Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

27 July 2015

BREAKING: Hack Android Phones Easily Into "Spycams" By Unopened Text Message Since 2010 Vulnerability Hidden By Criminal Google But Disclosed By Firm Zimperium Cybersecurity Analytics Expect Another Imminent Barrage Of Global Regulatory Enforcement And Class Action Lawsuits Against Google

     Monday, 27 July 2015, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Google Android OS phones dating back to 2010 which is those relying on Google's Stagefright 2.2 and since software with many of these phone operating systems no longer supported by Google thus no updates available today were revealed all to have a vulnerability which easily allows users' phones to be turned into "spycams" taking over Bluetooth, video, audio and microphone by remote intruder hackers some even entirely "taking over" users' phones without users' knowledge merely sending unopened text messages which attackers then even can even delete to hide evidence of the continuing intrusion and Android phone takeover. Google never has announced the vulnerabilities to users for at least five years which today was disclosed by Zimperium cybersecurity analytics.
     No fix at all is available from Google for older Android OS phones and newer fixes rarely are installed by users since Google does not send them out directly as Apple does for its iPhone but Google instead relies on Motorola and Samsung to deal with the monumental vulnerability of its Android OS mobile device operating system. Google only provides patches for mobile devices which run its latest Lollypop and KitKat Android operating systems reportedly leaving about 500 million of its mobile devices still vulnerable to the Stagefright "spycam" attack and possible total user phone takeover by remote hackers without users even having knowledge of it.
     The massive Google Android OS vulnerability today was revealed by he Zimperium cybersecurity analytics firm with Google "thanking" Zimperium for the information but neither offering nor providing any "fix" thus seemingly setting Google up for yet another worldwide round of massive class action and regulatory enforcement agency lawsuits from the United States to Europe and beyond to the far reaches of the world. The security flaw is estimated to remain unaddressed in at least one half billion Android OS phones allowing attackers in many cases to "completely take over" users' phones in addition to using them as "spycams".
     Critics long have warned of this type as well as other gross vulnerabilities in sloppy Google Android OS phone and mobile device code with Zimperium cybersecurity analytics and other security experts claiming that vulnerabilities in the unsecure Google code make its Android mobile devices inherently vulnerable to all types of attacks known and unknown. Readers interested in more information about the above can go to the link below.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2015/0727/Widespread-Android-vulnerability-could-turn-phones-into-spycams

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15 April 2015

UPDATED: EU Hits Google With Search "Abuse" Action And Expands EU Investigation Of Google Android Anti-Competitive Practices As EU Antitrust, Tax And Privacy Scrutiny Of Tech Giants Grows Amid Widespread Concerns

     Wednesday, 15 April 2015, BRUSSELS - European Union (EU) competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager a leading Danish politician who last year became the EU's antitrust chief today accused Google in a statement of objection making the formal complaint that Google's dominant search engine diverts traffic from its competitors to favor Google's own goods and services particularly shopping websites. Google has ten weeks to respond and rebuke the charges or alternatively try to settle the matter to avoid the potential levy of a fine of more than 6 billion Euros (about $6.5 billion) which is approximately 10 per cent of Google's last reported annual revenue. Ms. Vestager also said the investigation leading to the complaint may expand beyond shopping websites.
     EU competition commissioner Vestager further announced today that the Commission was expanding its investigation into Google's business practices concerning its Android software with which operating system Google holds an 81% worldwide market share for phones and other mobile devices amid concerns that Google requires mobile device makers using the Android operating system and desiring Google applications such as YouTube to bundle and/or place Google-branded applications in the most prominent positions on the devices. Google vigorously denied all charges.
     The EU announcements come amid continuing complaints of competitors and intensifying EU scrutiny of tax breaks, anti-competitive and privacy policy concerns about U.S. tech giants in a widespread growing climate of European and other countries' concerns about possible abuses of nations and their citizens by dominant American technology companies whose practices have gone largely unchecked or in some areas such as privacy invasions even may have been encouraged by the U.S. government in light of revelations of the complicity of some in the U.S. government continuing global mass surveillance and metadata collection practices such as by the National Security Agency as well as other U.S. government agencies.  
     Readers interested in more information about the above EU actions can go to one or more links below while those readers interested in actions underway or contemplated in other non-European nations as to U.S. giant tech company practices are referred particularly to the New York Times link below. [UPDATE]  The New York Times article since also has been significantly expanded in the second link below.


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12 April 2015

Facebook "Amassed The World's Largest Privately Held Database Of Consumer Biometrics Data" Claims Class-Action Lawsuit By "Hated" Law Firm Believed To Have Recovered $1 Billion For Tech Firm Privacy Violations

