Centralized world power and Net censorship

Centralized world power and Freedom of Speech cannot coexist!

We live in a small world where the actual power structure is hidden and centralized. On the other hand, the Net is all about freedom of speech. Clearly, centralized power and the Net cannot coexist. It is obvious that centralized power is well entrenched so naturally it is the Net that has to back off. This backing off manifests itself in many ways such as malware, P2P clogging, complexity and cost of Internet access, sluggish roll-out, non standard components, obsolescence, information overload, lack of customization and so on.

But the most sinister factor is Google's dominance. The lack of competition allows Google to stick to its keyword centric syntactic strategy where it is able to censor websites much more easily. This SIGNAL vs NOISE kind of censorship is able to confuse even the most determined searchers. In any case, Google is more about Ads than about Search.

The only way to bypass such censorship seems to be to search on the basis of authors as opposed to keywords. This is the only way to keep the SIGNAL NOISE ratio from getting out of control. What is more worrying is not ideology, it is spin. This is the reason we should give up even on authors and follow only individual commenters. The logic is that authors are looking for numbers and only spins see propagation.

To follow individual commenters, we can click on their names, which is usually a link to their website or a page containing other comments made by them. We can also try and Google their name. Savvy commenters pick quirky (hopefully unique) screen names for this very purpose.

But never mind, here too, our rulers have found a way out: botnets. The common perception is that botnets are moronic spreaders of spam and some of the less moronic botnets even try and phish out our passwords. To a certain extent this is true because email is the purest form of addressability so our rulers need spam to dilute it. And also financial scams and economic hardship have forever been used to keep people under control. That such actions keep the insurance and security companies humming is welcome too.

In actual fact, botnets are highly sophisticated networks which are not only able to unceasingly dodge detection but also troll ALL forums and add to the NOISE everywhere. Even complex captchas are no deterrents to these sophisticated bots. It is amazing how many of the comments posted are actually from sophisticated trolls that never be exposed because these behave like human commenters and come from innocent IPs. Recent studies have confirmed that botnets use SEO techniques to capture search engine traffic on controversial keywords.

Moral of the story: Suspect anything and everything because PERCEPTION CONTROL is the biggest game in town.

Internet Censorship Alert

Internet Censorship Alert: Alex Jones exposes agenda to 'blacklist' dissenting sites (March 14, 2010) As I predicted, the Obama Administration is trying to shut down the Internet - at least the parts he doesn't like. Barack Obamas regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein has stated that he wants to ban conspiracy theories from the internet. Think about what this means - Every video, every website, every blog, every email, that exposes or just criticizes the government for any reason whatsoever could be labeled a "conspiracy" and taken down. Your home could be raided in the middle of the night, and you could be carted of to jail for criticizing the government. All they have to do is call it a "conspiracy theory". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAWmBLFodE
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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Surviving the “Contained Depression”

Surviving the “Contained Depression”
Paul Kedrosky
Nov 11, 2008

http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/
2008/11/11/surviving_the_c.html

Interesting David Levy piece in the current issue of Institutional Investor. Here is the money ‘graf(s):

Without the government’s containment the economy would indeed ace another Great Depression, but fortunately, nothing so dire will occur. The government will prevent a collapse of the financial system and partially buffer the damage to the economy, containing the depression. The government will succeed not because it is wise about economic affairs or because it won’t make mistakes. Rather, it will have no choice but to keep patching holes in the financial sector, and its sheer size and presence guarantee a sizable fiscal stabilization. The government has virtually unlimited power to intervene to protect the basic functioning of the financial system, and in an emergency can spend whatever is necessary. Although government solutions will not fix the fundamental problems that will cause the depression, they will limit the financial fallout. By the end of the contained depression, the government will likely have committed trillions between rescue operations and running huge deficits. And although some may complain about the price tag, it will be a bargain for enabling us to avoid another Great Depression.

Levy thinks we will be out the other side in late 2009 or early 2010, albeit out in a tepid way.
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

A $75 trillion fright fest

A $75 trillion fright fest
By Paul B. Farrell
MarketWatch
Sep 08, 2008

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/75-trillion-fright-fest-8/
story.aspx?guid=%7B1E95D857%2D7CB8%2D46AD%2DB26C%2DD3732D93FD06%7D

Eight megahorror debts chilling America

America's out of control, drowning in debt, gorging: $75 trillion and getting worse. Now we're dumping Fannie and Freddie on America's balance sheet. Every year we pile trillions more on future generations.

[..] But with "I.O.U.S.A." America's debt will haunt you for years. It already totals about $150,000 for every single household. Worse yet, it's metastasizing $1.9 billion each and every day on the National Debt Clock. So who will go see the film? Few:

Liberals. Maybe a small contingent of lefties. But they already know the story about America's lethal addiction to living on borrowed money.

Conservatives. No way. They actually love big deficits and big federal debt. That money comes out of taxpayers' wallets, pays for their wars and all the profitable deals with China and oil producers that make neocons personally rich.

Main Street. The other 95% of Americans are too focused on their own personal problems; gas, food, rent, foreclosures, inflation, teen pregnancies, credit-card fees, outsourced jobs, and so much more.

So here's my adaptation of the 8 most "megahorror" debts to focus on: A format for a film festival highlighting the "The Megahorror Hits of American Debt:"

1. Horrors of Endless Massive War Debt
2. Horrors of Gluttonous, Addictive Oil Debt
3. Horrors of Trillions in Trade Deficits and Foreign Debt
4. Horrors of Killer Social Security and Medicare Debt
5. Horrors of Cheap Money, Self-indulgent Consumerism, Zero Savings
6. Horrors of Skyrocketing Health-care Debt
7. Horror of a Failing Educational System Debting America's Future
8. Horrors of Failed Leaders Triggering Catastrophic Debt Meltdown

In that worst-case scenario, our fate parallels the Rome of Caligula, decadent, vulnerable, ripe for a "Fiscal Armageddon," and eventually overrun by foreigners.
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