Philippines reports 1.9 million homes destroyed in Manila with nearly 380,000 seeking shelter. This is probably half of the ones who really need help or are struggling at relatives and friends homes, crowded or feeling the financial burden. Aid agencies are working vigorously to help the region, however, storms are developing rapidly as Cambodia to Vietnam has received heavy damage. The most recent weather disaster was the tsunami that flooded streets of Somao. The earthquake happened in the ocean, causing the massive wave, then flooding inward toward coastal city villages. Check report of the death toll as of this week for these natural disasters!
Typhoon Ketsana
Philippines = 284 dead or missing
Vietnam = 23 dead 170,000 evacuated
Tsunami- Sept. 30
Samoa = 47 dead, 100 presumed and injuries are not recorded yet
IN THE NEWS, the National Disasters:
Tsunami Warning Signs, Facts in Wake of Samoa Quake National Geographic
Vietnam Urges Rescue, Aid as Typhoon Death Toll Rises Bloomberg
(UPDATE) ‘Ondoy‘ death toll rises to 246 – NDCC Philippine Star
Ante lo caóticos “comentarios inapropiados” subidos por el talento WWE en varias redes sociales (Recordemos el reciente caso de Chavo Guerrero diciendo “esto no es UFC” en Twitter), es raro entender porque WWE no ha colocado una sería política de control
Pero al respecto, PWTorch creó este memoradum-parodia de lo que podría ser la política de WWE (Basado en una política que ya implementó NBA)
From: WWE executive staff
To: WWE talent, staff, personnel
CC: Vince McMahon, Linda McMahon’s campaign manager
Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Subject: Social Media policy
No bebas y Twittes. Más información con Chris Jericho y Chavo Guerrero
No subas fotos donde estes bebiendo, promovemos una empresa familiar, no vamos a tolerar esa publicidad mientras Linda McMahon gasta 30 millones en su campaña
No pongas fotos conviviendo con personas comunes, las estrellas WWE deben ser inalcanzables, asociarte con comunes reduce tu marketability
No pongas fotos de ti mismo en posiciones comprometedoras
No menciones a otras promociones, WWE es la única marca existente de sports entertainment
No menciones a “medios” relacionados con la lucha libre, ni les respondas, ni los linkees, WWE.com es el único sitio que cubre lucha libre
Anuncia los productos WWE, tal vez no ganes mas regalías, pero hay que trabajar juntos por la empresa
Publica tus fotos con conductores invitados de RAW, para lograr atención del público general, pero que no se note que eres sólo un “fan” de la celebridad
No defiendas ni discutas ángulos de WWE, más información con Chavo Guerrero
Today I have started writing a new blog about poker and MySpace features – Poker 2.0 MySpace Blog. All social media experts analyzes Facebook and Twitter, but MySpace gets less and less attention. We cannot ignore 120 million of MySpace users, 3rd biggest email provider (bigger than Gmail, because Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail share first two positions), one of the most popular free music broadcasters in the world.
MySpace is little messy social network, so finding the specific application in their apps gallery takes time and patience. Anyway I think it is worth waste of time, because there is a huge lack of information about MySpace applications, no matter if they are related to poker or general ones.
The first piece is about RSS readers in MySpace – 3 RSS feed widgets in MySpace. If you are MySpace user and have one or few blogs, how are you going to broadcast the RSS feeds? You may face some troubles, because there are no much applications for RSS updates.
I met Cathy almost a year ago at my cousin’s wedding in California last December. She was one of the lead vocalists in the band performing and she blew us all away with her voice. A couple months after the wedding, my brother and I were reminicing about that night and wondered what the name of the band from that night was when we somehow stumbled upon Cathy’s YouTube page. Little did we know that she was basically a YouTube celebrity with her recordings of covers and even some of her original songs.
Q: Cathy, how old are you and where are you from?
Cathy Nguyen: I am 21 and I am from West Covina, California. Although, my family & I moved to Chino about 2 years ago, so that’s where I currently reside now.
Q: When did you first begin singing and was it just for fun or could you see this as a possible career?
C: I first started singing pretty much when I was able to talk. I remember my mom teaching me songs as I was growing up & that’s all I’ve been doing since. I never really considered on actually pursuing music as a career until my senior year of high school. I joined choir for the first time & absolutely loved it. I tried out for my first solo & since then, I must say, I’ve finally stepped out of my comfort zone & began performing more, whether it be at church or at a choir concert. But now, of course, weighing all the options, and looking pros & cons of pursuing music, I’ve decided not to go all the way. I’m really content with where I stand right now in regards to music.
Q: I love the covers you have done! In my opinion your version of Keri Hilson’s “Knock You Down,” is way better than the original. You have a million views on that video and 2 million views on your “I’m Yours” cover. That’s pretty impressive! Were you shocked when you realized that you were becoming YouTube’s next superstar?
C: Haha! Thank you so much! I really appreciate that. You know, I never imagined ever being able to get that many views on these dorky videos that I post, so I definitely was shocked. I’m STILL shocked actually! I’ve been so blessed ever since all this YouTube madness. Opportunities to do what I love began to increase and now, I have an event to perform at nearly once a week! To think, I started off like everyone else, WATCHING videos of people singing & performing, looking up to these people & enjoying watching their love & passion for music. & clearly, with the support of my family & friends, & really just through word of mouth, here I am, living my dream! I mean, not as a “Youtube superstar” haha, but I mean, being able to meet & work with these wonderful & talented singer/songwriters that I’ve watched & was [& still am!], inspired by.
Q: What is your favorite song to cover?
C: I have fun with every song that I choose to cover, but if I had to choose, I’d have to say “Lucky,” by Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat. I love performing that with AJ Rafael.
Q: Who were your influences growing up?
C: I grew up listening to the typical boy bands & pop singers such as *NSYNC or Christina Aguilera. Haha! I mean, who didn’t? I grew up enjoying listening & singing to their music. My influences now though, would include, Colbie Caillat, Sara Bareilles, Alicia Keys, & Taylor Swift. =]
Q: If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be?
C: Ooh. That’s a tough question. I’d be so honored to collaborate with ANYONE actually!
Q: Are you doing some shows here and there or have you done any tours at all? If you do decide to do a tour, can I be your tour manager? Hahah
C: Yes, you can! =P Yeah, I’ve been performing here & there around California for the past year, ranging from birthday parties, to a benefit concert at a high school or university, to a coffee house or a church praise event. All my shows have been in California though. I’d love to do a tour & I’ve even gotten offers to perform outside of the state, but I’m currently unavailable to do that at the moment.
Q: What is a typical day for Cathy Nguyen?
C: My typical day usually consists of me sitting in front of my computer for hours checking updates & comments on all the social networking websites, responding to performance emails, & then end up being late to school or work, coming home from work/school & pretty much start doing the same thing all over again. haha! & definitely when I have the chance to, I hang out with my friends.
Q: Do you believe having your YouTube account, Twitter and Facebook Fan Page has helped you connect more with your fans or listeners?
C: Yes of course! All these social networking sites have allowed me to connect & talk to my supporters. I read them all and I try to respond back to everyone, but it does get overwhelming for me. I’ve been so blessed & I am so grateful for all the love & support I have. I really appreciate it!
Q: Some of your video covers have included your friends as well; do you see yourself being more as a soloist or with a band?
C: I love singing & performing with other people because I’m so self-conscious & I know that when I sing with other people, the attention isn’t all on me. But if I had to choose, I would probably see myself as being more of a soloist though, either that or with one other person. I don’t see myself in a band, although, that’d be pretty interesting!
Q: What are you listening to these days and who would you suggest my readers start listening to, besides you of course!
C: I used to listen to a lot of the artists on the radio, but honestly these days, I know so little of those outside music. I listen to more of my friends’ music than anyone else actually. I would for sure suggest anyone to listen to their music! AJ Rafael, Passion, Gabe Bondoc, Melissa Polinar & Jane Lui, are just a few of the people I’ve been inspired by. They are amazing, really. They really make you appreciate true music.
Q: Where can we expect to see you next Cathy?
C: Well, you can probably see me next on a YouTube video! haha. Other than that, I have a few shows lined up for the next couple of months. All that information will be updated soon on my Myspace music page.
Check out more of Cathy’s videos on her YouTube account page here
Everyone seems to be very interested in downloading videos from YouTube, so here is a tutorial for all those folks.
STEP I
After searching a lot of software’s to download videos from YouTube and trying them out i finally found a really good free software to download videos from YouTube(not only from YouTube but from any site that streams video’s or even music!). It is Orbit Downloader, download it.
STEP II
Now install the downloaded software, when installing select a Web Browser which you use as primary browser. Here I have used Mozilla Firefox. Make sure the browser is closed, so the add-on can be installed. Now proceed to installation and finish it.
STEP III
You will find a new add-on has been installed. Now open YouTube, and play any video. You will notice a small icon(at the right corner downside, where system clock is located just above that) blinking as soon as the video starts to play. Right click on the icon and select
STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTION VIA IMAGES: -
Advantages of using Orbit Downloader: -
*Download from any streaming site, anything music or videos. For example In.com, MySpace, etc
*Resume Supported on YouTube but their is still a time limit of 5-6 hours
This is so worth reading, so I’m quoting the first section and linking you to the rest.