     Sunday, 12 April 2015, SAN FRANCISCO - In the face of longtime U.S. government lassitude in enforcing privacy, anti-trust and other laws against giant technology firms such as Facebook, Google, Amazon and a host of others big and smaller doubtless largely because of the documented complicity of most if not all giant tech firms in contributing data to continuing blatantly unconstitutional U.S. government domestic mass surveillance and data collection operations even as European regulators have pounded these tech behemoths with privacy and other violation rulings and huge fines to which big tech seems all but impervious, there is one most unlikely lawyer Jay Edelson, 43, and his most unconventional law firm Edelson PC (whose 20 lawyers reportedly wear hoodies sporting the firm's logo to work) which has been taking a leading role in class-action attacks using mostly older laws against these technology monsters based on their invasions of Americans' privacy and has earned Mr. Edelson the New York Times tribute (or condemnation depending on one's point of view) of being "if not the most hated person in Silicon Valley, very close to it" as well as earning Edelson PC an estimated $1 billion in recoveries from these companies for alleged privacy violations.
     The class-action lawsuit brought most recently by Edelson against Facebook for its allegedly "private" data collection from use of widespread facial recognition biometric technology which as reported here in an earlier Ninth Amendment post immediately had European regulators up in arms long ago yet met with a resounding silence in the U.S. is but one in a very long series of Edelson class-action lawsuits against a virtual who's-who of tech companies which also recently saw the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rule that the named plaintiff had standing in another Edelson lawsuit claiming misinformation about him was sold by Spokeo a search engine that purports to sell all the (presumably correct) information it can gather on a person to whomever wishes to pay for it. Spokeo is appealing that ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court with plenty of friendly firepower provided by lawyers for other big tech companies in the form of amici curiae (friends of the Court) briefs. Mr. Edelson noted that since the revelations of contractor Edward J. Snowden of massively unconstitutional privacy breaches by the National Security Agency (N.S.A.) that courts have been much more willing to allow cases to go forward for widespread abuses and violations of Americans' privacy rights. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reportedly finally also has picked up the pace of initiating some actions. (The unofficial U.S. government regulatory motto being: "We're slow, but we're here.")
     Meanwhile Facebook unsurprisingly vigorously denies the charges filed against it claiming that Facebook users could turn off facial recognition biometric technology (if only they knew where to look in the notoriously confusing ever "evolving" user privacy controls of that Zuckerboy enterprise). This in fact also points to a bigger issue which may be facing Edelson in the future being that merely by clicking on a box users of many computer applications allegedly now are agreeing to the extremely lengthy "terms and conditions" which increasingly somewhere buried in them contain mandatory arbitration clauses as the days seem long gone when courts actually ruled in such cases for example against insurance companies that used such (once) obviously deceptive devices as "adhesion contracts" which virtually no one read and if they did found them essentially impossible to understand and digest much less being able to have them changed in any case if they did. Nevertheless Edelson PC reportedly took on one such matter with an arbitration clause against AT&T by filing dozens of arbitration cases just to "send a message" to other tech giants (although AT&T reportedly still does have the arbitration clause in its contracts which the Ninth Amendment thankfully has not had occasion to review).
     Whatever the case Mr. Edelson and his firm would seem to be undaunted based on his interview in San Francisco in the article linked to below as well as in viewing the photographs therein showing lawyers and/or staff from Edelson PC back in Chicago engaged in a seemingly casual untroubled game on a ping-pong table which apparently occupies one corner office of the most colorfully decorated firm of the "Billion Dollar Man" who some believe a chamption of privacy rights and others just another class-action scoundrel. In full disclosure Mr. Edelson is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School which also was attended by a member of the Ninth Amendment's editorial board albeit in a different time period with no compensation sought nor provided for the publication of this post. Readers interested in more information concerning the above including some of the more obscure statutes relied on in lawsuits brought by Edelson PC can go to the link below.
       
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/05/technology/unpopular-in-silicon-valley.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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09 April 2015

Facebook European Class Action Privacy Lawsuit Due In Vienna Court Today Even As Facebook And Google Capitulate To Turkey Censorship Pressure

     Thursday, 9 April 2015, ISTANBUL, TURKEY and VIENNA, AUSTRIA - In what appears to be shaping up as a challenging week overseas for social media behemoths of United States origin first Facebook and then Google both reportedly unlike Twitter (at least early on) caved to Turkish recurring censorship pressure in order to avoid Internet bans and removed links and images and photographs as well as other visual and audio content related to leftist hostage takers last week at an Istanbul courthouse putting a gun to the head of Prosecutor Memhet Siram Kuraz whom they later killed.
     Twitter in any case is easily accessed even when "banned" by Turkish authorities by social media users using services which do not reveal their actual Internet access points and reportedly was restored to service Monday night without mention of whether it acceded to reportedly frequent Turkish censorship practices. YouTube later also was restored although Burcak Unsal, described as "an expert in digital law", in the New York Times distinguished Google from "hosting providers like Twitter or YouTube". To the extent YouTube "held out" it in any case now is owned by Google which early on caved to censorship pressure.
     Readers interested in more information on the above as well as Turkey's apparently growing Internet censorship practices extending to news organizations in that country can go to the first link provided below to the New York Times article filed from Istanbul, Turkey.
     Meanwhile BBC Technology news today reports that Facebook European Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland which registers all users outside of the United States and Canada faces in Vienna, Austria a 25,000 user class action filed lawsuit including 900 United Kingdom site users which alleges violations of European privacy laws. The claim led by Austrian "data protection campaigner" Max Schrems reportedly focuses on the way Facebook collects and forwards data as well as alleging Facebook further violates European privacy laws by its monitoring the use of the site's "Like" button.
     The suit is intended to stop "mass surveillance" by Facebook and further claims moreover that the social media giant has co-operated with the unconstitutional "PRISM" National Security Agency (NSA) mass domestic and foreign spying bulk data collection operation launched in 2007 under the claimed authority of the equally unconstitutional and reprehensible midnight garbage legislation the so-called  "Patriot Act" which even its its alleged author has said under no reading can support such activities by the NSA nor any other United States government entity. Facebook is expected to argue the Vienna court lacks jurisdiction to hear the suit.
     Key provisions of the disingenuously titled Patriot Act hatched from the rank exploitation of fears following the "9/11" disaster by the disgraced Bush-Cheney administration including the widely condemned Section 215 (including by both the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Rifle Association) are set to expire under "sunset" provisions unless they are again extended by 1 June 2015. Despite sham lawsuits by social media giants against the NSA these technology behemoths' complicity in NSA mass surveillance is well documented including without limitation all of the above-mentioned social media monsters as well as Yahoo! and several others. This was perhaps most recently confirmed by exiled American NSA contractor Edward J. Snowden from his first-hand knowledge in a recent Moscow interview with John Oliver host of "Last Week Tonight" shown on Home Box Office (HBO) and available, of course, on YouTube. Mr. Snowden incidentally in this year's Academy Award winning documentary "CitizenFour" names the NSA British partner in crime GCHQ as even more prone to privacy and other abuse if imaginable than the NSA.
     Readers interested in more information regarding the European class action lawsuit being brought in Vienna against Facebook European Dublin headquarters can go to the second link below.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/world/europe/google-turkey-kiraz-prosecutor.html?ref=todayspaper

