Big media wants to criminalize the world - including you!

One of the biggest scams of the century and You thought the banks were bad?

SOPA, It's a Trojan Horse...  SOPA, the so-called "Stop Online Piracy Act."

Big Media companies spent 10 years and made millions of dollars giving away file sharing software and taught millions of kids how to specifically use it to pirate copyrighted material.

Now they're spending $100 million+ lobbying Congress to turn the very same behavior they facilitated into a felony.

The goal: a multi-billion pay day suing individual Internet users for "criminal" infringement. (They've already started.) And you and your kids may be next in their gunsights.

The commentator on this video is a brash and loud, but stick with it. He's got the facts cold.



Do you get this?

Singers Songwriters and Performing Artists have joined Internet media mogul Alki David and have re-filed a massive copyright infringement lawsuit implicating millions and potentially billions of dollars in revenues obtained by CBS subsidiaries CNET and CBS Interactive by fostering and popularizing piracy of copyrighted works.

The big media companies spent TEN YEARS giving away file sharing software and encouraging people to use it.

Go to the following web sites for thousands of pages of evidence and links to the original source research on the Internet Wayback Machine. Add this link to the video on your Facebook page  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIuYgIvKsc to spread the word.

http://onecandleinthedark.blogspot.com
http://www.cbsyousuck.com
http://www.justart.net
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'Music & Revolution: The Political is Personal'

Vanessa Daou
Dec. 9, 2011

From The Arab Spring uprisings to Occupy Wall Street, these last months have revealed an incendiary cultural and political landscape. Through the use of Social Media, we've become acutely aware that our lives are inextricably - inexorably - connected.



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FBI using Carrier IQ info for "law enforcement purposes," refuses to release records

By Jon Brodkin
ARSTechnica
Dec. 13, 2011

An enterprising advocate for openness in government has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the FBI for all information the agency uses related to Carrier IQ, the company under fire for monitoring user activity on smartphones—and his request was flatly denied.

The FBI claims data gathered by Carrier IQ software is exempt from disclosure laws because it is located in an investigative file that was "compiled for law enforcement purposes" and "could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings."

Michael Morisy, a journalist who founded an organization called MuckRock to ease the process of filing FOIA requests, wrote the FBI on Dec. 1 asking for "any manuals, documents or other written guidance used to access or analyze data gathered by programs developed or deployed by Carrier IQ.... In addition, I ask for expedited processing as this is a matter of immediate news interest: The existence of Carrier IQ's software was recently disclosed and has immediate ramifications on constitutionally protected privacy rights."

The FBI acknowledged receiving his request within a few days, and then issued a blanket denial, which cites a law exempting records from disclosure if releasing them could interfere with law enforcement proceedings. "In applying this exemption, I have determined that the records responsive to your request are law enforcement records; that there is a pending or prospective law enforcement proceeding relevant to these responsive records; and that release of the information contained in these responsive records could reasonably be expected to interfere with the enforcement proceedings," an FBI records management official named David Hardy wrote to Morisy.

As we noted in several stories in the past few weeks, Carrier IQ software is installed on more than 140 million phones, including various Androids and iPhones, although Apple says it is in the process of stripping it out.

Carrier IQ, handset manufacturers and wireless service providers have said the software is used only for diagnostic information to improve service, and that it is not used to record keystrokes or read users' messages.

However, the companies have faced questions from Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) and class-action lawsuits. How much data Carrier IQ collects from smartphones and what happens to it have not been fully answered, and the FBI's statement does not clarify whether it is investigating Carrier IQ to determine if its software violates any federal laws, or if it is using data from Carrier IQ for other investigations.

Morisy speculates that "What is still unclear is whether the FBI used Carrier IQ's software in its own investigations, whether it is currently investigating Carrier IQ, or whether it is some combination of both—not unlikely given the recent uproar over the practice coupled with the US intelligence communities reliance on third-party vendors. The response would seem to indicate at least the former, since the request was specifically for documents related directly to accessing and analyzing Carrier IQ data."

Morisy plans to appeal the FBI's denial of his public records request.

UPDATE: A Carrier IQ spokesperson has denied the company provided any information to the FBI, according to a report in VentureBeat. However, Carrier IQ data is provided to wireless carriers, so the FBI could have received the data in question from another source.

Source:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/fbi-using-carrier-iq-info-for-law-enforcement-purposes-refuses-to-release-records.ars
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GOP Site Plans To Infiltrate Liberal Sites With “Trolls”

Right-wing website RedState.com has offered a comprehensive plan for its followers to infiltrate left-wing sites by pretending to be progressives to hurt the Democratic Party.

NewsOne.com

July 28, 2011

The list of directions created by the site are below.


First, infiltrate the site.
For this, you will have to avoid creating screen names like “GoPalinGo” or “Heartlandredstater.” Also, some websites may actually have you wait a week before you are allowed to comment or blog. Perhaps, they are investigating the e-mail address you give them against whether it is used for a conservative website. Be sure to avoid that tendency; if you use, for example, aol.com screen name for RedState, make sure you use a yahoo e-mail address for Dailykos, or whatever.

Once you are there, the second part of the strategy is to gain their trust.
For this, you cannot be too overtly gung-ho conservative in your outlook. Instead, you sort of have to be the voice of a moderate liberal. This will take a lot of acting skill, but it could be done. For example, over at ThinkProgress, they had an article about how the folks in Alabama got what they deserved with the recent spate of tornadoes because their legislators did not believe in global warming. It took all my energies not to reach through the Internet and strangle these kooks, but I responded, “Well, that might be going a little too far…” Along the way, I gained the trust of certain posters on that thread.

The third step is to move the conversation in the direction you desire.
By doing this, you can then form the debate in terms you can win. For example, in the above story, although I said they were going too far in their comments, I moved the conversation somewhat by questioning whether the folks in Alabama would accept Federal funds to rebuild their lives. In other words, the subject was changed from a debate on global warming to one of fiscal responsibility.

Once there, you can then highjack the thread. In effect, you have changed the subject and tenor or the conversation and the writer of the original post has lost their ability to moderate the conversation and that creates a free-for-all that gets the conversation far off the original mark.

Of course, you will be accused of “threadjacking” or, worse (drumrolls please…) being a “troll.” To this I say, of course you are a troll and you should be proud of it. Embrace your status of being a “troll” on the liberal website and carry it through to its logical conclusion.

To put it bluntly: Embrace your inner troll. If they realize what is happening and accuse you of being a troll or such, or if they try to block you and your opinions, remind them of their support for the Fairness Doctrine and their reasoning for it- to ensure that both sides have a say- should allow you to have your say. Force them to practice what they preach.


Read the whole Redstate Plan Here:
These articles were all posted by a Redstate user named  "davenj1"
Googled "davenj1"

Weakening the Democratic Base

Weakening the Democratic Base-Part 1: The Black Vote

Weakening the Democratic Base- Part 2: Labor Unions

Weakening the Democratic Base, Part 3: The Media

Weakening the Democratic Base, Part 4: The Liberal Elites

Weakening the Democratic Base, Part 5: Liberal Netroots
Weakening the Democratic Base, Part 6: Academia
Weakening the Democratic Base, Part 7: Gay Activism

Originating Articles
http://pastebin.com/ge9HKUTk   #OpRedstate
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/gop-site-plans-to-infiltrate-progressive-with-trolls/
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Crisis: Who is Pulling the Strings?

By Daniel Estulin
Journalist Author
European Parliament Session
December 2, 2011




This is How Dictatorship Begins
Byoblu interviews Nigel Farage

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