ah, mephistophelis.

APOLOGIES

2012-02-14T22:39:00.000-08:00

APOLOGIES :

CONCERNING THE REGRETTABLE, IF TEMPORARY, LOSS

OF CERTAIN ONCE-PUBLISHED ARTICLES

NOW ABSENT FROM THE ARCHIVES:

MORE REGRETTABLY,

THAT WHICH ONCE WAS FOUND HERE:

TOWARD WHICH

A NEGLIGENCE UPON THIS FAUST'S PART

HAS RECENTLY BEEN MOST UNHAPPILY DISCOVERED;

THAT MAY HAVE LEFT

MANY GENTLE READERS BEREFT OF THE

BENEFITS, DELIGHTS, &,

THE WHICH IS PERHAPS MOST REGRETTABLE OF ALL,

HAPPY LEARNINGS & UNFORSEEN DISCOVERIES

OF THIS INCREDIBLE, INTERACTIVE, & SCARCELY BLINKY

AWESOME MIND MAP,

ALL OF WHOSE

REALLY USEFUL FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR CRISIS RELATED HYPERLINKS

WERE ORIGINALLY MADE POSSIBLE BY

THE DEDICATION,

ATTENTION TO DETAIL,

& UNWAVERING COMMITMENT TO STANDARDS OF EXCELLENCE

BY THE CONSISTENT EXCELLENCE OF WHICH ONE MAY RECOGNIZE

THE HANDIWORK OF THE ELUSIVE, &, DESPITE THIS TURN OF EVENTS, MOST APPRECIATED,

MR. CORPORANON.

THIS WILL BE RECTIFIED:

FOR WHICH I HOPE & BELIEVE IT NOT TOO LIKELY RISKING A COMPOUNDING OF MY EMBARRASSMENT

TO, IN ADDITION, & BY WAY OF REDRESS, OFFER:

THAT IT WOULD MUCH BEHOOVE ANY BODIE,

TO RETURN SOME FEW DAYS HENCE.

PARTICULARLY THOSE FIT FEW WHOSE EYES, IN POINT MOST STRANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCE. FOLLOW HARD UPON THESE VERY WORDS:

THANK YOU.

Be seeing you.

Anonymous Hacked The CIA (again?)

2012-02-10T14:24:00.000-08:00

screenshot of my attempt

This just in from RT.

Anonymous hacked the CIA

11 February, 2012, 00:23

Traditionally known as FuckFBIFriday, this weekend eve turned into FuckCIAFriday, as hacktivists downed the official website for the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States cia.gov. At approximately 3.10 p.m. Eastern time one of twitter accounts related to the hackers' group announced "cia.gov DOWN.

Along with the secret audio leak, numerous sites feel prey to Anonymous’ crippling assault including several entertainment industry giants and government sites. The websites for the US Department of Justice and Universal Music Group were among the first to go, with the sites for US Copyright Office, Warner Music, BMI, and RIAA following suit shortly after. These attacks were in retaliation for a raid on Megaupload, where the feds raided the file sharing service site which led to more than 20 warrants being served and several arrests internationally.

Read more

Summary by Text Compactor

So after getting the warning message above, I did a traceroute.

Traceroute to CIA

personal info redacted

Start: 2/10/12 2:20:25 PM

Find route from: 192.168.0.2

to: 198.81.129.107 (198.81.129.107), Max 30 hops, 40 byte packets

Host Names truncated to 32 bytes

1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1 ): 3558ms 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms

[snip]

10 ae1-40g.ar2.sjc1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.143.118 ): 53ms 44ms 43ms 44ms 42ms

11 tengige0-2-2-0.gw3.sjc7.alter.ne (152.179.48.21 ): 53ms 42ms 42ms 42ms 42ms

12 0.ge-4-1-0.xl3.sjc7.alter.net (152.63.50.97 ): 42ms 41ms 62ms 41ms 40ms

13 0.ge-4-3-0.xt1.lax9.alter.net (152.63.10.9 ): 51ms 52ms 51ms 54ms 51ms

14 vlan20-tengigabitethernet9-0.sa1 (152.63.116.41 ): 51ms 52ms 52ms 50ms 51ms

15 * * * *

•Cancelled by user•

* Start: 2/10/12 2:21:07 PM

;; Query: vlan20-tengigabitethernet9-0.sa1.lax9.alter.net ,type = ANY , class = ANY

• Query cannot resolve name •

Start: 2/10/12 2:21:16 PM

;; Query: 198.81.129.107 ,type = ANY , class = ANY

• Query cannot resolve name •

Start: 2/10/12 2:21:21 PM

;; Query: 198.81.129.107 ,type = ANY , class = ANY

• Query cannot resolve name •

Start: 2/10/12 2:21:28 PM

Whois user[@]: 198.81.129.107

[whois.arin.net]

# Query terms are ambiguous. The query is assumed to be:

# "n 198.81.129.107"

# Use "?" to get help.

# The following results may also be obtained via:

# http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=198.81.129.107?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2

ANS Communications, Inc BLK198-15-ANS (NET-198-80-0-0-1) 198.80.0.0 - 198.81.255.255

Central Intelligence Agency OIT-BLK1 (NET-198-81-128-0-1) 198.81.128.0 - 198.81.191.255

# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use

# available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html

• Whois complete 2/10/12 2:21:29 PM •

Start: 2/10/12 2:21:39 PM

PING from: 192.168.0.2

to: 198.81.129.107 (198.81.129.107) Every 500 mSecs

PKT# RESULT TIME(ms) LENGTH Min Avg Max Timestamp

1 failed 2/10/12 2:21:44 PM

2 failed 2/10/12 2:21:49 PM

3 failed 2/10/12 2:21:54 PM

•Cancelled by user•

Packets out/in/bad/%loss = 3/0/3/100.0

• Ping Completed 2/10/12 2:21:55 PM •

Start: 2/10/12 2:22:08 PM

Find route from: 192.168.0.2

to: 198.81.129.107 (198.81.129.107), Max 30 hops, 40 byte packets

Host Names truncated to 32 bytes

1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1 ): 0ms 0ms 0ms 0ms 1ms

[snip]

10 ae1-40g.ar2.sjc1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.143.118 ): 47ms 44ms 45ms 43ms 43ms

11 tengige0-2-2-0.gw3.sjc7.alter.ne (152.179.48.21 ): 42ms 42ms 41ms 42ms 41ms

12 0.ge-4-1-0.xl3.sjc7.alter.net (152.63.50.97 ): 41ms 41ms 42ms 41ms 42ms

13 0.ge-4-3-0.xt1.lax9.alter.net (152.63.10.9 ): 50ms 53ms 55ms 53ms 56ms

14 vlan20-tengigabitethernet9-0.sa1 (152.63.116.41 ): 52ms 53ms 52ms 52ms 52ms

15 * * *

•Cancelled by user•

Start: 2/10/12 2:22:42 PM

Find route from: 192.168.0.2

to: cia.gov (198.81.129.107), Max 30 hops, 40 byte packets

Host Names truncated to 32 bytes

1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1 ): 15ms 5ms 0ms 1ms 0ms

[snip]

10 ae1-40g.ar2.sjc1.us.nlayer.net (69.22.143.118 ): 43ms 50ms 44ms 48ms 43ms

11 tengige0-2-2-0.gw3.sjc7.alter.ne (152.179.48.21 ): 41ms 41ms 42ms 42ms 41ms

12 0.ge-4-1-0.xl3.sjc7.alter.net (152.63.50.97 ): 48ms 44ms 41ms 41ms 41ms

13 0.ge-4-3-0.xt1.lax9.alter.net (152.63.10.9 ): 51ms 52ms 51ms 58ms 66ms

14 vlan20-tengigabitethernet9-0.sa1 (152.63.116.41 ): 65ms 51ms 52ms 51ms 51ms

15 * *

•Cancelled by user•

But didn't they do this recently? Like on the second of February? And ... also last year, when AntiSec was first born?

More as develops.

Be seeing you.

Citizen's Police Review Board: Convened by Occupy Oakland Grand Lake Theatre, 2/9/12

2012-02-09T22:37:00.000-08:00

At first all I knew was from the news (quasi-indy) -- and so I didn't know why theCPRB Canceled....

Citizens' Police Review Board to postpone forum on OPD, Occupy Oakland

Feb 2

by Jennifer Inez Ward

The Citizens' Police Review Board has postponed a public forum on the Oakland Police and Occupy Oakland originally scheduled for Feb. 9 at Oakland City Hall.

[snip]

Caceres did not give a reason for the delay.

According to the CPRB website, the focus of the forum was supposed to be the Oakland Police Department’s response to the Occupy Oakland encampments and protests between Oct. 25 and Nov. 14.

"In the wake of recent Oakland Police Department’s response to Occupy Oakland protests, the Citizens’ Police Review Board received a petition, formal complaints from Oaklanders and numerous calls from around the nation and the world, prompting the opening of eight investigations into officer misconduct," the website states.

