Eddie and the Orwellians

Last paragraph yesterday from a story by Spencer Ackerman at the Guardian about how NSA people do as they please with government technology: Compounding the potential financial conflicts at the NSA, Buzzfeed News reported that the home of chief of its Signals Intelligence Directorate, Teresa Shea, has a signals-intelligence consulting firm operating out of it.…

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Marked Clarification for the Confused

Rain in the gutters this early Wednesday on California’s north coast — NWS reports ‘Heavy Rain’ today with three-quarters to one inch expected. After just waking up sometime this morning between one and two o’clock, I was sing-songed back to sleep just at the rainstorm’s arrival — an orchestrated musical, lightly starting with a single, soft…

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Peeper

Thanks to Eddie Snowden, we’re watching them watch us. The real bad shit — they don’t give a rat’s ass. In this case, the “them” being our own government. Memos from George Jr.’s smoke-screen attempt to wiretap the world after 9/11 were released late yesterday, but this is the real-key point on the whole matter,…

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Fire in the Forests of Mars

Fog-bound this early Tuesday on California’s north coast, but just a wee-bit to the east are huge chunks of deep-growth forests, dry and waterless, and in some places, on fire. A moist shoreline and a tinderbox interior. Countrywide, a variety of weather shit, though, tornadoes twisted across diverse locales — a four-minute one early yesterday…

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Nuclear Radiation Harmful to Living Organisms — Duh!

Latest update on the still-evolving disaster of Fukushima: ‘Interestingly, researchers found that instead of outright killing or obviously harming organisms, the low-dose radiation effects were insidious. In rice, for instance, low level gamma radiation in Fukushima Prefecture began to alter healthy seedlings on a genetic level in only three days, hampering the activation of self…

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