Tuesday, November 07, 2006

ö Hacking Democracy - Full Film Online  Throw away your TV - Hacking Democracy - Full Film The Much Hyped HBO Documentary "Hacking Democracy" [link] is now online. So hyped in fact that Diebold doesn't want you see it [link]. This cautionary documentary exposes the vulnerability of computers - which count approximately 80% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections - suggesting that if our votes aren't safe, then our democracy isn't safe either.  Check out Black Box Voting too. It may or may not be too late for this election, but 2008 is still very open to cleaning up. permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?

ö ELECTION DAY: falsehood is a feature, not a bug Danger, Will Robinson:  Crooks and Liars » An ideology of lying ... lying has become not only a perfectly acceptable tactic, but one that is central to their movement. Lying is not something they do sometimes It is who they are. Lying is a central and consciously adopted part of their ideology. [...] "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, as you will - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out." The authoritarian Bush movement is so Wise (in the case of neoconservatives) and so Good (in the case of the religious fundamentalists who are their loyal comrades) that everything, including the most blatant lies, is not only justifiable, but necessary. Reality can and must be fundamentally distorted for our own good. As Mona put it - and as the two posts linked above illustrate - "for neoconservatives [which has subsumed the so-called "conservative" movement itself], falsehood is a feature, not a bug." more  permanent link #     ^ TOP ^  what is this place?