Government Overreach in the Name of Cybersecurity

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

Government/ News 
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 It's back. The CISA was passed by the Senate this week. If  you want to read what the bill contains, here is the document from the Congressional Website.

 S.754 - Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015

This bill is being directed to help corporations and industries deal with cyberattacks, but isn't that the corporations problem, not a public policy one? Why aren't billion dollar profiting corporations able to fend off hackers without public monies or laws? 

Is this bill another form of corporate welfare? 

According to CNN's' article explaining the bill:

The idea behind CISA is to help U.S. companies react more quickly to cyberattacks on their computer systems. If a company gets hit with a specific type of hack, the federal government would receive an alert and immediately distribute warnings to other companies.

Every cyberattack is like a flu virus, and CISA is intended to be a lightning-fast distribution system for the flu vaccine. Opt in, and you get a government shot in minutes, not months.

Currently, industries maintain specialized, military-like "information sharing and analysis centers" to track cyberattacks and collectively develop defenses. Banking has its ISAC. The energy sector has its own too. But they don't team up.

And how is that a problem that Congress needs to spend taxpayer money to make someone's secretary call someone else's secretary to take a meeting on the subject?

 The article goes on to explain more about this CISA law:

CISA would create a single system that sends "cyber threat indicators" -- such as samples of malicious computer code -- to the Department of Homeland Security. DHS would then feed this data to the FBI, NSA and other government agencies. DHS would also share warnings to every participating American company.

Computer scientists and military experts agree that automatic, immediate sharing helps the nation raise its defenses.

 I have seen this movie. Haven't you? Skynet, anyone?

One centralized computer to do everything is a recipe for disaster. 

What we also should be questioning is:

A significant element of the bill is that CISA would eliminate liability for companies, making them immune to lawsuits for sharing too much. Banking, energy, health care, insurance -- almost every industry but tech supported the bill.

Several efforts to include additional privacy measures were shot down in the Senate.

So this bill is really about government overreach and making their accomplices immune from legal action all the while giving birth to an integrated technological system of corporate welfare and intrusion. 

Call your Congressional representatives today. This bill has no place in American policy or law. Americans do not have to give the government anything without a warrant and probable cause. 

The government going through corporations to steal private and sensitive information from Americans is not why or how our government was formed. Our government answers to the People. The People do NOT answer to the government. 

Let's make that clear because it appears our government officials do not comprehend the concept.

Source: Congress,  CNN,  

Movie Night: Resonance Beings of Frequency

Staff Writer, DB Holmes
Cell Phone / Cancer
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Resonance Beings of Frequency

This spectacular documentary uncovers for the very first time, the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. And, how every single one of us is reacting to the biggest change in environment this planet has ever seen.

Two billion years ago life first arrived on this planet; a planet, which was filled with a natural frequency. As life slowly evolved, it did so surrounded by this frequency. and Inevitably, it began tuning in.

By the time mankind arrived on earth an incredible relationship had been struck; a relationship that science is just beginning to comprehend.

Research is showing that being exposed to this frequency is absolutely integral to us. It controls our mental and physical health, it synchronizes our circadian rhythms, and it aids our immune system and improves our sense of wellbeing.

Not only are we surrounded by natural frequencies, our bodies are filled with them too. Our cells communicate using electro magnetic frequencies. Our brain emits a constant stream of frequencies and our DNA delivers instructions, using frequency waves. Without them we couldn't exist for more than a second.

This delicate balance has taken billions of years to perfect. But over the last 25 years the harmony has been disturbed. and disturbed dramatically.

Mankind has submerged itself in an ocean of artificial frequencies. They are all around us, filling the air and drowning out the earth's natural resonance.

To the naked eye the planet appears to be the same. But at a cellular level it is the biggest change that life on earth has endured; the affects of which we are just starting to see and feel.

Source: Youtube

Movie Night: Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs

Staff Writer, DB Holmes

UFO / Government / Technology
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Now for a little fun:

Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs

Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs - 2012 (Full Documentary) explores past and present sightings from around the world with shocking real footage, much of it never before seen, that will leave even the most skeptical viewers scratching their heads. Along with the fascinating collection of stunning eyewitness videos, Aykroyd reveals his own vast knowledge of the strange and paranormal as he explores in detail his views on conspiracy theories, military secrets, and how UFO technology is currently part of our everyday lives.

