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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Is There Any Harm In Getting It Right?
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Here we go again:
This chart of villainous Senators needs to be changed!!! (I will get back to this later because this kind of inaccuracy is so dumb it is dangerous.)
But once you get it wrong, and proudly share it all round the web… the horse is out of the barn.
Like the time a woman wrote a gushy review of Bush’s “Decision Points,” filed it on the CNN blog and then called herself a journalist by association. She reviewed Bush’s “novel.” Since it was a memoir, calling it a novel was unintentionally insulting (and accurate!.) She sent this review out to 680 news sources, blogs, BBs. When she was informed of the difference between a novel and a memoir she went round the internet in a panic trying to undo what she had so ambitiously done.
But it can’t be undone. Once’ it’s posted and a link is made it’s there… we’re talking the bookmarking share softwares that are formulas (algorithms again) not people/editors. To go round the web and ask 680 webmasters to change an entry… I mean who could be bothered?
Back to the Senators who voted NO against 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.
PUBLISHED MISINFORMATION HAS NEGATIVE VALUE!!!
Even so far as to be a corrosive agent in a democracy. If the citizens are misinformed… by accident, by sloppiness, or by design, they cannot make the best choices for representation, and cannot tell their representatives where they stand on important issues.
NDAA 2012 is an Extremely important issue.
http://portlandwiki.org/images/3/34/Indefinite_Detention_Senate_Vote.jpeg
This chart is making the circuits… and it is not accurate!!
This chart is making the circuits… and it is not accurate!!
This demonstrates what is so very vile about wikipedia and citizen journalism.
FaceBook Billion Against Indefinite Detention
(this FB acct corrected chart on dec 22, for a week 6 senators were held in the dock of public opinion for a crime they did not commit)
(this FB acct corrected chart on dec 22, for a week 6 senators were held in the dock of public opinion for a crime they did not commit)
The Senate voted Thursday, December 15 on the final language of 2012 NDAA. The vote was 86-13. Here are the Senators who voted NO: Cardin (D-MD) Coburn (R-OK) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Durbin (D-IL) Franken (D-MN) Harkin (D-IA) Lee (R-UT) Merkley (D-OR) Paul (R-KY) Risch (R-ID) Sanders (I-VT) Wyden (D-OR)
See: Al Franken: Why I Voted Against the National Defense Authorization Act : Huff Post, December 16, 2011..
This chart of villainous Senators needs to be changed!!! (I will get back to this later because this kind of inaccuracy is so dumb it is dangerous.)
But once you get it wrong, and proudly share it all round the web… the horse is out of the barn.
Like the time a woman wrote a gushy review of Bush’s “Decision Points,” filed it on the CNN blog and then called herself a journalist by association. She reviewed Bush’s “novel.” Since it was a memoir, calling it a novel was unintentionally insulting (and accurate!.) She sent this review out to 680 news sources, blogs, BBs. When she was informed of the difference between a novel and a memoir she went round the internet in a panic trying to undo what she had so ambitiously done.
But it can’t be undone. Once’ it’s posted and a link is made it’s there… we’re talking the bookmarking share softwares that are formulas (algorithms again) not people/editors. To go round the web and ask 680 webmasters to change an entry… I mean who could be bothered?
Back to the Senators who voted NO against 2012 National Defense Authorization Act.
PUBLISHED MISINFORMATION HAS NEGATIVE VALUE!!!
Even so far as to be a corrosive agent in a democracy. If the citizens are misinformed… by accident, by sloppiness, or by design, they cannot make the best choices for representation, and cannot tell their representatives where they stand on important issues.
NDAA 2012 is an Extremely important issue.
Monday, December 19, 2011
2012 National Defense Authorization Act
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On the 14th of December, 2011, the House of Representatives of these United States voted in favor of indefinite military detention, without charges, of any American, anywhere, anytime, without due process of law, at the discretion of the government alone.
