This is another of my articles on climate. If you are intellectually honest, regardless of which side of the debate you are on, this is a must read article linked to a just released video. You’ll either want to be able to refute the points made or understand them for your own use. Either way the information here will likely surprise you because the information in the 50:1 video first stipulates that everything the UN’s IPCC has claimed about climate change, global warming, AGW, whatever you call it today is true. It isn’t, but for the sake of this argument we’ll pretend it is.

Also, there is the matter of the UN’s creation of the term ‘Climate Deniers’ or deniers for short. There is no such person on the planet. When the UN cannot defeat the meat of an argument against the idea of main made climate change they make the ad hominem attack that those presenting the argument are just deniers that ignore all science and the fact that climate is changing. One really should look at who is denying what. But, again for this argument we’ll pretend that all the UN is saying is true.

Project 50 to 1 is a kick starter funded project that used IndieGoGo and direct PayPal donations. Lord Monckton and his foundation provided the initial basic math using the IPCC’s numbers. Those numbers can be found in his paper: Is CO₂ mitigation cost-effective? If you are not into math, just watch the video. If you hope to refute the information, you need to deal with the math.

This video was made to support the fund raiser and set out the goals of the main video effort. The final 50:1 video is further down.

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You may figure out that the cost of the video is more than just the direct cost of editing and distributing a video. Remember. They traveled to interview some pretty heavy hitters in the climate debate. They were scatter across the world. You can see the individual interviews on the 50 to 1 Project web site.  Continue reading →

A friend sent me a link to this in an email. I am surprised I did not know about it. It certainly isn’t something the news media splashed around. The video was made for the tenth anniversary of 9-11.

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This is the type of thing free self-reliant people can do. It is the sort of thing government simply cannot organize. This is an example of bottom-up organizing rather than top down. Most people can not comprehend the effectiveness of chaotic systems. Each of us has to decide who we are going to rely on.

The US Coast Guard Commander that issued the radio call for boaters to gather at Governor’s Island is not a part of the political command structure and has no authority over the civilian population. He is part of the Military Command structure where people are taught to act independently and adapt to conditions on the ground.  Continue reading →

The recent Snowden leaks have become lost in the debate over whether he is a whistle-blower or a betrayer of his country. As government tries to silence whistle-blowers from Benghazi to NSA-IRS misuses of power by tapping the news medias phones and targeting selected groups they gain more control over citizens.

Few have realized how these scandals are affecting the Internet. Until now the Internet has been controlled by the USA, generally thought to be a freedom loving democracy with a science organization and technical society that could be trusted to live by the US Constitution and keep the Internet free for all.

Snowden has revealed that is not the case. The US government agencies are misusing their authority. Earlier CNN interviews with former counter-terrorism agents in the Boston Bomber case revealed even phone conversations of American citizens not on watch lists were being recorded for future reference.

Preliminary Congressional investigations are showing that security work and data mining are being farmed out to private companies giving thousands of people access to sensitive personal data that could never get a security clearance, which is sort of what happened with Snowden.

The UK’s Guardian has a good article on where all this is leading. See: Edward Snowden’s not the story. The fate of the internet is. The UN has long pushed to have control of the Internet take away from the USA. Since the UN is made up mostly of repressive governments we can easily see what that will lead to. Iran would love to have control of the Internet within Iran as would China. That will mean the end of any hint of free speech and outside news for those countries.

And what will it mean for the USA and Europe?

Lette Ponnier has an article up on her blog that is way neat. You may have read her blog recently if you were keeping up with problems in the Firestorm Viewer. The new post, Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, departs from that theme and explains a part of life in Second Life™ that many have yet to figure out.

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I encourage you to read this article and bookmark it to give to wackadoodles when you must endure their ignorant ranting… or find you have allowed yourself to be exposed to one and your patience runs out.

I am an online type person, so I find this electronic privacy thing highly pertinent to my life style and freedom. Recent events have shown that we have serious challenges in the area of privacy. What Pres. Bush started Pres. Obama has put on steroids. The first 15 minutes of the video is an interesting interview with a mover and shaker in the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The video is non-political, but some may see it as politically biased. The last 15 minutes is about US Patents. If you are interested in Podcasting, the last 15 minutes will be of interest.

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If you want to get a sense of what is happening with privacy in your life, check out the Ghostery plugin, blog, Facebook, Huffington Post on Invisible Web by Ghostery, and Ghostery on Twitter. Ghostery runs on Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari.

Shortly after the Boston Bombing information came out that has started to disappear from the search engines. Just try and find the CNN story by Erin Burnett on Outfront about the phone call between the bomber and his mother. In a May 1^st show a former FBI Counter Terrorism states everything electronic is being gathered by the government. (Clip 1 and Clip 2)

While I could find the clips easily a month ago I had to work to find them to get a link for this article. It appears this information is disappearing from search engines.

Since Second Life is international, I will assume that makes any American user… well ANY user of SL a target for NSA.