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- MBX1, on 10/11/2007, -4/+26Google, "DO NO EVIL". Isn't that your motto/ philosophy? Or are you just being a big hypocrite?
- honestjoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Google and the CIA are involved with one another and are censoring information.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4774
This isn’t the first time the search giant has been suspected of wrongdoing.
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/search.aspx?q=Is+Google+a+Government+Spook?&p=1
most claims of Google censorship involve the search engine being censored.
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/blogs/google_watch/archive/2006/06/30/11186.aspx
A former clandestine services officer for the CIA who also maintains close relationships with top Google representatives says that the company is “in bed with” the intelligence agency and the U.S. government.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061030-8105.html
The Google help page used to state that it did not censor search results. This policy has now changed and Google now carried that proviso that, “in response to local laws, regulations, or policies,” it may censor certain content.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/27/google_doesnt_censor/
Google’s censorship policies in China and even those directed against US websites that are mildly critical of China prove that the company that was founded on the principle “don’t be evil,” is slowly beginning to resemble the very controlling Big Brother image it claimed to despise.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4645596.stm
A program on behalf of CENTCOM is also underway to help “catapult the propaganda,” on blogs and message boards.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1130-07.htm
The U.S. will engage in propaganda and indoctrination by using the Internet and media to “catapult the propaganda,”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/25/BL2005052501250.html
Pentagon propaganda bureau, Psychological Operations Command (PSYOPS), had placed their operatives in news divisions around the U.S.!
http://www.fair.org/activism/osi-propaganda.html
The Information Operations Roadmap will take the propaganda to the computer and television screens of Americans.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/27_01_06_psyops.pdf
Lou Dobbs show
DOBBS: Roger, let me turn to one journalism question for all of you. As you know, the Washington Post reporting that the Pentagon used a number of—well, sources, if you will, for misinformation campaigns, including this network. What is your sense as to what should be both the reaction of the media, to being used by—for psyops operations by the Pentagon and what should be the reaction of the American people?
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0412/03/ldt.01.html
In October 2005 Government Accountability Office investigators concluded that the Bush administration’s secret policy to pay off influential journalists to plant fake news was illegal and that the “administration had disseminated “covert propaganda” in the United States, in violation of a statutory ban.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/politics/01educ.html?ex=1285819200&en=55a295038c3630e7&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Pentagons Office of Strategic Influence, was in operation before 9/11 and exploited legal loopholes by planting its propaganda in foreign newspapers like the BBC that would later be picked up by U.S. newswires.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/1830500.stm
Perhaps the most startling aspect of the roadmap is its acknowledgement that information put out as part of the military’s psychological operations, or Psyops, is finding its way onto the computer and television screens of ordinary Americans.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4655196.stm
Pentagon Will “Catapult the Propaganda” Via U.S. Media Military, government indoctrination wing formally declares psychological warfare on the American people.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6100906.stm
The U.S. will engage in propaganda and indoctrination by using the Internet and media to “catapult the propaganda,”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/05/25/BL2005052501250.html
Pentagon propaganda bureau, Psychological Operations Command (PSYOPS), had placed their operatives in news divisions around the U.S.!
http://www.fair.org/activism/osi-propaganda.html
FAIR speculated that the purpose was twofold, one to directly propagandize the American people via CNN and also potentially to allow the “military to conduct an intelligence-gathering mission against the network itself,”
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1748
The Information Operations Roadmap will take the propaganda to the computer and television screens of Americans.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/27_01_06_psyops.pdf
Williams was paid a quarter million dollars for his propaganda services to the administration.
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003287231
$300 million for lies and propaganda to be feed to the American people.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR2005061001910.html
Burson-Marsteller‘s BKSH & Assocs., has been hired by The Lincoln Group, one of three firms selected last month by the U.S. Special Operations Command to wage psychological warfare on behalf of the Pentagon.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Burson-Marsteller
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=BKSH_&_Associates
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Lincoln_Group
Col. James Treadwell, director of the Joint Psychological Operations Support Element, said TLG was selected to develop ‘cutting-edge types of media,’ including radio/TV ads, documentaries, text messages, Internet spots and podcasts for the U.S. military. The Pentagon expects to spend $3M in the first-year as a ‘test,’ and could spend up to $300M over five years if the ‘psyops’ operations conducted by TLG, SYColeman and Science Applications International Corp are deemed successful.”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=SYColeman - strikezero, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Google has let me down yet again.
