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Pirate box:

[h=4]PirateBox Takes File-Sharing Off The Radar and Offline, For Next To Nothing[/h]
When confronted with a doomsday scenario where mainstream online file-sharing becomes a thing of the past, it’s not uncommon for people to refer to days gone by, when files were swapped freely offline using discs and other mediums. Now, an interesting and compact system can deliver the [g]olden days of data swapping with a modern twist, by turning any open space into a wireless and anonymous file-sharing system at a rock-bottom price.
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With the advent of the personal computer and with it the ability to endlessly copy data, the human desire to share has skyrocketed. Shifting data from A to B, wherever those points may be on a global scale, is now something easily achieved by billions across the world.
While the immense capabilities of the Internet has made sending and receiving data child’s play, there are others who find the transfer of bits and bytes across much shorter distances just as fascinating.
In 2009 we reported on the Kiosk of Piracy, an offline copy of The Pirate Bay accessible via local WiFi. Although a neat little project, the Kiosk was in one specific location in Germany, meaning anyone out of range would not be able to access it. But now a cool little tool means that anyone, anywhere, can offer a similar file-sharing service for just a few dollars.
Inspired by the local transmitting power of traditional pirate radio, NYU art professor David Darts created the PirateBox, a WiFi hotspot and server providing easy and anonymous access to the files held within.
In a previous incarnation (see below) the PirateBox – which utilized a full-size wireless router and a USB stick for storage – was housed in a fairly cumbersome metal lunchbox.
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The whole thing cost around $100 to build, a not unreasonable price considering the features, but a new breakthrough update (thanks Numerama) means that not only is its physical footprint massively reduced, but also its cost. Depending on the amount of storage space required for files, for less than $50 anyone can now run a PirateBox wireless file-sharing system. The huge price cut has been made possible by using new hardware, specifically the TP-LINK TL-MR3020 3G Wireless N Router, available from Newegg at just $39.99. Once obtained, all people have to do is follow the PirateBox installation instructions here, insert a USB stick full of files and power on. As can be seen below, it looks rather good.
[h=5]The PirateBox[/h]
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Users wirelessly accessing the device are presented with a web interface which allows them not only to download files but upload them too. No logs or other identifying information is stored in the device. Although great for anyone to share files within its range, considering the pressure currently being applied to university students by record labels and their anti-piracy partners, the chances of music-stuffed PirateBoxes popping up on campuses all around the world increases every day.
And considering that The Pirate Bay can now fit on the smallest of USB sticks, every PirateBox could also contain a copy of the world’s most famous torrent site.
 
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[h=3]Debt is a tie that binds the 99%.[/h] As individuals, families, and communities, most of us are drowning in debt to Wall Street for the basic things things we need to live, like housing, education, and health care. Even those of us who do not have personal debt are affected by predatory lending. Our essential public services are cut because our cities and towns are held hostage by the same big banks that have been bailed out by our government in recent years.
We are not a loan. Strike Debt came from a coalition of Occupy groups looking to build popular resistance to all forms of debt imposed on us by the banks. Debt keeps us isolated, ashamed, and afraid. We are building a movement to challenge this system while creating alternatives and supporting each other. We want an economy where our debts are to our friends, families, and communities — and not to the 1%.
Debt resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits.
 
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We all live in the real economy of production and consumption but the bankers don't produce anything they simply extract interest from the real economy.

If this sentence is understood, most of the discussion here turns into agreement. When you get a loan from the bank, they only had 10% (depending on regulation) of that in holdings. They sell you a debt on a piece of paper and as payment you give them the value of the debt plus interest. This algorithm can be expanded to the whole economy. It amuses me that we (the west) go on about elections and the health of democracy when the first and last barrier to freedom is the complex thing jangling in your pocket. It's the only thing worthy of political discussion, certainly in the US where the government doesn't have a lot of domestic power. The phantom economy of markets, banking, hedges etc. inflates the real economy of production and services. With Wall St and the City of London the finance industry is gone mad. The larger corporations don't help either. Every time a person spends €600 on their third iWhatever in as many years it's €600 that didn't go to a farmer or barber, and whatever's left goes to Kraft or whoever for the cheapest microwavable dinner available. "Democracy" has to be spread in order to open up markets and absorb some of the inflation caused by the finance industry. Africa is all but drained now and while the EU doesn't directly take part in the annihilation of the middle east it's a very quiet spectator.

