4/28/2013

The ability of Internet service providers (ISPs) to unmask anonymous subscribers and users has proven to be a weakness in the protection of freedom of expression on the Internet. Companies angry about comments criticizing them on public message boards, for example, have found that they can simply file a civil lawsuit with vague, unsupported claims, then issue a subpoena to the discussion's host ISP demanding the identity of the speaker. These subpoenas have effectively shut off discussion in many public forums. ISPs have recently begun to notify their subscribers when they receive these subpoenas, giving them at least a limited opportunity to object. Yet still, many subscribers do not respond in time and their identities are turned over with no analysis of whether their speech actually caused any harm.

http://www.america.gov/conspiracy_theories.html

5/18/2010  

My blog entry on this govt site.

Several things are evident in this strongly biased column.

One is, Freedom of Speech is the cornerstone of our Republic. I think than a sports team has the right, as a Corporation, to support any idea possible. I support this right.

As an Anthropologist I can tell you that most people watch or participate in Sports to enjoy themselves and a great many chose to shut out the world for a couple of hours and don’t like their sports interrupted with outside issues.

If the players in baseball had a voice in the early 1950’s, Jackie Robinson would of never been allowed to play.

People can confuse a high level of skill in any unspecified activity as wisdom or intellect. We prefer our heroes to be bright. However the athlete scores lower on Academic Achievement Tests compared to others of their age and education group. We are all good at different things and some do not score well on standardized tests.

The Suns or Los Suns, wearing Jerseys in commemoration of Cinco de Mayo takes us another step away from the problems such as:

The open border, Americans strong desire to close the border.

The decrease in crime nationally, in which only across the Southern Border States has it increased.

The celebration of a foreign national holiday that only the Mexicans living in the United States can celebrate safely.

The Suns act does not take into account the suffering that is occurring daily across Mexico.

Since the massive transfer of manpower began in 1984, Mexico has slowly slipped into anarchy. With the loss of 12 million men, many of whom wire money home, there has been a collapse in Mexico’s social order. Some towns are nearly empty of men. Men who could defend his family. Something he cannot do from the United States. The Drug Warlords have taken advantage of families having no one to protect them 13 members of a family I knew in Creel, Mexico were murdered last July, 23 for not letting the Narcos take their shipping trucks. Five of their sons were in the United States. They were probably just seeking adventure, knowing what I did about them.

The Suns have, within their rights, protested an Arizona law that seeks to return illegal immigrants to the country of their origin.

5/23/2010

Dian Fossey was portrayed by her detractors as eccentric and obsessed, and all kinds of stories were circulated about her. According to her letters, ORTPN, the World Wildlife Fund, African Wildlife Foundation, FPS, the Mountain Gorilla Project and some of her former students tried to wrest control of the Karisoke research center from her for the purpose of tourism, by portraying her as unstable. In her last two years Fossey claims not to have lost any gorillas to poachers; however the Mountain Gorilla Project, which was supposed to patrol the Mount Sabyinyo area, tried to cover up gorilla deaths caused by poaching and diseases transmitted through tourists. Nevertheless these organizations received most of the public donations.  The public often believed their money would go to Fossey, who was struggling to finance her anti-poaching patrols, while organizations collecting in her name put it into costly tourism projects and as she put it "to pay the airfare of so called conservationists who will never go on anti-poaching patrols in their life". WWF, the global environment conservation organization, was constituted and registered in 1961 pursuant to Sections 80 et seq. ... 

Many of the organizations that opposed Fossey, including ORTPN (the Rwandan tourism office) and other wildlife organizations, used and continue to use her name for their own financial gain up to this day. Weeks before her death, ORTPN refused to renew her visa, and pressure on Fossey was mounting. However, Fossey managed to obtain a special two-year visa through Augustin Nduwayezu, a benevolent Secretary-General in charge of immigration. Mowat believes that the extension of her visa amounted to a de facto death warrant.

Months before her death, Fossey signed a $1,000,000 contract with Warner Bros. for a movie that was to be based on her book, Gorillas in the Mist. The prospect that her work would be funded far into the future.  Her mother overturned the will in court and kept the money.

      Fossey's will stated that all her money (including proceeds from the movie) should go to the Digit Fund to finance anti-poaching patrols. However, her mother, Kitty Price, challenged the will and won.

