SOPA, More Problem, Reaction, Solution.
I’ve been trying to get a grasp on SOPA. I haven’t said much about it for lack of a full understanding. Then, I seen the video below. As annoying as this guy is, he’s got it right. It’s the same routine that I see so often of “Problem, Reaction, Solution”. Here’s how SOPA works.
- Major media players support, promote, and distribute file sharing software through their websites like C|Net. They did this for many years. There’s the problem.
- They cry foul that their content is being distributed on the software that they promoted in the first place. Here’s their victim status reaction.
- Then for the solution, the lobby for SOPA that will destroy the competition on the web that is currently scaring the bejesus out of them. Nearly every form of major media has lost many of their audience.
Now that all major media outlets are consolidated and controlled, it’s time to put a stop to their competition. They think they’ve given us all enough rope that they can now hang us with some new laws and return to their former monopolized greatness.
The only good that I can see from all of this is that maybe, must maybe, people can see that the “Problem, creation, solution” business is not just a conspiracy theory, it happens over and over again. Look at Penn State for example. Look at Obamacare! Health insurance companies are the most heavily regulated business there is, yet government is going to fix the problems that they create? Maybe SOPA will get people streetwise to what is being done to their freedoms.
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And So It Starts. A Rich Liberal Deciding That He’s Got a Better Form of Government.
At first, this guy, Lawrence Lessig, seems compelling. He’s realized that corruption is rampant in Washington. Brilliant. But then, he follows the only thing he knows. He drifts into the idea that government can fix government with more government. He completely dismisses any ideas from the founders that a government limited in it’s powers cannot reach the absurd levels of corruption that we have today. He even is so brilliant that he’s discovered that Democrats and Republicans work together on legislation that robs us and leaves makes these non-producers incredibly wealthy. Bravo! Not one mention of damaging social programs designed to make people dependent on the government.
Where does a man with this much brilliance come from? Of course, Harvard Law School. He explains the problem as if it’s something he’s discovered. He teaches the lawyers that will inevitably end up as politicians how to play the game!! While he’s describing the problem, he’s confessing to the methods that his school teaches. He’s following their recipe; Create the problem, stir a reaction(which is what this speech is doing), and he wants to provide a solution. This solution involves redefining what a Republic is and how it operates.
At the end, he discusses how the Valdez was wrecked by a known drunk. He says that part of the problem was that nobody said anything. It may be true for the Valdez, but it’s not for our corrupt government. Everyone is saying something. Everyone is saying something. The businesses and politicians themselves are actually boasting about their insane levels of corruption.
Although it’s refreshing to see a Liberal recognizing a real problem, it’s frightening that he’s mixing with wealthy and influential people to push his agenda. He speaks of returning the Republic to an effective state, but makes no mention of the methods and ideals that made it successful in the first place.
This is a very long speech, but well worth it if you try to understand what is really being said here. I consider this guy an alarm bell. He’s trying to convince us that another form of more government. The good news is that he’s a Liberal that’s accepted demise. When they lose they want to “find common ground”. That means they want to regroup and try to nudge us a little closer to the edge of the cliff. They’re out of steam. Liberals like him know they’ve run out of other people’s money to spend.
Here’s the speech.
A Quick Lesson About Oil and Work for the OWS Crowd
Lesson for OWS
My Own Personal Boycott
After seeing this link about the destruction of the Internet for the sake of the entertainment industry, I say to hell with the entertainment industry.
To be fair, it’s an easy thing for me to do. In my opinion and according to my tastes, they’ve churned out nothing but shit for a long time now. For others, consider that the same industry you’re giving money to today may be trying to put you in jail for a minor infraction. The law is so vague, you may not even be aware it’s an infraction.
This industry is willing to cripple the progress of nearly every other industry simply because the cannot figure out how to encrypt their goods. They want to enjoy the Internet’s wealth, but skip doing the work that it takes to make it a viable solution for them. To top it off, they turn to our greedy little people that we put in Washington to do their dirty work for them.
Think about it before you shell out your hard earned money to them.
Problem, Reaction, Solution. Get Streetwise to Manipulation.
I heard this theory a long time ago and I’ve noticed it happen a few times in the news. Here’s what “they” do. By “they”, I mean our government and our elite and powerful that control them. Conspiracy? Maybe, but it’s a pattern to watch for. When you see it, it’s time to ask questions.
For this example, I’ll use the Penn State Scandal.
- Create the problem. Penn State knew that there was child abuse occuring for years. They facilitated it and by doing so created the problem. Those in charge were well aware of previous incidents and they did nothing to ensure that children were never placed in situations alone with adults.
- Reaction – After so many years of facilitating a problem like this, now it’s a problem? The media gets their take on it and we get the version of the story that the state wants us to hear. There’s even SNL skit making fun of child abuse at Penn State!!
- Solution – With all of the expected outrage, changes to law MUST be made. There must be more done to report the incidents and that means more surveillance and more reporting. They want more “see something, say something” done.
