There is more at stake here than just a farmer and his few customers — this is about the fundamental right of farmers and consumers to engage in peaceful, private, mutually consenting agreements for food, without additional oversight.
Farmer Faces Over 2 Years Jail, $10K Fines for Feeding Community (via thakate)
We’re so screwed.
Too much addiction, no consciousness
Don’t trust it, this cosmology is busted
Broken returns to the dusted, stems of corruption
Oppression, deceit, abuse and repeat
They don’t feel complete unless they’re robbin’ the sheep
Man is not a product if you call it that then stop it
In this neurotic godless society
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289
This is such a simple fucking point. Just look at the graph above.
Prison privatisation really takes off in the 80s (in response to increased prison populations from racist war on drugs started in the 70s).
There are companies whose entire existence depend on locking people up, and who are legally obliged to do this as much as possible.
We’ve put private corporations in a position where they can dictate to state governments how many people they must arrest and sentence to prison in a year. There are two possibilities here: either they have some kind of Minority Report style technology where they magically know how many crimes are going to be committed in advance, or people are losing their freedom for no other reason than to improve the bottom line.
And think about the way “business ethics” functions in the capitalist U.S. right now. To be successful, it’s not enough for a company to stay afloat and it’s not even enough for them to turn a profit. All anyone cares about is growth: the highest possible profit must be made this quarter, but next quarter’s must be even higher.
There’s a reason that graph keeps going up.
Conservatives like to trot out old sayings about how no democracy can survive once the masses figure out they can vote to give themselves the keys to the treasury. Well, how’s a republic supposed to survive this?
Morally reprehensible.
Source: questionall
Major cities like New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and even Houston have been declared by the Department of Homeland Security to be within the official 100 mile ‘border’ of the United States, subjecting 197 million citizens to electronic belonging searches without any suspicion.
Important stuff, people
Wow.
Source: datcrackacaw
Pool report: “As the president walked close by, a group of reporters yelled, in unison, “Did you beat Tiger?!?
Watch This: View from the World’s Most Advanced Surveillance Drone
If you want to see scary science fiction in real life, watch this video. For the first time, the U.S. Department of Defense gives us a glimpse into its new surveillance system—one that puts George Orwell’s to shame. This big brother is capable of some serious spying, and his name is Argus.
Argus is actually a pretty clumsy acronym: Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System. But there’s nothing clumsy about its capabilities. Argus has the world’s highest resolution camera, which records 1.8 billion pixels in real-time. The sensor itself is classified, but the DoD gave PBS a bit of a teaser for the NOVA special “Rise of the Drones.”
In the video Yiannis Antoniades, an engineer contracted to design the sensor, shows us an Argus-eye view of the world. Once mounted on a drone, Argus can fly around and record video from an altitude of 17,500 feet. The view is breathtaking. And we’re talking the take-your-breath-away-because-this-is-so-frightening kind of breathtaking. While keeping tabs on a 15-square-mile swath of ground, Argus allows operators to zoom in on up to 65 different people in real-time. It can see you walking down the sidewalk. It can see what you’re wearing. It can see what you’re doing with your arms. It can see when you stop to tie your shoe. Getting this kind of resolution from this altitude is unprecedented.
And this is the stuff they’re willing to show us.
WOW.
Records a million terabytes each and every day. Holy shit.
Guess who’s watching you?
Police can secretly record video inside your home, and a federal appeals court is completely okay with that.
Wow.
when i see an israeli jew on fb writing on an acquaintances wall to “fucking kill them all” in reference to the palestinians, I wonder if he can even pause for a moment to wonder about that kind of thinking and his people’s history?
someone has to go first and take a step. b/c each side can point to pain and loss in their families, we’ll otherwise keep going round and round and round. And i don’t see how that first step can be by anyone other than those with the power in the region.
i’m not hopeful…
I don’t get.
Any of it.
At all.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews talks to a woman who insists President Obama is a communist but, seemingly, cannot define the term.
I weep for our future.
What You Won't Hear Debated: The Trillion-dollar Misunderstanding
It’s estimated that, for defense and national security, the U.S. spends about one trillion dollars a year — which amounts to more than 80 percent of this year’s expected deficit.
Mitt Romney is promising to spend even more — an additional 2.1 trillion dollars over the next ten years. President Obama has called for some cuts, but is loath to challenge the premises that underlie those enormous expenses.
Why the caution? There are too many powerful interests at play — what President Dwight Eisenhower long ago portrayed as the Military-Industrial complex — interests sustained by that massive hemorrhage of American treasure. And those interests — corporations, labor unions, the pentagon, think tanks, politicians — use their massive clout to keep the torrent flowing.
