Latest Anonymous Operations: Target IMF over Greece "Bailout"

Anonymous' goals are pro Greek sovereignty, so they get a viewing on these pages.

via ZeroHedge this morning:

"Anonymous" Hackers Target IMF Over Greece "Bailout"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 06/01/2011 07:59 -0400

• European Union
 
• Federal Reserve
 
• Greece
 
• Iceland
 
• International Monetary Fund
 
• Transparency
 

The hacker collective Anonymous Operations may not be the most organized but they sure are passionate. Following the latest disinformation campaign of a Greek bailout, the hackers, which had previously expressed their solidarity with the Greek people (see below) have no made it clear that the latest target of their wrath (which a few months ago was the Federal Reserve) is now the IMF. Or at least its website. As of a few minutes ago, "Anonymous" tweeted that the target of its imminent DDOS attack will be www.imf.org. Alas, since the IMF has always been merely a figurehead for global bailout efforts, in this particular case spearheaded by various banking interests, we give Anonymous a few days before they realize that the target of their "anti oppression" move has a website with a .com suffix, not .org. And regardless of how (in)effective this action is, at least it sends the message that someone is willing to do something to at least protests against the rape that will soon occur in Greece, hidden by the very polite word: "privatization."

And previously from Anonymous:

Dear World Citizens and Members of the Media

This is a message from Anonymous Operation Want in solidarity with our brothers and sisters with Anonymous Greece Moneyback. Operation Want are Anonymous researchers, writers and others that use the proven method of Follow the Money to seek out and expose the people and politicians that are corrupt. Operation Want brings the Truth to light in support of Whistleblowers, Freedom of Information, Freedom of Speech and Internet Freedom. Anonymous Greece wants the banksters to give the People their Moneyback.

Information is Free. Please Distribute Globally. The Greek government and media are censoring the people of the world from viewing the massive protests and r-evolution occurring in the streets.

The People of Greece have united and taken to the street once again today, in opposition to the corrupt Austerity Plans of the Greek Government leaders and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  Without allowing the Greek citizens to vote, government leaders have accepted approximately $157 billion dollars (€110 billion) from 2010 - 2013  In "rescue loans" from European Union countries (EU) and the IMF. Such Austerity Plans have been met by the successful opposition of the people of Iceland who have insisted on their right to vote. Currently the people of Spain have taken up the banner of the Iceland protests and Anonymous united. Greece must also uphold their constitution and let the people vote.

The people of Greece are faced with prolonged poverty and a dramatic decrease in their standards of living, as their corrupt government attempts to push through further austerity measures of debts. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that those elites in control of the IMF continue to profit from the misery of the Greek people. The overreaching powers of the European Union (EU) and the IMF will not go unnoticed or unopposed by the global community who stand in solidarity with their brothers and sisters of Greece.

Thus, the people of Greece have been left with no other option than to take to the streets in a peaceful revolution against the economic tyrants that are the IMF. The good Greek People have been beaten by the police that are supposed to be protecting them. The Greek government is using the police, allowing the brutality that had even caused death of citizens, to protect the greedy international banking industry led by the elitists of the IMF.

Anonymous demands the following;

• The Greek governments allow their people to vote and decide their own future.
• The Greek government must uphold their constitution and not allow the EU and IMF dictate and rule the People of Greece.
• The Greek government and corporate media must immediately stop their censorship of coverage of the protests. Let there be transparency so the world can watch the power of the People and hear their voices.
• That the Greek government support non-violence against the People by immediately calling off the police and state sponsored terrorism which the citizens of Greece have been subjected unfairly to for simply exercising their human right to peaceful assembly.

Anonymous wants the economic noose of the IMF is removed from around the necks of the Greek citizens immediately and that the citizens of Greece are granted the right to vote on the outcome of their future.

Aristotle has proclaimed that "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime!"

The hand of the Greek people has been forced. Their voice will be heard!

We Are Anonymous,

Anonymous is everyone.

We are everywhere.

We Do Not Forget.

We Do Not Forgive.

Anonymous is Legion.

Expect Us!

(Emphasis added)

News of the Adam Kokesh dancing protest reaches Hitler's ears!!

via Lewrockwell.com/blog

We are Jose Guerena

For those that claim that it is unreasonable or unlawful for a citizen to resist a no knock warrant with deadly force, I disagree to the depth of my soul.  


I would prefer to go down like Jose Guerena than to submit to this kind of violation, and live with the guilt of not resisting to my utmost.  


If you aren't willing to die defending yourelf, your property, your wife and kids, what are you willing to fight for?  

What red line are we waiting for them to cross?

