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byMikael Thalen September 16th, 2013
Updated 09/17/2013
During a press conference regarding the Navy Yard
shooting Monday evening, Democratic Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
called Washington D.C. the “safest city in the United States.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-agC4UDqt5s
“When I go on the floor tomorrow evening, I will remind the Congress
that this shooting occurred in their neighborhood. This is the
neighborhood of the Capitol of the United States, very close to
Congress, and yet I just want to say to residents who are coming home
today, that the response of the police, the taking down of the shooter
so quickly, convinces me yet again that this is the safest city in the
United States,” said Norton. “Not safe from attack but safe.”
Unfortunately for the residents of D.C., Norton’s statements are
completely unfounded. Compared to other large cities with 500,000 or
more residents, D.C. is actually the 5th most dangerous city in the country. Just last year, internal Metropolitan Police Department documents revealed that all police districts except for one were reporting double-digit percentage increases in violent crime.
Not only has the 1993 law passed by former President Clinton forbid
military personnel from carrying their personal firearms on military
bases, D.C. has refused to recognize its citizen’s self defense rights
despite the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision to strike down the D.C. gun ban. D.C.’s distrust of the military became even more apparent after former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta demanded soldiers in Afghanistan remove their weapons in order to attend his mandatory speech last year.
The Navy Yard shooting which has taken the lives of 13 people,
including the gunmen Aaron Alexis, follows the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
which also claimed 13 lives. Two examples of military personnel being
unable to defend themselves in their own country.
Norton’s bizarre statements come only 2 weeks after her controversial
comments regarding Syria where Norton said she would only vote to bomb the country out of loyalty to President Obama.
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Feinstein Exploits Navy Yard Shooting to Renew Call to Disarm Mr. and Mrs. America
trutherSeptember 17, 2013 Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
Zeroes in on unconfirmed report shooter had an AR-15
California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein has exploited another mass shooting to call for destroying the Second Amendment and disarming law-abiding Americans.
“When will enough be enough?” Feinstein said in a statement Monday evening following the Navy Yard shooting in Washington, D.C.
“Congress must stop shirking its responsibility and resume a thoughtful debate on gun violence in this country,” she said. “We must do more to stop this endless loss of life.”
“I mourn those killed today at the Navy Yard in Washington and send my thoughts and prayers to those families grieving the loss of loved ones,.”
She exploited unconfirmed reporters that
the alleged shooter used a popular semi-automatic rifle Democrats and
their gun-grabbing comrades have consistently demonized as an assault
weapon.
“There are reports the killer was armed
with an AR-15, a shotgun and a semiautomatic pistol when he stormed an
American military installation in the nation’s capital and took at least
12 innocent lives,” Feinstein said.
“This is one more event to add to the litany of massacres that occur when a deranged person
or grievance killer is able to obtain multiple weapons — including a
military-style assault rifle — and kill many people in a short amount of
time.”
She once again called on Congress to
disarm the American people and dismember the Bill of Rights following a
monumental failure earlier this year to push anti-gun legislation
through the Senate.
In 1995, Feinstein lamented the failure of an earlier effort to take out the Second Amendment.
“If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for
an outright ban, picking up every one of them,” she told 60 Minutes.
“Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in, I would have done it. I could
not do that. The votes weren’t here.”
People need to seriously think critically about the revived 'Gun
Control' that Obama and the Democrats are bringing back up due to the
Navy Yard Shooting.
Let's think about this... D.C. is a gun free zone, the Navy Yard is a
gun free zone. The military there are not allowed to carry weapons.
So what happens in a 'gun free zone'? Someone with a weapon has free range of shooting who they want
without the people being able to protect themselves. If someone else
had a gun, they would have been able to stop the shooting!
It has been proven over and over again, though the MSM does not carry
the stories about those who have attempted mass shootings and a
bystander being able to take them out before a lot of people are
murdered.
Where is the critical thinking and logical reasoning of the masses?
If Obama enacts Executive Orders to write his own Gun Control and by
passes Congress then he will be committing an over reaching Presidential
Act. Thus Congress needs to start impeachment against him. Obama has
committed enough dictator type actions for impeachment already, but they
have never acted against them.
The problem is those in Congress have allowed the over reaching of the
Executive office over and over again. If they do not stand up for how
our government is suppose to work, they are allowing the erosion of it,
along with the people's complicity. One day we will find out we allowed
all of our freedoms to be disintegrated one by one.
What I find terribly sad about all of this is this appears to be a
deliberate ongoing erosion of America has it was founded. We are
purposely being led down a path of control and a police state without
freedoms or rights. We will have this, only through the people's
blessing.
We the people are the only ones that can allow our rights to be
infringed upon. We the people will need to have our voices be heard
loud and clear that we have our Rights to be FREE and Gun Control is
proven to NOT work as the opposite is shown by the Navy Yard shooting no
matter how much spin by MSM and the government.
We have been drugged up and poisoned to be complacent in all that our
government does against us. This has been deliberate and on going for
decades. This is not due to a 'left or right' only set of actions.
This is by both parties due to their puppet masters behind them.
People need to understand this was started a century ago. Every
President has been involved with the erosion of our rights and freedoms
from the early 1900s.
It has been done one small action at a time, one little act 'against the
constitution' at a time which has been dismissed and allowed by
Congress and the people. It started in 1913 with the IRS act that was
actually voted against by the people, yet it was implemented anyway and
the Federal Reserve Act. Once bankers were allowed to rule our country
and create money they became the ones who actually governed those who
were suppose to be watching over our rights and freedoms.
The erosion of our rights and freedoms is not something that is
occurring overnight with Obama, it is something that has been worked on
for a long time. Obama seems to be going full force and very fast with
the rest of our rights though. People need to understand this is not
just a Democratic problem, under Bush we had the "Patriot Act' due to
the lies of 9/11. Which erased our constitution almost completely away
with the blessings of our Congress and the people due to 'fear'.
Fear is how they warp our critical thinking, fear is how they control our actions or non actions.