Source: Neighbourhood UFO Watch

Pacific Orientation: The Eurasian System

Staff Writer, R. Patrick Chapman

LaRouche PAC / Government
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This video is a great overview of the current deindustrialization of the United States and how that has contributed to an unstable economic power structure, which now foments war instead of innovation. Although this video is educational, the information does not explain why this de-evolution of America has transpired. Thanks to the ever greedy and encroaching mega powers of the global elite, the United States has been stripped away for the goal of globalization. The rise of Eurasia is not a misstep but a planned dismantling of the world for the shortsightedness of a few power brokers at the top.

Pacific Orientation: The Eurasian System

The current global strategic situation can be defined as a fight between two systems: a dying Trans-Atlantic system in its death throes, which seeks to destroy and loot a Eurasian system which has begun to commit itself to true principles of progress, outlined in this video.

Source: LaRouche PAC

Climate Change: A Letter to APS

Staff Writer, DB Holmes 
Climate Change / American Physical Society
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Even though this letter is a few years old, what is in it still rings true. This letter to the American Physical Society was released to the public by Professor Emiritus of physics Hal Lewis of the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Sent: Friday, 08 October 2010 17:19 Hal Lewis

From: Hal Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
To: Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Princeton University, President of the American Physical Society

6 October 2010

Dear Curt:

When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago).

Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence—it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of a contentious social/scientific issue, The Reactor Safety Study, though there were zealots aplenty on the outside there was no hint of inordinate pressure on us as physicists. We were therefore able to produce what I believe was and is an honest appraisal of the situation at that time. We were further enabled by the presence of an oversight committee consisting of Pief Panofsky, Vicki Weisskopf, and Hans Bethe, all towering physicists beyond reproach. I was proud of what we did in a charged atmosphere. In the end the oversight committee, in its report to the APS President, noted the complete independence in which we did the job, and predicted that the report would be attacked from both sides. What greater tribute could there be?

How different it is now. The giants no longer walk the earth, and the money flood has become the raison d’être of much physics research, the vital sustenance of much more, and it provides the support for untold numbers of professional jobs. For reasons that will soon become clear my former pride at being an APS Fellow all these years has been turned into shame, and I am forced, with no pleasure at all, to offer you my resignation from the Society.

It is of course, the global warming scam, with the (literally) trillions of dollars driving it, that has corrupted so many scientists, and has carried APS before it like a rogue wave. It is the greatest and most successful pseudoscientific fraud I have seen in my long life as a physicist. Anyone who has the faintest doubt that this is so should force himself to read the ClimateGate documents, which lay it bare. (Montford’s book organizes the facts very well.) I don’t believe that any real physicist, nay scientist, can read that stuff without revulsion. I would almost make that revulsion a definition of the word scientist.

So what has the APS, as an organization, done in the face of this challenge? It has accepted the corruption as the norm, and gone along with it. For example:

1. About a year ago a few of us sent an e-mail on the subject to a fraction of the membership. APS ignored the issues, but the then President immediately launched a hostile investigation of where we got the e-mail addresses. In its better days, APS used to encourage discussion of important issues, and indeed the Constitution cites that as its principal purpose. No more. Everything that has been done in the last year has been designed to silence debate

2. The appallingly tendentious APS statement on Climate Change was apparently written in a hurry by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word incontrovertible, which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word incontrovertible to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer “explanatory” screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake.

3. In the interim the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work.

4. So a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind—simply to bring the subject into the open.

5. To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment. You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was of course no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council.

6. As of now you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition.

APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization?

I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question.

I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends.

Hal

Harold Lewis is Emeritus Professor of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, former Chairman; Former member Defense Science Board, chmn of Technology panel; Chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; Former member Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; Former member, President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; Chairman APS study on Nuclear Reactor Safety Chairman Risk Assessment Review Group; Co-founder and former Chairman of JASON; Former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; Served in US Navy in WW II; books: Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin (about decision making)

 So when is main stream media going to start debunking this obvious scam of Climate Change?


Source:  Telegraph

Sunday Afternoon Drive: Free Books and Resources Online

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
Free / Community Interest
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Free to read online:

1. http://www.classicbookshelf.com/ This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.
2. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/search.html The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.
3. http://www.gutenberg.org This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.
4. http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/ Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.
5. http://classicbook.info/ Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.
6. http://www.classicreader.com/ Here you can read Shakespeare, young adult fiction and more.
7. http://www.readprint.com/ From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.
8. http://www.planetebook.com/ Download free classic literature titles here, from Dostoevsky to D.H. Lawrence to Joseph Conrad.
9. http://meta.montclair.edu/library/ Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.
10. http://www.bibliomania.com/ This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.
11. http://www.literature.org/ Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.
12. http://www.bartleby.com/fiction/ Bartleby has much more than just the classics, but its collection of anthologies and other important novels made it famous.
13. http://www.fiction.us/ Fiction.us has a huge selection of novels, including works by Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Flaubert, George Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others.
14. http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/ Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more. Textbooks If you don’t absolutely need to pay for your textbooks, save yourself a few hundred dollars by reviewing these sites.
15. http://textbookrevolution.org/index.php/Main_Page Find biology, business, engineering, mathematics and world history textbooks here.
16. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page From cookbooks to the computing department, find instructional and educational materials here.
17. http://www.knowthis.com/topic-areas/media-and-publications/free-online-textbooks.htm Get directed to stats textbooks and more.
18. http://www.welovelmc.com/books.htm Find books about plastic surgery, anatomy and more here.
19. http://spot.colorado.edu/~dubin/bookmarks/b/1240.html Access biochemistry, chemistry, aeronautics, medical manuals and other textbooks here.
20. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/resources/supplemental/index.htm Find free videos, textbooks and more on the subjects of mechanical engineering, mathematics, chemistry and more.
21. http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/ This innovative site has created an open college textbooks platform that was launched in January 2009.
22. http://www.businessbookmall.com/ Business Books.htm Find free books to go along with accounting, economics and other business classes.
23. http://www.lightandmatter.com/ Here you can access open source physics textbooks.
24. http://emedicine.medscape.com/ This project from WebMD is continuously updated and has articles and references on surgery, pediatrics and more. Math and Science Turn to this list to find books about math, science, engineering and technology.
25. http://www.fullbooks.com/ This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.
26. http://homepages.nyu.edu/~jmg336/html/mathematics.html NYU links to several free resources for math students.
27. http://www.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html Here you can find online textbooks like Elementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.
28. http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.
29. http://www.freescience.info/index.php Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.
30. http://www.freetechbooks.com/ Tech Books Computer programmers and computer science enthusiasts can find helpful books here. Children’s Books Even children’s books are now available online. Find illustrated books, chapter books and more.

For more resources, check out the Source page.



Source: Imgur 

Movie Night: Edward Snowden and ACLU at SXSW

Staff Writer, DL Mullan
SXSW / NSA
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Edward Snowden speaks about privacy and technology with the ACLU's Ben Wizner and Christopher Soghoian at SXSW Interactive.

Source: Youtube,

New Earth Project and Breaking Down Babylon with Sacha Stone

Staff Writer, DL Mullan

News / Earth
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In this interview edition of Buzzsaw, Tyrel discusses the New Earth Project and Breaking Down Babylon with Sacha Stone

New Earth Project founder Sacha Stone delivers his message of transcending the evil of Babylon and forging a new global nation without borders and oppression in this Buzzsaw interview with Sean Stone. Speaking against the blinders of society that has been structured in the mold of Anglo-Saxon tyranny, and holding no veneration for the US Constitution or standards of traditional western society, Stone dares to blow minds in this uncensored conversation.

Guest Bio

Sacha Stone is founder of the New Earth Project (http://www.new-earth-project.org/) which is the fastest growing sovereignty and consciousness movement on earth. The project hard-launches as the New Earth Nation in the first quarter of 2014 – and is already master-planning conscious communities in over thirty five nations across the globe. The New Earth Nation declares itself as the worlds first extraterritorial nation of peoples from all cultures and faiths who are choose to step out of the invisible contracts with corporate nation states and step into a new covenant of fellowship amongst all of humankind. The nation is existing under its own cognisance, as its own court of record and backed up by its own law commission, law academy and a growing army of law experts in national all around the world. Citizens and residents within the New Earth Nation are protected by this self-existing court of record. The Nation is launching its zero-point economy in 2014 which is a usury free, inflation free sovereign currency and exchange which removes banks and bankers altogether.

Sacha Stone’s socio-political writings and ‘State of the World’ reports are widely disseminated and serve as harsh critiques on the disease of globalisation and covert elitism (the architecture of fear and control). At the same time he emphasises the need for a conscious return (via a total collapse of the collective human conceptual framework) back into the true ‘zero-point’ contained within the quantum of the human heart (crystal logic) – in order for us to qualify and participate fully in the next great step in our human and planetary evolution. Technological, social and economical advances are only projections of the evolutionary process of our individual and collective soul. If we are to truly manifest sustainability and foster an energy and socio-economic revolution in our times we must acknowledge that awakening to the potential of our consciousness is the chief factor. Technology and consciousness are intimately connected and it is time for humanity to engage in that conversation without fear of scorn or derision from a world still largely trapped in linear logic and limitations of the conditioned mind.