AMERICA’S USEFUL IDIOTS: UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

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“If people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren’t just ceding control of our rights to government, but our agency in determining our futures.

How does this relate to politics? Well, I suspect that governments today are more concerned with the loss of their ability to control and regulate the behavior of their citizens than they are with their citizens’ discontent.

How do we make that work for us? We can devise means, through the application and sophistication of science, to remind governments that if they will not be responsible stewards of our rights, we the people will implement systems that provide for a means of not just enforcing our rights, but removing from governments the ability to interfere with those rights.

You can see the beginnings of this dynamic today in the statements of government officials complaining about the adoption of encryption by major technology providers. The idea here isn’t to fling ourselves into anarchy and do away with government, but to remind the government that there must always be a balance of power between the governing and the governed, and that as the progress of science increasingly empowers communities and individuals, there will be more and more areas of our lives where—if government insists on behaving poorly and with a callous disregard for the citizen—we can find ways to reduce or remove their powers on a new—and permanent—basis.

Our rights are not granted by governments. They are inherent to our nature. But it’s entirely the opposite for governments: their privileges are precisely equal to only those which we suffer them to enjoy.” -Edward Snowden, Reddit AMA, February 2015

Via Info Wars
The FCC’s proposed “Net Neutrality” regulations grew out of the work of a socialist professor who wants to take control of the Internet out of private hands by declaring it a “public utility.”

The professor, Dr. Robert McChesney of the University of Illinois, founded the socialist thinktank Free Press in 2002, which receives funding from billionaire activist George Soros.

“At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies, but the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control,” he told the website SocialistProject in 2009.

Here’s some more quotes from McChesney revealing the FCC’s true agenda:

“What we want to have in the U.S. and in every society is an Internet that is not private property, but a public utility. We want an Internet where you don’t have to have a password and that you don’t pay a penny to use. It is your right to use the Internet.”

(Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles: An Interview with Robert McChesney – The Bullet Socialist Project, August 9, 2009)

“Advertising is the voice of capital. We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it. The fight against hyper-commercialism becomes especially pronounced in the era of digital communications.”

(Media Capitalism, the State, and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles: An Interview with Robert McChesney – The Bullet Socialist Project, September 8, 2009)

“Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism. It is impossible to conceive of a better world with a media system that remains under the thumb of Wall Street and Madison Avenue, under the thumb of the owning class.”

(Journalism, Democracy, … and Class Struggle – Monthly Review, November 2000)

“There is no real answer (to the U.S. economic crisis) but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.”

(A New New Deal under Obama? (with John Bellamy Foster) – Monthly Review, December 21, 2008)

“Only government can implement policies and subsidies to provide an institutional framework for quality journalism.”

(The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers – Nation, March 18, 2009)

McChesney’s managing director at Free Press, Craig Aaron, had this to say:

“We need a law that says, no matter what kind of network you’re on—wired, wireless, I forget, there’s some other network coming in the future—that net neutrality applies.”

(Interview with Robert McChesney – Media Matters Public Radio show, March 22, 2009)

And McChesney’s former policy director at Free Press, Ben Scott, also said:

“Increasingly the Internet is no longer a commercial service, it’s an infrastructure…What we’re witnessing at the FCC now is the logical next step which is we are going to create a regulatory framework for the Internet which recognizes it is an infrastructure now and not a commercial service.”

(C-SPAN: The Communicators – C-Span, September 25, 2009)

Free Press has welded extraordinary influence over the Obama administration for the past several years.

“[Former FCC Chairman Julius] Genachowski’s press secretary at the FCC, Jen Howard, used to handle media relations at Free Press,” The Wall Street Journal reported. “The FCC’s [former] chief diversity officer, Mark Lloyd, co-authored a Free Press report calling for regulation of political talk radio.”

Lloyd’s report, entitled The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio, advocated draconian measures to limit free speech on AM and FM stations under the guise of “balanced radio programming,” i.e. a fairness doctrine.