If we allow Fear to rule us then we will be cattle to the slaughter.
I just finished watching 'A Brave New World' by Aldous Huxley, written
in 1931. From watching that movie on youtube I now have more of an
understanding of what they are doing to us all. A Brave New World is
how those in control are guiding us and how they see the world they
want. We are all slaves to them. I will be writing about it in another
post and I will include the movie to be watched on youtube. It is a 3
hour movie but it will open your eyes to where they are taking us, as
everything in it is the road we are traveling. Including all the
sedating medication to keep the people compliant to their wishes and to
make us all slaves without any 'free thinking.'
I CHOOSE FREEDOM! I DO NOT SUBMIT!
I AM A FREE THINKER I DO NOT BUY INTO A FEAR BASED WORLD! I WILL NOT
BE A 'HIVE' THINKER!
Spree shooters at military installations prey on Americans serving
America, disarmed by America—but, not in the heavily armed neighborhoods
of Washington
Lesson of Navy Yard shooting echoes lessons of Camp Liberty, Fort Hood
Yesterday’s shooting spree at Washington’s Navy Yard reminds us that
disarmed military personnel are made-to-order victims for spree
shooters.
When
Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire Nov. 5, 2009, on soldiers
preparing to deploy overseas, I was at Camp Basra, Iraq, a combat
historian mobilized with the Army Reserve.
To the soldiers in my circle, it was similar to the May 5, 2009
shooting spree at Camp Liberty, Iraq, when a joe burst into that camp’s
combat stress center (!) and fatally shot five other soldiers.
Understand: All military personnel in Iraq were armed, with either a
rifle or a handgun, and sometimes both. Living in a universally armed
society created an unspoken atmosphere of respect and caution in
personal relationships. It also meant any spree shooter inside-the-wire
was instantly surrounded by equally armed personnel.
Unless you went to a combat stress center, where the soldiers turned in their “pole” for their visit. There were other places one left their weapon at the door, such as the gym or chapel. But at the combat stress center,
there was also a good chance that the guns belonging to the clients had
their firing pins removed—a precaution that allowed the a soldier to go
about his day as if he could be trusted with his weapon, as he sought
help.
The Fort Hood victims were absolutely unarmed. This is normal for
garrison life, even for soldiers deploying, who may have a weapon, but
no rounds. It was also a certainty for Hasan, who would have known that
Clinton-era rules severely restricted military personal carrying
firearms on duty.
The lesson of the Camp Liberty and Fort Hood shootings was that
disarmed soldiers are just as vulnerable as anyone else to a spree
shooter exploiting the fish-in-a-barrel opportunity of a “gun free
zone.”
More details will emerge from the Navy Yard shooting, but we already know everything we need to know. The criminal
justice system had the shooter in its control, but for whatever liberal
impulses were at play that day, this dangerous man was released.
Maybe, like with many criminals,
officials were waiting for him to do more serious harm to people and
property before they looked up from their doughnuts and coffee and made
an effort to keep us safe.
We also know that in addition to the Navy Yard being full of disarmed
military personnel, it sits in a city with one of the tightest regimes
of gun control in America.
That does not mean that Washington streets are immune from gun violence. It only means that the government of the District of Columbia has allied itself with the criminal elements to ensure victims cannot defend themselves.
More to the point, sailors stationed at the Navy Yard hear more
gunfire in the South East neighborhood of our nation’s capital than they
would ever hear stationed anywhere else.
Put another way, if the shooter, instead of rampaging inside walls
and gates of the Navy Yard, went berserk up 8th Street SE towards
Eastern Market or even more
brazenly across the Anacostia River to that ward that takes its name
from the river, he would have soon found himself surrounded by equally
armed Americans—and put down.
On their last morning on earth, the Navy Yard dead went to work
comforted in the lie that disarmed Americans are safer than armed
Americans—and that all the security gates and armed guards would protect their lives.
If we truly respect their sacrifice and their families’ suffering, we will all have the courage to call out this lie and change the laws and regulations that consign Americans serving America to victimhood-in-waiting.
Beam Me Up: Bits of Information Teleported Across Computer Chip
Beats taking the subway. Starfleet officers beam to their destination via the USS Enterprise’s transporter on “Star Trek: The Next Generation.”
Credit: Paramount Television
Quantum mechanics allows for some very strange things, like the
teleportation of information and computers that can break even the
toughest codes.
Recently, scientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology(ETH) in Zurich made a step toward building a workingquantum computer by teleporting bits of information across acomputer chip. The results of the study were detailed Aug. 15 in the journal Nature.
Creating such a circuit is an important milestone, said Benjamin
Schumacher, a professor of physics at Kenyon College in Ohio. “Everybody
really knows if you are ever going to make a real quantum computer, it
must be solid state,” said Schumacher, who was not involved in the new
research. “Solid state”
refers to computers built with single-piece transistors — with no
moving parts and with components that are self-contained. Almost every
electronic device is built with solid-state electronics. [Wacky Physics: The Coolest Quantum Particles Explained]
Bill Munro, a research scientist at Japanese phone giant NTT, who has
done extensive research into quantum computing, said the ETH team’s
work is a “very nice experiment,” adding, “it really shows prototyping
the technology” involved in making a quantum computer.
Previous teleportation experiments have
used lasers to transport quantum information between photons. But that
isn’t as practical for building real computers. Solid-state circuits, on
the other hand, are a well-known field and computer chip manufacturers
have decades of experience in miniaturizing them, Schumacher said.
In new experiment, the scientists took advantage of a property ofquantum physics called
entanglement to teleport the quantum bits, called qubits. When two
particles interact, they form a connection — they are entangled — so
that an action performed on one affects the other, even when they’re
separated by great distances. In addition, no matter how far apart they
are, if you know the state of one particle, you instantly know the state
of the other. Teleporting qubits
To set up the teleportation, the scientists put 3 micron-size
electronic circuits (where 1 micron is one-millionth of a meter) on a
tiny computer chip measuring 0.3 by 0.3 inches (7 by 7 millimeters). Two
of the circuits were the senders, while the other served as the
receiver. The scientists cooled the chip to near absolute zero and
turned on a current in the circuits.
