The Barrage of Bad News

- By Bahram Maskanian

Fear, bad news, sadness, and disappointments are the most effective marketing and selling tools. Generally any form of upsetting, soul crushing and terrorizing news, or made-up bad information is to keep people down, at each other's throats, leaving folks no time, nor any energy to think about social, political and economic issues, read and communicate with others.

Discovered thousands of years ago when the patriarchal charlatans, the political hustlers learned that terrorizing and scaring common folks of naturally occurring phenomena, such as, but not limited to: floods, earthquakes, lightning storms, volcano eruptions and alike, as the wrath of a vengeful fictional male god and his first born son evil, been used to tax and forgive the common folk’s sins, promising them a non-existing heaven up in the sky, and eternal damnation in hell deep within Earth, to those who used their own brain, common sense, and dared to confront, question and dispute the very same political hustlers, or religious mullahs, and generally the fear of unknown, works miracles.

It is no secret that the nation-less corporations criminal owners have been making trillions of dollars utilizing the very same concepts of fear and bad news. Obviously until such time that we, the people, stop listening, the nation-less corporate criminal owners will not stop the fear and terrorizing campaign, that has been working very well, ever since and still in place and working very effectively today, directly benefiting and empowering the nation-less corporation’s criminal goons picking our pockets and killing our loved ones.

From public television, to public radio and all the rest of the nation-less press and media are all pushing the same agenda of fear and bad news, all the while when they are making billions of dollars from the gullible consumers, tax-subsidies, false advertisements and crappie warmongering and criminal training television shows filled with new methods of killing and destroying all in sight.

Stop donating money to these criminal greedy goons. Boycott these bastards and do not give them any money directly, or indirectly by purchasing what they are selling in form of advertisements, or so-called products placements throughout their crappie broadcast shows.

We MUST never forget that the KEY to human species success first and foremost is our natural inclination of collaboration, cooperation, community building and maintaining, thus generating that warm loving and supportive unifying feelings that could move mountains and heal the world.

And finally, beware of the bastards who under the disguise of futuristic advisory talks and book promotions, try to scare the pants off of you by using their many baseless and newly fabricated hypotheses, to influence and alter your perception, claiming to know of what future will bring, these talking heads whomever they maybe, should be dismissed and disregarded.

Remarkable Admission by Henry Kissinger

January 13, 2012 - PentaPostAgma - Greek News

Henry Kissinger: "If You Can't Hear the Drums of War You Must Be Deaf"

NEW YORK - USA - In a remarkable admission by former Nixon era Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, reveals what is happening at the moment in the world and particularly the Middle East.

Speaking from his luxurious Manhattan apartment, the elder statesman, who will be 89 in May, is all too forward with his analysis of the current situation in the world forum of Geo-politics and economics.

"The United States is bating China and Russia, and the final nail in the coffin will be Iran, which is, of course, the main target of Israel. We have allowed China to increase their military strength and Russia to recover from Sovietization, to give them a false sense of bravado, this will create an all together faster demise for them. We're like the sharp shooter daring the noob to pick up the gun, and when they try, it's bang bang. The coming war will will be so severe that only one superpower can win, and that's us folks. This is why the EU is in such a hurry to form a complete superstate because they know what is coming, and to survive, Europe will have to be one whole cohesive state. Their urgency tells me that they know full well that the big showdown is upon us. O how I have dreamed of this delightful moment."

"Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people."

Mr Kissinger then added: "If you are an ordinary person, then you can prepare yourself for war by moving to the countryside and building a farm, but you must take guns with you, as the hordes of starving will be roaming. Also, even though the elite will have their safe havens and specialist shelters, they must be just as careful during the war as the ordinary civilians, because their shelters can still be compromised."

After pausing for a few minutes to collect his thoughts, Mr Kissinger, carried on: "We told the military that we would have to take over seven Middle Eastern countries for their resources and they have nearly completed their job. We all know what I think of the military, but I have to say they have obeyed orders superfluously this time. It is just that last stepping stone, i.e. Iran which will really tip the balance. How long can China and Russia stand by and watch America clean up? The great Russian bear and Chinese sickle will be roused from their slumber and this is when Israel will have to fight with all its might and weapons to kill as many Arabs as it can. Hopefully if all goes well, half the Middle East will be Israeli."

"Our young have been trained well for the last decade or so on combat console games, it was interesting to see the new Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 game, which mirrors exactly what is to come in the near future with its predictive programming. Our young, in the US and West, are prepared because they have been programmed to be good soldiers, cannon fodder, and when they will be ordered to go out into the streets and fight those crazy Chins and Russkies, they will obey their orders. Out of the ashes we shall build a new society, there will only be one superpower left, and that one will be the global government that wins. Don't forget, the United States, has the best weapons, we have stuff that no other nation has, and we will introduce those weapons to the world when the time is right."