I think that any normal person’s first reaction to seeing a 10 year old being raped in a shower would be to pulverize the attacker. If they couldn’t do it, they would immediately search for a method that could. Damned be the consequences, there’a a child being raped and you stop it. That didn’t happen here. What type of person would just report it? A person who’s been manipulated. A person who thinks that they must follow the rules of “how things are done around here”.
We’ll find out what all of this is really about soon enough. The truth will be in the details of the laws that are already being proposed. One thing is certain, making it a law that if you see a rape, you have to do everything in your power to stop it immediately is not going to be in the proposals. A real solution is not the end goal.
So get street wise. Find out who’s creating the problems and you’ll find out who “they” are. Question everything down to it’s source and you’ll avoid being a manipulated sucker. Always ask, “Who facilitated the alleged problem?”, “How is the media reacting to it? Making jokes of it? Making excuses for it?”, and “Will the proposed solution actually stop the problem or just contribute to another agenda that those who facilitated will enjoy?”.
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Another Lesson on the Federal Reserve
There are so many lessons on how the Federal Reserve works that we should all be experts, but after watching the Occupy Wall Street protesters and watching the Republican debates it’s evident that the majority of people lack an understanding. You’re not stupid if you don’t understand it. The premise is intentionally confusing and the reality does sound so ridiculous that it sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Looks Federal right? It's a privately own security vehicle owned by The Federal Reserve.
Give it a few hours of study, write down the questions you have that make it seem unbelievable, then search for anything that tries to debunk what you’ve been told. You’re going to find that even those in strong favor of the Federal Reserve are going to tell you that it works the same way that those in opposition tell you. The two sides do not argue about how it works at all! The differences of opinion come down to one thing and that is whether centralized power is good or bad. Those for centralized power claim that the Federal Reserve stops the wild fluctuations of the economy where a gold based currency can fluctuate more. Those against the Federal Reserve claim that it’s being used to enslave everyone with overwhelming debt to force us to the will of a global centralized power.
Here’s one more lesson from David Icke. His explanation of how the Federal Reserve works is excellent. His conspiracy theory, I’ll let you decide. He does leave the begging question of who “they” are a little vague. I still haven’t figured out exactly who “they” are, but I’m getting a really good idea. Feel free to ignore that part, but please, DO learn how the Federal Reserve works. All political efforts of any kind are a complete waste of time unless you understand these basic principles about The Fed.
How Stupid Are We?
Image by Jason DeRusha via Flickr
Something very noticeable lately is our inability to look at very recent history. The excitement of now clouds the memory of yesterday.
Here’s one I noticed that’s just incredibly scary. Jones specializes in dramatizing even the most of mundane of small facts to form a conspiracy theories. Even he notices how ridiculous the release of Obama’s forged birth certificate was. The importance here is not whether or not Obama is a U.S. citizen, it’s the ridiculous forgery that was presented. It could be a fake version of the real thing. The point is that it’s so ridiculous that even the most novice of millions of Photoshop users can see what was done. Obama was enjoying the argument about his lack of a birth certificate. It’s a tool for him to make his naysayers look foolish. No matter how you look at it, this is deceptive. They released that around late April 20011.
On May 1st, 2011, Osama Bin Laden is killed right? A super secret raid by a super secret SEAL unit kills him, takes his body to a ship, then dumps it in the ocean after a DNA analysis is performed in record time. There’s even a downed chopper in the raid. Ok. That’s all the average Joe knows and he only knows that’s what news sources tell him. Obama came out and told us so too. The same guy willing to put together a Photoshop document that is very clearly manipulated tells us, so you have to believe him right? Got any questions, then you’re a conspiracy theorist whack job. Who are you to ask questions? They’re telling you what happened on TV for the love of Pete. It’s real handy that this news came immediately after the release of the birth certificate.
The premise for the war in Afghanistan was that we were trying to kill Bin Laden. If they killed him and had no viable way of proving to the public that it did happen, I would have believe a story telling us that Bin Laden was no longer a threat and that we were leaving Afghanistan. We’re not. We were never given information about who the new threat is that we are there for either. We’re just staying.
Then, I see that Diebold voting machines are easy enough to be hacked by middle school student with a few dollars worth of parts. Ok, no big deal. How would someone stand around a poll rigging the contraption without an entire crowd noticing? Probably not conceivable. Stupid that they made them this way, but what are the chances of someone doing this without being arrested. Then, I see for a few dollars more, you can hack them with a wireless connection.
First there was this hack -
Then, Argonne National Labs comes out with this.
I can’t think of any purpose that voting machines should be made with the ability for a remote connection. They can be made so proprietary that it would be very difficult to do this type of hack. It is as if they clearly want people to hack the machines.
These are just a few things that come to mind that have recently been in the news. When anyone brings them up, they get ridiculed! Things that anyone of average intelligence would question are treated as stupid questions. Look at the way just these 3 events went.
- The birth certificate doesn’t really matter. He’s there. They’re not going to revoke the election. It’s trivial at this point.
- Bin Laden is killed. Again, trivial in the big picture, but more serious. Think about how much money has been spent and lives lost under the claim that we were trying to find him.
