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All we have to do is drive home the obvious to Americans: There’s a class war going on, like Warren Buffett says, and they’re kicking your asses every time and laughing all the way to the bailed-out bank—just in time for the bank to foreclose on your house! Americans don’t have tea parties, we have bar-b-ques for fuck’s sake, and we drink Coke or beer. “Tea Party”—what’s next, the “Vienna Ball” protest movement? Hundreds of thousands of “Viennaballers” in Mozart costumes hitting the streets demanding hereditary titles for our billionaires? Suck up to them all you want to, they’ll still despise you. They have yachts and airplanes and mansions all over the world and children who will never see a bill or worry about a single thing beyond remembering their servants’ names– and it’s all thanks to robbing you and your family blind. No shit you’re angry! You have every reason to be angry!

Mark Ames: We, the spiteful

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Yasha Levine on Tor, corporate surveillence and the right wing roots of the cyber security subculture

https://surveillancevalley.net/blog/interview-in-german-magazine-konkret-about-tor-and-the-cult-of-crypto

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James Bamford on the US’ involvement in cyberwarfare

“Starting with Vietnam, the list of wars the United States has entered with disastrous results continues to grow. Engaging Russia in a potentially endless cyberwar based on questionable evidence will only make it longer.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-cyberwar-commentary-idUSKBN12X075

“Yet there can never be a useful discussion on the topic if the Obama administration continues to point fingers at other countries without admitting that Washington is engaged heavily in cyberspying and cyberwarfare.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-election-intelligence-commentary-idUSKCN10F1H5

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Rather than a replacement or a revolution, then, Kickstarter has confirmed, by releasing these statistics, that its place in the music world is one that sits snugly beside the record label system. Real progress still isn’t made without the interest of labels, and the world at large.

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All our lives, from the time we became sentient beings and lost our lives to Little Richard and Elvis Presley, people were telling us "you're going to outgrow this." And in some way everybody believed we would: believed it with resentment, believed it with sorrow, believed it with a weary shrug of the shoulders, but believed it. But when the Beatles showed up, suddenly we we realized, "no, you don't have to outgrow this."

Simon Reynolds interviews Greil Marcus, part 1, 2, 3, 4

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Zebra Katz - Ima Read feat. Njena Reddd Foxxx

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This article by Carrie Battan is essential reading and almost certainly the best piece of journalism ever published by Pitchfork.

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Alexander Diduck: Slow Media & The Occupation of Online Time