i won't disagree with you at all. but all said and done? i think what we are witnessing is a by roduct of, tragically, 9/11. rather then be who we are or who we once were? we have some how all become paranoid, why? brainwashing? we're all affraid of the boogeyman and even more affraid of big brother? I highly doubt that we are remotely near the likes of the plot of "V". but hey who really knows? just rock and roll and enjoy life and if anything? look out for one another...

Just this morning in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: "Police in Minnesota and across the country are increasingly using small car-mounted cameras to scan thousands of license plates and pinpoint -- in real time -- stolen vehicles, suspended drivers and criminals. But what is done with the data? "

Here's more:

Without a state law, departments in Minnesota are free to set their own policies on how long they keep the information. The State Patrol deletes location data after 48 hours, St. Paul police erase it in 14 days and Minneapolis retains it for a year.

Minneapolis cops captured data on 805,000 license plates in June alone, and 4.9 million so far this year. When a Star Tribune reporter requested data on his own license plate under Minnesota's open records law, the Minneapolis Police Department responded with a list of dates, times and coordinates of his car that illustrated his daily routine.

Over the course of a year, cameras in squad cars logged him heading to work on W. Franklin Avenue at 8:07 a.m. one day, returning home on Portland Avenue S. at 6:17 p.m. on another, and parking three times late at night outside a friend's house in Uptown. Police had captured the car's license plate seven times.

re: libendet: Thanks for that information. Very revealing, eh?
Yes, I believe that there are many police, government workers, military, and even many working within some three-letter agencies who know what's going on and are not very happy about it. (Sibel Edmonds knew about it and she still cannot say some things that would surely get her killed...or at least jailed for life.) They may feel that it is "do what one is told and just shut up about it" or lose one's only means of supporting oneself and their family...or worse go to jail for life. How can you justify voting for Obama when he has been so vindictive and punishing of the whistle-blowers who expose criminal and government wrongdoing?

There have been many cases in various parts of the world where the military was ordered to shoot, run over, or otherwise..kill their own citizens who are demonstrating against tyranny. In some cases, many of these soldiers or police are terribly upset at what they have done. Some will eventually, perhaps, break and turn on the criminals giving orders. Let us hope that this happens more frequently...and especially here in the US.

I saw a program today on TV about PTSD -Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome that many soldiers experience. This soldier, who served two tours in Iraq, suffers from PTSD and he explained that he was so, so ashamed and felt guilty about what he had to do over there against innocent civilians and also what he saw being done to innocent civilians by others. I think that the US, when people saw what their government had been doing in Vietnam televised, they suffered a sort of PTSD. And those who wage war realized that they couldn't let this happen again so once they managed to control the media, and in combination with the fact that we suffered a nationwide PTSD from Vietnam...the propaganda that our media feeds us, since Vietnam, has been to make most people bury their heads in the sands of ignorance and disbelief that our own government would be culpable and capable of doing such bad things to other people ever again.

This cognitive disconnect or cognitive dissonance was further enhanced when they carried out the 911 attacks that shocked people into a mindset of fear that made the Muslims (patsies) to take the blame for what was engineered and carried out by the same traitors that sold out our country in the Vietnam War...the same traitors that shot JFK, RFK, and MLK. They made money off of killing then and they are still making lots of money from killing people today.

I suspect that, as you said that cop said, it will get much worse! It is really saddening when you spend your whole life being propagandized by dishonest history about your country...the myths of "heros", and the "good guys". Of course most people who have been propagandized since birth will have a very hard time accepting the reality of what is going down right now...and what will soon happen in our future.

i don't get it. whats the big deal? if you don't have anything to hide more power to the camera! makes me feel safer. matter of fact? i use to drive for a living and i really liked the idea of the traffic cams in that A. it helps deter reckless driving and B. if people actually paid the fines it would generate sizable revenue. now mind you there are some underlying logistical issues with them but when you cover as many miles in year as i have you have to thank God that no one slams into you blowing through a red light as my son and i were once witness to when a car infront of us pulled into the green and some idiot throttled up and blew the red only to smash the lady and her kid up as he rolled his car. He wound up dying. back then that intersection did not have a camera and was always active with people blowing the red. since the installation of the cam? i don't see so many people running the reds and then when the cam flashes? i laugh, idiot. so where is a cop when you need one? p[eople keep treating them like crap sooner or later we won't have any. on another note? i actually thought about going to my city council and try to intiate a program by where folks in the hood all install home security cams and get some sort of prop tax kick back. you can get kits now for like $400 with like 6 cams. how much safer would you feel if you knew as a collective we were all watching our streets? I know i was pretty pissed to wake up one morning and find my kids car had been stolen as well as my neighbors across the street, all in the same night! had i a camera system maybe it would have detered the perps or better yet maybe the cops might have caught them. you don't bitch about the camera at 7-11 do you? as long as big bro ain't watching me run around naked in my back yard? more power to the camera!!!

Minority Report movie (2002).

And now they have not only computerized facial recognition but the computer can detect facial and body expressions of people on the street...or in crowds like at the Super Bowl...that can detect if someone is likely to, or about to, commit a crime. And the US will soon be right up there with the British who have, in London, thousands of cameras that read license plates and monitor people on the streets and in the stores.

And, thanks to Microsoft, we can all be safe and secure in the knowledge that someone is watching out for us....or just...watching us! Anyone ever wonder just what all of those Microsoft 2nd Tuesday "security" updates are all about? Sure, there are security bugs that they find and fix...eventually...but do you ever wonder if the "security" updates are less to protect you from viruses, hackers, etc and more to spy on you for the government or some private sector money making organization? And that really goes for any software updates you do. All of those Itunes updates, so I've heard, have less to do with anything most people really want or need than it does with keeping you locked in and to get you to buy songs or other things on-line...maybe even they monitor you for the government as well..who knows?

Anyone ever wonder about this new concept of "the cloud"? So instead of downloading files...like songs, books, movies, whatever...and saving them on your own hard drive...which you might have encrypted to keep out the bad guys (government and otherwise)...and that when you want to access those files...it takes practically no time at all to do it....so, if you, instead, use "the cloud"..ie: you save all your stuff "in the cloud" (ie: not on your computer)...and then when you want to access your stuff..you have to download it from the place "in the cloud" you are saving your stuff.

Duh! I suppose if you had an optical fiber network where on-line bandwidth was very huge then you wouldn't have to worry much. But most people, especially in the US (we're so far behind other progressive countries) have much slower connections.

Bandwidth matters. And Bandwidth is often reduced by bottle-necking, throttling, and other issues. The other concept of using "the cloud" is that you can have a program running in the cloud (ie: not on your computer)...and all you have to do is feed it data and parameters...input...all the number crunching goes on in the cloud. Sounds like a good idea. But with both of these concepts...one thing stands out....you don't really have much control over the security of your data. Sure, you say your data in "the cloud" is encrypted but is that so safe...really? Ever heard of "back doors"? It makes it so much easier for the bad guys to access your data when it is "in the cloud" than it would be if you stored it locally. Same thing for these on-line storage backup companies that tout that you are never really "safe" unless you have 3 backups...one on-line. When your stuff is stored remotely...it is so much easier to access it by the bad guys. And when you have to rely on "the cloud", unless you have fantastic bandwidth that experiences no bottle-necking or throttling then it just doesn't make sense to use "the cloud".

Maybe we should all put up video cameras on our houses to monitor everything that goes on in front (and back and sides) of our house. That way, one day perhaps, we will be able to observe or record what the police are doing in our neighborhoods. It might make the police a little less secure that they can do bad things against us if these video cameras are everywhere. Problem is that it makes neighbors and passersby a little nervous as well. Oh, well, if it helps to prevent someone stealing gas out of my cars or vandalizing them (or worse) then I guess I will have to worry less about what others think when they walk by. Maybe I need one or two on my roof pointing upward to see the spy drones or helicopter gun ships. Maybe, I need to go back on to my meds! ;-}

The house will pass something but will not pass the senate and veto by the president

Rethink, research, evaluate without feign. Many decades ago my mother bought me a book while I was going to Chicago Circle campus University Illinois. It is an interesting chemistry book by Theodore Brown U of I author.