CPRB's website lists several goals for the forum including, obtaining testimony from people affected by the police response to Occupy Oakland. The forum also will be an opportunity for the city's police to respond to CPRB and "about the planning and implementation of police actions around Occupy Oakland and how the department is addressing misconduct."

Information about OPD’s policies on use of force, protests, crowd management and mutual aid, also were slated to be a part of the discussion.

Oakland Police Chief Howard Jordan, along with community groups and people associated with Occupy Oakland, were expected to attend....

Read more

...but I knew that OccupyOakland had taken up the slack

Occupy Oakland Forum on Police Actions

Feb 9

by Benjamin Philips

Occupy Oakland is hosting a Forum on Police Actions on February 9, 6:15 pm at the Grand Lake Theater.

The Citizens Police Review Board (CPRB) announced yesterday that they had indefinitely postponed a forum which had been in the works for months. This forum had been intended to allow the community to discuss the Oakland Police Department’s handling of Occupy Oakland.

Police actions on January 28 show that this forum is more needed than ever, and that the OPD has not made any significant progress or reforms since they shot Scott Olsen in the head on October 25.

Thus, Occupy Oakland is hosting a forum to take its place....

Read more:

As it turns out, the original CPRB was not gong to be about the police actions against the Occupatio on the 28th, and they had cancelled basically to regroup. (I hope I have that right). CPRB was at tonight's meeting -- they explain it better, no doubt. So without delay, the recorded streams of the meeting -- which are very interesting. First, a presentation on OPD Brutality, narrated by OakFoSho of various streamers' clips from January 28th, 2012 -- the Oakland Rise Up Festival, a.k.a. move-in day.

Video streaming by Ustream

This was followed by a short intermission and an open forum.

Live stream videos at Ustream

And here is another video streamer's point of view:

Live video from your Android device on Ustream

I can tell you that this occupation is every bit as beautiful as all that.

And more.

Hella occupy.

Be seeing you.

A Response To A Response To The NYT 'We The People Losing Appeal' Piece, Or, Do Not Yell At Me

2012-02-08T00:00:00.000-08:00

The NYT article is here. The Intel Hub Response, here. Although it was originally a comment over at WhatReallyHappened, I think the following stands on its own...

...well, given a very short, uh, snippet (from the video beginning):

Hey, I had to learn it just like every other individuating consciousness on the planet:

raising one's voice is a measure not of the truth of one's message but of one's willingness to use to force or fraud as method to convince others of that truth.

Call it 'winning hearts & minds' -- as the old saying goes,much more success is of course obtained by sweetness. One could argue that the truth itself needs no such 'spin' -- but alas, although it is true that many lies pass as truth for a time before they are unmasked, one cannot be equally as sure that truth may not be passed over and ignored for want of capable, effective advocacy. Happens all the time.

Had I not been willing & able to ignore the avoidance behavior triggered by finding myself yelled at, had I not looked up and read the original NYT article (in its entirety, and not 'snippets,' the use of which, may I add, is rather telling, given the context), I would have come away from this post with only a vague confirmation of my anti-MSM bias. And with another reaffirmation of my general tendency towards loyalty to our constitution, reaffirmations now experienced so frequently there is a temptation to nurture that loyalty as an end in itself.

Which it is not.

The constitution is the means. Freedom is the objective. Freedom, and justice, and the pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, as it turns out, and strange though it may seem, there is much information and many interesting points raised by the NYT piece. You should read it, Gentle Reader. See for yourself how the meaning masquerades as the rational and intellectual inquiry upon which it was engendered. It does not raise its voice, yet leaves one -- leaves me -- convinced that this little piece will most likely succeed.

Its intended purposes?

Distraction. Manipulation. Disinformation.

Preoccupation.

Make up your own mind where the evil is: it is not in the information presented in the article, but (as is to be expected from the NYT) in the slant, and the context of the debate. The slant creates propaganda from information. It really has nothing to do with the article's purported subject: the scientificallish study of modern government charters (quantification -- "coding" -- of their use of, or resemblance to, or basis upon, the US Constitution) and temporal analysis of results. It has everything to do with the intensely emotional rhetoric one might expect as consequence.

Such as the above.

Be seeing you.

Fukushima Mothers To Be Silenced? Not If We All Speak!

2012-01-26T19:58:00.000-08:00

CLICK ON ANY FRAMED ELEMENT TO TAKE YOU TO THE PETITION! - http://www.tinyurl.com/fukumoms

Do you support free speech?

Welcome the #Occupation?

Are you anti Nuke?

Are you pro Mom?

Answer yes to any one of these and you need to sign THIS immediately: a petition underway to prevent the eviction of the Fukushima Mothers from their encampment outside Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI).

Message From Anonymous Japan

Minister Yukio Edano of the Japanese Ministry of Energy, Trade, and Industry (METI) has caved to pressure from Japan's too-big-to-fail nuclear industry, and is moving to evict the Fukushima Mothers from their protest camp outside the Ministry Headquarters in Tokyo Japan. This is unacceptable. Avaaz has a petition up, which we highly encourage everybody to sign:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/stand_with_fukushima_mothers/?twi

For those who want to do more, you can contact Minister Edano's office and the METI switchboard at the following numbers:

Main METI switchboard:

（TEL）03-3501-1609

（FAX）03-3501-6942

Minister Edano's METI office:

（TEL）03-3508-7448

（FAX）03-3591-2249

Minister Edano's district office:

（TEL）048-648-9124

（FAX）048-648-9125

Another option is to flood METI's comment form on their site (https://wwws.meti.go.jp/honsho/comment_form/comments_send.htm) with the following Japanese copypasta. This is just the Avaaz petition's language in Japanese, so why not make sure it's seen by as many people as possible?

Subject Line:

福島の母たち

Contents:

枝野経済産業大臣　殿

経済産業省前で平和な抗議活動を行っている市民や福島の母親たちに対する退去要請に関して憂慮する私たち市民は、要請を撤回し、私たち皆のために原子力のない安全な未来を願い声を上げる母親たちの権利を認めるよう求めます。

すべての市民に公共の場で意見を述べる自由が認められるべきであり、この非暴力の抗議デモを今後も認め、基本的権利を尊重するよう要請します。

どうぞよろしくお願いいたします。

The nuclear industry in Japan has strong ties to the Japanese government, and both are riddled with the twin cancers of incompetence and corruption. We will not stand idly by while they try to bully the citizens of Japan into silence. Let us show them that the eyes of the Hive are upon them.

We are Anonymous

We are Legion

We do not forgive

We do not forget

Expect Us.

FLASHBACK: Cofer Black To WH 9/11 Inquiry: Removes Gloves, Gives Eye Contact, In Lieu Of Real Testimony

2012-01-23T00:39:00.000-08:00

Linked because Cofer is the link connecting:

the CIA
The (Global) War on Drugs
The (Global) War on Terror
The US Military Occupations Lingering Abroad
The US Military Presence Looming at Home
Warrantless Surveillance (Panoptikon/1984)
Fascist Police State Mission Creep

and

The Mercenary Army Formerly Known As The Mercenary Army Formerly Known As Blackwater.

Want me to google that for you?

Be seeing you.

How Well Do You Know Monsanto ? (An Interactive Video)

2012-01-17T12:15:00.001-08:00

A little gem. Interactive. From IfItsGMOItsGotToGo.org. Requires Flash.

Extra Credit:

Spot the connection to The Company Formerly Formerly Known As Blackwater (answer below).

h/t to the source!

That connection would be Raytheon, through a shell company of then-Blackwater, Paravant.

PDF source appended.

Paravant to Raytheon: (click to enlarge)

Raytheon to Paravant: (click to enlarge)

PDF from NYTimes.

How Well Do You Know Monsanto ? (An Interactive Video)

2012-01-17T12:14:00.000-08:00

A little gem. Interactive. From IfItsGMOItsGotToGo.org. Requires Flash.

h/t to the source!

Oakland Police Say It Went Like This:

2012-01-15T02:56:00.000-08:00

Of course they always tell the truth......

“On January 14, 2012, at 8:00 p.m. a crowd of approximately 125 persons peacefully assembled at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. Oakland Police facilitated a circuitous march through the downtown streets of Oakland between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 11:00p.m.

Although social media sites had indicated that individuals or groups planned to target police personnel, police vehicles, property, and media vans, there were no reports of violence, arson, vandalism, or injury. A total of two arrests were made – one for an individual observed blocking the roadway with a garbage dumpster, and the other for interfering in that arrest. Objects, debris, and barricades have been set on fire during past marches.”

— OPD press statement on tonight’s Fuck the Police march #2

from interesting times., by Susie Cagle, graphic journalist.

Be seeing you.

The Protests Will Continue Until The Cops Improve

2012-01-14T23:06:00.000-08:00

The harassment, harsh tactics, batch arrests, over-high bail amounts, specious charges, and injuries in the past month have gotten so bad that #OccupyOakland has decided to protest weekly until "the bullshit stops." This is the first one, as far as I am aware, and already the helicopters are buzzing overhead, and the Storm-Troopers-in-Black are deploying.

