At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano discusses three efforts underway to ensure the security of the nation’s cyberinfrastructure. This includes the development of National Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan, which will facilitate a coordinated response to cyberthreats from the federal government, local city and state governments, as well as the private sector.
NSA’s role is a careful balance because of the political battles that ensued over the agency’s role in domestic surveillance in the George W. Bush administration. Declassifying details of the NSA’s role, in a program initially developed during the Bush administration and continued in the Obama administration, will likely ignite new debates over privacy.
The White House’s new cyber-security chief, Howard Schmidt, announced the move to declassify the program in a speech at the RSA conference in San Francisco–his first major public address since assuming the post in January. He said addressing potential privacy concerns was one of the ten initial steps he planned to take. “We’re really paying attention, and we get it,” he said.
Hmmm…an over-reaching government trying to control the auto industry, financial and insurance industries, healthcare, education, the environment, and damn near anyone else, what in the world could POSSIBLY go wrong?
Wow… just wow. Glenn introduced us to a fabulous new ’social’ group today. They are all members of The Brecht Forum. Who are they you ask? The Brecht Forum website offers several neat-o commie options, touting the New York Marxist School. Amazing. Simply. Amazing. On their “About Us” page? Here’s the ‘fun’ stuff:
The BRECHT FORUM is a place for people who are working for social justice, equality and a new culture that puts human needs first. Through its programs and events, the Brecht Forum brings people together across social and cultural boundaries and artistic and academic disciplines to promote critical analysis, creative thinking, collaborative projects and networking in an independent community-level environment.
Jed Brandt, apparently a member of this communist group, goes on to tell us how he really feels about Capitalism and the United States of America.
Oh yeah… they’re going to TAKE our insurance companies, TAKE all the farms, and they will also SHUT DOWN the military apparatus of this country! (That last one will be real fun to watch. EPIC. FAIL.)
When people attempt to resolve the problems that plague everyday life and even threaten survival on this planet, from poverty, disease, discrimination and alienation to war, economic crisis and environmental devastation, they come face to face with difficult questions: Can society be changed significantly for the better? What kind of changes would be needed? and, Who could bring about such changes?
Questions like these are what motivated Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels to develop a method for studying the dynamics of change in societies.
In 1975, a group of civil rights, community, labor, and student activists came together to found the Brecht Forum’s New York Marxist School. They saw the study of marxism as central, not as a dogma but as a living current of thought and as a vital tool for understanding capitalist society. They believed that the study of our reality, an informed public, clear-headed reflection on our actions, and an open, and inclusive space for the exchange of experience and discussion and debate of ideas are all essential to the kind of movement we need if we want to create a better world..
Their collective vision combined with their commitment to the struggle for social transformation led them to develop a vital, non-sectarian institution that could offer serious study and discussion of social and political issues in a non-academic, community-level setting.
And according to their YouTube Channel:
The BRECHT FORUM is a place for people who are working for social justice, equality and a new culture that puts human needs first. Through its programs and events, the Brecht Forum brings people together across social and cultural boundaries and artistic and academic disciplines to promote critical analysis, creative thinking, collaborative projects and networking in an independent community-level environment.
Sounds like a SUPER fun group of folks to hang around with, doesn’t it? I’m going to have to do some more digging into this Jed Brandt character. Stay tuned, folks.
Rep. Schakowsky’s husband, Robert Creamer, used to be the leader of Citizen Action/Illinois. He also founded its predecessor, Illinois Public Action, in which Ms. Schakowsky served as Program Director. He runs a political consulting firm, the Strategic Consulting Group, which lists ACORN and the SEIU among its clients and which made $541,000 working for disgraced former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich.
Creamer resigned from Citizen Action/Illinois after the FBI began investigating him for bank fraud and tax evasion at Illinois Public Action. He was convicted in 2006 and sentenced to five months in federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, plus eleven months of house arrest.
While in prison—or “forced sabbatical,” he called it—Creamer wrote a lengthy political manual, Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win (Seven Locks Press, 2007).
The book was endorsed by leading Democrats and their allies, including SEIU boss Andy Stern—the most frequent visitor thus far to the Obama White House—and chief Obama strategist David Axelrod, who noted that Creamer’s tome “provides a blueprint for future victories.”
Are you getting all this folks? We’re on the road to ruin, and Barack and crew are just stepping on the gas pedal. What is it going to take for Americans to wake up and stop this madness? Thank God for Glenn & Andrew for their hard work exposing this administration’s fraud and corruption. Please go read the whole piece here.
Today Rick Folbaum, sitting in for Shepard Smith on Studio B, had Judge Andrew Napolitano on to discuss the constitutionality of the Obama administration’s appoinment of the 30+ czars to date. This was in light of former Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, who resigned at 12:01 AM on Sunday this past Labor Day weekend.