So many violations of our natural and Constitutional rights.  So few all at once, or concentrated against a large population, only in dribs and drabs.

More important question is similar to the one the government faces with al-Qaida--how do you fight an enemy that you cannot see? How do you fight an enemy that fights you with legal plunder, or legally legitimized (that's redundant, I know) violations of our rights? 

At the moment, I have no idea, but I think about it all the time. 

Read recent posts from Arctic Patriot, American Mercenary, Alvie D. Zane, and be prepared for anything, and in the meanwhile, resist.

In opposition to UN resolution, Western boots on the ground in Libya

via zerohedge.com:


In a TV slip caught by Al Jazeera, yet another Zero Hedge prediction has been confirmed: namely that it was only a matter of time before NATO "boots on the ground" would promptly replace the CIA's "sandals on the ground" in a fully Western-backed land invastion of Libya. Since it is too early to predict the nationality of the armed invaders, we will assume they are British as Al Jazeera speculates, because otherwise Congress is about to find itself in an unprecedented scandal for completely ignoring its duty to impose the War Powers Act, which in turn would mean that the President now has a unilateral right to enforce the invasion of any country he so chooses. We will leave the bitter implications of what this could mean, as America celebrates, and remembers the lives of so many who died for this once great country, to others.




Also note:


It seems (if you watch the video) the main battle rifle of choice, at least on the rebel side, is the FN FAL, my favorite .308.


A nice accurate rifle for an insurgency, at least in the hands of a rifleman. 

Got FAL, anyone?

The Pledge of Allegiance: Say it and come get your ritalin and prozac

Francis Bellamy (1855-1931).  Born and raised in western NY, same as me.  What we have in common ends there. 

Bellamy was a Christian utopian socialist, who believed in redistribution of wealth to accomplish justice.  A Marxist who hadn't lost religion.  He was one who believed that to accomplish a utopian United States, it would have to begin with the children. The Pledge he wrote as part of the 400th anniversary of Colombus' arrival in the Americas, was also coincident with the movement to have an American flag in every American  school. 

This happened 27 years after Appomattox; the memory of disunion was fresh in the Collective memory of the Nation.


Taken from Wikipedia:

His original Pledge read as follows:

"I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to* the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all"

(* 'to' added in October 1892).

Pre-war Bellamy salute during the Pledge.
Feel warm and fuzzy?

The recital was accompanied with a salute to the flag known as the Bellamy salute, described in detail by Bellamy. During World War II, the salute was replaced with a hand-over-heart gesture because the original form involved stretching the arm out towards the flag in a manner that resembled the later Nazi salute. (For a history of the pledge, see Pledge of Allegiance).


In 1954, in response to the perceived threat of secular Communism, President Eisenhower encouraged Congress to add the words "under God," creating the 31-word pledge that is recited today.^[3]


Bellamy commented on his thoughts as he created the pledge, and his reasons for choosing the careful wording:

"It began as an intensive communing with salient points of our national history, from the Declaration of Independence onwards; with the makings of the Constitution... with the meaning [ha!] of the Civil War; with the aspiration of the people...

"The true reason for allegiance to the Flag is the  'republic (sic) which it stands'. ...And what does that last thing, the Republic mean? It is the concise political word for the Nation (Sorry, Bellamy, old man, but involuntary "Nation" post 1865, and voluntary 1776 "Republic" [when the Bill of Rights still meant something] are antithetical) - the One Nation which the Civil War was fought to prove (prove with a bayonet, you mean. Oh, I see the point of your argument. You must be right. My bad.). To make that One Nation idea clear, we must specify that it is indivisible, as Webster and Lincoln used to repeat in their great speeches (no comment...Bellamy was 10 years old in 1865.  He knew no other religion than post War Lincoln cultism). And its future?

"Just here arose the temptation of the historic slogan of the French Revolution which meant so much to Jefferson and his friends, 'Liberty, equality, fraternity'. No, that would be too fanciful, too many thousands of years off in realization. But we as a nation do stand square on the doctrine of liberty and justice for all..." (and now we all know how that ended up--liberty for none, leniency for the well connected)

Bellamy "viewed his Pledge as an 'inoculation' that would protect immigrants and native-born but insufficiently patriotic Americans from the 'virus' of radicalism and subversion."^{[4] (come to think of it, I feel a little sick to my stomach now)}



Hat tip to humblelibertarian.com

Denninger puts Memorial Day in perspective

Our honored dead:  They died for what freedom exactly?

Our forefathers primarily went to war with Britain over two issues: Taxation Without Representation and Writs of Assistance.  While we're at it we'll add Equal Protection Under The Law.

