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Almost exactly one year ago, when this website first launched in September 2011, a petition was submitted for "abolishing the TSA." The White House responded to it, and, BIG SURPRISE, gave a cookie cutter response defending the TSA without even acknowledging the short-comings of the TSA (budget, civil liberties, incompetence, and so on).

Considering the fact that the White House already gave an official response to this question, I don't see how they are under any obligation to answer a duplicate question. Even if the White House decided to respond to the duplicate question, was anyone expecting their answer to change in the slightest? After all, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results.

Nothing will come from all this horn-blowing about the petition. If either candidate were to openly come against the TSA, you can bet your ass their opponent will get a massive backing from the security industry which is supported by the TSA. Since neither Obama or Romney have the balls to challenge the TSA, the only answer is to vote third party and send the bastards a message that we are fed up with their shit. Once enough people become disenfranchised and stop voting for "the lesser of two evils" the political spectrum will shift over to accomodate these people, and their voices will be heard once again.

In his own words:

"My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government." - President Barack Obama

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment

The article poster laments that the petition he referred to had vanished off the petition site.

So... do something about that, why don't you?

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/improve-transparency-online-petition-system/VmVB9XC2

Yes, I realize the irony in even hoping a petition to change the petition system would receive any attention at all. But as I don't have the ear of the website developer, this is what I can do from my armchair.

Sure, it is almost certain to fail. But it has a measurably - if still small - better chance of success than whinging at the screen where nobody can hear me.

My god you are naive.

Who put that rule in place? hint.

Have you been asleep for the last 3.5 years?
These petitions have been systematically ignored, on all sorts of issues that the Administration does not want to deal with. Hundreds of them! Occasionally some vapid dismissive reply is posted, but most are simply ignored. Its a huge joke. Made for people like you who feel clicking a button counts as "doing something".

It is far more effective to bitch on the net, showing people what a two-faced government we have than it is to buy into the system and click some feel good button.

The only petition that counts is the one handed to you as you enter the voting booth.

I guess it's up to this guy.

And who does he report to?

Why, lo and behold its This Guy
Who in turn reports to This Guy.

Now do you see the problem?

but at least the petition system at whitehouse.gov will require *some* action from the administration.

REQUIRE?
Are you Daft?

There is nothing that requires any action, unless you consider totally ignoring the petition to be an "action".

If a petition meets the signature threshold, it will be reviewed by the Administration and we will issue a response.

- source

Even if the response is not satisfactory it is still a response. Unless you know of a petition that had the required number of signatories, and was then completely ignored? (As in - *no* response issued, not merely an unsatisfactory response.)

A response being issued - even one that says 'bugger off' - is better than nothing. Enough such responses can only serve to highlight the problems with TSA, and how they're consistently remaining unaddressed.

But like I said, it's far easier to complain about things than make even the most trivial of efforts to effect change. We can all bitch about it to each other in comments instead, that'll do some good.

It seems to resolve to http://www.whitehouse.gov/assassinations

Maybe it's legit after all?
Just a new way of fundraising?

You are a fool if you think the DHS will ever get smaller or less invasive.

This may have been phrased abrasively. More informative would have been this little gem, that should tell you all you need to know about petitions
The "Abolish TSA" petition had successfully gathered a needed number of signatures and, as a reward, the director of TSA had copy-pasted what looks like a brochure that could be entitled "Why TSA is awesome and what are our plans for next 10 years"

The most galling part (besides the fact that TSA director responded to the abolish-TSA request) is the fact that he didn't feel the need to fake it and say "We are working to address some of your complaints." I am not surprised TSA is ignoring courts, too.
So, yeah, good luck with that next petition.

I bet the list of things that can trigger psychotic episodes in mentally ill people includes pretty much everything.

The only honest to goodness negative reaction I've ever seen with marijuana use (outside of the physical effects like smoking too much and getting the spins/nauseous) is increased anxiety, and that was only a couple times, both times involving someone that probably didn't want to smoke in the first place and was just doing so to "go along with the crowd" and hadn't really gotten high before, so the effects freaked them out.