The more the administration tries to explain things, the more questions are brought to bear: Are the Czars vetted? Does the FBI do background checks? How much money do they make? What kind of power do they have in decision-making in the Obama Administration? Who funds them? Who appoints them? What is their experience, and who vouches for their character? How much experience, and better yet, what KIND of experience do they bring to the job? What Cabinet-level positions do they supercede in making decision for the Executive Branch?
So, so many questions, yet so few answers. And Van Jones is only the beginning. It’s not Van Jones; it’s the entire administration’s unflinching appointment of unaccountable people to positions of power within the White House about which we, as a representative Republic, REQUIRE answers!
Who will be the first to ask? And will we get answers? Without amateur citizen journalism (read “Google searches”), we might not have known anything about Van Jones’ sorry, anti-American, communist, corrupt past?
Let “bathtub boy” dispatch his minions to dig up dirt on Stu & Beck all they want – but honestly… how much “dirt” can 4 people dig up?
I, for one, am going to continue MY search into ALL of the non-elected czars appointed by this president. And don’t think for one minute that I am alone – I am not. The White House cannot scrub the web fast enough to prevent the unraveling of their anti-capitalist, social-justice agenda.
As I told a person recently who saw my anti-Obama bumper stickers and said “you’re playing with fire with that” implying my car might be damaged, I just looked at him and said “I love my country more than my car.” So if they want to come after me for displaying anti-Obama bumper stickers, or Googling Obama’s questionable appointments, I just have one response….bring it on!
Tonight on Beck’s show, he revealed more unearthed and uncovered video and audio of the exploits, beliefs and agenda of Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones. This is just incredible, and how the White House can allow this to happen is unbelievable.
Seriously, how can this be allowed to continue? Is the FBI this inept, or did Obama waive Jones through? Either way, the FBI better come out and distance themselves from the administration on this garbage. Especially considering that they are the point-men on “high-value detainee interrogations” now. That is some SCARY shi* if this is how they vet Executive Branch personnel!!
Michelle Malkin weighs in with her intel, and provides more background into Van Jones’ Oakland history.
You tell me, people. Do you want a President who surrounds himself with radical people like this?
Today, Glenn had artist Pat Courrielche on to discuss the recent NEA conference call with the White House, calling on all artists to use their media to promote all of Obama’s agenda items. Pat recorded the phone conference because he felt uncomfortable with what they were asking. I’m just going to let you watch the segment, and will display below Pat’s write-up about this whole affair below from this article:
“What does it mean when a government official evades the truth?
On August 25th, I published an article discussing a conference call hosted by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United We Serve that invited a group of art community luminaries “to help lay a new foundation for growth, focusing on core areas of the recovery agenda – health care, energy and environment, safety and security, education, community renewal.â€
In the article I argued that it was not the role of the National Endowment for the Arts to use the arts to address specific issues, especially those of “health care†and “energy and environment†that are being vehemently debated nationally. I also clearly indicated that I was invited by the NEA and questioned their involvement in a meeting of this nature.
Two days later an article was published in the Washington Times that referenced my account of the conference call. Kerry Picket reported in the article that she “asked the NEA for a copy of the invitation to the conference call, but Communications Director for the NEA Yosi Sergant told us that they were not the ones who sent out the invitations for the conference call.†Picket continues, “Mr. Sergant directed us to the Corporation for National and Community Service as the body that sent out the invitations.â€
Well, someone is playing loose with the facts. And let me say clearly here and now, it is not I. As can be clearly seen here, the invitation not only came from the National Endowment for the Arts, but from Sergant himself.”
This should truly frighten all of us. I URGE you all to go read Pat’s article here and check out his own invitation to the call, and what artwork has been produced as a result of this co-mingling of interests. Folks, the WHITE HOUSE itself was IN on the conference call! And Sargent says to be patient while they learn how to legally post government site on Facebook, and how to communicate on Twitter legally? Are they kidding us? What is happening????
A good friend passed along this video to me today, and it couldn’t have come on a better day. Enjoy!
This video perfectly embodies the sentiment of those who oppose big government and unsustainable spending.
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Well, somebody’s gotta pick up ACORN’s slack, dont’ they?
Yesterday on Beck, Glenn revealed even more lies the president and top Dems are churning out about alleged “victims” of our “broken” healthcare system. They keep trotting out these people at press events and other occasions to use and abuse these people to get this healthcare [...]
…and hilarity ensues.
I don’t agree with Stewart’s political views, but when he’s funny, he’s really funny. Check out this latest video of his recent discovery of Chatroulette.
I didn’t know Brian Williams had that good a sense of humor! I needed this laugh today.
From the ZDNet blog today:
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano discusses three efforts underway to ensure the security of the nation’s cyberinfrastructure. This includes the development of National Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan, which will facilitate a coordinated response to cyberthreats from the federal government, local city [...]
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