At that temperature, the electrons in the circuits, which are the
qubits, started behaving according to quantum mechanical rules (in this
case, becoming entangled.
The ETH team encoded information in the form of spin states, into the
sending circuits’ qubits, and measured them. At the same time, the
researchers measured the state of the qubits in the receiver. The
sending and receiving qubits’ states were correlated — the information
had been teleported.
The teleportation wasn’t
the only achievement. Usually, in teleportation experiments, the
information transmission isn’t reliable, meaning the experiment can’t be
reliably repeated. “Especially for large objects, the success rate is
often small,” said study co-author
Arkady Fedorov from the University of Queensland in Australia. “You run
the experiment millions of times and it works.” In this experiment, the
teleportation worked almost every time.
The ETH group also managed to make a qubit out of billions of
electrons, nearly a quarter of a millimeter across, which is large by
teleportation standards. “It’s not anymore like a photon that you cannot
see or some atom in a trap,” Fedorov said.
Since the qubit doesn’t go through the intervening space, some might
ask if this is a way to communicate faster than light. It isn’t,
Schumacher noted. That’s because even though two entangled particles
share correlated states, it’s impossible to know the states beforehand.
There’s a 50-50 chance a particle will be in state A or B. [10 Weird Implications of Traveling Faster than Light] Quantum computers?
For quantum computers, though, instantaneous transmission isn’t
critical. Rather, the ability of quantum bits to be in two states at
once is key to the reality of these computers.
In an ordinary, or classical, computer, the bits — the 1s and 0s that
make up the language of computer code — have a definite state. They are
either 1 or 0. But qubits can be in both states at the same time. They
are in a state called superposition.
In quantum mechanics, a physical system has no definite state until it
is observed — that is, until it leaves some trace in the surrounding
environment.
This phenomenon is very different from the way people ordinarily experience things, but it is outlined in the famous Schrodinger’s cat thought experiment.
Picture a cat in a box with a vial of poison gas that opens when a tiny
piece of radioactive metal emits an alpha particle as it decays.
Emitting an alpha particle is a quantum-mechanical process, which means
that whether it happens in any given stretch of time is basically
random. In that sense, when you open the box, the cat has a 50-50
probability of being alive or dead.
In classical mechanics, the physics would dictate that the cat was
alive or dead before we open the box; we just can’t see it. But in
quantum mechanics, the cat is in both states — just as the qubits in the
teleportation experiment are in both states before they are observed.
That’s another aspect of the work that makes it unique, Schumacher
said. For the qubits to remain in their dual state, they can’t interact
with the environment in any way. A computer’s components, though, have
to interact with each other to be useful. “You have two contradictory
requirements,” he said. “The qubits must interact with each other and
the parts have to be isolated from the outside world.”
Raymond LaFlamme, executive director of the Institute for Quantum
Computing at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, said the
experiment is a big step because it implies not just teleporting qubits,
but the logical operations, such as addition or subtraction. “You can
change the transformation that you do,” he said, “You can transform the
bit … and then flip the bit from 0 to 1.”
Fedorov said that future experiments would likely involve getting the
teleportation to work in more than one chip, using more qubits.
WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers have failed in dozens of attempts
to repeal the Affordable Care Act, but a new USA TODAY/Pew Research
Center Poll shows just how difficult they have made it for President
Obama’s signature legislative achievement to succeed. As the health care exchanges at
the heart of the law open for enrollment in two weeks, the public’s
views of it are as negative as they have ever been, and disapproval of
the president’s handling of health care has hit a new high. Confusion
and misinformation about the law haven’t significantly abated,
especially among the law’s main targets.
Among the 19% polled who are uninsured, nearly four in 10 don’t
realize the law requires them to get health insurance next year. Among
young people, whose participation is seen as crucial for the exchanges
to work, just 56% realize there’s a mandate to be insured or face a
fine.
And in the states that have refused to participate in the insurance
marketplaces — defaulting instead to the federal exchange — knowledge
about the Affordable Care Act and support for it are notably lower than
in states that are setting up their own exchanges. MORE: Pew poll
“There has been a full-court press from Day One from the opposition
to characterize and demonize the plan,” says Thomas Mann of the
Brookings Institution, who wrote about the GOP efforts in a 2012 book
about Washington he co-authored, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks. “The
campaign against the law after it was enacted, the range of steps
taken, the effort to delegitimize it — it is unprecedented. We’d
probably have to go back to the nullification efforts of the Southern
states in the pre-Civil War period to find anything of this intensity.”
Opponents say the law’s own shortcomings are responsible for its
travails. “This program is not ready for prime time,” says Rep. Diane
Black, R-Tenn., chief sponsor of a bill passed by the U.S. House last
week to delay the exchanges until additional anti-fraud measures are put
in place. (Like dozens of previous House-passed measures on Obamacare,
it isn’t expected to pass the Senate.)
STARBUCKS CEO: Health law ‘good thing’ for the country, he tells Bartiromo
VIDEO: How health care law affects your wallet
When Obama signed the law more than three years ago, supporters
predicted Americans would embrace it as some of the most popular
provisions went into effect, including measures that have helped seniors
pay prescription costs, protected children who have serious medical
conditions and enabled young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance
plans until age 26.
But that turnaround in public opinion hasn’t happened, at least not
yet. Now the biggest test for the Affordable Care Act looms in two
weeks, when the marketplaces for the uninsured are scheduled to open for
enrollment on Oct. 1. In the USA TODAY/Pew poll:
Opposition hits new highs: 53% disapprove of the health care law, the
highest level since it was signed; 42% approve. By an even wider
margin, intensity favors the opposition; 41% of those surveyed strongly
disapprove while just 26% strongly approve. Fifty-three percent
disapprove of Obama’s handling of health care policy, an historic high.
