I don’t care so much about this, but check this out! Seattle Times Article

Watch video here What do you think?

Have you guys seen MS’ new flat PC? What’s up with that? After so long of branding itself out of the innovative category, MS comes out with a product that is definitely going to turn heads around. Although, to be honest, I am not that impressed. I heard in the radio and read in the newspapers that MS came out with a truly innovative idea and that people were going to take some time to adapt to it, but that is bullshit. The truth is that something like this was already part of so, so many people’s minds for a long time. MS is just helping the computer industry to catch up. It is not going to take any time for someone in my generation and beyond to adapt to this new machine. As a matter of fact, I have never seen it myself and I can already tell how to work with it. So big deal!

On the other hand, it is pretty cool. Who am I kidding? You have a table that works as a PC. You don’t need a mouse or a keyboard and it is wireless already, so you can do everything without cables as well. It is a true statement to the future of technology as well.

Here are some pictures for you…

OK, OK, so I told you guys that I was going to explain how to actually make money out of a wiki site and then I went in a rampage of PR articles, but here it is, the continuation to these series. Sorry for the long gap.

Well the first thing that you need in order to start your own wiki is a script that you can install in a web server. If you are asking what the hell is a script? Don’t worry I felt the exact same way, just some over a month ago and that did not stop me either. It is very simple a php script is a kind of program that you download from the internet and after following the installation directions, you run in a web server. I use “Host Gator” to run mine at Wiki eBooks and the php script I use is the same one that Wikipedia uses namely MediaWiki and you can download it here MediaWiki. I am not here to teach you why did I choose Host Gator and MediaWiki. There are indeed many web hosting companies out there, some bad, some good, but I like the one I chose. It took me a lot of hard research to find them and they are great. And I am not an affiliate to them, so if you follow the link in here I won’t get paid. This is just free advice. MediaWiki was an easy choice. I mean if it works for Wikipedia, trust me it will work for you too.

Try playing around with getting a web host and to install the php script and come back to keep learning how to make money out of it.

One last thing, before starting this wiki-journey, please make sure that you have a topic that you love to talk about, so you can focus your wiki into that main subject.

See you next time…

A Fight Against Evil

Neo-conservatists are planning our lives. They are deciding the faith of the world and everything around us. Their philosophy is based on greed and thirst for power. They do not respect anyone or anything. And I watch my closest friends and foes ignoring these facts as if everything was just OK. And I ask myself, what kind of life will my own son and the others’ descendants will live if we don’t act now? Chomsky used to say that the fact that we are aware of the world around us imposes a big responsibility over our shoulders. It is not sufficient to take care of our own personal concerns. If we become aware of the atrocities happening as an indirect consequence of our actions, we are responsible for those effects as well. It is our fault that all these American organizations are destroying the planet. The evil is within and in the mirror as much as it is on their own hands. So, I beg you today to take matters on your own hands. A revolution can happen without weapons, without blood. Please, spread this information and help the revolution to begin today.

Thanks to my friend Matt that today posted a new video on his profile (Watch Here! ). A new warrior was born.

Walmart ‘s PR Good Guys Campaign

Small businesses around America are dropping like flies at a pace of 3 billion dollars in retail wages every year. Another Walmart here, another Walmart there. Another new ghost town here, another new ghost town there. That’s the trend building up in small towns all over the country. Why? Cheap Chinese products! According to the AFL-CIO, “Wal-Mart is the single largest importer of foreign-produced goods in the United States”, their biggest trading partner is China, and their trade with China alone constitutes approximately 10 percent of the total US trade deficit with China as of 2004. As of 2004, 60% of products sold at Wal-Mart were imported into the United States from other countries. But how? Communism is the evil, right? Conservatists have been trying to liberate us from these bad guys for generations or at least make us believe those are their intentions. WRONG! Communism, or should I say? The watered-down version of it, namely social capitalism (such as the type of societies run in countries like China and Cuba. Lets not confound it with pure Marx-Engels communism, because that does not exist just yet) is feeding Americans with cheap items that promote laziness and conformity in the American population. Why would I go to school and strive for a better job, if I can get a cheap Chinese product for a dollar at Walmart? The answer is a very politically involved system built by the American government, namely the neo-conservatists. China has the perfect social environment to abuse his population and to create cheap products that the capitalist countries die to get their hands on. And so Walmart has become the perfect feeding tube of social capitalist’s items into this country. What does that mean for the American population? An increasingly poor living situation.