“While progressive talk is making inroads on commercial stations, conservative talk continues to be pushed out over the airwaves in greater multiples of hours than progressive talk is broadcast,” the report stated, oversimplifying politics into a false left/right paradigm. “These empirical findings may not be surprising given general impressions about the format, but they are stark and raise serious questions about whether the companies licensed to broadcast over the public airwaves are serving the listening needs of all Americans.”

The FCC wants to similarly restrict political free speech on the Internet.

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bb

I would think the most useful useful idiots are the ones in Hollywood ,Movies and flim industries. Next would be at the ones in newspapers , magazines and print media . Then the ones on the university level.

Westcoaster
Westcoaster

I think repeal of the fairness doctrine back during the Clinton admin was a big part of the disinformation that Americans suffer today. And for the record, the consolidation of the Radio industry has just about killed the business. Bain capital (Romney’s old bunch) has proven they know nothing about actually running a business, all they know is how to fire people and make each Radio station a clone with not much local content. No wonder Millennials don’t listen much to Radio.

indialantic
indialantic

Amigos:

When I signed with Mozilla for browsing, the center caption below Search window read the following:

Victory! The FCC has voted for strong net neutrality protections!

The following link is from the Mozilla Blog web page for your perusal. Cheers!

A Major Victory for the Open Web!

A Major Victory for the Open Web

indialantic
indialantic

Victory! The FCC has voted for strong net neutrality protections!

Feb 26, 2015

A Major Victory for the Open Web

A Major Victory for the Open Web

indialantic
indialantic

Sorry about the double post!

indialantic

flash
flash

The govenrment will have the internet broken and beyond repair in less than a year.It’s what they do best…destroy what others create…book it, Dano.

flash
flash

How come Google got to see proposed “Net neutrality” rules (and get them changed) but the public cannot?
http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2015/02/how-come-google-got-to-see-proposed-net-neutrality-rules-and-get-them-changed-but-the-public-can-not/

Because the half-honky homo Obamey is Google’s bitch..it’s that simple.

flash
flash

If you like your internetz you can keep you internetz.

goodbye internetz, nice to have known ye.

Overthecliff
Overthecliff

It’s all over but the shouting (did I spell that right?).

SSS

Good post, Stephanie. I agree. You understand free speech.

Can I lump your thoughts together with those of Edward Snowden, whom you quote? You two would make a Dynamic Duo.

Archie
Archie

As someone who worked as a university lecturer, I can confirm: the universities are packed with left wing buffoons, self confessed commie bastards. Not all are obnoxious and actually, a teensy weensy portion are normal people. But as a rule, they are commie bastards and love the current system. Good golly miss Molly, I could tell a few stories.

Oh yeah, the idea that there is free speech in academia is laughable, so no wonder that they hate the internet and want to censor it.

TE
TE

Wow, so many thoughts on this issue I’ve been having for months now. Here are a few.

First, @bb is partially right about the order. But what he neglects to remember – as do most of us – is that it is the ACADEMICS that start the propaganda and indoctrination into policy on every freaking level in the US. So WE pay for it. And defend it. And until that changes, I don’t see much else changing. Having “earned” letters following your name does not, necessarily, make you more intelligent, nor able to creatively solve problems. If my decades spent meeting and learning with academics have proven anything, it is that 75% of our problems are because we insist doing things because that is the way they have “always” been done, even if it doesn’t work and is harmful. Fluoride and the Drug Wars come to mind immediately. Anyway, this shit ALL starts in the Ivy covered walls of Academia. EVERY evil bastard that rules us has passed through the same halls.

Next what strikes me is how naive and young Mr. Snowden is. Between living in Russia – where the people have turned suffering into a literal art form – and the general disillusionment and reality-head-smacking that comes with life, kids, health and decades, I’m sure he’ll see it in himself one day. Though I can’t really fault him – or any other youthful human – it is nature’s way. We would have died off eons ago if teens thought life was nothing but the never-ending struggle and victimization that it is, whom – in their right mind – would sign up to bring young ones into that?

