Google censoring “BitTorrent,” other search terms from instant results

To Google and shadow government homeland security types who are probably doing a lot of arm-twisting in the form threats and payoffs, I have a message for you…

There are a lot of legitimate uses for BitTorrent other than piracy. It can be used to share ANY data.  You are attempting to restrict access to a powerful technology that enables many distributed applications.    You should take a lesson from history and realize that censoring words is a losing battle.

Go to Google.com, turn on ‘instant’ and type in bittorrent to see for yourself…

Ah but since you already know how to spell the word, they’ll show some suggestions in the “instant” box now.  Who made this arbitrary decision?  Do we now have the governemnt in there micro-managing Google’s search queries and algos?  This is getting ridiculous.

They say “jump,” you say “which window.”

Lots of open source software uses BitTorrent to distribute files, so this is essentially an attack on open source software.

We need to move away from google as much as possible.  I am going to intensify my research into alternative search providers and hopefully post some links for you soon.

Alex Jones removed from Google News since November, YouTube channel may be deleted

After “they” flushed the video of Donald Rumsfeld saying “missile hit the pentagon” down a memory hole (I swear I’ve seen it with my own eyes… once), I started saving videos- usually FLV or Mp4 files from my browser cache.  If YouTube wants to censor videos selectively for political gain, I have a few TB/month bandwidth I can spare to xfer some important documentary videos as I’m sure quite a few other hosts do.   I think YouTube and the government should go ahead and delete his account cause they’ll really be pouring gasoline on the fire.  People will use other services to distribute the videos and we won’t continue supporting this intelligence agency founded/funded service.   Google News basically pushes all the latest internet propaganda from the corporate media to the top, constantly finding new ways to stifle public opinion. YouTube takes important videos down all the time under the pretext of copyright violation or the ambiguous “terms of use violation” they applied uniquely to Alex Jones’ YouTube channel.  We can do better.

If you want to help distribute underground documentary videos, all you have to do is seed them on BitTorrent. Vuze is a good BitTorrent client. Use the advanced view + transport encryption.  That’s something you can do easily from the comfort of your own home. Here’s how:

After downloading Vuze from the link above, or other torrent client, use a torrent search engine like Torrentz.com to search for “Alex Jones” (or whatever you want).  Download the .torrent files for the movies you want to watch, open them with Vuze, and transfer the files down.  Leave the files “seeding” which means they are shared with others in the torrent network.  Click to enlarge…

There are other social web video sites like Liveleak.com, vimeo.com, Metacafe.com, Break.com etc to upload vids.  We should definitely diversify our uploading efforts.   I’m getting pretty sick of copyright violation takedowns from YouTube in my old posts and having to find other copies.

What the feds and spooks don’t seem to realize is that for every video they take down, 10 more are going to pop up.   This whack-a-mole approach just makes their problem (us) worse as censorship makes people more curious and validates everything we’re doing.

TheAlexJonesChannel on YouTube.  – People should get in the habit of saving videos so they can quickly be re-uploaded, hopefully in a more distributed fashion next time.

Forces of good repurpose google trends

CIA money behind Wi-Fi Positioning System (WPS)

How amazing would it be if you could walk into a fast food restaurant and order that mid-morning bacon taco meal with Mountain Dew Big Gulp from your mobile device?  Just imagine… as you approach the restaurant, a menu pops up on your screen, the phone makes suggestions and helps you super-size your order, before you even set foot inside!

Is there anything the IPad won't do?

This advertiser’s wet dream is about to become reality, thanks to WPS (Wi-Fi Positioning System) infrastructure pioneered by CIA front company Skyhook (formerly Quarterscope) and currently being implemented by several other intelligence-connected companies, including Google, Apple, and Navizon (which is supplying data to Microsoft).

WPS geolocates wireless network devices using a database of known wireless access points, such as in coffee shops.  Since at least 2004, WPS companies like Skyhook and Google have been war-driving for access point data.  More about the technical aspects of this later.

How did you conclude that Skyhook is an intelligence front company?

Follow the money.

In 2008 former CIA director George Tenet became Managing Director of Allen & Company, an investment bank that provided funding for Skyhook’s WPS development and Google’s IPO (Initial Public Offering) in 2004, while he was still director of the CIA.

Skyhook was also funded by shadowy investment firm Alliance Capital.  Frank Savage, Alliance Capital’s former board chairman, also served on the board of Lockheed Martin and Enron. Alliance was Enron’s largest shareholder.

Regardless of where the seed money came from, you can now buy this WPS data commercially.  The military industrial complex churns out new tracking and identification technologies, corporations exploit them, and ever-increasing amounts of personal data are exchanged on private networks which intelligence agencies can snoop on at will with their NSA Internet vacuum cleaners.

What exactly is WPS and how does it work?

Nearly every modern network connected device (phone, computer network card, cable modem, wireless router, bluetooth headset, etc), has a unique number called a MAC address (Media Access Control, not Apple) built in.

Even if a mobile device doesn’t obtain an IP address when connecting to wi-fi, merely conducting a normal SSID (Session ID) scan will result in the mobile obtaining the MAC of the access point, and may (during active scanning) result in sending the mobile’ MAC address  to the access point.  Access points embed their MAC addresses in beacon frames, which wireless devices scan for.

