Deep Politics: Environment, Democracy, Health, Privacy — and a Bit of Fun

Fire Plume from Carmel Valley Airport Aug 8, 2 pm
Looking South-East

Big Sur’s Soberanes Fire Plume 2016 from Carmel Valley Airport – Aug 8, afternoon 2-pm

This smoke plume is blowing in a new direction: much more East than South-East (the direction the whole fire was advancing in general up till now).

The plume poking up on the right looks to be from the Los Padres Dam area.

Frighteningly, the low cloud of smoke just to the left is from just downstream, apparently in the Prince’s Camp / Cachagua valley – where a lot of people live.

There apparently is a backfire set in that area.

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Former National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander – Total Contempt for Personal Privacy and our US Constitutional Rights. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

Have you heard Senator Dianne Feinstein’s horrible excuse for NSA’s treacherous privacy violations with “Its only metadata” ?

Well, no Dianne, you are dead wrong  — “Metadata Kills.”

We now know the NSA-CIA kills people based on Metadata – because the former head of the NSA admitted it at a public forum !

“Michael Hayden Gleefully Admits: We Kill People Based On Metadata”

NSA even selects people to assassinate-by-drones using metadata. Now that CIA dropped their requirement for confirmation (a second credible source), they are killing innocent civilians with drones. This could far too easily lead to the CIA murder of innocent American citizens.

This is so far beyond insanity.

This is nothing short of ongoing, outrageous, Treasonous privacy invasions.

Most Elected officials take an oath to protect our “and defend the United States Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and Domestic !”

NSA is one hell of a Domestic Enemy that needs to be stopped.

What NSA is doing is indistinguishable from Treason.

Call Your Senator, Congresswoman and

write letters to your favorite news outlet – Today !

John Livinstone – Master Photographer

Before settling in a lovely Portland, Oregon suburb, bon vivant John Livingstone enjoyed an idyllic many-decades career in Carmel as a respected master photographer, author and restaurant reviewer.

He had the pleasure of  meeting and photographing many fascinating characters and their events; keeping some of the nicer ones as friends.

He admits his fifty-year career was recently “capped by a gracious letter from England’s Queen Elizabeth” in response to a photograph he took on her Coronation Day, some sixty two years ago in a Swanage, Dorsetshire pub.

During World War II, The Anchor Pub was Pfc Livingstone’s favorite off-duty destination along with his army buddies in the small English Channel town.

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Five wolf pups and their parents were photographed in Northern California recently.

The last confirmed wolf living in California was more than 90 years ago in 1924. (One  wolf,the famous wolf OR7, visited California in 2011.)

Wild wolves historically inhabited California, but they were all killed by humans.

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National Security Agency Director General Keith Alexander – Total Contempt for YOUR Personal Privacy. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)

What do the CIA, FBI and NSA (No Such Agency) have in common with everyday Americans ?

Regarding secrecy and privacy protected by our Constitutions – absolutely nothing. They have it ALL backwards, upside down – and absolutely wrong.

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While I doubt I’ll ever buy a new car (they lose thousands of dollars in value the moment you drive them off the showroom floor), here is an excellent step-by-step advice on how to buy a new car. Continue reading →

I like this.

Clark the Dog Comedian

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Momina Bibi – Assassinated by a US Drone Authorized by Leon Panetta

Only a year ago while you, Leon Panetta, were in charge of all US military operations as Secretary of “Defense,” this elderly grandmother and midwife was murdered by a US Drone in Waziristan (Pakistan). Here is her daughter’s story.

“The last time I saw my mother, Momina Bibi, was the evening before Eid al-Adha. She was preparing my children’s clothing and showing them how to make sewaiyaan, a traditional sweet made of milk. She always used to say: the joy of Eid is the excitement it brings to the children.”

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Blackbird Mass Deaths: New Years 2010 to 2014 – Solved

(c) David Dilworth

“Shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve (2010-2011) between 3,000 and 5,000 red-winged blackbirds fell from the sky in Beebe (Arkansas). Most were dead on the ground but some were living but dazed.” – Wikipedia

Red-winged Blackbird

What could cause rapid death of hundreds of birds and leave no physical trace and no hint of any disease – several years in a row ?

There are many conjectures (lightning, disease, pollution, stress, cars) but no solution even comes close to fitting all the facts.

Lets start with agreed upon facts.

1. It is widely agreed that the birds were startled into flight by fireworks exploding at New Year’s Eve celebrations. This identical phenomena occurred several New Years in a row.

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New York Power Blackout 2003 (simulation)

Know anyone who had their insurance cancelled ?

And you imagined big corporations were immune from that insult. Well, apparently some goofy things corporations do are just so far beyond stupid (too big a risk) that Lloyds of London won’t insure them anymore.
In a little noticed news item that should be front page lead story of New York Times, BBC reports that energy corporations can no longer get multi-million dollar insurance against cyber attacks !