And Democrats have lost their traditional advantage on the issue. For
the first time in polling that stretches back more than two decades,
Americans narrowly prefer Republicans in dealing with health care
policy, 40%-39%.
A boost in approval for the law that followed the Supreme Court
decision in July 2012 upholding most of its provisions, to 47%
approve-43% disapprove, has disappeared. Confusion continues: Only one in four say they
understand the law’s impact on them and their families well while
one-third say they have little or no understanding about how the law
will work. Despite increasing education efforts by the administration,
advocacy groups and some states, the percentage of Americans who don’t
understand the law has declined only modestly, to 34% from 44%, since it
was passed. Expectations are downbeat: Most haven’t seen much
impact from the law, but they are inclined to expect bad news down the
road. Forty-one percent predict in coming years the effect on themselves
and their families will be negative; just 25% think it will be
positive. Even more, 47%, say the law will have a negative impact on the
country as a whole; 35% expect a positive impact.
The poll of 1,506 adults was taken Sept. 4-8. The margin of error is +/–3 percentage points. source – USA Today
Today Marks The 16th American Mass Shooting Since Obama Became President
Yet his 4 and one half years of occupying the desk at 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue hide a sinister statistic – America has had 15 mass
shootings since he became president, and today’s massacre at the Navy Shipyard now brings that total to 16. And since this is a list of shootings only, it does not include the Boston Bombing Massacre that Obama used to roll out martial law for a 24-hour period in Boston.
How do you explain that? A list of the 15 American mass shootings since 2009: 1). December 14, 2012 — Newtown, Conn. – 27 dead (including gunman). The
shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday was the second-deadliest
school shooting in U.S. history, leaving 27 dead — including 20 young
children. President Obama gave an emotional address, calling for “meaningful action” 2). September 27, 2012 — Minneapolis, Minn.– 7 dead (including gunman), 2 injured. Andrew John Engeldinger, a recently laid off employee of Accent Signage Systems, entered the office building and opened fire. (No public comments from the president.)
3). August 5, 2012 — Oak Creek, Wis.– 7 dead (including gunman), 4 injured. White
supremacist Wade Michael Page entered a Sikh Temple, opening fire on
congregants. He later shot and injured a police officer responding to
the scene.
4). July 20, 2012 — Aurora, Colo. — 12 dead, 59 injured. During a midnight screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” a gunman opened fire on the suburban Denver movie theater, killing 12 and injuring dozens of others. Two days later, Obama delivered a ten-minute speech from the University of Colorado that made no mention of gun control.
5). May 31, 2012 — Seattle, Wash.– 6 dead (including gunman). A man opened fire in a cafe, fatally wounding four people, then killed another in a carjacking before killing himself.
(No public comments from the president.)
6). April 2, 2012 — Oakland, Calif. — 7 dead. A former student of Oikos University, a Korean college, entered a building on the campus and shot repeatedly at random targets. (No public comments from the president)
8). October 12, 2011 — Seal Beach, Calif. — 8 dead, 1 injured. Scott Evans Dekraai, 41, stormed a hair salon where his ex-wife worked and killed eight people.
(No public comments from the president.)
9). January 8, 2011 — Tucson, Ariz. — 6 dead, 14 injured. Jared
Lee Loughner, 22, opened fire in a Safeway parking lot, killing six
people and injuring others including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who
was shot in the head at point-blank range. Two months later, Obama addressed gun control issues in an op-ed for the Arizona Daily Star
10). August 3, 2010 — Manchester, Conn. — 9 dead (including gunman), 2 injured. A driver for Hartford Distributors killed eight people and then himself in this workplace shooting.
(No public comments from the president.)
11). November 29, 2009 — Parkland, Wash. — 5 dead (including gunman). A Washington man walked into a coffee shop and shot four police officers execution-style. (No public comments from the president.)
12). November 5, 2009 — Fort Hood, Texas — 13 dead, 30 injured (including gunman). In the deadliest shooting to ever happen on an American military base, an Army Major serving as a psychiatrist went on a shooting spree that killed 13.
15). March 29, 2009 — Carthage, N.C. — 8 dead, 3 injured (including gunman). A gunman opened fire on a nursing home, killing seven residents and a nurse. (No public comments from the president.)source – HuffPost
On Fifth Anniversary of Wall Street Crash, Obama Tries the Big Lie Technique
On Monday, US President Barack Obama marked the fifth anniversary of
the Wall Street crash of September 15, 2008 with a White House speech
that only underscored the unbridgeable chasm that separates the entire
political establishment from the broad mass of working people.
Even as he spoke, the stock market was soaring to new highs on the
news that Obama’s expected choice to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman of
the Federal Reserve, Lawrence Summers, had removed himself from
consideration because of opposition from Wall Street. Forbes magazine reported that the wealth of the 400 richest Americans had climbed to $2 trillion, a jump from $1.7 trillion in 2012.
With corporate profits at record highs, CEO pay once again hitting
the tens and hundreds of millions, and the concentration of wealth the
greatest since 1928, Obama boasted of the great success of his economic
policies in restoring “security and opportunity for the middle class.”
With breathtaking cynicism—and contempt for the intelligence of the
American people—Obama presented himself as single-mindedly focused on
“my number one priority since the day I took office”: fighting for the
so-called “middle class.” (There is, according to the mythology of the
American ruling class, no working class in the United States, even
though America is the most economically unequal of all industrialized
countries).
Employing the technique of the Big Lie, Obama described his response
to the financial crisis as follows: “We put people back to work
repairing roads and bridges, to keep teachers in our classrooms, our
first responders on the streets. We helped responsible homeowners modify
their mortgages so that more of them could keep their homes. We helped
jumpstart the flow of credit to help more small businesses keep their
doors open. We saved the American auto industry… we took on a broken
health care system … We put in place tough new rules on big banks … And
what all this means is we’ve cleared away the rubble from the financial
crisis and we’ve begun to lay a new foundation for economic growth and
prosperity.”