Final Vote 283-136 Lets start with those members of Congress who voted NO: (Democrats in italic)
The Senate voted Tuesday, December 13. The vote was 86-13. Here are the Senators who voted NO:
Cardin (D-MD)
Coburn (R-OK)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Durbin (D-IL)
Franken (D-MN)
Harkin (D-IA)
Lee (R-UT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Sanders (I-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)
The rest of the blackguards can be found here and here.
How did this happen?
"this appears to be one of those issues that escapes the kind of public attention (read: outrage) it deserves because of a dismaying lack of information and discussion in the mainstream media, as well as some spin on the part of supportive legislators and a sneaky timeline for the voting process: just in time for the holidays!" truthdig.com
Because people couldnt be bothered to read about what was happening and make their voices be heard. Because the media failed to inform them: That as US troops were leaving Iraq, the battleground was moving to the United States.
How did this happen?
Final Vote 283-136 Lets start with those members of Congress who voted NO: (Democrats in italic)
The Senate voted Tuesday, December 13. The vote was 86-13. Here are the Senators who voted NO:
Cardin (D-MD)
Coburn (R-OK)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Durbin (D-IL)
Franken (D-MN)
Harkin (D-IA)
Lee (R-UT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Paul (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Sanders (I-VT)
Wyden (D-OR)
The rest of the blackguards can be found here and here.
How did this happen?
"this appears to be one of those issues that escapes the kind of public attention (read: outrage) it deserves because of a dismaying lack of information and discussion in the mainstream media, as well as some spin on the part of supportive legislators and a sneaky timeline for the voting process: just in time for the holidays!" truthdig.com
The bill was drafted in secret:
The US Senate Armed Forces Committee, led by Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ), held a secret closed door session to insert ominous new Federal powers into the Defense Authorization Bill. This is the annual bill to fund the US military. These new powers were requested by the Obama administration.
Because people couldnt be bothered to read about what was happening and make their voices be heard. Because the media failed to inform them: That as US troops were leaving Iraq, the battleground was moving to the United States.
“The homeland is part of the battlefield and people can be held without trial whether an American citizen or not,” said Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, one of the key backers of the new authority.Section 1031 of the NDAA bill, describes the U.S. as a "battlefield" and would give the military a green light to arrest and detain American citizens without any charges or trial.
How did this happen?
1. Facebook Nation does not read or care about these things, only interested in phones and games
2. A little education is dangerous, inside and out of the House and Senate
3. Most members of the 99% are too busy with survival: unemployment, foreclosure, not enough food and not being able to provide for their families at Christmas. At the same time they are living on hope, prayers and good faith, none of which should be applied to government.
4. The bill was rushed through between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This bill has 920 pages!! Do you honestly believe that your Congress and Senate members had time to read and study it? Or that they took the time? This thing was a fait acompli from the start. Obama insisted on it... it was gonna pass.
5. This is the worst of it. These issues were front and center action items with Human Rights Watch, the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights during the Bush reign. The fighting Democrats were caught napping during the passage of 2012 NDAA. We thought we had beat back extra-judicial executive powers. We believed Obama when he said he would close down Guantanamo Bay. We believed him when he said:
4. The bill was rushed through between Thanksgiving and Christmas. This bill has 920 pages!! Do you honestly believe that your Congress and Senate members had time to read and study it? Or that they took the time? This thing was a fait acompli from the start. Obama insisted on it... it was gonna pass.
5. This is the worst of it. These issues were front and center action items with Human Rights Watch, the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights during the Bush reign. The fighting Democrats were caught napping during the passage of 2012 NDAA. We thought we had beat back extra-judicial executive powers. We believed Obama when he said he would close down Guantanamo Bay. We believed him when he said:
“We're not a country that runs prisons that locks people away without ever telling them why they're there. Or what they're charged with.”
“We're not a nation that locks people up without charging them."
This bill is insidious: Indefinite military detention, without charges, of any American, anywhere, anytime, without due process of law, at the discretion of the government alone.
