Mixed Review 4-27-12(CISPA)

The Mixed review is a record of my daily(nightly) readings. I hope it provides a resource for your own projects and projections into the intricacies of our world.


The 1st Item of the night is: Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote.


I DID NOT WRITE THIS ARTICAL BUT AM PUTING IT UP AS A WHOLE BECOUSE IT SHOULD BE READ.

Insanity: CISPA Just Got Way Worse, And Then Passed On Rushed Vote

from the this-is-crazy dept

Up until this afternoon, the final vote on CISPA was supposed to be tomorrow. Then, abruptly, it was moved up today—and the House voted in favor of its passage with a vote of 248-168. But that's not even the worst part.
The vote followed the debate on amendments, several of which were passed. Among them was an absolutely terrible change (pdf and embedded below—scroll to amendment #6) to the definition of what the government can do with shared information, put forth by Rep. Quayle. Astonishingly, it was described as limiting the government's power, even though it in fact expands it by adding more items to the list of acceptable purposes for which shared information can be used. Even more astonishingly, it passed with a near-unanimous vote. The CISPA that was just approved by the House is much worse than the CISPA being discussed as recently as this morning.
Previously, CISPA allowed the government to use information for "cybersecurity" or "national security" purposes. Those purposes have not been limited or removed. Instead, three more valid uses have been added: investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crime, protection of individuals, and protection of children. Cybersecurity crime is defined as any crime involving network disruption or hacking, plus any violation of the CFAA.
Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a "cybersecurity crime". Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government's power.
Somehow, incredibly, this was described as limiting CISPA, but it accomplishes the exact opposite. This is very, very bad.
There were some good amendments adopted too—clarifying some definitions, including the fact that merely violating a TOS does not constitute unauthorized network access—but frankly none of them matter in the light of this change. CISPA is now a completely unsupportable bill that rewrites (and effectively eliminates) all privacy laws for any situation that involves a computer. Far from the defense against malevolent foreign entities that the bill was described as by its authors, it is now an explicit attack on the freedoms of every American.


http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120426/14505718671/insanity-cispa-just-got-way-worse-then-passed-rushed-vote.shtml

The 2ed Item of the night is: Ron Paul: CISPA is the New SOPA 

The 3ed Item of the night is: Senator Bernie Sanders on corporate personhood.

 The 4th Item of the night is: who voted for CISPA?

This appears to be some teaparty guy's list of CISPA voters.

http://12160.info/profiles/blogs/list-of-traitors-in-the-house-who-voted-for-cispa?xg_source=activity

heres the goverment vertion: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/112-2012/h192

The 5th Item of the Night is: CISPA: the actual  bill.


Bill Text Versions112th Congress (2011-2012)H.R.3523

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.3523

 

The 6th Item of the night is: how corporations come to power in a "democratic" system.

                                 Murray N. Rothbard on  The Founding of the Federal Reserve 

The 7th Item of the night is: Chomsky on government "intervention."

                                       

This is a great interview with Noam Chomsky, it deserves a full  review but I don't have much time to night so here are a few fine points of interest: 1st, Market societies don't exist, 2ed popular pressure insists on human rights (not big deals), 3ed health care became a priority for the state when the manufacturing industry got involved, 4th everyone should support welfare state in order to press the institutions to their limits while developing "alternative institutions".

The 8th Item of the night is: Boehner: House Will Vote On Student Loans. (NPR)

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/26/151444468/boehner-house-will-vote-on-student-loans

The Mixed review 4-13-12 (NATURE OF THE STATE)

The Mixed review is a record of my daily readings. I hope it provides a resource for your own projects and projections into the intricacies of our world.


First let me show you that: "We The People Are More Powerful Than We Dare To Believe" - Paul Cienfuegos


Paul Cienfuegos is part of a radical new idea, a coordinated offensive for the expanding of environmental and democratic rights. The organization Cienfuegos works with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund defends the rights of real natural entities, against the encroachment of legal fictions, without compromising their principals of de-centralization and democratic individual rights. This is the way you fight corrupt globalization, my friend!

The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund has helped many communities around the country, mostly on the east coast, to establish town charters in order to increase the decision making power to the people in their localities. One such community is Blaine County in Pennsylvania. The Home Rule Charter for Blaine Township is a remarkable document. It’s remarkably versatile in the way it balances seemingly conflicting rights.

Section 311
Final Authority of Local Law The People of Blaine Township shall have a right to introduce and adopt laws on their own initiative, and the final authority on the constitutionality, interpretation and effect of all laws adopted by the People of Blaine Township, or by their Township government, shall be the People of Blaine Township.


Section 317 Right to Own Property Each of the residents of Blaine Township possesses a right to own property, but this right shall not convey with it a right or privilege to deprive or curtail the rights of People or Nature.


Section 324 Rights of Natural Communities Natural communities and ecosystems, including, but not limited to, wetlands, streams, rivers, aquifers, clouds, and other water systems, possess inalienable and fundamental rights to exist, flourish and naturally evolve within Blaine Township. Consequently, no private claim to ownership of natural communities, whole ecosystems or the genetic material of any organism shall be recognized within Blaine Township.



(There’s even a section on the right to bear arms.)


Section 314 Right to Bear Arms The right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.


Here is a link to Paul's web page: http://paulcienfuegos.com/




and the one for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund: http://www.celdf.org/




On April 21, 2012 Paul Cienfuegos will be


be leading a 75-minute mini-workshop at the Earth Day conference at PCC Sylvania campus at 1pm.

12000 SW 49th Ave. Portland, OR 97219 | 971-722-6111 |

Second let me show you that: Gilles Deleuze has good things to say about "the three great forms of thought" on page 197 0f "What Is Philosophy?".

"What defines thought in its three great forms­^__ art, science, and philosophy^__ is always confronting chaos, laying out a plane, throwing a plane over chaos. But philosophy wants to save the infinite by giving it consistency: it lays out a plane of immanence that, through the action of conceptual personae, takes events or consistent concepts to infinity. Science, on the other hand, relinquishes the infinite in order to gain reference: it lays out a plane of simply undefined coordinates that each time, through the action of partial observers, defines states of affairs, functions, or referential propositions. Art wants to create the finite that restores the infinite: it lays out a plane of composition that, in turn, through the action of aesthetic figures, bears monuments or composite sensations."




Third let me show you that: THE FUNAMBULIST has a new article on coil miner (amateur) architecture.




Bernd and Hilla Becher's photos ironically demonstrate the dual beauties of laissez-faire design and environmental awareness.


Although the coal industry is among the most destructive to the environment I personally find these mining structures to be quite enhancing to the Pennsylvania land scrape. the Funambalist points out that much of the materials used in the construction of these structures where probably gathered from the surrounding area.




check it out!!:http://thefunambulist.net/2012/04/12/architecture-without-architects-pennsylvania-coal-mine-tipples-by-bernd-hilla-becher/


Forth thing on the table is: The Nature of the State according to Murray N. Rothbard.



This is a great argument against a long taken for granted state of affairs.


http://mises.org/media/2105/22-The-Nature-of-the-State