Walmart has been known in the last decade as a company that every single year breaks its own records on sales and profits (For the fiscal year ending January 31, 2006, Wal-Mart reported net income of $11.2 billion on $316 billion of sales revenue (3.5% profit margin). As of January 04, 2007, revenue was $33.3 billion higher than it was one year ago); however, at the same time, they have been known as a company that pays its employees extremely low wages and expensive health care benefits that six out of ten employees cannot pay for. Wal-Mart’s health insurance covers 44% or approximately 572,000 of its 1.3 million U.S. workers and spends 27% less than the retail-industry average on these benfits. Thus, these uninsured employees look for welfare and Medicaid benefits from the government. Who pays for that? Every hard-working American that pays taxes to the IRS. So, how is it possible that a company that every year grows at a tremendous pace cannot share its profits with its employees, namely the persons that actually do the job involved in order to make those same profits? Let’s give a thunderous round of applause to the Capitalist system and the neo-conservatists presently running it!

Wal-Mart has been criticized for their policies against labor unions. In North America, the company has largely thwarted unionization through anti-union tactics such as managerial surveillance and pre-emptive closures of stores or departments who choose to unionize.

In August 2006, the company announced that it would roll out an average pay increase of 6% for all new hires at 1,200 U.S. Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club locations, and at the same time would institute pay caps on veteran workers. While Wal-Mart claims the measures are necessary to stay competitive, critics claim the salary caps are primarily an effort to push higher-paid, veteran workers out of the company.

Today, I present this video in order to help you understand these and other points from the perspective of these employees and the small-business owners that are losing their war against Walmart, the world’s largest retailer and second largest corporation (behind Exxon Mobil). Walmart has tried to hide this and other truths for quite some time now and presently are running an enormous public relations campaign in order to convince the American population that they are the good guys. Have you seen those commercial on TV about Walmart that say NOTHING about the products and services they sell at their stores? That’s PR at its best.

Walmart - High Cost of Low Prices

A facts summary video.

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Howard Stern is best known for his efforts to confront the FCC’s (The Federal Communications Commission, the commission which regulates interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable) policies on censorship. Hearing Mr. Stern complaining for years and years about the fact that the FCC would not permit him to freely speak about asses and tits, you might think that the FCC is a very strict organization that does not chicken out when confronted against public figures and other organizations. HOWEVER, think again. The FCC has a powerful grip on how communications of every kind are distributed around the country, but it seems that for the right price or the right organization the FCC does not care about the fact that fair distribution of information is essential for a democratic system to function correctly.

Today I present a small video that shows that “when the FCC relaxed their policy on character qualifications in 1985, General Electric immediately bought NBC. What has been the legacy of this seemingly unholy alliance? Danny Schechter (MediaChannel), Jim Ledbetter (Village Voice), Janine Jackson (FAIR and former NBC President) Larry Grossman, explain”.

For those of you ignorant of the reach that GE has in the way America has been shaped in the last century, let me inform you that GE has been participant of the most complex strategic plan to shape the US into one of the most controlled countries in the planet. Talk about fascism and tyranny! GE has faced considerable controversy and legal battles relating to its business operations. This has included numerous legal proceedings relating to environmental pollution.

In 1983, New York State Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit in Federal District Court to compel GE to pay for the clean-up of what was claimed to be more than 100,000 tons of chemicals dumped from their plant in Waterford.

In 1999, the company agreed to pay $250 million to the United States, Massachusetts, and Connecticut to resolve claims it polluted the Housatonic River with PCBs and other hazardous substances.
GE has also faced criminal action regarding its defense-related operations. GE was convicted in 1990 of defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense, and again in 1992 on charges of corrupt practices in the sale of weaponry to Israel.

A summary…GE controls NBC and GE is a terrible corporation that makes weapons of mass destruction and then sell these weapons to other countries, that explodes people on third world countries, including children, that pollutes the world, that creates illusory necessities in the world population in order to sell its products, that influences federal and global policies regarding pretty much everything that we see around us, but you will never hear about it in the media, because they own it as well. Do you get the point? Media consolidation and control by multinationals corporations is a cancer to democratic life.

Think about it!