No. The Obama administration categorically rejected any program of
public works to hire the unemployed and refused to aid bankrupt state
and local governments, resulting in the layoff of hundreds of thousands
of teachers, firefighters and other public employees. As a result, mass
unemployment is a permanent fixture, and the labor force participation
rate is the lowest in 35 years. Moreover, the vast majority of new jobs
created under Obama—still 2 million below the total before the
crisis—are low-wage and part-time.
The administration refused to halt home foreclosures or force banks
to reduce loan principals, allowing the banks to throw millions of
families out onto the street.
While continuing and vastly expanding the bank bailout begun under
Bush, Obama refused to impose any conditions on the money stolen from
taxpayers, allowing the bankers to use government funds to speculate
rather than provide loans to small businesses. The result was a wave of
small business failures that continues to the present.
Obama forced General Motors and Chrysler into bankruptcy in order to
impose plant closures, tens of thousands of layoffs, cuts in workers’
benefits, and a 50 percent pay cut for new-hires. The wage-cutting in
the auto industry was the signal for an assault on wages and benefits in
every sector of the economy, public as well as private.
Obama passed a health care overhaul devoted to cutting costs for
corporations and the government by rationing health services, drugs,
medical tests and procedures on a class basis. Millions of workers will
see their coverage slashed while the health care giants and insurance
companies enjoy windfall profits.
The Dodd-Frank financial “reform” bill passed in 2010 is a joke. A
compendium of half measures meant to provide a fig leaf of reform while
leaving the existing financial system intact, it largely remains a dead
letter. Provisions such as the “Volcker Rule,” which would restrict—but
not end—the legal ability of banks to speculate on their own accounts
with depositors’ money, have not been enacted because of opposition from
Wall Street.
Not a single leading bank executive has been criminally prosecuted,
let alone jailed, for rampant fraud and criminality both before and
after the 2008 crash. Over the past five years, bank scandals have
proliferated—Libor-rigging, foreclosure fraud, concealing speculative
losses, drug money laundering—with no serious consequences for the
criminals. Not only have the biggest banks not been broken up, they have
been allowed to grow even bigger and strengthen their grip on all
aspects of economic and political life.
As for the “new foundation for growth and prosperity,” the offloading
of the bad debts of the banks to the government and the massive money
printing by the Federal Reserve to subsidize Wall Street have created
the conditions for a financial crash of even greater proportions than
the debacle of 2008.
The bankrupting of governments has, meanwhile, been used, in the US
and around the world, to justify the launching of an historic assault on
social programs and the jobs and living standards of the working class.
Obama has spearheaded a social counterrevolution, utilizing the
economic crisis to turn the wheel of history back to levels of
exploitation and poverty last seen 100 years ago.
The centerpiece of this assault in the US is the bankruptcy of
Detroit, backed by the White House, which is being used to destroy the
pensions and health benefits of city workers, privatize and slash city
services, and sell off public assets, from the water department to the
Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit will set a precedent for cities
across the country and internationally.
In his speech, Obama made passing reference to the further growth of
social inequality during his tenure, noting that “the top one percent of
Americans took home twenty percent of the nation’s income last year,
while the average worker isn’t seeing a raise at all.” Typically,
however, he spoke as though he was an innocent bystander and the further
enrichment of the financial aristocracy had nothing to do with himself
or his own policies.
In reality, the single-minded focus of Obama’s domestic agenda from
day one has been to enable the ruling class to recover its losses from
the crash and exploit the crisis to amass even greater wealth. Even as
he sought in his speech to blame congressional Republicans for
obstructing his supposed campaign in behalf of the middle class, Obama
signaled that he intended to intensify his attack on social programs for
workers and grant new windfalls to big business.
Boasting that deficits were falling at the fastest rate since the end
of World War II, he said, “there’s not a government agency or program
out there that still can’t be streamlined … So I do believe we should
cut out programs that we don’t need.”
He reiterated his support for “reforms” to Medicare and Social
Security, including raising the retirement age for Medicare, introducing
a form of means testing, and cutting cost-of-living raises for Social
Security beneficiaries. At the same time, he repeated his support for a
massive cut in corporate taxes.
Obama’s speech will not fool the vast majority of workers, whose
anger is increasingly focusing on the White House and the former
candidate of “hope” and “change.” This opposition must be mobilized on
the basis of a clear, independent, socialist political program, which
starts from the need to build a political movement in opposition to the
entire political establishment and the capitalist system it defends.
America ! how long are the Good People of this ONCE GREAT Country ...gonna just stand on the side lines ?? ALL you "professing" believers in God ..how long do you think OUR Creator is gonna put up wit ...pussy's , chickens shits , who wont stand for fucking ANYTHING ! do you think OUR Forefathers are ..real proud of U.S.
Nation Of Sickos: Should We Be Concerned About The Moral Collapse Of America?
By Michael Snyder, on September 16th, 2013
How bad does it have to get before we admit that America is an absolute cesspool of filth and wickedness? The horrific Navy Yard shooting
that took place on Monday is yet another reminder that the thin veneer
of civilization that we all take for granted is rapidly disappearing.
At this point, nobody is fully safe anywhere in the United States at any
time. Sadly, the Navy Yard shooting was far from an isolated
incident. Every day, there are news reports that detail some of the
most heinous crimes that you could possibly imagine. In this article,
you are going to read about incredibly disturbing things that sickos
have done to animals, young children and elderly Americans. The goal is
not to entertain you. Rather, I hope to spark a discussion about the
moral collapse of America. The United States has become a nation of
perverts, sickos and psychopaths, and we need to ask ourselves some very
honest questions about why this is happening. No matter what other
solutions we may come up with politically and economically, this country
is not going to have any kind of a future unless we are able to address
the moral decay that is rotting the foundations of this nation at an
absolutely astounding pace.
Just recently, a beautiful little kitten named Hope was found near a dumpster in suburban Detroit. According to the Huffington Post, experts believe that someone viciously tortured this precious little cat and set it on fire…
“We opened up the carrier and stood in complete shock,”
said Laura Zain, founder of the nonprofit. “It was the worst thing I’ve
ever seen in 25 years of doing this. I’ve never seen something so
sadistic, ever.”
