GOP & AUSTERITY SUPPORTERS VS THE PROGRESSION Of The REST OF US

This tells how some data is mined when we are using the computer.

Following this story as close as possible is surely a duty of every citizen to ensure the security and validity of our government remaining a government for the people by the people. People can't be governing if they are kept uninformed and in the dark.

Our proxy representative government has become too small and trusted too much for too long to serve growing masses without corruption of the intended process. Translate the last line to meaning "we the people" have been sitting on our hands entertaining ourselves to death letting a few mostly, well intended people we elect attempt to shape our lives without us even getting in the game planning or paying much attention. 

The sleeping giant, which is the free people of the United States, needs to wake-up now. The people of our nation have always been its real power and we do not need to lay our rights down and move aside. This spying that eventually allows oppression of speech and innovative ideas has been used extensively in communist and militarily, enforced socialistic regimes and always to suppress opposing ideas that challenge the powerful. We are lucky a number of young, warrior, citizens have been willing to but their life on the line to bring this to a citizen review. Choosing to ignore our responsibility to look over the truth and decide what we think about it would be foolish at best.

In case you are just getting wind of this attempt to waken the American public and even the citizens of the world with knowledge and the war against their efforts here are some other whistleblower, rebels for truth to be exposed;

Aaron Swartz felt public funded efforts which include our personal data and college research should not be held captive behind private company pay walls for access or sharing. http://boingboing.net/2013/01/24/aarons-army.html

Bradley Manning who attempted to hold a mirror up and show a reflection of the conduct of war. Warning on adult content from Marine Ethan McCord:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kelmEZe8whI

Jeremy Hammond, before Snowden hacked to shine a light on Spying on a grand multinational scale for governments and corporations by a private company. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130528/11363423231/lulzsec-hacker-jeremy-hammond-pleads-guilty-to-cfaa-charge-faces-10-years.shtml

And of course the most recent rebel Snowden as he exposes the depth and breath of spying on all citizens: https://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/13-4

Last, we remember the rebel founder of wiki-leaks Julian Assange that allowed some of these rebels a voice:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/16/julian-assange-ecuador-foreign-minister

This is short but to the point. Moyers always frames thing well and I thank him for sharing this with us.

This case is an important one if you think it is not right for a US helicopter to continue to shoot an unarmed man from the air as he crawls injured across the walk way and then shoot those that stop to collect the injured. The scene may be American Soldier or citizen next time that are shot while unarmed and crawling. That is the scene that moved Manning to leak that video and other documents.

Now here's an amendment/provision  worth doing!

The parents of young adults that are now allowed to stay on their parents' plans have most likely noticed their adult children no longer get hit with $800 to $2400 emerency room bills for visits when what ever they were puttting off due to lack of insurance got so bad they had to forfeit a semester tuition  or a month or more wages to visit an ER on a weekend.

Many young people are starting life with wrecked credit because they got sick care when they couldn't really afford it, The hospitals then sell the bill for tiny amounts and the lawyer or company that were rich enough to buy bad debt of those sick, bought the bill then start harrassment and legal action to get that money and sometimes more. Which, by the way, in my opinion if you buy an unpaid bill and get an unpaid bill you then have what you paid for. 

That young adult add on to parents plans alone is something many will not want the GOP to take away. Those too sick or with sick family members to insure before Obama care will also not want to let it go.

This was a peaceful protest till the police were sent in to run the protesters out. They want the public Square to remain but developers see money to be harvested by putting a mall there. Then this also grew to being upset with a push toward more conservative Islamic rules that many in Turkey do not want since many are more moderate.

This is also about holding  or forming what has become known as "THE COMMONS". Spaces were we can speak out, be together, celebrate, and own "in common together" is one aspect of several that describe "The Commons". Other components might be growing food in community gardens, parks, lakes, and criticial life giving resources one person should not cut off from another. The idea of "THE COMMONS" is the opposite idea of dog eat dog. This is more like the idea that most all people survive best if we collective cooperate to survive together.