In those cases, though, I find it hard to blame the weed itself for that; nobody should consume an intoxicating substance just to "fit in", but then we've all been to high school and now how THAT goes...

On the other hand, I have "high anxiety" in that I used to suffer from panic attacks, but marijuana actually calms me and mitigates the attacks completely. Many people with high anxiety self-medicate with marijuana--in my case because I trust a plant that has been in continuous use by humans for thousands of years over a for-profit company that invents drugs by trial and error. On the other hand, I have encountered plenty of people who can't touch the stuff because it makes them paranoid and anxious and many of them benefit tremendously from prescription pharmaceuticals--to each their own. The effects vary by dose, strain, delivery method, and person. It's not for everyone, but others absolutely adore it. One thing it is not is addictive as anyone who was once a broke college student knows. I'm sure someone has linked to this essay already, but Carl Sagan summed it up pretty well.

On a side note, I have two younger step-siblings. One has been off of heroin for a couple of years and the other is in rehab. Both got hooked in their teens. When I was a teenager, "everyone" knew that pot was completely harmless and that heroin was horribly addictive. Meth was a different story; it was the "new" drug and I saw a lot of people ruin their lives with that stuff. My siblings, on the other hand, grew up in the era of "Drugs are bad, mmm-kay" where they were taught that marijuana is a "gateway drug" and it is just as bad as all the others--a Schedule I narcotic just like LSD and heroin. The message they seemed to have absorbed is "I tried pot and it was pretty mellow--so all these other drugs can't be that bad." I mean, look at the propaganda on whitehouse.gov. Sure, they don't out-and-out lie, but they try so hard to make marijuana seem dangerous: "In 2009, marijuana was involved in 376,000 emergency department visits nationwide." Yah, and I bet 100% of those cases also involved alcohol! The LD50 for pot is about the same as H20... The point is that informing kids about drugs works--but not if you lie to them. No one told us about meth and all my step-siblings got was fact-free propaganda.

> You forgot to quote the part where they are empowered to seize civilian facilities.

The summary is a gross lie.

Go read the actual executive order. There is no such place where empowerment to seize civilian facilities is described. In fact the order is just a directive to establish an emergency communications plan.

Slashdot can be really bad at times. This was one of the worst examples I've seen.

Perhaps a better understanding of what they were saying in Section 5.2e would help?

(e) satisfy priority communications requirements through the use of commercial, Government, and privately owned communications resources, when appropriate;

I'm not the only one who read this as well

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-

I'm willing to learn how else we can interpret this.

thanks

Here's the actual EO. What's the money quote that shows the teeth of this order? Here is the best I found, but it doesn't seem too nefarious on the face of it.

Sec. 5.2. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall: . . . (e) satisfy priority communications requirements through the use of commercial, Government, and privately owned communications resources, when appropriate;

First it does not grant power over communications, as in all communications, it is for the governments own emergency communications.. second there is nothing about seizing anything ... here it is read it for yourself.. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-

That is the same link from the original post.

Section 5.2(e)
"(e) satisfy priority communications requirements through the use of commercial, Government, and privately owned communications resources, when appropriate;"

"Through The use of" = Seize, or whatever other euphemism you prefer.
"Privately owned communication sources" = stuff that is not already the governments own emergency communication equipment.

We've heard of QoS, but do you seriously think some self-important bureaucrat either has heard of it or gives a shit?
You have a point; this site is full of ranting, flaming assholes who freak out first and (maybe) find answers later. So, here's the document - http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-

Typical.. read the summary that is flat out wrong, and go ballistic... First it does not grant power over communications, as in all communications, it is for the governments own emergency communications.. second there is nothing about seizing anything... here it is read it for yourself.. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/06/executive-order-assignment-national-security-and-emergency-preparedness-

I know he's trolling, but there's actually a ring of truth to it. Approximately half of all black homosexuals have HIV.

One study of five major cities found that nearly 50 percent of all Black gay and bisexual men were HIV-positive

Pretty staggering number.

source: (it's a PDF)

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/uploads/NHAS.pdf

Right hammer for the right job.

Why would you need multi-threaded programming for CRUD operations on a blog site (like Slashdot)?