End of interview. Our reporter is ushered out of the room by Kissinger's minder.

http://www.pentapostagma.gr/2012/01/henry-kissinger.html#ixzz1jYwGqCbC

Occupy Wall Street Movement Protesters Look for Ways to Feed the Web

- By JENNIFER PRESTON - The New York Times - November 24, 2011

Social media has played a vital role in the Occupy Wall Street movement since it began as a Twitter experiment in July, when the anticonsumerism magazine Adbusters posted a suggestion for a Sept. 17 march in Lower Manhattan. And over the last two months, protesters used cellphones and social sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to spread their message around the world.

Now, with cities starting to break up dozens of encampments from New York to Oakland, Calif., protesters may no longer have a physical presence that helps produce daily images and live streaming video for the 24-hour news cycle. And, despite having created a large network on social media sites, organizers within the movement and social media experts say that online tools alone are not enough to sustain it.

“I think the online component was critical — the ability to stream video, to capture the images and create records and narratives of sacrifice and resistance,” said Yochai Benkler, a professor at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. But he added that a complete retreat to an online-only form would be a mistake.

“The ability to focus on a national agenda will depend on actual, on-the-ground, face-to-face actions, laying your body down for your principles — with the ability to capture the images and project them to the world,” Mr. Benkler said, pointing to the outrage over the use of pepper spray at the University of California, Davis, last weekend as an example of an encounter that ratcheted up the online conversation.

It was video of that episode spreading on YouTube that helped get the conversation going. YouTube is part of the formidable digital presence that has been created with 1.7 million videos, viewed 73 million times, that are tagged with the keyword “occupy” in YouTube’s News and Politics category.

The movement counts more than 400 Facebook pages with 2.7 million fans around the world. On Tumblr.com, the “We Are the 99 Percent” blog continues to publish the personal stories of hundreds of people struggling with student debt, health care costs and foreclosure. There are also dozens of new wikis and Web pages, including OccupyWallSt.org and HowToOccupy.org.

On Twitter there are more than 100 accounts with tens of thousands of followers that come together under the hashtag #ows. The main account, @occupywallstnyc, has more than 94,000 followers.

But movement organizers recognize that they will need news to deliver updates.

To help propel the Occupy movement forward and prompt discussion across social networks, organizers are planning multiple protests in the coming weeks. A general strike has been called for Monday at University of California campuses, and a National Day of Action is planned for Dec. 6 to protest foreclosures. On Dec. 10, organizers are hoping to repeat the huge success they had in October when a call for a global day of action led to dozens of new encampments and protests that rippled from Asia to Europe. They are urging people to take to the streets on that day for a global human rights day.

Another global event would help provide fuel for the groups’ ambitious live video-streaming efforts. The real-time video showed people around the world what was happening in Zuccotti Park in New York, and also allowed them to talk about it on video-streaming platforms, including Livestream.com.

What began as one channel live streaming from the park has evolved into more than 200 Occupy-related unique channels on video-streaming sites.

“We can provide the real-time perspective, and we can also give people a place to talk about what they are seeing,” said Vlad Teichberg, 39, one of the volunteers who helps operate GlobalRevolution.tv, the first Occupy channel on Livestream.com.

Mr. Teichberg and other volunteers are planning to deliver regular broadcasts from a new television studio in a dilapidated building in the Bushwick area of Brooklyn. They want it to serve as the main portal for aggregating and curating video content about the movement from all over the world.

An analysis of the conversation on Twitter shows how important it is for the movement to have real things on the ground to talk about.

In the last month, the conversation about Occupy was beginning to wane but picked up again last week, according to an analysis by Trendrr, a social media analytics firm. That is due in part to the protests that followed the well-publicized police raid on the encampment at Zuccotti Park and the outrage at the pepper-spraying in California.

According to Jason Damata, a spokesman for Trendrr, the daily volume of posts about the movement on Twitter averaged 400,000 to 500,000 a day since Oct. 7. Mr. Damata said there were just over 2 million Twitter posts on Nov. 15, the day the police took apart the Zuccotti Park camp. This represented the highest volume of posts about the movement on Twitter during the last month.

But Occupy Wall Street’s online visibility could also diminish if other events, like the protests in Egypt this week, pick up momentum and drive the conversation online. Or they could help bolster it.

Another firm, 140Elect.com, which tracks political trends online, noted a rise in tweets in the last week that shared content from both the Occupy movement and Egypt, according to the firm’s co-founder, Adam Green.

Mr. Green also observed that the conversation on Twitter was shifting from what was taking place inside the Occupy encampments to major news about the movement and other large protests around the world, including Egypt.

“We are not trying to control the message,” said Justin Wedes, a former Brooklyn science teacher who helps manage the @occupywallstnyc Twitter account. “People are getting on board with the message of the 99 percent and they are sharing their stories and we have engagement from all over the world.”