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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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Astounding admission by NSA’s former Director Michael Hayden.

“We kill people based on metadata.”

This means the US government can (totally illegally and immorally) kill you – without even listening to your phone calls, reading your email or your mail.

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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

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 other aesthetic values like silence.

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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Obama Share Everything Plan

The following article is a summary of the Report “Personal Information Privacy Rights Table which outlines the five (plus one) crucial protections needed to insure legal privacy anywhere from any unauthorized collecting or use by governments or corporations.

This Privacy Rights report entitled “Personal Information Privacy Rights Table” was written long before the National Security Agency (NSA) and Britain’s equivalent Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) were exposed as comprehensively spying on their own citizens and citizens of and in other “friendly” countries. It was just updated to include references to these recent disclosures. It is notable that all the principles are identical save one. I have included genuine Whistleblower protection.

Privacy Bill of Rights

1. You, and Only You, Own Your Personal Information

Each individual has Un-alienable self-executing Privacy Rights to wholly Control, Protect or Encrypt all personal information about themselves.

You also have the Right to Revoke the ability of anyone to obtain, use or keep any of your personal information. Additionally, you have the right to know who has, or controls, any of your personal information.
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Secret FISA Court Judge Roger Vinson Orders ALL Your phone records collected. Photograph by Ben Twingley/AP

“Cockroaches do their best Work in the Dark.”

Years before the existence of the National Security Agency (NSA) was ever acknowledged, many of us read evidence that NSA was out of control. Now thanks to the anti-constitutional “Patriot” Act a FISA Court judge (Roger Vinson) was discovered secretly ordering a major phone company (Verizon) to turn over all of YOUR phone records to NSA.

“All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery” – Jonathon Swift, “Drapier’s Letters“, 1724

This massively anti-constitutional privacy-invasion program only came into a strong light because of a secret court decision leaked to England’s Guardian newspaper “NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily.“ (This Presidential program to spy on phone calls of millions of Americans was first revealed in a 2006 USA-Today article by Leslie Cauley “NSA has massive database of Americans’ phone calls.“)

“Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama”

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Censor Kitty Gets Much Worse – Now Blacklist Kitty

“Because the pension question is now being litigated, I have chosen not to run your letters or your advertisements.”

“Marge Jameson, Editor
[email protected]
Cedar Street Times
306 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove, CA
Voice: 831-324-4742
Fax: 831-324-4745″
(Dated: Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:45 AM)

This was in response to a request by Pacific Grove Taxpayer’s Association President John Moore to place a large advertisement and a letter explaining the side of the citizens fighting to protect the City of Pacific Grove from a 50+ million dollar financial suicide. (1)

Mr. Moore’s letter was also trying to respond to a personal attack on him by the Mayor (Kampe) in a commentary the newspaper had just published.

Cedar Street Times’ Publisher Jameson is clearly not a supporter of freedom of ideas. She earlier declared a Blacklist on letters from a middle of the road Pacific Grove resident. (See “Pacific Grove Newspaper Publisher Admits Deliberate Censorship.”)

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If you and I oppose tyrannical acts – have we reached the limits of our endurance with U.S. Spying on us?

US Attorney General Eric Holder Seized AP Phone Records

Chief executive Gary Pruitt said the Associated Press was told on Friday the Justice department had gathered records of outgoing calls from more than 20 phone lines.

“The Associated Press has described the US government’s secret seizure of its journalists’ telephone records as a “massive and unprecedented intrusion“.

Mr Pruitt said there could be “no possible justification for such an overbroad collection“.

“The justice department has provided no explanation for the seizure.”

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(c) Copyright 2013 David Dilworth

Three heart-wrenching tragedies in the past week showed three wildly different responses that are intensely revealing of our culture. (It would be inaccurate to described ours as a “civilization.”)

Commentary:

Let me point out some notable contrasts.

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David Walton, Home in China

Have you been around Monterey long enough to remember the groundbreaking Sancho Panza Bohemian coffee house or Gallatin’s elegant dining ?

The genius behind Sancho Panza, and the grace at Gallatin’s was my friend David Walton who died in China this month.

David’s nephew Todd Walton gave me permission to share his memories, so splendidly illustrated with words — it almost brings David back to life.

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Uncle David

(c) Copyright Todd Walton 2013

My uncle David Walton died in China on March 8 at the ripe old age of eighty-seven, just a week ago as I write this, yet I have already received an email with photographs from the lovely memorial service that was held for him in Xichang where David lived and taught English for the last several years, his Xichang friends and students in attendance. And that memorial service email was just one of many I have received so far along with several phone calls from a tiny fraction of the hundreds of people who knew and loved David.

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