They have also shown their short sightedness by not also acknowledging the complete destruction of the Traditional Mexican Culture.

There are Mexican voices crying out for help. Can the Suns hear the cries of the women and children left behind. All the while we accepted the best, the brightest and the most capable of Mexico’s centuries old culture.

If a sports team wants to protest social order, so be it.

If I want to know about a mis-justice I think a locker-room is the last place I would look.

Politics aside as no one has stood up to anyone since Kennedy and Carter. Oh, I guess Ross Perot who pretty bluntly came out and said that he got official visitors when it looked like he might win the Presidency. He said that "I cannot continue my candidacy for the Office of President of the United States as I have received information where I must consider the safety of my wife and daughter if I continue." So....

An hour later that was pulled and he reported an extortion plot to ruin the wedding and reputation of his daughter. Took guts just to say what he did.... having to deal with Texas oilmen.

I worked for Texaco Oil for ten years before exposures to very toxic substances nearly took my life. I worked in a refinery in Wilmington California and some other locations as needed. I worked in the refinery while going to college and took a job in the Laboratory as a chemist after 4 years. The poster above is dead on when he says they are more like organized crime. They are organized crime and the trail of bodies leading to the powers today can be easily traced since WWll and the world was carved up. I have heard management say that it is still cheaper to lose some lives than shut down a unit. A $10,000 life insurance policy in 1970 was nothing compared to shutting down.

The CEO was a prince from Belgium, I think, and the board was a who's who of high powered banking interests. The bottom line was all that mattered. They were so cheap that they only painted the fronts of things. The part you could see driving by. Bob Hope came for a tour and they quickly got out the silver paint and painted the fronts of things you could see from a limo. We killed all the wild life in the waters by using all the oxygen and the effluent went into the Wilmington channel and out into the pacific ocean. No oxygen no life. I know all the lies.

The effluent(the blow out)has been video taped and they know exactly how much oil is being released into the ocean. From the very poor quality video the amount of oil and methane being released is calculated by measuring the bubbles and the speed that they are going. There is a standard formula that one professor at Berkeley yesterday just jotted down with a pencil after a serious screen of the flow and came up with 100,000 Bbl per day +/- 20,000. Two others came up with similar figures Saturday.

Don't let them say they don't know. They know exactly with good video and knowing the size of pipe, nine inches inside the well expanding to 21 inches to lower pressure.

The size of this field is mind boggling and what they don't tell you is about the test drill. They went down 35,000 ft and I believe found 15 fields stacked one on top of another. I don't hear about dry holes very often as that is just bad luck.

Oil company technologies led to the development of HAARP in Alaska. It was in the 90's and a DOD AND DARPA transmitter was built and what HAARP can do is like science fiction.

Go to the home page http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/index.html

"It is listed as a educational site but carefully read the warnings.

Unauthorized use of this system is prohibited by Title 18, Section 1030, United States Code."

WARNING: THEY WILL MONITOR YOUR COMPUTER AND TRACK YOUR USAGE. THE WARNING SAYS SO.

They can easily blow by your firewall and see everything you have and trace everyone you connect to in any way. This is some serious, uh, stuff.

HAARP is the most powerful transmitter in the world by far. Developed from software created by an oil company HAARP can bounce RF off the ionosphere and like radar can see beneath the surface of the earth. Satellite radars can penetrate the top 50-100 meters of the earth. HAARP was said by scientists who worked on the system to see deep into the earth and the location of underground oil and water reservoirs have been mapped (developed by an oil company) and all they don't know is the exact quality of the oil.  My wife worked on the development of HAARP before she died.  Atlantic Richfield did the work in Paramount California.  Strangely enough it would seem that the Government killed her.  She came down with a cancer no one had ever seen before.  A mixed Lymphoma and a T cell leukemia with the addition of what seemed to be K.S. Kaposi Syndrome.  AIDS, this was 4 years before the first 8 index cases of all homosexuals. A man made disease clearly and first inoculated into homosexuals in New York Steam Bath under the guise of hepatitis c vaccine.  Why they would want to kill Linda I don’t know.

