20080610
It is time for citizens to commandeer oil prices! - Click!
Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) worked valiantly today to send a message to the oil industry that we have had it with the oil companies high prices with no merit. But when the bill that she proposed that would charge the oil companies a windfall sales tax failed, then another bill that gave tax breaks to alternative energy died, both at the hands of the Establishment, it has become clear that no amount of legislative action, or judicial action, and certainly not any executive action, would stop the oil companies from overcharging Americans.The oil industry makes enough money, that they are above the law. They could commit murder (which they have) and simply write a check for bail if they were in a trial. The oil industry has no respect for the laws of man or the natural rights of humans. Their crimes have hindered the wellbeing of citizens, as police and fire departments must cut back on their crime and safety training for gasoline. The oil industry has obstructed the school year of children that school years must be truncated, shortening the educations of some students, and rerouting buses to standing room only for mass-transit systems.
Today, the estabishment stated that they are in full support of the oil industries crippling America, its infrastructure, and its government.
We are now at war with The Estabishment. The Estabishment that declared war but sent its troops into battle without armour. The Establishment that promised "Gas Tax Holidays" to bribe people into gaining their consent and compliance to continue to raise the price of fuel and lower environmental standards. The Establishment that has damaged the environment to the point that their are no bees to polinate crops, which in turn endangers our food supply. The Establishment that bailed out mortgage lenders and savings and loan groups just as they did nearly 20 years ago. The Establishment that put energy companies in charge of environmental and energy standards which made the air we breathe unhealthy and the people who could not afford heating or air conditioning freeze or swelter. The Establishment that mistreated hospitalized war veterans, exported jobs overseas, and held back students who proved that they could succeed.
The Establishment is afraid of change. It is afraid to lose the power it has been inebriated itself with the freedom of its citizens. It has taken this country and the world for a ride and it was incahoots with alot of bad people who also fear change. Many of these changes were maid possible online, reguardless of the attempts of disinformation which tried to drown out or lie about what is going on. Television and radio only tell us what the Establishment wants us to see and hear. The Internet has changed the playing field. Not like in 2000 or 2004, but for real this time in 2008.
We frighten the Establishment, and that is a good thing. We aren't sending them terriorist threats or manufactured lies to keep people in control. We are spreading the honest truth that life stinks right now, but at they same time we are telling people that we are not going to take it lying down.
We are ready to take on the changes that the Establishment will fight us tooth an nail over. We are not going to let them continue to keep the status quo because we know what has happened--that IS HAPPENING--because we gave up freedom for quiet conscent.
It is time we commandeer the gas stations and put the price of oil back under $2 per gallon. The oil industry makes more than enough money that they deserve to be victums of their own crimes.
But by no means does not paying for gas mean that we can drive around in the big gas-guzzling vehicles.
The automobile industry is still an accessory to the crimes of the oil industry. They broke the laws too, raking in profits while their workers took a pay cut so that the guys upstairs got a pay raise.
It is time that the citizens of the United States of America took control of this situation, as the Establishment, the oil industry, and the automobile industry won't.
Labels: diy, energy, environment, freedom, fud, government, news, politics
posted by Bushido Hacks 6/10/2008 09:39:00 PM (0) comments top
20080204
Good Riddance to MyFox! - Click!
After nearly a year, I have decided to terminate my relationship with KTVI.A conflict of interest has boiled over. What I can't believe is how one person said the phrase "these bloggers who delete comments". "These bloggers?" Pardon my naivety, but wouldn't this person count themself as one of "these bloggers". Gee, I woun't have to exercise that button if people didn't use l33t sp3ak, leave little comments less than 25 words long, and especially prejudice. (We've all been guilty of that last one in one way or another.)
But what really pissed them off is when I showed them this picture.
It is no lie that the people at the Fox Network and their affiliates have been instructed NOT to treat people equally. How would the station or the network's shareholders react if they did not treat everyone equally?
I find it shocking to believe that suddenly a network that has supported the status quo says that they support a candidate who runs under the democractic ticket but she is as republican as a Tipper Sticker.
I've had enough!
Not to metion all the news stories that were ignored so that they could sell American Idol during the newscast and suppress any real news.
As of today any post related to news events will be posted under the news tag.
News sites and blogs that I would recommend:
- PubDef.net - local political blog hosted by Antonio D. French
- WikiLou - The St. Louis Wiki
- Slashdot.org - Technology news
- KDHX
- Independent Media Center
- Fark.com
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Defective By Design
- The Media Foundation
- Free Software Foundation
- 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
- Phrack.org
- Popular Science
- Linux Journal
I'll work on a links page in the near future.
Labels: news, stlouis, thedistraction, thevirus
posted by Bushido Hacks 2/04/2008 05:52:00 PM (0) comments top
20070502
Digg gets HD-DVD pwn3d!
I used to look up to Kevin Rose back when he was on TechTV, but this news about Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson taking money from the HD-DVD promotions group and the MPAA is like finding out Barry Bonds took steroids.In response to this stab in the back, here's the number that the MPAA tried to censor from public knowlege to crack their crappy overpirced coasters.
09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0
Shame on you, Kevin. To hell with you , MPAA.
