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   Here is an article that is pretty interesting. I should say it hits close to home.... for all of us, no matter what color, no matter what race, no matter what nationality, political view, sex, you name it. I am not an explicit tree hugger, and I don't think anyone has to be if they take 5 minutes to stop, and do a little reading, or news watching. Every day with natural disasters and catostrophe's, and listening to people bark about the world coming to an end. This article is about we as humanity, having destroyed the earth by the year 2050. Now, thats only 40 something years away, I may actually still be alive at that point, which is scary. The article claims that we will need two planets by the year 2050 because of having used up all earth's resources. We populate and consume so much, that the earth is becoming unstable to support life. For every year we cause the damage that we do, the earth only heals that damage every 3-5 years. I start to think about all those Sci - Fi movies where people in the future need breathing masks, the population and marriage is controlled, and several other things.

 

Read the article at: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15398149/?GT1=8618

 

   I had to add this little theory a good friend once told me. He once told me that everyone would suffocate on a hamburger, and I'm starting to think he was right. His theory went: One day everyone in the world will suffocate on a hamburger! It's plain and simple you see. We as humans eat beef, lots of it. It's our number 1 source of meat. Beef is cattle and cattle eats grass. We cut down trees and wipe out forests that produce oxygen to make room for fields for the cattle to eat, so we in turn can eat the cattle. So one day you'll be happy and content, sitting at your favorite burger joint, minding your own business, happily and unaware, and then it hits you. You bite into your favorite chunk of meat you've consumed all your life, start chewing and suffocate because you've wiped out the forests that produced the oxygen, to make the fields that feed the cattle, so we could feed ourselves.

   As I always tell people I meet, "About 95% of the technology we see in Sci-Fi shows and movies is possible". This article I am writing is just another story to back up my statement. It's about Cloaking Technology, not to be confused with Stealth Technology. Stealth technology simply confuses detection devices, to make an object appear invisible and undetectable by sensors like radar so it can't be seen. Cloaking technology takes Stealth technology further. Not only does it hide and confuse sensors, but is able to let light pass through it in such a way that the object appears translucent, or invisible. The best way to describe what I am talking about, would be the cloaking devices the aliens use in the Predator movies. In the movies, the creature uses a device that lets light bend around it in such a way that they damn near pass as invisible. However, everytime they show a really nice close up shot of the alien up close under his cloaking technology, you can still see some outlines. Such a technology has been held in the hopes and dreams of Sci-Fi writers and fans across the world for a long time....until now.

 

Read the full article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15329396/

   Another article that peaked my interest. "Court upholds woman's right for topless protest" is the big headline, and under it "Florida resident believes nudity laws are applied unfairly to women".

 

Read the full article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15241829/

 

   An appeals court has ruled that women can demonstrate topless as part of a legitimate political protest, but why not any other time? I live here in Oklahoma, a very hot southern state. Men, Boys, Males, etc.  walk the streets topless/shirtless all the time and I don't see them getting arrested. They have chests, they have nipples, so what the hell is the big deal? Do women who breastfeed get arrested for flopping out a tit in public to feed their children? The answers is "Yes!". Women can get arrested for breastfeeding in public, but men don't get arrested for going topless.

   Why should we women get arrested for going bare breasted? The following is an informative site on laws reguarding brestfeeding for women: http://www.ncsl.org/programs/health/breast50.htm . None of us were born wearing bra's you know. I realize that some women wouldn't go bare breasted, just like some men choose not to take their shirts off. Though if a man does it, he can, without fear, or without the reprecusions of being arrested for it. We on the other hand, get fined, thrown in jail, and are brought up on different charges. I for one find it discriminating and extremly sexist. Even my roommate agrees and belives that it's our choice. "The government shouldn't be able to tell anyone who should or shouldn't be able to wear clothes", she says. Also she states, "We have big boobs, we probably wouldn't go topless all the time, but it should still be our right to choose wether or not we wan't to".

   My sarcastic comments are: Perhaps we should make it against the law for any man to urinate while sitting down...EVER! and If were not going to have it legal for us women to go topless in public, men should start being fined or arrested as well. I for one support the right for us women to be topless. Not that I would do it all the time, but it should be an equal right.