This ruptured will be sealed as this is the worst man made disaster since Chernobyl. The energy companies will do anything to make this go away. There is actually a nuclear scenario that was designed in late 50's and early 60's when nuclear engineering was actually being planned.

I will trust the great biologists that blog here for good information and thank you to all who have shared what they know.

Animal Cruelty. Some things are too horrific to consider, and yet consider them we must.

By KATHLEEN PARKER

Washington Post Writers Group

WASHINGTON -- Some things are too horrific to consider, and yet consider them we must.

"Crush videos," for instance.

Somehow I missed the 1999 law, recently nullified by the U.S. Supreme Court, that attempted to outlaw crush videos -- definition forthcoming pending recovery from horror-induced swoon. Thus, for the past 11 years, I have been blissfully ignorant of a level of depravity I haven't the imagination to invent.

No children beyond this point:

Crush videos feature small animals (kittens, puppies and others) being slowly crushed or impaled by a woman wearing stiletto heels, ostensibly for the sexual pleasure of those so attracted.

And yes, the Supreme Court decided that such videos are protected by free speech. Or rather, that the law prohibiting such videos was too broad. As written, for example, the law could be construed to prohibit a deer-hunting video, which, though some might find cruel, relates to a legal activity.

Though many experts and scholars defend the 8-1 ruling as legally correct, the high court's opinion is surely of a kind that prompted Mr. Bumble in "Oliver Twist" to assert: "The law is a (sic) ass -- a (sic) idiot."

Obviously, no one ever intended that the free speech provision of the Constitution protect the rights of deviants to torture animals and then to market videos for the sexual satisfaction of people who, by their tastes, are a probable threat to society.

The case in question stemmed from the 2005 conviction of Robert J. Stevens of Pittsville, Va., who was charged with marketing videos of dog fighting. Stevens, who identifies himself as a journalist and documentary filmmaker (who doesn't these days?), claimed that he was merely trying to provide a historical perspective of dog fighting. Some of the images included pit bulls tearing at the jaw of a domestic pig.

Some things transcend "to each his own," and animal cruelty is one. Dog fighting, in fact, is illegal in all 50 states. But whether the filming of dog fighting is criminal isn't always clear. Animal rights organizations provide videos of cruelty, after all, though the difference should be obvious. One is reporting on cruelty; the other is setting up an event for the sole purpose of profiting from cruelty.

Although the federal government never prosecuted anyone for making crush videos -- the market shriveled significantly after Congress passed the 1999 legislation -- prosecutors used the law to convict Stevens, who was sentenced to 37 months in prison. Alas, an appellate court ruled that Stevens' conviction violated his free speech rights and the Supreme Court upheld the ruling.

The high court noted that dog fighting remains illegal, but that there was no compelling reason to create a special category of exemption from First Amendment protections, as is the case with child pornography. The court's reasoning was that child porn necessarily means the abuse of children in the production of such films.

This is logic that escapes the layman, burdened as he is with common sense. Aren't animals necessarily harmed in the creation of crush videos and in the course of filming dogfights? The natural question follows: How can an act be illegal, but the filming and marketing of the illegal act be legal?

In law, it seems, the answer is never simple. These things are not open and shut, but are "a matter of grappling," as PETA President Ingrid Newkirk put it to me during an interview of shared despair.

At least one justice, Samuel Alito, applied the common sense standard in his dissent.

"The videos record the commission of violent criminal acts, and it appears that these crimes are committed for the sole purpose of creating the videos."

Voila.

In effect, the high court has revived the crush video industry, if only for a short time. A day after the ruling, Reps. Elton Gallegly, R-Calif., and Jim Moran, D-Va., co-chairs of the Animal Protection Caucus, introduced a bipartisan bill (H.R. 5092) to narrowly focus the 1999 bill to deal with crush videos.

Even this new bill may be imperfect, however. Although it specifically exempts hunting videos, animal rights advocates worry that it leaves a loophole. Hypothetically, a crush video could be built around a legitimate hunting scene and thus be protected from prosecution.

Grappling, indeed.

The challenge to Congress is at once daunting and uncomplicated: There is no argument ever to justify torturing animals and no defense -- ever -- for selling videos created to profit from that torture. Figure it out. Fix it.


Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/04/25/2140576/no-defense-for-animal-cruelty.html#ixzz12KgdA4Gi

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