- Look4Truth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Or maybe because it's the truth. Ever ponder that one?
- Heloderma, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12DIGG has ADMITTEDLY censored PrisonPlanet.com/Inforwars.com articles. Just ask dshlps and herkimer, or even bigdavediode among others. They even have a name- 'The Bury Brigade.' But perhaps you do have a point about them using an algorithm which gives less merit to views. All of this can be answered, however... So now that we have justification for some serious questions, when will they answer them and can we validate the explanations they give?
This is sooo extremely important even if you don't like the film. Censorship is commonplace in a Dictatorship. Sadly, with the continual consolidation of powers to the Fed Gvt and namely the Executive Branch, it makes perfect sense that it seems to be the trend here in the US of A . :( Blatant censorship is terrible, but more commonly you will see the softer, whitewash type of censorship; for instance, the kind you may find when watching shows advertised as "Fair & Balanced" on MS Media shows. At least the blatant, "in-yo-face" type shows desperation on their end (weakness). If we can prove the blatant censorship and what they are censoring, then others will start looking into it that have no idea they are stuck in the matrix of the softer type. IMO, this will help bring more and more people break away and even start opposing their captors which are the masters of the softer, more concealed type --Most people want to be the captains of their own minds afterall... NO?? Hmmm... The people we want to reach are those whose "information diet" consists of O'reily and Hannity & Colmes, etc. If we can do that, those gate keepers will be forced to retire, or join the side of objectivity. Wouldn't it be great to see real debate on MS media with real issues and not this crap where they just pooh-pooh it or tell you how un-American you are, or how delusional and in need of a waterboarding you are?? YES! - Godwhacker, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12"DO NO EVIL" except when evil is convenient.
- UnFriendlyFire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9The owner of the copyright is the one who put the film on Google.
From the article: co-creator of the film Jason Bermas - Groovemaster, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10...or lucrative.
- Cadmium77, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10If you're not surfing the net using Scroogle which scrubs your search history and you're using Google which keeps your search history till 2038 then you're a fool and a sucker.
- mirokoi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6meh, did they not get funding from In-Q-Tel, the CIA high tech incubator?
80% of intel work is DECEPTION
WHY do they feel the need to keep this info off the airwaves? WHO benefits? TRUTH is the ultimate defense to libel. If its *****, you leave it alone, hell you backchannel promote it yourself so the blowback is that much more effective when the general public easily knocks it down. If it's true - and it implicates you in a BAD way - you fall all over yourself trying to keep it in the margins.
The genie is out of the bottle - the more they scramble to put it back in, the more people will disengage from their american idol stupor and start to question the official line of b.s.
If they say "Do No Evil" you can be damn near certain the opposite is true until they publicly disavow.. which ain't gonna happen.
you dance with the one that brung ya.
wake up, people. - dukeeeey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6The top 100 google video videos are so trashy, ignoring the numbers of views some of them are rated extremely poorly. Ie number one atm
Webcam Girls Go Wild (2/5 stars)
If it's so *****, why is it in the top 100 ? Why aren't other films like this
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5948263607579389947&q=terrorstorm&hl=en
which are truely excellent, and rated as so by the users in the top 100 ? Googles top 100 videos seems more like a hand picked selection of 100 trashy, unoffensive to government, big corporations as possible list, rather than a genuine list of popular videos users like to see. - Look4Truth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7No surprise here. Freedom of speech is championed by those in power only when it agrees with their own agenda. Pathetic...
- usbserial, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I doubt Google uses a strait most-page-views algorithm for their top videos list. Just like Digg has stories with thousands more diggs than are currently top stories... older videos are given lower rank. Otherwise the same videos would always be on the top ten for weeks or months at a time.
- luteslinger, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Infowars and Prisonplanet are not even considered news sources at Google News now either. What happened there?
There is a reason of course--its called WAR---INFOWAR, good vs. evil. - Enigma999, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2i second that about using scroogle, been using it for a few years now, same results no tracking, no ads.