NOW there is nearly "NO COMMONS" in cities or even in much of the country side of well populated countries. Every thing belongs to some one who can say go away. There is NO accepted  place to protest or speak out on important community or even personal concerns....You must have permission or be hosed and pepper sprayed away or locked up. This started as a peaceful protest to closing and privatizing one of the last remaining Public Parks called Taksim Square.

Reading through this article it is easy to see why Obama may be using caution in reacting to the conflict in Syria. 

This is an interesting talk about the Manning Trial that I doubt will be heard on mainstream Media.

Important! Give it a listen...he was willing to forfeit his citizenship to show us the truth. Don't let what happened to Aaron Swartz happen to him. watch why Manning whistle blew on you tube  Collateral Murder: U.S. Apache helicopters killing.

Jeremy Hammond hacked into Stratfor which is a government and industrial spy contract company used by many governments and mulitnational industries. When a citizen spys on those that spy on him/us he is threatened with 30 years plus in prison, but we are just told to say it's OK to spy on citizens to protect us from who? Ourselves I guess. But who protects us from spys? Spys are usually your eneny and you defend yourself against them. Right? Our government says that it why it needs to spy on us and we need to surrender our privacy rights so that they may protect the secrets we have that are so secret we aren't allowed to know them.

So how is it our protector has become our spy and who protects us now from spys and how do we do that? Hammond was a spy for the citzen and they are locking him and all others like him they can catch to silence those that stand against super secret spying and hiding things from citzens.  So who watches the watchers to prevent abuse? It appears we have the foxes watching the hen house so to speak. I don't know about anybody else but I feel like this is already, at these fairly early stages, an extreme abuse of power and trust. 

I think Aaron Swartz was right; the hoarding of knowledge from someone that might need it is a sin.  Our government leaders pushed him to a cliff trying both make an example to other cyber warriors or get him to chose to do things their way on their terms and get a easier treatment for himself or jump oof that cliff  and go to jail for 35 years. This was for crime of down loading knowledge that was public research paid for by public institutions with tax dollars, grants or donations to the university. Aaron didn't take any deals that most likely involved him using his skills to catch some of these other whistleblowers, crackers and hackers or maybe even work with NSA. The brilliant young man, who had since his pre-teen years sought only to and did "make the world a better place" took his own life in January with a quiet and permanent "NO THANKS! NO DEAL!" as he jump straight off that cliff they cornered and threatened him into.

The open sharing of information that should be shared and was most often research for public advancement paid for at public intuitions is often held hostage for pay and allowed to only those that can buy access with expensive subscriptions offered for some reason by private companies that hoard what should be public knowledge.

Now, here we have our leaders that sought to attack Aaron for downloading too much university research through legal free student access with 35 years in jail for not sticking to the use agreement daily limits and they, through NSA are totally violating our 4th amendment right protected in the constitution and have totally done this daily for 7 years, searching not public research but our personal lives. Exposed they are  now telling us that the most invasive detailed collection of personal data in history done in secret, without anyone's consent is OK and in hind site maybe they need to whitewash or brainwash us into agreeing for "our own safety" to willing allow this deep probe into our lives while governments do everything to keep their shady secrets.

In this country WE are the government and its time we stopped using these foolish proxies that no longer represent us. We do not need to make the government smaller but enlarge it with an Army of citizen volunteers that daily pay attention to what these so called leaders in government and industry are up to by reporting, whistleblowing, simply listening carefully to Cspan as many serious issues are discussed or observing situations as they occur, because we have allowed this abuse of power to occur by trusting too few to stand up on our behalf…. It’s time for we, along with all the citizens of the world to take note of where we are and where we want or more importantly need to be. We are many and we are strong and those cyber warriors all over the world are as much from the masses of common men and women as are our soldiers all over the world…. They are one with us whether they have had to choose sides or not like a few have obviously done. It is time to stop turning on each other because of our personal, cultural and traditonal difference and look to our common ground that is a global treasure to sustain and move forward in peace with each other. Without the common people willing to fight wars these leaders dream up there is little need for these national secrets and spying on all that walk on earth. What is happening here is happening all over the globe if you are paying attention to international actions. 

