[pp.int.general] levies: GESAC study

[Arend Lammertink]

Reinier Bakels schreef:

>  
> IPRED2, data retention directive, and now this levy harmonisation & 
> enforcement endeavour apparently all come from the same source: a 
> desparate attempt from the record industry to maintain a position in a 
> society where it has become virtually superfluous due do Internet. It is 
> a dreadful example of "rent seeking" (defined as efforts to influence 
> the legislator to make legislation increasing private rents).
>  

I'm afraid it goes much further than that. What we're whitnessing is 
really a war about control of information. To illustrate this, i've just 
googled for "Ron-Paul", US president candidate, on the Dutch google. On 
"internet" I get 69.900 pages in Dutch. On news, I get 4. This is what 
Ron Paul says about privacy and personal liberty:

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/privacy-and-personal-liberty/

"The biggest threat to your privacy is the government. We must 
drastically limit the ability of government to collect and store data 
regarding citizens’ personal matters.

We must stop the move toward a national ID card system. All states are 
preparing to issue new driver’s licenses embedded with “standard 
identifier” data — a national ID. A national ID with new tracking 
technologies means we’re heading into an Orwellian world of no privacy. 
I voted against the Real ID Act in March of 2005."

Also see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c76yeqQY2ms

How come that the guy who is most popular on internet is ignored by the 
mainstream media?

It's because the media isn't as free as we think it is, because with the 
commercialisation of the mainstream media, the mainstream media are 
owned by private institutions. That means the mainstream media can be 
controlled and in fact are being controlled by "the industry" a.k.a. 
"Wall Street". There's much more to that, but maybe this is a good start:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8wwMFmCeE

And then start following the money, all the way to who actually controls 
the federal reserve.


Now the internet today still is a place where free speech flourishes, a 
place still out of control of governments. That's why I know about Ron 
Paul and a lot of other things, like the link between Al Qaida and Nazi 
Germany:

http://www.john-loftus.com/MB_N_AQ.htm

And the link between Bush and Nazi Germany:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D6fxyOtVeI

And the link between "Wall Street" and fascism:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

"The Business Plot (also known as the Plot Against FDR or the White 
House Putsch) was a political conspiracy in 1933 where several wealthy 
businessmen and corporations planned to overthrow the presidency of 
Franklin D. Roosevelt. [...]

Veterans of Foreign Wars commander James E. Van Zandt. "Less than two 
months" after General Butler warned him, he said "he had been approached 
by 'agents of Wall Street' to lead a Fascist dictatorship in the United 
States under the guise of a 'Veterans Organization.' "

And a link between al that and control of the media:

http://www.geocities.com/graysinfo/goebbels.html

“The effective propagandist must be a master of the art of speech, of 
writing, of journalism, of the poster and of the leaflet. He must have 
the gift to use the major methods of influencing public opinion such as 
the press, film and radio to serve his ideas and goals, above all in an 
age of advancing technology.” -- Joseph Goebbles



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