Month: November 2014

Political Notes 11.28.14F

Holder: Michael Brown justice

http://act.credoaction.com/sign/mike_brown_decision?t=1002

Demand a Carbon rule
http://act.credoaction.com/letter/carbon_existing/

GE labeling recount
http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/3586/oregon-ge-labeling-vote-heads-to-a-recount#

Canada becoming a “petrostate”
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/25/protesting-burnaby-mountain-was-my-obligation-scientist-parent-and-canadian-citizen

Calmer Ferguson Protests
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/26/ferguson-missouri-calm-police-protest-violence

Systematic solutions to ferguson
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/11/25/response-ferguson-systemic-problems-require-systemic-solutions

Obama increases US troops, afghanistan, legacy of war
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/11/25/legacy-war-obama-quietly-hiking-us-troop-numbers-afghanistan

oppisition leader accused, plot to kill Venezuela president
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/27/nicolas-maduro-plot-maria-corina-machado-charged

UN calls surveillance intrusive
http://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKKCN0J92I520141125?irpc=932

Cash Bomb people, not banks
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/26/eu-cash-bomb-recession-juncker-new-fund

Toll to 20k missing in mexico
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/mexico-missing-students-thousands-vanished-grave-diggers

78 teens jailed for protesting regime Egypt
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/egyptian-court-sentences-78-children-to-jail-for-protesting

Ships will measure CO2 in EU
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/26/ships-must-measure-co2-emissions-under-new-eu-law

ignoring calls from UN to stop bombing rebels, Librya
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/libyan-prime-minister-bombing-air-strikes-tripoli-libya-dawn

Polio workers killed by gunmen, pakistan
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/26/gunmen-kill-polio-workers-pakistan

UK police leaflets fearmongering
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/26/police-leaflets-advise-run-hide-tell-terrorist-attack

Canada Quiet Coup
whatsupic.com/special-canada/canada’s-quiet-coup.html

Freya newman not charged, leaking Abobot schilarship info
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/nov/25/freya-newman-no-conviction-recorded-over-leak-of-frances-abbott-scholarship

Facebook creates dating profile automatically for you
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/facebook-info-sharing-created-zoosk-com-dating-profile-for-married-woman-1.2844953

moderate term limits

Are Term Limits a Good Idea?

Utah police killing 1/6 peoples shooting
http://www.sltrib.com/news/1842489-155/killings-by-utah-police-

RUSSIA looking to annex georgian Abkhazia
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/25/georgia-russia-abkhazia-military-agreement-putin

Texas Textbooks, moses as founding father
http://www.alternet.org/education/texas-approves-textbooks-moses-honorary-founding-father?paging=off

Tamir clearly shot by police carrying pellet gun
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/25/cleveland-police-video-officer-shooting-boy-clear

8000 chinese teachers strike
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-21/in-china-8-000-teachers-go-on-strike

Deforestation relation to ebola
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27504-deforestation-development-connected-to-spread-of-ebola-in-west-africa

Tech worker shortage nonexistant
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-11-24/the-tech-worker-shortage-doesnt-really-exist

IT wages same as 1999, only half stem get into stem jobs
desire for lower wage exploitable gues tworkers
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/07/17/will-immigration-reform-protect-workers/

Ron Hira, an EPI research associate and co-author of the book Outsourcing America.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither – Ben Franklin

misquoted statement initially for communal liberty against the monarchy. However it is easily applied to our modern times with our surveillance police state.

Here is another quote from MLK:

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/060.html

“First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”

 

 

 

Dear Friend of Digital Freedom,
Big news. The Senate is planning to vote on NSA surveillance reform this week. If the USA FREEDOM Act (S. 2685) passes, it will be the first law to limit the NSA's spying power in almost thirty years.

We’re asking friends of EFF to call their Senators today and urge them to pass the strongest bill possible:
https://act.eff.org/action/the-senate-is-about-to-vote-on-nsa-surveillance-reform-call-today

Not in the US? Sign our petition against mass surveillance instead: https://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/take-action/eff

The new Senate version of the USA FREEDOM Act would:

 -- Rein in the NSA's illegal collection of millions of Americans' telephone records by amending one of the worst provisions of the Patriot Act, Section 215.
 -- Create a special advocate whom the secret surveillance court can appoint to argue for civil liberties and privacy in proceedings that raise novel or significant legal issues.
 -- Provide new reporting requirements about surveillance, so that the NSA is forced to tell us how many people are actually being surveilled under its programs, including the program that allows the NSA to see the contents of Americans' communications without a warrant.

Hundreds of thousands of people from across the political spectrum have called on Congress to stop mass spying by the NSA. Next week, it all comes to a head. But it won’t be smooth sailing: we expect NSA apologists to try to weaken the bill with last-minute amendments. That’s why we need people who care about privacy to call their senators and demand real reform. Make the call: https://act.eff.org/action/the-senate-is-about-to-vote-on-nsa-surveillance-reform-call-today

The USA FREEDOM Act isn’t everything we want in surveillance reform. Real reform means ending mass Internet surveillance of people in the US and abroad. It also means overhauling the broken classification system, which has hidden from public oversight government surveillance practices that affect us all. The USA FREEDOM Act isn’t a solution to all these problems, but it is a strong step on the path to reform. It will put in place measures that can help rein in NSA spying today and prove to Congress that there is a powerful movement of people working to end mass surveillance.

The vote is this week. Let’s make our voices heard in Congress:
https://act.eff.org/action/the-senate-is-about-to-vote-on-nsa-surveillance-reform-call-today

Thank you,

Rainey Reitman
EFF Activism Director
Support our work: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/end-mass-surveillance

Footnote: The Senate will be taking up this issue in two votes, both scheduled for this week. The first is a "cloture vote," basically a vote on whether the Senate will consider the USA FREEDOM Act at all.  It takes 60 votes to pass cloture, and we expect that vote to happen Tuesday. The second vote, which may come Wednesday or Thursday, will be the actual vote on the USA FREEDOM Act. There may be amendments to the bill before the vote, so we’ll be watching closely to see what happens.

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