Somehow or another, the executive mansion of the most powerful country on Earth seems to get by without closures, "cool" error handling (exceptions up the kazoo), and parallelism. (Whitehouse.gov runs Drupal, which is a CMS running on PHP and dumb old database like MySQL.)

The world is also bigger than just Java. For my banking, I want Java on the backend. For other stuff? As situation requires.

First off, congrats on making enough to make those tax dollars rather than cents, that must be considerable :).

Federal budget in 2011: $3.6 trillion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expenditures_in_the_United_States_federal_budget

College aid budget in 2011: $171 billion http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/edu.pdf (search for AID FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION AND TRAINING to see the appropriate table)

College aid budget in the form of Pell grants alone: $35 billion (same source)

So 4.8% of your federal income tax goes to college aid, or 0.97% just looking at Pell grants.

So unless you paid less than $103.09 in federal tax in the entire year, you spent at least $1 just for Pell grants, let alone the rest of college aid.

Am I reading the table incorrectly? It doesn't seem like a considerable income is needed to get to dollars instead of just cents. Your source was using 2007 numbers, I believe, but it's hard to believe that it could have changed so much in just a few years. The full budget for college aid seems to be 4.5% of the budget, not 1% as they claimed.

For those who are interested, the official position of the US Government on garage labs can be found in The National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats (PDF), signed by the President. Paraphrasing, the report says 'Garage biology is good and necessary for the future physical and economic security of the United States.' Also, in a shameless plug, here is a link to the book mentioned in the article, Biology is Technology.

Oh, so you're a paedophile drug-dealing terrorist now, are you?

You're probably a pinko-commie too!

The US is spending 25.7 billion (17.7 billion NASA, 8 billion for the military (GPS, etc)) on space in 2012

ESA spent 4 billion Euros (about $5 billion)... a total of 413 million EU on human space flight.

There's a lot of talk in the paper about "global" exploration of the moon. I can only assume that means they don't plan on increasing that.

ESA has 19 member countries and even some of them have space organizations of their own so the spending you cite is inaccurate. The EU actually has 27 member countries, 6 applicants for membership and additionally Switzerland and Norway are in ESA but not in the EU. Don't ask me how this correlates with the eurozone...

The US is spending 25.7 billion (17.7 billion NASA, 8 billion for the military (GPS, etc)) on space in 2012

ESA spent 4 billion Euros (about $5 billion)... a total of 413 million EU on human space flight.

There's a lot of talk in the paper about "global" exploration of the moon. I can only assume that means they don't plan on increasing that.

That's why the EU is making a case to return to the moon -- so somebody else will foot the bill for them.

The US is spending 25.7 billion (17.7 billion NASA, 8 billion for the military (GPS, etc)) on space in 2012

ESA spent 4 billion Euros (about $5 billion)... a total of 413 million EU on human space flight.

There's a lot of talk in the paper about "global" exploration of the moon. I can only assume that means they don't plan on increasing that.

I need to do better at maintaining this site.. but it is dedicated to Ending the Corn Subsidies.
https://endcornsubsidy.wordpress.com/help/politics/

It does seem insane to be taxing and subsidizing the same thing.... However, it is at different levels of government..

On the good side, President Obama supports getting rid of some of these direct farm subsidies: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/09/19/someday-now-direct-farm-payments-and-president-s-plan-economic-growth-and-deficit-re
Now we just need congress to act...

The US is kinda bad, eh? Then why are its citizens petitioning for the creation of a (Please) Do Not Kill (Me) list?

Obama is anti deficit spending. He has come out publicly in favor of making multi-millionaires and billionaires pay at least the tax rates of their secretaries and taxing corporations that outsource jobs rather than those that keep jobs in the U.S.

That much is true, but he hasn't done squat to control spending.

Wrong. Obama has been very tight on spending. Check out the historical record.

Discretionary spending during Obama's first two terms (the only years with finalized data) averaged 9.1% of the GDP. Under Reagan, the average was 9.9%. The only reason Obama's spending seems high is because of the mandatory spending categories like Social Security and unemployment benefits. Those go up when we're in recession, for obvious reasons, and it would take a major act of Congress to get rid of them (not that that would even be desirable).

