09.13.11
DHS worries about Anonymous causing banker indigestion; Nation commits to pauperism
Protect the plutocracy from the cyber-paupers:
DHS’ latest bulletin, issued Sept. 3, warned the group has been using social media networks to urge followers working in the financial industry to sabotage their employers’ computer systems.
National pauperism at all time high:
Reflecting the lingering impact of the recession, the U.S. poverty rate from 2007-2010 has now risen faster than any three-year period since the early 1980s, when a crippling energy crisis amid government cutbacks contributed to inflation, spiraling interest rates and unemployment.
Measured by total numbers, the 46 million now living in poverty is the largest on record dating back to when the census began tracking poverty in 1959 …
Bruce Meyer, a public policy professor at the University of Chicago, cautioned that the worst may yet to come in poverty levels, citing in part continued rising demand for food stamps this year as well as “staggeringly high” numbers in those unemployed for more than 26 weeks. He noted that more than 6 million people now represent the so-called long-term unemployed …
He can’t help smiling every time he sees each shiny new Grand Cherokee, one of Chrysler’s top-selling models, roll off the line. Still, it’s tough to accept that his entire annual salary of about $30,000 is not enough to afford the least expensive Jeep made at Jefferson North.
“It would be a shame to work at Chrysler,??? he said, “and not be able to drive a Chrysler.???
The man’s “salary” is 10k below, or only 75 percent of, the national average wage.
It’s the Guitar Center model of employment. The sales clerks are paid so low they can’t afford the America-made premium instruments.
Riots have not yet started.
US commits supercomputer research to predicting riots:
Research that took place in the US – no comment on why the US would be interested in studying unrest – used millions of articles as a feed for a computer and found that if you gave it enough information about unrest it could tell you that there was unrest.
In this case the analysis was carried out retrospectively, but according to those involved it could also be used to spot upcoming problems, which in the context of US backed research starts to sound a little bit sinister.