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32229285

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04 April 2015

U.S. Tech Giants In Crosshairs Of Europe Regulators As Antitrust, Privacy And Other Inquiries Of Google, Facebook, Apple And Amazon Intensify

     Saturday, 4 April 2015, LONDON, ENGLAND - Although the halcyon days may be continuing to the present in the United States for giant tech companies Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and others given the longtime lassitude of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in its enforcement of U.S. antitrust laws and Americans' privacy rights taking a far back seat to many of these tech monsters' documented collusion along with telecommunications companies with the United States' spy agencies, with the CIA for example even having ownership and joint partnership interests with Google and these companies routinely feeding information to the NSA and other unconstitutional domestic spying apparatus, with the occasional charade of sham suits by these filthy rich tech behemoths back against the U.S. government in lame disingenuous efforts to demonstrate to the American people that they are are not part of the U.S. government's out of control grossly unconstitutional domestic spying ubiquitous tentacles as exposed most dramatically by the the staggering NSA universal domestic spying disclosures by Booz Allen contractor Edward J. Snowden, European regulators nevertheless reportedly are losing all patience with the abuses and encroachments of these American tech giants acting in flagrant violation of European anti-trust laws and routine invasions of European citizens' privacy.
     The list of American tech monsters' physical and internet invasion of Europe especially via Ireland is well documented in previous partial European regulators' inquiries and assessment of enormous essentially meaningless fines as well as court rulings seeking to curb American tech giants' encroachments extending right into Europeans' homes in flagrant violation of free market principles and core privacy rights where a company such as Google reportedly controls 80% of internet searches effectively dictating what information European citizens will and will not see including about each other as well as undoubtedly making this information readily available to American spy agencies such as the CIA and NSA which routinely share it with the British spook octopus GCHQ which according to Mr. Snowden is even far worse in its citizen surveillance abuses than its American counterparts if such is imaginable.
     Now European regulators reportedly have these U.S. technology giants in their crosshairs with the loudest complaints perhaps against Google's market domination and Facebook's laughable "privacy" policies just being the tip of the iceberg. Meanwhile in the United States it is not known if the Obama administration will order DOJ out of its dormancy while on the issue of the rank constitutional abuses of the NSA, CIA, FBI and so-called "alphabet soup" of American spy agencies the very telling sunset, i.e., end of several supposedly empowering sections supporting their illegal actions of the loathsome "Patriot Act" will be allowed to expire or will be extended by a Republican-controlled Congress seemingly incapable of doing anything positive and given the Obama Administration's latest betrayal of its voter base by taking the position that the Bush-Cheney midnight-created monstrosity should be extended.
     To date however the Obama Administration has said it will not intervene to preserve the expiring provisions of the clearly unconstitutional "law" which if anything has played right into the hands of terrorists by wrenching the fabric of fundamental American values but will allow this grotesque blemish on United States legislative history to slowly and painfully die its long-overdue death as by all accounts of their debates to the Founding Fathers it no doubt immediately would have been declared "DOA" dead on arrival.
     Interested readers in the below linked-to article can find many more specifics touching on some of European regulators past actions against U.S. tech giants as well as more details as to what these U.S. monsters "stomping the terra" to quote Dr. Hunter S. Thompson can anticipate coming at them hard from European regulators in the not-too-distant future.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/technology/europe-regulators-apple-google-facebook.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

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21 February 2015

Google Refuses Data Privacy Breach Cure Of 2012 "Policy Changes" Assailed By European Union: Italy, United Kingdom, Germany, France, The Netherlands And Spain Data Protection Authority To Hit Google With Millions In Fines

