I don't love you anymore

We've all heard those words before
Somebody takes your heart and then
Leaves you the pieces

Lying shattered on the floor
They say that when you close a door
Another one is waiting there
For you to open... if you believe!

[Chorus:]
Love will come back
Hit you when you least expect it
Fill in the cracks
Of a broken heart you thought
That you could never mend
You, you can start again!

When you're barely getting by
And it's hard to find the strength to try
And loneliness is all you've known
If you let go... then you will find...

[Chorus]

Oh, when you think you've lost the only way
All you really need
Is a little faith

[Chorus]

Just let love return to you
You can start again!

Bloody and beaten from working out how to break ice I I try and try again.

Related : Dealing with the Overpopulation Myth

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/06/my-take-jesus-was-a-free-marketer-not-an-occupier/, By Tony Perkins, Special to CNN

Honest hard work does not pay off well for most in a system constrained by design.

There are so many people who can prove beyond doubt that world peace and sustainability are at hand if people trained and armed for security or defense refuse to follow inhumane orders to shut them up; but not otherwise.  Each person should thoroughly independently investigate the claims of who they're supposed to go after before doing so.  Or else they're just shitting all over themselves.

BTW, Jesus was a family man, his intention was to adopt all of humanity as his family; selfish works don't get you anywhere with God.  That money parable was used only because money is something easy for people to understand as something to invest.  What was meant was to invest love and trust in people and see it grow as it bounces from one person to the next and back again.  For this to work it would make people too productive and efficient for capitalism to work.  Because people would still innovate, but by now have so little they need to personally do to sustain themselves it wouldn't make sense for anyone to earn a wage.

What is the purpose of this movement inspired by Arab Spring, started as OWS and so stuck with that name?  It has many purposes.  So many I promise not to list them all.  Note: there may not be many that all agree on as each person has their own grievances.  Here are some in no particular order based on what I hold to be true.

It intends to solve these problems (at least for those who'll learn) and probably more:

1. We live under a Kleptocracy.  That means every unit of currency is created with an equivalent unit of debt which must be paid back with interest; which happens to be overall impossible.
2. We live under a Plutocracy.  That means law controlled by wealthy; just or unjust.
3. People who believe mainstream corporate media and watch it all day still live under a rock.
4. Certain corporations are causing enormous damage to us and nature.  http://corporatecriminalsexposed.com/
5. All people of earth are seen as parasites of an overpopulated planet.  Look up "eugenics".  Those who profit most by hiding what damage they know is going to happen by practice they heavily advertise as making the world a better place are least likely to be on the culling list.  It also just so happens the planet is far from being overpopulated.  People are also, in effect, prohibited from being as useful as they want to be; contrary to the myth of "useless eaters".  It may be partially our fault though for the demands we make are sometimes not really supportive of any great bang for buck modern solution.  When considering legislative demands that would effect cost structures of anything, consider modernization.  Education can be a nearly zero cost vastly superior replacement to what's in place.
6. People believe survival depends on winning competitions in a system which unknown to many just happens to depend on scarcity which also happens to have been artificial for many decades and cannot by its nature last forever.  Taken to its end would simply kill the entire planet and then humans die shortly after.  (Not all see this yet, though it would be nice that they do and set up self support before it crashes.  Transition out, try to make sure the build up of a money, possibly electricity grid and fossil fuel independent safety net for the entire population outpaces the collapse.)  If you have a job, then keep it, but still prepare to make money irrelevant.  Pay off your debts and don't take on any more.  This point would be mostly resolved by resolving #1 and #2; but without transitioning out of a system that promotes greed points #1 and #2 would eventually sneak back into play again to convert it back into a system which cannot work without greed and suffering.

It is gratifying to see all the print coverage from the major networks this morning of Ron Paul's plan to cut one trillion dollars from the budget and balance the budget within three years, but where were was the TV coverage?
by Walt Thiessen
(libertarian)
Tuesday, October 18, 2011  Link

Ten years ago today, in the name of protecting national security and guarding against terrorism, President George W. Bush signed into law some of the most sweeping changes to search and surveillance law in modern American history. Unfortunately known as the USA PATRIOT Act, many of its provisions incorporate decidedly unpatriotic principles barred by the First and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution. Provisions of the PATRIOT Act have been used to target innocent Americans and are widely used in investigations that have nothing to do with national security.

Much of the PATRIOT Act was a wish list of changes to surveillance law that Congress had previously rejected because of civil liberties concerns. When reintroduced as the PATRIOT Act after September 11th, those changes -- and others -- passed with only limited congressional debate.

