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[Sheb]

We should get them the endengered specie status.

[RedKing]

Interview with a major Anonymous organizer

Q. What’s next for Anonymous?
A: Right now we have access to every classified database in the U.S. government.

o_o  So when is Anonymous going to inform us about the

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Considering many of the most sensitive databases are utterly isolated from the Internet, Anonymous can go blow a goat. At one point, they were something to be reckoned with. Now they're just a parody of themselves.

[Heron TSG]

And WikiLeaks couldn't have has access to those military documents from Bradley Manning, right?

[SalmonGod]

Guatemalan anti-mining activist survives being shot three times in an assassination attempt

[Josephus]

Guatemalan anti-mining activist survives being shot three times in an assassination attempt

Just for the record, this kind of thing happens all the time. It's good that this particular instance got some press coverage (although press sometimes doesn't prevent atrocities like this at all)

[SalmonGod]

Guatemalan anti-mining activist survives being shot three times in an assassination attempt

Just for the record, this kind of thing happens all the time. It's good that this particular instance got some press coverage (although press sometimes doesn't prevent atrocities like this at all)

I'm well aware.  Most people aren't.  That's what Occupy is about.

Much of South America is damn brutal towards activists... or anyone who believes in human rights at all.  Those issues just don't get any attention in the states, because we're more directly responsible for it there than in most places.

[Lagslayer]

Guatemalan anti-mining activist survives being shot three times in an assassination attempt

Just for the record, this kind of thing happens all the time. It's good that this particular instance got some press coverage (although press sometimes doesn't prevent atrocities like this at all)

I'm well aware.  Most people aren't.  That's what Occupy is about.

Much of South America is damn brutal towards activists... or anyone who believes in human rights at all.  Those issues just don't get any attention in the states, because we're more directly responsible for it there than in most places.

You might as well blame us for the Tiananmen Square massacre. Or the Holocaust.

[Phmcw]

Not the tienanmen massacre, but all great power of the time are partly responsible for the holocaust.

Now, given that most of the sud african government are under the boot of Americans and that a lot of corp are american, you are, in fact, directly responsible for those murders.

[Lagslayer]

I think we are at a fundamental disagreement as to what qualifies as "directly responsible". Since this is largely opinionated and based on hindsight, this conversation isn't likely to go anywhere. I resign from this conversation.

[ChairmanPoo]

Not to mention the Contras, the School of the Americas, Pinochet, etc...

[SalmonGod]

Not to mention the Contras, the School of the Americas, Pinochet, etc...

Umm... yeah... we are DIRECTLY responsible for a lot of bad shit in South America.  We actively worked to impoverish as much of the damn continent as we could.  We sent in "economic hitmen" who fed bad advice to leaders who then indebted their nations to American financial institutions.  The CIA assassinated legitimately elected leaders who expressed any shred of socialist sentiment or trained/funded/organized extremist opposition groups into full-blown coups (Pinochet being the most prominent example) and then trained/funded death squads to maintain a state of turmoil that some (Columbia) have never recovered from.

If you want to learn more about this, start with looking up "Dirty War" or "Operation Condor".  This isn't conspiracy theory stuff, either.  Much of it is told in CIA documents de-classified 30-40 years after the fact.

Or you could try the Wikipedia article on Latin America - United States Relations as a good starting point.

[SalmonGod]

23 Senate Dems vote against restoring $4.5 billion in Food Stamp aid

How Many Minimum Wage Hours Does It Take To Afford A Two-Bedroom Apartment In Your State?

[SalmonGod]

Spoiler: No, it's not dead. (click to show/hide)

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I don't know. It seems pretty dead to me.

[SalmonGod]

I don't know. It seems pretty dead to me.

The camps were all shut down by overwhelming force.  I had hoped that could be kept up for longer, but I guess it was inevitable.  The movement is still very active.  It's just ignored by major media, which has declared it dead... because its most visible component (the camps) has disappeared.  Perhaps I should gather some info and write up a recap of the last few months.