From ReadWriteWeb: Social Networking Use Triples from Only a Year Ago
Obsessed with Facebook? You’re not alone. The hours you spend logging on to update your status, post photos, and make comments on friends’ walls is not simply a “phase” you’re going through which will end sometime soon. It’s a ongoing trend affecting everyone these days and it has serious implications for the online advertising industry.
According to new figures from Nielsen, the amount of time spent surfing social networking and blogging sites had tripled since last year, suggesting “a wholesale change in the way the Internet is used,” says Jon Gibs, VP of media and agency insights at the company’s online division.
As of August 2009, the time spent on social networking and blogging sites accounts for 17% of the total time spent online, a number up 6% from a year ago. This change reflects a growing desire for people to stay connected with each other, communicate and share, reports Nielsen.
Click over to ReadWriteWeb for more and here is the link to that Nielsen Report.
Social media presence and reputation monitoring tools have gained increased importance in building customer loyalty and handling conflict resolution. From spending $0 to top dollar, there are a number of ways to measure a company’s impact in the webosphere and even address issues or take advantage of opportunities quickly and effectively. While we’re all familiar with Twitter, Facebook, Google news and blog alerts, Technorati and digg, the new wave seems to be tools that help streamline social media efforts:
Tweetdeck:
Enabling you to follow your Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts, you can easily update all of your accounts in one simple entry – now that’s a relief when distributing time-sensitive information! Including Twitter’s official search engine and the infamous TweetBeep, users can also monitor who’s writing about them and what they are saying. You may also want to consider Facebook’s Lexicon, where you can search any keyword and see how often it’s discussed on Facebook users’ walls.
LookingGlass:
Microsoft has also entered social media analysis with a new tool code-named LookingGlass that is currently at the proof-of-concept stage. Offering similar functions as Tweetdeck, users monitor various sites such as Flickr and MySpace and can also post responses on Twitter, Facebook or the like. From monitoring tagged images to videos; reputation monitoring is made easy – and visual data is even easier to retrieve.
LookingGlass offers analytics to determine ROI and even compare internal data to integrate communications strategies. Users can also gather sentiment data through its AI search engine that can detect positive and negative coverage.
There are, of course, a number of similar dashboard solutions including Hootsuite, Seesmic, Viral Heat and Social Smart to name a few. With all the increased competition, I am interested to see if Google will add to their services…
Good morning! Especially when you wake up to find a new blog and new tour dates for Bobby Long!
Pic courtesy of GarnetGurl
This morning, Bobby posted this on his MySpace page:
hello, bonjour, olla,
just wanted to quickly blog about this show.
im playing at a record store on the 30th of september in hamburg before my show that evening.
should be alot of fun and would be grteat to see all of yous.
here are the details.
i also have added other shopws aswell as the last tour date of the dangerous summer at the mercury lounge nyc, which will be my only nyc date in december and november and i would love to sell it out.
if you could spread this round i would be forever in your pockets.
just wanted to give a huge thankyou to the lod members for being unbelevably kind and the best supporters i have ever seen, i cant say thankyou enough, your all beautiful.
all the best,
with bells on,
bobby
New dates and a special free show if you happen to live in Hamburg. The new tour dates are posted on our Tour Date page for Bobby, so check and see if he is planning something near you. And, we do know that Bobby will be adding even more dates as he continues to get the squared away, so keep a look out on our site for more info.
Also, be sure you are following Bobby on Twitter, as well as the Shack of Soul so you’ll never miss any news from Bobby!
Oh, and now that I’m spreading the word, apparently Bobby will always be in my pocket! Yeah!
Vengo usando Yoono desde que salió. Me parece una estupenda herramienta para mantenerte al día de lo que sucede en tus redes sociales. Aún le faltan algunas redes interesantes, pero se integra con facebook, twitter, myspace, flickr, aim, yahoo messenger, google talk y msn de forma tal que facilita la comunicación en un mismo entorno, consigue que de un vistazo rápido pueda visualizar qué ocurre.
Hay dos cosas que uso constantemente, recibo muchísima información en tiempo real a través de mis redes y no siempre puedo ver esos enlaces ni esos artículos en ese mismo momento. Para ello han incluido un excelente widget que se llama Web Notes y que te permite arrastrar imágenes, textos, vídeos, enlaces… que se guardan para que puedas visionar todo en el momento adecuado.
También quiero destacar la opción Share que permite compartir en tus redes favoritas o bien el enlace de la página que estés visitando o bien los items seleccionados con el cursor del ratón, es genial.
So what will the landscape of social media look like in 5 years? Interesting to look at what has been done in the last 5 years to say the least, but I think in looking forward we should focus on what we’ve learned about it so far.
If you look at the “personal” sites like Facebook or the slowly dying (in my opinion) MySpace, you see incredible interest from folks looking to connect with friends. They love updating their status with what their doing at the moment, and we for some reason love reading it. I’ve reconnected with many old college friends whom I never would’ve seen or talked to again in the past. I can see pictures of their new family’s, see where they’re working and easily communicate with them. The best part? I can do this instantly from my cool web enabled phone. Simply amazing when you think about your cell phone and ability to connect with these folks just five years ago.
How about Twitter? What a low tech idea that has absolutely changed the way we think about sharing ideas. 140 characters, with no HTML or cool little pictures or designs? But I’m hungry for what the folks that I follow have to share. Again, they share this information instantly from their pocket. We engage in conversation and exchange with folks all over the world at amazing speeds, with no need for introduction. Our names and brands are spread like wildfire, increasing the importance of their constant refinement.
LinkedIn has opened the door for us to connect with professionals and build a brand with an almost silly ease. I can search for, find and introduce myself to the hiring manager of the dream company in moments. I can build a network of people all over the world, and share opportunities; gaining exposure to employee’s who they know, providing a sense of known quantity when it comes to hiring.
So what’s the common factor with these? They’re being commercialized faster than we can even hold onto. How many times have you followed someone on Twitter only to realize that they are only selling something? How many businesses utilize Facebook only for marketing purposes? We’re leaving the old way of catchy ads on TV to electronically inducing marketing that’s tailored to you exactly, and I mean exactly. I believe that if you update your post on how you’re going out to seafood dinner and to see the newest action movie, you’ll receive custom advertising from Red Lobster and your local movie theater advertising based on trends in your updates. And just think about when your mobile provider allows companies to text you directly. You’ll get a text at 11:30 that suggests you try a Big Mac on your lunch break. Don’t think so? Just wait and see. After all, we’re starting to see it on Twitter already.
At what point will this get old, will people move to the next new site? These things change, and the names (i.e. Facebook) will inevitably change with time, but I think the idea will remain the same. Sure, they’ll probably promise less advertising and stronger controls on who can see and do what, but in the end the almighty dollar will speak, and it’s saying the same thing. It wants to get its hands on your wallet.
A Friendfeed group organizes to send empty CDs to MÜYAP [Turkish Phonographic Industry Society] who sued MySpace and LastFm and who is behind the current ban.
Yarın sabahtan itibaren boş CD kapaklarının içine yerleştirip MÜ-YAP’ın posta adresine yağdıracağımı
Source: friendfeed.com
Yarın sabahtan itibaren boş CD kapaklarının içine yerleştirip MÜ-YAP’ın posta adresine yağdıracağımız CD kapağı görselleri hazır! MÜ-YAP’ı “real spam”e boğalım! Mü-Yap Bağlantılı Hak Sahibi Fonogram Yapımcıları Meslek Birliği Kuloğlu Mah. …
Unblock The Banned Websites In Turkey Petition
Source: www.petitiononline.com
Unblock The Banned Websites In Turkey Petition, hosted at PetitionOnline.com
MySpace and Last FM Censored
With a decision from June this year the Beyoğlu Public Prosecutor’s Office now blocked access to MySpace and Last FM, two of the world’s biggest sites for socializing and music-sharing. Both artists and internet users voiced their disapproval of the decision.
At least 6000 websites censored from Turkey
Since the Law No. 5651 entitled Regulation of Publications on the Internet and Suppression of Crimes Committed by means of Such Publication came into force in November 2007, access to a considerable number of foreign websites including popular websites such as YouTube, Geocities, DailyMotion, WordPress, Google Groups, and Google Sites have been blocked from Turkey under the provisions of this law by court orders and administrative blocking orders issued by the Telecommunications Communication Presidency (TIB). [Blog entry by Dr. Yaman Akdeniz]
Dirtnap entertainment put together an amazing benefit show for the alzheimers association. They had two different areas going on with two different stages and two totally different genres of music. hip hop was in one room and punk/metal/alternative was in the other. This show took place in Southbridge Ma and was definitely a good look for ALL local music. Big shout to Craig over at Dirtnap Entertainment for allowing HHTT full access to the event as well as being a hospitable host. Unfortunately I couldn’t stay for the entire show, I was drinking Dayquil like it was a 40oz. I definitely enjoyed the parts of the show I did catch, be on the lookout for Dirtnap entertainment they are definitely taking some big steps in mixing up live hip hop with bands. Definitely HHTT APROVED, for more info on upcoming shows check out Myspace.com/Dirtnapentertainment
If I were part of a very small group of elite individuals and families from around the world whom together held 90% of the entire world’s wealth along with the power to print its money and manipulate the value of that money, and I wanted to keep it that way for myself and pass this fortune and privilege on to my sons and daughters… what would I do to make sure I (we) remained in control of both the money, and more importantly my power over the world, specifically the United States?
