PIRATEBOX PROJECT - DAY 1

Heard about PirateBox from BlacklistedNews.com. It's the brainchild of David Darts, head of Art Dept at NYU. The PirateBox is a router, usb drive and battery configured to be an internet in a box. This does not connect to the world wide web, which is the beauty of it.

It broadcasts a wifi signal, ppl can connect anonymously to download, upload files or chat with others on the network. The PirateBox keeps no logs of ppl who connect to it. This project intrigued me because ISPs, MPAA, RIAA and govts are trying to lock down our beloved internet.

I ordered the TP-Link M3020 router ($35), the 8GB USB drive ($8) and the external USB battery ($40, but not necessary) from Amazon. Two days later (Jan 26) I'm step #10 on the PirateBox DIY instructions page. That's where I got stuck. My home router's ip address is different from the ip listed in the instructions. So, I have to edit the network file of the TP-Link router. Never did that before. So today will be a first.. Wish me luck.

Google really f'g up my photo. Here's the TP-Link M3020 router, SanDisk 8GB USB stick and Anker 5V USB battery. Purchased from Amazon. Came in about two days.

Here's a video: Interview with David Darts about PirateBox...

Middle Class Myth

Love the term "middle class". What does it really mean when your neighbor is starving? I used to think I was middle class. I went to college and got a bachelors. Work hard for years in my profession, became fairly good at it, but never broke fifty grand a year.

I've have since changed careers and fifty is behind me, but one hundred thousand is still down the street around the corner. Am I middle class? I live in an apartment in a safe neighborhood. Am I middle class? I hear a homeless woman in the stairwell (it's 1AM). Can't be middle class if a homeless woman can sleep in your stairwell.

My conclusion is that the middle class are the politicians. They are between us and the wealthy that fund them. They are that class in the middle. Which explains why they legislate in a way that benefits them and their major contributors, the upper class.

The homeless lady in the stairwell has removed all illusion of my middle class status; degree, certifications and professional experience notwithstanding. If I am bereft of work for a certain period, I could be bunking in a hallway, with my degree. My politics embrace this fact. I am not middle class. I am working class, neighbor to the poor.

photo caption: bread aisle in Safeway grocery store during hurricane Sandy days. Taken with my iPhone 4S, Hipstamatic app (Helga Viking lens, Blanko Freedom13 film)

Tricknowledgy ep#69 GUN RIGHTS SOUL CONTROL

SHOW AND SHOW NOTES
Here's the show and related links for Gun Rights Soul Control.

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HERE'S THE VIDEO BY DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED, TESTING A GUN MAGAZINE PRINTED WITH A 3D PRINTER i don't own this video, just sharing:

HERE'S AUTHOR AND WAR CORRESPONDENT CHRIS HEDGES ON THE US GUN CULTURE AND WHITE SUPREMACY i don't own this video, just sharing...


PLAYLIST OF MUSIC IN EP#69 THE FULL VERSIONS OF THE SONGS
MUSIC BREAK #1 - PINK CLOUDS REPRISE BY LASSWELL

MUSIC BREAK #2 - CHASNA: BEG YOUR PARDON BY VINO

ep63 Stop & Frisk - The POLICE STATE for Teens 10/14 by Tricknowledgy | Blog Talk Radio

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Map showing Stop & Frisk sites and sites where Gun are recovered aren't same areas.

The link for this map is: http://project.wnyc.org/stop-frisk-guns To embed this map on a blog or site, copy this:

videoNATION: The Hunted and the Hated: An Inside Look at the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Policy

A secret audio recording of a stop-and-frisk in action sheds unprecedented light on a practice that has put the city's young people of color in the NYPD's crosshairs. Read the full story at: http://www.thenation.com/article/170413/stopped-and-frisked-being-fking-mutt-...
Directed by Ross Tuttle Produced by Ross Tuttle, Erin Schneider, Stephen Maing Camera by Ross Tuttle, Stephen Maing Editing by Stephen Maing, Carla Ruff

Is There Rest for the Weary Voter?

People were exhausted. By the time Barak Hussien Obama was sworn in as President back in 2008, people were exhausted. The Black and Brown countries, former subjects of the colonel powers were exhausted. White liberals and activists from the sixties were exhausted. The Middle Eastern countries who play their extremists against the West were exhausted. Everybody thought this Black man would set the largest military power in the world on the road to peace.

We were all wrong. Is there no rest for the weary?

The "union" and "confederate" media in the United states hides alot of what the Obama Administration is doing because they benefit from the lie that there is a two political parties system in America. But on the major questions of Civil Rights (liberties), invasions of other countries in the name of national defense and tax policy, the two parties behave the same way.

A republican president makes the Patriot Act law. A democratic president extends it. Same with wars in the Middle East, same with the Bush tax cuts. And this is a wonderdul thing. Because it reminds us of a critical truth about democratic republics. Voting doesn't make major shifts in policies, social movements do.

While Hosni Mubarak ruled Egypt for 30 years, there were elections, but not democracy. When the 'Arab Spring' occured, thousand of people in the streets with peacful will to change the regieme, that was democracy.

Am I the only one who fears we live under a ditatorship of "two" parties? We should all be thinking of where we were during Occupy movements last year. Where were you during the hispanic student uprisings two years ago? Where you or your parents during the Civil Rights movement? It's these events in democracies that keep it healthy and honest. These actions in a democratic republic (which the US is) gives voting meaning.

Don't join a party, join a movement... (just make sure your movement doesn't have corporate sponsers. Then your'e just a patsy for the oligarhs. Hince the photo.)

photo caption: tea bag floating in mug. Taken with iPhone 4S w/on board photo app.