Peace and Love²

So, I’m going to switch the blog to feveriam.blogspot.com…

so in case you’re wondering where I am – try there first! lol

Yet another reason to hang out on TheSpartacat’s channel occasionally

Nice!

Are we all so very dysfunctional?

Maybe I was stupid for telling you goodbye
Maybe I was wrong for tryin’ to pick a fight
I know that I’ve got issues
But you’re pretty messed up too
Eitherway, I found out I’m nothing without you

Cuz we belong together now, yeah
Forever united here somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life would suck without you

Being with you is so dysfunctional
I really shouldn’t miss you
But I cant let you go
Oh yeah

I’ll be making more videos folks, just not as often… but when something really big hits – I’ll be here!

Enjoy a silly little pop song…

Playing for change have a plan

In case you missed the video link – http://vimeo.com/2539741

Enjoy

I’ll try to embed it here – but WordPress is having a hard time with the object!

When I did the video on Baby P, and told people to be aware of what our government was about to do, in the name of child protection, I had many who resented my apparent insensitivity to the issue.

Well, you get what you ask for if you don’t stand up to the system…

Now before you say anything about the gay couple issue, that is not the point! I want you to read the whole article. and understand how the two boys are in care and are about to be adopted away from their mother and grandparents.

Family in 11th-hour legal battle to halt brothers’ adoption by gay couple

The brothers have been in foster care for two years. Social workers began to monitor their mother when she suffered post-natal depression after the birth of her first son though there is no suggestion that she has harmed or neglected the children.

The boys were placed on the ‘at risk’ register four years later after her husband hit her.
Social workers claimed the 38-year-old mother had allowed them to be ‘emotionally harmed’ because one of the boys witnessed his father physically abusing her.

The couple later separated and the mother took out an injunction to stop her estranged husband coming to the family home. However, she relented and agreed to let him see his sons. When this was discovered, social workers took the children into care in March 2007.

She says: ‘The boys kept saying they missed their father. I made a mistake by letting him back to see them. But that does not mean I should lose my sons for ever.’

BTW, this isn’t the first time this has happened. Here we have a case from January

“How can you tell a mother that when she’s never going to see her children again?”

The five-year-old boy and his four-year-old sister were being cared for by their grandparents because their mother, a recovering heroin addict, was not considered capable.

But social workers stepped in to remove the children from their care because of concerns about their age, despite the grandmother being just 46 and the grandfather 59.

Their 26-year-old mother, who cannot be be named to protect the identity of her children, has condemned the decision and says she wants her children to be raised by a “mum and dad”.

This article has a number of other stories of similar cases.

Peace

Senate Legislation Would Federalize Cybersecurity

Addressing what intelligence officials describe as a gaping vulnerability, the legislation also calls for the appointment of a White House cybersecurity “czar” with unprecedented authority to shut down computer networks, including private ones, if a cyberattack is underway, the officials said.

The legislation, co-sponsored by Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.) and Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), was drafted with White House input.

“People say this is a military or intelligence concern, but it’s a lot more than that,” Rockefeller, a former intelligence committee chairman, said in an interview. “It suddenly gets into the realm of traffic lights and rail networks and water and electricity.”

Last week, Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told reporters that one agency should oversee cybersecurity for government and for the private sector. He added that the NSA should be central to the effort.

Funny how the NSA is taking a key role here – and this is ticking people off in Washington…
Cybersecurity Chief Resigns

Mr. Beckstrom’s National Cybersecurity Center, created last March to coordinate all government cybersecurity efforts, answered to the secretary of homeland security.

In reality, “NSA currently dominates most national cyber efforts,” Mr. Beckstrom wrote to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Thursday. “While acknowledging the critical importance of NSA to our intelligence efforts, I believe this is a bad strategy on multiple grounds.”

He added that “the threats to our democratic processes are significant if all top level government network security and monitoring are handled by any one organization (either directly or indirectly).” That echoed the view of some privacy advocates who worry about a government agency having too much information on individuals.

Ambrose has figured it out – The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency

A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.

“We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity,” it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century.

In effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF’s power to create money and begin global “quantitative easing”. In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it.

Nice one Ambrose ROFL – love the last sentence there!

Pity that was the only real mention of the SDRs in today’s papers.

The headline on the Independent, The Guardian and the Daily Mail all shout out – The “New World Order” is here; although they each differ as to whether it is Obama, Brown or Sarkozy who is responsible. The Mail even repeats Gordon Brown’s claim that “the end of the recession is in sight.” Oh dear, here we go down a very bumpy hill!

For some humour: Canadian Prime Minister denies being in toilet during official photo

Mr Harper faced some light-hearted joshing from US President Barack Obama when he returned.

The BBC claimed Canada’s prime minister was “in the loo” but a spokesman for Mr Harper insisted he was getting briefed by his officials on the finer points of the draft G20 communique.

Asked if summit officials could use the computer programme Photoshop to insert an image of him, an aide laughed: “That’s a good question.”

Climate Camp – Footage of the G20 Meltdown at Bishopsgate London 1 April 2009

And to do it peacefully.. unlike what we all saw on the MainStream Media. Some people actually care where we are going!

Nice work girl!

The in-house IT “expert” at our office sent round an email saying “I think it’s all a big hoax – but to be safe, update your anti-virus”.

Well, it would appear he didn’t take his own advice… our email server keeps getting blocked on my firewall… seems to be trying to connect to my machine on port 135 (Which is not a port it should be using LOL – but it is a port that Conficker uses to tunnel via RPC to spread)

So, I guess we have it “in-house”…

I suppose I should notify the ‘expert’ in the office eh?

Later – giggle… “It’s all a hoax”; uh huh..

From Canada’s Globe and Mail today – Conficker worm lies low on April Fool’s Day

Excerpt from the Article:

One of the most high-profile computer worms in recent history quietly activated yesterday, but showed no signs of causing havoc.

“Conficker should still be considered a serious threat …,” Dan Hubbard, chief technology officer at Websense, an internet security company, said in a statement. “There are millions of machines that are infected and the capability is definitely there for attackers to use the network for nefarious purposes.”

Computers infected with Conficker can be used to create a powerful botnet, which in turn could be used for everything from sending spam e-mails to mining for credit-card information. Computer users can protect themselves by downloading Microsoft’s security patches and updates – the worm only targets Windows-based machines. Microsoft has also offered a $250,000 reward for information leading to the worm’s authors.

Some computer security experts believe the flood of attention Conficker garnered in recent weeks may have given its authors reason to lay low, and wait a few days to send further instructions to infected computers.

In another Canadian paper, however, we are being told it is no big deal, and more importantly, that it has stopped spreading. Dean Turner, director of Global Intelligence Network Symantec Security Response has stated:

The worm has stopped spreading. The writers of the virus seem to have removed the virus’s ability to replicate itself, which would suggest they believe they already have enough infected computers to accomplish whatever they are or were planning.

“Stopped spreading” – Yeah, sure – so why am I getting a firewall alarm every hour? When before today I never had? LOL!

Peace

UPDATE – hmm a whole raft of odd port connections now trying to come through! Guess it isn’t as dead as everyone thinks LOL.