Make no mistake, spreading democracy is about wasting lives and foreign cultures to get access to means of production to prop up the bubble of western growth. The people at the other side of the world don't understand why they're fighting and they're right to be scared/angry/mental. Is it any surprise they think God is somehow involved when US presidents, even (I suspect atheist) Obama drops big JC's name on occasion. This might make stupid citizens happier but it clouds the whole thing when it's lost in translation to the enemy. Eventually, if we don't dissolve the destructive parts of the economy, we will run out of markets (if we haven't already) and be forced to make an adjustment. I dread this world.

Not that it's anything but academic but I would propose a 20-50 year plan for the gradual worldwide dissolve of the markets. Bring money back to some sort of quantifiable value and have money supply linked to real wealth, either by returning the power to create money to smaller localized government, or maybe a term based movement back and forth between central bank and government.

Before people assume I'm talking about the US, I'm not. I'm Irish, and am speaking in general terms. Oh, and someone said that Norway was a bad example of success because it's culturally homogenous. Norway is probably an example of how culturally diverse countries like the US should have more powerful state governance as opposed to a centrally controlled monetary system.

By the way, the Federal reserve is the most corrupt of the world's central banks and it is destroying your economy for the lining of it's Wall Street benefactors. The ECB isn't too far behind of course but at least it favours the German industrial economy over the US/UK ponsi mentality. It's amazing how well the machine of distraction works to keep most Americans from seeing that the source of all their problems is far away from the White House. Unfortunately though, the news is another area that "growth" has consumed. The truth isn't a very profitable story.

Great thread.
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Yeah totally man, its all a bit of a mess!

I think we are seeing the end of the dollar as the world reserve currency. The US empire is coming to an end

Other countries are tired of propping up the dollar so that the US can build its military and then use it to bully everyone else. They are going to switch off the dollar but people also know that when people start trying to do that the US often invades!

Iraq was going to start trading oil in euros, Iran has talked about doing that, Libya was talking about creating a pan-african currency....

one idea i heard recently was the possiblity of a gas backed currency as gas is going to hold a pretty stable value for a while as oil dwindles
 
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[video=youtube;xqXAW2snGMI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXAW2snGMI[/video]

Lyrics:

There's nothing wrong with Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with free enterprise
Don't try to make me feel guilty
I'm so tired of hearing you cry

There's nothing wrong with making some profit
If you ask me I'll say it's just fine
There's nothing wrong with wanting to live nice
I'm so tired of hearing you whine
About the revolution
Bringin' down the rich
When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby!

If it ain't one thing
Then it's the other
Any cause that crosses your path
Your heart bleeds for anyone's brother
I've got to tell you you're a pain in the ass

You criticize with plenty of vigor
You rationalize everything that you do
With catchy phrases and heavy quotations
And everybody is crazy but you

You're just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And you tell me that we've got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain . . .

(Repeat first verse)

(Repeat chorus)

There's nothing wrong with Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with Capitalism
There's nothing wrong with Capitalism


I'm not really gonna take that as a credible refutation of any of the points raised in this thread

I'll take you falling back on poorly crafted and bitterly composed pop songs as an admission that you have no facts to counter the above arguments

Also i'd love to hear these clowns sing this 1983 song (Reagan/Thatcher era) now as the global depression deepens lol

P.S i last dug a ditch a few weeks ago...baby
 
I'm not really gonna take that as a credible refutation of any of the points raised in this thread

I mostly just wanted to see what your reaction was going to be. I was honestly hoping for a bit more, but I was still pretty happy.

I'll take you falling back on poorly crafted and bitterly composed pop songs as an admission that you have no facts to counter the above arguments

Also i'd love to hear these clowns sing this 1983 song (Reagan/Thatcher era) now as the global depression deepens lol

P.S i last dug a ditch a few weeks ago...baby

Poorly crafted?!!! Danny Elfman is a great musician-- he also wrote the Simpsons theme song and scores most of Tim Burton's films as well.
Anyways, he has since claimed that the song is a joke… but I'm not so sure.
 
Here's another song based in the Reagan/Thatcher era, expressing a different sentiment:

[video=youtube;PKzfe8RWDpo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzfe8RWDpo[/video]
 
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Anyways, he has since claimed that the song is a joke… but I'm not so sure.

Maybe he became ashamed of his own shortsightedness
 
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Yeah the corporations and private individuals who own most of the worlds money avoid paying tax on vast amounts of it whilst the poor might have to hand over upto 20% of their income!