But it truly doesn’t matter as we have all looked around and found that our neighbors, friends and extended family will NEVER make the decision to take any time to investigate reality, or find ways to deal with their own problems, or stand up for the future of the human as an individual. Most of us, including many here, see themselves more as a “herd animal” than a human being that has the right to sovereignty of his life, his families’ lives, and his legally obtained property. They, us, like being the herd. It’s so much safer and so less stressful there. Just sit back and allow all them “smart people in white coats” to take care of us.

Finally, for this essay, we are using 19th Century control mechanisms and thought processes to rule our 21st Century world. This works out well for our rulers and will, in my humble opinion, spell the end of free speech and small cottage businesses on the ‘net.

They will double nail alternative health sites, alternative news sites, anything except the Science and Government God Agenda, which will be “debated” and “proved” to be the only correct way.

All bought and paid for by those that wish to destroy us “breeders and mouth breathers” while stripping us of anything of value on our way to the end.

It is a sad, and hard, thought to ponder, but over the past few months I have come to the absolute conclusion that while we may open and sway a few, the vast majority are going to demand we are destroyed, for our own good, of course.

And at the bidding of the academics, whom are the true base of our overlords.

Happy weekend all. I will miss this place when it is gone.

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Rick Caird
Rick Caird

The only good news here is that the move to turn the Internet into a utility will be in court for years. It will be in court for so long that the Obama administration and the current FCC will be dead and gone. The biggest issue to me is that the Republicans in Congress are surrendering on this just as they have on amnesty and ObamaCare.

Rise Up
Rise Up

@Rick: ” The biggest issue to me is that the Republicans in Congress are surrendering on this just as they have on amnesty and ObamaCare.”

+1000…where’s Sensetti to defend the Republicans on this?

All of congress should just go home and stay there. No need for them. The executive and all their agencies now rule over us. They step on/around/over the legislature now. Laws be damned…

Anonymous
Anonymous

Time to Secede start with Texas other states will follow-Everyone getting US is hanging by a thread waiting for the intentional re set and martial law-It is clear Obama is arming iIS,disarming Americans.Stay steady and strong we will all depend on each other gov knows this and is breaking all links.The last will be family.Just like Hitler men will be separated from their wives,children separated from their mothers to go to the fema camps as Bill Ayres propsal for those that do not conform to the NWO is chilling.Bottom line is FREEDOM IS NEVER FREE.

Administrator

The Net Neutrality Debate Proves The Opinions Are Far From Informed

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/27/2015 15:45 -0500

Via Mark St.Cyr,

As many of you know the FCC approved what is now considered the greatest change in the fundamental underpinnings of how the internet will be both used as well as “allowed” to be used. The regulation now known as Net Neutrality will supposedly make the internet more “fair” or “equal” to everyone. All I’ll ask you to ponder is this: How’s your cable bill working out for you?

There’s a lot of known and unknowns still to be had as we sit here today. Why? Regardless of what you’ve heard or seen written in the press about this regulation; no one, and I do mean, no one knows the details to this new and sweeping regulation.

The reported 330-ish paged regulation was held in a way resembling sealed documents from a court case. The only people who read it are those that wrote it, and voted it into law. We now have to wait and see just how much everything changes.

Every future or current business, entrepreneur, as well as individual that accesses the web will be effected. Along with what everyone now takes for granted about the internet will also be changed. How much if any will remain the same, or even possible going forward no one yet knows. And that’s not hyperbole. Everything that one thought they knew or even assumed has now changed. Period.

What took my breath away was just how many bought into the premise that all this was about (as in solely ) was not allowing ISP or cable providers to throttle content. i.e., Not allow a cable provider to charge more to a content provider for faster access to deliver their content and nothing more. And that regulating the internet would now fix this issue.

The discussions and buttressing of arguments based on examples using monopolies and utilities by those pushing for it showed just how ill-informed many of the so-called “experts” were.

