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Title: Facebook vs US establishment: who controls whom?
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URL Source: http://rt.com/news/facebook-american-government-control-535/
Published: Sep 30, 2011
Author: http://rt.com/news/facebook-american-gov
Post Date: 2011-09-30 09:12:15 by tom007
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Facebook vs US establishment: who controls whom? permalink email story to a friend print version Published: 14 September, 2011, 16:06 U.S. President Barack Obama (L) talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (R) during a town hall style meeting at Facebook headquarters. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP) U.S. President Barack Obama (L) talks with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (R) during a town hall style meeting at Facebook headquarters. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP) TRENDS: UK riots TAGS: Politics, Europe, Internet, Information Technology, USA, Corporate news, Social networks As Facebook continues to hire current and former White House employees to enhance its lobby in state structures, concerns over the privacy policies and security practices of the world’s largest social networking site are on the rise. The man behind the US $750 million site, Mark Zuckerberg, appears to be hatching a fresh scheme to establish reliable links with both the Congress and the White House, dropping any pretence of party preferences. A whole team of advisors from Republican and Democrat camps have joined the ranks of Zuckerberg’s army ready to push, pull and protect the company’s interests at any given level of the American bureaucratic hierarchy. Facebook shares key positions with White House At first, hirings of former top civil servants were few and far between, occurring only about once a year. This was the deal back in September 2008 when Ted Ulloyt, a George W. Bush loyalist, was appointed to vice president and general counsel, reports The Washington Post. Two years later in June 2010, Marne Levine, a member of President Barack Obama’s staff, was hired to guide the social network’s policy issues from Washington. The current year has been seen a remarkable number of prominent government figures entering the Facebook corporation. In May 2011, Facebook called a former aide to President George W. Bush – the Republican Joel Kaplan – to head its Washington office. In June this year, a former spokesman for President Bill Clinton’s administration, Joe Lockhart, was recruited to head Facebook’s communications team. President Obama’s special assistant for legislative affairs (who was also Vice President Biden’s former deputy chief of staff) Louisa Terrel is now to define Facebook’s public policy, a job she once did for Yahoo. Sheryl Sandberg, who used to work in the Treasury Department under Barack Obama’s Economic Adviser Lawrence Summers, is now employed as Faceboook’s chief operating officer. A new senior policy adviser and director of privacy, Erin Egan, will come to Facebook in October. She is currently co-chair at Covington & Burling’s global privacy and data security, a company ranked as being in the top ten for its privacy practices. Only last week, Zuckerberg introduced President Clinton’s chief of staff, Erskine Bowles, to Facebook’s board. All these people are to ensure that Facebook remains the industry leader, obsessed with the data security and privacy safety of its hundreds of millions of clients. At the same time, to an unbiased observer, the processes going on in the internet technology giant cannot but resemble putting a highly-successful company under full governmental control. Considering the unprecedented prospects the project opens in the field of global data collection, it appears only natural that the American government should promote its top people to key positions of responsibility with regard to Facebook’s data security. But RT guest Steve Rambam, founder and CEO of Pallorium Inc., an international online investigative service, has stated openly that companies like Facebook, Google or MySpace are “aggregating data on each of us bit by bit and before you know it, your entire life is on a disk.”
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
With facial recognition software tech out there, you KNOW that the DOJ is at least insisting on access to all photos uploaded to FB to scan for wanted people. And that would be just a start.
Facebook is a gift to the survailance community. I have an account, but do not use it to communicate to anyone, much at all.
ALL Social Networks are run by You Know Who
My social networking is email and 4um.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson I opened one recently but used a completely fake moniker for my first & last name, and some matching graphic I found on the web. It's the only way to do it, if you do it at all.
I only used FB sporadically, but once I learned what the rats are doing, I deactivated it. The way I see it one has a choice to be tracked, or not when it comes to being a FB user.
The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify “Key Bloggers” The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it. In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify “key bloggers” and to monitor “billions of conversations” about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs..... "...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
truthseeker link down already what can we change "the FED" to?
maybe i typed it wrong...the url didn't print on my page because i have too much stuff on it....i just typed the above url into a new page and it brought up the page...if you link now and it doesn't come up, the oppressor is monitoring us, or me.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
I DID type it wrong...sorry about that!!
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
thanks, it works now
i don't know, but i just remembered....you posted a link to a Christian website a while back that showed documentation that the Anti-Defamation League was created to protect the Federal Reserve. The site came down within a day or two. I watched it for a week, and as far as I know, it never came back up. For the record, Federal Reserve and the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith created in the same year: 1913.
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
did you see this one?
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
good grief. I've seen that report before, but thanks for the repost. Yikes. or should i say, OY VEY!
"Even to the death fight for truth, and the LORD your God will battle for you". Sirach 4:28
I did, but just reread it again. More closely this time. Disturbing. Thank you for pointing it out to me.
Guess where I re-posted it? ;)
Palestinians won't get their independence until Americans get theirs!
#2. To: tom007 (#0)
#3. To: Pinguinite (#2)
, you KNOW that the DOJ is at least insisting on access
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#4. To: tom007 (#3)
#5. To: Itistoolate (#4)
#6. To: tom007 (#3)
#7. To: Lod (#5)
#8. To: Itistoolate, tom007 (#1)
#9. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#8)
#10. To: Itistoolate (#9)
www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/?p=34778
#11. To: Itistoolate (#9)
#12. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#11)
#13. To: Itistoolate (#9)
what can we change "the FED" to?
#14. To: wudidiz (#0)
#15. To: Itistoolate (#4)
#16. To: Artisan (#14)
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
#17. To: Artisan, christine (#14)
"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.” ~ Patrick Henry
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