No wonder there is anger

These corporations can only keep doing this for as long as governments leave these loop holes open and keep all these tax havens open. If the international community (ie neo-liberal club of countries) wanted to stop tax havens and make corporations pay tax they could but those people in the positions of power ARE the corporations. They have shares in the corporations and they get jobs after their political careers in corporations

It isn't the tax system that is making corporations avoid tax it is the conspiracy between governments and corporations which allows their money to have safe havens

If these kind of people will always cheat and cut corners then those loopholes need to be designed out of the system, but they aren't
 
[h=1]At odds on Iran: US doesn’t share Israeli zeal for military solution[/h]Adrian Salbuchi is a political analyst, author, speaker and radio/TV commentator in Argentina.
http://rt.com/op-edge/irans-weapon-of-mass-destruction-084/

When Israel invaded Southern Lebanon in 2006 they were ignominiously expelled by Iran-backed Hezbollah. Since then, the Jewish State has gone into 'we-have-to-take-out-Iran' mode, doing everything it can to drag America to war against Iran.
Almost seven years later, Israel’s window of opportunity is closing fast.
[h=2]‘My big brother America is gonna beat you up...!’[/h]That’s been Israel’s implicit message to Iran ever since. When George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice and the NeoCons ran America, bringing the US on board this war-mongering effort against Iran did not seem a daunting task. Especially considering that inside the US, Israel can rely on a little help from its 'friends': the powerful pro-Israel lobby led by AIPAC – American Israeli Public Affairs Committee.

But in 2008 Bush was replaced by Barack Obama whose brand of Democrats are not all knee-jerking 'Israel First' fanatics. Add to that the US Military’s growing resistance to a foreign policy that has been led astray by the Israeli lobby, particularly after successive fiascos in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the growing “Arab Spring” mess.

Even more, large sectors of US and global public opinion are becoming aware of the dangers of America’s Israel addiction; of Israel’s use and abuse of the US as a proxy power fighting its wars, something clearly not in America’s national interest. In his message to the UN General Assembly last September, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu produced a cute bomb-shaped graph to show the world just how close 'big bad Iran' is to having a nuclear bomb which he says they will use to obliterate 'good little Israel'.

Netanyahu would have certainly loved to see staunch Zionist Mitt Romney make it to the White House in November’s elections but – Alas! – he didn’t, and Obama’s still living there, and even had the nerve of naming non-Zionist moderate Chuck Hagel as head the Pentagon.

It seems the US is taking an increasingly arm’s length approach to the 'Iran Problem' given the very serious geopolitical perils and overtones that any unilateral US/Israeli/NATO military attack on Iran would spell, which might even lead to direct confrontation with Russia.

Meanwhile Iran will not back down on its nuclear program, an issue the Obama Administration is taking an oddly calm view on. Significantly, the US even gave Argentina a subtle nod to negotiate with Iran over the 1994 AMIA terror bombing in Buenos Aires.

Since, theories have arisen that Bush, the US president at the time, coaxed Argentina’s President Kirchner into falsely accusing Iran, solely based on CIA/Mossad “evidence” delivered in October 2006, right after Israel’s fiasco in Lebanon.

So in light of all this what, exactly, is going on here? Why are the US and Israel at loggerheads over Iran?
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, uses a diagram of a bomb to describe Iran's nuclear program while delivering his address to the 67th United Nations General Assembly meeting September 27, 2012 at the United Nations in New York. (AFP Photo/Don Emmert)

[h=2]America’s Worst Nightmare [/h]Today the US and Israel have increasingly divergent interests and objectives regarding Iran. Israel’s are easy to grasp: Iran is Israel’s geopolitical arch-enemy, and one of the few countries that is up to the task of becoming a strong and credible leader in the Muslim World, especially since one of Iran’s key objectives is to do away with Israel's hardline rule in Palestine.

Mainstream Western media have continually and falsely noted that “Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map”, rather than Iran merely wanting an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. America, however, has a different cause for concern.

Nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear program but rather with the US Dollar. For many decades the US, through its Federal Reserve Bank, has abusively printed huge quantities of unbacked 'Fiat money' to finance its huge deficit, which today has ballooned to over 15 trillion. All’s well as long as that money circulates and ends up somewhere far away, such as the vaults of the central banks of friendly countries like Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and even of some not so friendly countries like China. Even if it is kept going around and around in the global financial merry-go-rounds of the bonds markets or... the huge global oil market.

“Just keep it flowing and busy in all those markets”, Washington seems to be saying, “...so that we can continue printing more and more of it!” Of course, none dare call it inflation, technocrats have nice buzz-words for things like, “Quantitative Easing I, II and III”, “TARP Funding” and “too-big-to-fail-megabank bailouts...” But call it what you may, inflation by any other name smells just as rotten...
[h=2]Public Enemies[/h]The US knows only too well that, to a great extent, it is a superpower without much power, because if China decided to sell their almost 2 trillion in US-Dollar treasury bills, bonds and other financial instruments, quickly changing them into Euros, it would spell inflationary disaster for America. Such eventualities however, are unlikely to occur given the complexities of global financial markets; thus, neither China nor any other major US-dollar-holder appears ready to do that – not just now, anyway.