The helicopters were buzzing loudly in the sky again -- actually, this time only one. Last time the helicopters didn't even start until there was Riot Cop Deployment. They must be running out of money. That would surely be one of the objectives.

Here is the stream -- click through for the archive. Also see the twitter feed for #Occupy Oakland (hashtag #oo) to your right.

Live stream from Anon Medics on Ustream

Follow Anon Medics on Twitter

The protests will continue until police improve.

Be seeing you.

Something Rotten in the State of Iowa

2012-01-05T07:19:00.000-08:00

As seen from a foreign perspective (funny how these details often surface in like manner), this just in from ex-skf.blogspot.com :

TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012

OT: GOP Iowa Caucus Is 3-Way Dead Heat

(UPDATE: It looks MSMs and TPTB did their job. Iowa is a virtual tie between Santorum (Santorum?) and Romney. Paul 3rd. Let's see if they still say Iowa doesn't matter.)

===============================

among Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and Ron Paul, 23% each with 22% reporting. (CNN)

... the last poll before the election showed Rick Santorum in 2nd, way ahead of Ron Paul when in fact it was the other way round.

From Economic Policy Journal (1/3/2012):

HOT: "Error" on Poll Results Put Santorum Ahead of Ron Paul

Run Ron Paul reports:

With just days remaining until the all-important Republican Iowa caucuses, a left-leaning political newspaper based near the nation’s capital made a critical error in reporting the results of the final Des Moines Register opinion poll before voters gather Tuesday.

On Saturday evening Politico incorrectly reported that the poll showed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum “climbing to second [place] at 21 percent and Ron Paul in third, with 18 percent.” In fact, Paul took second place with 22 percent of the vote. Santorum was third with 15 percent.

Read more

Evidence of funny business, if you ask me.

More like criminal activity.

I wish I was surprised.

Be seeing you.

Radionuclides from the Fukushima accident in the air over Lithuania: THIS ABSTRACT HAS MORE INFO

2012-01-05T04:14:00.000-08:00

For Ultraman: because it adds a little more than we had; would that it added more.

Plutonium From Fukushima Detected in Lithuania

Not to show that the amounts were significant (they weren't) but to note that plutonium out of the Fukushima reactors did indeed travel far and wide, contrary to many nuclear experts (particularly the kind that live in Japan) have said.

What's more, the authors of the paper seem to think that plutonium came from the spent fuel.

Interesting. Does anyone have access to the full paper?
Read more

Well, now that you ask (she said two days later):

SCROLL TO END FOR UPDATED OR FULLTEXT LINKS

Source:

ALBERT:All Library Books, journals and Electronic Records Telegrafenberg.

NOTE: If you choose to follow the link find the title of this article -- but when you click it watch carefully: the images and other goodies are only there for a moment, at least on my browser, before they are redacted. This occasioned the following post.

UPDATE:
fulltext link (thank you anonymous) without ads, isolated from its ad infested context so as to avoid confusion. Right click to start download. You may have to open in a new tab.:

go here if the link doesn't work or display properly.

Warning, only click on the "start download from" blue link and if you get any popup besides your download starting, force quit.

(If some ad latches onto your interface, suckers in your eyes and ears, with an offer of a free ipad, and you don't kill your browser, don't blame me.)

Be seeing you.

Police "Plan" for 2nd #OccupyOakland Eviction Leaked

2011-12-24T20:20:00.000-08:00

If by leaked, you mean, left strewn carelessly about the Coliseum. Not sure, but I think that means that these were discarded directly after being read, and directly before the final staging.

This just in from Indybay:

OccOak - OPDs Operational Plans-Eviction 2 : Indybay

by indybay.org Sat Dec 24 16:26:26 PST 2011

OPD's Operational Plans for Occupy Oakland - November 14, 2011 eviction documents

Wellll lookee... OPD left their operational plans all over the coliseum when they marshaled up for the second eviction of Oakland.

(link and documents below)

Sure makes for an interesting read. Very.

Updates as I figure or find them out....

Full document at end.

Update #1

As far as 'surgical arrests' go : OPD assigned its most violent cops -- repeat violators -- to be in charge of crowd control, including weapons of less-than destruction.

It is my understanding that, researching the following article, Ali Winston petitioned for documents

similar to those below
(marked "Classified - For Law Enforcement Use Only") under the Freedom Of Information Act.

OPD Used Violent Cops Against Occupy

Records reveal that the department put officers with histories of using deadly force

on the frontlines during Occupy Oakland protests.

By Ali Winston

On the morning of November 3, following the massive general strike in Oakland, police shot Occupy protester Scott Campbell with a beanbag round that left an ugly welt on his thigh. Campbell's only apparent offense was that he had decided to video-record a line of riot police at the north entrance of Frank Ogawa Plaza. Last week, news reports revealed that Oakland police had put two cops on administrative leave and were investigating their roles in the apparent unjustified shooting of Campbell. But the Campbell incident was by no means isolated.

Documents recently released by OPD, coupled with news reports of the Campbell shooting, indicate that the department appears to have systematically assigned cops with histories of using deadly force to deal with Occupy Oakland protests.

Read more

- including who would be targeted (it is advised the most active activists should be taken out first), when, where, why and how.

Personnel rosters for the deployments on the two most violent confrontations between police and Occupy protesters — October 25 and on the evening of November 2 and the early morning of November 3 — show that Garcia was assigned to one of five so-called "Tango Teams," the radio code for OPD's tactical squads of five officers and one sergeant each, which were armed with shotgun-fired less-than-lethal rounds, tear gas, and flash-bang grenades. Among the officers assigned to those squads were five cops named as defendants in the 2003 civil suit filed after OPD fired wooden dowels and birdshot-filled beanbags at anti-war demonstrators during a protest at the Port of Oakland.

Read more

THE DOX: (CLICK TO ENLARGE)

http://www.mediafire.com/27lzwa5d8097ona

Be seeing you.

OPD Operations "Plan" for 2nd #Occupy Eviction Leaked

2011-12-24T19:15:00.000-08:00

If by leaked, you mean, left strewn carelessly about the Coliseum. Not sure, but I think that means that these were discarded directly after being read, and directly before the final staging.

This just in from Indybay:

OccOak - OPDs Operational Plans-Eviction 2 : Indybay

by indybay.org Sat Dec 24 16:26:26 PST 2011

OPD's Operational Plans for Occupy Oakland - November 14, 2011 eviction documents

Wellll lookee... OPD left their operational plans all over the coliseum when they marshaled up for the second eviction of Oakland.

and here is file link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?27lzwa5d8097ona

Sure makes for an interesting read. Very. Updates as I figure or find them out.

DHS warns of SCADA vulnerability; neglects to mention what it resembles or how closely | (the STUXNET files)

2011-12-19T09:19:00.000-08:00

An electronic device used to control machinery in water plants and other industrial facilities contains serious weaknesses that allow attackers to take it over remotely, the U.S. Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team warned. Some models of the Modicon Quantum PLC used in industrial control systems contain multiple hidden accounts that use predetermined passwords to grant remote access, the agency said in an advisory issued December 14. Palatine, Illinois– based Schneider Electric, the maker of the device, produced fixes for some of the weaknesses, and continues to develop additional mitigations. The programmable logic controllers reside at the lowest levels of an industrial plant, where computerized sensors meet the valves, turbines, or other machinery being controlled. The default passwords are hard-coded into Ethernet cards the systems use to funnel commands into the devices, and get temperatures and other data out of them. The Ethernet modules also allow administrators to remotely log into the machinery using protocols such as telnet, FTP, and the Windriver Debug port. According to a blog post published December 12 by an independent security researcher, the NOE 100 and NOE 771 modules contain at least 14 hard-coded passwords, some of which are published in support manuals. Even in cases where the passcodes are obscured using cryptographic hashes, they are easy to recover thanks to documented weaknesses in the underlying VxWorks operatingsystem. As a result, attackers can exploit the weakness to log into devices and gain privileged access to their controls.

The source article is worth visiting for at least two reasons. It gives us the link for "the blog post published on Monday by independent security researcher Rubén Santamarta," and goes on to inform us, just after the end of the passage the DHS saw fit to quote:

SCADA vuln imperils critical infrastructure, feds warn.

December 14, The Register – (International)

Hard-coded passwords are a common weakness built into many industrial control systems, including some S7 series of PLCs from Siemens. Because the systems control the machinery connected to dams, gasoline refineries, and water treatment plants, unauthorized access is considered a national security threat because it could be used to sabotage their operation.

Read more

Remind anyone of anything ?

From Schneider Electric (which forms, according to Wikipedia , a cornerstone of AREVA:

Total safety: The cornerstone of our business

Although electricity is the most flexible energy to generate, transmit and use,

it can be hazardous if not properly managed. From homes to nuclear power

plants, Schneider Electric’s mission is to ensure the safety of people and

equipment.

