) Texas introduces the "resolution of disapproval" to destroy Net Neutrality before 2012 elections by FreePress
Extremely partisan hardliners are rushing through a 'resolution of disapproval' that would nullify all existing Net Neutrality protections and strip the FCC of its authority to protect Internet users -- letting companies block our right to speak freely, connect with one another and share information on the Internet. The resolution, S.J. Resolution 6, would enable phone and cable giants like Comcast and Verizon to restrict access to competitive video services, mobile applications and other innovative services. But American Internet users need an open Internet that lets us view any content, anywhere. The kind of Internet freedom we've enjoyed to date won't exist if we let big phone and cable companies take a wrecking ball to Net Neutrality. Please stand up for the open Internet and vote 'no' on this resolution of disapproval.

http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/Net-Neutrality-Under-Attac-in-General_News-110928-449.html

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OpEdNews - Quicklink: BREAKING: Diebold voting machines can be hacked by remote control - 2012 Elections

Exclusive: A laboratory shows how an e-voting machine used by a third of all voters can be easily manipulated bySalon.com
Exclusive: A laboratory shows how an e-voting machine used by a third of all voters can be easily manipulated. It could be one of the most disturbing e-voting machine hacks to date. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of American voters heading to the polls in 2012 can be hacked with just $10.50 in parts and an 8th grade science education, according to computer science and security experts at the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. The experts say the newly developed hack could change voting results while leaving absolutely no trace of the manipulation behind. 'We believe these man-in-the-middle attacks are potentially possible on a wide variety of electronic voting machines,' said Roger Johnston, leader of the assessment team 'We think we can do similar things on pretty much every electronic voting machine.'
Read the rest of the story HERE:

http://www.opednews.com/Quicklink/BREAKING--Diebold-voting-in-General_News-110928-880.html

Big Hat Tip to OPEDNEWS!

‘Occupation’ date set for Los Angeles | l.a. activist

Tonight, members of Occupy Los Angeles, have decided that Oct. 1 will be the day they begin their occupation of Los Angeles.Meeting in Pershing Square, and surrounded by the corporate citadels of financial power, – the skyscrapers of City National Bank, U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo and others – approximately 60 activists hashed out the details of the growing “occupation movement” that is attempting to challenge corporate power in America.After much debate, organizers voted to begin their occupation at City Hall, as it sends a message to local government regarding their displeasure with corporate influence and money within the democratic process. Some wanted the location to be Pershing Square, however the lack of visibility and the likelihood of being boxed in by law enforcement weighed against the park.The group also decided to work with the Los Angeles Police Department to obtain permits and cooperation, hoping to avoid altercations with police.“If we have an adversarial relationship with the cops, it’s not going to work,” said Mario Brito, the meeting’s moderator.Occupy LA is an offshoot of “Occupy Wall Street,” a demonstration that is now in its ninth day. An “occupy” movement is also growing Chicago.The LA group intends to stay autonomous of any political parties, and deciding to organize under the banner “We are the 99 percent,” which calls attention to America’s wealth and power disparity.It is one percent of Americans who own 40 percent of the country’s wealth and earns 25 percent of the income. The fact that the super-rich have been obtaining more wealth since the Great Recession is a point of frustration for many who face high unemployment, growing poverty and austerity measures.Tomorrow, Occupy LA will make an appearance in West Hollywood for President Obama’s fundraising visit. The plan is not to protest the president, but to reach out to other activist groups, something that has been missing from LA’s occupation movement.After a sometimes frustrating organizing process that is filled with many diverse points of view, Bitro said protesters are unified.“We agree on one thing, that the economic inequalities in this country have to stop,” he said. “We have to fight back on this issue. We have to hold corporate America responsible, and the politicians that support them.”The group holds meetings every night and is leaderless. Bitro was tonight’s moderator, and after the meeting, another moderator was voted in for the next day. Although people of all ages are present, the majority are youths.“I think that politicians who ignore these young people, and the bureaucrats who just feel they are kids and hippies, are really missing the whole concept,” said Bitro. “They are actually hitting on an issue that is becoming more and more apparent for a lot people.”

http://www.laactivist.com/2011/09/25/%e2%80%98occupation%e2%80%99-date-set-for-los-angeles/

Where is SF? STATE CAPITALS?

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Republican Job Creation • Keeping Millions Unemployed To Put One Man Out of Work

Shortly after gaining the House of Representatives in 2010 the new Speaker of the House, John Boehner, made the welcome claim that the primary purpose of the Republican Party was to increase employment. His exact words were:

"We're going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs."