“Energy firm cyber-defence is ‘too weak’, insurers say”

and a Slate article “Energy Companies Can’t Get Cyber Attack Insurance Because Their Defenses Are Too Weak” adds a bit more detail and examples.

A 2011 article on this website warned about the incredible danger to our country from cyber attacks using “smart” meter infrastructure.

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Ed Leeper, Polymath – in his favorite Chair

Ed Leeper passed away comfortably at home in his favorite chair Friday evening, while methodically perusing his vast collection of Fine Art books with a poetry book in one hand.

Ed was seemingly a permanent fixture of our Peninsula. He was a man of myriad talents and a hero to many. A successful political wizard, a revered conceptual artist, an accomplished outdoorsman, sailor, avid hiker, party animal, potent author of letters to the editor and our community’s leading intellectual Santa Claus who likely gave away more books than anyone in California history.

As a sailor, he met the love of his life — the elegantly eloquent  woman of wisdom Elizabeth. They sailed to Baja together, married without delay upon returning and lived happily ever after in the woods of upper New Monterey. You just knew Ed must be something special upon realizing he captured Elizabeth’s heart.

Political Wizard —

What a shame Ed left us — just a day before the Herald publisher put out a call for exactly Ed’s talents – Letters Editor. “Don Miller: Wanted: Opinion editor”

Miller asked for “Superb journalistic skills, ability to sift through varying opinions, ease in community networking, fearlessness in taking on tough positions.” All those are just a few of Ed’s wonderful qualities.

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Grizzly Catching Salmon Credit: Brigitte Werner

We won.

Well, actually the magnificent natural landscape of Alaska’s Bristol Bay and all the wildlife and plants that call it home have won a big victory.

One of the world’s largest Mines, the Bristol Bay project, has suffered a fatal blow.

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NewScientist just published an article stating

“Pathologist Richard Ablin discovered the PSA antigen 40 years ago. He says it should never have been used as a cancer screening tool for all men“

The NewScientist article is ‘Prostate cancer test has been misused for money”

Richard Ablin’s book is “The Great Prostate Hoax: How big medicine hijacked the PSA test and caused a public health disaster”

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2,000 Year Old Man Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner

Dear Friends,

Did you ever imagine biology research could help you finish your to-do list?

A team of researchers (including a Noble Prize winner) has found an easy way to make new stem cells from your own organs. This means that just like those Volvos that keep running for millions of miles, doctors could keep replacing your body parts that fail – not just until you make it to 100 years old — seemingly forever !

“If this can be reproduced in humans, it will be a paradigm changer” Robert Lanza, chief scientific officer at Advanced Cell Technology in Marlborough, Massachusetts

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I LOVE this story !

Toothless, Girl Dragon

It combines touching-kindness and caring about children, inspiring them with science and engineering !!! – and even includes Dragons. What more could I ask for? 

A curious young woman (7 years old) writes to Australia’s Government Research Center called CSIRO and asks if they can make a Dragon.

They not only respond, they apologize and before long … well you’ll have to read the story.

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Obama Share Everything Plan

“The way in which [the Snowden] disclosures happened has been damaging to the United States and damaging to our intelligence capabilities…”

Yes, exactly how arresting a Bank robber is damaging to his freedom to steal and damaging to his false reputation for honesty.

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David Barron – Assassination Legalizer

Infamous Executive Branch “Assassination Legal Memo” author David Barron was nominated to the First Circuit Appeals Court to be a lifetime appointed Judge by Barak Obama yesterday.

David Barron authored the notorious Office of Legal Counsel memos authorizing the assassination of an American citizen with zero due process – no court case was ever decided, no charges were ever even filed.

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Wildflower Avalanche, Big Sur by David Dilworth
http://www.inspiringlandscapes.com/wildfloweravalanche.htm

Have you ever met a guy who just couldn’t care a fig about a richly colored sunset, a Beatles tune, a fragrant flower, a massage or even ice cream ?

A lot of them are elected to official political positions and always vote against, and sometimes harangue against protecting a place because of its beauty or silence values.

Others are just ordinary people who simply don’t get excited about those sorts of things.

Well, for a few years I’ve been searching for a term to describe such folks without an aesthetic sensibility. I tried out lots of awkward words without any success such as “Dis-thetic,” anti-aesthetic etc.

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No one has any sacred or legal right to do anything they want with property they own.

This article is a concise overview of the Constitutional and legal foundations of Community Rights contrasted with Property Rights.

A government can restrict any use of property if it can make a fair argument or “any rational basis” for the public control of that property.

If zoning exists, it can strongly, even severely, restrict the activities one can do. You generally cannot drill an oil well in a residential area (except in Houston – seriously not kidding).

Pollution that travels beyond a property line (sewage, smoke, bullets, light, and even invisible things like radiation and noise) is a trespass, can be a nuisance or strict liability, can be extremely restricted by law, and in many cases is wholly prohibited with large penalties.

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