In fact, Modicon PLC's were, at least as of 2006, in use at

at least one nuclear plant in Virginia
two in Korea ("The DPS [Diverse Protection System] configuration is based on a Modicon PLC, which is now supplied by Schneider Electric." notes the NRC, adding helpfully "The use of multiple vendors and digital platforms promotes system diversity among the echelons of defense."
in Bruce Nuclear Generation Station at Tiverton, Ontario
and no doubt many more I have not the determination, at present, out of obscurity to dig, given the penchant this industry has into the same, to bury. Witness how neatly the following company avoids, in their boasts, the very proper nouns that would pinpoint what nuclear power plants, likely Canadian, are now at risk:

Synopsis of Nuclear Reactor Retubing Controls Automation System Project

• Situation: A nuclear power generation company committed to upgrading its operations with new reactors.

• Issues: Aging reactors subject to problems such as water leakage, corrosion, and contamination (fine powdery particulate—iron oxide activated to isotope FE55—as a result of corrosion) that are potentially hazardous and costly to deal with.

• Requirement: Upgrade of 2 reactors (including re-tubing operations).

• Technology: Unity Pro IEC 61131-3 application software/Modicon Quantum PLC platform; GE Iconics Series HMI; Ethernet; Kepware OPC driver; Kollmorgen drives; PICS™ simulation.

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Occupy West Coast Ports Blockade | News Roundup | Updated

2011-12-12T11:04:00.001-08:00

UPDATE: Oakland Port AM shift shut down!

PLEASE VISIT THIS BLOG: PICTURES ARE EXCELLENT; THE EXCERPT BELOW DOES THEM NO JUSTICE.

zunguzungu

Useless got to eat, so pay me!

We Shut Down the Port of Oakland, for the Morning

One my way to the Port of Oakland this morning — at the tender hour of 5 a.m. — I stopped by Oscar Grant Plaza to get a picture of the city’s sprinklers filling the plaza with water. As long as they keep the soil a muddy saturated mess, no one can put up tents right?The convergence at 5:30 at West Oakland is well attended (for 5:30), and I join a small group of bicyclists who (along with a bus or two) will be the first wave. Hyphy Republic is there and we caught up a bit.This might not be the best picture, but it adequately represents the state of my vision as we rode along:The first picket of the morning:The first riot police of the morning. They are in full “ready to fuck up your shit mode,” legs spread clubs poised, lips curled. I hate when they do that:While we march in circles — keep it moving, so it’s a legal picket — these guys sit in idling white vans:But then they left. If there’s anything more beautiful than riot cops suddenly getting in their van and leaving, it’s the light creeping across the Bay, bluing the sky and warming your face.

@millicentsomer and @sanginaem take some pre-sunrise pictures: We continue being a picket. At some point, these ladies happened:Just a nice quiet community picket with a thousand close friends:Don’t forget the tents! The sign says “This Tent Kills Fascists”:The Port is just so damned photogenic: Someone brought a lot of coffee and soup. I love these people:Suddenly, the riot cops are back, now between us and the berth. They don’t say anything, they just loom.But they’re in a tricky position when no one does anything to provoke them. The legality of a community picket is a sort of ambiguous thing, but for the police to attack us to force us to move would be a certain kind of decision, one that they decided not to make. @millicentsomer and @sanginaem overheard (by the nearby bathroom) a policewoman saying “we’re going to get our helmets and we’re going to try to get them in the terminal,” but none of the occupiers ever tried to enter the terminal. And then the police file out. We give them room to leave:But the police never get violent, the ILWU never crosses the picket line, and things stay peaceful. Lots of pleasant conversation. The port is shut down. TBC.

Ok maybe one:

The news so far, from many points of view. Beware. Many claim to speak for 'the movement' and 'the 99%' only to go on to say 'Do not do this; it hurts business.' Now who do you think that they are with?

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Here's a roundup of today's events so far:

Occupy activists aim to close US ports today

vast minority 2011-12-12 07:31

A BID to block the West Coast ports of the USA is being launched by Occupy activists on

Monday December 12.

Says the West Coast Ports Blockade site: "The ports play a pivotal role in the flow and growth of capital for the 1% in this

country and internationally.

"For that reason alone it is the ideal place to disrupt their profit machine. The workers on these ports have always

understood that; they have consistently staged shutdowns for political reasons, honored community picket lines, and led the

labor movement.

"A general disruption of commerce, in protest of the nationally coordinated attacks on Occupy movements alone is

warranted, but additionally, the specifically targeted attacks on workers at these ports by the 1% further necessitate this call

to action."

Adds the Occupy Los Angeles site: "As part of the Dec. 12 Boycott and March for legalization and good jobs, the Occupy

movement will protest at one or more facilities belonging to SSA Marine, a shipper owned by Goldman Sachs, with 5

terminals and a warehouse in the Harbor area.

"SSA Marine was recently fined for building an illegal road to the site of its massive, dirty coal terminal project in WA. It was

also caught recently not alerting workers to the threat of explosive cargo in Oakland.

"SSA/Goldman Sachs symbolize the ruin that corporate greed has brought into our lives. The 1% are depriving port truck

drivers and other workers of decent pay, working conditions and the right to organize, even while the port of LA/LB is the

largest in the US and a huge engine of profits for the 1%.

"The 1% have pursued a conscious policy of de-industrialization that has resulted in 'trade' at the port meaning that there

are 7 containers coming in for every one going out. The 1% have driven migrant workers into a 'grey market' economy and

repression.

"The 1% use police brutality and repression, jails and prisons to suppress, divide and try to silence the 99% and all who

oppose their insatiable greed. To put an end to all that, we call on the 99% to march, boycott, occupy the ports, and STRIKE."

For latest news, the Twitter hashtag is #occupytheports

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Occupy attempting to block Port of Oakland

Last update 9:30, 12/12/11

by Amy Hollyfield

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Hundreds of Occupy demonstrators have descended on the Port of Oakland in an attempt to shut it down. There was a few tense moments as police in riot gear formed a line near the protesters, but they took no action and soon returned to their staging area.

The protesters say today's action, which includes attempts to shutdown all business at the Port of Oakland, Long Beach, Portland, Seattle and Alaska, is happening without the support of many union workers and truck drivers.

Protesters say the action is needed because the wealth gathered by the ports isn't making it to the 99 percent. But port leaders say that isn't true and today's action will only hurt the "working class men and women of the port."

Read more or read ABC related stories (watch out for MSM bias:)

1 arrest, road blocked in Long Beach port protest; Occupy protesters seek to shut West Coast ports; Port blockage causes rift in Occupy movement; Union leadership critical of Occupy plan to shut ports; Oakland Port to Occupiers: Don't shut us down;Oakland mayor reacts to possible recall petition

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12/12/11

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It's a day of action in Long Beach, Oakland, Portland and Seattle. Protesters in solidarity with the Occupy Wall Street movement have coordinated blockades at the ports up and down California's coast. Long Beach had as many as 400 demonstrators march on the Port of Long Beach.

They targeted a dock facility leased by SSA Marine, a shipping company that is partially owned by Goldman Sachs, according to the Associated Press.

[snip]

Protesters attempt to block an entrance to the Port of Oakland on December 12, 2011 in Oakland, California. After a general strike coordinated by Occupy Oakland shut down the port on November 2, this time hundreds are expected to affect all West Coast ports as Occupy movements in Los Angeles, San Diego, Oakland, Portland, Seattle and Tacoma have so far joined the demonstration

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'Occupy' Protesters Disrupt Ports in Oakland And Portland

Last update 12:58 12/12/11

NPR

"Occupy" protesters on the West Coast moved Monday to disrupt ports in Los Angeles, San Francisco and elsewhere. The action fizzled in Los Angeles, as the AP reports:

"Heavy rain dampened the protest and the demonstrators, who were flanked by dozens of police, have now moved off, effectively making a peaceful end to a four-hour protest."

[snip]

The "Wall Street on the Waterfront" protests seem to have had more success in Oakland. KQED says that a crowd their reporter estimated to be 1,000 strong marched through the streets of West Oakland this morning. At the port, protesters were able to disrupt operations:

"Caitlin Esch, who is at the port now, says at least three of the six gates at the port are effectively blocked, with nothing moving in or out as protesters clog up the entrances. Trucks are lined up, some trying to drop off, some trying to pick up."

[snip]

"Hundreds Occupy Portland protesters effectively shut down two of the Port of Portland's busiest terminals, preventing about 200 longshore workers from going to work today."

"The demonstrations began about 6 a.m. and have been largely peaceful so far."

[snip]

"The protesters say American ports have become 'economic engines for the elite.' They are most upset by giant West Coast port operator SSA Marine and grain exporter EGT, which they say epitomize the big corporations that make up the '1 percent.'"

"Goldman Sachs owns a major stake in SSA Marine, and the bank has been a repeated target of Occupy protesters since the movement began."

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Occupy Oakland's Facebook Page Mirror

2011-12-12T03:19:00.000-08:00

Ha! at last ......

(If the link below is broken, try Bing's cache, here)

Should work -- for a time at least -

- because (let's all repeat in unison):

"friends don't let friends Face Book."

