Instagram exposes your privacy

 From the desk of Sean Kelly
An Instagram exposes your privacy when the police get involved.

It seems that privacy, as we knew it, has changed. Judge says police can create fake Instagram accounts to see photos.

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Many would argue that cops cross the line when theyimpersonate people on social networks to catch suspects, but that doesn't mean that fake accounts are always off the table. In a recent opinion, New Jersey district judge William Martini contends that police don't need search warrants to create bogus Instagram accounts for the sake of seeing a suspect's photos. As Martini explains, it's 'consensual sharing' -- the perpetrator is both making these pictures public and willingly providing access to others. That's bad news for Daniel Gatson, an alleged burglar who insisted that law enforcement needed probable cause (that is, reasonable belief that there's evidence of a crime) to peek at an Instagram feed laden with shots of cash and jewelery.  Read More...

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Just kind of keep in mind that what you see so can prying eyes. An instagram ssearch is done everyday by thousands of surfers.  A Judge says police can create fake Instagram accounts to see photos. Santa checks his list twice. Well now the law can use instagram hashtags to find you.

PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Treatment For Veterans

PTSD, Post Traumatic stress disorder, is not new to the vets. PTSD has been called a lot of things in the past. Every war the United States was involved in had it's own term.

• Shell Shock
• Combat Fatigue
• Combat Disorder
• Battle Fatigue
• Combat neurosis

The list could go on but for now this should give you a fair idea of what a veteran is up against. There are all sorts of theories on how to recognize PTSD Symptoms and how it should be treated. However, the National Center for PTSD requires a lot of money that seems to be short of thanks to some members of the current GOP Congress.

American soldiers and veterans diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder are often given a duffle bag of drugs, from antidepressants like Zoloft and Paxil to any number of highly addictive opioids. Doctors who work with these soldiers in Veterans Affairs clinics are encouraged to prescribe such medications, and any thought of prescribing alternative medicine that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration is generally forbidden.

But some doctors break the chain. Sue Sisley is a psychiatrist who's worked with veterans for 20 years. While she has never smoked marijuana herself, she's heard how it can work from some of her patients who use it on their own to treat PTSD. "Nobody is claiming it's a cure, but they report they have been successfully managing their symptoms," she says. Sisley was set to begin studying the benefits of using medical marijuana to treat symptoms of PTSD at the University of Arizona – until she was fired in July, which she suspects happened for political reasons.

Sisley has now been nominated for a $2 million grant by Colorado's Medical Marijuana Scientific Advisory Council to fund her triple-blind study into how marijuana can help treat PTSD. (The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's health board will approve or deny the grant on December 17th.) Sisley hopes to treat half of the 76 veterans participating in the study in Arizona, as well as cooperating with doctors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for the other half. "Johns Hopkins has a long history of doing high quality marijuana research," she says. Even so, the university has thus far only looked at possible harms of marijuana, because that's the only thing the government wanted to hear about.
One obstacle the study still faces is getting government-approved research marijuana.

According to Sisley, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), which provides research marijuana, won't have enough until April or May 2015. They've known about the study since 2011, and it definitely doesn't take that long to grow weed, so the veterans she knows worry that the government is stalling.
...via PTSD and Pot: The Fight to Get Veterans Some Weed - RollingStone.com

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PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is taking it's toll on vets and needs to be dealt with ASAP. Putting off the necessary help just because congress is tightening up the purse strings is not acceptable..

Harsh CIA Torture Tactics Do Not Work

The harsh torture tactics that the CIA  used to try and get information from the 911 attack prisoners at GITMO have proven time and time again to not work. The information they gathered was/is actually unreliable at best.

The pressure and abject hatred for the detainees is understandable. In their eyes (the CIA) the prisoners were responsible for thousands of innocent people dying. That doesn't excuse their actions, but it is understandable.

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WASHINGTON — In a damning indictment of CIA practices, Senate investigators on Tuesday accused the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond America's legal boundaries and then deceiving the ... on Zubaydah and two other detainees, the report emphasizes, was far different from anything the U.S. military does in training and more brutal than the careful procedures laid out in Justice Department memos authorizing the tactic.

In a damning indictment of CIA practices, Senate investigators on Tuesday accused the spy agency of inflicting pain and suffering on al-Qaida prisoners far beyond America’s legal boundaries and then deceiving the nation with narratives of life-saving interrogations unsubstantiated by its own records.

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a mountain of evidence from CIA files suggesting the treatment of detainees in secret prisons a decade ago was worse than the government described to Congress or the public. It was the first official public accounting after years of debate about the CIA’s brutal handling of prisoners.