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“The capabilities of this system are apparently awesome.  Fortunately, one “career intelligence officer” was so disgusted with how our privacy rights were being violated that he decided to leak information about PRISM to the Washington Post…

Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.

Another whistleblower, former NSA code breaker William Binney, has come forward with some astounding details about what is actually happening over at the NSA.  The following is from a recent Business Insider article…

Binney — one of the best mathematicians and code breakers in NSA history — worked for the Defense Department’s foreign signals intelligence agency for 32 years before resigning in late 2001 because he “could not stay after the NSA began purposefully violating the Constitution.”

He’s detailed how, ever since 9/11, the NSA has run a top-secret surveillance program that amasses electronic data — phone calls, GPS information, emails, social media, banking and travel records, entire government databases — and analyzes the information “to be able to monitor what people are doing” and who they are doing it with.

So exactly how much information are we talking about?

Overall, Binney claims that the NSA has gathered approximately “20 trillion transactions” involving U.S. citizens.

And other NSA whistleblowers claim that the agency “has the capability to do individualized searches, similar to Google,……..” [Link to the article for fuller details]

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"Owned by Koch Carbon, a company that is controlled by the industrialists Charles and David Koch, it is a byproduct of processing heavy bitumen piped from the oil sands in Alberta to a Detroit refinery.

Its final destination had been something of a mystery. Most petroleum coke, often referred to in the oil industry as petcoke, is used as inexpensive fuel in countries like China, India and Mexico with relatively loose emissions controls. Environmentalists were concerned not only about the impact of the growing pile in Detroit but also about where the material would be burned."

This is an interesting follow up to where the coke pile will end up and be burned.

Thank you for pursuing an investigation of Aaron Swartz's prosecution. Aaron's death is a tragedy that is very much still with us and which urges us to continue asking questions. I will stand with you as you keep pushing forward.

Young, visionaries like Aaron are the people we need to treasure and hold near to lead us into the future. I felt the whole thing about Aaron was totally misguided and was an effort to force him to work with the government to entrap other hackers, or crackers or assist in the so called cyber war. I felt that was the whole of the 6 months or else deal. I don't think that is the way to recruit our cyber generals for that cyber war.

Aaron had his own very important mission in life and he achieved a good bit of that by inspiring so many others to work hard to "make the world a better place". That is the sign of a true leader, to inspire others to move forward for the good of it. If in fact the choice was to give up his dream and work with and for people for an opposite end or die to not do it, it is obvious which he chose.

I wish he had realized how many soldiers he already had in Aaron's own army to make the world a better place and realized we would have had his back. Those in power could not see that Aaron was already in a General in a much more important war than they could see. A war to help people have knowledge, and to see more clearly and by seeing together more fully, to arrive at more inspired answers for problems we don’t even realize may be coming.  Many of us that answered his call to become active calling representatives, sharing knowledge and spreading the word about things that matter, and having no idea such a young visionary was behind so much moving us forward from behind the scenes. Just the kind of leader we need so badly. He was the kind of leader that opens our eyes, our hearts, and our mind and brings us together to stand for a better world.  That kind of leader stays even after death and lives on through those he inspires..

Thank you senators, for being one with us in Aaron's Army. His death and his life which lit the way to the future screams out in stark contrast to the sad fact that we sadly, are led by frightened dinosaurs of our past to try to preserve darkness, secrecy and ignorance.

A little lesson on money and how banks make money.

All of these ideas on what to do about making labor safer and more fair sound like ideas that punish the lower end company small business owner  and the very lowest paid employees in the world than rather than holding accountable the companies that demand more on the cheap with disregard to life.