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On The Coming War That Must Be Stopped

2011-12-09T08:36:00.000-08:00

musings on the ends and the means

occasioned by my virtual introduction to horse237

a child of the last century, i saw the war when i was very young....

died in it over & over & over & over, excruciatingly well-defined high-resolution first-person point-of-view, i would sense something & think, 'hey, what...' & turn suddenly toward the window & be immolated. vague sense of having been there before: 'sh*t, you looked.' woke drenched in cold sharp stark inconsolable fear. sometimes as often as three times a week. brought on by asking what nuclear bombs were, when i was three, & paying very close attention to the answer. i remember i had to ask a couple more adults, just to make sure. i remember concluding in horror that these people were insane, & then the nightmares began.

the difference is now i have come to believe that this is not the case. my fellow man is not insane. most people are not insane. i am not condemned to insanity, by virtue of being human. it is only the people who will not admit that what they do will affect them directly, who cannot see themselves in everyone they see, who do not recognize all beings as equally important & perfect & vital as themselves.

it is only the sociopaths who are insane. they are the ones running things: they are the ones sick enough to have engineered the sickness, to be perpetuating it, knowingly, for their own profit. as if profit could ever have been said to have been had from any war. as if profit was ever a fruit that could be said to have been 'yielded,' in the final analysis, by the unimaginable war that approaches. stopping it ... is the only thing.

think peace, speak peace, act peace...

...by any means necessary.

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This Lunar Eclipse The 'Impossible' Appears Real In Rare Astronomical Event

2011-12-08T11:46:00.000-08:00

www.antheald.com/blog/

From most places in North America, on Saturday, December 10, 2011, at sunrise, one will potentially be able to see the full moon eclipsed by the earth's shadow. Even more exiting, assuming one does not perversely sleep in -- a chance to witness a rare and unusual event.

An astronomical 'optical illusion,' properly known as "selenelion" (or "selenehelion"): Both the sun and the eclipsed moon will be able to be seen at the same time, if the weather and circumstances are favorable.

The refraction of Earth's atmosphere bends light, making heavenly bodies appear farther above the horizon than they in fact are.

From

This lunar eclipse will include an 'impossible' sight

Even though sun and moon are 180 degrees apart,

you might see them simultaneously

Joe Rao

Space.com

...For example: when you see the sun sitting on the horizon, it is not there really. It's actually below the edge of the horizon, but our atmosphere acts like a lens and bends the sun's image just above the horizon, allowing us to see it.

This effect actually lengthens the amount of daylight for several minutes or more each day; we end up seeing the sun for a few minutes in the morning before it has actually risen and for a few extra minutes in the evening after it actually already has set.

The same holds true with the moon as well.

As a consequence of this atmospheric trick, for many localities there will be an unusual chance to observe a senelion firsthand with Saturday morning's shadowy event. There will be a short window of roughly 1 to 6 minutes (depending on your location) when you may be able to simultaneously spot the sun rising in the east-southeast and the eclipsed full moon setting in the west-northwest.

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A bit like catching the image of a mirror within a mirror bouncing back from the mirror behind, reflected perfectly and whole in the mirror into which one has eagerly been angling, without one's own head getting annoyingly in the way.

a dramatization

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Occupy Oakland's Facebook 'Wall' (12/6/11) -- for the rest of us

2011-12-06T17:03:00.000-08:00

Since I am no expert at their code, I thought I would enable the wishes of OccupyOakland in getting the word out by posting in less walled of a garden. Makes sense, no? And so, here is the 'wall' of Occupy Oakland, to date.

Occupy Oakland
SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE!
West Coast port shutdown video featuring Boots Riley.mov
www.youtube.com
Occupy movement calls for Dec. 12 West Coast Port Shutdown. Featuring Boots Riley.
Occupy Oakland
Start inviting everyone you know! Anyone who lives on the west coast should be a part of this.
COORDINATED WEST COAST PORT BLOCKADES (OCCUPY STRIKES BACK)
Monday, December 12 at 5:00am
Occupy Oakland
also, here is the fb page that has been created https://www.facebook.com/pages/West-Coast-Port-Shutdown/100856866698826?notif_t=fbpage_admin
West Coast Port Shutdown
Occupy Oakland calls for the blockade and disruption of the economic apparatus of the 1% with a coordinated shutdown of ports on the entire West Coast on December 12th. The 1% has disrupted the lives of longshoremen and port truckers and the workers who create their wealth, just as coordinated nationwide police attacks...
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Saturday Nov 19 Day of Action: Into the Streets! - Occupy Oakland
www.occupyoakland.org
Download the bilingual print-ready black and white PDFs to distro and put up yourself:11×17 posters2 up flyers on 8.5×11″
Occupy Oakland
OCCUPY OAKLAND: EMERGENCY RECONVERGENCE TONIGHT AT 4 PM at MAIN LIBRARY (14th and Madison). PLEASE REPOST THIS!
Occupy Oakland
just a reminder that the GA's are not at 6pm (not 7) on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday
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Occupy Oakland
Please pass this onto activists community organizers, and community organizations: DO NOT TAKE ANY MEETINGS about Occupy Oakland with established authorities without approval of the General Assembly!
Resolution to prevent deliberate misrepresentation of occupy Oakland - Occupy Oakland
www.occupyoakland.org
As Occupy Oakland’s profile and power has grown, politicians, police, and other established authorities have begun trying to open lines of communication with Occupy Oakland, and wish to identify representatives of our movement with whom they can negotiate demands. Their proposed transaction frames...
Occupy Oakland
‎2 more days...
General Strike & Mass Day of Action
Wednesday, November 2 at 6:30am at City of Oakland Main Library
Occupy Oakland
everyone out! - #2N
#2N - GENERAL STRIKE - Oakland, CA
Wednesday, November 2 at 12:30am
Occupy Oakland
great video of the Occupy Oakland's approval of the general strike by the GA, get ready for 2N
Occupy Oakland
First official mass Rally and March out of Occupy Oakland - thus Saturday!

Tell your friends! Tell your Family! Tell Everyone!
Occupy Everything! Liberate Oakland! Mass Rally & March
Saturday, October 22 at 11:00am
Occupy Oakland
Schedule of political organizing meetings at Occupy Oakland everyday! Come organize actions, marches, occupations here!

Monday October 18th-
1pm-3pm: Occupation Movement - to organize plaza takeovers, school occupations, occupations of foreclosured homes.
3pm-5pm: Capitalism- to organize destroying capitalism, workers strikes, etc.
...
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Calendar - Occupy Oakland
www.occupyoakland.org

Because friends don't let friends facebook without alternatives.

Facebook 'em, Dan-O.

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US, Israel More Threatened By Peaceful Iran? ...So We Should... Bomb Them?

2011-12-06T13:42:00.000-08:00

In case you missed it, this report by the American Enterprise Institute -- as much a barometer of Washington's opinions as influence over them -- states that IRAN IS MORE DANGEROUS IF IT TURNS OUT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN AFTER NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND WAR ALL ALONG. They are more of a threat to our interests if they are NOT hotheads. Why?

American Enterprise Institute Admits
The Problem With Iran
Is Not That It Would Use Nukes
by MJ Rosenberg
Political Correction
(do follow link; excellent article)

The shift in the rationale for war was kicked off this week when Danielle Pletka, head of the American Enterprise Institute's (AEI) foreign policy shop and one of the most prominent neoconservatives in Washington, explained what the current obsession with Iran's nuclear program is all about.

The biggest problem for the United States is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, it's Iran getting a nuclear weapon and not using it. Because the second that they have one and they don't do anything bad, all of the naysayers are going to come back and say, "See, we told you Iran is a responsible power. We told you Iran wasn't getting nuclear weapons in order to use them immediately." ... And they will eventually define Iran with nuclear weapons as not a problem.

[snip]

Hold on. The "biggest problem" with Iran getting a nuclear weapon is not that Iranians will use it but that they won't use it and that they might behave like a "responsible power"? But what about the hysteria about a second Holocaust? What about Prime Minister Netanyahu's assertion that this is 1938 and Hitler is on the march? What about all of these pronouncements that Iran must be prevented from developing a nuclear weapons because the apocalyptic mullahs would happily commit national suicide in order to destroy Israel? And what about AIPAC and its satellites, which produce one sanctions bill after another (all dutifully passed by Congress) because of the "existential threat" that Iran poses to Israel? Did Pletka lose her talking points?

[snip]

If you didn't know any better, you might ask why... AEI is still hell-bent on war. If its determination to stop Iran is not about defending Israel from an "existential threat," what is it truly about?

Fortunately, Pletka and Donnelly don't leave us guessing. It is about preserving the regional balance of power, which means ensuring that Israel remains the region's military powerhouse, with Saudi Arabia playing a supporting role. That requires overthrowing the Iranian regime and replacing it with one that will do our bidding (like the Shah) and will not, in any way, prevent Israel from operating with a free reign throughout the region.

This goal can only be achieved through outside intervention (war) because virtually the entire Iranian population — from the hardliners in the reactionary regime to reformists in the Green Movement working for a more open society — are united in support of Iran's right to develop its nuclear potential and to be free of outside interference. What the neoconservatives want is a pliant government in Tehran, just like we used to have, and the only way to achieve this, they believe, is through war.