   While reading headlines as usual, this article stood out to me. I read it and I found it funny, and at the same time extremly serious.

 

Read the article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15287560/

 

   Now to rant on it all. From what I read, the article never says the man hit his wife, it just says that he didn't want to be involved for her planned festivities. It says he went out on Christmas eve, got drunk, and the next morning got into a confrontation with his wife and two young children. It says he 'tried' to prevent his wife from calling for help. Though no actual violence is reported in this article.

   The man was charged with: family violence battery and obstructing and hindering a person making an emergency telephone call. In addition a court ordered dinner, he was also sentenced to serve 12 months, although the time is suspended while he continues an anger management course, and also has to pay a $1,000 fine. In addition, attorneys said dinner at a top restaurant with his wife and two children could set him back more than $300, which he has to submit a reciept from the dinner to the court no later then Jan. 5th. The 33-year-old man has no prior criminal record.

   I don't know about anyone else, but I have a couple of questions. Question #1: What the hell gives the court the right to do this? Can anyone say invasion of personal life? I think the courts have way too much power when it comes to invading peoples personal lives, and ordering them to do things like explained in the article. I know the man is going along with the sentence willfully, but do you think if the role's were reversed it would be different? What if it was turned around, and the fight was because the wife didn't wanna give her husband sex? Would the court order her to give it up to her husband against her will or face jail time, fines, and penalties?

   Question #2: Now that he has been "ORDERED" to do these things, will he resent his wife and children because he is being forced to do them? I'm sitting here thinking about being in his situation as best I can, and I answer yes to the question myself. If the courts did to me what they did to him, I would be thinking hard about a divource. Yes, the court will get their reciept, but if I were him, I'd hire two escorts from an escort service to go to the dinner as well. It doesn't state he has to be nice about it, just that he has to do it. I would also file for divource, and file it at the time I had to take the reciept from the dinner in.

   I think there is also a bigger picture here. Something to think about. Not everyone gets along, What do you do or can you do if you can't get along with someone? You can only move away so much, or away so far. People just ' CAN'T ' be forced or made to get along. What right does anyone have, forcing two people who don'g get along to try? In this case, it's the court's and the court judge. The jusge in his all high and mightyness, may feel he's done the right thing, and be proud of his ingenious ruling. Did he concider that by forcing this man to do all of the things mentioned, that he may have very well just destroyed 4 lives? If the man starts to resent his wife, and is angry at all of this, he my leave his wife. Thus, the man's life, the wife's life, and their two childrens lives, could very well be ruined. I'm sure the judge will sit back and say, "Well, if that's what happens, it wasn't my doing". However, I dissagree.

   First off, let me say that I had a hard time deciding on what catagory to put this article in. It fits into Conspiracy Theories, Random Rant's, and Random Thought's. I have been telling people for a long time, nay, a very long time, about how we have very little privacy and it dwindles more and more every day. Everyone has always looked at me and said, "Your just paranoid". Perhaps I am, maybe they are right. I know after reading this article, even I learned some new things about how privacy is invaded. Things I had never thought about before. So without any further procrastination, here is the article.

 

Read full article at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15221095/

 

   When I sit here and think about everything I've read in the article, I start to belive it more and more. We have so little privacy, and it dwindles more and more every day. Some people, like the article states will say, "Well, I have nothing to hide". They truely belive this. What happens when their private lives get invaded? How would they like to find out one day that there is a website of them, telling all their most intimate details. Like full name, nick names, social security number, drivers licence number, address, their likes, their dislikes, how many rooms in their houses, everything they own in their house, Spouses information, Kids information. Alot of people will belive there are good aspects for everything I've mentioned.

   What happens when it goes further? Your sexual orientation, your favorite sexual positions, what gets you off, if you buy adult sex toys, adult magazines, even stating your penis size and describes if it hangs to the right and left, or is curved or straight. If your still reading this you may say, "Anna, I think your going too far". Am I? This is what we are talking about, 'Information Gathering'. When has it gone too far? The article mentions that some collage fraternity members may have problems getting a job because of parties they post pictures of on the internet sites like MySpace.com.