Just what sort of powers does the PATRIOT Act grant law enforcement when it comes to surveillance and sidestepping due process? Here are three provisions of the PATRIOT Act that were sold to the American public as necessary anti-terrorism measures, but are now used in ways that infringe on ordinary citizens’ rights:

1. SECTION 215 – “ANY TANGIBLE THING”

Under this provision, the FBI can obtain secret court orders for business records and other “tangible things” so long as the FBI says that the records are sought "for an authorized investigation . . . to protect against international terrorism or clandestine intelligence activities." The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court must issue the order if the FBI so certifies, even when there are no facts to back it up.  These “things” can include basically anything—driver’s license records, hotel records, car-rental records, apartment-leasing records, credit card records, books, documents, Internet history, and more.   Adding insult to injury, Section 215 orders come with a "gag " prohibiting the recipient from telling anyone, ever, that they received one.

As the New York Times reported, the government may now be using Section 215 orders to obtain “private information about people who have no link to a terrorism or espionage case.” The Justice Department has refused to disclose how they are interpreting the provision, but we do have some indication of how they are using Section 215. While not going into detail, Senator Mark Udall indicated the FBI believes it to allows them “unfettered” access to innocent Americans’ private data, like “a cellphone company’s phone records” in bulk form. The government’s use of these secret orders is sharply increasing -- from 21 orders in 2009 to 96 orders in 2010, an increase of over 400% -- and according to a brand new report from the Washington Post, 80% of those requests are for Internet records.

Today, EFF sued the Justice Department to turn over records related to the government’s secret interpretation and use of Section 215, regarding which Senator Ron Wyden, like Senator Udall, has offered ominous warnings: "When the American people find out about how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act,” said Wyden on the Senate floor in May, “they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry.”

2. NATIONAL SECURITY LETTERS

Among the most used -- and outright frightening -- provisions in the PATRIOT Act are those that enhanced so-called National Security Letters (NSLs). The FBI can issue NSLs itself, without a court order, and demand a variety of records, from phone records to bank account information to Internet activity. As with 215 orders, recipients are gagged from revealing the orders to anyone.

While NSLs existed prior to 2001, they were infrequently used. The PATRIOT Act lowered the standard making it easier for the FBI to use NSLs to obtain the records of innocent people with no direct link to terrorists or spies, and their use skyrocketed. According to the ACLU’s report on PATRIOT Act abuses, there were 8,500 NSLs issued in 2000 but approximately 192,000 issued between 2003-2006. All of these NSL’s led to one terror conviction, and in that case, the NSL wasn’t even needed.

Not surprisingly, EFF FOIA requests have found abuse of their NSL authority: “mistakes” that led to getting information on the wrong people, ISPs handing over extra or wrong information, and dozens of “exigent letters” that “circumvented the law and violated FBI guidelines and policies.” EFF has successfully challenged the NSL gag orders in multiple cases as unconstitutional under the First Amendment, but the overall scheme still survives to this day.

3. SNEAK AND PEEK WARRANTS

Section 213 of the PATRIOT Act normalized “sneak-and-peek” warrants. These allow law enforcement to raid a suspect’s house without notifying the recipient of the seizure for months.  These orders usually don't authorize the government to actually seize any property — but that won't stop them from poking around your computers.  Again, sneak-and-peek warrants could be used for any investigation, even if the crime was only a misdemeanor.

From 2006-2009, sneak-and-peek warrants were used a total of 1,755 times. Only fifteen of those cases—a microscopic 0.8%—involved terrorism. The rest were used in cases involving drugs or fraud.

These uses and abuses of the PATRIOT Act against ordinary Americans are only the tip of the iceberg.  EFF has repeatedly documented how federal law enforcement agencies have abused our nation’s broken secrecy system to hide specific instances of illegal and unconstitutional conduct related to the PATRIOT Act. EFF’s Freedom of Information Act requests have painted a picture of “an [FBI] engaged in excessive illegal intelligence gathering.”

After ten years, it’s crystal clear that the “emergency” measure sold as a necessary step in the fight against terrorism is being used routinely to violate the privacy of regular people in non-terrorism cases, threatening the Constitutional rights of every one of us.  And after ten years, EFF is even more dedicated to fighting against PATRIOT overreach, both in Congress and the courts.  Help us in that fight by becoming an EFF member, so that we can work together in making the next ten years better for civil liberties than the last.

Copied from Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Dear friend,

I just emailed Congress to urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation, known as the PROTECT-IP Act in the Senate and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House. This legislation seeks to give the executive branch power to conduct slash-and-burn campaigns against websites that allegedly host – or even link to – content that infringes on intellectual property rights. That would “disappear” whole domain names, fundamentally undermining Internet security, and/or choke off their financial support. The Internet Blacklist Legislation puts more sites than ever at risk, effectively upending the DMCA safe harbors that have been crucial to the growth of Internet innovation and creativity.

Sadly, these short-sighted and dangerous bills won’t do much to stop online infringement – but they will jeopardize our ability to speak and read online with the kind of freedom we cherish in the offline world. Deep-pocketed Hollywood lobbyists are aggressively pushing to control and censor the open Internet, willing to sacrifice free speech and our Internet culture in hopes of controlling how people view their movies and products.

We need to stop this bill before it goes any further. Will you contact your representatives in Congress and urge them to oppose the Internet Blacklist Legislation? Visit: https://eff.org/r.C8A