It has been a particularly well organized machine, according to academics, more radical than its parent Labor Party and focusing its resources around single issues like keeping Norway open to immigrants and fighting climate change.
The Center for American Progress recently released a report, "Fear, Inc., The Roots of the Islamophobia Network in America" that clearly outlines the organized machine operating a small empire of hatred.
There may be lots of energy on the ground from "resistance" groups, but they'll be facing an organized machine that has been firing on all cylinders for more than three years.
In November 1927, Aiello organized machine gun ambushes across from Lombardo's home and a cigar store frequented by Capone, but those plans were foiled after an anonymous tip led police to raid several addresses and arrest Milwaukee gunman Angelo La Mantio and four other Aiello gunmen.
One can envision a world like that shown in the old German expressionist movie "Metropolis" where the people are turned into an organized machine to turn profits for the powers that be in Fritz Lang's prescient view of the future.
iv) finally, the fashion in big data in the venture capital business has injected a lot of new energy and exploration for using experts and expert systems, probability and statistics, machine learning, self organizing machines and many less-discussed and some yet-undisclosed systems.
This grassroots community organizing machines runs in direct conflict with the Bush dream of a privatized planet.
The result is a deep challenge for a Democratic message and organizing machine accustomed to fighting a hobbled and confused opponent on unfamiliar territory.
Much has been said about the Democrats' grassroots organizing machine in Ohio, but Rove fixated instead on the down-ballot losses that cost the GOP its chance to pick up a majority in the Senate.
If anything, we can be certain that unlike the Proposition 8 campaign, we won't see the Mormon organizing machine mobilized for raising funds and going door-to-door to see Obama's immigration initiative succeed.