What numbers will the MPAA try to censor next? pi? e? The speed of light in a vaccum?
UPDATE
Kevin has quickly appologized for today's actions.
Labels: foia, fud, hack, movies, news, physics, rage, shovelware, websites
posted by Bushido Hacks 5/02/2007 12:04:00 AM (0) comments top
20070323
Terrorism against Animals committed
Last week, animals throughout North America became ill after tainted pet food was discovered.Today, it was discovered that the food was tainted with rat poision, a substance which should never be inside a food factory.
This was an act of terrorism. What if this had been a factory for humans? What if the substance that was discovered had been a radioactive isotope that fatally poisoned several people last year in Europe?
This was an act of deliberate terrorism. A warning shot targeting man's best friend then man himself.
The FBI should become involved in this case as well as the United States Department of Agroculture.
Just as we do not negociate with terrorists who attack humans, we should not negociate with terrorists who attack animals.
Labels: news
posted by Bushido Hacks 3/23/2007 10:09:00 PM (1) comments top
20070302
CompUSA Crashes! - Click!
If there is anything true it is that nothing complementary is truely free or as good as they say. Today, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted on the front page of the business section that all three St. Louis Area CompUSA stores are shutting down. Nationwide, 50% of all their stores are closing their doors."Yeah, so why not go to Circuit City or Best Buy?" Because firedog and geek squad are posers! On top of that, a trip to Circuit City this afternoon offered none of the products that I need to continuing to build my own computer. What's the point of selling CPU cooling fans if you don't have any CPUs to sell?
It also doesn't help that places like Circuit City and Best Buy put their computer department next to the car audio or home theatre section where the base is turned up and making items sensitive to shock vibrate.
I have come to realize that geeks in this country are being forced into exile. Money makers see the computer nerd as a niche group sort of like they associate goths with Hot Topic or women to the Lifetime TV network. Unless you are part of the herd, they seek to exterminate strays and individual thought.
I will not stand for it! I've worked too hard to save up to build my own machine just so that one of the few resources that can actually help me can die.
This is a sad day.
Labels: business, diy, horror, mod, news, rage, stlouis, tech, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 3/02/2007 08:16:00 PM (0) comments top
20070129
UGH! I've done something I had hoped I wouldn't do! - Click!
I hate myspace. It has more cookies than a Mrs. Fields. But since I'm desperate to get some attention to this website and to myself, I had to swallow a tablespoon of codliver oil loaded with ADD causing advertisments and people whose HTML skill are so bad, Tim Berners-Lee needs to kick their ass.On the other hand, I could start up a group to bring down G4.
I'm tired right now. I'll deal with all that crap later.
Labels: horror, myspace, news, rage, thevirus, websites, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/29/2007 01:05:00 AM (0) comments top
20070128
The Pope Condems Video Game, Cartoon Violence - Click!
His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI gave lapsed Catholics one more reason to skip Church on Sunday by condemning video game and cartoon violence on Wednesday, January 24, taking a few lines from Miami lawyer and anti-videogame activist Jack Thompson.This is ironic considering there is a VeggieTales videogame on the market that is not very good which has pleanty of Cartoon Violence and a Left Behind videogame which is really bad. (Yeah, so what if non-Catholics make that blasphemous crap. They still sell it at the Catholic supply store and at Christian bookstores.) I miss the old Pope.
I guess if saving the Princess by slaying a few demons is wrong, then I don't want to be right.
Labels: animation, dogma, fud, games, movies, music, news, PS3, thevirus, Wii, wtf
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/28/2007 10:25:00 AM (1) comments top
20070117
It's Not A Book, It's Fark! - Click!
As bitter as I still am for being banned from Fark.com because of foolish behavior long before there was a BushidoHacks.com which which is still used as evidence against me for rejoining the site, which uses the wicked IP ban system that should only be used on spammers, I look forward to reading Drew Curtis' It's Not News, It's FARK: How Mass Media Trys to Pass Off Crap as News when it hits booksotes June 14, 2007.It's like everyone that is well known on the Internet is coming out with a book lately. Last year it was Maddox with the Alphabet of Manliness. Also last year Ninja Burger Honorable Employee Handbook by Michael L. Fiegel, and one of the most controversial books of last year The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson.
What's next for 2007? Newgrounds? Tomorrow's Nobody? Neil Cicierega already has a couple CDs he's produced with his band Lemon Demon. To top that of he's like a few years younger than I am. I feel like I've been left out of this positive wave of Internet notoriety (sp).
I bet if Ebaum's World had a book it would probably be called: If I Did Steal Content From Other People's Websites, Here's How It Would Happen.
I need to find my place on the Internet. Some place that is productive, makes some form of money and does not required the need to bare all, it you know what I mean.
I need to find something worthy of writing a book about, even though I am not an English major. Why should only those folks get to have all the fun?
It will be one of my short term goals this year to make a video on YouTube. This way, some one can say "Gosh damn that boy is ugly." :-)
But first I need to take care of a few things that prevent me from enjoying the Internet including my own work.
Labels: books, news, thevirus, websites
posted by Bushido Hacks 1/17/2007 04:57:00 PM (0) comments top