At this point, it appears that they may get their wish. The only alternative to war is diplomacy, and diplomacy, unlike war, seems to be no longer on the table.

Read more -- do; this ARTICLE IS EXCELLENT!!

That would make us look bad. Like liars. Indeed.

Would we go to war to prevent this?

Think about it: it would be a war where our motives would be extremely suspect. From the get-go. Ah, says the Perceptive Reader: and how would it be different?

I pray that somehow it is.

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NOV. 2: Day of Action! Stand with Occupy Oakland & Occupy Austin!

2011-12-02T09:21:00.000-08:00

Info liberated from Facebook.

Because friends don't let friends be forced to Facebook.

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Judge rules eviction ILLEGAL: the reoccupation begins!!

2011-11-15T05:21:00.000-08:00

Heard live from the stream of @theother99:

UPDATE: OWS obtains temporary restraining order against NYPD!!

JUDGES RULING: Judges temporary order: City prohibited from evicting protesters from ...

(yes! this means tents and all!!)

Of course, all their belongings have been carted away to the dump. So this means NEW tents and all.

I wonder how the brutal , all-press-excluded eviction of last night, coupled with the reprieve and restraining order, will affect the upcoming shut down of the stock exchange that #OWS was coincidentally planning for their two-month anniversary ?

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Defend Occupy Oakland : Proposal of the Ad Hoc Labor Activist Assembly

2011-11-13T03:34:00.000-08:00

Defend Occupy Oakland :

Proposal of the Ad Hoc Labor Activist Assembly

by Richard Tan ( asquonk [at] gmail.com )

Saturday Nov 12th, 2011 5:05 PM

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http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/11/12/18699148.php

East Bay | Labor & Workers

Defend Occupy Oakland : Proposal of the Ad Hoc Labor Activist Assembly

by Richard Tan ( asquonk [at] gmail.com )
Saturday Nov 12th, 2011 5:05 PM

An urgent proposal for the Alameda Labor Council to declare Occupy Oakland a sanctioned picket line and mobilize its member unions to defend the Occupy Oakland encampment.

The following urgent proposal was unanimously adopted today at an ad hoc Labor Activist Assembly, and signed by more than 30 veteran labor activists:

We, the Ad Hoc Labor Activist Assembly, in light of the imminent threat of police action to evict Occupy Oakland, call on the Alameda Labor Council Executive Board to adopt and implement the following:

The Alameda Labor Council declares the Occupy Oakland encampment to be a sanctioned picket line. The Council's Executive Board calls on every one of its affiliates to immediately mobilize members to defend the encampment, dispatching pickets in shifts, beginning tonight (November 12) and continuing as long as the threat persists.

SIGNATURES (organizations listed for identification only)

Jack Gerson, OEA retired
Zev Kuithy, CFT
Susan Schacher, Peralta Federation of Teachers
Bob Mandel, OEA/AFT retired
Peter Brown, Peralta Federation of Teachers
Steve Miller, OEA
Loretta Franke, Operating Engineers retired
Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10 retired
Stan Woods, Transport Workers Solidarity Committee
Richard Tan, Librarian
Pete Turner, IFTPE 21
Henry Johnson
Richard Mellor, AFSCME 444 retired
Robert Irminger, IBU/ILWU
Caray Dau,ILWU 6
Adam Balou, Occupy Oakland
Jenna Woloshyn, IBT 10
John Reimann, IWW
Matt Meyer, BFT
Marcus Holder, ILWU 10
Mary Beth Schuler
Mike Parker, UAW 1700
Bill Balderston, OEA
Bill Cherneau, SEIU 1021
Ruth Maguire, Grandmothers against the war
Ying Lee, BFT retired
Ann Weills, National Lawyers Guild
Michael Rubin, SEIU
Rosalind Makris OEA
Dave Welsh, Letter Carriers 214
Frank Martinez Campo, SEIU 1021
Howard Keylor, ILWU 10, retired
Anthony Propernick, SEIU 1021
Alison Bowman, SEIU 1021

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#OO: The live Stream At This Time From #OccupyOakland

2011-11-03T01:12:00.000-07:00

from @OakFoSho
[video:http://www.ustream.tv/channel/9636787]

"he's aiming it at you! he's aiming it at you!" (to cameraman, @OakFoSho, who answers, loudly and unafraid)

"PLEASE DO NOT AIM YOUR WEAPONS AT ME! THAT'S ILLEGAL! DO NOT POINT YOUR WEAPONS DIRECTLY ART ME! YOU HAVE TWO THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY ONE PEOPLE WATCHING LIVE!"...explosions... YOU DO NOT WANT TO SHOOT ME! THIS IS A PLACE OF PEACEFUL PROTEST! THE ONLY ONES VIOLATING IT ARE YOU!...."

[to cameraman] "I JUST VIDEOTAPED A COP FIRING A FLASH BANG DIRECTLY AT SOMEONE!" "YES, I GOT IT TOO..."

in background"...is it when you got a paycheck? is that what makes you different?"... "we're nonviolent..." and the cops reading out a warning

"HOMEY [about cop] HAS A SHOTGUN WITH RUBBER BULLETS, THEY HAVE TEAR GAS AND PEPPER PAINT. ONLY A FEW OF THEM ARE SHOWING THEIR NAMES THEY'VE GOT TAPE OVER THEIR NAMES--[at cops again] IS THIS OAKLAND PD?"...someone starts screaming... "THEY JUST SHOT A HOMELESS MAN WITH A RUBBER BULLET.. THEY'RE FIRING TEAR GAS AND PAINT AT US...THAT'S NOT NECESSARY -- STOP AIMING YOUR WEAPON..."

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MESSAGE for the OCCUPATION

2011-11-02T17:42:00.000-07:00

#oostrike: OAKLAND STRIKE livestream from the #occupation

2011-11-02T15:37:00.000-07:00

(courtesy of @punkboyinsf)

like what you see?

get in touch (email or twitter) and lets help him upgrade to better equipment!

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Scott Olsen: New Footage May Provide More Clues

2011-10-30T02:15:00.000-07:00

One of these cops shot Scott Olsen. Hope this video helps determine which.

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OPD Not Supposed To Use Harsh Crowd Control Methods... Couldn't You Tell.

2011-10-25T14:40:00.000-07:00

Lets see, what do we have here.

Because of

Cops as Provocateurs on the Docks

The Iron Heel Revisited

By JACK HEYMAN for Counterpunch.org
April 7, 2003 police attack peaceful anti-war demonstrators and longshoremen in the port of Oakland in which more than 50 were injured by wooden dowels, concussion grenades, tear gas, motorcycles and rubber bullets.

Spying on grannies in Sacramento who were planning to “mark Mother’s Day urging the Governor and Legislature to support bringing California National Guardsmen home from Iraq by Labor Day”; doing undercover surveillance at a union rally for health care in San Francisco and prompting police to fire “less-than-lethal” weapons at anti-war protesters and longshore workers in the port of Oakland -- this is the veiled face of the “war on terror” exposed in a just-released American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report.

The report, The State of Surveillance: Government Monitoring of Political Activity in Northern and Central California, written by Mark Schlosberg documents the trampling of constitutional rights by various government agencies, the F.B.I., the Department of Defense, the State Terrorism Threat Assessment Center, the California National Guard, at least one Sheriff’s Department and several Police Departments.

Ominously, the ACLU states, “If history is any guide, the stories documented in this report represent only the tip of the iceberg.” Perhaps these kinds of government interventions explain, in part, why organizing efforts for an end to the wars in the Middle East and for workers’ rights at home have difficulty in achieving a modicum of success.

In the case of the grandmothers’ protest against the war, along with Code Pink and Gold Star Families for Peace, the press office of Governor Schwarzenegger sent an email warning to California National Guard brass, including Robert J. O’Neil, head of a new “intell” unit called the Information Synchronization Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion Program. It’s touted as a “one-stop shop for local, state and national law enforcement to share information.” When the San Jose Mercury News exposed the monitoring of the protest, the Guard tried to nip criticism by inviting the peace groups to tour its facilities.

This PR ploy blew up in their faces when Code Pink members photographed a poster in Guard offices of General “Black Jack” Pershing who, during the U.S. imperialist conquest of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, quelled a Muslim rebellion in 1911, by slaughtering 49 insurgents with bullets soaked in pigs’ blood. The poster asks: “Maybe it is time for this segment of history to repeat itself, maybe in Iraq? The question is where do we find another Black Jack Pershing?”

After a public outcry, the poster was removed and the Guard’s Fusion program dismantled. However, it was revealed in State Senator Dunn’s investigation of the Guard that similar domestic spying operations exist around the country. And undoubtedly in California other government agencies will continue the Guard’s surveillance.

