Hawaii's legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit.
Its House of Representatives has scheduled a hearing this morning on a new bill (PDF) requiring the creation of virtual dossiers on state residents. The measure, H.B. 2288, says "Internet destination history information" and "subscriber's information" such as name and address must be saved for two years.
H.B. 2288, which was introduced Friday, says the dossiers must include a list of Internet Protocol addresses and domain names visited. Democratic Rep. John Mizuno of Oahu is the lead sponsor; Mizuno also introduced H.B. 2287, a computer crime bill, at the same time last week. Ok...besides the fact that this adds unnecessary cost, overhead and legal risk to ISP businesses, what is the fucking point? I mean seriously? Does the government now want to keep track of every book you look through at the library or bookstore? Every bottle of shampoo you look at before buying at Wal-Mart? Makes as much goddamn sense. This is beyond disgusting and stupid. It is as pure Big Brother as you can get and will lead to a thought police if enacted.
I am still shocked that someone in this Republic, with a history of freedom can propose such a vile and tyrannical bill and not be run out of the state house on a rail.
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01/27/2012 13:10 Comments ||
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Yes, DV, and can you imagine the size of the database they're going to create? I doubt seriously if they have the capacity or the resources to manage it.
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As said times before, Govt. entities are already watching, reading, storing, + even altering one's private emails widout their knowledge consent - THE BEST PUBLIC NOTICE ONE GETS IS THAT THE AREA IS [broadly] UNDER [24-hour]SECURITY WATCH WHICH DOES NOT SPECIFICALLY STATE WHAT THEY ARE DOING, aka the proverbial "We cannot confirm or deny ... ...".
Powers that are not reserved for the Fed is reserved for the State, even though the State's SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHH ....CCCCCCCCCCC pre-existing nonconsenual surveillance + intervention may be wholly or partly Fed-funded.
THE PRO-US-VS-ANTI-US OWG-NWO THAT NO AMERICAN = AMERIKAN HAS YET VOTED FOR, NOR BEEN ASKED TO, NOR WILL BE IFF POLITICOS HAVE THEIR WAY.
After all, COMMUNISM = merely LIMITED "FASCISM"?
Lest we fergit, OLD SAYING > IIRC WINSTON CHURCHIL? > "THE PRICE OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE" [ + by extension Diligence, Perserverance, Endurance, etc.].
A senior Democratic congressman likened Republican lawmakers to terrorists on Thursday for their insistence on tying approval of construction of a new oil pipeline to must-pass legislation.
California Rep. Henry Waxman, the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the coauthor of the 2009 cap-and-trade climate change bill, decried efforts by the GOP to force the Obama administration into approving a permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline.
"They want to use legislation as a way to act like terrorists. They hold things as hostage," Waxman said. "We almost couldn't fund the government because Republicans wanted to hold that idea hostage, we almost couldn't pay our debts because the Republicans wanted to hold that legislation hostage to their extreme agenda, and I wouldn't be surprised if they scuttled this conference by trying to hold us hostage."
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Waxman was referring specifically to rumblings from Republicans that they might attach the provision to legislation extending a payroll tax cut through the end of 2012. Waxman is one of the 20 bipartisan negotiators who are working to reach an agreement on that extension by Feb. 29, when the current extension is set to expire. What a whiny bitch. As usual, it's a case of progressive projecting...
I was dumbstruck. The prez that cancels puts the Keystone pipeline on hold and who slow rolled offshore drilling permits is now to be seen as having a new found love of oil.
Orwellian Doublethink.
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More empty words. Obama believes that speeches can substitute for action.
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g(r)omgoru, O's 2012 reelection campaign started the day after his inauguration.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia ||
01/27/2012 7:50 Comments ||
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More empty words from our Talker-in-Chief. When he stops talking and actually does something, I might take notice. Three years+ of drivel and zero leadership. Time to vote him and a lot of other deadwood out out of office and try to get someone who will do something to address the problems we have.
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Bait and switch kinda a guy. I recall hearing some time ago that the White House and Congress buildings are heated with coal. Perhaps other monster buildings are as well. He is just doing another con job.
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The President did not say he would issue permits. He said that he would open specific area for exploration.
I suspect that because of the extreme danger involved coupled with the inadequacy of the proposals the EPA will be mighty scarce regarding the issuance of permits
Posted by: kelly ||
01/27/2012 11:57 Comments ||
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I thought he had to be buried for 100 million or more years before he became some fossil fuel.
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The national petroleum reserve is a 23 million-acre oil reserve in the northwest corner of Alaska.
Prior to Obama's election there were an estimated 9 billion barrels of recoverable oil in the reserve.
In 2011, the U.S. Geological Survey dramatically reduced its assessment of oil and gas potential in the 23 million-acre reserve, from 9 billion to only 350 million to 500 million barrels.
Where did eight and a half billion barrels of oil go? The answer is no where.
It's still there.
After paying millions of dollars to obtain oil leases in the NPR, the oil companys have now been denied actual access to their leases.
Given the designation as an oil and gas reserve and not a specially protected wilderness area or other landmark extracting energy from the region should be straightforward. The Alpine oil field is adjacent to the NPR, and oil lines and production facilities exist within a few miles to the east of the NPR.
Although 1.6 million acres spanning 191 tracts were leased in the reserve, no drilling has gone on there.
During the past 18 months the oil companys have basicly said FU and actually gave 124 of their leases back to the government.
The latest lease sale was held on Dec. 7, 2011. 283 tracts on approximately 3,060,176 acres in this sale were offered. Only 17 tracts were sold. Those were probably only bought because of prior legal commitments.
Now Obama is once again makeing grand promises to open up millions of acres to oil and gas exploration.
But like Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski said, "we don't have a leasing problem, we have a permitting problem. It's like this administration will lease you an apartment, but wont ever give you the keys".
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gorb, this is worth repeating:
Hey, all this empty talk bought him the presidency once. Americans are just stupid enough that I have to worry about them buying it again.
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Hawaii's legislature is weighing an unprecedented proposal to curb the privacy of Aloha State residents: requiring Internet providers to keep track of every Web site their customers visit. 
A senior Democratic congressman likened Republican lawmakers to terrorists on Thursday for their insistence on tying approval of construction of a new oil pipeline to must-pass legislation.