       Saturday, 21 February 2015, ROME - In the wake of a flood of investigations and complaints by European nations triggered by Google's 2012 unilateral announcement of its "Privacy Policy Changes" many of which European Data Privacy Actions are cataloged in the second linked-to PC World article of the two below perhaps the most noteworthy to date is Google's agreement announced yesterday to among other things allow the Italian Data Privacy authority to conduct on-site visits of Google United States facilities to insure compliance with an agreement to stop aggregating privacy data on Italian citizens from various Google services even including a record of all "searches" performed so as to assemble essentially "mega-profiles" of all persons making use of Google services. The history and details of this agreement are set out in the first linked-to PC World article of the two below.
       Meanwhile the second linked-to article below details a Dutch demand that Google cease the same practices drawing fire from at least six European Union (EU) nations described essentially as without express and knowing consent combining personal privacy data from users including content of searches, location data and videos watched. Google has "tried the patience" of Dutch authorities since 2012 and faces a $19 million fine if it does not resolve the privacy data violations against Dutch citizens within a week. PC World reports that Google already in the past two months has been fined about $1,250,000 combined by the French privacy authority and the Spanish data protection authority.
       A Google spokesman expressed "disappointment" with the actions of the EU nations as he claimed Google had already made changes to its 2012 "Privacy Policy" even though they apparently still are in violation of several nations' laws. Laws generally of course are enacted by due process as set forth in the establishing enforceable framework of a country and as such are enforceable by things like fines, imprisonment and death. Policies on the other hand although seemingly willingly misunderstood by many American companies in particular are usually self-serving words written on paper supported by no enforceable authority and subject to indiscriminate change by the usual American company nearly always in its favor as part of a larger intentional misconception that its policies are something more than empty words unenforceable against any outside parties. Companies often attempt to circumvent this deficiency by "incorporating by reference" policies and the like into larger incomprehensible unilateral adhesion contracts.
       Large fines by European regulators against massive American "metadata hoarding" companies such as Google and Facebook (with headquarters in Ireland) for practices worthy of spy agencies such as the CIA and NSA are nothing new including for example Facebook's infamous use of "facial recognition" technology of all persons in public places along with Google's apparent efforts to photograph and catalog every person's home and curtilage on the entire planet (better for targeted advertising, right?). It seems fair to say that United States citizens among established civilized Western nations now are afforded by far the least privacy protection by their State which in fact is especially true given the public ties between the CIA with business ventures in Google and the NSA's witless (excuse us, "unwitting" in perjurious testimony before Congress) indiscriminate collection of metadata on all American citizens (See earlier Ninth Amendment post entitled "We Kill Based On Metadata").
       In the uninformed lay opinion of the Ninth Amendment based on nothing but delusion the activities of the CIA and NSA and any other executive branch agencies in this regard are Unconstitutional in plain violation of the Bill of Rights and therefore lack all legitimacy removing any legitimate State power from them and rendering them nothing more than organized criminal enterprises. As for the so-called "private" entities engaged in similar activities either routinely or on demand supplying private citizens' information without a legitimate court order they are in our opinion informed only by delusion co-conspirators equally guilty by knowing complicity and assistance in the commission of criminal activities anathema to the principles established in the United States Constitution.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887192/google-agrees-to-italian-privacy-authority-audits-in-the-us.html#tk.rss_all

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2859712/dutch-authority-to-google-change-privacy-policy-or-else.html

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28 January 2015

UPDATED: Fugitive Founder Julian Assange And Wikileaks Consider Legal Action Against U.S. Government And Google For Illegal Search And Seizure Of Gmails And Other Data Without Notice From Google Of Wkiileaks' Journalists