The following, therefore, is a chronological list of activities by the GOP beginning 2-10-2011. I'm sorry to report that none, so far, have resulted in a single new job being created in America.

(Note: I began this list as sort of a joke. That it has reached its currently imposing length without one anecdotal citation of new employment is astonishing.)

(1) Attempted curtailing of abortion rights.

(2) Attempted defunding of Planned Parenthood.

(3) Attempted defunding of NPR.

(4) Investigating Muslims.

(5) Declaring English as America's Official Language.

(6) Reaffirming "In God We Trust". Yawn.

(7) 3-28-2011: Challenging AARP's tax-exempt status.

(8) 4-1-2011: Approved defunct funding for failed religious schools.

(9) 4-6-2011: Attempt to destroy Medicaid.

(10) 4-8-2011: Attempt to destroy Planned Parenthood.

(11) 4-11-2011: Planning on shutting down the government

(12) 4-13-2011: Attempt to destroy the EPA.

(13) 4-15-2011: Attempting to eliminate financial counseling. 

(14) 4-18-2011: Passed a House budget that gives $4 trillion in tax cuts to the rich.

(15) 4-20-2011: Spent $500,000 to discriminate against gays.

(16) 4-22-2011: Continued toadying for the rich.

(17) 4-25-2011: Pretending the deficit is to blame for slow job growth. 

(18) 4-27-2011: De-funded SETI. (ARGH!!!!!!!)

(19) 4-29-2011: Tried to kill Chrysler two years ago... which is now going to pay back all its government loans.

(20) 5-2-2011: The Judicial Branch of the GOP, the Supreme Court, votes 5-4 to deny consumer class-action suits.

(21) 5-4-2011: Redefining rape. Yes, redefining rape.

(22) 5-6-2011: Pushing for spending caps tied to GDP. (That's a really, really REALLY bad idea.)

(23) 5-9-2011: Claimed credit for dropping oil prices because they passed a bill.

(24) 5-11-2011: Refuse to reduce oil subsidies.

(25) 5-13-2011: Stood helplessly and watched as Senator John Ensign made Bill Clinton look like a Carmelite nun.

(26) 5-16-2011: Attempt to retool Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare-killing bill.

(27) 5-17-2011: Prevented the raising of the federal debt limit. Let the catastrophic job loss begin.

(28) 5-18-2011: Watches Rome burn with their Wall Street pals.

(29) 5-19-2011: Filibustered bill to repeal oil subsidies. 

(30) 5-20-2011: Rejected Goodwin Liu for judge simply because Mr. Obama nominated him. 

(31) 5-23-2011: Abortion. Abortion. Abortion. As in "restrictions".

(32) 5-27-2011: Spent five hours debating NPR, five minutes debating Afghanistan.

(33) 5-27-2011: GOP releases their jobs plan. Hilarity ensues.

(34) 5-30-2011: Continue to hold the debt limit hostage in order to make more money for billionaires.

(35) 6-1-2011: Brought to the House floor a bill specifically blaming President Obama's 2012 budget for raising the statutory debt limit by $2.4 trillion dollars, a budget the very same Republican-led Congress earlier passed.

(36) 6-6-2011: 6-3-2011: Pulled from the floor a Democratic resolution to remove soldiers from Libya, because it just might have passed.

(37) Conceived a plan to replace three federal employees with just one federal employee. Yes, they're now actually reducing jobs.

(38) 6-9-2011. Nothing. They did absolutely nothing to create jobs. Not a damn thing.

(39) 6-13-2011. Nothing, though they're jabbering a lot about privatizing Social Security. Again. Sigh.

(40) 6-15-2011. Attempts to cut billions from needy seniors and hungry children in order to raise the defense budget... again. 

(41) 6-17-2011. The GOP is censoring Democratic congressional newsletters because they're using the GOP's own words to define the Ryan Budget. Nice. 

(42) 6-20-2011: The GOP held a convention in New Orleans and hired an Obama look-alike to stand on stage and tell racist jokes. So +1 to the GOP for giving a man a job but -1,000,000 points for the kind of job it was. 

(43) 6-22-2011: I'm sad to report that the GOP didn't do a dang thing to create jobs today, but I'll give them credit for not using senior citizens for skeet shooting practice. 

(44) 6-24-2011: Yesterday the Democratic Congress stood up on its back legs and finally barked out what so many of us have been saying for the past six months--- that the Republican Congress is actively trying to stall the economy. There, was that so harrrrrrrd? 