Myspace is Completely Owned by Fox

Today’s Topic “Rupert Murdoch”

Just to correct my friend Kevin’s last bulletin, Myspace is not “partially” owned by Fox. Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Media, the company that owns Fox as well, owns Myspace since 2005. On July 20, 2005, News Corp. bought Intermix Media Inc., which held MySpace.com and other popular social networking-themed websites for $580 million USD. Mr. Murdoch is one of the most powerful individuals in the planet, along with the Bush Family and other members of the CFR. He controls 3/4 of the entire planet’s media outlets. He is the one person that can tell you via television, newspapers, music, books, radio, movies, etc. what is going on in the world around you and influences how do you learn about it. He is the real “great teacher” of the modern world.

He is also one of the most twisted individuals around. His power in politics, economics and military influence around the globe its immense. His company has helped US politicians to create federal and global policies, to start and end wars, to place entire governments in third world countries, to help US corporations to be able to get away with terrible atrocities around the planet, such as Coke’s killings in Colombia just in the last year, or Hershey’s factories in Africa, in which more than 200,000 children as young as mine (5 years old) work 16 straight hours a day for pennies, so we can eat our tasty chocolate bars for cheap over here. Mr. Murdoch is the real enemy against a democratic life. And yes incidentally he also controls this social network as well. He is the one that decides what to do with the information that you give away here. Don’t you ever wander what do Myspace does with your e-mail account, name, and demographic and psychographic information? Myspace sells this information to companies in order to maximize its profits and of course to develop marketing and public relations campaigns that allowed these companies to develop their businesses as well. Some of the new trends going on the business world is to look up your e-mail account in Myspace in order to make a decision in the hiring process. This of course is a form of discrimination, but these big companies are the ones that actually make up the law thanks to their political, economical and social influence as well, so what’s the difference. So while some of us are ignorantly posting information left and right here, Myspace owners are using this information for undesirable purposes.

Today, I will post a video that gives you a very good understanding of how powerful Mr. Murdoch is and how strong his influence in the world around you, including your decision making process is as well.

“Fair and Balanced News”, my ass!

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism

As promised, today I will present a video that shows interviews with intelligence agencies’ representatives and media leaders, reports and other evidence that shows how the war in Iraq had nothing to do with the 9-11 attacks in New York and how although Saddam Hussein was a tyrant, that does not justify the 35,000 civilians (that’s the number reported by the mass media outlets; however, alternative media outlets have estimated the number closer to 75,000) that have been killed in Iraq so far just so Americans can keep feeding their addiction for oil.

As I mentioned in my last bulletin, Rendon Group, a PR firm with government connections was hired for a $7 million contract, in order to convince the American population that there had been a link between Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. From fake videos, reports copied from a college student’s assignment, false mass media news, intelligence agencies’ censorships, false presentations by the Secretary of Defense to the UN and other PR tools the US government convinced its population that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq that constituted a threat to the US. False, oh so false.

You see, the area around Iraq, namely Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, Israel are hot oil spots. Top global countries including Russia, France, England and of course the US have tried desperately to control the area, since the OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) decided to take control over oil prices, against the US and other first world countries’ desires. The first war against Iraq was a loss for George Bush senior. He tried and tried to take over Iraq for any reason whatsoever after Iran was liberated, but he failed. The 9-11 attacks were the perfect opportunity for his son to conquer his father’s dream. That’s why some people believe that the 9-11 attacks were actually orchestrated by the US government itself; although, as a matter of fact, the evidence points to other criminal organizations. Not a lot of people know that below the two towers there were more than 1,000 million dollars and that only 200 million were recovered after the attack. So the main reason for the attacks were not a fundamentalist hatred episode against the US, but one of the biggest robberies of all time. In case you have not heard either, Osama Bin Laden was treated at a military hospital controlled by the US government weeks before the attacks. In addition, the Bin Laden family were the only individuals allowed to fly out of the country the day of the attacks after the US government had decided to prohibit any, and I repeat ANY fly to take off in US grounds. Why? Because the Bin Ladens have had “legal” connections with the Bush family for decades. I mean Osama was trained by the CIA when Bush’s father was the director as well, so all was kept within the family.

Rendon Group was also contracted later on to help the US government in their campaign to erase Afghanistan from the American’s word of mouth. Does any media outlet talks about it anymore? Do you discuss or ask yourself what happened after the US attacks in Afghanistan? If your answer is no, then you are part of the Rendon Group’s successful PR campaign. Many intelligence agencies in the US claimed that a war against Iraq at the moment that we were fighting against Afghanistan was a mistake. Split your army in two and you will become twice as weak, it is not rocket science, but that did not matter either, since the US government had already made up its mind. So keep on watching your American Idol, Top Next Model, Fox News or your football games and worrying about how are you going to buy beer tomorrow, that’s one more point in favor to the people in control of your life, so who cares, right?

