regarding the Obama Admin article from "AddictingInfo":

Addicting Info is run by Matthew Desmond, who also administers the FB site Being Liberal. He's an active OFA operative, and Addicting Info is one of his channels.

I've been banned from his site for noting the times that he's mentioned some sort of awful facet of Republican politicians and providing links to cases where Obama has been just as bad. He tried to argue at first with a bunch of bumper sticker slogans straight off of the Obamabot Bingo card, started calling me a Republican, and then banned me. Same thing has happened to many of my Truth Trolling friends.

http://www.tntmagazine.com/news/weird/top-us-scrabble-player-caught-hidi...

Jill Stein's campaign is hiring. Wisconsites have a definite advantage, but it seems like work is available country wide. Generally about $2k per month.

http://www.jillstein.org/hiring

Paul Watson may well already be in Ecuador evading the attempt of the Japanese to get him into Costa Rica for easy extradition.

Sea Shepherd has long-standing partnerships with the Correa government in the Galapagos, having provided everything from dogs to enforcement vessels to the cash-strapped parks system there.

Now, here's my question - can the Brits really search vehicles with Diplomatic Plates headed to an Ecuadorian registered air-craft?

I'd love to see Assange doing his show from Ecuador, and I have no doubt Watson would be happy to be a guest. The pair of them deserve a huge chunk of the credit for stopping the Obama plan to re-legalize commercial whaling.

When I'm expecting a news link. "Julian Assange is granted asylum!" leads to a blockage where I need to join a group to see the story.

According to the Aspen Institute:

American expectations of how their government secures the United States have evolved substantially, especially during the post-9/11 decade.

In short, the propaganda succeeded and now "the American people" are clamoring to be irradiated and virtually stripped every time they board on an airplane.

DHS’s mandate should allow for collection, dissemination, and analytic work that is focused on more specific homeward-focused areas.

I can give an example of this focus on home by the Department of Homeland Security. Following a screening of the chilling, eye-opening documentary Dirty Energy, I attended a panel of experts and victims of the BP Gulf disaster who were responsible for the film being filled with information not found in MSM. Bad as the film showed matters, I learned that things are actually worse. Margaret Curole, who became an outspoken activist for fishermen and the wider Gulf Coast community, told of the call she received from DHS asking her out to lunch and offering to pick her up at her home. Ms. Curole had had no prior contact with this department and there was absolutely no reason for them to meet with her. "We'll pick you up at home," is a clever way of conveying, "We know who you are and where you live." I'll gloss over the fear this telephone call generated in the Curole household (who exactly are the terrorists, anyway?) and self-protective actions she took before the meeting to her final report: "After a half hour or so of idle chatter over lunch, it was clear that they had no interest in discussing anything of substance." So, when the DHS talks about "protecting critical infrastructure," part of that mission is to thwart activists from revealing the actual effects of corporate infrastructure on the lives of real people.

Here is an interview with the filmmaker upon his receiving the Social Justice award for Best Documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. This is the kind of talk that leads to "homeland" security for the people rather than for the "critical infrastructure".

For me, the goal has always been to try to get people to empathize and connect with the people there, so they're not just these nameless people--they are human beings. They're your brother and your sister and your family member. I think people need to be angry. And the only way to be angry is to care. And the only way to care is to know. And so as a film-maker, it was my mission to make a film that was intimate.

People are dying in the Gulf--much of the health devastation is in its early stages. The Department of Homeland Security is interested in frightening people who are working to make this fact more widely known. For those who understand this, the arid analyses of the Aspen Institute paint a bleak future for democracy. Will we choose "security" or freedom in the home of the brave?