The following is what I would do:
*** Disclosure: Any similarities to actual events or happenings from the last 50-100 years, with regards to people, beliefs, lies, manipulations, theft, treason, genocide, politics, religion, culture, money, industry, media or entertainment are strictly coincidental, and are, I assure you, accidental in very much a purposeful way:
1. I would implement incremental change slowly over many, many years.
This simply means that I would manipulate the laws, cultures, beliefs, medias, entertainments, religions, and truths of the entire nation in such a prolonged yet purposeful manner that the vast majority of its citizens would not notice my efforts. Generationally speaking, the change would be both alien and destructive to the cohesion of any older generation’s morals and values, which they would attempt in vein to transfer or pass down to their new age children. The “New Age” would be every generation’s own crusade against the last. In fact I would change these things so slowly, say over a 60 year period, that these people would not only accept these incremental changes (changes which separately add up to a total change over time), but would actually think that the ideals behind them were in fact their own, pulling the spotlight away from my small group of elites who hide behind the celebrities, public officials, and politicians who sell and implement these changes. Adolph Hitler – whose efforts are used here as an example of the non-incremental fascist take-over of a society – in my eyes could not succeed due to the rapid degradation of the impression or illusion of freedom amongst the people of Germany and around the world. I, as part of this elitist group, would even fight against this type of take-over (and they did) in order to put into place my more sound incremental technique of domination over a society, until the country was no longer a sovereign nation, but one of corporate ownership under our foreign banks and partners, which would be controlled by a central construct (like the United Nations) that would slowly (incrementally) strip the nation of its property, land, and infrastructure, as well as its deeply rooted independence and sovereignty.
2. I would put into place a puppet government whose strings I could pull, which would take the blame both currently and historically for my secretive groups’ undertakings.
In order to plausibly deny any and all connections to me with regards to public policy, our totalitarian laws, unjust or illegal taxes and legislation that is overtly anti-Constitutional, socialist, and fascist, or any type of less incremental (sudden) changes which would only benefit us and our corporate monopolies, I would rig or fix elections in order to give the people the illusion of their participation in the voting process for their favorite candidate – in most cases their favorite Cult of Personality spokesman – who in reality would be culled, prepped, empowered, funded, and completely controlled by us. Thus, the responsibility for all of the problems within the economy of the country (though they be caused by us), the attacking of other countries (though this too is our doing), and the constant ups and downs in monetary instability, recession, and depression (again us), would be blamed solely on the President of the United States and his cabinet, of whose invisible strings I would pull. If a president or any other elected or appointed candidate of whom we put into power were to have a change of heart or attempt a coo against us, I would simply set up or assassinate them, and quickly replace him or her with our standby safety measure (like the vice-president) until the next election. I would slowly (incrementally) replace paper ballots, which leave a transparent and re-countable paper trail, with voting machines made by one of our conglomerate corporations in which the programming and systems information are kept top secret by federal law from any regulatory bodies, including the senate and congress (whom incidentally, also do our bidding). In this way, tallies can be instantly modified to ensure the correct candidate be placed into office, and we can ensure that no paper trail be left behind to double-check the actual individual voter tallies. Since both candidates in the two-party system we created and control would be placed there by us, we could rest assured that the losing candidate would never chase or require a full recount in the election, and would accede the vote to our other candidate. In this and other ways, checks and balances would be dissolved while keeping up the appearance of a fair election process. This left/right paradigm of political competition would pit those voters who are conservative against those who are liberal, keeping both sides busy fighting amongst themselves and blaming each other’s administrations for the political and economic problems that we engineer, while we at the top of the power pyramid continue to clandestinely take control of the country.
3. I would never let a third political party gain any considerable control in the state or federal governments, unless I either controlled them as well, or had access to information which would discredit their candidacy once elected.
A number of third party candidates would always be allowed to appear on the ballot in order to keep the illusion of voter freedom, free will, and free-choice alive in the conscious of the uneducated voting pubic who, through carefully crafted and projected propaganda, would actually still believe that they live in a free country and that their votes are legally counted. But these alternative candidates would never be allowed to actually win any seat of power that would take away from my accessibility to the electorate, which I control. Of course the occasional dark horse, grass-roots, or “no other choice” candidate would be allowed to be “elected” in the short term to an insignificant political position, but the sheer majority of the two-party, democrat/republican, left/right paradigm will always trump any truly altruistic attempts at politically changing the system for the good of the people. I would also spread a doubt and disinformation campaign amongst the voting masses, convincing them against all logic and reason that a third-party candidate could never actually win an important post, nor would he or she ever possibly be able to effect change within the dominant two-party system, portraying them as a “lone wolf” with no supporters from the two dominant parties in the legislature. This would ensure even against the most tenuous of election campaigns that a third party candidate, from an intellectually brainwashed voters standpoint, could never be elected. I would also fund the campaigns of certain unpopular, off-the-wall, politically incorrect, or downright crazy third party candidates in order to further discredit the very ideal of voting for anything other than the established two-party system. This brainwashing would manifest in political conversations as anger, irrational confrontation, absolute denial, or sheer ignorance of the fact that any third party candidates are even on the ballot until voting day arrives. It would also show in the unreasonable shame one would feel when voting for an alternative candidate in the voting booth; a subconscious irrational feeling of guilt, dismay, or hopelessness for even the most ardent supporters of said third party candidate.
Essentially, when one party would begin to fall, the other one would be there to win the election. This teeter tottering of popularity between left and right would continuously serve to prop up the opposite party for election. When one becomes obviously corrupt, our controlled media would shine favorably on the other. By establishing an eight year term limit, which would be enough time for the people to forget or forgive the previous president – or more importantly his or her affiliated party – and by perpetrating nonsensical ideals such as ‘presidents always win re-election campaigns during war-time’, we would appease each supporting group of the populace every four or eight years, as they celebrate the triumph over the competing party. By using idealistic and emotional concepts like good and evil, liberal and conservative, left and right… each party would consider themselves to be on the correct side of modern politics. This combined psychological operation would ensure our two-party system’s un-fatigable, perpetual motion.
4. I would use each generation gap against the next, ensuring differing views, ethics, and ideals that would make one generation blame the others before and after them for the corruption and problems in society as a whole.
Responsibility breeds reaction. Blame insures inaction. Perpetual blame and inaction assures the continuity of government. Fads, fashions, movie stars and themes, music, sitcoms, technology, beliefs, traditions, institutions, and educational differences and limitations would all contribute to the differing views and ideals of each new generation. While the elderly would remember the way things used to be and wonder at the degradation of society, the middle-aged will be wondering what happened to their youth, while changing the rules and laws to benefit themselves and their future retirement at the expense of even their own children, as these youth are busy with the impression of changing the world (to the extent that we allow and promote) and realizing the middle-agers are becoming corrupt and are responsible for their lower work standards, wages, and seemingly poor economic outlook. This never-ending cycle will be repeated until the end of time, as we will always be there to corrupt the middle-aged and guide the youth into middle age. I would promote disparaging nicknames for each new generation through the media (such as Generation X), providing continuous negative commentary on the supposed fact that each new generation is “lost” or “misguided”.
5. I would decimate or make illegitimate the idea of the “role model” or “hero”.
By slowly changing the perceptions of the younger sections of our society who would ordinarily admire and strive to seek vocational, heroic, professional, or even family oriented individuals as their mentors… I would flood the media and entertainment outlets, including large percentages of the news, with sports and sports figures: individuals who in the eyes of our youth would become like idols. (Also: rock stars, actors, entertainers, models, porn stars, etc…). Thus, regardless of the fact that the chances of success in professional sports are literally a one in a million long shot, the perception that this or other non-realistic goals are attainable will illogically take precedence over scholastic goals and realistic career choices. So much so, that most youth will put such a low emphasis on education that they will be easily assimilated into the skill-less workforce which will tower up around them, and which will be the only alternative to their dreams. Farming, ranching, industry, health-care, fire-fighting, and so many other essential vocations would be reduced to second-chance jobs; consolations whose standards and practices we would simultaneously yet incrementally lower over time in order to accommodate the 99.9% of failures to these idealistic, popular, unrealistic dream jobs and sports star aspirations.