       Wednesday, 28 January 2015. GENEVA - Wikilleaks and its fugitive editor Jullian Assange through one of their lawyers Michael A. Ratner is demanding information and details about the search and seizure of three of Wikileaks' "whistleblowing" journalists' emails and other data by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and provided by Google pursuant to warrant(s) issued over two-and-one-half years ago. Since the subjects never were notified by Google of this demand for their private communications and data they thus were prevented from fighting the warrants in court. The New York Times in the below linked article reports that they are considering initiating a court action now against DOJ and Google related to this action and the failure to notify them.
       Google Chairman Eric Schmidt issued a statement that it was the "policy" of Google to inform parties in instances where such information was demanded but implied that despite Google's desire to do so the failure here was due to a gag order issued against Google "which sadly happens quite often". Google previously has taken legal action against the Government as to such demands for private information as well as the Government's wholesale collection of such information by "grabbing it out of the air" as in the well-publicized case of the NSA breaking Google's code for internal data point-to-point transmissions as part of the NSA's collection of metadata on all Americans and others without regard for "reasonable suspicion", "probable cause", nor any other limitation.
       However the facts here are instructive to all members of the public with Google accounts as they seem to demonstrate Google whatever claims Google may make as to the security of Gmail and other "private" data apparently it in reality is not willing ultimately to go to any efforts whatsoever to help protect the privacy of individuals' Gmail and other "private" data from disclosure to the Government. Google's Eric Schmidt gave no indication at all that Google makes any effort in such cases to fight a Government "gag order" so as even to alert Google account holders so that they can mount a legal defense as to even wrongfully issued search and seizure orders in violation of the Fourth Amendment. Therefore false claims aside Google rolls over immediately without any fight even regarding giving notice to individuals that the Government has sought their Gmails and "private" data. In conclusion Google gave the Government individuals' Gmail and other "private" data without any fight whatsoever because when faced with a gag order Google did not even contest it so that the individuals could at least mount their own defense.
       "Gag orders" are particularly anathema to a free society which places a premium on freedom of speech and the press and are a form of "prior restraint" which is repugnant to the most core values of the United States Constitution. Since the Wikileaks' journalists' Gmails and other "private" data unfortunately entrusted to Google obviously were in no danger of being destroyed by the journalists and it is not as if since the disclosures of Edward Snowden especially Wikileaks is unaware it has been a prime target of U.S. Government presumably officials unwilling to operate in the public eye but prosecute whomever they can so as to shut then up so as to continue to operate protected by the "dark cloak of secrecy" hidden from public scrutiny the issuance of "gag orders" here is yet another example demonstating that they know they likely not only cannot withstand public scrutiny but even a legitimate challenge leveled against them in open court.
       This is but one more example of why individuals should consider applying for an invitation to a free ProtonMail email account based in Switzerland as described in any earlier post as others such as Hushmail and Statmail ultimately are susceptible to government intrusion whether by pressure on the Canadian government in British Columbia in the case of Hushmail or otherwise as to supposedly "secure" email encrypted accounts. Likewise if computer users do not wish to be tracked by governments or anyone else the stand-alone favorite is the "Tor" browser which can be researched on Wikepedia and other sites and freely downloaded from the internet.
       Despite Google's well-publicized seemingly antagonistic relationship to the U.S. Government executive branch in this area this must at the same time be tempered by Google's widely known ventures with the executive branch. One example is with the C.I.A. through that agency's In-Q-Tel investment arm providing services to several national intelligence agencies here in a joint venture with Google Ventures in the web monitoring package of the company Recorded Future described as the "the ultimate tool for open-source intelligence". Open-source intelligence is publicly available information from a wide variety of sources which can be amassed and organized to provide reputedly valuable intelligence information by any party. Readers interested in more detail regarding the above and other national security agency investment relationships with Google are referred initially to the wired.com article at the link http://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/.
       Finally as to the Obama Administration's DOJ under departing Attorney General Eric Holder that department has undertaken unprecedented efforts to prosecute sources of unauthorized leaks of "security" information notably including aggressively using legal process against journalists and the press to attempt to force them to reveal their sources. This was demonstrated most recently in the subject of the immediately preceding Ninth Amendment post regarding the espionage conviction earlier this week of former C.I.A. agent Jeffrey Sterling which included efforts ultimately dropped to force New York Times reporter James Risen to reveal his source whose identity in the end was identified not by Mr. Risen but by reportedly very strong circumstantial evidence presented at Mr. Sterling's trial.
       The circumstances of these various legal actions and others in their totality would seem to point to a certain amount of ambiguity in the Obama Administration's perceived espoused concerns for the protection of privacy and freedom of speech rights of individuals and the press versus the reality of the unprecedented or continuing actions of the Obama Administration that seemingly intrude on them to a degree rarely or never seen before.
       
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/27/world/europe/wikileaks-assails-google-and-the-us.html?mabReward=A4&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=Recommendation&src=rechp&WT.nav=RecEngine

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23 November 2014

Google Breaching Contract Persists In Misreporting To Ninth Amendment Untimely Contradictory Site Performance Statistics Essential To Site Success

       Sunday, 23 November 2014, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - As Texas Indicted Idiot lameduck Governor Rick "Payback" Perry continued to call upon someone anyone and everyone to sue United States President Barack Obama for something anything and everything the Ninth Amendment meanwhile seemingly was prevented by interfering parties or circumstances as described in the Ninth Amendment's recent reply to a reader's inquiry as to upcoming articles on the subject of problems experienced with Google-reported Blogger statistics to a publisher such as the Ninth Amendment's site owner. The Ninth Amendment is committed fully to take whatever measures are necessary to assist in the investigation and corrective action required to insure the best possible presentation possible of the Ninth Amendment site to our readers.
       There have been increasingly erratic divergences from what over several years had been this Site's experience with Google's contractually provided ¨accurate up to the minute statistics¨ which figures in the past months repeatedly have proven exponentially less reliable contradictory in their reporting of statistics such as numbers of pageviews depending upon what time period one is examining and then even much more greater discrepancies with Google Analytics.
       Just one more in a long list of new irregularities for now being traffic seemingly reaching the site if at all through constantly changing foreign referring URLS and sites rarely seen before. Today for example for some time the highest referring URL/site address was http://goody498.blog27.fc2.com/ with the referral numbers later dropping. In any case however the fact is that it appears to be Japanese blog or journal of some sort with which the Ninth Amendment has no known  connection whatsoever. (This is not meant as encouragement to readers to go to that address in any way as the Ninth Amendment has no assurance regarding the integrity of the site nor any information as to why it would been refer readers to the Ninth Amendment.)