The former everyone understands: The extraction of taxes from the people without any right to direct where the funds go. 

How are we doing today?

Some half of the population pays no Federal Tax.  They receive funds, net-net.  Since it is now quite possible to "vote for a living", that's exactly what has happened.  But this means that for each and every person who pays taxes on net, you no longer have representation.

How about the latter?

Well, we have the following:

• Searches on I-40 in Tennessee; these have been clearly identified (and admitted!) through media investigation to be effectively stopping drivers for profit.  Where's the probable cause to search a traffic stop's vehicle for money and then declare it "drug proceeds" simply due to which direction the vehicle is traveling on I-40?  In this case the police aren't even bothering with the formality of getting the Writ of Assistance - they're simply stealing the funds.
• Kicking down doors in Kentucky.  Yes, the cops were chasing a person who allegedly sold crack cocaine.  But we're then supposed to believe that seconds after this person ran into one of two apartments - being actively chased by the police - the suspect lit up a joint?  (The rationale for the cops kicking down the door was that they smelled marijuana, and upon knocking heard "movement" and believed the occupants might be "destroying evidence.")  That conviction was upheld in the United States Supreme Court - even though the person they were looking for wasn't in the apartment.

Read the rest of a great post from market-ticker.org.

The Last Nail is being driven into the coffin of the American Republic

He's preaching.  We are already his choir. 

Anyone else in America listening?

via thedailypaul.com




******UPDATE.  The basis for every statement in the speech is documented via hyperlink at new LewRockwell.com blogpost *********

Alex Jones storms the Texas Senate over TSA bill debacle

Watch. 

This is the way to do it.  He called for this spontaneously one hour before the end of his radio show.



Wish I could've been there. Good job.

Beware the "Tea Party" candidate; they are like a box of chocolates...

...you never know whatcha gonna get. 

 

Strict Constitutionalist and Austerity Candidate?

Posted by Karen Kwiatkowski on May 27, 2011 08:26 AM

Will, I love your reminder that Dan Webster “campaigned as a strict constitutionalist and apostle of austerity.” Yesterday, he joined the majority in the House in enthusiastically voting to extend the Patriot Act, without amendment or controls, for four more years. Newly elected and falsely represented “small government constitutionalists” like Webster are not working out, and the people’s secession from Washington on a human, economic, and institutional scale is far more effective than voting for a lying congressman. In addition to condoning and practicing thievery, Webster clearly accepts some new and revised version of the 9th commandment.

(emphasis enthusiastically added and endorsed!)

verbatim from Lew Rockwell blog.
remember, I am an x-voter.

New example of hyperinflation: Belarus

Socialism. Keynesian central planning.  Borrowing, borrowing, borrowing to pay for the government programs, until you can't pay it back, and no one will lend you more.

If you are a mundane, you go to jail, or you get your legs broken by a loan shark, or maybe both, or worse.

If you are a government, you bargain with other governments and creditors, then you devalue, and then you default.

What is happening in Belarus today is the result of sudden currency devaluation last week.  


The quantitative easing of the Federal Reserve in the United States is identical in theory and practice, but may be more incremental given the relative size and power of the United States.  

Economies are dynamic, however, and central economic planning is falling on it's face all over the world.  So what happens on a sudden abroad can also happen here: abrupt transition into a hyperinflationary environment (at least 20% generalized increase in prices per year, directly related to the money supply--the more dollars out there, the less each one is worth). 


 A Euro or Yen meltdown, or a large dumping of treasuries (such as the large US debt held by China) may trigger the dollar's collapse in value.

But here is what happens when the SHTF: 

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The devaluation lifted the local price of automobile fuels as much as 24 percent, according to Belneftekhim, an industry group for the country’s oil sector. Last night, about 50 people protested the price increase in the car park of a Minsk hypermarket.

“I can’t describe how I feel without using obscenities, this is all our government’s fault,” said Sergey, a 32-year old attending the protest who works for a computer importer. “The whole world tells them, guys, you have economic problems, you should do something, and all they did was live off getting more and more loans.”

The price of children’s diapers has “gone completely insane” in Minsk, said Natalia, a 24-year-old mother also queuing outside the refrigerator store. “I used to buy a pack for 69,000 rubles, now they cost 140,000,” or almost half the 343,260-ruble monthly child benefit paid by the government, she said.

“We have become paupers,” said Tatiana, a 70-year-old woman in the line who also declined to give her last name. “We have been squeezed into a corner by this devaluation.”

"Unless Belarus heeds Russia’s call for mass privatization of state assets, it is headed for “hyperinflation, massive un- and under-employment, and a shutdown of production" Moiseev concludes. Ah: "privatization" as Greece is about to learn, the lovely word that describes a fire sale of assets to one's creditors, courtesy of a "globalized" new world order.