UC San Francisco should only be a start. Open access should be the rule for all taxpayer funded research. Do you enjoy being unable to access research funded by your tax dollars? I sure don't. Please consider writing to your representative about FRPAA and signing the white house petition" on open access.

The meat of the memo is on page 16: Shift to an Enterprise-Wide Asset Management and Procurement Model
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/egov/digital-government/digital-government-strategy.pdf
"GSA will establish a government-wide contract vehicle for mobile devices and wireless service"

The rest of this is just window dressing.

One of the highest ranked petitions on the site called on the President to advocate for the regulation of Cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol. The administrations response did not mention alcohol once. Further, it was written by the drug czar, who is legally required to oppose any measures that would legalize Cannabis.

Don't think for a moment that anyone is listening to your petition. This is a marketing tool for the president to co-opt your issue. If he can respond to a few unimportant petitions, he gets to claim that he listens to "the people", while ignoring anything that's really important.

For example, after the debacle I described above, someone created a petition for the president to take these petitions seriously. It got the requisite peitions and got a response. They gave some examples of how the petitions influenced policy. Among them were banning puppy mills, digitizing federal records, and a "conversation" on online piracy. Not exactly heavy hitting issues here.

"The People" have absolutely no say on anything that matters in this country. Fuck these petitions, and fuck this president.

One of the highest ranked petitions on the site called on the President to advocate for the regulation of Cannabis in a manner similar to alcohol. The administrations response did not mention alcohol once. Further, it was written by the drug czar, who is legally required to oppose any measures that would legalize Cannabis.

Don't think for a moment that anyone is listening to your petition. This is a marketing tool for the president to co-opt your issue. If he can respond to a few unimportant petitions, he gets to claim that he listens to "the people", while ignoring anything that's really important.

For example, after the debacle I described above, someone created a petition for the president to take these petitions seriously. It got the requisite peitions and got a response. They gave some examples of how the petitions influenced policy. Among them were banning puppy mills, digitizing federal records, and a "conversation" on online piracy. Not exactly heavy hitting issues here.

"The People" have absolutely no say on anything that matters in this country. Fuck these petitions, and fuck this president.

The White House, Department of Defense, the State department and the CIA beg to differ.

The Department of Defense says "Navy Looks to Bolster Capabilities in Persian Gulf" (2012):
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=67586

The State Department notes in a briefing by Secretary of State Clinton on her visit to India in May 2012 that peace in the Persian Gulf is important:
http://translations.state.gov/st/english/texttrans/2012/05/201205085219.html#axzz1vAEAsbH0

The White House's press briefing includes references to carriers in the Persian Gulf (2012):
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/04/09/press-briefing-press-secretary-jay-carney-4912/

This is the CIA's World Fact Book entry for Iran. Look at the map saying "Persian Gulf".
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ir.html

The State Department shows the same map for Iran ("Persian Gulf"):
http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/ir/

The CIA's Persian Gulf War Task Force was last reviewed and updated in January 2012.
https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/gulfwar/index.htm

So they'll implement a new protocol: httpSS - twice as secure

You laugh, but...

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/

https://wwws.safra.com/SafraOfficeBank/

http://wwws.aa.warnerbros.com/journeytothecenteroftheearth2/

https://wwws.loc.gov/readerreg/remote/

Secure browsing has already gone enterprisey with the new WWWS for secure sites

Notice the 3rd link. https:/// is not even configured on this server. Yet we are meant to think it is secure because of the 'wwws'.

The federal budget for education is changing from an estimated cost of $98.4B in 2012 to $71.9B in 2013. In 2011 the budget was $65.5B, so the current state is better than it was. $6B is only 22% of the budget decrease for 2013.

That's just mandatory and discretionary spending. Student loans were $136.2B in 2011 and are estimated to be $177.5B in 2012 and $150.5B in 2013. What's $6B compared to that? $60B might have an effect, but not 6.

The laws that apply on the ship will be those of the flag country - www.blueseed.co/faq.html#laws

Cruise ship shave a 30+ year precedent of ensuring order and safety aboard.