At the White House, President Barack Obama declared the practices, used on detainees after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to be “contrary to our values.” He pledged, “I will continue to use my authority as president to make sure we never resort to those methods again.”

The report doesn’t call the tactics torture. But committee chairman Dianne Feinstein, commanding the Senate floor for an extended address, declared that “under any common meaning of the term, CIA detainees were tortured.”

Besides the now-well-known practice of waterboarding, tactics included weeks of sleep deprivation, slapping and slamming of detainees against walls, confining them to small boxes, keeping them isolated for prolonged periods and threatening them with death.

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Harsh CIA Torture Tactics Do Not Work now nor will they work in the future.I think that the CIA is probably redirecting their mind set toward the backwards thought patterns of al-Qaida and now ISIS.

Congressional Deal Aimed at Avoiding Government Shutdown. Some Deal.

From the desk of Sean Kelly

It doesn't take a real genius to see that the GOP is sleeping with big money. The republican congress appears to have a deal in the works that favor money and to hell with the common person.

This was quite obvious before the Mid-Term elections but evidently it didn't sink in to the voters.

Before the mid-terms the GOP was causing all sorts of havoc; Shame On Them. Now, the GOP has control of both houses; Shame on us!

Businessweek

Congressional Deal Aimed at Avoiding Shutdown Includes Victory for Big Banks Businessweek Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, said earlier today that if the House included the District of Columbia marijuana provision in the bill, “it's going to be hard to take it out over here. But I oppose it.” Photographer: Andrew Harrer/

Congressional Deal Aimed at Avoiding Government Shutdown. Okay. But at what price? I do hope that the people wake up in 2016 and see what is happening in our country.

Gruber's 'Glib' Obamacare Remarks

Gruber admitted to his screw-up.That's something you don't see all that often in this day and time of politics. He's not claiming to be a politician but an expert in his field and didn't actually realize the boner he made with his off the cuff statements about the "Affordable Care Act" , AKA "Obama Care".

Jonathan Gruber Apologizes. Jonathan Gruber: I’m Sorry for My ‘Insulting’ Obamacare Remarks

Obamacare consultant Jonathan Gruber is at the mike Tuesday, testifying in front of the House Oversight Committee, answering for a series of what he calls "glib, thoughtless and sometimes downright insulting comments" he made concerning the health-care law.
The most recent and well-publicized of these are when Gruber was shown on tape saying the Affordable Care Act gamed the system in order to obtain passage and relied on the "stupidity of the American voter" and a "lack of transparency" to earn approval.

The comments have recast (somewhat) the debate over Obamacare, as Republicans continue to try and undercut and/or get rid of the law, five years after its passage.
Gruber's opening statement to the committee includes plenty of apologizing and explaining.

Here it is, word for word, along with what he really meant:Read The Rest Of The Soory about "Gruber's 'Glib' Obamacare Remarks Will Keep Haunting Democrats"

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Mary Landrieu trys Again

From The Desk Of : Sean Kelly
Mary Landrieu seems to have a prolem with the Democratic party which she claims is how she is registered. That happens sometimes. Here in Michigan we had a democratic congressman switch over to the GOP in midstream; not really smart but it does happen.
I do not know if her plans include switching over to the GOP but she makes all the sounds of a Republican. We'll have to wait and see I guess.

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Mary Landrieu does have some off beat thoughts on some things; like the XL pipeline for instance.

MICHAEL BROWN, THUG of Ferguson MO.

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A Must Watch Video: MICHAEL BROWN, THUG of Ferguson MO. Maybe? Probably Not!

The video on the left below is about one person's view on the shooting of Michael Brown. It covers the incident in a fairly unbiased way that is not in step with the mass media's coverage.

The mass media of our country is airing videos with definitely biased commentary on the bigoted cop that likes to shoot innocent black kids. The media is way off center on that sort of  of a mind set.

The networks videos are all heavily biased against the shooter. How dare that cop shoot such an innocent person only because he is black.

I don't think the mass media actually think that way but they are looking for fuel to throw on an already dangerous situation to keep their network up front.

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What's never seen in the main stream media are deadly shootings of white people shot by cops of color; as pointed out in the video on the right.

This sort of made me stop and take a second look at what seems to happen on a regular basis. I've seen hatred pushed in many ways over the years but this one escaped me; until now.

I don't believe that the cop is/was a bigot. It appears more like inexperience and plain panic.

The killing is really inexcusable. However, what is even worse is the media fueling this situation so they can have a constant source of copy to broadcast.