Is traditional main stream media dead?

A new report says that the number two source for news is not in black and white but ones and zeros. The internet has surpassed newspapers as the second most popular news source for Americans. Dana Loesch says there are many things that people can do with new media that traditional newspapers and magazines simply cannot and that is adding to their demise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVjrE6BcT9I

Nada es cómo nos lo cuentan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA4fAbIl_E0

Gold Counterfeiting: German TV discovers 500g Tungsten bar from bank

[YouTube does not allow 'embeding' of this video, so just follow the link! Speaking of which, look for the number of 'views' this video has... odd, to say the least. YouTube must be "feeling the pressure" to keep its content 'NWO-Approved', or is this type of 'soft censorship' official YouTube policy? In any case, the info in this video has colossal consequences... We already know paper-debt-money is worthless, but now gold?!]

German TV station, ProSieben, finds what appears to be proof of gold counterfeiting, in the form of tungsten gold substitutes coming to the W.C. Heraeus foundry, which is the worlds largest privately-owned precious metals refiner and fabricator, located in Hanau, Germany.
The foundry has isolated at least one 500-gram tungsten bar due for melting, originating from a (so far) unnamed bank, which, as the head of the foundry stated, made the unpleasant discovery that not all that glitters is gold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1bs__psyEc

Hackers contra piratas: el método RedPoints

http://www.lavanguardia.es/free/edicionimpresa/res/20091115/53824087149.html?urlback=http://www.lavanguardia.es/premium/edicionimpresa/20091115/53824087149.html

Las entidades de gestión de derechos y artistas y autores en general buscan sin cesar cómo combatir las descargas masivas y gratuitas de sus producciones a través de la red. Ese control se ha vuelto muy difícil. Es normal que una película de éxito esté en las pantallas de los usuarios pocas horas después de su estreno en los cines. A veces, incluso antes. Además del método P2P, por el que los usuarios comparten archivos en la red, la descarga directa ha ganado fuerza en los últimos meses. Numerosas webs ofrecen enlaces de películas, canciones, software de aplicaciones o juegos, sólo con clicar un enlace. Y todo gratis. El gabinete Asesoría Jurídica de las Artes ha ideado un método que asegura que hace que esos enlaces conduzcan a ninguna parte, sin castigar ni amenazar al internauta y sin llegar al juzgado: el método RedPoints.

[Fuente: www.lavanguardia.es]

Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century

http://www.alternativereel.com/includes/top-ten/display_review.php?id=00002

10.

"Before I knowed it, I was sayin' out loud, 'The hell with it! There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do. It's all part of the same thing.'"
—The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck

09.

"Ravished! How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene, and dead ideas become obsessions."
—Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) D. H. Lawrence

08.

"All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. One guy I knew really was shot in Dresden for taking a teapot that wasn't his. Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. And so on. I've changed all the names."
—Slaughterhouse Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

07.

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
—To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) Harper Lee

06.

"The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time, that meant that everything burnt!"
—Fahrenheit 451 (1953) Ray Bradbury

05.

"It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road."
—The Catcher in the Rye (1951) J.D. Salinger

04.

"I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul."
—Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller

03.

"The Planet drifts to random insect doom..."
—The Naked Lunch (1959) William S. Burroughs

02.

"History...is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
—Ulysses (1922) James Joyce

01.

"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."
—1984 (1949) George Orwell

[Source: www.alternativereel.com]

Obama Versus Blogosphere

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/09/dear-president-obama-blogs-fact-check.html

[Media monopolization since the 1980s]

"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding."
· Barack Obama ·

Problems with the mainstream reporting:

• Widespread self-censorship by journalists.
• Censorship from editors and producers.
• Pro-war bias.
• Government censorship.
• And, of course, money.

The whole debate about blogs versus mainstream media is nonsense.
In fact, many of the world's top PhD economics professors and financial advisors have their own blogs...
The same is true in every other field: politics, science, history, international relations, etc.
So what is "news"? What the largest newspapers choose to cover? Or what various leading experts are saying - and oftentimes heatedly debating one against the other?
As blogger Michael Rivero pointed out years ago, mainstream newspapers aren't losing readers because of the Internet as an abstract new medium. They are losing readers because they have become nothing but official stenographers for the powers-that-be, and people have lost all faith in them.
Indeed, only 5% of the pundits discussing various government bailout plans on cable news shows are real economists. Why not hear what real economists and financial experts say?