Workers—Under the Gun

When Safeway employees in Southern California voted to strike over health care issues in 2003, workers across the country organized actions in support the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW). In Los Angeles, longshore Local 13 shut down the port and held a solidarity rally with other unions to raise money for the largely Latino strikers. In Northern California a group of religious leaders planned a pilgrimage to the home of Safeway CEO Steve Burd in Contra Costa County to hand deliver postcards supporting the striking workers.

On January 23, 2004, two men identifying themselves as deputies from the Homeland Security Unit of the County Sheriff entered the union offices in Martinez asking about the pilgrimage. The following day UFCW officials at a strike solidarity rally in San Francisco spotted the same sheriff’s deputies in plainclothes at the rally. After continuous prodding by Art Pulaski, Secretary-Treasurer of the California Federation of Labor, the deputies admitted their pernicious undercover role. Said Pulaski, using homeland security justification to monitor union activity “is sending a chilling and intimidating message to all of us.”

“Port Security” in the Imperial State’s Homeland

Nowhere is the bipartisan nature of the “war on terror” more apparent than in the April 7, 2003 police attack on peaceful anti-war demonstrators and longshoremen in the port of Oakland in which more than 50 were injured by wooden dowels, concussion grenades, tear gas, motorcycles and rubber bullets. The California Anti-Terrorism Information Center (CATIC), set up immediately after 9/11 by Democrats, Governor Gray Davis and State Attorney General Bill Lockyer, sent a warning before the anti-war demonstration that there could be violence. CATIC spokesman Mike Van Winkle even equated terrorists with protesters, creating a volatile atmosphere in which cops were armed with riot gear and prodded to shoot.

Even after police videos of the demonstration showed police firing without provocation, refuting the police version that demonstrators threw objects at the police, still, Democrat Mayor Jerry Brown backed the cops as he does today in his quest to be California State Attorney General, the “Top Cop”.

Hypocritically, it was Brown who, in 1997, participated in a picket line in support of fired dockworkers in Liverpool, England which blocked traffic in the port, his ostensible reason for backing the police attack this time. The difference: in 1997 Brown needed labor credentials in his bid for mayor. Now, he needs to portray a “law and order” image and get financial contributions from the global corporations. Earlier this year the City of Oakland settled out-of-court for some $2 million in damages without admitting any wrongdoing.

The ACLU report places much of the blame on the present loss of civil liberties on the government’s overzealous response to fighting terrorism after 9/11 and the bountiful rewards doled out by the Department of Homeland Security. In the nascent days of the “war on terror”, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) bore the brunt of government coercion, first exposed here in the pages of Counterpunch (27 June 2002 Strikers as Terrorists? Ridge Calls Longshoremen’s Chief). Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and then-Homeland Security Czar Ridge telephoned ILWU President Jim Spinosa to warn that any job actions on the West Coast docks during contract negotiations would pose a threat to national security and be met with an ironclad military occupation of the docks.

Such heavy-handed threats clearly played well with the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA), the group representing international shipowners, stevedore companies and terminal operators with whom the union had been negotiating. When the PMA shutdown every port on the Coast 3 months later by locking out longshore workers, the Bush administration saw no such threat to “national security” and eagerly followed the employers lead by invoking the slave labor Taft-Hartley Act at the request of California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein. ILWU officials called the concessionary contract borne from this double whammy a “victory” simply because the union survived the struggle.

During the employer lockout, some dockworkers carried picket signs reading the “war on terror is a war on workers”. Port security measures are jettisoning civil liberties over the side as surveillance cameras are mounted not only in the dock area, but in some workers’ breakrooms as well. And “port security” has become a euphemism for militarization of the waterfront, where some 750,000 port workers are being required to undergo intrusive background checks, having little to do with “terrorism” and pay $139 for an electronic ID card in order to work.

The union-controlled hiring hall, the power of the union, won after 6 workers were killed by police in the 1934 West Coast maritime strike and founded on the principle of an equal distribution of work, is in jeopardy. Now the government, like Johnny Friendly, the mobster bully in the film “On the Waterfront”, says it will determine who works and who doesn’t. Prison records, past psychological problems or activist politics could mean cement shoes for waterfront workers’ rights.

The planning meeting to march back to the Oakland docks to reassert “free speech” rights one month after the bloody police attack was infiltrated by undercover cops according to Deputy Chief Jordan. Raising the spectre of agents provocateurs, he stated before the OPD’s Board of Review, “…we’d be able to gather information and maybe even direct them to do something that we want them to do”. It is not unreasonable to assume that in a climate of fear generated by the 9/11 attacks and fomented by the “war on terror”-- where repressive legislation like the USA Patriot Act and the Transportation Security Act are rubber stamped by Democrats and Republicans -- that the right to free speech, (demonstrations, rallies, and picket lines) and freedom of association (the right to join a union) could be banned in the ports.

IRON HEEL REDUX

The ILWU played a principled role during the witchhunting McCarthy period, defending workers against waterfront screening and offering workers purged from other maritime unions a safe haven. Although it was targeted by the government and redbaiting union officials in both CIO and AFL unions, the ILWU, to its credit, opposed the U.S. war against Korea, and has taken the same stance on every imperialist war since.

Today, business unionist ILWU officials are cut from a different cloth. While the official position of the ILWU (decided by a delegates’ vote at the 2003 union convention shortly after the military invasion) is opposition to the Iraq war and for immediate withdrawal of troops none of the ILWU’s International officers has implemented that rank-and-file decision by speaking out at anti-war rallies. Moreover, they buy into the “war on terror” and “partnership” with the bosses like the rest of the AFL-CIO and Change to Win union bureaucrats. The mantra they chant, “we’re the first line of defense” in the ports, actually aligns the union with employers and the government, while exposing the union and its hiring hall to attack from the back.

Ironically, the ACLU of Northern California was born in San Francisco during the 1934 maritime strike when waterfront workers were under deadly attack from police, the National Guard and anti-communist vigilantes. This well-researched ACLU report meticulously identifies recent government acts of repression. However, their conclusion reads “inadequate understanding of privacy laws and protections for political activity, and a profound lack of regulation” have led to governmental abuses. The report recommends “reforms for law enforcement surveillance activities”. Its liberal, myopic view blinds readers to the reality that the imperialist state is a racist apparatus of class repression, not changed or controlled by “a few good laws”. FBI’s COINTELPRO program actually killed radicals like the Black Panthers not just “disrupted political organizations”. And while the report lists the FBI’s campaign to “neutralize” Martin Luther King, it is silent on the government’s hand in the murder of Malcolm X. The American road to empire is littered with bodies.

Early on, the ACLU report cites the 1976 Church Committee findings that the U.S. government has “consistently used law enforcement agencies to investigate and stifle political dissent.” That Senate committee found a pattern of abuses dating back to 1936. Actually, state repression of working class radicals is evident with early 1900s anti-syndicalist measures directed against the Wobblies of the Industrial Workers of the World, and through the imprisonment of railroad union leader Eugene V. Debs, opposed to the First World War, Tom Mooney and leaders of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party and the Minneapolis Teamsters in the run-up to WWII. The report skips over the McCarthy period, perhaps, because the ACLU participated in that political cannibalizing of the workers movement.

No, we don’t need more legislation to control police activities. What’s needed are intransigent defiance of unjust laws and mass mobilizations against the war, racism and repression.

That’s what stopped the war in Vietnam and won civil rights at home. In that vein, ILWU Local 10 submitted a resolution to the union convention in May for a one-day strike against the war calling on the rest of the labor movement to join in. Unfortunately, union bureaucrats scuttled the motion in committee before it could reach the convention floor for debate and a vote.

La lutta continua.

Jack Heyman, a longshoreman who works on the Oakland docks, was one those assaulted by police in their attack on the April 7, 2003 anti-war protest in the port. He has organized dock actions against apartheid and in support of Mumia abu Jamal. For the video documentary of the Oakland police shooting anti-war protesters and longshoremen April 7, 2003 "Shots On The Docks".Send $20.00 check or money order to: Labor Video Project, P.O. Box 720027San Francisco, CA 94172. Jack can be reached at jackheyman@comcast.net.

There were certain 'agereements' reached, in order that the like might never happen again. Certain rules were put in place, to wit:

Agreement Reached on Crowd-Control Tactics

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer Saturday, November 6, 2004

Oakland police will no longer indiscriminately use wooden or rubber bullets, Taser stun guns, pepper spray and motorcycles to break up crowds, under an agreement announced Friday.

The changes followed criticism and lawsuits against police for their tactics at a large demonstration against the Iraq war outside the Port of Oakland on April 7, 2003.

The new policy settles part of a federal class-action lawsuit filed by 52 people who claimed their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly were violated as they targeted two shipping companies with contracts tied to the war in Iraq.

"What we've done is create a comprehensive policy that really provides a much more sensible, reasoned approach to managing demonstrations and crowds," said Rachel Lederman of the National Lawyers Guild in San Francisco.

The policy followed 10 months of discussions involving Oakland police, the city attorney's office and plaintiffs in the case. Oakland Police Chief Richard Word publicly circulated the basic changes in the policy in December.

