Activism

us tax spend 2009 – online wallchart

Posted by paradineshift on May 14, 2008
Posted in: Activism, Political Commentary, US Imperialism. Tagged: , , , , , , . Leave a Comment

Ever wanted to know what the hell the US is up to? This nicely presented zoomable wall chart details all the spend. Most importantly it gives a detailed look at the discretionary spend of $1182 billion that must be approved by congress. Scary things is  they are looking at a 70/30 split with 70% of all that 1182 Billion going to ‘Security/National Defense’. Thats a whole lot of Homeland security and all sorts of other lovely stuff.

Regime change begins at home I feel.

US tax spend 2009

Did you know that the US citizens fund the Israeli Armed Forces to the tunes of 2.5 Billion? This is a 6% increase – so Palestine should be feeling all warm and cozy with that news. Look for the US to step up it’s unmanned  vehicle operations with spending up over 300%. Here come the robots…

linkage: US tax spend 2009

the pirate bay vs. media defender – an in-depth look

Posted by paradineshift on April 16, 2008
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weblife iconThe Portfolio.com website has an in-depth article on the hacking of Media Defender and subsequent publishing of internal documents. It includes the response from The Pirate Bay and details of the tactics used by Media Defender. A good summary of the state of the Piracy industry as a whole. Well worth a read

Here is a snippet:

“Oh, yeah, yeah, we’ve checked out our email server, and our email server itself has not been compromised,” the MediaDefender executive said.

But, of course, it had.

“In the beginning, I had no motivation against Monkey Defenders,” Ethan tells me. “It wasn’t like, ‘I want to hack those bastards.’ But then I found something, and the good nature in me said, These guys are not right. I’m going to destroy them.”

pirate oil rig

linkage: the pirate bay vs media defender – “the pirates can’t be stopped”