However, there is another much more physical, concrete and strategically complex threat that keeps US leaders awake at night- the oil market. To better understand why America’s joy-ride is fast coming to an end as people’s political awareness grows, let me give you a simple example: Every time Argentina, South Africa or Japan need to buy a barrel of crude oil, its people must work to earn those 100 dollars oil costs in international markets.

The US, however, only needs to print US$100. The same goes if they need money to overrun Iraq, Libya or drone-bomb Afghanistan to smithereens: just print the money and keep the oil flowing and the bombs falling. Get the picture? It’s easy to be a “superpower” that way!

But the picture becomes clearer when you join the dots. Imagine what would happen if those trillions upon trillions of Petro-Dollars spinning and gurgling globally were to suddenly slip from the control of the three – and only three – New York, London and Dubai-based global oil markets solely trading in Dollars?

For instance, if a major oil-producing country or group of countries were to create a fourth global oil market trading not in Dollars but in Euros, say Yens, Rubles, Yuans...? Given the volumes of oil that countries like China, India and Japan gobble up, if successful, such a market would displace very sizeable shares of Petro-Dollar volumes, which would mean fast declining mega-sums of Petro-dollars spinning away from global markets and flowing back towards US-centered financial circuits. Can you imagine what hundreds of billions of freed up Petro-Dollars flowing back to the US in a short period of time would mean?
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[h=2]Weapons of mass destruction[/h]Well, like the proverbial cat playing with a mouse under its paws, since at least 2005 Iran has been openly toying with the idea of opening up a such fourth non-US$ global oil market. China would probably support them as they get a sizeable share of their oil from Iran, so perhaps would India. If the followers of Hugo Chavez hold on to power, Venezuela too might tag along (now do we understand why the US needs to get a strong grip on Venezuela?).

Even Russia, which does not really need Iranian oil, might support Iran for its own geopolitical reasons, considering its growing conflicts with the West. Last year, we even heard strong rumors about Iran selling oil to India payable in gold... Iran fully understands this issue so they are cautiously biding their time. Remember, their Persian forefathers invented chess... So, wouldn’t the US just love to take out Iran to thwart such a threat? I mean, it already happened twice in the last decade:
IRAQ: As part of UN sanctions after the first Gulf War, every year Saddam Hussein was allowed to trade one billion dollars of Iraqi oil for medicines and food. But then, starting in 2000 Saddam started to switch over to the Euro. Suddenly, the world learned from Bush’s NeoCons that Iraq had arsenals of nasty “weapons of mass destruction”; that Saddam had to be “taken out” otherwise mushroom clouds would explode over London, Washington and New York! And so, a decade ago in March 2003, the US, UK and NATO promptly ransacked Iraq and had Saddam Hussein murdered. WMD’s? Ooopss, sorry... didn’t find any!...but: Iraq continues selling its oil in dollars.
LIBYA: In 2010 Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was planning to introduce a new currency to trade North African oil: the “Gold Dinar” in lieu of the dollar. Suddenly, the world learned from the US, France and Britain that Gaddafi was a formidable monster so...in October 2011 he too was taken out and murdered on live TV to the laughter of Hillary “We-came-we-saw-he-died” Clinton. Now Libya lies in shambles but its new pro-Exxon/BP “authorities” trade their oil solely in dollars...
[h=2]Turning points[/h]The key question now is which shall prevail in the US in the weeks and months to come: American national interest or Israeli national interest?

This is really top level Machtpolitik so, just to be sure everything’s in order, the most obedient Western mainstream media are keeping “all options on the table” running all sorts of headlines to remind us how nasty Iran is, its nuke ambitions, poor Little Israel and its security issues (which is why they’re allowed to keep the sole nuclear arsenal in the Middle East, right?), the delicate state of the global financial system and why no one should be allowed to rock the boat and, of course, the never-ending “War on Terror...”, But now we know.

It is all about oil; it is all about the US-Dollar; it is all about a global financial system being kept artificially alive for mega-banker profit; it is about Israel... The flip-side of that coin gets even worse: It’s not about the interest of the working masses in the US, Europe and worldwide; and it definitely is not about Democracy or Human Rights.
Adrian Salbuchi for RT
 
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Google store every search you do through their search engine and have a direct interface with the secret service

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Want to start a new business venture but don't want to go to the corrupt banks for funding? Crowd funding is a way for citizens of the world with spare cash to invest in other citizens of the world

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This is capitalism. Not an alternative to capitalism. People raising funds to start businesses is pretty much... capitalism. Like what venture capitalists do but on a much smaller scale.