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Wednesday, December 15, 2010

HURRAY for courageous Wikileakers and more coming !

see article as it appears also in

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2010/12/243343.php


by MARY JANIE Thursday, Dec. 09, 2010 at 4:12 PM
Wki-leaks has done what many of us wish we could...

OPEN UP THE WORLD OF misinformation, lies, deceits, manipulations, fake diplomacy, propaganda and allllll that is spoken, written that is "not in our name" appropriate. Wow, some of us are very impressed and want these computer workers SUPPORTED, complimented, helped, and given any and every service or help we can each offer...

to keep them doing the good work they have been so dedicated to providing to all "the people" including "the American People" too... good ! work ! help protect and increase Free Speech as exposure is not intended to harm but REVEAL what is being done for us that is hurtful and against most of us.

This attempt at FREEING information from those who claim power because they can secret information, emails, disinformation and all manipulative propaganda pulls out my full admiration for all who work at WIKILEAKS.

see Reuters article on this at :
http://www.reuters.com/subjects/wikileaks
for example "Analysis: WikiLeaks battle a new amateur face of cyber war?"

also see Amy Goodman's website for transcripts of interview with Assange and updates

see KPCC, KPFK, BBC and other sites also for more updates as they keep shifting and turning and exposing the fears aroused in those who thought they were the only authorities !


The individual characters or personal motivations for rebelling against the opaque and guarded stories, the perpetual lies, the twisted talk, the never-answering- directly-nor-clearly...the people's own personal perfections is not what is important

but the goal to FREE the truth from those who personally secretly benefit only themselves and their kin is commendable.

The power to do whatever it takes w/o physical human/ animal/plant violence is a new twist in our 'current affairs' ...as the nation-state govts prefer "WAR" and killings, maimings, destruction to helping us all make choices over our own lives and futures.

The cyber challenges are not "WAR" as it actually exists in so many places for so many eras...that is the name preferred by those who profit and gain by actual war tactics and the losses of others. Why do drama kings like to always use words like "battle" and "war" instead of more accurate meaningful words...just to get a rise that they cant get otherwise ? huh?

The "amateur" label is diminishing but not accurate either. Professional is not by degrees, titles, wealth, purchases or length of knowledge but by ABILITY to perform well, with damaging others in the process.

Professional is not a description "given" by another hoarding authority but by proof that anyone can perform well, as well as those who want to claim the only privileges of being top and competent only for themselves.

The hackers [bad choice of words again,] are computer experts who are not employed by the usual corporations, tho some may be, and the people who KNOW HOW TO DO WHAT IS NECESSARY to share freedom of information and uncover the lies, deceits, cover-ups, withholding and mis-use of surveillance-gained private information are our heroes [male and female[.

And those who have 'other' professional expertise, as in law, in writing skills, in advertising manipulations used for POSITIVE instead of profit gains 'for the public' are also included in those who have not joined ranks with Wikileaks.

Finally an act of courage, a risk to face those who claim ownership of us all and our information [that is suppose to be 'ours' nit no longer so. Those who have the POWER to DEFINE or label us, anyone, can twist, turn, change or control those they word-over.

They claim authority. But when more of the people, of any nation-state-tribe, can claim to KNOW their own names, terms, acts, and where their money is spent...aha...that is a new world, not a new 'order' but a clever chaos that can now provide more options and choices to all

even those who cannot yet 'read' or get on 'internet' but are equally affected by what those who write can do to take from them too.

welcome to a New World, with less of the Old Ordered by limited so-owned authorities who hoard so much for themselves alone, including information about us and that affects us alllllll...

yeah !

and P S how many fancy long-termed elected USA & other officials have been in 'sex' scandals and continued to keep their lobby-paid positions anyhow?

and a serious COMMENT on another Wikileaks article there also:

terrific info ! thanks [for a listing of many cables and sites to access the revealed information made available by Wikileaks many cohorts/ workers/helpers]

by mary janie Thursday, Dec. 09, 2010 at 4:30 PM

More people need to stop being passive NOW
when courageous writers and supporters of FREE SPEECH

take tactiction, tactics+action with daring and expertise
that encourages the rest of us humble writers to do something

it could be anything helpful
BE SUPPORTIVE if you believe in what is claimed as free country with free speech as ideals not yet delivered...

share whatever professional or work expertise you can do

help the attorneys

the computer experts

the funders

the media that elsewhere needs to hear your supportive Comments ON blogs, or in media articles on Wikileaks

call your friends and tell them to learn more about what is changing [finally 1 more piece] of their old world [orders]

help children do school assignments covering current news topic everyone else is talking about

give articles and sites to friends in emails, by sending a nice helpful card reminding them that we are all in this together and no one gets out alive either !

promote the parts you appreciate and discard the parts you dont, but share and contribute to the EXPOSURE that is now newly possible

and whatever else DO NOT FEAR because the fear mongers are out in full force with threats, accusations, blaming, and twisting stories, even encouraging someone "else" to do murder and assassinations for them !

what does this tell you about who and what we are now ??
yep

e=volve
for a while
ex=pose
and stop pretending denial is so convenient and safe.
it no longer is
has not been for a long time

LEARN
LISTEN
SHARE
SUPPORT
if you can or dare

(C) maryjanie 2010

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and 2nd comment at same site

WHEN SUSPICION REIGNS nothing else can ever be done good enough...

by mary janie Friday, Dec. 10, 2010 at 3:09 PM
While paranoid suspicious cynical thinking and comments sound like some 'superior
minded' person has all the dismal answers, and can find every reason to find fault in every action or attempt to improve anything in this world or another

these comments may be interesting, or even have a grain of truth but these comments are not the End of the Story nor the WHOLE TRUTH to be believed or relied upon either.
this "it cant be done" or "it can never be improved" or "what is the use, they already won / have control ...etc.etc.etc " =defeatist attitude are depressive's answer to their assumed POWER LESS NESS.

better to just die away than do anything is their solution WRONG...again...for others who want every change, every chaos, every action to count, no matter which "side" exerts the effort
such phenomena as "unintended consequences" , unpredictable experiments, trial and errors, and every action may have a unexpected re-action are daily occurrences that do not give "hope" but provide assurance than the plans of any human is highly flawed and many dont like to admit these facts of daily life.

so Wikileaks is maybe partly at attempt to CONFRONT powers that think they hold all the secrets, power, and ties and negotiations...or is also infiltrated by CIA types of any nation-state spies [too many movies contaminate clear thinking you know ] ....and everything anyone does may be surveiled and kept as nanodata somewhere but so what ?

Wikileaks did a commendable skill-full act and many are glad for this new opportunity to LEARN MORE.

most people are not "serious researchers" and do not or did not have access to review info .. wikileaks just provided 'the masses'..which is us,,,, and the above commenter too...superior tho "Friday" [another negative comment writer there] likes to apparently think of him/ or her self...

they are not...as worldly wiser than the rest of us...sorry to deflate that illusion.
to berate and find fault is so easy and critics have sprouted like fruit flies all having now SOMETHING TO SAY TO MAKE THEMSELVES IMPORTANT on the backs of those who courageously shared info that was not publicly available before.

I hate that...the plagerizers, users, manipulators who use Wikileaks now to pretend they know more and better than anyone by being "critic".. because they could not and did not DO ANYTHING of value themselves ...abuse of headline news to provide PR for themselves ! ugh.
and sooooo many are daily 'commenting' as if they owned the store and were doing valued inventory...huh?

and improving nothing nor providing any further useful information either !!!
oh well, such is the world of public words, even these... Wikileaks started this conversation and they get the credit, not the commentators, critics, fault-finders after them.

we are all using info put on the backs of those who went before us with doing an act of Public Courage and Risk

and they are attempting to be useful to transparentize the obfuscative...
how's that for clarity ? Thank you to all work who work for more Open Public Clarity in government, finances, corporations of any kind, businesses, institutions, etc. All use the
secrecy clause to further themselves at "others" expense with hiding info.

So dont be warned by dooms attituded writers who want to berate all actions as not vital and as betrayals. Take action and Do More with what we've Got, so far, no matter who is imperfect, not 100% altruistic but still serves a function of providing what we had not had before....leaked info, withheld from The American People by their own paid-for representatives.

(C) maryjanie 2010
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see these links for more actual revealed updated information =

www.KPFK.org
www.BBC.co.uk
www.democracynow.org
www.la.indymedia.org
www.KPCC.org
www.Guardian.co.uk
www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/
www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/.../100607fa_fact_khatchadourian
/wikileaks-us-embassy-cables-live-updates
ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCATRE6BD6CI20101214
www.truthdig.com/.../wikileaks_and_the_end_of_us_diplomacy_20101130/
www.democracynow.org/.../the_new_pentagon_papers_wikileaks_releases
www.democracynow.org/.../noam_chomsky_wikileaks_cables_reveal_profoundwww.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/03/.../wikileaks
www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/04/05/iraq
www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/11/.../wikileaks
www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/world/.../08assange.html
CBS News - 530 related articles
Greenwald quits CREW over WikiLeaks‎ - Politico (blog) - 2 related articles
www.fair.org/index.php?page=4210
http://la.indymedia.org/news/hidden.php?id=243369


while these voices may be more forthright than most others blasting & blaring the governments' cover up slants and attempts by the Powerful-now to hide from "The American People" and thus people of the Globe entirely what they chose to spin to their advantage.

It is imperative that the NEED TO KNOW the truth or as close to it as is honestly possible to be, that censorship by those who hold media purse-strings and by those whose alliances create hidden collusions intended to profit those rich-powered-people[groups-ONLY at the cost of lives lost in wars, lives cost in unemployments, lives lost in lies, and worse.

Please keep our country as FREE as is possible, uncensored and true to the ideals of both the founders of a nation that has grown into a spin-factory instead of led by honorable-intentioned people, not sooo long ago. The current USA population assumes erroneously that all being advertised is actual neutral "news" instead of propaganda intended to keep the powered in their elite positions of dominance and greed.

Let the truths, all of the varieties of TRUTH-S there actually are, come OUT, be REVEALED, discussed, disputed, analyzed, commented upon, reviewed some more and not revised to fit any selected point of view or specially selected few who want to Run This Show...being re-elected to reigning government[s] and back into "big business" profiteers.

Let us help keep this nation as honest, free and truth-full as is possible, never 100% but with so little being allowed to "leak" out to our public viewing, it is now TIME TO EXPOSE what has been so carefully hidden, misused and advertised as "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" when it has NOT BEEN SO for sooo too long.

VS.
the mass media who are continually making-up slanted corporate-profitable claims that are= dramatized, ,
exaggeratedly threatened accusations ,
making illegally & politically misinformed claims of revenge,
attempting to patronize the humiliated governments & their fake diplomats,

(C) mary janie 2010





Monday, April 27, 2009

Scared of the swine flu ? here is some info...so not to worry after all..yet

Hello, my friends,

Are you falling for the usual SCARE stories that "news" loves to use ?,,,,that news corps use to get more ratings and attention? Let’s hope not.

Is there a 'kernel of reality' in it ? Yes, of course, or fear would have died away by now. It has not.

Here some web sites of interest, to date .... and later more info will surely emerge,

from CDC direct info here = http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/key_facts.htm =
and http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/ has some stats too and they say =

"What You Can Do to Stay Healthy[ier] There are everyday actions people can take to stay healthy. Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.[ of course]
Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way
Try to avoid close contact with sick people. [duh] Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people. If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
" [ good way to get more rest for the ill ]

BBC wrote : there is no evidence that swine flu can be transmitted through eating meat from infected animals. However, it is essential to cook meat properly.”

also see http://www.theworld.org/ a more trustworthy source of NPR – PRI news

and to have a photo that may alarm anyone see http://www.theworld.org/node/25966 too . Other links are available there.

Then you Might want to see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8020125.stm for some good graphics that explain what’s occurring.

MY SUGGESTIONS ARE EVEN BETTER:


#1 Sleep lots, as much as you can. Make the time. Rest when sleep is not happening. The body naturally heals when the body is not stressed, tense, tight & constricted, when blood can flow and muscles & organs relaxed. Dream. Read. Rest. More than usual as a preventative.

#2 Water. Drink lots of plain clean water, nothing fancy. Juices are good. Fluids help blood circulate and flow and cleanse inner organs and ‘parts’. Think of the ‘inner shower’ healing and washing out impurities of any kind.

#3 Vitamin C and any nutrients you may be not ingesting in the foods ordinary eaten in a rush for convenience. Try yogurt or acidophilus to replenish the ‘good’ bacteria. Any food supplements you have neglected to take, now resume and take to insure the best body nourishment you can give yourself. Splurge, at least for now.

#4 Lower stress and strain, of the mind, emotions, body and spirit too. Let Go of those common worries you carry and lay them down – temporarily – so you can take better care of this body you live within – for now. The worries are not going away but can be given a rest for now. Notice the habit of being tense and egoistic and for this moment, let stuff slide...they will surely return to their ‘normal’ state again.

#5 Accept whatever this fear and body surveillance emerges now. Accept the discomfort of any symptoms you notice and you identify as “I’ve got it ! oh......” Accept that you may not always feel as fine and neutral as you wish and are disappointed at time at being less than perfectly healthy. Accept that all this shifts & changes, on it’s own, without your worrying too.

#6 Observe how the “news” everywhere infects and inserts itself into your mind and world and beliefs. Observe how the “news” and gossip and conversations center around FEAR and worry and the latest obsession that disturbs, you and your friends. Observe how you react to what is not your or in you. And may never be in you. Ever. Observe your own fear and paranoias surge and ebb and move back into your forefront and slip/ slide again. Watch your thoughts. They can be funny and disturbing and repetitive. Watch your self.

#7 DO NOT believe all that the Prez’s proclamations in their P.R. and promotional messages. The govt is Not medically accurate nor the best source of information, ever. The Prez and the ‘administrators’ have their own agenda and reasons to be “leaders” in order to keep Control and fear and their preferred slant on the “news” in the forefront, having access and power to do so.

Notice that when the media puts the Prez and their experts opinions up first, they are not working in the public citizen’s behalf but are part of an advertising corporation that sells products and services and aligns with govt powers more than they do to you. Be skeptical and aware of how both the fear and reassurances are tingled with subtle messages that demand obedience and imply punishments. Remember that PR is just that – trying to regulate the public’s opinion.

What is most repeatedly publicly is intended to control the public and ‘calm’ the people in a certain slanted way. Notice what is not stated. Note what is expected in return. Be your own opinion-maker and less of a 'believer.'

#8 for fun and fashion, you can dramatize this situation and wear a fancy fabric or anarchist bandana across your face and watch the effect ! It may or not resist any viruses that want to penetrate that barrier, but you will surely attract attention and be able to talk easily to strangers with this disguise and pretend you are safer than those who are easily embarrassed and bare-faced.

#9 Remember that you seldom have had the ‘serious’ diseases that are globally seen on TV, net, radio and newspaper “news”...and that what happens in far off lands is not right ‘here’ in your neighborhood and unlikely to arrive either. You have not been selected for punishment, no matter what your family thought or said.

Trust that your life is one for experiences of learning.

Be Mindful of what this experience is really all about for you, as a human body person.

Remember that you have lived this long and somehow survived worse.

Create a positive healthful environment for yourself and your loved ones, now.

Enjoy the whole scene that is clearly intended to scare you and arouse you to change and improve too.

Write me and tell me what else you know or how you react to this great message.

(c) Maryjanie

Saturday, February 21, 2009

BBC explains part of what confuses us all, money down the drains

this is a partial reposting from
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7874667.stm

"Walden Bello is a university professor, senior analyst at Focus on the Global South, and president of the Freedom from Debt Coalition.

Week after week, we see the global economy contracting at a pace worse than that predicted by the gloomiest analysts.