6. I would shift the countries independent export economy into a dependant import economy.
Simply put, I would ruin the food and agricultural economy at home by imposing inane mandates and laws through a central governing body (like the FDA) which again is funded by us, replacing wholesome and nutritious crops with unnecessary and unhealthful commodities that could be traded predictably and profitably as futures, for the purposes of producing non-food items such as fuel (like ethanol), feed crops (like hay and aleph-alpha), and filler foods (such as soy beans). I would impose government subsidies or incentives for farmers to switch from growing healthy food to growing what we wanted them to grow. In this way, a farm eventually could not operate without money from the government, which as you remember, is controlled and funded by me, through your taxes. I would slowly invest in all of the seeds and seed companies which farmers must buy to plant their fields each year, and once we owned a majority of these seeds – including ones we genetically modify and then patent as intellectual property so that no one may use them without our permission, I would pass legislation that farmers be required to buy my seeds and use my pesticides or pay heavy fines. I would design these seeds so that they’re fruit would bear no seeds of their own, thus forcing farmers to buy new seeds every year, instead of traditionally re-using the seeds which were produced in the previous years crop yield. Thus, by incrementally slowing or stopping the production of common whole and nutritious fruits, vegetables, and nuts in this county, America would then be forced to purchase from other countries (import) most of it’s eatable produce. Of course I would also have control of these countries of export, meaning that we would be making the profits from this international trade and would also be able to set the health, pesticide use, and growing standards for these foreign and domestic farms of import. I would then sabotage the laws regarding the labeling of nutrition information on these foodstuffs, so that the facts about where they were grown, whether or not they’re organic or GMO (genetically modified organisms), and they’re nutrition information would no longer be required to be listed by U.S, international, or United Nations law. Of course we would have the corporations that produce these pesticides and GMO seeds and foods in our back pockets, and award lucrative, no-bid contracts to them for “research and development” purposes, in exchange for huge kickbacks to us, systematically destroying any smaller independent companies who seek market shares in the food industry. And finally, once the industry was in ruins and the food market and farmers were in serious trouble, I would establish a new governmental body controlled by me to replace the FDA, which would be “legally” voted in by the congress and senate, whom of course we would control with equally transparent strings, and signed by the president. A few contrived or “false flag” food emergencies and contaminations leading to total recalls of meat, dairy, or produce, would serve to help pass this new administration – under the guise of protecting the food supply, or for food safety. What better way to control people than to control the people’s food supply? Also, by allowing monopolistic corporations like Wall Mart and Target to overtake the marketplace (which would import most of their cheaply made products from Asian, African, and South American markets for pennies on the dollar, while putting quality American farms, manufacturers, and small businesses out of business), I would ensure a declining industrial and manufacturing base in America until the economy was almost completely consumer oriented and import dependant. Pride in one’s country would be incrementally destroyed, and younger generations would never know the difference as they seek work in the only industry remaining: the service industry. And finally, I would develop technology which would allow larger companies to outsource work to other countries for cheaper wages, even while American workers go unemployed, and not punish these companies for atrocities and crimes committed in these foreign places related to pollution, sweatshops, unfair wages and working conditions, and other human rights violations.
7. I would systematically dumb down the population through the destruction of its system of education, and through it’s entertainment outlets.
“Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.” – Aristotle: 384-322 B.C.
By slowly (incrementally) and legally altering the very definition of education over many years, I would transform the school system in this country from one of learning to one of socialization, liberalism (wealth sharing and welfare conscious), law enforcement, military, and non-skilled job training. I would organize a methodically efficient board of “education specialists” whose main objective is to covertly manipulate the parents and taxpayers into supporting controversial “education” programs (Sex Education, Health Education, Drug and Alcohol Education, Death Education, Critical Thinking Education, etc…) against their better judgment. I would liberalize the majority of kids and young adults in order to pressure the still critical thinking older conservative minority into submission and acceptance of this re-education process. I would slowly alter and rewrite the history books to reflect a more pro-military, pro-Federal Government, pro-world-government, anti-republic, pro-democracy, anti-Constitution, pro-socialism, pro-depopulation, and pro-illegal-immigration agenda, so that future citizens would conform easily to the incremental take-over of America by the United Nations and other international organizations, and bankers like us. I would replace critical thinking problems and exercises with multiple choice answer sheets. I would introduce machines for testing and grading, so that writing became obsolete. Fill in the blank would become fill in the bubble, with alternative test answers so obviously wrong that failure would be nearly impossible. I would first manipulate, and then require the use of teaching materials such as text-books, educational films, and other modified tools of education, basically re-writing history and text books so that our cause is cast in a positive light. I would then universally ban the use of certain non-fiction writings and all too relevant or realistic fiction books and movies in the classroom, to ensure the conformity of our new re-education process. Through media outlets I would change perceptions about home-schooling in the general populace, and then outlaw this form of education through use of the courts, mandatory inoculations, claiming parental incompetence, and threatening custody battles for non-compliance of education and vaccine laws.
8. I would attack the family structure in America.
A constant attack campaign on the traditional ideal of the family unit through media and news outlets would be employed. Its goal would be to destabilize the structure and bond of the family and to liberalize and empower women and children in order to turn them against their parents or spouses on most issues, and disrupt any natural harmony in the family unit. This combined with other assaults to the moral fabric of society, such as the establishment and acceptance of the abortion and porn industries, would surely reduce the reality of family for young people from an ideal to a consequence of unsafe sex. Homosexuality would be projected as fun and acceptable and laws would be passed to protect its sanctity, with dissent thereof to be punishable by federal and state laws. I would produce, introduce, and maintain harmful and even deadly sexually transmitted diseases in order to promote condoms, reinforce birth control, and contribute to our depopulation agenda through the communicable spread of these transmittable diseases and fear of sex. Christmas and Thanksgiving would be morphed into repulsive, twice a year get-togethers, which families would actually see as a dreadful experience and begin to feel disdain and even stress towards these once cherished holidays, while the actual spiritual meaning would loose out to consumer advertising, Santa Claus, and gift giving. Sons and daughters would lose any appreciation of the sacrifices their parents made for them while growing up, and would be too busy or not care enough to take care of their mother and father when old age, senility or health issues strike in later life. The very idea of the duty and responsibility of parental care would be transformed into a repulsive subject through media outlets. Convalescence would become a state responsibility through insurance and hospice centers with little or no quality of care. And these businesses along with pharmaceutical manufacturers would take over the industry of death, profitably prolonging misery and sickness while allowing their consumer-minded children to continue in their full-time work as contributing members of society, ignoring the natural duty of parental care. By changing the economy from an industrial and food producing country into a service, consumer, and skill-less work based society, longer work hours and the necessity of both parents to work, specifically mothers, would consequentially make home-schooling and family values begin to degrade. Nanny’s, teachers, and baby-sitters would log more hours with children than their actual parents possibly could, making the juxtaposition towards outside influences opposed to family values and parental influence unavoidable. This constant struggle would hopefully serve to drive a wedge between father and son, mother and daughter. Beloved animated movies and children’s programming, which might subtlety steer children away from the foundations of family and morals, would take the place of parental guidance and quality family time. Unhealthy, mentally debilitating, and disease causing snack foods would be pushed onto the palates of children through advertising on kids programming and cartoons, magazines, and in schools causing serious health, developmental, social, learning and behavioral problems. Simultaneously, pharmaceutical drugs that would counter these developmental problems would be introduced and prescribed as a cure for the contrived side effects of these poisonous food ingredients we have inundated the food supply with. Of course, these built in side effects of prescription drugs would make children docile, socially inept, and ultimately controllable for life. For as they get older, adult versions of these drugs would be made available as well, since almost all of the manufactured consumer food supply would eventually be tainted in this way. How? We would simply purchase or take over all food-manufacturing companies and destroy the farming, meat and dairy industries by forcing them to use our GMO seeds, growth hormones, and GMO feed for their livestock. Our FDA or equivalent governing body would ensure that this was done legally, imposing largely un-payable and probably bankrupt-able fines and taxation for non-compliance of the rules and regulations we set. Since most farmers would already be subsidized by us the government (us), they would be forced to comply or loose these subsidies and go out of business.
9. I would make all valuable and medically necessary drugs illegal, and covertly import illicit and addictive substances, ensuring they are dispensed throughout the nation by illegal means.
By owning or micro managing pharmaceutical companies and the drugs they manufacture, I would require that they be available by prescription only (illegal substances unless prescribed) and require a doctor to prescribe them. In this way, the medical industry (also controlled by me) will have a constant influx of citizens seeking permission to acquire illegal drugs through medical prescription. The slow sabotage and removal of healthy food choices, the inclusion of harmful substances into most manufactured food products, the fluoridation of the water supply, and the introduction of high fructose corn syrup and “sugar free” additives such as Aspartame and Sucralose would insure this influx of sick citizens with chemically induced illnesses. I would ensure the need of even more pharmaceutical drugs and prescriptions by systematically building side effects into these medicines, so that drugs to ease the side effects of the original drugs would be required. Knowing the cornucopia of health, medical, clothing and other benefits derived from hemp, I would equate this weed to the marijuana family of the cannabis plant in order to control its use and production, though it has no psychedelic or THC properties. Inversely, I would slowly (incrementally) make marijuana a medically permissible and easy to acquire prescription drug (still illegal) one state at a time, fooling the public into thinking that it is now a legal substance, as opposed to the still highly government grown, controlled illegal plant that it is. I would invade Afghanistan and take over the poppy seed fields, using low-level, uneducated enlisted army soldiers to guard the fields: pawns and cannon fodder who don’t ask questions. This would ensure the oversight and continued controlled production of mood-altering and addictive opium-based prescription drugs like Valium, Xanax, Provigial, and other anti-depressants and anti-anxieties, as well as illicit and more deadly addictive compounds like heroin. The Opium of the masses, as they say…
10. I would promote abortion as birth control.
I (we) would incrementally push the logic and righteousness of abortion as a legitimate form of birth control, specifically in the less wanted ethnicity groups (African-American, Hispanic, etc…). In this way, population control of what we as eugenicist’s consider the lesser forms of the human species with respect to race, geographic location, and poverty levels could be accomplished through the enabling powers of cooperative group-think acceptance. Simultaneously, we would set up “Family Guidance” centers (like Planned Parenthood), mostly in these poorer neighborhoods, sponsored by apparently altruistic means (like The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, The Ford Foundation, etc…). By offering free and at cost “services” like counseling and abortion procedures, eugenics would become an unfathomed reality. Also, we would establish such clinics in third world populations and require through international law these services by local and world government (United Nations) decree. Denial of “mentally unstable”, single, or financially inadequate mothers to the privilege of bearing a child would be necessary, and so forced abortions and one child policies would become commonplace and even eventually acceptable. Constant propaganda through mass media and respected public figures would reinforce the fallacious and deceptive worldly perspective that over-population is on the verge of destroying the planet. Thus, we would ensure a non-empathetic response from the masses as we depopulated the planet. Abortion would play a key role in this effort, ensuring that only evolutionally superior races would substantially propagate.
