Infinite Unknown

- Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers (USA Today, Aug 24, 2012):

President Obama’s Twitter account has 18.8 million followers — but more than half of them really don’t exist, according to reports.A new Web tool has determined that 70% of Obama’s crowd includes “fake followers,” The New York Times reports in a story about how Twitter followers can be purchased.

“The practice has become so widespread that StatusPeople, a social media management company in London, released a Web tool last month called the Fake Follower Check that it says can ascertain how many fake followers you and your friends have,” the Times reports. Continue reading »

Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Internet, Mitt Romney, Obama administration, Politics, Twitter, U.S.

See also: Barack Obama And Mitt Romney Are Essentially The Same Candidate … 40 Facts

- Twitter wars: Obama and Romney buying fake followers? (RT. Aug 25, 2012):

While Mitt Romney and Barack Obama are neck in neck at the polls, another fight between the two presidential candidates has emerged — one that isn’t measured by votes but with retweets. Are politicians paying for their Twitter followers though?

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney made headlines with his Twitter account earlier this month after it was discovered that the presumptive GOP nominee for president magically accumulated more than 100,000 new social networking followers in only a single short weekend. Today, Romney’s 901,000-or so followers pale in comparison to President Obama’s nearly 19 million strong, but was the race to raking in an impressive online audience an easy one?

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Tags: Barack Obama, Global News, Government, Internet, Mitt Romney, Obama administration, Politics, Twitter, U.S.

Got gold and silver?

- Billionaire Eric Sprott: ‘There Isn’t A Solution To The Problem’ – ‘If The People Had Any Sense They Would Be Buying (PHYSICAL) Gold And/Or Silver’:

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People should, rightly, have fear of having their money in paper instruments, whether it’s in a bank account or a bond.  If they had any sense they would be buying (physical) gold and/or silver.  That’s the only way to maintain your purchasing power.

- Social Media Panic in Italy: “Enough of this Agony; Give Us Back the Lira” (Global Economic Alalysis, July 23, 2012):

Black Monday messages on Facebook and Twitter have gone viral in Italy as people have had enough of austerity, job losses, and uncertainty. La Stampa reports on Panic in the Network.

What follows is a Mish-revised translation of select ideas and quotes from the article. My specific comments are in brackets.

Black Monday breaks early in the morning on websites across the world and social networking spreads alarm. “Withdraw money from bank accounts” is the appeal of Andrew to Facebook friends.

Pseudo-analysis on the alleged benefits of a return to the lira go around the net. “Enough of this sad agony. Bring back the old money”, Paul insists.

“In 2000 we had the lira. We were producing more, exporting more, and children were living better, the results of monetary sovereignty” says Magdi Cristiano Allam on Twitter.

“We are on the brink of the abyss and the top EU cazzeggiano [slang for F* around],” accuses Ivan.

The tones on social networks are apocalyptic: “This is not a crisis, it’s the end of capitalism.” On the forum of the economics of printing a black player sees: “Folks, we begin to pray, after Greece’s up to us. We are at the end titles, to every man for himself.”

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Tags: Collapse, Economy, EU, Europe, Facebook, Global News, Government, Italy, Panic, Politics, Society, Twitter

- SOPA mutates into much worse CISPA, the latest threat to internet free speech (Natural News, April 21, 2012)

Just because SOPA and PIPA, the infamous internet “kill switch” bills, are largely dead does not mean the threat to internet free speech has become any less serious. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), also known as H.R. 3523, is the latest mutation of these internet censorship and spying bills to hit the U.S. Congress — and unless the American people speak up now to stop it, CISPA could lead to far worse repercussions for online free speech than SOPA or PIPA ever would have.

CNET, the popular technology news website that was among many others who spoke up against SOPA and PIPA earlier in the year, is also one of many now sounding the alarm about CISPA, which was authored by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.). Though the bill’s promoters are marketing it as being nothing like SOPA or PIPA, CISPA is exactly like those bills, except worse.

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Tags: 1984, Barack Obama, Big Brother, CISPA, Congress, Constitution, Dictatorship, Facebook, Fascism, First Amendment, George Orwell, Global News, Google, Government, Internet, Law, New World Order, Obama administration, PIPA, Politics, Society, SOPA, Twitter, U.S.

- Yasumi Iwakami Tweets About His Recent Health Problems After His Visit to #Fukushima I Nuke Plant in February (EX-SKF, April 10, 2012):

(and boy he received some nasty tweets in response…)

Yasumi Iwakami is arguably one of the best known independent journalists in Japan covering the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident, particularly among net users. I happened on Iwakami’s live netcast of TEPCO press conferences on his USTREAM channel very early on in the crisis, and have followed him and his reporting since.

