cyber security bill

The threat of a catastrophic cyberattack is real. It is not a matter of ‘if’ an attack will happen; rather it is a matter of ‘when,’” said a document issued by Lieberman and Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
What the hell does Liberman know about the internet? That his good buddy Al Gore invented it? This is all abunch of bullshit. Suggestions have included introducing a new cyber identification system for everybody using the internet. I pity the fool that has to administrate that database. I am sure it will be another "uncrackable," algorithm. Nobody will ever steal your identity again because everything will be kept in one convenient place and controlled by one convenient password. This doesn't make you more secure, it makes you less secure. There is already human trafficking in America on a large scale, now we open the flood gates for human identification trafficking. If you so much as misplace your cyber identification you'll be up shit creek and god forbid somebody else get a hold of it. Sure it sounds good to people that know nothing about computer security. Put everything on a privatized government server. Servers get hacked every day. Say one of those servers gets broken into and everybody's cyber identity gets leaked in cyber space. This will happen. If your worried about a catastrophic cyber attack, don't use the internet for your banking transactions. Period. If this is a really big deal, bring back the intranet systems for networks that need security and don't connect those machines to the outside via the internet. God forbid an administrator have to get off their ass and walk to the physical location of a machine to get information from it. The point is that, the government is opening up a can of cyber-apocolypse worms all to sell your identity to private corporations. This mythical cyber attack is incredulous. If you don't want a machine tampered with remotely the only way to resolve that problem is not to connect it. So if this bill actually makes things worse what is the real purpose of the government making you use an identification system to get on line? Well they could create a massive database of search history used to profile users who might be potentially threatening to the status quo, who don't believe in a corporate welfare state where corporations are given control over our identity and accuse them of being a band of suburban russian spies. The government uses the patriot act to collect information about our purchasing history because we are at a time of wartime threat, which we are perpetually in with some nation or other somewhere, which protects us from our contrived enemy, by encouraging consumption of chinese goods. What is to stop the government from doing the same with our online identity. This is the equivalent to being forced to put up big brother in our homes. Big brother has no business here in a country purporting to be free. We are not free, we are being occupied by corporations both of domestic and foreign origin that would squeeze every last drop of blood from our stone bodies. Enough already. Joe Liberman should be the first to go. Vote him out now(like voting really matters). I'm sure youll all sit in front of your stupid television drinking your stupid beer, being stupid and do nothing about it until big brother is knocking down your door for more mandatory tax donations because government got too big to feed.
Another suggestion of this bill is to computerize the electricity grid system, by connecting usage meters to a database directly. This also makes you less secure. They will be crack and it will make it easier to tamper with than they already are. Somebody will release a program utility to do it and it will be much safer than it is currently to tamper with meters. It is also a way for corporations to cut more costs, they get the money from uncle sam to implement the policy, so they don't spend a dime and then they can cut employee jobs. You know the guy who went around looking at your meter. He'll be on his ass, so the taxes that will be funneled into this program can go straight to the ceo and the majority share holders who will make out like bandits again.
I think instead of this we should introduce an American Loyalty bill to limit corporate welfare. First if you do business in America, a certain percentage of your employees must be American. Second you cannot replace a person's job with a machine, if you implement a machine it is to improve the efficiency of a person. Third, raise import tariffs to make american goods cheaper in comparison. Third do not allow businesses from offshore nations that won't hold them accountable for scamming and defrauding americans in in the first place.
If our own government cannot be loyal to the people, but only to marauding corporate interests, we have the responcibility to deseat them by any means necessary.