   Here's a scenario, your single and go out for a night on the town, you see this hottie at the bar and approach him/her in hopes for a little romance. You tell him/her your name and they pull out their internet capable phone. In less then a minute, they know every aspect of your life. If you graduated school, how you did, what your grades were like, from kindgergarden on up. They know if your employed, They know how much money you make, they find out every aspect of your 'supposed to be private love life'. If you've ever cheated, how many times, if you've had same sex relations ever. Again, your probably thinking or saying, "Anna, your crazy, you really take this too far". As before I ask, "Do I?"

   If you think camera's on every street corner is science fiction, you should really pay attention to that article, or what is going on in the world. As the article says, they hope to have 500 or more of those camera's on the street corners by a certain date. I have a friend in Evansville, I.N. who told me that she ( a mother of 3 now) had to sign a waiver when she went to enroll her kids in school. The waiver was so that she gives permission for her children to be recorded on video. Apparently they now have camera's in all the classrooms. She said she was going to refuse to sign the waiver. Wether she did or not, I don't know, but what are the reprocussions of not signing it? If her kids are in school, they're still going to be filmed, with all the other kids, as you can not block out specific people while recording. If she doesn't agree, are her children refused education? It's against the law not to have your kids in school unless they're home schooled which you have to get approval for by the courts, and it's something hard to obtain permission to do.

   I am not without fault, I worked in a Casino for 5 years, never giving thought to the camera's overhead, going about my daily routines at work. I never paid attention to them, we all know they're there, we didn't care because 'we had nothing to hide'. We all know we are being watched at some point or another. However, when I moved out of state to here, and worked for a casino as a Surveillance Operator, I became extremely aware of all the camera's, and what can be seen. We had camera's that are positioned all over the place, We could see every inch of the place except for into the bathrooms. It's against the law to have video in the bathrooms. There is no law against having audio recording devices though. Speaker boxes which operators can listen to, to hear everything being said in bathrooms.

   Do you know our camera's sit a great deal of distance in the air, you need one of the scissor trucks to get up to alot of them, but with those camera's we could read the fine print on a driver's license if you were to hold it in your hands. Outside we had special camera's that are all in full color during daylight hours, but at night they switch to infra red/day night vision. We used to bust people and dispatch security officers out to peoples vehicles who were engaged in sexual activities, or drinking on the property in unauthorized areas. By now you can figure, I've seen alot of things! and you would be surprised at things I've seen. Still not paranoid yet? The last bit of technology we were talking about installing in the casino I worked at, was camera's and a facial recognician system. In other words, anytime and everytime, someone walks in and out or around the property, it will check the person for facial features and start comparing their face to a database of people ejected from the casino previously, or to police wanted informations, and alert and notify us.

   We could program these things to set accesses to areas like, only drop team members are allowed in the drop room, it records and stores their features, anytime someone goes into that room who doesn't have the right access, it will sound an alarm and alert us. Think of this technology on a grand scale. You go to a convience store, forget to pay for gas one day, they have you on film. You go on having not realized that you forgot to pay. The next thing you know, your standing at your atm, or shopping at a grocery store, and cops tackle you. They knew exactly where you were because the stores facial recognician system recognized you and alerted them. Just something to think about. I could really go on forever about this topic, and many aspects of it, like digital ID's, Microchips embedded under the skin. Why not in humans? We already have places that do it for our pets! If everyone had this type of chip in them, a court would never have to ask for an alibi, because they will already know where you were. If they improved the chip so that it not only tells where you are, but your bodies vital statistics, like increased heart rate, they may even be able to tell when you are sleeping, or having sex. Not only when you were engaged in the act, but could make the chip locate others chips close to you, and give them a read out of who's chip is closest to you, and they could say, well we know who you were having sex with, or who was near you in the same room or building.

    In closing I just want to say, Wake up people. If you think everything I have described is not real, think again! Take a little time to do some research and find out for yourself. You will be unnerved at what you discover. Privacy is a very fast fading freedom. Do something about it now, before it't too late. For once it's gone, there is no undoing what has already been done.