Twitter adjusts for Iran & Obama introduces more facism

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A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight's planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).

Our partners are taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the other services they support worldwide—we commend them for being flexible in what is essentially an inflexible situation. We chose NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services early last year specifically because of their impeccable history of reliability and global perspective. Today's decision and actions continue to prove why NTT America is such a powerful partner for Twitter.

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Danger Room Reports

Tehran Live



American Issues:
CONTACT YOUR SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN ABOUT HR1207 - DON'T ALLOW THEM TO EXPAND THE POWER OF THE FED, THEY PLAN TO ALLOW THE FED TO ANALYZE AND MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT WHAT DIFFERENT COMPANIES ARE A RISK TO THE ECONOMY.

and this:
http://www.recovery.gov/?q=content/making-work-pay

and many other things.

READ MORE.

This isn't a joke.

http://iran.whyweprotest.net/videos/

IRANIAN PROTEST; LOOK UP MORE PLEASE.

TehranLive
This website has been banned by the Iranian Government.

"P.S 2: This website is banned in Iran by goverment since 3 hours ago."


"Iranian protestors to 2009 Presidental election results, had a “silent demonstration” at the 5th day of protests.
They moved from 7tir square to Enqelab square. The protestors want to revoke this elections."

no time.
Gone.

WE NEED TO REDEFINE HOW WE VIEW THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION

WE ARE THE MACHINE WE GENERATE/SHARE MORE INFORMATION THAN THE "EXPERTS."

IRANIAN PROTEST; FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS

http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2009/06/15/iranians-protest-election-tweeps-protest-cnn/


http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/iranians-protest-government-cracks-down/

THIS IS FREEDOM DESTROYED.

John Hoskins' on what it is to live or die.

Of The Loss Of Time

"If life be time that here is lent,
And time on earth be cast away,
Whoso his time hath here misspent,
Hath hastened his own dying day;
So it doth prove a killing crime
To massacre our living time.

If doing naught be like to death,
Of him that doth, chameleon-wise
Take only pains to draw his breath,
The passers-by may pasquilize,
Not, here he lives: but, here, he dies."

(http://www.humanistictexts.org/elizabethan_poets.htm)

oh how beautiful and marvelous you really are.

oh how beautiful and marvelous you really are.

And if there is any question in your mind about to whom I am writing, it is really you.

Love and "Blindness"

How uncomfortable, how uncomforting to love another when your love is asked to be shared not but under and as the waning moon. You stand before me as a receeding wave, that entices with beauty and danger, an adventure that beckons and refrains that runs and crashes and sings.

I see my breath color the sky, cloud my eyes. I turn into an infant of immortality, possessing, beyond my matter, a love that stretches out to infinity. I exist blind to that which others take to be truth but is naught but a lie. But then in moments I lay in a lack of clarity- suddenly I can then see, that which is not there to see, and it hurts me, the me that wills to exist hurting. The beauty shines not in joy but in painful jest I lay mocked, Milton's words pressing hard against my tounge "jealousy is the injured lovers hell," willing me to speak that which is illusion, to be self-fufilled in dependency.

My feet grow roots which sink sink sink down and become strong. I wipe the growth away as it dissenigrates at my touch. And again I lay claim to blindness, a blindness more awakened than that of those whom profess to see.

"The American Form of Government"

"In the end, the market wins."

Texas Straight Talk

reference to GM: where the headquarters will be and what kinds of cars they will make.

"the promise that this is temporatry and will eventually be profitable is supposed to easy the American people into accepting this arrangement"

this shouldn't be comforting....think about what has happened to Amtrack.

General Motors is a private company getting government money.
The market's information about the demand for GM's services, instead of being headed and allowing GM to disband, sending out laborers to generate things we may now never know, we are now using our own money to support an undesired business. This is ridiculous and destructive.

All things in life are done with risk, allow things to work out naturally or you're simply ignoring the truth and developing longer term issues.

The purpose of Government is to uphold the Law, the purpose of Law is to protect our natural rights of Life, Liberty, and Property. These three things are interdependent...meaning when you restrict one you are restricting the others. Our government is perverting the law, making choices about our property, retracting our liberties, and infringing on our ability to live life according to our own interests.

