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kpete's JournalThe Senate is giving more power to the NSA, in secret.
The Senate is giving more power to the NSA, in secret. Everyone should fight itPoliticians are still trying to hand over your data behind closed doors, under the guise of 'cybersecurity' reform. Have we learned nothing?
One of the most underrated benefits of Edward Snowden's leaks was how they forced the US Congress to shelve the dangerous, privacy-destroying legislation– then known as Cispa – that so many politicians had been so eager to pass under the guise of "cybersecurity". Now a version of the bill is back, and apparently its authors want to keep you in the dark about it for as long as possible.
Now it's called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (Cisa), and it is a nightmare for civil liberties. Indeed, it's unclear how this kind of law would even improve cybersecurity. The bill was marked up and modified by the Senate intelligence committee in complete secrecy this week, and only afterward was the public allowed to see many of the provisions passed under its name.
Cisa is what Senator Dianne Feinstein, the bill's chief backer and the chair of the committee, calls an "information-sharing" law that's supposed to help the government and tech and telecom companies better hand information back and forth to the government about “cyberthreat” data, such as malware. But in reality, it is written so broadly it would allow companies to hand over huge swaths of your data – including emails and other communications records – to the government with no legal process whatsoever. It would hand intelligence agencies another legal authority to potentially secretly re-interpret and exploit in private to carry out even more surveillance on the American public and citizens around the world.
Under the new provisions, your data can get handed over by the tech companies and others to the Department of Homeland Security (not exactly a civil liberties haven itself), but then it can be passed along to the nation's intelligence agencies … including the NSA. And even if you find out a company violated your privacy by handing over personal information it shouldn’t have, it would have immunity from lawsuits – as long as it acted in "good faith". It could amount to what many are calling a “backdoor wiretap”, where your personal information could end up being used for all sorts of purposes that have nothing to do with cybersecurity.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/12/senate-nsa-secret-cybersecurity-information-sharing-act
WingNut Explains Where Aids Comes From
When questioned about his position on social issues, [Minnesota House candidate Bob Frey (R)] added that it “does certainly need to be addressed for what it is. It’s not about the gay agenda but about the science and the financial impact of that agenda. It’s more about sodomy than about pigeonholing a lifestyle.”
Frey then explained his view:
“When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there’s an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That’s why the term is AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.”
http://www.minnpost.com/party-politics/2014/07/minnesota-house-candidate-make
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313317/-Minnesota-Republican-explains-where-AIDS-comes-from
NOW for some GOOD NEWs
I actually found this toon an INSPIRATIONAL Pick Me Up!
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/12/1313508/-Cartoon-Animal-Nuz-207-Color-in-Progress
Here's Where The $$$ Went: Bush Tax Cuts Robbed---Each American Taxpayer---$48,000 Of Pre-Tax Income
Mark Karlin:
Think about what you could have done with that extra $48,000 every time you hear the word "Bush."
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/more-than-6-5-trillion-dollars-lost-in-us-income-due-to-tax-cuts-for-the-rich
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According to an analysis by Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter David Cay Johnston, formerly of the New York Times, the Bush tax cuts, touted as a harbinger of prosperity by the Republican Party, actually robbed each American taxpayer of $48,000 in pre-tax personal income during the twelve years of their existence, for a total of approximately 6.6 trillion dollars.
Total those 12 years and the net shortfall per taxpayer comes to $48,010.
He notes that after twelve years of tax cut mania average real hourly wages are now 6% less than they were in 1972-1973.
Less than they were forty years ago. Where did the money go?
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/6/taxes-jobs-economicgrowthbls.html
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313326/-Report-Bush-Tax-Cuts-Gutted-Americans-Incomes-6-6-Trillion-Dollars
Have You Heard About The Muslim Prayer Rug At The AZ Border That Turned Out To Be An Adidas T-Shirt?
Anyway, to Arizona:
Breitbart.com Is Sure This Adidas Shirt's an Islamo-Mexican Terror Rug
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A member of the security team spoke with Breitbart News on Monday night saying they were on patrol right along the border came down into a wash and the area were working in just south of Sierra Vista in Coronado national forest.
“That’s when I saw this thing laying around. And I was like, ‘What the hell is that?’ We walked over there and I didn’t really want to pull at it not knowing what was on it. I poked a bit at it with a stick and noticed some of the Arabic writing and was just like, ‘Oh boy.’ I snapped a couple of photos and then went on our patrol.”
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Sadly, Breitbart only shared one of those photos, so let's suss it out, shall we?
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--P_Nozms_--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/ovjrnsiubowspxirhgll.jpg
1. Here we see a waist hemline on the Muslim prayer rug.
2. This would be a sleeve opening on the Muslim prayer rug, just above the diamond-hatch red-and-white pattern so popular among lower-tier football clubs and militant Muslim prayer-rug salesmen.
3. Islamic scholars and Arsenal fans will immediately recognize "die marke mit den 3 streifen" here on the Muslim prayer rug.
I don't want to alarm you, fellow Americans, but... if Breitbart's goon squad is correct in its analysis, we are in for a whole new brand of Islamic terror sleeper cell on the homeland. If these invisible jihadis can cleverly disguise their prayer rugs as fading and torn Adidas soccer jerseys, what else can they do?
sorry, can't seem to get pics:
http://gawker.com/breitbart-com-is-sure-this-adidas-shirts-an-islamo-mexi-1603045854
Yet I am sure his innocent victim would gladly trade places.
more disgust:
http://www.inquisitr.com/1345727/george-zimmerman-is-broke-and-homeless-one-year-after-trayvon-martin-trial/
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=444425515676475&set=a.141664095952620.28025.118863654899331&type=1&permPage=1
This REALLY pisses me off: Americans Are Too Stupid For GMO Labeling, Congressional Panel Says
!!!"Scientific Ignorance"? An anti GMO conspiranoid talks about Scientific ignorance!!!!
I, the consumer, need to be protected from myself and my presumed ignorance of the wonderful products that benevolent corporate interests have created for me to put inside my body.
[div class="excerpt"]Americans Are Too Stupid For GMO Labeling, Congressional Panel Says
WASHINGTON -- It's pretty rare that members of Congress and all the witnesses they've called will declare out loud that Americans are just too ignorant to be given a piece of information, but that was a key conclusion of a session of the House Agriculture Committee this week.
The issue was genetically modified organisms, or GMOs as they're often known in the food industry. And members of the subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture, as well as their four experts, agreed that the genetic engineering of food crops has been a thorough success responsible for feeding the hungry, improving nutrition and reducing the use of pesticides.
People who oppose GMOs or want them labeled so that consumers can know what they're eating are alarmists who thrive on fear and ignorance, the panel agreed. Labeling GMO foods would only stoke those fears, and harm a beneficial thing, so it should not be allowed, the lawmakers and witnesses agreed.
"I really worry that labeling does more harm than good, that it leads too many people away from it and it diminishes the market for GMOs that are the solution to a lot of the problems we face," said David Just, a professor at Cornell University and co-director of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs.
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/10/gmo-labels-congress_n_5576255.html
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