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seeds safe from mansanto

I found this list from: Home Grown Edible Landscapes on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=249293493742

Abundant Life Seeds
Amishland Seeds
Baker Creek Seed Co.
Berlin Seeds – no known website
Botanical Interests
Bountiful Gardens
Burpee Seeds (hybrid pepper and tomato seeds are provided by Monsanto)
Cook's Garden (owned by Burpee - see above)
Diane’s Flower Seeds (she has veggies now, too)
Fedco Seed Co. – http://www.fedcoseeds.com/seeds/monsanto.htm
Garden City Seeds
Heirloom Acres Seeds
Heirlooms Evermore Seeds
Heirloom Seeds
High Mowing Seeds
Horizon Herbs
Irish-Eyes
Kitchen Garden Seeds
Lake Valley Seeds
Livingston Seeds
Local Harvest
Mountain Rose Herbs
Organica Seed
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply
Pinetree (no GMO seeds but did have a long relationship with Seminis before being bought by Monsanto. They have promised to send me a list of those seeds so that consumers can avoid them if they desired.) *PineTree (Superseeds) just sent me the list of seeds they buy from Seminis. Please see below for the full list)
Renee’s Garden
Richters Herbs
Sand Hill Preservation Center
Seed Saver’s Exchange
Seeds of Change
Southern Exposure
Territorial Seed Company - *Tom Johns, the pres. of Territorial posted in the comments on my blog about Seminis being owned by Monsanto, and said customer service will provide a list of seeds they buy from Seminis, so you can avoid them. He also said that Seminis is providing less varieties every year (typical of Monsanto) and they are finding suitable replacements. So, don’t count them out completely.*
Tiny Seeds
Tomato Fest
Underwood Garden Seeds
Uprising Seeds
Victory Seeds
Wildseed Farms
Wood Prairie Farm



I encourage heirloom gardening, I think it is the best way to fight back and preserve a family of seeds that have a history of adapting to their environment safely.

harvard imposter... so what.

here is the story: http://www.aolnews.com/2010/05/19/alleged-harvard-impostor-rejected-by-new-republic/19483379/?icid=main|aim|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aolnews.com%2F2010%2F05%2F19%2Falleged-harvard-impostor-rejected-by-new-republic%2F19483379%2F

All I can say about this is, so what. The whole education system from the time you enter it as a small child is designed to funnel you into a college, where you continue to regurgitate information you probably don't really understand. Its not like a teacher can fail you for answering the precise textbook definition of a term. The testing officials claim that these standards will help us be globally competitive down the road, but it seems clear to me what they really want. Retail workers who can memorize product specs, not really understand them, but be able to sell to another retail worker. How else will we maintain America's reputation for being the consumer of the worlds goods. Its important that my sister be able to spit out a very skewed definition of voltage and simultaneously, not understand what voltage is or how it can be harnessed. The whole system is designed to scam you out of money you don't even have yet. You will come out of the college of your choosing, with the debt of your choosing and it has the effect of ensuring you will have to enter the work force. Now nobody wants somebody without experience, so you will have to start at the bottom anyway, but presumably, you'll work your way back up. Schools like harvard have been used to make sure you must know somebody who knows somebody in order to have a real fighting chance to make it. Good grades and a lot of money are sometimes not even enough to get into an "ivy league," school. The graduates of harvard are the ones who will have the MIT graduates work under them to generate ideas and new technologies they can exploit, send to china to manufacture and ship back to a retail location where maybe you, as a college graduate, have moved up assistant manager, by the time your parallel stories collide again. If somebody scammed the education system, they did what we all should have done, took it back for the people, because education should be free. It shouldn't be about forcing those that don't care to learn to regurgitate information they don't understand. It should be about making the information freely accessible to anybody that wants it. If we wish to become competitive in education globally, we need to provide education without limits to those who wish to learn. I think more people should be doing this. This poor kid will probably spent a lot of time in jail, because he had the where-with-all to go to the slave masters and demand his freedom. People want to get indignant because they think they are entitled to their Harvard education, they worked hard for their grades, even the bad ones, but get this through your heads, nobody owes you shit, just because your Daddy had enough money to send you to harvard.
What Americans need more than anything is a good hard ass kicking, one that isn't followed up by overprotective parents getting litigious over a broken nose or a black eye. Kids will and should get in fights, it will build character, and you will know, nothing will be handed to you except your ass.
Today kids get into fights and one of them gets arrested, goes to jail and once entering the system, become institutionalized. Their life will be lived largely between those concrete walls, because they had the balls to stand up to somebody, or the strength to put down somebody that stood up to them. These people will be funneled into the military, because they will recieve no education in institutions, they will be angry and you can begin to focus that anger on whoever you want as long as you give them an outlet for that anger.
The football players that didn't make pro, will be funneled into the police. They learned that coach will always tell them what to do, so now sergeant will do the same.
The world is run by rich people that can't protect themselves, so they pit the poor against the middle working class, to ensure that both will have their hands full with enemies and never figure out who is responsible for all of it. Who funneled crack into the ghetto to introduce more desperation... Who depleted the resources of the middle class, creating more disparity between the middle and upper class and foreclosed on your house and forced you to move closer to the desperate poor crackheads, that will rob you because you have more and they pine for drugs. Who is it that refuses to lend money the government took from you and gave to them. That money is yours, not theirs and you have to beg to get it back. Who replaced your shitty cashier job with an automated machine that can't even get the job right. Who takes your tax money that should be going to public libraries, after school programs, homeless shelters, et cetera and funneled it into for profit, privatized prisons, ensuring that the poor will have no resources left, but to start jacking, get caught, go back to jail, where it costs the tax payer $80 to $120 a day to keep them in a cage, when you could have paid them $8 an hour to do something useful and keep them out of jail.
When are you going to see that the numbers don't add up... Why do they need to increase taxes %6 and lay off teachers? Could it have anything to do with the overwhelming infrastructure of government jobs, their jobs, that they won't sacrifice for you or me. Could it be because the governor of the state makes $175,000 when you sit around the poverty line, working two jobs so you can pay back your student loans? its horse shit. Wake up and take uncle sam's dick out of your ass.