Our own interests when pursued without the aid of force, often lead us to trade, trade is voluntary making it mutualistic, meaning beneficial to both parties. Because who would trade if they didn't value the trade?

Force is bad, on the small level and the large level.

"In the end, the market wins."

WAKE UP AMERICA, WAKE UP EARTH.

What is love?

I want to take the car, a guitar, a blanket and go out into the country. I want to look at the stars through a telescope and blow bubbles into the wind, off a cliff over hanging a moon-lit ocean. I want to feel more alive than I've ever felt. I want to drink a book, and feel the knowledge make my bones grow stronger. I want to whisper without words, and have you understand. I want to love unconditionally even more than I already know how to do. I want to never forgive, because I want to never feel the pain that makes forgiveness necessary. I want to press my hand against that invisible substance I can call you.


Can love be something more than an enjoyment of how someone makes you feel?

Torture, what does it really achieve?

I state that fear and pain are not great in the face of truth.

This statement, if taken to be true, can allow one to see that the fear of being wrong deminishes into -risk taking- rather than destructive behavior. When one knows that anything they 'know' could be proven wrong, yet they persist in their current understanding until proven otherwise, they are taking a risk. This very risk allows them to act and learn.

When this process- of the development of an understanding- is not recognized, then being wrong or right develops negatively into an environment that allows for polorazied communication, where neither party feels able/willing to assume (an awareness of) the (inherent) risk in knowing. This lack of awareness of the nature of "understanding" makes way for destructive behavior, seemingly excusing all violent acts in the name of truth. _when conflct is seen as violence, then violence is justified in "solving" conflict._ (paraphrasing Arnett).

When the goal of interaction is to procure some higher understanding, presumably truth - one can, see that communication must be a process of genuine listening, with the intention of understanding, not with the intention of deriving some predetermined type of information.

Primateively, one can see how another could be viewed as merely a means to an end, yet this definition of the purpose of the other doesn't seem to be sufficient.

I see conflict as an indicator of something to be discovered, allowing this "other" to not only help discover something to be explored, but to see them as useful in the discovery.

Inherent in seeing another as a means, you are expressing that they have something needed, and thus that _they_ are needed. (Though, I can see how this feels slightly empty. Is there something... beyond the fact that we have the ability to evolve constantly, making us communicators/learners... that could make us intrinsically valuable?)

We, as humans, seem to desire confirmation from others- whether this desire is logical or not I do not know. In the desire for the confirmation of our person as needed/valued we, likely, must feel the confirmation logically and emotionally. We desire to be understood.

I can see that -torture- can be "useful" in getting facts from someone through force, facts such as, a date that someone was shot, etcetera. But not only does torture deny the other any confirmation, the torture is imposed with the intention of deriving specific types of information. So even the "facts" discovered may be uncovered under incorrect pretenses, the context may be completely skewed, leaving the confessor in a position where they have given truths amidst falsity. This isn't communication.

(Why should facts have to be derived from someone by force? The need for the force itself implies a larger communication issue.)

Torture sees the other as a means to an end, the end being information, but does not allow for the other to develop a new understanding. Communication does not ensue through torture, rather it seems to instill an even stronger sense of objectification in both parties participating.

I'm inclined to say that force is never justified. (Though I think I am also willing, somewhat confusidely, to say that if my brothers life were in danger I would likely use force, and many different means I found necessary to remove him from the danger.)

I feel that all of these issues that would seem to preclude the "need" for torture,for the justification of violence, there lays a deep issue relating to the way we view truth, and thus the way we view others.

I see that facts and "truths" that are derived from someone forcibly, are subpar to true communication where both are in a position to --peacefully-- gain a new understanding.

The example of the man who recieved cookies, demonstrates all of this perfectly.
Yeah maybe it is rediculous that we feel, or maybe that is what makes all of this life worth living.
But we as humans, we do feel, and we care, and we are imperfect, living in a world of knowledge scarcirty.
Because of this, I see torture as only mans sick excuse to procure information that could be achieved in another fashion, another fashion that would have allowed both parties the potential for a new understanding