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Truthers, podcasters, youtubers, the Pauls, etc are having an influence. And congress is about as hated as they've ever been, maybe more. Folks are broke and jobless and having rights yanked away every day..they might be showing some real Pioneer, Free, AMERICAN spirit - at least the ones paying attention.Fan wrote: The kooky thing is that I think this event is one of the few that I could believe is not managed or staged, and yet it seems like the entire internet thinks it is. Even those who were not conspiracy believers are coming and asking me what I think about this.
It scares me because I was always the crackpot, but now everyone is a crackpot.
Dale O Sea wrote: Truthers, podcasters, youtubers, the Pauls, etc are having an influence. And congress is about as hated as they've ever been, maybe more. Folks are broke and jobless and having rights yanked away every day..they might be showing some real Pioneer, Free, AMERICAN spirit - at least the ones paying attention.
Most aren't, unfortunately.
Could be - read some of the tweets? Either those are plants or the tweeters will be rounded up. There was some pretty brash stuff I read. Nothing anyone would say face to face - no one that I know anyway.Fan wrote: I think they are trying to draw out the fringers.
Do you have a link, Dale? Do I #hashtag something?:DDale O Sea wrote: Could be - read some of the tweets? Either those are plants or the tweeters will be rounded up. There was some pretty brash stuff I read. Nothing anyone would say face to face - no one that I know anyway.
Competition..the American way.Anonymous raises ,798 through Indiegogo to kick-start its dedicated news site for Your Anon News
An Indiegogo campaign set up by Anonymous to expand its news coverage through a dedicated site, rather than its existing Twitter and Tumblr services, has closed with over ,798 in crowd-sourced funding.
Anonymous launched the project with an initial funding target of ,000, which the hacktivist collective said will be used to fund parts of the development process and initial hosting.
The news site will be used to bring together breaking news, reports and blogs from independent reporters online under its Your Anon News branding. Anonymous’ original campaign video said that it would provide a space for people on the ground, or ‘citizen journalists’, to be able to livestream events as they were taking place.
While the initial funding target was undoubtedly set well below the group’s predicted support, the money it has received from 1,309 backers means that it should have more than enough investment to build a news site with considerable influence.
Anonymous is never far from mainstream news due to its various demonstrations and hacking exploits. The group accessed several prominent North Korean sites earlier this week, including central news and information outlet Uriminzokkiri.com.
It has also criticized the mainstream media, in part because of its traditional structure and inherent constraints, but also for publishing what it describes as “political and celebrity gossip.”
Anonymous is a movement and set of ideals, which makes it increasingly difficult to identify the size and hierarchy of its operations.
A news site for Your Anon News could be like nothing the Internet has ever seen before, if it chooses to avoid many of the ethics and principles endorsed, but sometimes forgotten, by traditional journalists.
Backers can expect to receive their appropriate perks, such as buttons, coffee mugs, t-shirts and the like, by June this year.
Fan wrote: Every pressure cooker I have ever seen has an important safety device, a pressure valve that releases when the pressure is too high. So, they disabled this? On the pots I have seen the only way to do that would be to dismantle the valve and weld the hole shut.
Wouldn't it be easier and more deadly to use a pipe bomb?
Fan wrote: Every pressure cooker I have ever seen has an important safety device, a pressure valve that releases when the pressure is too high. So, they disabled this? On the pots I have seen the only way to do that would be to dismantle the valve and weld the hole shut.
Wouldn't it be easier and more deadly to use a pipe bomb?
I gave this a little thought too.Fan wrote: what is crazy is in all the speculation I have read no one else has mentioned this... am I missing something?
Fan wrote: Looks like 4chan found the bombers... http://imgur.com/a/sUrnA