Going Green to Save my Marraige...

As Americans, we are interested in hot button issues... The keywords that are to debates as a big mac is to a hamburger... Usually it looks good on television, its cheap and mass produced, but when it comes to substance its really ill defined. Most importantly these keywords drive the debate quickly, because in America we need to get things done now, now, now... Who cares what the end result will ultimately be, as long as the initiative and hard work drive the product it must be good... However like everything in America, we are getting what we paid for with the cheap, mass production corporate green movement... Lots of simple keywords, filled with addictive additives that keep us coming back(green is the new crack), but is anything beneficial coming of corporate America dipping their greasy hands into this pristine "movement?" Can you really expect change when the business is conducted in the usual, closed door, keep the inquisitive citizens out way? Look past the packaging into the truth, Solar Panels are largely made from silicon, the production of which, produces harmful byproducts, CFL light bulbs though being paraded around on television as the innovation that will save humanity, are filled with poisonous mercury, Biomass fuel production facilities have been caught dumping glycerin into the water supply... The point being that large scale production usually has negative impacts on the environment, naturally the damage to the environment is usually correlated to the size(among other variables such as toxicity of materials and byproducts) of the operation exponentially maybe even logarithmically though the exact equation eludes my understanding. It seems quite plain that some correlation can be made between the size of the operation and th impact on the environment and the delicate homeostasis our planet is slowly slipping away from. We get 400 trillion trillion watts/second from the sun. A large amount of that gets absorbed into the atmosphere, some of it gets reflected back into space, what remains is stored in a number of different forms. We somehow find ourselves stuck in an energy crises, exacerbated by our insatiable desire for conquest... Mast of us waste this energy charging our iphones to find out what somebody a hundred miles away is doing with their life immediately. While this is an incredible technology that most of us can't begin to understand, nor does anybody seem to care to, it shouldn't be our priority right now.
We have over 300 million citizens in America and less than 2 million farms that works out to %6. How is %6 of the population supposed to support %94. A similar statistic can be derived from labor statistics. The Capitolist class in America consists of %1 of the population. With another %5 being considered rich. The total of these two categories is less than half of those living below the poverty line. The working class is between 40-45% and the Middle Class is said to be another 35-40%. This suggests that 90% of Americans are doing the working jobs, making things the ultra-rich sell and profit from. The Average salary at Exxon is $65,000, while the CEO makes $22,400,000, thats over %300 more, but who does the work that keeps the business profitable?
I think in order for the green movement to gain any real traction it needs to sever ties with these large corporations and their ultra-rich ceos that attempt to co-opt the movement and make it another profitable ad campaign...