"At the discretion of the government alone" describes a MONARCHY!! Leave Nothing to the discretion of the Government!! <<< That's how and why we formed a Democracy 236 years ago!!!
"At the discretion of the government alone" describes a MONARCHY!! Leave Nothing to the discretion of the Government!! <<< That's how and why we formed a Democracy 236 years ago!!!
Since the word treason has lost its currency in the US over the last 10 years I will say: This bill is evil: It is presumption of guilt based on suspicion alone. It re-states that, "When the President does it, it's not illegal." Nixon-Bush-Obama. To complain that it's Unconstitutional, at this point, is rather limp. It is the devaluation of the dignity of human life -- suspension of habeas corpus will, in effect, bomb us back to the middle ages.
Obama has betrayed the hope invested in him.
There IS no hope… only eternal vigilance.
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See also:
* US: Refusal to Veto Detainee Bill A Historic Tragedy for Rights President Decides to Sign Ill-Conceived National Defense Authorization Act, Human Rights Watch
* NDAA 2012: Ron Paul Warns Bill Would Legalize Martial Law
* Senators Demand the Military Lock Up of American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window ACLU
* Lindsey Graham calls for using military against American citizens, Examiner.com
* Senate Set to Vote on Bill that Defines the U.S. as a Battlefield Economic Policy Journal
* Does US Senate Commit Treason in 2012 NDAA? United Progressives
And if you think I'm kidding:
There IS no hope… only eternal vigilance.
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See also:
* US: Refusal to Veto Detainee Bill A Historic Tragedy for Rights President Decides to Sign Ill-Conceived National Defense Authorization Act, Human Rights Watch
* NDAA 2012: Ron Paul Warns Bill Would Legalize Martial Law
* Senators Demand the Military Lock Up of American Citizens in a “Battlefield” They Define as Being Right Outside Your Window ACLU
* Lindsey Graham calls for using military against American citizens, Examiner.com
* Senate Set to Vote on Bill that Defines the U.S. as a Battlefield Economic Policy Journal
* Does US Senate Commit Treason in 2012 NDAA? United Progressives
And if you think I'm kidding:
Why is the Media Lying About New NDAA Power for Indefinite Military Detention of Americans? War is a Crime
It should be noted here that 6 additional senators voted NO than when S. 1867 was previously voted on and passed 93-7 on December 1. Al Franken Democrat Minnesota voted NO.
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Time to Move to Colorado?
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
The Tyranny of Google News Algorithms -- Shit Rises to the Top
6:01 PM | Posted by
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The most popular headline is false:
The true story is in the extended coverage, behind the false story:
But digging a layer deeper into the news is for someone who is genuinely interested in Obama's complete reversal on "enemy combatants" and "infinite detention" and "without trial," suspension of habeas corpus and Bush's AUMF. I don't know who writes headlines... but my impression is these writers are given an article and told by editors to "sex this up." Like when Liz Taylor passed away the headline was, "Paul Newman says Liz was one helluva gal," when Newman had been dead for more than a year.
So the lead headline is the one hit on most often, the false one.
Is Google evil? Or have the humanoids at Google been taken over by their own algorithms?
Kevin Slavin How Algorithms Shape Our World
The true story is in the extended coverage, behind the false story:
But digging a layer deeper into the news is for someone who is genuinely interested in Obama's complete reversal on "enemy combatants" and "infinite detention" and "without trial," suspension of habeas corpus and Bush's AUMF. I don't know who writes headlines... but my impression is these writers are given an article and told by editors to "sex this up." Like when Liz Taylor passed away the headline was, "Paul Newman says Liz was one helluva gal," when Newman had been dead for more than a year.
So the lead headline is the one hit on most often, the false one.
Is Google evil? Or have the humanoids at Google been taken over by their own algorithms?
Kevin Slavin How Algorithms Shape Our World
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Pelosi Made a Killing... author Peter Schweizer
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Saturday, December 3, 2011
Viktor Frankl
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