Nearly 60 people, including longshore workers, said police fired nonlethal projectiles including wooden bullets, stinger grenades and bean bags without provocation and without giving them a chance to disperse. Others said they were bumped hard by traffic officers on motorcycles.

A photograph of protester Sri Louise, showing her with a golf-ball-size welt to her jaw, was widely published.

Still unresolved in the lawsuit are monetary damages that the protesters are seeking. Those claims will go to trial in January unless they are settled.

"Overall, it's a good policy, and I think it will benefit the whole community," said Michael Haddad, an Oakland attorney representing Louise and five other plaintiffs in a separate federal lawsuit.

John Burris, another plaintiffs' attorney in Oakland, agreed, saying the crowd-control measures are "a positive step toward evenhandedness."

Oakland police spokeswoman Danielle Ashford said Friday that the department's new policy was the result of an "ongoing learning process" that seeks to "ensure the safety of our officers as well as the community that we serve."

Haddad said police are "supposed to respect protesters' First Amendment activity" under the new policy. If laws are broken, police will try to negotiate with leaders and give audible orders to the crowd to disperse before making arrests.

If demonstrators still refuse to comply, police are allowed to deploy tear gas "on the edge of the crowd," form a skirmish line and push back protesters with batons but not strike them, Haddad said.

Alan Schlosser, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco, said the policy is timely because of the re-election of President Bush.

"I would guess that there's probably going to be lots of demonstrations and lots of difference of opinions," Schlosser said.

Lederman said, "These projectile weapons are very dangerous. It was only a matter of luck that someone wasn't killed on April 7, 2003, in Oakland. That's what we're trying to prevent."

E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.

Then along came the 'accidental' murder of one Oscar Grant, and the protests which followed.

from Breaking anger, from Oakland to Tottenham: California activists worry UK police will import heavily armed enforcement tactics that violate the right to dissent.

by Jesse Strauss, for Al Jazeera.

Last Modified: 05 Sep 2011

[snip]

'Operation Verdict'

On July 8, 2010, a jury that did not include a single black person convicted Mehserle of the lowest possible charge, involuntary manslaughter.

Demonstrators took over the city's central intersection. FBI, DEA and OPD helicopters buzzed overhead, 46 undercover officers from the OPD, California Department of Justice and DEA infiltrated the crowd, and secret service agents in OPD uniforms recorded the events on video, according to official documents and videos.

"There were a lot of young people who didn't necessarily know Oscar Grant, but saw him as themselves," said Riley. "There was a lot of identification with senseless brutality against people of colour."

Near the start of unrest on July 8, 2010, an image of Riley being arrested in his suit and tie, with a bright green cap identifying him as a legal observer, was broadcast on local news. Riley, in his 60s, speaking recently, told Al Jazeera that he was choked while being arrested.

"Their reason for arrest was resisting arrest and failure to disperse from the scene of a riot," he said, but the District Attorney dropped all charges. A police email two days after the arrest identified Riley as a "Community Leader".

Riley represented another arrestee in court, and said the police report on his client identified him "as 'a young black man wearing dreads and looking angry'", and used that description as pretense for making the arrest.

By the end of the night, 84 people had been arrested, fires smouldered in rubbish bins and cleanup crews cleared shattered storefront windows.

'Operation Sentence'

Four months later, a Los Angeles judge sentenced Mehserle to two years in jail, which would be cut in half for good behaviour. Hundreds of demonstrators again took to the streets, and police came prepared as they had in July, this time calling the event "Operation Sentence".

Police documents show Operation Sentence involved the FBI, DEA, the California Department of Justice and 569 officers from at least 20 other local police agencies - clearly outnumbering protesters.

Security forces on November 5 surrounded a large group of people as they were marching away from downtown, allowed members of the media to exit the scene, and made 152 arrests.

"[Protesters] were corralled by hundreds of militarised police. They were given no opportunity to disperse," Michael Flynn, the President of the San Francisco chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild (NLG), told Al Jazeera.

The OPD now faces a class action lawsuit filed by the NLG - a national association of progressive lawyers, legal workers and law students - which claims that police actions on November 5 were "violations of constitutional and statutory rights".

The lawsuit says that the OPD and cooperating agencies violate the OPD's own crowd control policy, and that the mass arrests amounted to violations of the first, fourth and fourteenth amendments to the US Constitution, false arrest, false imprisonment, negligence, and three California state laws.

It also says the arrest procedure included "an hour and a half seizure and detention on the street", after which arrestees were loaded onto buses and denied restroom access. "Many of the class members [were] forced to urinate on the floor of the bus where they were sitting or standing."

Citing the lawsuit, police officials declined interview requests.

'Militarisation' of police

Jackson, who was arrested in Operation Sentence, says that if the same unrest in either Oakland or the UK took place in Libya, they would be called "protests" instead of a "riot", a term that "tends to be paired with 'senseless violence' and 'pure criminality'".

She says that the difference allows police to take advantage of their perceived power to create a degenerative crackdown on dissent.

"Police have increasingly militarised the United States over the past decade," says Michael Flynn. "They now see themselves more as soldiers in the battlefield, and I think we saw that in November."

Indeed, the police captain who managed most of the OPD response, David Downing, was an Air Force Reservist who served in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and reports from Operations Verdict and Sentence refer to police as "troops" in "tactical squads" and "tango teams".

And, more than the city deals with social and political problems in other ways, Oakland has been pouring money into enforcement, to police its way out of crisis.

For a city in the midst of an austerity crisis, police salaries are some of the highest in the state, making an average of over $104,000 each.

The OPD consumes 40 per cent of Oakland's budget, and the city of about 400,000 is expected to spend $58m more than it will receive in revenues this year. Furthermore, the OPD is expected to spend more than $13m in one year of overtime pay alone, according to police documents.

The police department is now prepared for future battle. It has 90 new cases of .40 calibre ammunition, 20 cases of shotgun shells, 1,750 tear gas canisters and 3,000 new bean bag shotgun discharges. The OPD's crowd control policy says that these type of bean bags "shall not be used for crowd management, crowd control or crowd dispersal during demonstrations".

It also has at least four new high-definition video cameras and a Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD), which can be used to "make announcements to crowds" or "produce high pitch noise" strong enough to damage eardrums or potentially cause fatal aneurisms. The LRAD has reportedly been used against both Somali pirates and Iraqi insurgents.

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Well. Here we seem to be going again, folks:

Police arrest 75 Occupy Oakland protesters at City Hall.

Meanwhile, in a statement issued around 6:30 a.m., city officials advised people who work in downtown Oakland to delay the start of the workday “until further notice.”

The 12th Street BART station was shut down during the raid but had reopened by 6:30 a.m. AC Transit bus service was disrupted in the downtown area and detours were set up.

Two men who had been living at the camp at Broadway and 14th Street said they were arrested when officers outfitted in riot gear raided the plaza shortly before 5 a.m.

Speaking by cellphone from the back of a police van around 6 a.m., Brian Glasscock, a 20-year-old Oakland resident, said police had used a flash grenade and that he also saw tear gas. He claimed his tent was ripped apart.

He estimated that at least 50 people were arrested.

The second man, 23-year-old Berkeley resident Davonte Gaskin, said he had been camping with Occupy Oakland for four days, and that police had used batons to dismantle his tent before arresting him for camping in the plaza.

An Oakland resident who only gave her name as Kristina, 28, said she was tear-gassed and that people around her were hit by rubber bullets.

She said downtown Oakland is shut down and that protesters at a second Occupy Oakland camp at Snow Park at Lake Merritt expect to be raided by police....

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They did get raided. Last I heard, their tents were back up again: impressive. Perhaps not so much as those intrepid Oaklandish who stood in the path of certain specific less lethal projectiles that ought never, by the terms to which the police themselves agreed, have been deployed. Nor the motorcycles lunging at protesters; much less allegations, such as that by one intrepid videographer, that there was a concerted effort to mete out the most severe corporal punishments out of the eye of the mainstream media (at the least).

All the more reason, albeit retroactive, for this little recent history lesson, which I stitched together in gratitude. For my fellow man. Possibly for not sustaining injuries or losses. For my freedoms that were, and are still, being defended. Hoping as a child would -- and that is not always a weakness -- that we each find a way show solidarity, tangibly, to the best of our ability, with the #Occupation.

...Well I'll follow; we'll synchronize

So many confined at one place at one time

And there's so much at hand that I don't understand

And circumstances demand that we all better take a stand

Give in once, well you're giving in twice

Giving in three times; like you're giving them light

But they can't keep secrets 'cause they know they're wrong

And they can't keep us down 'cause we're too damn strong

Now the people on the left let me hear you say

That you're sick of their lies and you're not gonna take it

And now the people on the right, ain't no time to waste

Gonna start it off now, bring it on now, bring it

Now the people in the crowd, let me see those hands up

Stand up and demand some answers.

What? Come on, can you hear me in the back?

If you can't, let 'em know and we'll turn up the track.

So come on....

from Stromkern, "Stand Up." Light It Up, 2004

a once and future M.W.K.P.A..

Be seeing you.

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Inspiring.

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ah, mephistophelis.

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