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18 October 2014

Extreme Google Under-Reporting Of This Site's Pageviews With Severe Disturbance Of Google Reported Statistical Performance Preliminarily Traced To This Present Date Since Monday 13 October 2014 First-Time Site Visits By Ramnode LLC Of Guangzhou, China Of An Extradorinary 14:11 Miinutes Duration Accessing Eight Full Pages Of Ninth Amendment Posts Remarkably Mirrored Nearly Exactly By A First-Time Site Visit On The Same Date By VPS Nodes Of Cheyenne, Wyoming Of 14:09 Minutes Duration Accessing That Same Number Of Eight Full Pages Of Ninth Amendment Posts As China Visit

       Saturday, 18 October 2014, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - The Ninth Amendment editorial board would like to share with all concerned readers the above information gleaned from analysis of Google Analytics information available to it namely that the Ninth Amendment Log has continued to suffer from continuous extreme under-reporting of this site's pageviews with accompanying severe disturbance also of obviously untimely and grossly inaccurate self-contradictory Google reporting rather than its contractually obligated promised to publishers accurate "up to the minute" performance statistics. Instead the Ninth Amendment of what site visit reports it is receiving clearly are a bunch of contrived pageviews of older posts such that one might randomly visit one every once in a while to provide some semblance of normalcy but really bespeak completely abnormal site activity based on seven years of experience.
       The continuous extreme under-reporting of this site's pageviews despite nearly twenty-five (25) distressed reports to Google continues right to the present evidenced by daily pageview numbers of recent posts of an unprecedented 1 or 2 total pageviews for most all posts from Monday 13 October 2014 to the present with absolutely concrete evidence of manipulation, distortion, and/or interference of some sort especially in the wake of the most recent CREDO mobile post of a couple days ago which would be expected to a near certainty to generate somewhere at least between 100 to 200 pageviews for starters because of the very short fuse on the deadline of this amazing offer but incredibly has shown one (1) TOTAL pageview reported by Google up to the time of this post. The Ninth Amendment hopes it untrue but due to the lack of pageview reports is concerned that interested readers are not getting time sensitive information.
       Information from Google Analytics specific to internet service providers for visitors to this site and their general locations gleaned by a team from the Ninth Amendment has discovered that despite a pair of obviously distorted Google performance reporting instances in recent weeks in which information was provided for nearly full days of practically no pageviews when suddenly Google would dump a report on the publisher of the Ninth Amendment of 100-200 pageviews in ONE MINUTE to this site which assuredly does not receive that kind of traffic (yet) that the now very severe problems with Google reporting coincide exactly with the date of a first-time site visit reported by Google Analytics as the "service provider" Ramnode LLC which Google Analytics identified as being located in Guangzhou, China and accessing eight full pages of Ninth Amendment posts in 14:09 minutes.
       Absolutely remarkably there was another first-time visit for the EXACT same date of Monday 13 October 2014 reported by Google Analytics by the "service provider" VPS Nodes which Google Analytics identified as being located in Cheyenne, Wyoming incredibly also accessing the EXACT same number of eight full pages of Ninth Amedment posts in the nearly EXACT same time period of 14:11 versus 14:09 minutes. It would appear as if the internet cowboys were a hair slightly slower on the keys than the Chinese. The U.S. Government claims to have such difficulties with Chinese hackers which may be better alleged against say New Zealand of late yet enthusiastically are returned by the Chinese against the United States.
       On the other hand very long practiced candidates for any such misdeeds would be contributors to the confusion, misinformation, and/or disinformation who could well be most any GOP or related entity say the Texas GOP perhaps hacking the Ninth Amendment site through a newly discovered by the Ninth Amendment referring site with the quite similar URL to the Ninth Amendment's principal known URL but with the handle waronnothing.blogspot.com/2. Although they probably are too stupid to accomplish it themselves they certainly have a pigsty full of criminal thugs who they obviously easily could and have historically paid handily to do their dirty work hopefully but not definitely more professionally even trying to pass it off as some other's dirty work not always successfully but better than some career GOP buffoon and also more willing "to do the time for which they must be paid" according to GOP great Dick Nixon.
       Certainly a party such as the worst members of the Republican small dirty GOP mob that drools over itself willing to deprive legitimate voters of their right to vote on any obviously ludicrously insincere pretext whatsoever throughout Texas and various states of this country including Wisconsin, North Carolina and anywhere the GOP possibly might succeed with some GOP-packed partisan court revealing zero concern whatsoever about the very essence of this democracy or republic the GOP would exploit to the fullest as it spews baseless calculated lies relentlessly in the process as its major contribution to American government policy debate.
       All this merely because these morally bankrupt two-bit thugs wish to lord over this great Nation at any price such that they would and will if they could destroy for profit and damn the children with very scant qualms indeed about a little or what the hell say a lot of internet work a couple hundred hours computer hacking or a few other crimes such as their great hero resigned Richard "Dick" Nixon ordering up a major burglary here and a bigger illegal cover-up obstruction of justice there lying all the way while seriously musing as to whether he should take up a a hit man "friend who said he owed Nixon one" on an offer of one bragged of (complimentary) "hit" of an opponent such as "another" Kennedy more or less for the hell of it or anyone at all he named to be killed as he sat in the Oval Office idiotically recording all of it believing all the while in his greatness vomiting out a torrent of obscene filth yes-manned incessantly by Kissinger as Nixon exposed his pathological contempt for every quarter of humanity including every ethnic and racial and lifestyle group from African-Americans to gays to Jews and everyone in between no doubt including himself and Kissinger as well not to mention for sure the hundred thousand protesters camped outside the windows and surrounding the White House in an endless picket line as well. Yes indeed their Grand Old Party hero.
       In any case Google itself has responded to zero of the Ninth Amendment's approximately twenty-five (25) requests for its assistance in addressing the aforementioned problems and in fact two days ago made the Ninth Amendment's access to the sole Google provided non-responsive route to assistance much more difficult and time-consuming by requiring for the first time ever that the Ninth Amendment re-identify itself by "signing in" although the Ninth Amendment to send such messages must be at its site "dashboard" already having logged in as verified by Google two-step authentication before allowing the Ninth Amendment even to request assistance.
       Google has offered no explanation whatsoever for any of these events since 13 October 2014 intended doubtless to distract (but in fact will have the opposite effect) nor has it alerted the Ninth Amendment to the stand-out activities of the two above-named entities neither of which the Ninth Amendment to its knowledge ever before has had any contact nor of any information whatsoever as to their or their principals' identities or motives as of yet pending further domestic and international investigation not to mention specifically at Google's Mountain View, California Headquarters and Google's co-operations center with the CIA in Virginia, as well as other places of interest in Richmond and other apparently related and unrelated locations.