(45) 6-27-2011: The Republican Congress voted to raise the debt ceiling EIGHTEEN times for President Bush. Now they're holding their breaths and pitching fits and perfectly willing to cause world economic collapse just because that darned old spendthrift Obama wants to eliminate their corporate jet depreciation tax credit. Oy vey.

(46) 6-29-2011: Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) spent $9 million dollars of his own money in his race for a senate seat in 2010 but afterwards had his own company pay him back to the tune of $10 million in "deferred compensation". Is this illegal? Very probably, though it oddly resulted in a new American job: Senator Ron Johnson. So way to go, GOP! Only ten million more jobs to go. 

(47) 7-1-2011: The GOP is on vacation until the 7th of July, even though a world-altering problem with the debt ceiling is looming. But don't worry, Democratic Senator Harry Reid and his left-wing pals are staying in Washington to get some real work done. 

(48) The GOP was off for the 4th of July holidays. 

(49) 7-6-2011: No new jobs to speak of but the GOP is working diligently to keep their true constituency, Wall Street fat cats, employed by attempting to roll back the financial reforms passed last year. 

(50) 7-8-2011: Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's bright idea is to close tax loop holes.... and then give the accumulated monies back to the rich in the form of reduced taxes. That's our little non-job-makers! 

(51) 7-11-2011: Speaker of the House John "Weepy-Boy" Boehner admits that not raising the debt limit will cost jobs. Ahhh, that explains everything. Atta boy, GOP! 

(52) 7-13-2011: The GOP claims they passed 9 bills that would create 500,000 jobs. Except they didn't create jobs. They really, really didn't. 

(53) 7-15-2011: Finally. The GOP is doing some investigating, but it's not about Wall Street or Rupert Murdoch. The target in their cross hairs this time is <groan> Planned Parenthood. Again. This is the official definition of insanity, you know. 

(54) 7-18-2011: Not only does the GOP continue to insist on slashing federal spending, which will cost jobs, jobs and more jobs, but now they want to hack the Constitution. 

(55) 7-20-2011: Are you ready? They supported a bill that would "amend the Securities Act of 1933 to specify when certain securities issued in connection with church plans are treated as exempted securities for purposes of that Act." Ooooh, I'm all a-tingle. 

(56) 7-22-2011: While unemployment claims are rising again the GOP is putting the screws to small airports in order to kill union labor. 

(57) 7-25-2011: Speaker of the House John Boehner walks out of a debt ceiling meeting because that mean old pwesident Obama wouldn't knife his health care plan. Poor widdle John. 

(58) 7-27-2011: No new jobs but at least 4000 workers have hit the bricks as a result of the GOP's jihad againstairport unions. 

(59) 7-29-2011: The GOP wasted the past two days on its version of a debt ceiling bill that even its own partywon't vote for. John Boehner is a miserable failure as both the Majority Leader and as a shepherd for these hard times. 

(60) 8-1-2011: The GOP breaks out the fiddles while the economy burns. The tune they favor is the "Screw The Poor and the Elderly" polka, and they're hitting the coda HARD. 

(61) 8-3-2011: The GOP is screwing everyone over, except the airlines who are reaping fat profits by stealing what used to be taxes, by refusing to fund the FAA. 

(62) 8-5-2011: GOOD NEWS! The GOP has a plan to create 300,000 jobs.... no, wait. That's eliminate 300,000 jobs. Sorry. 

(63) 8-8-2011: The GOP is on vacation but their henchmen continue to usurp the voting process by sending outphony absentee ballots.

(64) 8-10-2011: The GOP is proposing something called the REINS act which essentially gets rid of safety inspectors. So less jobs and more poison in your children's food. It's win-win, uh, lose-lose, uh, whatever!

(65) 8-12-2011: Employees of Boeing had their jobs illegally pulled out from underneath them. Guess which political party is doing their best to see that these employees don't have their day in court. Bingo! 

(66) 8-15-2011: Yayyyy! Republican Darrell Issa, Chairman of the House Oversight Committee (which investigates government corruption) is keeping his home district busy by securing millions of dollars for road and public works projects. I guess it was just a complete coincidence that most of the work is planned near propertiesMr. Issa owns. Uh-oh.

(67) 8-17-2011: Republicans Darrell Issa and Dennis Ross introduced a bill in July that would accelerate thedestruction of the USPS and put all of its employees, hundreds of thousands of good Americans, out of work. 