How could you ever go back to google? - COMPACTION, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3This is only the beginning. The big corporations are going to have sites censored as 911truth becomes stronger and Ron Paul gets more attention. It is an information war and only when the public wakes up that they are slaves to Big Brother and criminal politicians it will change. Just wait until there is no food because of gas gouging causes truckers to go broke will be soon. Remember oil was only $20/barrel before George W Bush and Cheney came into office.
- Tylox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Great work bpd1069. I hope we can hold all of these media groups accountable for aiding the murderers of those poor victims on 911. VOTE RON PAUL :)
- Look4Truth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Hehe, yeah the "official" report really lays the truth out there for us. But I wonder why no mention of building 7? Lol...
- Ogrady, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2They have also censored AMERICA FREEDOM TO FASCISM! It has disappeared from its former prominent page! You can still access it if you type the title on an inner Google search but the views are way down and they were up to almost 3 million. Send Google a message! You can contact them via email Let them know you know what the government is up to.
- f8te, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5Hahaha! "Gag"gle, caught again.
- Tylox, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Really? Those buggers..... Oohh that makes me mad, they're all gonna get what's coming to them. Just watch what the Lord does, He'll get them soon enough and give them what they think they want.
- mattbrighton, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3If it's become popular again it should reenter the charts. Like everytime they release a Beatles track!
- theelectricafro, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Their motto is not "DO NOT AID AND ABED EVIL" so I guess they got you on a technicality.
@Cadmium.
Please tell me more of this scroogle. I am looking for a new search engine. Is it scroogle.org? - cp833, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1That just takes you to some 'video-sharing' site. Is that it??
- honestjoe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0This is a comment from Tbar1 to one of my posts at http://digg.com/politics/Goodling_Admits_Her_Partisan_Hirings_Were_Illegal#c6851010
Tbar1 said:
"Yes! Someone else gets it. I just found out about this today and have been trying to spread it. This is HUGE! It's been blacked out in the US. I had an experience at CBS today I'll share. Someone posted a Palast Video in response to one of my post at CBS. I found out about the E-Mails implicating Rove and tried to post them at CBS.
They Shut-down all posting over it! No *****! After a few hours, they reopened the comments section and I found this;
"Let them talk, The CIA/NSC/FBI group is sending Roves emails over there already so apparently they don't care if they know.
Posted by ToolMangler at 07:46 PM : May 24, 2007"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/23/iraq/main2844536.shtml#ccmm
My guess is ToolMangler is one of the Mods and was telling another Mod to reopen the Boards. The MSM didn't want the E-Mail story going public! I have a feeling that this is about to go Ballistic!"
Also the same thing happened at ABC do any of you know if this took place with the other MSM sites? - darsie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1There's no doubt whatsoever that Google, ABC, Myspace and most of the MSM are actively doing their upmost to censor politically sensitive stories that are enlightening the general populace to the MOs of the New World Order.
Think big.....don't just burn half a dozen or so copies of Terrorstorm or Loose Change for distribution to friends and/or family......seek out a supplier than can burn 500/1000++ copies with intent for a much wider distribution.........
- cheznoir, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Can you handle the truth?
When something is new - all of its votes/views count towards making it popular.
When something is old - only the new votes/views count towards making it popular.
Every system pretty much works this way otherwise top lists would become stagnant and rarely change. So the behavior recorded here makes perfect sense.
And yes, I WORK FOR THE CIA!!!! - anitab83, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4Hey gang, this isn't a conspiracy. Top 100 is by VIEWS IN PAST 24 HOURS. Averaged over the 9 months that Loose Change has been out, it's only received a few thousand views per day, nowhere near those in the top 100.
- Grego123, on 10/11/2007, -7/+0Im sure the majority of people who watched loose change saw it from the net, either google video or somewheres else, maybe they dont want it in the 100 casue its old hat.
- rmetzger, on 10/11/2007, -8/+0I may be wrong on this, just digg me down for it, but this is obviously copyrighted material so they would not want to bring attention to that fact?
the only other video i found that is also copyrighted and in the top 100 is ""Weird Al" Yankovic's "white and nerdy" ... and he needs all the screen time he can use.
just a thought
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