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17 October 2014

FBI Director James Comey Must Be Booted Out As He Announces Intention To Keep Federal Spying On All Americans Derailing Google And Apple Cellphone And Future Device Encryption Developments "Locking" Personal Information By Default So Once Again Exposing U.S. Tech Users To Domestic And Foreign Spying, Criminals, Hackers, And Other Bad Actors Making Americans' "Secure" Information An Impossibility - He Is A "Back Door Man"

       Friday, 17 October 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Ninth Amendment urges all readers concerned about one of today's very top fundamental core Constitutional priorities of reinstating real personal privacy, security in their personal effects and affairs and essential liberty in the "tech age" especially in light of ongoing Snowden revelations of the still untold full depth of the uncontrolled wholesale illegal NSA and other U.S. "national security" agencies' unconstitutional domestic spying on all Americans with no regard either for innocence nor fundamental freedoms from universal lawless criminal government spying that all such concerned readers please consider setting aside the time to read very carefully and pass on as they may deem appropriate the below linked to critical New York Times article reporting in depth on a "policy discussion" given to the Brookings Institution by FBI Director James Comey.
       His documented statements revealed him to be a very dangerous man to our great Nation's future who President Obama (formerly having stated he does not agree with his views) in the opinion of the Ninth Amendment Editorial Board should remove from office as soon as possible before he can (further) execute on the positions he has taken against tech company efforts to give all Americans the ability to take into their own hands the essential liberty, security in their personal effects and affairs, and real personal privacy which is fundamental to our system of government which demonstrably has failed us in the State's absolutely unapologetic complete lack of respect for the very foundational rights of Americans informing the very basis of that compact known as the United States Constitution from which any State power legitimately must derive from the People or otherwise cease to exist.
       The immediate flash point of FBI Director James Comey's most revealing disturbing disclosures of his (but not necessarily the full Administration's) dangerous intentions is the immediate fact of the emergence of Google and Apple cellphones that automatically encrypt or "lock" stored user information not in transmission such that it is accessible to no one but the user including not the maker of the device, U.S. domestic and foreign government spies, hackers, thieves nor all manner of bad actors which is the subject of a federal lawsuit discussed in two previous posts here which the FBI and other US domestic spying agencies lost brought by companies such as tech giants Google and Apple supported by Facebook (and later another related case filed by Twitter) seeking to prevent restraint of their development and sale of these phones and other devices and by extension to prevent further attempted restraint of new such consumer devices and other technical privacy developments which legal decision the FBI and other federal spying agencies currently plan to appeal despite President Obama's Advisory Committee having advised an apparently earlier agreeable President Obama that such codified restrictions should neither be attempted nor implemented and probably would not be supported by Congress either.
       In other words FBI Director James Comey must go because rather than having learned a single redeeming lesson from Snowden's disclosures and their devastating effect on the remaining trust of the American people revealing the vast horrifying deeply criminal culture of federal "national security" domestic spying agencies' contempt for the U.S. Constitution which appears the dominant culture of the State is wholly repugnant to those lovers of liberty and privacy as being fundamental and non-negotiable to a civilized people such as demonstrated for example by the good solid people of New Hampshire who emphasize they would rather "Live Free Or Die" that what FBI Director James Comey instead completely contrary to that lesson has revealed is that what he intends to do is take such utterly contemptible illegal federal State behavior and make it the unabashed law and official policy of this land of the free and home of the brave.
       FBI Director James Comey now fully exposing himself at the vanguard of such deeply misguided thinking and misdirected intention with the will and ability to execute such that he would in fact if anything inadvertently perhaps but nevertheless all the same further destroy the foundations of this Country he would seek to protect therefore has shown himself to be a new United States enemy even with the best intentions for but the worst effect on the liberty and privacy of the American people. Those who would read the article linked to below will see that FBI Director James Comey would brush off such gravely weighty considerations as he must with a few shallow platitudinous unsubstantiated fictional anecdotal-style scares about the same old tired usual subjects as child pornographers, terrorists, hackers, thieves and so on who ironically probably are more greatly benefited by the current system allowing any one of them in the world to roam free in one's most private areas at will from which the major tech companies unified desperately are trying to protect all Americans even as the State is not.
       FBI Director James Comey should be removed from office because whatever his intentions may be the result of their fulfillment will be such further damage to the United States Constitution and its battered core fundamental principles of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness contingent on the lack of unjust intrusion of the State (and the many others to whom it would let the door remain open) into one's most personal and private affairs especially in the still present wake of recent years' unlawful State actions that are so anathema to this Great Country's founding principles that one fears ultimately for the United States survival under such an unjust and misguided burden on the foundations upon which it was created.
       God Bless the United States of America. Long may it live.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/17/us/politics/fbi-director-in-policy-speech-calls-dark-devices-hindrance-to-crime-solving.html?hpw&rref=politics&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpHedThumbWell&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