Here is the relevant thing you need to know about MAC addresses: they are unique and can identify any network connected device, wired or wireless, bluetooth, 802.11, etc.  The good news is you can change a device’s MAC address.†  The bad news is, that doesn’t really matter because that new number can be immediately correlated with your voice print and other biometric signatures in realtime by the mobile device (see Iphone trojan link below)

WPS is not generally used alone for geolocation. Hybrid systems including GPS (Global Positioning System) and cell triangulation are more commonly used to geolocate mobile devices. the advantage of adding WPS is that you can be located anywhere there’s a known wi-fi, such as inside buildings where GPS signals may not be strong, and you can be triangulated fairly accurately (depending on the type of radio hardware in the mobile device) using a large number of access points.  How often have you been in an urban setting and seen 10 or 20 or more access points in the list?  If the exact location of those access points are known, they can all be used together to triangulate the mobile more precisely.

So my phone trades MAC addresses with a restaurant’s Wi-Fi. They show me the daily specials.   Aren’t there potential benefits to something like this?

Yes, there are many potential benefits to advertisers, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies who want to track masses of people.  WPS is going to dovetail beautifully with the NSA’s Main Core and Apple’s new biometric Iphone trojan.

The only potential benefit to you is that you will not have to speak to the person behind the counter and your latté will be ready faster.

Intelligence agencies and DARPA are creating an AI surveillance cloud right before our eyes.  Don’t think that because you don’t have an Iphone means the 3 people sitting around you haven’t had their trojans activated to identify your voice print and snoop on your conversation.

We already know how this ends.  You better not be reading qbit.cc either or you’re going on their shit list!

† But why is it that on Apple OSX 10.4 you can’t change the MAC address of your wireless card even as root?  It simply fails with no error and keeps the original MAC address.  I will find the answer to this question.

Wayne Madsen: Wikileaks is a CIA Front

Wayne Madsen Report via Arthur Zbygniew

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WMR has confirmed Young’s contention that Wikileaks is a CIA front operation. Wikileaks is intimately involved in a $20 million CIA operation that U.S.-based Chinese dissidents that hack into computers in China. Some of the Chinese hackers route special hacking program through Chinese computers that then target U.S. government and military computer systems. After this hacking is accomplished, the U.S. government announces through friendly media outlets that U.S. computers have been subjected to a Chinese cyber-attack. The “threat” increases an already-bloated cyber-defense and offense budget and plays into the fears of the American public and businesses that heavily rely on information technology.

It is also pointed out that on Wikileaks advisory board is Ben Laurie, a one-time programmer and Internet security expert for Google, which recently signed a cooperative agreement with the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and has been charged by China with being part of a U.S. cyber-espionage campaign against China.

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Full article here

Map of government takedown requests issued to Google/Youtube

Google has created a map page indicating the number of takedown requests received from various countries around the world.  It’s a positive step toward transparency but now if we could just have a description of what was taken down… like the BBC video reporting the collapse of WTC7 20 minutes early.   Trying to keep that little gem from going viral proved futile.  They were taking videos down as fast as they could be uploaded and finally gave up.

The truth will come out and we won’t be silenced.  Actually, scratch that.  I can recall one instance where they actually did permanently and completely eliminate a video from all social video sites.  It was Illuminati henchman Donald Rumsfeld saying “The missile that hit the pentagon.”  I saw that video myself but didn’t save it.  Wish I did, cause they flushed it down a memory hole.  All that remains are written transcripts. If anyone  has a copy of that video I’d be eternally grateful for it.

http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/

Three Google employees convicted in Italian court for user-uploaded content

In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate. The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police. We also worked with the local police to help identify the person responsible for uploading it and she was subsequently sentenced to 10 months community service by a court in Turin, as were several other classmates who were also involved. In these rare but unpleasant cases, that’s where our involvement would normally end.

But in this instance, a public prosecutor in Milan decided to indict four Google employees —David Drummond, Arvind Desikan, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes (who left the company in 2008). The charges brought against them were criminal defamation and a failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. To be clear, none of the four Googlers charged had anything to do with this video. They did not appear in it, film it, upload it or review it. None of them know the people involved or were even aware of the video’s existence until after it was removed.

Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code. All 4 were found not guilty of criminal defamation. In essence this ruling means that employees of hosting platforms like Google Video are criminally responsible for content that users upload. We will appeal this astonishing decision because the Google employees on trial had nothing to do with the video in question. Throughout this long process, they have displayed admirable grace and fortitude. It is outrageous that they have been subjected to a trial at all.

But we are deeply troubled by this conviction for another equally important reason. It attacks the very principles of freedom on which the Internet is built. Common sense dictates that only the person who films and uploads a video to a hosting platform could take the steps necessary to protect the privacy and obtain the consent of the people they are filming. European Union law was drafted specifically to give hosting providers a safe harbor from liability so long as they remove illegal content once they are notified of its existence. The belief, rightly in our opinion, was that a notice and take down regime of this kind would help creativity flourish and support free speech while protecting personal privacy. If that principle is swept aside and sites like Blogger, YouTube and indeed every social network and any community bulletin board, are held responsible for vetting every single piece of content that is uploaded to them — every piece of text, every photo, every file, every video — then the Web as we know it will cease to exist, and many of the economic, social, political and technological benefits it brings could disappear.

These are important points of principle, which is why we and our employees will vigorously appeal this decision.