My mother also purchased the book at a flea market. Not sure what the price was although along with a calculus book cost only sixty three cents. The price written inside the front cover. Peculiar knowing it was too good to be true. Or my mom doctored the price. LOL. Even moms have a tendency to stretch the truth for their sibling, so think about the refined educated moms out there that will lean forward for any reason to get their kid ahead.

Anyway each the Chemistry and Calculus books hold the secrets to understanding this nuclear stuff. In thermo dynamics a basic theory called Entropy, and then linked to the Calculus Chain effect could “statistically” create a thermo nuclear reaction that is irreversible.

That’s scary. Then consider a country that was diligent, like japan, but error is always looming. The French at some point will observe discretion and or perhaps even retreat from a catastrophe as in a meltdown. Or, politicians as in 911, and I do believe Bush and company held the door open for 911, to allow the Wahhabi to will strike at Yucca Mountain triggering one of America’s repositories of nuclear waste. Here, located above a fault line could create a catastrophic event. Perhaps even shifting or shoving the whole liberal state of California into the ocean. One way to get rid of Democratic pests. Please this is said only in the attitude of the comedy of errors. I watch too much Steven Colbert. Or, myself preservation is kicking in.

What is horrible?

The news media knowing the elite and academic gigolos are prolific. They know who they are they know who is guilty. Scientists parasitizing, hiding, deceiving, liars, cheating, economically swindling, creating legislation called loopholes to circumvent participating in the common wealth, like not paying taxes is core of the outrage. Moreover, it sounds very cruel or perhaps some consider my opinion without merit, but when my research found out how close Bush and Cheney are in business deals with the Bin Laden family, a major Wahhbi link to Arab terrorist that transpired through decades. Profiteering of unknown amounts that would or could likely be considered economic treason is what our centered core of journalism is wrestling with. To condemn them, or at least drum them out of politics forever. Then America will establish the foundation for a Golden Age.

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ALL ENERGY IS NUCLEAR BASED -- and Nuclear will be the ultimate source of power. It is not inherently bad -- what we have is one more miserable example of another failure of our dysfunctional political systems to deal with solving the problems properly.

Storing waste on-site long-term is of course absurd. However that has been forced as a poison-pill by opponents blocking long-term processing and storage. So, in order to maintain our usage levels of energy per capita, we poison ourselves with carbon-abuse.

Solar, passive, wind, hydro, etc., etc. -- all nuclear-based; but do the math if you can. Duhhh. Ultimately someone will have to, and will solve the Nuclear Energy Issues -- and if the People's Representatives can't do it, The Oligarchy's Representatives will.

Anyone heard of the wonderful "HYDROGEN" lately? -- Wasn't that the liberal's solution to our energy problems? I'm sorry -- I sure as hell ain't with the Rabid-Right; but Nuclear Energy and Technology in general is the soft underbelly of the Know-Nothing Luddites of the Left. Sad; really sad that we live on a Left-Right (99%-1%?) Political Spectrum, with such huge problems to solve.

Do you really know what nuclear power is?? Nothing more than heating water to steam running turbines and generating eletrical power. harry reid shut down the Yucca Flats complex in Nevada for storing nuclear waste ALL AND I SAY ALL the engineering problems were anticipated and the storage complex would have been safe and secure. Yet harry reid, who won't release his tax records, got it stopped. (Went to Washintong poor and now lives in the Ritz carlton in DC!!) And stopping Yucca was just waht the enviro IDIOTS wanted no place to store the waste and down then shut the plants. BUT BUT there is still the nuclear waste--what do you do with it??? LET THE F*** EAT WEEDs AND GRUBS and live in caves!! rosanee barr and the hollywood trash and chieu the energy idiot who does not have car can live with them. Toss the nobamas in there too!!!

The fact remains that it doesn't work in practice like it does in theory. This then becomes more of using something you can't use safely simply because you can (make money). Perhaps we are just too "young" to justify the risks inherent in nuclear energy. Like giving a six year old a loaded pistol....