Emaciated, feverish, with pale gums and covered with fleas, Hope’s
worst problem was deep, severe burns on her back, sides and ears.
“She absolutely was set on fire,” Zain said.
The veterinarian confirmed that Hope had been tortured and set on fire.
How sick and twisted do you have to be to do something like that?
There are other sickos out there that want to do absolutely nightmarish things to our children.
For example, just check out what one man in the Boston area planned to do…
A Boston-area man, who was planning to kidnap children,
lock them in a basement dungeon, rape and eat them, should be imprisoned
for at least 27 years, federal authorities said in court documents
filed this week.
Geoffrey Portway pleaded
guilty in May to distribution and possession of child pornography and
solicitation to commit a crime of violence, according to court
documents. He is scheduled to be sentenced on September 17.
“Portway has pled guilty
to some of the most vile and heinous crimes known to our society,”
federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing recommendation.
I am normally not
squeamish when it comes to describing the evil that is overtaking our
society, but what this monster was planning to do to children is so
horrific that I cannot even include it in this article.
If you would like to read the rest of the CNN article, you can find it right here.
Are you convinced that we are a nation of sickos yet?
In July, 93-year-old native Nebraskan Louise Sollowin was brutally murdered in
the home she lived in for more than 70 years. She was beaten and raped,
allegedly by a 19-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico.
After being arrested Sergio, through an interpreter,
reportedly admitted to beating and raping Louise. He said he had been
drinking heavily and was “angry with women.” He stated he had been
working as a roofer. The autopsy report listed “blunt force trauma,
broken cheekbones, head injuries, broken teeth, broken ribs and a broken
nose.” Sergio had never met the grandmother prior to the attack. The
police report stated there was blood on “walls, floor, ceiling and bed.”
How far gone do you have to be to treat a 93-year-old woman that way?
Unfortunately, a lot of the time our only “help” comes from the
police, and often they are some of the sickest ones of all. In
California, police officers routinely take injured dogs and cats out to
the shooting range and shoot them…
Animal lovers are questioning a policy where Merced
Police officers take injured animals out to the police shooting range to
kill them.
The penal code has been on the books for decades. Some
officers say it’s the most humane thing you can do, while others call it
barbaric.
Officers use deadly force to save the lives of others, but
what about shooting severely injured dogs or cats found on the street?
And of course some of the worst sickos of all are walking the halls
of power in Washington. I have written dozens of articles about the corruption of our politicians,
and now those same politicians want to start a war with Syria and use
the U.S. military to help murderous jihadists that are loyal to al-Qaeda
take over Syria.
The brutality of these so-called “rebels” knows no limits. Just check out the following example from the Daily Mail…
The sword rests briefly on his neck as a blindfolded man kneels under a clear blue sky.
Moments later, the executioner raises his right arm, slashes downwards and the prisoner is dead.
The whole barbaric episode is watched by a crowd of jeering men, many of them armed.
And sitting on a low wall only a few feet from where the wretched captive died so violently is a line of young boys.
They were still there as the dead man’s head was dumped on his body.
The US, UK and France have agreed to bolster Syrian
rebels by providing more help, press Syria into delivering on its
promise to hand over chemical weapons and seek an end to the conflict,
which would involve ousting of President Bashar Assad.
A homeless man turned in a backpack with $2,400 in cash,
$39,500 in travelers checks and a passport that he found at South Bay
Mall in Dorchester.
Boston Police officers at South Bay Mall were flagged down by the man in front of the TJ Maxx Store.
The man said he found a black backpack that contained a large sum of money and a passport in the front of the store.
So what do you think?
Is there hope for America?
Please feel free to share what you think by posting a comment below…
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California school district hires online monitoring firm to watch 13,000 students
Startup analyzes public social media posts: "Therefore, no privacy is violated.”
The way Chris Frydrych tells it, monitoring schoolkids’ public
social media posts and then reporting questionable activities about them
daily to school officials is an unquestionable net positive.
So his new startup, Geo Listening,
does just that. Geo Listening looks for social media posts that deal
with depression, despair, online bullying, hate speech, or other words
and phrases that may indicate a possible violation of school codes of
conduct—whether it's by a student or someone in and around a school’s
location.
Last month, Geo Listening even signed a deal with the Glendale
Unified School District located north of downtown Los Angeles. Their
agreement became the first publicly-confirmed partnership between the
company and a school district. Glendale will pay $40,500 for Geo
Listening to monitor posts by 13,000 students across its eight middle
and high schools for an academic year.
“If our service gets kids to privatize their pages, that’s all a
positive for our kids and our society,” Frydrych told Ars. He noted that
the service would not catch posts that are locked down as private.
Geo Listening—based in Hermosa Beach, California, a small beach town
just south of the Los Angeles International Airport—is not given a list
of student names. Rather, it is scanning posts across Twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, and other online services, searching for certain keywords
and location information that would tie a person to the school
community. Relevant data is then presented in a daily report to school
officials.
“All of the individual posts we monitor on social media networks are
already made public by the students themselves,” Geo Listening writes on
its website. “Therefore, no privacy is violated.”
The company’s privacy policy further states:
Geo Listening’s service processes, analyzes, and reports
only publicly available data that aligns with school district procedures
and board policy related to student conduct and safety. The Geo
Listening system takes into account frequency and severity of a
student’s posts that include indicators relating to bullying,
cyber-bullying, hate and shaming activities, depression, harm and self
harm, self hate and suicide, crime, vandalism, substance abuse, and
truancy.
Geo Listening does not circumvent any personal privacy settings on
the platforms where it indexes content. The Geo Listening Services are
intended solely to collect and process publicly available information.
Enlarge/ Geo Listening shared this slide showing how it sees its own service.
The entrepreneur claims that by July 2014, the service will be
available at “3,000 school sites” across the world, the majority being
in North America. (Frydrych distinguishes school sites to include school
and district-related facilities, like a bus depot or a swimming pool,
that may technically be off-campus.)