"In reality, the best blogs offer far more fact-checking and
context than the mainstream media."
· Washington's Blog ·

[Source: www.washingtonsblog.com]

Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010

[Source: http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/two-thousand-and-ten-book/]

Amelia Andersdotter, número dos del Partido Pirata sueco, divulga su ideario en barcelona

·Aboga por el libre intercambio de archivos en internet.
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=628249&idseccio_PK=1021

Esta joven de 21 años ocupó el número dos en la candidatura del Partido Pirata sueco a las elecciones europeas y estos días ha sido invitada por el Virtual European Parliament (un consorcio de investigación en el que participan el i2CAT y la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) para divulgar en Barcelona el ideario de su fuerza política: acotar al máximo los derechos de autor, eliminar todo tipo de patentes, proteger la intimidad en el entorno digital...
[...]
«En España los votos se reparten sobre todo entre dos partidos. En Suecia, entre siete. Eso ofrece más posibilidades de conquistar un espacio parlamentario. En España, en cambio, los internautas más activos prefieren apostar por el asociacionismo antes que por la política».
[...]
«En Suecia, aunque los jueces son más severos en este asunto, la mayoría de artistas suelen ser más neutrales con el libre intercambio de archivos. Saben que no se puede luchar contra internet. Ni siquiera las multinacionales podrán frenar este fenómeno», asegura la joven política, antes de añadir con rotundidad: «Los derechos de autor deben limitarse a cinco años. ¿Por qué tienen que vivir de rentas durante décadas? Si quieren seguir ganando dinero, que hagan otra película u otra canción».
[...]
Menos comprensiva se muestra incluso con los gobiernos: «No puede ser que, amparándose en la lucha antiterrorista, accedan a datos privados sin ningún consentimiento».

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El software libre garantiza el anonimato en internet

·La nueva tecnología asegura el respeto del derecho a la privacidad en la comunicación.
http://www.tendencias21.net/El-software-libre-garantiza-el-anonimato-en-internet_a3391.html

La frenética actividad de toda la comunidad de internet provoca que continuamente surjan nuevas tecnologías que desafían los nuevos retos. Y este caso no es diferente. Ante la presión de los gobiernos y las empresas por censurar la red, y el progresivo refinamiento de los criminales en internet, la privacidad de los usuarios se ve seriamente amenazada. Frente a eso, recientemente han surgido nuevas estrategias que aseguran el anonimato en internet. Al tratarse de software libre, pueden ser adaptadas para su uso generalizado y además pueden ser usadas libremente.
[...]

La tecnología actual permite que las conexiones puedan ser intervenidas.
En este contexto económico, político y mediático, desde el punto de vista puramente tecnológico la situación es más sencilla. La tecnología actual permite que las conexiones puedan ser intervenidas, y con tiempo descifradas si es que estaban cifradas. Cualquiera con ciertos conocimientos de informática y telecomunicaciones puede hacerlo. La única condición es que la conexión no esté físicamente aislada, o especialmente protegida. Esto se cumple para la práctica totalidad de los usuarios, que no tienen los conocimientos o los medios necesarios para protegerse.

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Net response to Iran shows we are all newsmakers now

·Coverage of the Iran uprising shows the beauty of the internet - connecting us to events in another country.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jun/17/twitter-socialnetworking

The internet is a brilliant machine for spreading information. Data shoots across the network at the speed of light, passing from one node to another. It's unmotivated by fear or repression or greed, and can shine a torch into the darkest corners to help bring what was hidden to the world.
The uprising in Iran has been a perfect case in point - despite state censorship, the suppression of journalists and the shutdown of communications - the story has been covered from almost every angle: and the internet has played a vital part in getting the information out.

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Alex Jones Suspended By YouTube (Action Needed!)

The Official Alex Jones account has been suspended from YouTube. Spread the word! We all need to take action to get YouTube to reinstate TheAlexJonesChannel.
Firstly, please subscribe to the new home of The Alex Jones channel:
http://www.youtube.com/THElNFOWARRlOR
We need to build the channel back up again as quickly as possible. DON'T LET GOOGLE WIN!
We need to support THElNFOWARRlOR and get the word out to as many people as possible. We also need to bombard YouTube's Help Center with complaints about this diabolical censorship so that we can get TheAlexJonesChannel reinstated.
Here's a link to YouTube's Help Center:
http://help.youtube.com/support/youtu...
And here's some contact info for YouTube:
YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066 USA
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001
Please ask them to reinstate "thealexjoneschannel". Be polite but show them we are upset and have reason to be!