11. I would incrementally set up a surveillance grid, systematically requiring a national ID card, RFID, and biometric identification measures, ultimately leading to a computerized, plugged-in, cashless society in a complete and total control grid.
Slowly building confidence in the public through the media and entertainment venues, shows like Cops, America’s Funniest Home Videos, Candid Camera, Cheaters, and “undercover investigative” news programs would be used to push public acceptance of the positive and entertaining effects that constant surveillance and closed circuit television (CCTV) have on a society through crime-prevention and security. “Reality shows” like Big Brother, The Real World, and many others would be created to downplay the intrusiveness of cameras in the home and to get the masses used to being under 24 hour surveillance. A total surveillance grid could then be slowly (incrementally) put into place – virtually under (or over) the noses of the public – in the form of traffic light cameras, built-in computer web-cameras, security cameras on every corner, cable box and video game console cameras, satellite high definition surveillance feeds, and eventually mandatory government monitored in-home cameras (first in child custody and criminal cases, and later for every home), as well as digital wireless wire taps, cell-phone conversation recordings, collection and filing of text messages and emails (in federal fusion centers), and tracking through GPS positioning on cell-phones, products, and ID cards containing RFID tags, RFID embedded car license plates and on-board services like On-star and other GPS based devices. Playing on the ease and convenience of ATM, credit card, radio frequency ID (RFID), microchip, and other paper-free solutions, I would then push to make cash an obsolete form of payment, incrementally phasing out paper money in lieu of bank cards, credit and biometric scanning (thumb, body, and eye scans). By creating a cashless society, all forms of payment could then be tracked without discrepancy, taxed without fail, clandestinely monitored for suspicious activities (against us), sold to product placement organizations, and would ensure that the privacy of cash transactions be abolished. In this way, a total control and tracking system of all money and wealth would be accomplished. If a citizen steps out of line or is found to be contemptuous of the puppet government or our new social order, this dissenter and anyone involved with him would be shut off, his credit and digital bank account drained, his life ruined or his rendition approved… squashing any rebellion before it can receive adequate funding or become an menace to us. Also, by requiring permits for any type of protest or group meetings or gatherings, no unapproved, underground, political, or dissenting clubs or groups would be able to be formed, and secrecy would be increasingly difficult for these groups to maintain. They could easily be infiltrated, assigned provocateurs and watchers, and be remotely listened to or spied upon through cell phones and other clandestine listening and recording devices.
12. I would ask citizens to monitor the actions of other citizens and offer rewards for tips and information, so that the people began to police themselves.
With the fear of being turned in or reported by their neighbors and friends, policies of conservation, curfew, housing conformity, rationing, wealth-sharing, auto maintenance, yard maintenance, diet guidelines, child welfare, association codes, criminal activity, public displays of emotion or affection, visitor logs, and general societal conformity would be strictly adhered to for fear of fines, confiscation, child custody loss, and imprisonment for violation of the law. Punishment would be a constant fear no matter where a citizen traveled. A small percent of the population would thrive on this type of “tattletale” behavior and feel empowered by it… and even volunteer to be trained as unpaid “thought police”. The use of RFID readers could be implemented here so that no cases of mistaken identity could take place, ensuring the total accuracy of citizen reporting (once the cataloging and mandatory RFID chipping of the population had taken place).
13. I would give law enforcement powers to private security firms and use them to police the masses.
Blackwater, Bid Patrol, and other private security mega firms and corporations would be given no-bid contracts to assist police in their patrol and monitoring of the citizenry, once presidential directives and legislature mixed with secretive martial law mandates were put into effect. I would give these private security patrols “stand down” power, meaning they would have authority over state and local police officers. Felons, disgruntled immigrants, ex-military, dishonorably discharged ex-military and police, and other undesirables in law enforcement would be sought after to fill the ranks of these security firms. This would accomplish the same loyalty to the security firm as it would to such organizations as the mafia, and ensure the willingness to fire upon, arrest, and force civilians into internment camps: innocent men, woman and children. Foreign soldiers would also be utilized (through the United Nations or similar global governing body), since firing upon and imprisoning a foreign populace is not as difficult as firing on your own countrymen.
14. I would start a media empire (like Hollywood) in order to subliminally project our views, policies, and propaganda through the entertainment industry.
We would write and produce books, movies, and television series that actually tell the people of our plans, but that are portrayed in a way that makes them seem fictional or even impossible. Thus, the masses would train themselves that terms like world government, conspiracy theory, New World Order, Illuminati, Free Masonry, secret societies, and Big Brother to name a few, are ridiculously unreal concepts and that the people who talk about them are crazy or insane conspiracy theorists. At the same time, these media outlets would covertly project our controversial themes and ideals such as global depopulation, eugenics, sterilization, quarantine and forced vaccination, the correctness of war, illogical patriotism towards these wars and the country, belief in the holocaust, placement of troops in the streets against the very Constitutional laws forbidding it, color (green) revolutions, political correctness, non-rebellion, anti-Constitutional views, pro-police state views, surveillance and tracking, positive or humorous drug and alcohol use, desensitization from blood, torture, police brutality, and violence, and many other global themes. I (we) would feminize the idea of the masculinity of men, promoting the positive aspects of homosexuality, and give the impression through television and movies that women are stronger and more intelligent than men, and that men are the unintelligent dreg of society.
15. I would degrade the quality of music and its lyrics to the point that, only through intense repetition and hype could a song be liked or accepted as popular music.
After incrementally purchasing or corporately taking over almost all of the radio stations in the country, as well as the corporations which produce, chart, and sell such music, I would only allow to be aired on radio those songs and bands whose lyrics were non-dissenting, non-anti-government, non-anti-war, and generally degrading towards women, police, family values and morals. By establishing a federal censoring hub (such as the CDC) I could ensure that only group approved themes and conforming lyrical messages get airplay. I would force popular music to be kid and high school oriented: so immature in fact, that older generations would not be able to relate to the childlike, unimpressive, and immature messages in the music. I would actively discredit culturally significant forms of music and label them as alternative, unpopular, or old. In retrospect, I would disassemble music programs in public schools through budget cuts to reinforce the cultural hole I’ve created by these actions, filling that hole with sports and other non-vocational activities and re-educational types of subjects. I would create nationally syndicated talent shows in order to let the “voting” public decide their favorite entertainer, and then contractually exploit their “choice” as the next big thing. I would ensure that drugs and alcohol be introduced and/or sustained within bands to ensure the short lived legendary status of truly great musicians and artists.
16. I would build a corporate empire out of the prison industry.
I would imprison at least 1% (1 out of 100 people = 3 million people) of the entire United States population and hold that minimum internment percentage on a permanent basis. I would in turn grant government and corporate business contracts to these private, state, and federally run prisons, essentially turning them into forced labor camps, paying much less than minimum wage and saving our corporate partners huge amounts of capital. Funding for the overhead of these prisons could easily be taken from each state tax fund, and this would continually help to keep states on an over-budget mode, forcing state debt to our central banks through their borrowing to pay for their falsely inflated budgets. I would project a sense of the righteousness of these prisons through media and entertainment, blacking out of the news the true nature of these facilities as indentured servitude, for-profit institutions.
17. I would form an international representative group of all countries (very much like the United Nations) in the name of international law, conservation, and humanitarian efforts to halt poverty and hunger… and slowly (incrementally) turn over the country, its military, and its laws to this group.
While the state and local propositions and laws would have the illusion of being decided by ballot initiatives as well as local and state legislature, I would ensure that through presidential directives, federal mandates, congressional billing, and senatorial decree, that the law and power structure in the United States and world-wide would be transferred steadily yet incrementally over time to this international, or new world government (order). I would keep this information secret from the public for as long as possible, and even project it (the U.N.) as weak and un-influential in world and U.S. policy through the controlled media.