He was one of the independent journalists allowed inside the plant compound in February this year on the second plant tour for the press (first one was in November last year). And ever since, he seems to have been plagued with one health discomfort after another. He tweeted about them on April 10, and someone compiled a “togetter” – a string of tweets.

First, the translation of Iwakami’s 15 tweets as they appear on the togetter, with Iwakami’s express permission to translate: Continue reading »

Tags: Environment, Fukushima, Global News, Health, Japan, Journalism, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Radiation, Society, Twitter, Yasumi Iwakami

Tags: 1984, Big Brother, Dictatorship, Facebook, Fascism, George Orwell, Global News, Government, Home Office, Internet, MI5, New World Order, Police, Police State, Politics, Society, Surveillance, Theresa May, Twitter, U.K.

- Goshi Hosono Is Now On Twitter (EX-SKF, March 29, 2012):

The minister in charge of the Fukushima nuclear accident and the Minister of the Environment Goshi Hosono has just started tweeting.

You can follow him if you want, at @goshihosono54.

So far, only two tweets, following no one, and 1,097 people following.

Let him know what you think of his:

• “decontamination” scam that benefit largest construction companies in Japan;
• wide-area disposal of disaster debris that has been contaminated with radioactive materials, toxic chemicals;
• his handling of the Fuku-I accident, etc.

Just be aware that Twitter Japan is run by a person with ties to the Japanese government. (But at this point, who doesn’t have ties to the government, among TPTB?)

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Tags: Global News, Goshi Hosono, Government, Japan, Politics, Twitter

- Rebelled NHK announcer purged (Fukushima Diary, Mar 28, 2012):

Following up this article..An NHK spokes man rebelled against NHK

NHK decided to close his twitter account.

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Tags: Fukushima, Global News, Government, Japan, Nuclear, Nuclear reactors, Politics, Radiation, Society, Twitter

DHS:

” … Mr BRYAN confirmed that he had posted on his Tweeter website account …”

- British tourists detained, barred from U.S. after tweet about “destroying America” (Social Beat, Jan. 30, 2012):

- US bars friends over Twitter joke (The Sun, Jan. 31, 2012):

TWO pals were barred from entering the US after innocent tweets joking about “destroying America” were picked up by the country’s anti-terror cops.

US special agents monitoring Twitter spotted Leigh Van Bryan’s messages weeks before he left for a holiday in Los Angeles with pal Emily Bunting.

Leigh, who also quipped about “digging up Marilyn Monroe” on Twitter, said they were treated like terrorists on arrival at a Los Angeles International Airport. The pair were held by armed guards and quizzed for five hours before being handcuffed, put in a van with illegal immigrants and locked up overnight.

Locked up

They spent 12 hours in separate holding cells and were then put on a flight home.

Leigh, 26, was kept under armed guard in a cell with Mexican drug dealers. The Department of Homeland Security flagged up Leigh as a potential threat when he posted a Twitter message to his pals ahead of his trip to Hollywood.

It read: “Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America”.

Despite telling officials at LAX airport the term “destroy” was British slang for partying, the pair were held on suspicion of planning to “commit crimes”.

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Tags: DHS, Dictatorship, Global News, Government, Homeland Security, New World Order, Politics, Society, Surveillance, Twitter, U.S.

For your (dis-)information.

– Will Google, Amazon, and Facebook Black Out the Net? (FOX News, Dec. 30, 2011):

In the growing battle for the future of the Web, some of the biggest sites online — Google, Facebook, and other tech stalwarts — are considering a coordinated blackout of their sites, some of the web’s most popular destinations.

No Google searches. No Facebook updates. No Tweets. No Amazon.com shopping. Nothing.

The action would be a dramatic response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a bill backed by the motion picture and recording industries that is intended to eliminate theft online once and for all. HR 3261 would require ISPs to block access to sites that infringe on copyrights — but how exactly it does that has many up in arms. The creators of some of the web’s biggest sites argue it could instead dramatically restrict law-abiding U.S. companies — and reshape the web as we know it.

A blackout would be drastic. And though the details of exactly how it would work are unclear, it’s already under consideration, according to Markham Erickson, the executive director of NetCoalition, a trade association that includes the likes of Google, PayPal, Yahoo, and Twitter.

“Mozilla had a blackout day and Wikipedia has talked about something similar,” Erickson told FoxNews.com, calling this kind of operation unprecedented.

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Tags: Amazon, Barack Obama, Dictatorship, Facebook, Global News, Google, Government, Internet, New World Order, Obama administration, Politics, Society, SOPA, Twitter