Proyecto Censurado, 30 años desclasificando grandes omisiones

http://www.voltairenet.org/mot120838.html?lang=es




[http://www.projectcensored.org/]

Associated Press declara la guerra al pillaje de noticias en internet

·La agencia combatirá el uso sin permiso de sus contenidos por parte de webs y blogs[...oh! no!]
http://www.elperiodico.com/default.asp?idpublicacio_PK=46&idioma=CAS&idnoticia_PK=602103&idseccio_PK=1021&h=

Una vez que se ha llenado la mesa de comida gratis es difícil pedirle al comensal que pague, y encima por un menú reducido. Esa es la realidad a la que se enfrentan varias industrias[ay! qué cruda realidad], incluida la de los medios de comunicación tradicionales. Sumidos en una crisis nacida en gran parte por la fuga de publicidad, periódicos y agencias de noticias apuntan a internet como una de las causas de la radical transformación de su relación con el público. Y ahora, uno de los gigantes de la industria, Associated Press (AP), ha decidido declarar la guerra alegando apropiación indebida de sus contenidos.
La agencia, principal proveedora de noticias del mundo, intenta frenar el uso de sus teletipos en buscadores como Google y Yahoo, portales de noticias, blogs[!] y otras páginas web. Quiere que todos aquellos que cuelguen sus informaciones obtengan antes el permiso para hacerlo y, tan importante o más, que compartan los beneficios[que perros...si además redirigimos tráfico en su dirección...les damos publicidad gratis!]. Y AP piensa desarrollar un sistema para seguir la pista a sus artículos, ver dónde se cuelgan y determinar si su uso viola los derechos de autor [#&@!!!].

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Blogger claims police search of home was a threat

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/03/19/20090319copsblog0319.html

Police officers accused of drunken driving. A female officer's alleged promiscuity and infidelity. A commander whose critics labeled his son a child molester.

Jeff Pataky said he uses negative complaints and anonymous tips to fuel his blogging crusade against Phoenix police. A headline on his Web site suggests rewards would be provided for "dirt" on police indiscretions.

Pataky, a former software sales and marketing executive who now focuses his energy shoveling content on www.badphoenixcops.com, said he believes his online criticism of the department - along with past criticisms of police investigations - led officers to serve a search warrant at his home last week.

Police officials said Wednesday that a Phoenix detective prompted the investigation after complaining about harassment, though they declined further comment.

Pataky said he felt the investigation was a response to a lawsuit he filed on Monday in U.S. District Court saying he was maliciously prosecuted by police in 2007 after his ex-wife accused him of harassment, a case later dropped. In his lawsuit he's asking for an unspecified amount for damages. City officials declined to comment on pending litigation.

Pataky's blog is known in law-enforcement circles for its off-color language that, according to the blogger, is aimed at Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris, Maricopa County Andrew Thomas and other public officials.

[The blog in question is: http://badphoenixcops.blogspot.com/.....From INPhobe, we salute you. Keep it up!!!]

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Unpaid bills? Good luck starting future laptops

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/ptech/stories/040109dnbusBills.8c81e8e7.html

NEW YORK - As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they're faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills?

The company can cut off the computer's wireless access, but the carrier would still be out a couple of hundred dollars. The buyer would be left with a computer that's fully usable except for cellular broadband.

LM Ericsson AB, the Swedish company that makes many of the modems that go into laptops, announced Tuesday that its new modem will deal with this issue by including a feature that's virtually a wireless repo man. If the carrier has the stomach to do so, it can send a signal that completely disables the computer, making it impossible to turn on.

"We call it a `kill pill,'" said Mats Norin, Ericsson's vice president of mobile broadband modules.

The module will work on AT&T Inc.'s U.S. third-generation network, and on many other 3G networks overseas.

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They're Censoring Your Reality

In this video, from August 4th 2008, Alex discusses in detail the serious issue of Internet censorship and how it is affecting us. The only winners of this censorship are the governments and corporate oligarchies who want to severely restrict our freedom of speech and our ability to acquire factual information from independent news sites. If you sit by and do nothing about the info you hear in this video, you are effectively kissing goodbye to the Internet as we know it. By 2012, the 'powers-that-be' plan to turn the Internet into nothing more than a glorified cable TV system where access to anything other than mainstream sites will be highly restricted - just like in communist China. We cannot allow this to happen. Only the power of the people can stop this. If we fail to voice our views on this issue NOW, the Internet as we know it will be gone forever and important sites like InfoWars.com and PrisonPlanet.com will not be there for us anymore. I cannot stress enough how important this issue is. Please go to InfoWars.com and check out the links covering Internet censorship and you'll see what I mean. Copy and paste the articles and email them to everyone you know, including the mainstream news sites. Post the articles on MySpace and as many other forums as you can. You can also download this video and upload it to your channel and to other video sites. We need to make a big noise over this, otherwise they'll go full steam ahead with their plans to dismantle the Internet by 2012. Once the Internet is gone, it's gone forever, and there won't be any complaints departments to complain to when you want the old Internet back. The time to take action is NOW.