18. I would implement social networking websites.
Sites like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube would be portrayed as the ultimate form of expression, where your virtual self can be free of physical constraints, and where you can say whatever you want without fear of persecution, castigation, or criminal charges. In reality, they would become voluntarily storable catalogs of each citizens’ personal information, tastes, likes, dislikes, product placement preferences, sexual preferences, criminal thought processes, buying habits, musical tastes, legal and illegal download and upload histories, future plans and travel destinations, conformity scale (susceptibility to brainwashing and hypnotic suggestion), opinions about their puppet government, and weather or not they have an actual comprehension of their ruling elite class (us).
19. I would slowly (incrementally) and covertly gain influence over religious institutions as a means to further control the easily suggestible church-going masses.
“What better way to conquer a nation, than to take away it’s spiritual release?” – The Fixx: 1986
I would place on the payroll and give airtime to the most charismatic of evangelical speakers to preach the word of God, as I would require it to be projected. In turn, these evangelists would subvert the churches and use their members by way of voting in elections for our interests on measures, initiatives, and for certain two-party candidates. Through a Federal regulatory body (like F.E.M.A.), I would institute a set of mandates to religious leaders, ideals like gun control, gun bans and confiscation, obeying the laws of the land no matter how tyrannical, and submitting to checkpoints and internment or “relocation” camps without crime or guilt in the case of quarantine or martial law. In turn, these mandates would be passed down to individual church ministers across the land, dubbed – Clergy Response Teams – which would include these mandates as part of their lessons and sermons. A general message to obey and submit to the government by decree of God would be disseminated through these institutions of faith, as well as the use of only non-violent, peaceful response or protest.
20. I would project a constant state of irrational fear onto the hearts and minds of all citizens through our corporate controlled media.
In a state of perpetual fear, hypnotized citizens would become compliant, develop controllable patriotism in support of warfare, and concede to the willingness to relinquish rights and freedoms in exchange for government protection and intervention… and to the loss of their individual liberties. Therefore, I would ensure that through lies, false flag (government staged) terrorist attacks, media propaganda, seemingly humanitarian efforts, and the alleged spread of freedom and democracy throughout the world, the perception of imminent threat be thrust onto the citizenry in return for their support of our corporate take-over of the world through military intervention and occupation. Our ownership of the media would ensure that the United States was always portrayed in a positive light, while the millions of innocent men, women, and children who are in the way of our progress are continuously bombed, killed, displaced, and forcibly removed from their homeland… blaming the terrorists (us) and insurgents (native people fighting to preserve their homeland we invade – or us playing this part) for the many war crimes and atrocities we deliver. After destroying the infrastructure of the country we occupy (the electric grid, water supply, gas lines, living conditions, food stocks, and supplies) I would award taxpayer funded no-bid contracts to our own corporations who would, in a deliberately slow and sub-standard fashion, rebuild the economy and restore the weakened (by us) infrastructure. I would place a U.S. government friendly leader or dictator in power who would have no recourse but to sign over the newly built up economy (food, mineral deposits, oil, water, etc…) as debt paid to the United States (or the United Nations) for our “help” in the restoration of the their country and its infrastructure (which again, we destroyed in the first place). If the new leader has a change of heart and refuses to continue to pay the debt at the expense of his peoples welfare, instead using the profits to actually help rebuild and assist in the livelihood of his or her people and country… we would simply invent a new reason to attack and occupy that country, assassinate or forcibly remove that U.S. funded and appointed leader or dictator, stage a political coo to remove the leader through subversion of the countries media or through our (CIA, MI6, or Mossad) assets, and start the whole process over again. I would continually stage nearly successful terrorist plots, which were narrowly avoided using “known terrorists” (our agents and assets) as suspects, and continuously televise these events. The continuance of these never-ending warlike operations, campaigns, and occupations would be necessary to keep the terror scheme in motion (but never actual declarations of war, since that would involve Geneva Convention war crimes and other human rights law protections and restrictions). Torture, indefinite imprisonment, rendition, assassination, and other usual “war crimes” would be incrementally publicized to the masses as acceptable forms of interrogation and prisoner management, since these are only crimes during “declared” wartime. However, the “War On Terror” would not fall under the category of declared war, but instead as an offensive and preventative measure for the protection of the homeland. The use of private security contractors (like Blackwater) for these actions would be most imperative for the success of this type psychological operation, since they are not subject to U.S. military law while serving privately in other foreign regions.
21. I would kill the 2nd Amendment, ban all guns and ammunition, and disarm the public.
Through news media, movies, uninformed “liberal” revolutions, and staged (false flag) shootings at schools and in public places, the right to own firearms would be challenged on a daily basis from all sides though the constant projection of these incidents. Gang shootings, domestic violence, crime, and suicide with gun-related angles would be the headlines and main stories on news programs, newspapers, and editorials by highly respected public figures and news-castors, which are actually change-agents on our (CIA) payroll. This increase in gun-related incidents would seem true due to our constant publicity of it, and despite the actual lessening of gun-violence statistics in America due to the fluoridated water supply, prescription anti-depressants and other calming medications, and through our psych campaigns. “Clergy response teams” (local priests and key religious figures) would be instructed to preach about the evil of gun-ownership, why they should be banned, and for good churchgoers to obey the laws of confiscation – and all “laws of the land”. Gun rights groups would be portrayed in a dark light through extremely emotionally disheartening anti-gun documentaries funded by us and pushed by the controlled media (though they appear to be grass-roots, very much like Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine”). The more these groups appeared to be outlawed and crazy, the more guns would be universally disliked. Of course, as board members and owners of the largest weapons manufacturing companies in the world, we would still distribute guns and other weapons to foreign countries we later intend to attack, occupy, use the armies of to invade other countries – including our own, or use them as large-scale media examples of why guns are evil. As with other Constitutional infringements, clandestine legislation would be passed in our corrupt, bought and paid for legislature long before the actual confiscations would take place, which would allow us to outlaw guns under “extraordinary circumstances”. Of course, we would then manufacture an extraordinary circumstance, event, plague, riot, revolution, or other reason to ban guns which would comply with that previous legislation, that would allow us to declare martial law if necessary, and to unconstitutionally place the military on public streets per that legislation. The logical incremental order of this process would be: (1) guns released into society by us to gangs and criminal elements, (2) hunting portrayed as cruelty to animals, (3) gun vilification, (4) gun registration, (5) mandatory licenses to carry a gun, (6) bullet registration, (7) automatic (machine) gun ban and confiscation, (8) semi-automatic gun ban and confiscation, (9) handgun confiscation, (10) collectable weapon confiscation, (11) hunting to be outlawed, (12) total rifle confiscation, (13) bow and arrow confiscation, (14) and finally knife and sword vilification and later (15) confiscation.
22. I would implement a psychological warfare campaign through all of my resources that would convince the masses that non-violent protest is the only politically correct form of dissent.
This is perhaps our most important objective, for keeping these naïve unsuspecting slaves under absolute dominative power and control by only a handful of men is absolutely required… for if even 2% of the people ever united as one and fought back against us with the 2nd Amendment behind them, they would without question defeat us and our goals. Despite the fact that the United States is celebrated as historically winning its independence only through violent revolution against England and its monarchy, and that it was written by one of it’s founders, Benjamin Franklin that, “Occasionally, the tree of liberty must be stained with the blood of tyrants and patriots.” I would convince the people that although we – as an elite minority – work completely outside of and free from the constraints of the laws that supposedly govern us all, they (the people) must work only from within them. This hidden paradox is the key to our success. Through red tape and corruption in the highest levels of the government and in the court system, we would ensure that no punishment or consequences would befall any in our faction. Though we would allow for protests and dissenting views, they would receive no media attention and would eventually only be allowed in what we might call “free-speech zones”, by permission of a permit, and under police surveillance in a blocked off area away from the actual thing being protested. We would portray these dissenters as racist, unpatriotic, violent extremists, and anti-American. We would actively portray militia groups in the same light. We would make movies like ‘Gandhi’, which would reinforce the fact that non-violent protest is actually a viable form of implementing change, though in truth much violence ensued during that particular part of history, and no peaceful resistance has ever changed or replaced a government. We would use deterrents like police brutality and the arresting of protesters as scare tactics to prevent others from protesting at later dates. Once again, conformity would be garnered and the feeling of helplessness would be etched into the patriot movement since they would gain no access to our controlled medias, except the dark light that I would allow to be shown on them. Only the craziest fringe elements of these groups would be given the media spotlight, as well as our imposters and provocateurs posing as parts of these groups, discrediting the rest of the movement in the eyes of our media viewers. Lastly, under the guise of some unfathomable and improvable medical benefit, I would poison the country’s water supply with a toxin that would subdue its victims, ensuring complacency and eliminating the urge to fight back against our tyranny. Fluoride would be the ideal substance for this, since it was tested and worked beautifully in the Nazi concentration camps and in other tests on populations and prisoners in the early 1900’s. It also has the added benefit of causing osteoporosis and other toxic bone and tissue disease, which would increase profits in our medical and pharmaceutical endeavors. And, since fluoride is the waste product of the aluminum industry, our conglomerates will save millions of dollars from not having to dispose of this highly toxic substance, and instead would make a profit from selling this byproduct to the government. Everyone wins!