Google and Yahoo! have been started by immigrant founders. Now they're employing tens of thousands of people. The US of A is quite desperately looking for ways to boost entrepreneurship. The USCIS has an Entrepreneurs in Residence program to understand startups better. The White House supports that too, see Strengthening Immigrant Pathways for Job-Creating Entrepreneurs.

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/end-tsa/DT1ys3ND

The biggest hurdle is that the Obama White House wants to put a $100 per flight fee on any electric aircraft flight within controlled airspace in the US. Uncontrolled airspace is defined as the area below 1200' above the ground. It's 700' above the ground in higher congested areas. In sparsely populated areas of the western US there are areas where uncontrolled airspace goes up to 18,000 feet, but the bottom line is that almost all of the places any aircraft flies is considered controlled.
The way FAA regulations are written is that everything is prohibited unless it is specifically allowed. The Obama White House proposes to have that $100 fee per flight on all flights except those operated by the government or ambulances. There is also an exception (for now) for piston powered aircraft. That means that the $100 per flight fee applies not only to jets, but it applies to electric aircraft, gliders and hot air balloons.
Reference: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2012/assets/jointcommitteereport.pdf
Page 33 of the file = page 23 on the numbered pages.

Obama has issued a veto threat.

Might as well spent a minute or two letting him know that you think he should indeed veto the bill.

Or at least go sign the petition.

Obama has issued a veto threat.

Might as well spent a minute or two letting him know that you think he should indeed veto the bill.

Or at least go sign the petition.

Obama has issued a veto threat.

Might as well spent a minute or two letting him know that you think he should indeed veto the bill.

I have a record of speaking out against closed journals (although, maybe not on here), and I've stirred the pot up on a couple of mailing lists.

But there's one problem that people need to remember -- Elsevier and these others hold the copyright to large amounts of reference materials. If we cut them off entirely, and they don't change quickly enough, then they go backrupt ... and someone needs to be able to buy up that material so that it can be served to the public.

Yes, we need to open things up going forward -- but we don't want to create a mini-dark age at the same time.

(and if you want to read lots of the publisher's claims at why they need to keep things locked up, which is mostly 'because that's our business model', see http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/01/30/your-comments-access-federally-funded-scientific-research-results . And there's lots of great reasons from other people and groups about why it's such a dumb idea.)

The oligarchies of the world do a fair job of controlling media, but they can't control blogs or twitter. They need governments to make sure they can do this for them.

twitter is not representative (thus rather irrelevant). Let me demonstrate by googling on:

CISPA - 1540 results
SOPA - About 673,000 results
lady gaga - About 5,020,000 results
bieber - About 8,030,000 results
pr0n (about 42,100 results) + porn (about 2,070,000 results) - an "total about" of 2,112,100 (what???).

Everybody knows Internet is for porn and the rule 34. Now, you cannot argue that porn is less popular than Lady Gaga or Bieber - therefore Twitter must be non-representative.

Now, I tell you what you can do to prove me wrong (don't bother replying to this post, it's equally irrelevant): just sign the petitions on EFF and avaaz.org . Even better, open or sign a petitions on the We, the people site.
Then, of course, twit about it and prove me wrong.

"This is SOPA being passed in smaller chunks."

So long as all law is made solely to restrict people and _never_to recagnize rights or prevent abuses such as this, it will just be attempt after attempt until a given law passes. It is absolutely inevitable.

The very reason the people should use whatever legal influence they have to show support in delaying (if not stopping) such laws, every time they try to pass them:
petition at Electronic Frontier Foundation
petition at avaaz

It may appear that you also missed the boat in signing a petition on "We the people" (I can't, not being in US). Maybe it's time to start a new one and promote it better?

Why don't we have more signatures on this petition to have him investigated for bribery?

Also the shooter isn't a "white male" as media keeps reporting. He's a minority just like the victim is a minority. This was a Hispanic on Black crime, not a white on black crime, but they are trying to spin it to make the white majority feel guilty. Stirring a race war.

In American parlance, the term "Hispanic" has nothing to do with race; it just means "a person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race". If you are Hispanic you can be black, white, mulatto, mestizo, or any other racial background.