Fuck Darrell Issa and fuck Dennis Ross! Fuck 'em until their ancestors rise from the dead and beg forgiveness for ever having sired the malevolent little bastards.

(68) 8-19-2011: Hey, look! Good old Darrell Issa, Republican, has hired a guy named Peter Haller to help effect new regulations for banks like Goldman Sachs. Unfortunately, Mr. Heller used to be called Peter Simonyi when he was a vice president for (wait for it) Goldman Sachs. Oh, you can bet you boots there's nothing underhanded about hiding behind another name. Not a thing. Nada. Zip. Zero.

Uh boy.

(69) 8-22-2011: The GOP has a new job-creation plan... to have one rammed down their throats. 

You see, the Democrats want to include a job-creation trigger in the new Super Committee that will require the Republican Party to vote either for or against it. To vote against it would be, uhhh, dumb but I wouldn't put anything past our little conservative pals. Stay tuned.

(70) 8-24-2011: The GOP has been quiet on the job front lately so I have a request of Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry...

Re-invest in your porno companies, Rick. 

It doesn't have to be a large investment but at the very least you'd put a few porn stars back on the cock, uh, I mean clock. Heck, if you're lucky they might even name a new position after you, one that no doubt involves the same anal lube that keeps your hair in place.

(71) 8-26-2011: Hey! It's our old pal Darrell Issa again, and he's hired a very nice man named Kurt Bardella to work for him on the Oversight Committee... only it's the same Kurt Bardella he fired five months ago for breach of trust. Guess this leopard found some really effective spot remover.

(72) 8-29-2011: Suppose you have a job but you need help with your mortgage. There's still $30 billion in theTroubled Asset Relief Program but the GOP wants to re-route that money to the federal deficit. This means more people will lose their homes and perhaps become homeless. Eventually jobless. Nice work, GOP.

(73) 8-31-2011: When the GOP returns from vacation they plan on voting every week to gut every government regulation within arm's reach because, you know, "regulation costs jobs". What this means, of course, is that regulation has been proven to actually create jobs.

(74) 9-2-2011: After unbridled success wrecking the economy once again with their 'debt ceiling' stunt House and Senate Republicans are starting to mumble about stalling the upcoming Highway Bill, costing Americans almost 2 million jobs. (These bills have traditionally been passed by overwhelming margins.) 

(75) 9-3-2011: A recent CNN poll reveals that those who self-identify as Republicans would rather the president focus on jobs, not the deficit, by a margin of 54%-44%. So why has the Republican Party not proposed one, single jobs bill in nine months? 

Because they're not Republicans! They're shills for their corporate masters who they can't WAIT to get another Republican stooge in the White House so they can screw the American people all over again like they did from2001-2009.

(76) 9-5-2011: The GOP is on a Labor Day break, which is sort of like atheists enjoying Christmas services with the Pope, so not much in terms of job creation is happening. For now, we'll just have to thank presidential candidate Mitt "Magic Underpants" Romney for hiring all of the workers who will be laboring to quadruple the size of his California beachfront mansion.

(77) 9-6-2011: Michelle Bachmann has a brilliant new answer for lots of high-paying jobs... slash the corporate tax rate to zero.... except corporate America is already paying an effective rate of zero. Even so, job creation is down the dumper. Back to the Etch-A-Sketch, Michelle.

(78) 9-8-2011: Presidential candidates Jon Huntsman, Mitt Romney, and Herman Cain have just announced their jobs programs. It's tax cuts for the rich. Why didn't we think of this before?

(79) 9-9-2011: Rick Perry wants to kill Social Security. He also wants to eliminate the FDA, the FCC, the U.S. Post Office and just about all other federal employees except the military, the Supreme Court and himself. It's kind of a jobs plan if you long for the 12th century.

(80) 9-11-2011: On Friday President Obama outlined a job's plan that is seen by economists as win-win. The Republican response to the program is to whine about it.

(81) 9-12-2011: Not much governing today so I think I'll just make a little comparison... which two types of professions do you think result in more jobs? Wall Street commodity speculators or educators? And which group do you think the GOP is doing its darndest to reduce in numbers?

(82) 9-14-2011: I gotta hand it to the GOP. In this bleak economy they've found a way to increase jobs... in hospital emergency rooms. What they're doing is trying to cut funding in the transportation bill for bike paths and pedestrian walkways, thus ensuring more mayhem on our streets and guaranteed employment for EMT workers. It's pure gee-nyuss I tells ya!