Just how little knowledge people have in their fundamental understanding of the differences between a real monopoly and a business impediment was just shocking. Although I shouldn’t have been so surprised. After all, this was Silicon Valley where unicorns and rainbows still are accepted business plans for a round of VC funding. (but that window is closing far faster than many realize)

Let me use an example to help illustrate. It’s meant to be over simplistic however, it’s far more instructive (in my opinion) than anything I’ve heard from those who are so-called “experts.”

Regardless of what you may think about your cable company or internet provider (and trust me I have no love for mine) the real issue in the end is what is known as “the last mile.” In other words the underlying issue of speed controls is in direct proportion to the ability for data to pass through efficiently in about the last mile to your home or computer. In other words the issue is basically from the pole to your house. Not from the provider to “the pole.” Again this is an oversimplification so please spare me the emails.

The issue that was becoming relevant to where both sides of the content providers along with the customers found themselves was the bottleneck effect happening at the customer’s home. i.e., within that last mile.

There’s only one way to resolve that issue. One and only one: You must build out the infrastructure to accommodate. And that requires money. Big money. The only question is who pays? You? The cable or ISP provider? Or the content creator. i.e., Netflix™ and others.

Currently the “individual” paying is irrelevant for this argument. No one would solely pay the exorbitant amount of money it would cost on an individual level. That would come later in a collective form of billing such as “service fees” of some sort down the road. So it’s left between the providers.

Contrary to what many are touting, a resolution (a private one as in a business to business decision and agreement) was being worked out. i.e., Netflix and others were in fact sitting down, working out monetary agreements and other particulars as to help remedy many current issues. The real issue was: It wasn’t what “issue politics” wanted. And wanted – “Right now!”

Think about it this way. The electricity coming into your home works generally the same way. And this was used by many as an underpinning of their argument to express the “utility” equivalency discussion. Personally I thought it was the exact argument to show just how little many understood rather than solidify it.

If you want more power into your home guess what? You have to pay for the infrastructure not only at your home (e.g. update your wiring and more) but you also might need to pay for the build out from the pole. If you want or need 3 phase power? You’re going to need to spend money. A lot of money. The power is there but if you want it, you’re going to need to pay.

The infrastructure to carry what you currently have you paid for when the home was built. The electric company didn’t pay, the home builder paid when the home was first constructed. If you want more power? You are going to pay. And here’s where this issue really strike home to the “utility” issue used by so many.

If you don’t like the power companies fees, service, regulations et al. Tough. Because you can’t go around them. You can’t build your own better, more customer friendly or compliant power company. They have a true monopoly. And no matter what you say or do, you are going to pay if it’s decided by the regulating authorities, that no matter what – you are going to pay.

Think not? You can go “off grid” you say? You’ll find a way to “hack.” Not so fast. There are reports nationwide where it is illegal to disconnect your home from the “power” companies. Many are finding themselves facing both criminal as well as monetary charges for trying to “disconnect.” Your cable bill (or broadband) is going to fall into this category in coming years. After all, if it’s now deemed as “utility” status why not? Think it’s just the electricity? How about another “utility?”

Try telling many city governments that you just spent $25,000 to update your septic system to a new state of the art standard so you don’t need to connect to the cities new and improved or proposed sewer system. Ask them why you need to pay for some “special assessment” bill of a few thousand dollars payable in 30 days along with receiving a monthly bill for something you don’t need or use?

The response will be: “Sorry, I just work here. Please pay the bill and make sure your property is accessible for the digging crews to connect your property. Have a nice day.” And that’s just the start. Welcome to the world of “utility.” and “monopoly.” Careful what you wish for – you just might get it!

If you think those in the industry as in “Silicon Valley” have more of an understanding that you or I do. All I’ll do is point you to the most recent as well as instructive or insightful understandings on this issue by one of net neutrality’s foremost cheerleaders.