We are now, it is clear, in no ordinary recession but are headed for a global depression that could last for many years.

The origins of the present crisis lie in the strategies adopted by economic and political elites to resolve the crises of stagflation - the coexistence of low growth with high inflation - which followed rapid growth in the post-World War II era, both in the G8 economies and in the underdeveloped economies.

Stagflation, however, was but a symptom of a deeper problem: the reconstruction of Germany and Japan and the rapid growth of industrialising economies like Brazil, Taiwan, and South Korea added tremendous new productive capacity and increased global competition, while income inequality within countries and between countries limited the growth of purchasing power and demand, thus eroding profitability.

Dilemma
This produced the dilemma of overproduction.
One "escape route" from the conundrum of overproduction, and for maintaining and raising profitability, was "financialisation".

Unsold Japanese cars in a UK showroom
Overproduction: many cars made, but no-one to sell them to
With investment in industry and agriculture yielding low profits as a result of over-capacity, large amounts of surplus funds have been circulating in or invested and reinvested in the financial sector - that is, the financial sector began turning on itself.

The result has been a divergence between a hyperactive financial economy and a stagnant real economy.

This was not accidental - the financial economy exploded precisely to make up for the stagnation owing to overproduction of the real economy.
Profits, not value

One indicator of the super-profitability of the financial sector is the fact that 40% of the total profits of US financial and nonfinancial corporations is accounted for by the financial sector although it is responsible for only 5% of US gross domestic product (and even that is likely to be an overestimate).

The problem with investing in financial sector operations is that it is tantamount to squeezing value out of already created value. It may create profit, yes, but it does not create new value - only industry, agriculture, trade, and services create new value.

Because profit is not based on value that is created, investment operations become very volatile and prices of stocks, bonds, and other forms of investment can depart very radically from their real value.

Profits then depend on taking advantage of upward price departures from the value of commodities, then selling before reality enforces a "correction", that is, a crash back to real values. The radical rise of prices of an asset far beyond real values is what is called the formation of a bubble.

Virus
We are far from over the worst of this crisis.

In the US real-estate sector, millions more mortgages are likely to go into default over the next few years.

Securities with a value of as much as $2 trillion dollars (£1.4 trillion) have already been injected, like a virus, into the global financial system.
Massive injections of taxpayers' cash have failed to kickstart lending again. Not surprisingly, with global capitalism's circulatory system seizing up, it was only a matter of time before the real economy would contract, as it has with frightening speed in the last few weeks.

Globalisation has ensured that economies that went up together in the boom would also go down together, with unparalleled speed, in the bust, the end of which is nowhere to be discerned. [snip]

Discussions at the World Social Forum in Belem focused on many aspects of the financial crisis that are not being publicly discussed at official or business level.
For instance, while strong calls for re-regulation are made, none of these proposals address the fact that the General Agreement on Trade in Services (Gats) - a treaty created under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) - actually seeks to deregulate trade in services, including financial services.

These liberalising international treaty rules deprive governments of the right to intervene.

The calls for re-regulation would require a dismantling of the whole architecture of treaties agreed over the past 10 years, mainly through the WTO

Governments' hands tied
Under Gats in the EU, governments cannot limit the size or the value of the financial services operations.

This prevents governments from intervening to ensure that a financial service company does not become "too big to fail" or have a destabilising effect on the country that hosts it.

Industrialised countries have gone further by committing themselves to more liberalisation and deregulation under a Gats annex that precludes regulation and opens the way for any new financial service, however speculative
agreements which have been working towards opening up the financial sector, and which were backed by the US and the EU.

Pigeons against backdrop of City of London
The City of London's success was based on deregulation

These were subject to concerted and secretive lobbying of negotiators by financial corporations, resulting in negotiators collaborating closely with the financial industry.

The liberalisation of financial services was included in trade treaties without any guarantee of whether the right regulation and supervision was in place.

In fact, the EU requested many countries to eliminate particular prudential rules, some of which had been put in place after the Asian crisis." [snip]

(C) maryjanie 2009