Is not every human worth at least a web notation!

As a species we try or pretend to try to prevent the premature deaths of our members.

I suggest to help prevent death we must first track death.  As citizens we should also be aware of how are tax money is spent.  Therefore when the money is spent to kill someone this should be noted in the public record.  This should be important to those in favor as well as those against this use of tax money.

So for example we should have an index of those killed by our weapons in war.  We spend astronimical amounts of money to 'defend freedom' around the world.  It's absurd that we don't get an accounting from our military that we fund with about half our tax dollars.  How much does it cost per enemy killed?  How often did we waste ammo killing civilians?  Are we using a million dollar cruise missile to kill 2 bad guys when a marine could have done it for a days pay?  It doest not matter if your horrified by war or you are rooting for the most kills per buck you are entitled as a tax payer to the information.
I suggest from now on we don't accept the bullshit excuses from the military.  Instead we want the full name address, picture, next of kin where available and circumstances posted online.  If its a 19 year old Afgan at a wedding where stray bullets were fired, thats knocked out with a cruise missile or an entire enclave of Taliban terrorist leaders individually getting their throats slit by our finest special forces, we deserve to know.  We paid for it.  Can you image hiring people to kill for you and you ask, "how did it go?"  and they say, oh its going great we killed lots of bad guys.  "Really, who?", and how much have you spent so far and how many are left to kill before they give up?  I think you get the idea.
Where the military doesn't provide the data perhaps an NGO could.  Maybe we could even have a type of batting average score that is easy to understand.  Which generals have the best average, kills per dollar, plus combatants versus civilians.  Also since we're American tax payers now that Americans suspected of terrorism can be killed by executive order overseas those definitely need to be tracked.  Think about it, potentially American taxpayers overseas would actually be paying to have themselves killed.  Since their would be no trial the least we should expect from the government is a the military strike obituary mentioned above.

Follow up: (Could not find any sites showing most bang for buck on military strikes)
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/
http://www.alternet.org/world/123818/
http://skirsch.com/wm/TheRealEnemy.htm
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/04/02-7

Is it a Hoax? 'World Census' (should have been posted April 1)

A small web start up in St. Petersburg, Florida has decided to put an internet theory into action.

1. Worlds societies are projected to collapse.  It will happen before you or your children die of natural causes.  It is now in your timeline of life, not just the kids or grandkids.  Our system of corporate democracy is failing to sustain the life that what we can all agree on.  If we continue on the current planned course, the shit hits the fan.
2. Theory, using the internet we could coordinate all people of the world and devise a solution.  We can easily build the tools to do this.
3. To build tools we need the network effect.  [We have the Chicken and egg problem?]  Need to coordinate billions to be counted and be uniquly identitified.  They, you, may be able to do as little as read one email per month and vote, or default your voting to a chosen proxy holder.
4. Once we have 100 million participants at $1 each.  We can build with the hundred million dollars the web  tools required to coordinate and save ourselves.

* Action:  In the meantime Floridians may join www.ShadowVote.org, an project to localize and test this concept in Florida.

World Court rules: All energy patents now in Public Domain.

Imagine that the heading of this post were true.

Regarding the news surrounding the Copenhagen conference today, Dec 12, 2009 as reviewed by me on www.democracynow.org.

Apparently there is a secret plan b, whereby the developed nations get 2x as much allowed pollution per person in 2050.

I suggest plan C:
Realizing that the lead polluter was the United States, and that our debt is the largest. Also that counties reserve the right to contain or keep patents under wraps in the interest of National Security. I suggest flipping the scenario:

The United States public domain all energy patents in the interest of world peace and security.
If needed we compensate those that have there patents taken.

Climate debt is for real, and we Americans owe a shitload. If we simply get lucky enough to negotiate to pay for half of what we owe, imagine how much that is. Imagine every mile you drive, having to pay x dollars, maybe 5x what you paid for the gas for sequestration of the pollution you output. Now also imagine paying that for all the gas, electricity, etc. that you have ever used your entire life. Now hear this, you OWE that debt. And the richer and more resource you used the more you owe...

If I was the developing world I think I would sue in the world court. Because they could get a judgment passed for damages. Since the USA probably would not pay the damages, the court could award damages that could be collected without cooperation from the USA. The court could award the rights to all the necessary intellectual property that's protected under international patent and trademark law. For sure stuff relating to energy but also the protections for AIDS medicines would be cleared for use by developing nations. Virtually everything the first world has ever developed that can be taken without force should be used. If this threatens future intellectual property development, then governments or the UN could give a cash award to the creators of the intellectual property that was effectively eminently domained. Also these projects could be and I think should be continued in an open source way instead of with the for profit model. When it comes to saving the earth, or at a minimum, millions of lives, our current for profit incentive system of intellectual property development has not been effective what so ever, in fact its what caused vast amounts of damage.

Where is the public domain blueprints of the most efficient internal combustion engine in the world? Where is the open franchise system for solar panel development? Where is the open and free design for the worlds most practical solar hot water heater?

Are we to tell developing nations that have almost nothing compared to us that they must pay to get into the modern game?

Elect Schmiege

Hi everyone. Since I am running for office I better mention my website at www.electschmiege.com.



Leonard Schmiege
Keep my liberty

An Incredible Petition system for Florida.

I has been over a year since I started working diligently on my petition project. Now it is possible to sign up for petitions at www.mail-my-petition.com This site is for Florida voters only. It allows a request for a pack of petitions from the New Petition Network. These are petitions to change the Florida State constitution. If you are a civic minded voter in Florida you will definitely want to check it out. (Update 2012, www.shadowvote.org is where you will find Florida Petitioning)

Those against Network Nuetrality are Un-American

From DemocracyNow.org

Comcast Admits to Planting Attendees at FCC Hearing

The media giant Comcast has admitted to paying people to fill the seats at a government hearing on net-neutrality. The gathering at Harvard University Monday was one of several organized by the Federal Communications Commission to gather public input. Critics say Comcast was trying to take space away from critics of media consolidation. Harvard says dozens of genuine participants were forced to stand outside the hearing unable to participate.

What irony, don't you get it. Comcast gave us an old school demonstration of what happens when you eliminate network neutrality. You in this case comcast, would pay to get to the front of the line so you don't have to wait, or in this case since the venue reached capacity, without paying a premium for a free event you don't get in at all.

If you do not support network nuetrality you really are unamerican. Whats next, when you go to a public event there will be two lines, one for the specially privileged and one for the rest. This is the issue.

Warning for those politicians who are against network neutrality, soon you will be compared to incestuous child rapists, when the rest wake up your only chance will be to pray the voters believe you when you explain that you were too dumb to understand the network neutrality concept.

System for common sense political district boundries.

I propose using a geographic algorithm to measure the distance between every voters address, either in absolute distance or estimated travel time between voters. One could even factor each voter by mode of transportation so that if there was a large shift away from cars in the future the algorithm would still make sense. Using this data a common focal point would be determined. This would be the center of the district. To be continued...