The strange events of Facebook continue

Reports are coming out of the US that the Facebook mobile phone app is doing something rather strange, in fact doing several things that are rather strange. Following on from our article in the strange case of Facebook email addresses suddenly becoming the default email address on your account whether you signed up for it or not, comes this latest development where the app for both Apple and Android based phones has been rummaging through your address book, and seeking out all of your contacts who have Facebook accounts and replacing their contact e-mail address with a Facebook one. This is something that goes beyond simple error and really gets to the heart of the reason more and more people are beginning to question what is really behind these somewhat questionable actions. It's not just conspiracy theorists who are asking these questions either, these events are raising eyebrows across the computer programming World, and what people are saying is that intrusive actions like these simply should not happen, ever, period. Yet they are, and they are happening more and more often, and they are almost all linked to Facebook, the company that is still struggling to justify it's share price at the recent IPO and to fight court cases around the sell off.

The series of very strange events, impacting as they do, the cornerstones of Facebooks success, namely gaming, mobile advertising and off site communication needs to be investigated much deeper, but again we run into a significant issue in that no-one seems to be too keen to do much digging into these stories. It should be the remit of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) but of course the SEC is a functional unit of the FBI, and the FBI is known to be subservient to the CIA. It seems more and more likely that the CIA is behind the whole Facebook IPO story, using this almost ubiquitous software to gain access to a tremendous range of people across the globe, and a network that shows the surprising ways that people connect together. This certainly wouldn't be the first time that the CIA had bee heavily involved in monitoring through software infiltration. Many people have wondered what exactly it was that lead to Microsoft gained such a significant market share in the operating system marketplace, and how it is still possible that even when offered a free alternative, people still choose Microsoft.

There is good evidence that Microsoft was covertly backed by the CIA both in terms of financial support, and in terms of industrial espionage against competitor software companies throughout the 1980's and '90's. This seems rather more likely than the supposed genuine story that there was a lot of collaboration between competitive companies. It also explains why the computer and software industry is one of the very few where Soviet and Chinese intelligence assets struggled to gain any inside information. If you look at the ease with which these assets infiltrated major military contractors and replicated advanced military hardware it would be expected that a similar pattern would emerge in computer science but this was just not the case at all. It all adds up to an ongoing CIA infiltration and monitoring policy to gather information about the rapidly changing social environment, in preparation for the coming tribulations, and the extreme challenges that we, as a society are going to face. Interesting times ahead.

Why Rupert Murdoch is the most misunderstood man in the media

Ok, I can hear you all saying “What's going on now?” Firstly let me make it clear that I am no apologist for the mainstream media, but I am interested in the New World Order and the global elite, and sometimes there are crossovers into the mainstream. So why do I consider Rupert Murdoch, a man seen by many to be at the heart of the global conspiracy to be misunderstood? The reason is simple. Whatever his flaws and failing, Rupert Murdoch is a man who cannot be controlled. In part this is a trait he shares in common with many Australians. They are a proud, not to say, belligerent people, known for straight talking and not suffering fools gladly. This is evidenced by his refusal to court the attentions of people in power, preferring to create for himself a position in which the powerful seek him out. His intellect is unquestioned being a politics, philosophy and economics graduate of Oxford University as well as completing an MA, and his position on personal editorial control over his various media outlets has always been to allow the editors he employs the freedom to act as they see fit.

This makes him tremendously dangerous to the global elite, and is the real reason that his motives, practices and controls are constantly questioned. The truth is fundamentally counter to the rumours and insinuations. Having been introduced to journalism by his father Sir Keith Murdoch, a highly respected war correspondent and media magnate known for his insistence on scrupulous ethics in journalism, and his further development of his own social conscience evidenced by his support for social politics and public ownership of utilities, Murdoch is far more committed to exposing corruption and malpractice in the upper echelons of society. As a pragmatist and social realist Murdoch understood early on that in order to expose and make public the wrongdoings of others it would sometimes be necessary to adopt an “at any cost” approach to journalism, and this has led many to see him as unscrupulous and utterly unethical. This is far from the case.

At root Murdoch understands that in order to effect change in society, and in order to hold politicians and leaders to account one needs, in the first instance a platform from which to bring these stories to as wide an audience as possible. This is his raison d'etre in creating a network of highly populist, easily accessible media outlets that successfully engage with a global audience. In the UK his Sun and News of the World newspapers were significantly the best selling newspaper for many years, the Sun having a readership of 4 million regularly. His Fox news network in the United States is one of the most highly watched, and in order to achieve this Murdoch has actively researched and understood that what people want is not high brow analysis and cutting insight, but something that is more accessible to the mainstream. It should be noted that the Sun in the Uk is written specifically for a reading age of 14 years because it is understood that news should be accessible to all irrespective of educational background.

Having successfully created a vast and effective global platform, Murdoch specifically works to both entertain and inform without bias and without fear or favour. These should be the principles of all good journalists. The issue comes in the fact that in order to gain access to information that the elite would rather keep hidden, there is a need to engage in less ethical acts. This has been seen in the furore over the phone hacking scandal, but this is yet another smokescreen. Another desperate attempt to limit the power of a man who defies the control usually exerted on the owners of the supposedly free press. Right or wrong, good or bad, Rupert Murdoch is one of the very few successful men to do things completely his own way and to stand for the unempowered and disenfranchised. Love him or hate him, you have to respect a man who stands up to the global elite that would far rather that we were all cattle, and are working actively to achieve that.

The UK media conspiracy

From our contact in Fleet Street :

The mainstream media in the UK has always prided itself on its reputation for high quality unbiased journalism. Even within the tabloid sector there is an belief in reporting stories based on sound journalistic principles. This has, of late, been tarnished by the hacking scandals at the News of the World and the links to widespread police corruption, but this, I am here to tell you, is just the tip of an incredibly dirty, somewhat seedy iceberg. With a few notable exceptions there is little integrity left in print journalism, and the commercial interests of newspaper owners has such a significant impact on editorial decisions that any chance of getting a story that doesn't fit that ethos is strangled at birth. I know from my own experience that stories that would have run fifteen years ago as genuine news are now routinely spiked. Anything that is too controversial is slapped with a government D notice or pulled by the editor citing legal or ethical constraints. To any journalist worth their salt there should be no higher authority than truth, but apparently the truth does not sell papers.

I'll give you an example that may surprise you a little. Do you remember the MP's expenses scandal? Great piece of investigative journalism, right? Really? Did you ever wonder who leaked those oh so incriminating documents? Did you ever question why some politicians took far more of a kicking than others? The whole thing was a set up from the outset. Sure the Telegraph was instrumental in getting hold of the information, but from 2004 to 2009 MPs consistently blocked the release of information. Why, suddenly in 2009 did the information come out? I'll tell you. The labour party knew that the game was up. The economy had tanked, and was going to get much, much worse. They knew that their only chance of regaining power within 50 years was to do a runner and let the tories carry the can for the cuts that would have to be made to try to balance the economy. Now of course the tories tried desperately to fight back and make themselves unelectable but that didn't work and Gordon Brown was left to put the Liberals in a position that they had no option but to form an alliance with Camerons tories, something that would have been, and indeed was, considered impossible before it happened.

Lets look at the phone hacking scandal itself. When the story broke it was an isolated incident by a rogue reporter. I can tell you that it wasn't simply endemic, but was the preferred method of establishing a story. As a reporter, bringing a story to the editor, the first question would be have you got the phone records to prove this? The answer would, of course, be yes. It was just the way things were done. Does that make it acceptable? Of course not, no more than the fact that every MP was shown how to make fraudulent expenses claims doesn't make it right. As a consumer of news, you are completely at the mercy of a network of interconnected press barons and their editorial mouthpieces. There is no freedom of the press, there is no truly impartial reporting. The money behind the press is king and that is not going to change any time soon. Anyone who fights against this system is torn apart, destroyed by the very mechanism that they work within. Anyone outside the media who questions its operations and ethics stands to be excoriated on the front page of every tabloid, but I guess that is just the way things are.

Of course, the odd story is allowed through, just to maintain the illusion of a free press, but those days, if they ever truly existed are long gone. If you want any chance of finding out what is really going on it is up to you to research it yourself.....and the best of luck with that!

The author of this article has worked as a journalist on several daily national newspapers and presents a credible account of the decline in journalistic integrity.