23. I would destroy man’s symbiotic connection and dependence on nature, replacing it with a dependence on my corporations, products, and institutions which would actually purge over time the ancient and intimate knowledge of farming, ranching, and natural medicines and healing, and eliminate the peoples capability of real self-sustainability, ethics, respect for nature, and even their love for one another.
“They took all the trees, and put them in a tree museum, and charge us all a dollar and a half to see them… They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.” – Joni Mitchell
By transforming the rugged natural terrain and beauty of rural areas, cities, and communities into landscaped, manicured, manufactured, and easily recognizable or familiar settings (i.e. strip malls, grocery stores, fast food, department stores, recognizable chain stores, etc…) the feeling of comfort and unending sustenance would be established. So much so in fact, that roads would merely become paths to the next set of the same brand name stores, and travelers would be disappointed at having to try something new. Vacationers would begin to prefer a hotel with a chlorinated pool as opposed to natural beauty of a lakeside cabin. They would begin to leave unpopulated areas alone, except to populate them with more of the same. They would begin to care less about these wild places, not even noticing as species extinction, depopulation, mass pollution, and deforestation was taking place. And since I or my colleagues and co-conspirators would own the majority of environmental foundations and clubs, this type of news would never even reach the ears of the average consumer, and they would instead be sold on protecting species who need no protection at all. For instance, I would force farmers off their land by denying them water, making the land worthless to grow food. I would simply make these now liberalized consumers believe that a fish or bird, which was dependent on that water for its very survival, was going extinct due to the divergence of that water. No proof would be needed as long as it was presented in an emotional media campaign backed by our environmental groups. The water would be diverted by legislative act, the land would dry up, the farmers and their families would be forced to move off the newly infertile and dry farmland, and the vacant land would be ripe for the picking so to speak, under the guise of a drought or water crisis. Food shortages would be a welcome side effect of this land grab, making food prices soar and only benefiting our corporate partners, not to mention some starvation leading to more depopulation. A general lack of appreciation for nature would thus ensue, and would even manifest in the most inundated of city dwellers as abhorrence for anything natural, dirty, or living (animals, bugs, weeds, dirt, etc…). Un-manicured or uninhabited wild areas within or on the edge of these cities would be considered dirty and uncivilized. These still natural unpopulated areas would then lose value, both organically and monetarily, leaving vast expanses of undesirable land to be bought up by our companies for pennies on the dollar. Concern for those who we would force off of these sparse locations, families who might have settled that land hundreds of years previous, would be non-existent due to our control of the media. I would use eminent domain to forcibly buy their property either in the name of conservation or for government need. I would then, after a necessary period of time, use that land for mining, drilling, logging, factories, highways, or other reasons and resource management which were opposite of the supposed altruistic reasons that we originally acquired it. In this way, I would eventually force all people to live in the unnatural, unappealing, unhealthy, competitive, socialistic, non-self-sustaining, and smart grid biometrically wired mega-cities I would incrementally set up.
In a setting of constant competition, the system of ethics in the workplace could be suppressed or even eliminated. In a “dog-eat-dog-world” which I would create… manipulation, cutting corners, and even lying, cheating and stealing would be rewarded with promotion, praise and bonuses. Persons who either through proper upbringing or are morally and ethically idealistic by nature, would be forced to conform, quit, or become stagnant in their workplace. I would project this noble value system as unproductive, making it appear weak in the eyes of business management – though the opposite is true – so that non-conformity to the competitive system would leave the most strong-willed of people in a constant state of melancholy and dejection, never being able to get ahead. This would ensure only the most ruthless competitors would remain in charge, and serve to ensure that this competitive, non-ethical work environment would ultimately stay in place… eventually without even our supervision. As before, re-education in schools, media, and entertainment venues would be used to reinforce this conundrum. ‘From the top’ memos and propaganda from our CEO’s and board member meetings would also be used to strengthen this resolve and underpin these desired non-ethics, which would be repeated over and over again by news anchors and portrayed in television and film for reinforcement.
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This not-so-fictional work is very much what I see happening in this country today. Through the organizations and funds of the United Nations, our country has incrementally lost its independence from foreign domination. Be it England and its queen or the United Nations and its ambassadors, the effectual tyrannical rule is the same. The cost is astounding. And the loss of liberty is unacceptable. Our military is now under the control of this world governing body, and is unconstitutionally being used to patrol our streets and occupy the world. Our leaders are under its influence, and its policies are now our own.
The only way to stop this tyranny and to regain our sovereignty as a free nation is for the people to stand up as one united group and demand from our leaders that the United States, its government, and its legislature must immediately and unequivocally withdraw from the United Nations with no-strings-attached. The longer we wait, the more ingrained we will be in U.N. sanctions and red tape, and the harder it will be to get out. This is our last chance as an independent country; for the policies of this wicked organization has all but engulfed our constitution, our rights, and our freedoms with its anti-sovereign, pro eugenic agendas. If we don’t make a stand against our own corrupt government and this horrific United Nations stranglehold over our country, then the concept of America as a free and sovereign nation is all but over.
Freedom is not free. We must fight for it… together.
I hope that it is not too late.
God speed.
Clint Richardson (realitybloger.wordpress.com)
September 16, 2009
*** My wholehearted thanks to the true heroes, researchers, and patriots like Alex Jones, Steve Quayle, Mike Rivero, Alan Watt, Ron Paul, and so many others before them who have risked or lost their lives in the uncovering, publication, and exposing of these elites and their horrific agendas of which I speak, and which I assure you without hesitation are as real as you or me. They have opened my eyes to reality, and because of them I can attest that the truth will indeed set you free. Please turn off your televisions (controlled media outlets) and visit and support these brave people by clicking on their names, which will link to their websites. Read, listen, learn, and be free…
Even if you’re not even registered, your friends will torture you with messages to join them on their network. The most famous social websites are the ones like MySpace and Facebook. The network you choose will depend on where most of your family and friends are registered. But why do we even bother to join these kinds of networks? And what do we even do with it after signing up?
The main reason that I joined a social network is that I can keep in touch with my foreign friends. I travel a lot and therefore I’ll meet many international people who I still want to have contact with after I got back home. The fact is that I only sent them one or two messages and after a while both can’t even be bothered to maintain this ‘friendship.’ Even though you probably never hear from them again, you’ll still keep them in your list. Probably just in case you’ll travel through their country and need a place to crash.
What I also notice on these sites, is that people can make a real competition out of networking. Some are just going for the biggest group of ‘friends’ and accept anyone that comes in their way. I really don’t see the point in this, because this way anyone can see your profile and god knows what they can do with it. With me, no one I don’t personally know will even stand a chance in getting accepted as a friend.
For me a social network site is just a way to communicate with my friends when I cannot contact them in any other way. I still prefer the phone or even e-mail, so no one else can join our personal conversation.
Your hobby’s, favourite books, music and your personal photo’s. Profile sites are a huge hype on the internet. After Facebook, Msn Space, and the popular website Hyves, MySpace has developed into the platform for upcoming bands.
It started out as a very common profile site; members would make their own profile including blogs, photo’s and forums. They could make friends and send each other messages. Just like any other site of its kind. But the thing about MySpace was that you could put your own recorded songs on it, it turned MySpace into a very know site, especially for music lovers.
This offered the outcome for young, upcoming bands and musicians, because a profile site is the way to network. Members who shared the same taste in music could become friends and send each other the music that they liked and also exchange useful suggestions.
The goal of beginning musicians was that members would pick up their songs, so the musicians could enjoy their fifteen minutes of fame. Or even better, a little more than those few minutes.
Many bands started to get more famous by the day because of MySpace. A good example are the British Arctic Monkeys; four teens from Sheffield who created a site for fans to visit on MySpace. Because of this, their own songs got hugely popular, even so that their first official single already got out, and the Arctic monkeys played on stages which were fully sold-out. And all this before they even got signed in on a record label.
Record companies claim that they don’t look at the charts anymore to tell them whether the band is a hit or not, they look at how many friends a band has on MySpace to make that conclusion. That’s understandable with at least 72 million own members, and 14 million visitors a day!
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“Wake Up the Sleepers” címmel jelenik meg hamarosan a Kill Hannah várva várt új nagylemeze, melynek számlistáját mi már tudjuk, és most Veletek is megosztjuk a tovább után. A lipszlájkmorfin-os csapat lemeze egyébként 14 nap és kicsivel kevesebb, mint 8 óra múlva jelenik meg az Original Signal/Universal szárnyai alatt, és két számot róla már hallhattok is a srácok MySpace profilján.
Kill Hannah – Wake Up the Sleepers
1) RADIO 2) SNOWBLINDED 3) NEW YORK CITY SPEED 4) LIVING IN MISERY 5) STROBE LIGHTS 6) GRANDMA’S SAD EYES 7) TOKYO 8) MOUTH TO MOUTH 9) VULTURES 10) ESCAPE ARTISTRY 11) ACID RAIN 12) LAIKA 13) PROMISE ME
1966 Meets 2009
I first found out about myspace back in 2004. I was on a flight to LA when a young woman I met thought it may be a cool place I’d like to check out. We were talking about bands and of course every other creative idea you can kick around with someone who enjoys art, design and music. For me MySpace became a location I could find new artists, check out the latest bands and meet new friends.