Being from Australia I can honestly say that there isn't enough people here who understand what software patents are let alone the problems they cause to change it. I'd like to create the petition to abolish the creation of new software patents at the source, but I'm not a citizen.

You don't need to prevent software patents from being created in the US. You need to stop them being enforced elsewhere in the world. If the penalty for infringing a software patent is simply the inability to ship your product to the US then that's fine - the rest of the world benefits whilst the US suffers. Eventually maybe the US will lag so far behind the rest of the world that they might wake up and fix their patent system, but that bit is largely unimportant for the rest of the world.

The *problem* is that governments are bowing down to pressure from the US to enforce US laws on their citizens. I would argue that this is not in the interests of the government's own citizens, and since the role of government is supposidly to stand up for the interests of their population they have no business making these sorts of agreements with the US.

It seems the world is ruled by corporations. Shouldn't it be time to start limiting end eventually outlawing these entities? I think the world would be a better place without them.

I certainly don't think the world would be a better place without big corporations - without them, who is going to build CPUs for your computers, jet engines for planes, etc. These are things that require significant investment and man-power, and therefore something that small businesses and individuals can't really do themselves. However, corporations have way too much power, and that is something that needs limiting.

I tire of this bullshit. What was done to "reform" patents did nothing of the sort.

The USA is becoming the world police. Being from Australia I can honestly say that there isn't enough people here who understand what software patents are let alone the problems they cause to change it. I'd like to create the petition to abolish the creation of new software patents at the source, but I'm not a citizen. It seems the world is ruled by corporations. Shouldn't it be time to start limiting end eventually outlawing these entities? I think the world would be a better place without them.

Here's something to get you started. It took me a long time to find these and that is why I rarely take the time to search for things for people who really should be making the effort to inform themselves.

Protesting is now a felony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SGWH3kirzg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_SXcch1nw0

Martial law is both sort of here and can be declared without any emergency
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myPENDAJdE0
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kslFCUGSR1o

habias corpus is history
due process is history, apparently just having any kind of process is now due process
The US government claims the right to assassinate any of it's citizens, anywhere on the planet at any time of their chosing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWApGqE_T-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ThanSzG_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2EynpMPFOs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gstBozWfhQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iP-6qCzJ_w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ciWWok1SA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsHjH3Jno6k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIawimcXGmU

The executive branch claims they no longer need congress' approval on any war related matters, they would rather just take orders from the UN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSzZAOQnYFI

The "TSA" now has roving checkpoints on roads and transportation hubs within the US
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13KLp4aoOq0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRgxH_42AJk

elections are openly stolen and not covered by mainstream media
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKe0dxBJy1A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_brWibusrf8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgMQmfOGhQs

Mainstream media is completely controlled now by crony capitalists and especially intelligence services, that takeover started in the 60's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1E7s7XaV7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7rRmkJzWuw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQVX30ginQ
http://tmh.floonet.net/articles/cia_press.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NklKE-0CNcs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQhEBCWMe44
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjk6bJhywoM

The faction of power that killed JFK has been in power every since, making every effort to become supreme leaders
http://www.youtube

Remember, USA is still under the state of emergency. Almost everything is legal while in the state of emergency.

  CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN TERRORIST ATTACKS

Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2011. Therefore, I am continuing in effect for an additional year the national emergency that was declared on September 14, 2001, with respect to the terrorist threat.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/02/11/

http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/feb/14/white-house-using-open-atrium/

www.openatrium.com

For civilians trying to avoid another HBGary-type SQL-injection cascading breach, building a PHP website using the Drupal framework means benefiting from the eyeballs that watch sites like whitehouse.gov, and others. These same eyeballs, and many others contribute their security patches back to drupal.org. Although I imagine their OpenAtrium groupware is behind a firewall.

OpenAtrium is 100% free open-source server software, that reaches out really well to tables and other mobile devices too.

These guys might not like that... http://www.parliament.uk/ But with this site they may be on to something... https://www.whitehouse.gov/

More amusingly the ssl is broken, so it comes up with the "This Connection is Untrusted" message. Truer words were never written...

If you want the data, support #FRPAA so you won't hit as many paywalls trying to read the research papers your tax dollars paid for:
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