- We find that it’s very simple to rig an election with almost no evidence of tampering. Our entire government very possibly could very well have been created with rigged elections. This could easily be brought up and any future election declared a fraud due to the lack of security.
It’s alarming that nothing is done about any of this. Nobody cares. I would think that the Diebold folks would have some serious explaining to do. I’d think anyone that passed the voting machines as a secure part of the election process would have some serious questions to answer. Just like the birth certificate and tale of Bin Laden’s death, there’s nothing. It’s swept under the rug and it’s onto the next disputable piece of news.
These few events prove to me that they are just flaunting how smart they are and how dumb the general public is. Are they right? These news events always leave people arguing with a set of facts that cannot possibly be proved. The problem is the obviously deceptive facts seem to be laid out on purpose. Yes, Obama could have a real birth certificate, but if you believe that, you still cannot deny the deceptive actions done in presenting it. Bin Laden? If it did happen the way they claim, they still revealed the SEAL team and endangered their lives for no reason then. Voter machines? Please. Diebold has made very secure ATM’s for MANY years and this is what they come up with? We have no possible way to have access to definite truths, but if we can’t see the deception, we are either collectively stupid or we just don’t care.
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Microstock Photography Union. I Can’t Help but Chuckle at the Idea.
Image by Darren W via Flickr
For those who don’t know what microstock is, it’s a place where photographers can dump all of their bad(or good) images and sell them for dirt cheap. There’s a big market for these photos because sometimes a mediocre cheap image is all that a publication, web or print, needs to spruce up an article. There’s also a huge amount of photos available. So many that it’s like a lottery really. The business is barely worth the time it takes to upload, tag, and describe your photos. Only a few have mastered the art well enough to profit.
The result is a lot of complaining “photographers” and I use that term loosely. Anybody that can follow some simple directions and upload a photo is able to be a microstock photographer.
What should a bunch of sniveling photographers do? Form a union of sniveling photographers to see if they can force bigger profits from images that they couldn’t sell otherwise. That’s just humorous if you ask me.
This could be my big break! I want to be a photographer too. Everybody that enjoys photography would like to be a photographer. There’s usually a huge snag though when you’re work isn’t good enough to make people want to buy it, not even for 18 cents a photo. This union should fix all of that right? To funny.
Another Debacle in Obamacare. The Codes.
Medical Codes? That's a tough one.
When I worked in health insurance there was a code system for every medical problem. Computer programs need a code to reduce the obscurity of the claim in question. The American Medical Association owns the copyright to this code system and they earned about $70 million a year from the copyright. All insurance companies were required by law to use it too. That’s a handy little business to have!
This code system may define something like crushed skull as an 030, broken nose as o31. These aren’t real codes, but you get the idea of the simplicity. The problem with this coding system, other than every use of it resulting in a cost, was that it was sometimes hard to use because there was a lot of ambiguity to it. When this ambiguity was combined with fraud detection things got messy. For example, someone may have input a code for a broken right leg, when it was actually the left leg that was broke. When a claim came in and one piece was for a left broken leg and another for a right, fraud detection would flag it as fraud and the claim would go unpaid until it was resolved. Meanwhile, the doctors and the insured were left with an unpaid claim that may or may not ever receive payment.
Obamacare claimed they were going to fix all of that. It’s going to take people far more intelligent than the government to even come close to it. Here’s a post from Cultural Offering showing the codes for alligator bites. Be sure to follow the link to see the chart.
So now, are they going to try to put a code on every type of animal bite? Just looking at this little snippet of information is enough to show that the government cannot and should not be anywhere near your health care. Just this coding system is going to cost an untold fortune as every piece of insurance coding software will need to be modified for this coding. You’re going to get to pay for that and this is never going to add to the services that are received.
The College Loan Bubble Is About to Burst
Who would have guessed? Millions of people qualify for guaranteed loans for to obtain higher education that promises a bright future for all who take advantage. Sign on the dotted line and the world is your oyster right? Anyone who would tell someone that “education” may not be in their best interest would quickly be dismissed as a backwards fool.
Take a look at Kelli Space’s site. She was $200,000 deep in student loans for a Sociology degree at Northeastern University and now the sheepskin just isn’t producing the income to cover the $1600/month student loan payment. That payment is going to keep coming for the next 20 years too. She’s certainly getting her first lesson in upward mobility. It’s not cheap. Her solution is to beg for help with a website. $200k to become a beggar.
I share John Stossell’s view on this scam. My only disagreement with him would be that he doesn’t say enough about who will be paying for this scam and who is perpetuating it. They are the same people who look down their noses at anyone who hasn’t completed a “formal” education. Those people that are going to be paying the taxes, that paid for the lies, that led young unsuspecting people into a debt trap. A debt trap that was supposed to be their salvation.
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I don’t fault this young people like Kelli Space, but I wouldn’t send a dime to help her pay this off either. Soon enough, we’re all going to be paying for this in one way or another for the millions are not going to produce the incomes that match the amount of debt they’ve incurred.
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