Thursday, March 30, 2017

How to Protect Your Online Privacy Now That Congress Sold You Out

Here  So the GOP-led Congress sold us out so our privacy (web use history, etc.) can be bought by third-party companies. This article has some tips to protect some of your privacy.
So sad that profit and greed comes up again trumping personal rights, privacy, and respect.
The GOP is looking more and more like s callow, shallow snake-oil salesman. With no discernible moral center other than making a buck, at whatever cost.  Just more and more. Damn the environment, damn individual privacy, damn consumer protections. It is shameful governance from we who had been and still may be the leading force (America) in democracy. And another shameful blow to modern civilization's evolving ethos of individual rights and responsive, benevolent self-governance.

This is not appreciated nor right GOP. We are noticing and history is recording the performance.
Soon with smarter leaders who are truly working for people and a more perfect union, this Trumpian chapter -- even if very short -- will be seen as among the ugliest retrograde lurches backward in the history of society's evolution.
And each member of the GOP Congress and administration will have their names and their family's diminished reputations permanently tied to this dark time.

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Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012

Sunset, Venice 12/20/2012
I've been thinking some about the Winter Solstice, the Mayan end of the 30,000-year-cycle on 12/21/12.

What if in fact the world did end? Even though this probably will not happen, to live consciously it is honest for us to take a bit of an inventory.

Am I happy with how I've lived my life? (Yesterday, I thought mostly yes, with some areas for improvement, as below.) Are there changes I would make?
Would I have tried to forgive those that were hostile or disappointing to me?
Would I spend more time with those I loved the most, telling them that, feeling that more?
Would I be happier, grateful for what I have, what I've experienced, the joy, the beauty in this world?

Maybe the answer is yes to all of the above.
So this time can serve as a point of rebirth for all of us. If we think about it.

Because somewhere along the line I realized I think maybe mankind deserves it. !
The way we are killing each other, killing the planet.
How selfish we are, and snotty to those around us. Petty, competitive. Why is this? Do we have to behave this way? (I say no, it greatly detracts and misdirects energy from the full-time celebration in which we could engage, the great multi-cultural, multi-rhythmic dance we can sustain here.)

Maybe God or the Great Universe is fed up, and will pull the rug out from under us.
Don't think I can say we could blame Him/Her/It.

But it probably won't happen. (Probably not! This time.)

Still we are finite on this ride.

It is a time to think, am I happy with how I've lived my life?
Hopefully most of us can say yes.

For the part of us that have a little worry, a little sadness....
This is the time to be present.
This is the time to be the person you want to be, that can die at peace, that can hope to every day be able to look yourself and the Universe in the eye and say, how beautiful, smiling, and thank you. Let's do that.

Antidotes to Violence, a.k.a., Take Charge of Where Your Head's At - here

Tell Congress to Strengthen Gun Control Laws NOW - here

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The 'Busy' Trap - NYTimes.com
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