In the US perhaps as a social network MySpace has been replaced by Facebook and Twitter…but for bands, promoting your music and allowing you to reach new fans still has its value.
Bye Bye Bicycle
On the 26:th of August Bye Bye Bicycle released their new album “Compass” in Sweden. So how did a guy in Ohio stumble upon them. And how would I have ever seen there videos or checked out there music if it wasn’t for MySpace or YouTube. Unlikely that I wouldn’t have. Not only is the band worth a listen. And oh yeah they use MySpace as a vehicle to share their sound…but they have pretty good taste for cover art.
The Pioneers of Conceptual and Modern architecture
Bye Bye Bicycle’s debut album “Compass” utilizes the great works of Adolfo Natalin and Gian Piero Frassinelli illustrations from the Italian architecture group Superstudio. These illustrations were made and originally used in 1966 and are “true classics”, containing style and ideals that will live on forever.
2PM member JaeBum’s last performance at the InCheon Korea Music Wave Festival in Korea before he left group 2PM and went back to the States was aired on 12th September.
And after the last performance, JaeBum was seen doing a 90 degrees bow to show how sorry he. This scene has got fans and netizens feeling more heartbroken.
Go under the cut for:
* Petition to get JaeBum back to Korea gets 160K netizens’ support
* Tourism board travel event for member Nich Khun gets postponed again and again
Netizens say,
* “It is heartbreaking to know that this is JaeBum’s last performance”
* “I wish this isn’t his last performance”
* “My heart hurts”
* “I wish JaeBum would come back”
* “So thankful we get to see his last performance”
Meanwhile, it is said that over 160K netizens have participated in a petition on Agora titled ‘Can’t send JaeBum away like that’ online.
2PM fans say, “Don’t run away. We can’t send you away just like that. Only when you really can’t stay and promote in Korea anymore, then you can leave! But not now.”
The petition started from 8th September, and until 12th September it has received over 160,000 support. At about 4pm on 12th September, there were 161,515 netizens who had participated in the petition.
Fans are also doing exercises and boycott against JYP if the group is to promote as 6 members and will only return support until the group is 7 members again.
With that, the event ‘Travel to Thailand with Nich Khun’ by M Travel Agency has also been postponed several times. There were originally about 100 participants for the event to go on a travel trip with Nich Khun to Phuket/Bangkok for 5 days, but due to the boycott, fans have withdrawn from the event, and there are only about 30 confirmed participants for it.
Also, 2PM’s fanclub Hottest will also be having a silent protest outside JYP’s office building at 2pm on 13th September to ask for 2PM leader JaeBum to return to the group.
Meanwhile, JaeBum has left 2PM and also Korea on 8th September, 4 days after the backlashes from the revelation of his pre-debut messages posted on MySpace.
Park Jin Young also issued an official statement on 10th September.
I really have to ask myself this question, and I sign up for a Pimp-My-Profile account at 2:30 AM on a Friday night. I know people don’t use it anymore and I hardly check into it. But lately I’m kind of over Facebook.
FB is cool for old friends and people you don’t know… but… if you want to hear some new music, connect with some interesting creators,or just have a place where people can interact with the stuff you are making, well, MySpace kind of rocks.
It’s tools have gotten a lot better, ala wanting to compete with FB, even if a little late. That being said, I am having a lot of fun making a profile, linking with interesting musicians and connecting with other creators.
I am about to have a conversation with you that will have you laughing at me, shaking your head and probably rolling your eyes at the ridiculousness of “today’s youth” (wait, do I still count as today’s youth? Or is that reserved for the naive youngsters I complain about on occasion? Guess we’ll never know…).
Only in the noughties would such a subject arise. Especially from my mouth keyboard. Yes, much to my own dismay, I am going to add to the numerous conversations on social networking.
I ‘discovered’ social networking rather late in the game, apparently; I found out about Myspace on the Tyra show in late 2006. She was interviewing Tom, and I had no idea who he was or what on earth they were talking about. This is probably not unexpected, being that at that time I had only owned my own computer for about a year (that’s right, I didn’t even think about buying a computer until I was 20. Even then it was only because I needed it to study. Blasphemy, I know), and was still using those prepaid internet disc things. Anyway, I jumped online and typed in the address, set up an account and…Well, and nothing. I didn’t log back on for about a month. Seemed pretty boring and pointless to me.
Eventually, I fixed up my page, searched through some profiles and started adding friends. Then, I joined some groups, added even more friends and learnt how to “customise my profile”. I slowly started understanding it all, and spent more and more time checking my inbox and group posts. My friends consisted of people I had been friends with forever, a few family members and a couple of randoms. It became a great way to fill in time while the kidlings were napping, and I actually met some pretty cool people on there. One of which has been a very good friend of mine for four years now (or there abouts).
Later, I stumbled across the rival – Facebook. Ok, I didn’t so much stumble upon it, as embarrassed myself in a conversation where I uttered the unforgivable phrase “what’s a Facebook?”. Mind you, this was in late 2007. Late again, it seems. I had been wondering why Myspace was suddenly like a ghost town.
So this was where all of my friends were hiding! I set up an account, added all of my friends and family and started poking people right and left. Send a smiley? Sure! Put a bumper sticker on my profile? Why not! Send a gift? Don’t mind if I do!
After a few months, I had friend requests popping up all over the place from people whose names I hadn’t heard in years. Old school friends, people I had met randomly whose names I had to repeat to myself for about half an hour before I remembered who they were, family members I thought had fallen off the face of the earth…By 2008 I could have sworn I had “friended” about half of every school I’d been to, every living relative I have and about half the population of my home town.
This is where the confusion sets in.
I had requests from people who had teased me relentlessly as a teenager, who then sent me messages assuring me that they had grown up now and that they were so sorry for how they had treated me. Really? You can pop up on my screen ten years later and try and relinquish your guilt? I was floored every time.
I have ex boyfriends wanting to chat, people I’d hardly spoken a word to in years leaving me numerous wall posts as if we had been friends our whole lives, apologies/explanations in my inbox from people who hated me, and loving sentiments/statements of solidarity from people I hated. How on earth do you deal with all of this stuff? What exactly is the etiquette for blowing off someone you don’t want to be friends with in a world where everyone is a mutual friend and they keep popping up in that annoying “people you may know” box? Do you take the high road, add them and be friendly? Do you point out the ridiculousness of their actions and ignore them? Do you simply ignore them and hope it never comes up again? Do you add them and then ignore them?
In real life these problems are simple. You don’t like someone; you simply don’t see them again. How is it different? Where everyone is friends with everyone else, they can all see your conversations, know what you’re doing and have some kind of expectation that because you know them there has to be some kind of internet recognition. A kind of recognition that isn’t expected in the real world.
Even worse is when you’re on the other side of this equation. What happens when you request someone you used to know, and they ignore you completely? Normally this wouldn’t bother you at all. But you can see that they have added all of your friends. They all talk to each other, share updates and comment on each other’s photos. They have people on their friends list who they have barely talked to, but your friend request remains unanswered. Why, why won’t they acknowledge you! What happens if someone you knew well doesn’t want to be your friend? What did you do wrong? Did you offend them in some way you can’t quite remember?
From having missed the boat in a rather large way, I am now caught up in the intricacies and politics of social networking. Why does rejection in a virtual world seem so much more cutting than in everyday life? Is it because we see it every day, where we normally wouldn’t even think about these people? Does it simply exacerbate our innate insecurity to have someone publicly reject you? And why do we feel the need to add every single person we ever knew, even when it is clearly inappropriate?
I’m not sure of the answers. All I can say is, those who are trying to establish some kind of non-existent or long lost connection with me – please stop it. It’s over. It’s not you, it’s me…really. And those who are still ignoring me to their little hearts’ content….please, I need validation! I’m cute and ever so funny!
Some pretty shocking data for UK fans of the social networking site MySpace was highlighted last week, with the news that traffic to the site has now dropped behind that of microblogging site Twitter.
On one side, this is just more evidence of the amazing rise of Twitter in the UK (leading to London being described as the “capital of Twitter” by its CEO, Ev Williams) – and these site traffic stats actually only tell part of that story, due to the number of people using third-party applications to manage their Twitter accounts.
However what is more significant is such clear evidence for the apparent collapse of MySpace over here.
With the pace of change in the Web 2.0 world over the last few years, it’s easy to forget just how dominant MySpace looked in the UK market back in the early days of the online social networking goldrush. As a reminder, I dug-out a blog post I wrote ‘way back’ in early June 2007 – when it was Facebook that was the freshfaced newcomer showing what would now be described as ‘Twitterish’ growth…
Amazing to think that back then MySpace was sitting pretty on over 100m users worldwide, compared to Facebook’s mere 25m. The story since then has of course been dominated by Facebook – with it’s active user numbers reaching 250m by July this year, while MySpace growth has stalled such that even its dominance in the US social media market seems doomed.
All in all, a useful reminder never to take the social networking world for granted. It is still a far from mature marketplace and there is pretty well constant change going on out there, whether related to new functionality, shifting user demographics, or the simple departure of users altogether. All of which makes it essential for any marketers or fundraisers responsible for social media activity to keep an eye out for data that helps them understand just what’s happening, so as to help guide where to invest time and budgets when looking to engage with supporters online.
