LES MONDES ENGLOUTIS

Criminal Fortification of a Residence or Building

Somehow Illinois lawmakers have become prematurely apprised of my plans.

720 ILCS 5/19-5 (from Ch. 38, par. 19-5)

Sec. 19-5. Criminal fortification of a residence or building.
(a) A person commits the offense of criminal fortification of a residence or building when, with the intent to prevent the lawful entry of a law enforcement officer or another, he maintains a residence or building in a fortified condition, knowing that such residence or building is used for the manufacture, storage, delivery, or trafficking of cannabis or controlled substances as defined in the Cannabis Control Act or Illinois Controlled Substances Act.

(b) "Fortified condition" means preventing or impeding entry through the use of steel doors, wooden planking, crossbars, alarm systems, dogs, or other similar means.

(c) Sentence. Criminal fortification of a residence or building is a Class 3 felony.

(Source: P.A. 86-760.)

Yiddish-Anarchist song: Down with the police!

אין אַלע גאַסן, וווּ מען גייט, הערט מען זאַבאַסטאָווקעס. ייִנגלעך, מיידלעך, קינד־און־קייט, שמועסן פֿון נאַבאָווקעס. גענוג שוין, ברידער, האָרעווען, גענוג שוין באָרגן־לײַען, מאַכט אַ זאַבאַסטאָווקע, לאָמיר, ברידער, זיך באַפֿרײַען! ברידער און שוועסטער, לאָמיר זיך געבן די הענט, לאָמיר מיקאָלײַקעלען צעברעכן די ווענט! היי, היי, דאָלוי פּאָליציי, דאָלוי סאַמאָדערזשאַוויע וו׳ראָסיי! ברידער און שוועסטער, לאָמיר גיין צוזאַמען. לאָמיר מיקאָלײַקעלען באַגראָבן מיט דער מאַמען! היי, היי, דאָלוי פּאָליציי, דאָלוי סאַמאָדערזשאַוויע וו׳ראָסיי! נעכטן האָט ער געפֿירט אַ וועגעלע מיסט, הײַנט איז ער געוואָרן אַ קאַפּיטאַליסט. היי, היי, דאָלוי פּאָליציי, דאָלוי סאַמאָדערזשאַוויע וו׳ראָסיי!

Everywhere you go, the streets are full of strikes Boys and girls, family and friends are talking better wages Enough of breaking back, brothers, and still having to borrow Call a strike! Brothers, let's free ourselves Brothers and sisters, let's muster our strength, and crush the rule of little Nicky. Hey, hey, down with the police! Down with autocracy in Russia! Brothers and sisters, let's do it together. let's bury little Nickolai along with his mother Hey, hey, down with the police! Down with autocracy in Russia Only yesterday he was wushing a garbage cart and now he's become a capitalist.

NSA Whistleblower: Everyone in US under virtual surveillance, all info stored

From Davidope

“Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.”

— Howard Zinn

If you're unemployed, it's not because there isn't any work

Life without Capitalism? How is that possible?

"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men, we didn't have any kind of prison. Because of this, we had no delinquents. Without a prison, there can be no delinquents. We had no locks nor keys and therefore among us there were no thieves. When someone was so poor that he couldn't afford a horse, a tent or a blanket, he would, in that case, receive it all as a gift. We were too uncivilized to give great importance to private property. We didn't know any kind of money and consequently, the value of a human being was not determined by his wealth. We had no written laws laid down, no lawyers, no politicians, therefore we were not able to cheat and swindle one another. We were really in bad shape before the white men arrived and I don't know how to explain how we were able to manage without these fundamental things that (so they tell us) are so necessary for a civilized society."

– John (Fire) Lame Deer
Sioux Lakota (1903-1976)

Sun City Girls: The Halcyon Days of Symmetry

GANGNAM STYLE

Apparently this video is a significant cultural commentary focusing on the materialism and hypocrisy of those living in the Gangnam district in South Korea.

The Media's Portrayal of White Tеrrоrists

The Top Ten differences between White Tеrrоrists and Others:

1. White tеrrоrists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other tеrrоrists are called, like, “tеrrоrists.”
2. White tеrrоrists are “troubled loners.” Other tеrrоrists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.
3. Doing a study on the danger of white tеrrоrists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of tеrrоrists is a guaranteed promotion.
4. The family of a white tеrrоrist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other tеrrоrists are almost never interviewed.
5. White tеrrоrists are part of a “fringe.” Other tеrrоrists are apparently mainstream.
6. White tеrrоrists are random events, like tornadoes. Other tеrrоrists are long-running conspiracies.
7. White tеrrоrists are never called “white.” But other tеrrоrists are given ethnic affiliations.
8. Nobody thinks white tеrrоrists are typical of white people. But other tеrrоrists are considered paragons of their societies.
9. White tеrrоrists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other tеrrоrists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.
10. There is nothing you can do about white tеrrоrists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other tеrrоrists.

From The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle Class:

The system's incoherence and contempt for its dependents fluoresce brilliantly in the wake of an historic event like the Great Recession. When floodwaters cover our homes, we expect that FEMA workers with emergency checks and blankets will find us.
There is no moral or substantive difference between a hundred-year flood and the near-destruction of the global financial system by speculators immune from consequence. But if you and your spouse both lose your jobs and assets because of an unprecedented economic cataclysm having nothing to do with you, you quickly discover that your society expects you and your children to live malnourished on the streets indefinitely.

Resisting the Surveillance State and its network effects

Panel discussion with Jacob Appelbaum, Dmitry Kleiner:

They produce a continual stream of fantastic points about threats to online privacy posed by prevailing attitudes, the role of private profit in communication systems, and pervasive state surveillance.

The video is worth watching if for nothing else to witness Appelbaum's awesome smack-down of one audience member on the topic of market choice in social networks.

(Appelbaum is a Tor developer who has experienced repeated harassment and monitoring by US federal agents.)

A Revelation Indeed

Hidden Epidemic: Tapeworms Living Inside People's Brains

From Discover Magazine:

But sometimes tapeworms take a wrong turn. Instead of going into a pig, the eggs end up in a human. This can occur if someone shedding tapeworm eggs contaminates food that other people then eat. When the egg hatches, the confused larva does not develop into an adult in the human’s intestines. Instead, it acts as it would inside a pig. It burrows into the person’s bloodstream and gets swept through the body. Often those parasites end up in the brain, where they form cysts.

The tapeworm larvae often get stuck in ventricles, or fluid-filled cavities, in the brain, sprouting grapelike extensions. In this way the worm actively cloaks itself from immune cells. Protected and well fed, its cysts can thrive there for years.

On the value of teamwork

COMPUTER JESUS REFRIGERATOR

Why Facebook Is Never Safe

From Wikileaks and TOR developer Jacob Appelbaum, on Facebook among other things:

Here’s the easy solution: don’t fucking surveil yourself! If you want to stay safe on Facebook, the answer is, you should not use it, and don’t tag people! There are benefits of using it, there are tradeoffs, but in the long run I think it’s going to be pretty bad that you gave a bunch of capitalists all your private information where the US government asserts and has the right to read it without a warrant and with the ability to gag the corporate.

What’s the greatest database of Jews on the planet? Facebook. What will happen when you want the biggest database of leftists on the planet? Or right wing people? That’s really, really scary, so one way to not be part of that dataset is to not put yourself in it voluntarily, and to chastise people who only hang out with you to tag you in facebook as a sort of conspicuous consumption of the 21st Century say: "Hey, if that’s all you get out of our friendship then go fuck yourself!"

Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies