StarSuckers

Starsuckers is a feature documentary about the celebrity obsessed media, that uncovers the real reasons behind our addiction to fame and blows the lid on the corporations and individuals who profit from it. Made completely independently over 2 years in secret, the film journeys through the dark underbelly of the modern media. Using a combination of never before seen footage, undercover reporting, stunts and animation, the film reveals the toxic effect the media is having on us all and especially our children. Chris Atkins presents Starsuckers as a series of five lessons on fame in the modern world: how children are persuaded that fame is something they want, how television and the media reinforces the importance of celebrity and the efforts to attain it, how the mind and body reinforces our need to follow the activities of well-known people and strive to join their number, how the press became addicted to celebrity coverage, and how the art of promoting fame has led to celebrities and their handlers controlling the press instead of the press having say. Along the way, Atkins demonstrates how celebrity news with no basis in fact gets into print, why newspapers will run press releases almost verbatim, how parents will eagerly sign away the image rights to their kids, how certain mass scale charity events end up helping the performers far more than the causes they designed to support, and how publicists keep accurate but unflattering stories out of the news.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

eMail Censorship & a word from Ron Paul

MORE Proof that liberty defending email is being censored
savefreed0m2005
Wed Apr 1, 2009 12:38 am (PDT)
MORE Proof that liberty defending email is being censored
http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/targetfreedom/2009/03/liberty-defending-email-censored.html

THIS IS POSTED FROM THE WEBPAGE SO AS TO AVOID THE HOP WHERE THE CENSORSHIP FILTER IS INSTALLED. THESE LINKS MIGHT APPEAR TO BE "BROKEN" ON THE FIRST CLICK. JUST REFRESH THEM. IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE CENSORSHIP FOR YOURSELF JUST TRY PASSING THIS MESSAGE AROUND.

Censorship PART ONE
(Click on title above to see)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbF5PMsVmO0

Censorship PART TWO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBhU6d0HCJI

Censorship Part 3: Replying to censored political messages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwy8rMUJl6g

Censorship Part 4: Replying to censored political messages
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O2PX0bhnwQ

Replying to censored political messages that went to spam folder. Censorship is being disguised as "spam filtering". Earlier we wrote:
"Even a reply to the censored message,
from the main Yahoo server,
will trigger the CAPCHA censorship window."

One of the censors got upset by this, and emailed me this comment:
"Have you seen one of these? ever? If you have seen one, please send me a screenshot, if you personally have never seen it, please stop saying so."

WELL HERE IT IS. I do not need to send this reply directly to him, since he is reading all of my mail anyway. This is what happens every time, except when you cannot even find the message in the spam folder. Usually it just disappears. This is called being "black holed".

Olbermann-FISA, Telecom Immunity and other Crimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaKYadABc14
Update: FISA warrantless wiretapping Bill (HR 6304)
Watch Mark Klein's testimony about this warrantless wiretapping.

Call your Senators through the switchboard at 202-224-3121

or dial direct

Why is the government unwilling to let these facts be aired in open court?

Ben Siegrist, who works for Senator DeMint, told me that Mark Klein's testimony is of no concern. See if you think that this is just a "disgruntled employee".

The Senate could cast its final vote on warrantless wiretapping as soon as today. We need to flood Congress with letters and calls demanding a no vote on the FISA bill. There are relevant amendments to the FISA warrantless wiretapping Bill. Ask your Senator to stand for liberty and the law, and vote in favor of the Dodd-Feingold-Leahy Amendment. Dodd-Feingold-Leahy Amendment stops retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies.

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Statement on HR 6304, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments

20 June 2008

Rep. Ron Paul, M.D.

Madam Speaker, I regret that due to the unexpected last-minute appearance of this measure on the legislative calendar this week, a prior commitment has prevented me from voting on the FISA amendments. I have strongly opposed every previous FISA overhaul attempt and I certainly would have voted against this one as well.

The main reason I oppose this latest version is that it still clearly violates the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution by allowing the federal government to engage in the bulk collection of American citizens' communications without a search warrant. That US citizens can have their private communication intercepted by the government without a search warrant is anti-American, deeply disturbing, and completely unacceptable.

In addition to gutting the fourth amendment, this measure will deprive Americans who have had their rights violated by telecommunication companies involved in the Administration's illegal wiretapping program the right to seek redress in the courts for the wrongs committed against them. Worse, this measure provides for retroactive immunity, whereby individuals or organizations that broke the law as it existed are granted immunity for prior illegal actions once the law has been changed. Ex post facto laws have long been considered anathema in free societies under rule of law. Our Founding Fathers recognized this, including in Article I section 9 of the Constitution that "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." How is this FISA bill not a variation of ex post facto? That alone should give pause to supporters of this measure.

Mr. Speaker, we should understand that decimating the protections that our Constitution provides us against the government is far more dangerous to the future of this country than whatever external threats may exist. We can protect this country without violating the Constitution and I urge my colleagues to reconsider their support for this measure.
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