(emphasis added)

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Link to zerohedge guest post:
Welcome to hyperinflation hell: After currency devaluation, the Belarus economy implodes, sets blueprint for developed world future.

First Confederate General killed in War Between the States buried in Brooklyn

Robert Selden Garnett, the first general killed in the Civil War, was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, but his family did not want visitors to the cemetery to know it.
Named brigadier general in 1861, Garnett briefly commanded Confederate troops in western Virginia before being shot dead in the battle of Corrick’s Ford on July 13, 1861.

According to research by the cemetery, one of his last cries on the battlefield was “Three cheers for Jeff Davis!”

But that Confederate pride did not follow Garnett to the grave.

Union forces turned over Garnett’s body to his family, who buried him in Baltimore. Four years later, the family decided he should lie in Brooklyn alongside his wife and son, who had died before the war. They exhumed Garnett’s remains and secretly re-interred him in Green-Wood, leaving his grave unmarked for fear of anti-Southern sentiments. Some things never change. 150 years now.


Last words:  "Three cheers for Jeff Davis!"  

General Garnett endeared himself to me when I read that.

Rest of the story here, in the NY Times.

Hat tip to Michael at Southernnationalist.com

The greatest conceit: governments thinking that central planning of the economy is possible

Things Are Spinning Out of Control
The pretense of centralized control of history is wearing thin.

The single greatest conceit of the Status Quo in the U.S., China and Euroland is that systems and trends can be tightly controlled. That conceit is slowly being revealed as hubris, as all sorts of things are spinning out of the control of the centralized authorities and financial elites in each geopolitical power center.

Does anyone really think the people of Greece will stand idly by while the state treasures of their nation are transferred to the banks which foolishly lent billions to a visibly risky enterprise? The banks, of course, lent freely to insolvent governments throughout the European Union, confident in the backstop of the E.U. itself.

Good article on zerohedge.com about the coming collapse of the global economic structure and central banks.

Quote of the day 5/25

What goes up must come down
spinning wheel got to go round
Talking about your troubles it's a crying sin
Ride a painted pony
Let the spinning wheel spin

You got no money, and you, you got no home
Spinning wheel all alone
Talking about your troubles and you, you never learn
Ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel turn

--Blood Sweat and Tears, Spinning Wheel, 1969

(I was thinking of the economy and the boom-bust cycle)

Feds playing chicken with Texas over nullification of TSA

by Connor Boyack, with Brian Roberts and Michael Boldin

Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Justice upped the ante in a high-stakes political game of chicken. Lobbying against pending legislation in the Texas legislature which would criminalize any searches conducted without probable cause, U.S. Attorney John E. Murphy sent a letter to a few high-ranking members of Texas’ government warning against promoting the bill and threatening a complete closure of all flights to and from the state.

“If HR [sic] 1937 were enacted, the federal government would likely seek an emergency stay of the statute,” Murphy wrote. “Unless or until such a stay were granted, TSA would likely be required to cancel any flight or series of flights for which it could not ensure the safety of passengers and crew.”

No doubt written with the threatening intent one reads into it, Murphy added: “We urge that you consider the ramifications of this bill before casting your vote.”

Previous to the federal government’s threat, the Texas legislature had considered the ramifications of the bill. More importantly, they were responding to a clear need to uphold the Fourth Amendment and ensure that each person enjoys the right “to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures” — a right which the U.S. Constitution mandates “shall not be violated.”

From The Tenth Amendment Center, breaking news

Rand Paul speaks truth to power in the Senate

How lucky are we to have a Senator who doesn't just pay lip service to the Constitution, but one who believes in Jeffersonian original intent of the Constitution.

Our modern day Calhoun.

I go off half cocked commenting on a comment on a blog I never read

As I was reading Rebellion Blog tonight, I read the following paragraph in the post "How the Northern view shaped the Civil War":

Of course. Billy Yank (the average Northern soldier, not the uninformed pest who drops nasty comments on this and other Southern blogs) fought out of loyalty to his nation, not to "free the slaves." Problem is, the powers that be exploited those loyalties to enrich themselves and expand their power. As I've argued before, wars are fought for power and treasure, not to do good deeds.


Curious about the uninformed pest, I clicked on the link and ended up reading an uninformed post on a blog called kindredblood.wordpress.com. Don't feel obligated to bookmark it, by the way.