freight train

You can see it far off in the distance, barreling down on you... churning steel... Insurmountable failure, chasing down the same hopes and dreams with more fervour than it is possible for you to muster... At the moment posing no imminent threat, though it seems only to be accelerating as it approaches. Your family and friends walk beside you on either side of the tracks without concern, or maybe completely unwitting, resigned to the fact that the path has chosen you... The pitch ascends as the doppler shift becomes more apparent, but still it all seems too avoidable, the tall imposing freight train is still about a mile back... There is plenty of time to side step disaster, failure... demise. The tracks lay stretched out in front of you going off to nowhere, some meaningless node of a town miles from here, but completely identical. Walmarts, McDonalds, Exxon... Thousands of interchangeable faces with interchangeable personalities... Wearing the same clothing, eating the same food, working the same job, dating the same girl... Tearing her little cunt apart, leaving you a hole of moistened flesh begging to be fucked, begging to be yours, nobody elses... The words flow like they hold meaning...
The tracks begin to rattle an infrequent deep pitch... Each step further sealing an unavoidable doom... Yet there is never a doubt espoused, you have chosen this path.
For a moment its like you hadn't seen it coming... The sharp pain tearing through your body upon the initial impact... The pain is familiar, the manifestation of years, lacking satisfaction, lacking meaning... Just decades of corporate endorsed wars... Wars of attrition on foreign soil, the war for your soul domestically... You feel yourself being dragged against the stone railroad bed again and it strikes you that you've been here before... Over and Over and Over... Its never meant anything, it wasn't meant to, nobody notices for more than a fleeting instant and then all memory that you once existed is washed away with the first rains of spring... He(who-ever he happens to be), will sweep her off her feet and soon she'll forget you too, giving her moistened flesh hole to somebody else. The new, "soul mate."
For this moment saver your last moment, the pinnacle of your ability to affect another person's consciousness, but never believe you are not expendable... Your just one of a thousand animals being dragged from some monstrous machine at this same moment... One of Millions, maybe billions, destroyed by forces greater than the self. It seems there is no battle that can be won... Defeat will take you.
The world will win and you will be devoured by maggots in it's entrials.

Nevermind...

I have the traveling itch, like a sailor called by the lonely sea, my secret mistress... Why has it been so long. Three gulls fly overhead and she's forgotten her desolate heart, trampled by the grinding gears of time.
Instability calls me coquettishly and I fall precariously towards her for a moment. But it cannot last. The sobering reality of responsibility is setting in...
Allentown is a cage, constricting in too many ways. I am bound by immovable chains to this festering, toxic swampland. The fight is futile, my enemy impervious and I am depleted.
I remember childhood dreams of success as defined by television... I was to be something, whatever that means... Something as defined by big bird or some other fucken puppet. I believed in it for a while. That if you work hard enough you will be successful... The American dream... A beautiful wife, a white picket fence, two and a half kids and a hummer... They were right, I have become something. Loathsome and grumpy.

Its not enough though is it? Its never enough, because with conquest as your mistress, you will be insatiable.
At what point does one reach this, "success."
It doesn't matter... You can probably never get there. I am certain you'll never, "win." The pangs that afflict you, cannot cease because there is always more to conquer, but there can always be less as well...

I suppose when it comes to it I am reasonably happy right now. Sara makes me really happy... I care for her in ways I promised myself I would never care for another human being. I can almost forget what heartache feels like for a moment and I am attempting to have some faith that good things can sometimes stay that way, as per her request.

I'm clean now...

I do miss head-clearing mushroom trips, that could detangle the mess of misfiring synapses in my head and make me appreciate things I should have already appreciated. I miss sauntering around the city with Sol, heckling poor unprepared hipster girls. I even miss sitting alone at delores park at night with a bottle wine, feeling sorry for myself.


Still I could have less...
I suppose I should be grateful. 1,2,3... go.