DO YOU WANT PRIVACY OR A SAFE LIFE?

It always makes me chuckle when (and it is usually old ladies with no idea of the world or the Internet) who think they have privacy.  They do not send email except to people they know and do not buy anything online. They do not understand that there is no such thing as privacy.  It is big business now to store all the information a company (who collects all the data on individuals) stores and sells.

As though the fat cats haven't earned enough on the rest of us poor innocents, David Rosen has written an excellent article to show 6 Government Surveillance Programs Designed to Watch What You Do Online.  He advises: "If you are a user of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Craigslist or another popular site, the U.S. security state is watching you."

If you are interested in this subject, click here for the whole article.  Among those watching are:  1. Justice Department, 2. The IRS, 3. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, 4. The Defense Department, 5. The FBI, 6. Department of Homeland Security   


The software programs used are probably just as bored as people would be if they had to monitor directly. It would be fun to know what words they search for primarily

TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT BY TEABAGGERS

The GOP Right wingers are destroying our country, negating and devaluing our Constitution. The latest in a long string of religious wars in our country is over of Muslims, Islamophobia as it termed by some.  David Rosen of Counter Punch has written an excellent article on why  Shameless Schemers Like Sarah Palin, the Tea Partiers and Right-Wing Christians Trying to Start a New Religious War Against Muslims.  On 8/22, there were two opposing demonstrations near where the proposed Islamic Community Center is scheduled to be.  Rosen writes: " The construction of the center, often referred to as a mosque, has become the latest rallying issue for the Christian right, Tea Party proponents and Republican operatives in their war to impose moralistic and corporatist values on America."  He cites that over the last four centuries, Quakers, Mormons, Catholics, Jews and many others have been targets of religious persecution, often the victims of imprisonments, hangings, lynchings and other acts of violence.

I ran across another blogger, Arthur Sidos, who, I think, wrote quite eloquently much of what I would have written...had I written it first.  But he did, I did not.  Therefore, read him and not me on this.