I suggest you watch this short exchange that took place on CNBC™ as to why this must take place and why its necessary for the good of the internet. Then ask yourself this question: The internet just moved from anything you knew it to be, into something no one has any understanding or clue as to what it will morph into from here. All based on a movement propelled on the understandings and insights professed by so-called “experts” as those in this video.

Personally I am stunned on just how little of an understanding of business those in Silicon Valley have. Yet maybe I shouldn’t be. For there is no where else a business can be worth billions in market cap that either can’t turn a profit, or better yet, can’t keep a customer if they so dare as to charge a penny.

But that’s now all about to change too. Because once new “regulation” concerns become part of the mix Wall Street has to think about when deciding who, what, or where will the hot money (if there’s any left) will flow: Silicon Valley is going to find itself with not as much love as they once garnered. For nothing snuffs out the spark of VC free money for “hacking” or lets say “Innovation” like the threat and over arching hand – of regulation. Welcome to the land of utilities. Hope you like the new neighborhood.

Forget about the once “wild west” of hackers. That’s just been handed its death knell by their own hands. For one thing that’s far mightier than a coders hack is a government bodies decree of regulation. There’s no neutrality nor nothing “free” once you allow and call for the interjection and oversight of both the government along with its enforceable hand of law via regulations.

Just wait until all the details become known as well as imposed. I have a feeling net neutrality is going to feel a whole lot more like “net injustice” than anyone dared contemplate. Let alone imagined

Rise Up
Rise Up

Good article, thanks Admin for posting it.

I imagine websites will now have to register with the FCC and their content will be subject to censorship. If your application to register doesn’t look good to them, you don’t get your website. Oh, and the “fees” to register and get licensed? Look for tiered costs based on whether or not you have a commercial (i.e., “for profit” website), accept donations, etc.

The article suggests you will be forced to have an Internet connection (and pay out the nose for it), just like your current water, sewer, and power utilities.

Yet another Orwellian nightmare…mandatory video monitoring in every room coming next.

Rise Up
Rise Up

Military blimp monitoring Maryland residents with FLIR cameras.

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JLENS, short for Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor, will float at an altitude of 10,000 feet, almost 24/7. In the State of Maryland it is already active, military officials claim it has no capabilities to spy on citizens. However, a digital privacy expert by the name of Ginger McCall has documents acquired via a lawsuit that prove its second objective is to monitor ground movement.

AMERICA’S USEFUL IDIOTS: UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS

Homer
Homer

The problem is there is a whole class of parasites infecting humankind. These parasites seek their own advantage and security above all else, even above the host which they feed . They are non-thinking rule following organisms and they populate exponentially in their preferred environment. They cannot form a thought outside the consensus. Their preferred environment are organizations They are commonly referred to as bureaucrats.

They swell the ranks of government, the Church and other lesser organizations. They are the security guards for the social order. They are pretenders to rational thought. They tell the likes of Galileo that, he is mistaken, that the Sun does revolve around the Earth. That the Earth is flat. That Global Warming (AKA Climate Change) is the doom of mankind. That we are the exceptional people and of course that printed pieces of paper are wealth, plus a myriad of less rational explanations of their centrally planned reality. If you ignore objective reality, more sooner than later, you’re f**ked.

Governmentium

The heaviest chemical element yet known to science. Governmentium (Gv) has 1 neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by forces called morons, which are surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons. Since Governmentium has no electrons, it is inert. However, it can be detected as it impedes every reaction with which it comes into contact. A minute amount of Governmentium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete when it would normally take less than a second. Governmentium has a normal half-life of three years; it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons and deputy neutrons exchange places.

In fact, Governmentium mass will actually increase over time, since each reorganization will cause some morons to become neutrons, forming isodopes.

When catalyzed with money, Governmentium becomes Administratium–an element which radiates just as much energy as Governmentium since it has half as many peons but twice as many morons.
“Oh my God–Don’t touch that!! It’s Governmentium. My cousin Sal drank some mixed with Tang when he was a kid, and now he’s a lawyer.”

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