(83) 9-15-2011: Today the GOP-led House passed a bill that would make it easier to fire union workers, union organizers, or simply move jobs overseas in order to bust a union. In essence, an anti-jobs bill. 

(84) 9-16-2011: The government has provided loans that help the auto industry create jobs, that helped keep the assembly of the Ford Focus and the Nissan Leaf here in America. Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor plansto strip half that money to repair damage from Hurricane Irene... in HIS district.

(85) 9-16-2011: President Obama is trying to fast track job creation for a company called LightSquared and Republicans are pissed, evidently because the owner of the company had the audacity to donate to the Democratic Party. He, uh, ahem, also donated equally to the Republican Party.

(86) 9-19-2011: Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor is back with a pithy statement about Mr. Obama's jobs bill: "While an all or nothing approach might make sense to some communicators, I hope the President realizes it would be better to work together." This from a man whose stated job it is to say "No" to anything the president proposes. I hope he gets a painful boil on his uvula.

(87) 9-21-2011: The leaders of the Republican Party just sent a letter to the Federal Reserve saying "Keep unemployment high." Honestly, the letter says, in essence, "Hey, those guys out there in the ocean are drowning. Whatever you do, don't do something just to be doing it."

(88) 9-23-2011: Look! It's Darrell Issa, Republican chairman of the House Oversight Committee, creating jobs. He's stumping for a huge loan package on behalf of a company, Aptera, which makes electric cars. This is great news, especially for the green economy, although I wonder if Mr. Issa would be so ecstatic if the company in question wasn't a major contributor to his campaigns. 

Oops.

One more thing... the day after sending the glowing recommendation to the Energy Department Mr. Issa conducted a hearing entitled "How Obama’s Green Energy Agenda is Killing Jobs." Double-oops.

(89) 9-26-2011: The GOP is being suspiciously quiet so I want to take this opportunity to show you just how badly the Bush administration fucked-over the American people. Here's a chart of the GNP for this country over the past 60 years:

See that massive drop in 2008, the only drop in over 60 years? That's the Bush administration shedding jobs in this country hand over fist, just so the GOP could have the corporate-owned media blame Mr. Obama. 

As you can see the GNP has recovered and business in this country is doing fine but they're not hiring and they're not going to hire until Mr. Obama is gone. It's not enough for the Koch's of this world to reap absurd profits. They want it all.

Video of Cop Macing Nonviolent Protesters Goes Viral

Tis about time the Corporate Media started covering the growing protest. Too bad it took a week and violence by the NYPD to cover the non-violent protest. Where is Bloomberg?
















 
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The Big Story
Police Crack Down On Nonviolent "Occupy Wall Street" Protestors [VIDEO]

A filmed outburst of police violence that has spread like wildfire on the Internet -- with video of a cop spraying Mace at four women -- might not be the most direct way of targeting bank corruption, but the financial district march on Saturday captured a growing sense of populist powerlessness that has found little space for expression beyond the Tea Party movement.
Hundreds of protestors have been "occupying" Wall Street for more than a week, borrowing nonviolent tactics (such as camping out) previously seen at demonstrations throughout Europe and the Middle East. READ MORE

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War And Peace
Pentagon Expands Reach Of Anti-Hacker Cyber Fortress

The Defense Department has spent the past few years battling a tidal wave of hack attacks, as more and more top-secret information is handled by civilian defense companies and outside contractors. Worried about the capacity of the private sector to stave off cyber raids, the military brass has decided that the computer networks that make up America's hard drive are too big to fail.
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Featured Column: Carl Hiaasen
Why Is Florida's GOP Governor Obsessed With Drug Tests For The Unemployed?

Here in Florida, Rick Scott's campaign promise of mass job creation is at least coming true for professional urine samplers. However, in addition to being sued over drug-testing welfare parents, Scott also faces a court fight for ordering random substance screening on thousands of state workers. READ MORE


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Capitol Hill
The Congressional Procrastination Crisis

Last night's Senate vote for a routine bill to keep government operating marks the third time this year that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives nearly brought the country to a halt. It is not gridlock when every vote seems like a new opportunity to shut down the federal government -- instead, an endless game of chicken that may not end until November 2012 at the earliest. As floods batter the country and state budgets are forced to cut costs, the GOP has continued to demand that new funding for federal disaster aid can only come along with offsetting cuts to other programs. At least hurricane season is almost over. READ MORE

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