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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Krugman on Maddow last night and Chris Hedges

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Resist or Become Serfs

America is devolving into a third-world nation. And if we do not immediately halt our elite’s rapacious looting of the public treasury we will be left with trillions in debts, which can never be repaid, and widespread human misery which we will be helpless to ameliorate. Our anemic democracy will be replaced with a robust national police state. The elite will withdraw into heavily guarded gated communities where they will have access to security, goods and services that cannot be afforded by the rest of us. Tens of millions of people, brutally controlled, will live in perpetual poverty. This is the inevitable result of unchecked corporate capitalism. The stimulus and bailout plans are not about saving us. They are about saving them. We can resist, which means street protests, disruptions of the system and demonstrations, or become serfs...

Yeesh, this guy Hedges thinks like I do. Aren't you glad you don't live in my head?
And what's this here? The Russians and the Chinese want to mess with our electricity system? WTF?

US electricity grid hit by cyber attacks: report
Agence France-Presse
Published: Wednesday April 8, 2009
Chinese and Russian cyber-spies have hacked into the US electricity grid and inserted programs that could be used to disrupt the system, a report said Wednesday

...In March 2008, Canadian investigators achieved a cyber-security triumph: the exposure of a malicious data-gathering botnet...

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