THE TROUBLE with ANTIBIOTICS

This Frontline Report is about how bacteria and viruses are becoming resistant to antibiotics. On America farms animals are fed antibiotics to keep them from becoming sick but this may be leading to dangerous new resistant bacteria. Also in hospital new superbugs are on the rise that are resistant to antibiotics and are highly infectious.
This report shows how the thinking "the markets will stop something bad" mentality is so wrong. Here we have a situation where people may be becoming sick, where worse situation and possible epidemic may be caused. But they can't or won't be stopped by people, or government because industry has too much money and therefor to much corrupting influence on politician, people and sadly the science. Because without a "smoking gun" many will happily allow themselves to be infected or allow the possibility. They will stop the science or allow it to not continue or be in depth so they can have cheap food and so the industry can continue to make fortunes.

FRONTLINE - THE UNITED STATES OF SECRETS PART 2

This is the second part of the PBS's Frontline investigative series on mass surveillance in America.

FRONTLINE UNITED STATES OF SECRETS PART 2
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Part two of this documentary tells the story of corporations and surveillance. The first thing of interest to me is how many internet providers, phone companies, and internet search engine companies are willing help the government giving much of the information they acquire. Second is none of them are willing to say no, that it is unconstitutional to give information about people. If corporations are people then aren't they also giving up their right to privacy as well. Third was even when these companies cooperated with the government it isn't enough and they would "hack" their system to get more information. These were the key things too me. To say the NSA has overreached is an understatement. But of course they still use fear. Fear that another attack will happen so of course they have to acquire everyone's information. It's ridiculous.

FRONTLINE - UNITED STATE OF SECRETS

If you want real investigative reporting on events happening in America I suggest you go to PBS Frontline. They take the time to get facts. They also will give in-depth accounts about a story you will not hear or at least not get a full description on from twenty four hour news.

FRONTLINE UNITED STATES OF SECRETS (PART 1)
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Part one of this documentary tells the story after 911 in America. How fear lead those in the Bush administration to create "The Program" a National Security Agency operation to spy on American citizens. For decades the NSA by law and protocol would only spy on foreign services. The Bush administration would use half truth, faulty legal standing, and war powers to create and keep this unconstitutional and illegal system.

It also talks about the NSA and intelligence committee individuals that struggle with what they knew was wrong and how they wanted or did bring the program to the press and public view.

President Obama ran against these same programs but when Bush put before congress legislation to make the program law he voted for it as Senator. Then as President months later did nothing to pull back the program from spying on Americans. Everyone has the same fear. What if you take this system away and there is another 911? If I stop this and it happens my Presidency is over or hurt severely. People will die and it will be my fault.

It a simple situation in my eyes. The right to privacy is constitutional. People died to make this a law. To make it a right of the people. If people have to die to keep it law then so be it. One has to make a choice either privacy law matters even if others can use it to hurt you or it doesn't. If it doesn't then let the NSA spy on whomever but don't lie to yourself that you live in the same America anymore. You don't live in a constitutional America at that point. You live in an authoritarian America. Where those in power decide what is law and what isn't.

However my thinking changes on this if the people in question are not citizens of America. It doesn't matter if they are on American soil or not. They don't get the same constitutional protections at least I don't believe they should.

Daily Show interviews - torture

DAILY SHOW april 28th CLIFF MAY's Interview -comedycentral.com

1. Stress positions
Nothing wrong with them for a few hours or a couple days.
11 days is insane. They like to bring up that they had doctors around. Now unless the internet, books, and the science channel has let me down. The average person being force to stay awake for longer than 7-9 days can be lethal. (yes I know some people have done it longer hence the word "average").

"Hey Doc can't this kill him."
"No worries I have a degree I'll bring him back to life."
LOL

Had to say that joke.

I think the basic rational understanding should be if it doesn't risk the average person's life it's not torture.

2.Jon made a good point, it may, (I don't know), not be necessary to torture if you had a few more than a couple hundred people that can read and speak Arabic. Also if you didn't fire or kick them out of the military just because they are homosexual. It just seems to gather intel on such a dangerous enemy that you feel you have to torture because you're so afraid you would say to yourself, "let's get some people studying."

"Shouldn't we have more people in our intelligence agency learning to speak Arabic."
"Naw we'll just torture them then they well tell us everything we need to know."
"Umm do you know Arabic."
"Umm yeah if he does talk that may be a problem."
LOL.

3.Jon misspoke he meant the American Ideals now, not since the beginning of this society. If we go by the old values then Torture is more than OK.

4.Dropping the bomb did not end the war. The Japanese were being bombed by incendiaries every night. They were running low on oil and other supplies. Most didn't think they would last a few more months.
A million Americans lost is also propaganda. It could of be a couple hundred at the most a couple thousand if they destroyed enough naval ships but millions the Japanese started flying planes into ships as a last resort, it wasn't a tactic from the beginning.
The bomb was dropped for a few simple reasons, to see how it would actually effect humans, it was on an island, they weren't white, (being people that allowed American soldiers to be killed in Europe just so certain "historical" buildings wouldn't be destroyed this argument of saving American lives is just a lie.),they could get away with it cause they were in a war (one that was almost over anyways, which seemed to work for them.), It showed that America had the most powerful weapon, (in other words, if any of you want some of this we can do it to you too.)

5.Why would the lawyers need to change or coerce the law to make waterboarding ok if they didn't have to follow these laws. If terrorist don't apply to the Geneva laws then why did the agents have to go to the lawyers??? That isn't logical. If you say they had to go by American laws. I would say well they are still using or abusing the law to get what they want done and not just simply following the law as it is. The moment you have to do that you know you are doing something illegal.

"Hey are you sure that what we are about to do isn't illegal."
"Nah I change the "t" to "L" and the "just" things to bullshit, your covered."
"Dunk away boys."

It seems to me the "right" in their arguments always come from a place of fear. If you or your family or someone else is to be killed, so we have to do blah blah blah.
And the "Left" seems to come from a place of these are the laws and the Ideals that we should be living up to, so don't do blah blah blah.

I don't fancy myself either but if I had to choose one it would be left. Most (not all) of their arguments always seem to come from a more rational point of view (I'm talking torture not every bloody topic, so relax "right boy" you have your topic you can be proud of this just isn't one of them.)