Today I present this video, so you guys can get an idea on how a war, the concept of terrorism in US soil and the changes in dozens and dozens of federal policies including new national security policies against immigrants and also US citizens had been modified thanks to the power of public relations. I don’t know if you are aware, but a couple of months ago the Bush administration signed a new bill that permits the government to take ANYONE into custody without giving the person any rights whatsoever. Forget about the line “let me talk to my lawyer first”. In US soil that’s a thing of the past. Also, any, ANY communication that you have with others can and most likely is monitored by the government and you can’t do anything about it thanks to the new policies implemented after the war, so be careful about what you say over the phone, via text messages, mail or e-mail. This is not a conspiracy theory any longer, it is a fact.

Please follow this link in order to watch this video

Note: you need to update your Real Player and the video seem to only work using the Internet Explorer browser.

Keeping up with all the work at MS and trying to keep this blog updated while taking care of the other sites I run has been a huge challenge. So apologize to those of you that actually follow my writings. I will try my best at updating this as often as possible.

On the other hand, things are so at MS. Everyone is very casual and nice. My boss is by far the best superior I have had so far. She is down to earth, but knowledgeable. Smart, but modest. The opportunity for grow there is impressive as well. You have a huge chance to get trained in all the topics you actually enjoy. I am very pleased with all the work I am doing over there and all the coming projects and events in which I am going to participate in. I had experience with event marketing before starting in this position, but my skills will most definitely be fine-tuned. I am also becoming an experienced professional in security branding, so ask me anything you would like to know about how do you deal with problems of this nature. I can’t obviously share any specifics, but the general understanding of these issues are things that anyone interested in the future of personal computing should focus on.

As I said, I will try to keep on posting everyday, but if I can’t please bare with me. In the weeks to come, I will keep working on the wiki series, in order to show you guys how to develop a wiki and make money out of it. I will also talk about e-mail marketing, its importance in the Internet Marketing arena and the best tools out there to run a campaign.

Have a great week!

Today, I will present a film made by one organization that usually would not make you think that are involved in anything else but making children’s dreams come true, namely Walt Disney. Well think twice. Walt Disney is one the five biggest media owners in the US. It’s power in politics, federal and global policy development and specially news consolidation and control has been felt behind the curtains for more than 80 years now. Yes, yes Mickey Mouse is the devil as some jokingly seem to express.

For those of you that are not familiar with war propaganda, let me briefly explain the term. War propaganda is the use of public relations in order to gain power on policies that influence war development. For instance, few Americans know that there has not been one single report from any of the 20+ intelligence agencies in the US and UK about any connection between the terrorist attacks in New York and the war in Iraq. However, Rendon Group, a PR firm with high government connections due to past and present projects with several federal agencies in the US, was contracted by the Pentagon to create in the American population the illusion that there was one, in order to gain acceptance by the public to go to war against Iraq. I will present irrefutable evidence about this in the next days, so keep on reading.

A second example take us back to the fifties when the American government contracted Edward Bernays, the founder of public relations, in order to create a PR campaign that would create the illusion that the Guatemalan government, specifically his president, had connections with the communist party. After many PR stunts, including fake riots by the Guatemalan population and the deliberate placement of communist material in the presidential house, the US government gained acceptance by the American population to send the CIA to stop the communist threat. The CIA managed to killed 150,000 civilians. Yes, civilians! Unarmed people like you and me minding their own business, in order to create a new government that would follow the American way. You see the Guatemalan president had promised his followers to throw the American companies that owned 99% of the banana industry in Guatemala out of the country and give the lands back to the people. However, of course that did not go well with the US government, since Americans love their bananas and they want them cheap. Mmm, mmm, mmm, bananas!

The present video is an example of how the use of PR develops in the population the branding of a concept which later on its very, very difficult to challenge, since it becomes part of the common cultural paradigm. In this case, the US government hired Walt Disney in order to teach our grandparents how bad the nazis were. Funny thing about this video is that its main purpose is to teach you how the nazis would control their population from childhood in order to develop more controllable soldiers later on. The satirical part of course is that that’s exactly what this video is doing. It is trying and it was very successful on its own time and up to now to convince the American child on how bad the nazi’s ideology was and still is. I DO NOT condone any of the nazi’s past and present actions of any kind, in case that some of you guys started to think that I am a Hitler’s ass kisser. However, this video let me explain you how war propaganda works and how twisted it is.

Enjoy the show!