“If we find a post and we report it to the school and we let them
know that this is behavior that is depicting despair, and here is the
information that we were able to find in the public domain, we give that
to [school officials,]” he added.
Frustratingly, Frydrych declined to provide any technical details of
the service. He wouldn't share an example of the types of reports that
would go to school officials, though he specifically denied the company
is using scraping or facial recognition technologies.
“We have various technologies methods that we use, they are all legal
and publicly available,” Frydrych said. “We’re monitoring social
networks, our methodologies allow us who is and who is not a stakeholder
of a particular school and that’s how we determine what we report to
the school district.”
The Glendale Unified School District did not respond to Ars’ request for comment.
However, the school district's superintendent told CNN that an earlier pilot program with Geo Listening helped a student who was discussing suicide online.
"We were able to save a life," Richard Sheehan told the news channel.
"It's just another avenue to open up a dialogue with parents about
safety."
Surveillance is surveillance is surveillance
It remains clear, however, that the company is capturing data—likely location-based—about people besides students.
Ars asked Frydrych if a public tweet from a non-student saying
“Drinking coffee across the street from Glendale High School” would turn
up in his system. He said that data would not be immediately reported,
but that it could be retained for future reference.
“If you did something later on, and then we needed to see if there
was a trend or pattern, we would be able to access the day you had
coffee, but again, we’re nine months in, and we haven’t had a lot of
scenarios,” he noted.
It’s also unclear exactly how this type of social media scanning,
data analysis, and retention would occur over time, particularly during
school holidays or after a student has left the school district. It
could be the case, if this company continues its arrangement with
districts like Glendale, that Geo Listening could retain 12 years worth
of social media data from particular students.
“That policy being developed is that we’re looking into what the
industry best practices are,” Frydrych noted. “We have a potential life
span within our sphere of responsibility of 12 or 13 years of a student.
I don’t think it’s likely that we’re going to be holding data for that
long. We will adhere to the law and we will adhere to what the industry
best practices are so we can best serve our clients. The duration of
that storage, nine months in, is still being developed as to what the
end timeline is going to be.”
Privacy advocates have raised some notable questions about how this service would work in practice.
“If they're acting on behalf of the government, [there's a] serious
possibility that their action is ‘state action’ subject to the federal
and state constitutions,” Lee Tien, a staff attorney for the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, told Ars by e-mail.
“More generally it matters to me that this is being done by/for a
public school, apparently with no or little notice to parents or
students. I would ask, what business is it of the school's what my child
does on Facebook? Does the school think it has a general roving
commission to conduct surveillance on students outside of school?
(Surveillance = deliberate or intentional practice of gathering
information, often covertly.)”
Angry entrepreneur replies to patent troll with racketeering lawsuit
Patent trolls are legal. Can one be nailed for extortion? One man is betting yes.
FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor and Director of Operations Danny Seigle.
FindTheBest.com
Most business owners sued by patent trolls don't talk about it to
anyone other than their lawyer; a typical response is to cross one's
fingers and hope the problem goes away. It won't, of course. Often they
do the next best thing—hope it will go away for as little money as
possible.
FindTheBest CEO Kevin O'Connor, who also cofounded online ad giant DoubleClick, decided several weeks ago he would talk about it—publicly, and often. O'Connor wrote to tech sites like PandoDaily telling them of his determination to "slaughter" the troll, the "scum of the earth." And in August, he pledged $1 million of his own money to fight the troll that went after his company.
Now, we're getting a vision of how FindTheBest
is putting that money to use. The company has made a novel legal claim,
saying that the troll that came after it is so reckless, it has engaged
in outright extortion, violating racketeering laws.
The claim follows an investigation of the troll that sued the
startup. The investigation started when O'Connor and FindTheBest
Director of Operations Danny Seigle simply started making phone calls.
"The first thing you think is, who the hell are these guys?" O'Connor
ultimately called the lead inventor listed on the patent, which describes a system for "multilateral decision-making."
That set in motion a bizarre series of events. Lumen View's lawyer
accused O'Connor of committing a "hate crime" by calling the inventor,
Eileen Shapiro of Hillcrest Group. ("I didn't know patent trolls were a
protected class," quips O'Connor.) Then the lawyer threatened criminal
charges (again, for calling an inventor). From there, it got personal.
Instead of kowtowing to the troll's demand for $50,000, O'Connor
decided to pledge to spend $1 million fighting. He knows it's not the
rational business decision... and he doesn't care.
"From a business perspective, it makes 100 percent sense to settle,"
he said. "I decided to take it out of the business realm, and into the
personal. There's one thing I love and that's technology, and there's
one thing I hate, and that's injustice—people abusing the system."
Spending that kind of cash to fight a patent suit would be
devastating to a young startup like FindTheBest, which has received $17
million in venture capital over its short life, according to a recent
VentureBeat profile. O'Connor,
who sold DoubleClick to Google in 2008, felt like he's in a position to
use some of his personal wealth to push back.
The suit, filed late Monday, marks only the third time a major effort
has been mounted to lasso a patent troll with the law known as
the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) act. Cisco tried
it against Innovatio, a patent troll that was threatening coffee shops
and small hotel chains, but it didn't work.
It's a long shot any way you look at it. But O'Connor's tangle with
Shapiro, her co-inventor, their lawyers, and any other shadowy investors
that may exist, is now set to be a knock-down, drag-out fight. It's the
kind of battle rarely seen in patent troll litigation, where trolls
often want to settle for "nuisance" settlements that can be in the high
five-figures.
Offer of a $50,000 settlement goes up, then down
Lumen View is owned, at least in part, by Eileen Shapiro, a Boston
executive who works at a company called the Hillcrest Group. She has a
co-inventor named Steven Mintz, who FindTheBest also believes is
involved with the operation.
It's one of several shell companies connected to the two. Neither
Shapiro nor Lumen View's lawyer of record, Damian Wasserbaur, returned
phone calls requesting comment for this story.
