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Mayoral Candidates Respond to Occupy San Diego Arrests
Yes, the various attempts to fetter new communications technologies will never stop. Let's give credit to Congressman Issa for leading the fight against SOPA today. But the cat is really out of the bag. Every telecoms system in the world today has what is known as the Lawful Intercept Module (LIM). This allows law enforcement to access Call Detail Records (CDR) and so much more...basically anything that goes through the internet, mobile phone, land line. Then they can associate someone's CDRs with their contacts, and associate those contacts, and so on...building quite interesting visualizations of your friends, colleagues, and their friends and colleagues, ad infinitum. This has existed for a decade now, and is not just standard kit for telecoms...it's required. With the LIM, the telecom operator does not know what law enforcement is looking at, and there's no need to ask the telco's permission. Everyone prefers it that way, and it's engineered that way. Welcome to the Orwellian State.— January 18, 2012 8:53 p.m.
Redevelopment promoters weep over supreme court decision
DeMaio, Fletcher, and Dumanis all want to bring redevelopment back. Conservative? Frugal? Pro Property Rights? Not one of them can claim that. Only Bob Filner is delighted to see the money stay in San Diego, and welcomes the end of CCDC and its ilk. Independents, like Brian Peterson, are ascendant in San Diego's general elections. Filner will be the next Mayor. As to what new jobs former CCDC staff might find...sad to say, these pampered snowflakes aren't qualified for much. They've administered a scam that no longer exists. Their power, network of colleagues, prerogatives, and ability to justify their generous salaries has vanished. They were middle-men providing specialized details to favored developers on how to play the rigged redevelopment game. Too bad things like workforce re-training have been cut because redevelopment scams like the ballpark hollowed out the education budget. Those poor CCDC souls could have benefited from learning how honest folk make a living. I suspect most of them cannot ever find productive employment, and a few too many of them will be forced to run for public office.— January 18, 2012 8:38 p.m.
Mayoral Candidates Respond to Occupy San Diego Arrests
DeMaio, Dumanis and Fletcher should be face-slammed to the pavement, beaten, arrested, and then charged with trumped-up felonies every time they speak in public until the election. Then maybe they'll have a different view of what the Constitutional right to free speech entails. It's disgusting to see such cowardly worms running for public office. I never thought I'd become a fan of "Smiling Bob" Filner, but he's the only one who's got a clue about what the USA is supposed to stand for any more.— January 18, 2012 4:09 a.m.
Occupy San Diego Protester Recounts Alleged Police Brutality
Yes. Instead of investigating the unprovoked (watch the video) assault and battery committed by a police officer against an innocent civilian, the DA's office is far more likely to open a file on me for stating the obvious...these violent acts will have long lasting repercussions, and today's thugs in uniform will be tomorrow's prisoners. When the government no longer protects its citizens, and the law is twisted to subvert the Constitution, murderers go free because of their wealth and connections, while those who stand up to dare to protest the injustice are face slammed to the pavement, beaten, arrested, and charged with crimes they did not commit...the question isn't IF the populace will rise up and take revenge on the thugs, but WHEN. Of course one of the last acts of desperation of a government that's ready to fall is to make it illegal to even write words like this. If what I've written puts me on the government's terrorist watch list, I won't be surprised. Our government, thoroughly perverted and corrupted to the benefit of the oligarchs in charge, would rather put me in prison for telling the obvious truth than attempt to reform itself to avoid the inevitable bloodbath they are themselves provoking. This is neither emotional nor shrill. It's a clear and inevitable pattern in history. Whether the authorities choose to change their ways, or find themselves under the executioner's blade, is up to them. Their own actions will determine their future fate, not comments on a blog.— January 16, 2012 11:47 p.m.
Snug and Smug at the Hotel Del
At least the robber barons built something that was real...rail ways and oil refineries. Today's robbers build NOTHING except debt that the rest of us have to pay off. Time for pitchforks, torches, and guillotines already...— January 15, 2012 1:11 a.m.
U.S. and San Diego economies muddling through
If we look at the biggest recent frauds, AIG, MF Global, Madoff...they all have one thing in common. LONDON That's where the biggest frauds are occurring, though the perpetrators may be physically located on Wall Street. So even though the UK is not part of the Euro-Zone, expect a major crisis there soon as the frauds begin to unravel. There has never been a greater need for the so-called Tobin-Tax on these speculators and parasites whose greed sucks the life out of the real economy. They should be grateful to just pay a huge tax...angry mobs with pitchforks, torches, and guillotines is the other alternative if they refuse to come clean and pay back what they've stolen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobin_tax— January 15, 2012 12:24 a.m.
Occupy San Diego Protester Recounts Alleged Police Brutality
Having seen the entire video, I believe Officer Milano needs to be face slammed into the pavement, then have his arms jerked behind his back, wrists tightly bound, and find himself thrown into a cramped cold jail cell for a few days. Cowards like Milano don't deserve to be on the police force, and in a just society would be not only fired, but prosecuted for their actions. San Diego faces a choice. Continue beating and prosecuting peacefully demonstrating citizens until they get sick enough of it to rise up and take the law into their own hands, OR reform the SDPD right now to get rid of officers who consider themselves above the law. Officer Milano, and his ilk, also have a choice. They can resign and publicly repudiate their criminal actions now, or they can face a very public execution in the future. Anybody who reads history knows how this story ends...with disgraced former police officers like Milano being led through the angry crowds on the way to the guillotine.— January 15, 2012 12:02 a.m.
The Stock Market Roller Coaster
You and your friend Jeff keep threatening to leave this discussion. Well? We're waiting... You're both continually accusing others of spouting nothing but invective. Yet so far you've accused Don Bauder of being ignorant of economics, screamed at me for daring to suggest that your incoherence might be the result of over-indulging in alcohol, declaimed your superior wisdom and knowledge of all topics economic, while providing plenty of evidence that you have never read a word of the authors under discussion. So when exactly will you two be stomping out in a huff, never to return? If you have nothing to contribute other than your childish rants, we'd all be better off without you.— January 9, 2012 7:35 p.m.
Philadelphia Eagles and San Diego Chargers made him money this year
If Tony really wants to get to Italy with his wife, he'd be better off spending an equivalent amount of time and effort on a part-time job and just saving up the money. Plus, if he were to spend the next few years learning to speak Italian, I'm sure he'd be able to have a much better experience and avoid the extra costs associated with not knowing the language. Then instead of the trip costing $10k, it might cost only $5k, and the experience will be far more enjoyable and memorable.— January 9, 2012 7:12 a.m.
The Stock Market Roller Coaster
Again...on one hand we've got a highly respected financial journalist with four decades experience saying Taibbi is a great jouralist. On the other hand we've got a day trader with no known qualifications saying he's mediocre and biased. Hmmmm...does anyone wonder whom we should believe?— January 9, 2012 6:49 a.m.