In the comments section, one of the respondents, it seems to me someone who has never attempted to look at another perspective of how this country might have or should have evolved differently, said this, getting my dander up:

Cornbread Bridgemanon May 22, 2011 at 12:14 am said:

Border Ruffian, are you going to “ruff me up” if I don’t subscribe to your line of thinking? I simply believe that there are good and bad people in both the north and the south. (seems reasonable)  I do not think that the people of the south have a monopoly on morals, courage, and intelligence like many in the “Lost Cause” movement feel that are exclusive to those born south of the Mason-Dixon Line. (terrible gross generalization)

Soldiers on both sides of the issue in the war were, for the most part, good men. There were some bad men in uniform on both sides, there were deserters and bandits in both the blue and the gray. It isn’t necessary to continually disparage Union veterans in order to remember and honor your Confederate ancestors. (Veterans of the Union Army are not typically disparaged by modern supporters of the Confederate cause, just the political and military leadership, and the choices that they made)

Look at the true history. The real veterans of the war attended reunions of savage battles together and became friends with those that they had fought against. This hatred of men who served honorably and their descendants after 150 years is ridiculous. It reminds me of the Blacks that want reparations for their ancestors being slaves over 150 years ago. (not sure I follow this, but OK)

Then, this concluding statement of the comment (that probably no more than a couple of dozen people will ever read) made me decide to forego exercise tonight and write a response:

"Does anyone truly believe that things would have been better had we splintered into a group of individual states or mini-nations instead of being the United States of America? I don’t think any person with any degree of intelligence will argue that point."

Here is what I wrote:

Honourablemeanson May 23, 2011 at 10:08 pm said:

Your comment is awaiting moderation. 

“Does anyone truly believe that things would have been better had we splintered into a group of individual states or mini-nations instead of being the United States of America? I don’t think any person with any degree of intelligence will argue that point.”

I do. I wave THAT flag every day.

To think that way, you have to check your premises and think outside the box you were raised in. I am the product of both New York suburban public schools and an Ivy league education...(not your typical Confederate flag-waver)

Why have one experiment in democracy or one experiment in economics that affects 350 million people, rather than 50 experiments? Don’t you think that more progress could have been made?

Everytime the Supreme Court makes a decision that effects 350 million people, almost inevitably incrementally increasing Federal power at the expense of local power and the power of each individual citizen, (remote unaccountable sovereignty)

Everytime the President gets us into a war without Congressional approval, (monarchical rule)

Everytime Congress passes a 2000 page bill that less than 1% of the Congressmen have read,

Everytime I think of the Representatives voting for TARP, despite 50% of the constituents who called to voice an opinion said “No”, and the other 50% said “Hell, No!”,

Everytime the Congress passes a law governing moral issues or individual choices, whether it is a Christian conservative republican or a progressive/socialistic Democrat and the freedom of the individual to choose is diminished if they remain “law abiding”,

Everytime the Congress raises the debt ceiling and impoverishes my children,

Everytime Congress reinforces crony capitalism and statism and the progressive media blames all the woes of the country on “capitalism” and “the free market” (modern equivalent of Clay and Lincoln’s favored “American system),

Everytime that an unaccountable SWAT team bursts into a home without a warrant, or a TSA goon puts her hand on and under the breast implant of a 68 year old mastectomy patient to make sure it’s not C4 instead of saline,

Everytime the Federal Reserve devalues our already faith-based currency and robs every one of us of our purchasing power, so that the government can pay back its debts in cheaper dollars than it leant out,

Everytime a public school teaches a kid that the “national” origin of the United States (as opposed to the compact theory) is the only way to think about the founding of this nation,

Everytime government money goes to subsidies, special projects, or new agencies to endear a politician to his constituency, at the expense of someone else (the taxpayer) who produced the wealth but will never benefit himself,

Everytime I think of people saying we are “a free country” but the South was brought back into the Union at the point of a gun,

Everytime I think of the cultural war of the past 50 years waged by progressives against the remnants of Southern culture,

Everytime I see what the victory of the Union made possible in this nation,

Everytime I think of the evolution of this continent’s political entity from voluntary federated republic to involuntary “nation” to militarist empire, trying to spread democracy to other cultures at the point of a gun, to empire teetering on the verge of collapse:

I wave the flag of the People who are sovereign, and had accountable representative servant government, the flag of the Jeffersonian.

When you hear a modern Southerner or a wartime Confederate leader like Robert E. Lee refer to the noble aspects of the Confederacy, this is what they are referring to…

But other than the above, I agree with you that “I don’t think any person with any degree of intelligence will argue that point.”

Link

Also, check out my comment on this guy's "Maps for thought" page, where he tries to junk Southerners as fat, lazy and stupid...

http://kindredblood.wordpress.com/maps-for-thought/#comment-1040