Lumen View and its related patent-holding companies have been
controversial ones from the start. In part, that's because the
Shapiro-linked companies own patents they claim read on stunningly broad
"do it on the Internet" type ideas—like one on sending out a press release online, used to sue several PR companies in 2010, including some very small ones. Shapiro wouldn't talk then either, saying only that she was "under NDA" about anything regarding the sale of her patents.
The Gooseberry patent was asserted against several online media
companies back in 2011—sites like TechCrunch, Slashdot, and Reddit. That
led to a kind of crowdsourced research
project on Reddit, but other than names of various shells connected to
the same inventors, like Kolomoki Mounds LLC, not much was discovered.
Shapiro got back to me for the 2010 story, saying she was "under NDA"
about anything involving the patent sale. When O'Connor spoke to
Shapiro, she dodged questions about her role in Lumen View, saying
simply "I'm the inventor of the patent," and refusing to talk about
whether she had any economic interest in it.
Lumen View has filed 21 lawsuits in New York and Delaware. The
company's initial demand to FindTheBest was $50,000; but that would
explode to $85,000 if it fought back at all, filing any motion in court
whatsoever. Then FindTheBest was offered a "one-day-only" settlement
offer, discounted by $30,000 if they would avoid filing an answer.
At some point, it became clear that Wasserbaur just wants to collect a
check without doing anything. "It was clear Damian [Wasserbaur] only
wanted to talk about the settlement," said O'Connor. "He refused to tell
us how we were infringing. Every sentence ended in, let's settle."
Perhaps not coincidentally, $50,000 is just about what it costs to
hire a lawyer and file the initial set of paperwork to defend a patent
case, noted O'Connor. The Lumen View demand letter specifically threatened to raise the settlement amount if FindTheBest chose to fight back.
"Should Company engage in early motion practice, however, we must
advise that it will force us to reevaluate and likely increase
Plaintiff's settlement demand," wrote a lawyer from Aeton Law Group, the
firm representing Lumen View. For every motion filed by FindTheBest,
Lumen View would "incorporate an escalator into its settlement demand to
cover the costs of its opposition papers and argument." Many other Lumen
View defendants have settled within just a few months of a lawsuit being
filed, suggesting the patent troll is accepting settlements below
$50,000. The list of defendants includes Monster, as well as small job
sites like SnagAJob, TheLadders.com, and JobVite. But just about any
site collecting user preferences would seem to be a potential target.
College search site CollegeBound Network was sued along with internship
research site InternMatch and Zimride, an online ride-sharing tool.
FindTheBest's director of operations, Danny Seigle, contacted every
other company defending against a Lumen View lawsuit. "We learned a
lot," Seigle told Ars. "We spoke to one CEO who had already settled, and
he described the process as 'complete terrorism.' He didn't want to
settle, but they went after his customers and clients, and the company
would have gone out of business."
"They're all really dedicated to fighting it, and then they discover the cost," said O'Connor.
O'Connor has also spoken with well-known troll-fighters like Newegg's Lee Cheng
about possible solutions to the problem. "We had the same view—he's
brilliant," said O'Connor. "It was really cool that Newegg took these
guys on, knowing that going on the offense was the best defense."
Pointing out a “patent troll” becomes a “hate crime”
FindTheBest's RICO lawsuit uses language like "extortion" to describe Lumen View's business practices.
The suit has several tacks. First, it claims that FTB couldn't
possibly infringe a patent that clearly describes two or more people
entering a preference—FindTheBest's system only handles the preference
of one user at a time.
In fact, Lumen didn't do "any meaningful pre-filing investigation,"
the suit alleges, and that's part of the problem. Lumen simply did "a
broad internet search for companies that offer any type of matching
service... Because the concept of matching two parties is as old as Adam
and Eve, this general search reveals numerous company websites." The
company's expert witness not only hadn't investigated FindTheBest's
services—he'd never heard of the target company, according to O'Connor.
The threat letter is also full of barely veiled threats that Lumen
will make the lawsuit as expensive as possible. In fact, the majority of
the letter describes how the defendant company must take drastic steps
to collect all its electronic and other documents now that it has been
sued—if it doesn't, sanctions may occur, says Lumen.
FindTheBest also argues that Lumen's attorney made the claim that
calling someone a "patent troll" was actually a "hate crime" under
“Ninth Circuit precedent." After O'Connor contacted Shapiro, Lumen View
attorney Wasserbauer threatened to file criminal charges—unless
FindTheBest settled the civil case immediately, apologized, and gave
financial compensation to Shapiro. The offer was "good until close of
business that day," Wasserbauer allegedly said.
Finally, The letter makes technological demands that would be almost
impossible to meet without shutting down one's business. In the Lumen
View letter, it instructs the target company to immediately preserve
"the complete contents of each user's network share and e-mail
accounts," writes Lumen. That's in addition to "system sequestration,"
meaning that any accused "systems, media, and devices" should be
"remove[d]... from service to properly sequester and protect them."
In other words, to comply with the demands of litigation, Wasserbauer actually suggested that FindTheBest had to immediately stop using its computers.
That's further demonstration of Lumen's extortionate intentions,
states FTB in the RICO suit. "[Lumen] use[s] the discovery process, not
to investigate and prove their patent infringement claims, but to merely
harass, intimidate, injure, and annoy FTB (and their other targets)."
O'Connor hopes he'll encourage other entrepreneurs to speak out.
"There's a lot of outrageous stories, but everyone's so damn afraid
of coming forward—It's like going against the Mafia," he said. But the
idea that trolls may retaliate against those who speak out is overblown,
he thinks. "If they want to try to teach me a lesson, go for it. This
will be my retirement. I'll fight them."
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or d. fuckenstein ...douche bag ! is it possible to be an ass pipe & a douche bag & beaten wit an "ugly stick" ALL in the same lifetime = apparently ( gee another fucking list :o ) 
By Michael Snyder, on September 16th, 2013