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13 October 2014

I. Google Retaliates For Google+ Deceptive Practices Disclosure? EXCLUSIVE: Google Bloggers Damaged By Massive Failures In Statistical Performance Reporting Reinforcing Fears Either Of Google Complicity Or Being A Further Major U.S. Target Of Hacker Attacks With Breakdown Of Server Control Possibly By Malevolent Inside Or Third Parties In Diverse IT Operation Areas In Retaliation For Google Complicity In Illegal Federal Government Including Partner CIA Dragnet Unconstitutional Spying Or Alternatively Orchestrated By Federal Government "Domestic Spying" Surveillance (NSA) And Response Agencies Retailiating For Recent Google And Other Tech Firms' Public Federal Court Wins Against Federal Spy Agencies In Actions Being Appealed At President Obama's Direction Prosecuted By Resigning Attorney General Eric Holder And DOJ Clandestine Operations Divisions

       Monday, 13 October 2014, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - The editorial board of the Ninth Amendment has initiated a continuing investigation by its domestic and global bureaus of the above as yet unconfirmed various speculations in light of CIA partner Google's and other tech companies such as Microsoft Inc., longtime CIA facilitator Facebook, and Twitter recent public stances and formal legal proceedings against forced participation in "NSA Snooping" organizing opposition to Federal Government domestic spying activities on a dragnet scale including by the FBI, NSA, and as many as scores of other newly styled federal "dark ops" being perpetrated domestically as well as on foreign soil including against American citizens without probable cause nor any seeming adherence to long-established Constitutionally mandated standards of conduct in direct contravention of prevailing legal interpretations of Americans' core fundamental Constitutional and admittedly violated as claimed to be non-applicable statutory and other rights without due process of law nor any required public notice including neither to the public nor to Congressional oversight committees under cover of various undeclared "wars" against non-states including those against "drugs, terrorism, with new unrestrained command and control opportunities presented by ISIS and more recently Ebola both of which were brought to the American public's larger attention at about the same time, cyberattacks in fact for example found to have been launched by U.S. Government executive branch "black ops" agencies including against foreign sovereign nations and internal entities tied to them and extending to those largely unaccountable operatives now responsible for intelligence gathering and rapid response activities including lethal surveillance teams acting on behalf of the Federal Government executive branch's newly enhanced worldwide interrogation and assassination apparatus with de facto murders including those documented of such targets as current United States citizens for example by a new global scale proliferation of communications and visual spy satellites as well as unmanned surveillance and termination aerial combat drones with foreign and domestic unreported but widely rumored significant collateral damage under direct final exclusive execution orders of U.S. President Barack Obama and speculated to be at least in part responsible for Attorney General Eric Holder's sudden unexpected meeting with the President to tender his resignation at the earliest time practicable as United States Attorney General the Nation's highest law enforcement official responsible for day-to-day operational control of the Department of Justice under White House direction in both its public and more recently expanded clandestine and damage control capacities often currently rendering legal opinions ordered in after-the-fact attempts to justify actions and perform damage control including by unprecedented use of "national security" related unexplained secrecy claims even in apparently purely domestic proceedings rather than traditional dispensing of legal advice informing the future conduct of the growing mass of federal spying, intelligence, and security implementation agencies increasingly having grown seemingly uncontrollably unresponsive to long-established Constitutional, statutory and chain-of-command restraints on their conduct feared by many publicly and privately to have run amok capitalizing on various campaigns exploiting terror fears and "wars" none of which have been Constitutionally declared since the Second World War under President and Commander-In-Chief and once reported President Obama idol former United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
       Meanwhile Google continues to retaliate against the Ninth Amendment by interfering with recent posts reader access and/or accurate statistical reporting for the Ninth Amendment's exposure of just one component of Google's deceptive practices in trying to coerce Google Blogger and other service users to switch to Google+ solely for Google's financial benefit in attempting to create a contrived very lucrative social media franchise by deceiving current users to disclose personal information and artificially create friendships and relationships between persons which are none existent one example of which is discussed for interested readers in the link immediately below:

http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/column/jay-gabler/google-plus-deceptive-friend-invite

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08 October 2014

Run Amok FBI And Other Federal "National Security" Domestic Spying Outfits Get Hypocrites Obama And Holder Appeal Assist Against Tech Companies Including Google, Microsoft Corp., Facebook Winning Suit Against Federal Government Issuing Prior Restraint Gag Orders In Attempt To Prevent Release By Techs Of Lists Of Unwelcome Federal Unconstitutional Demands For Customer Information, Twitter Too Sues Federal SuperSnoops For Breadth Of Spying Imposed On Twitter After Failed "Talks"

       Wednesday, 8 October 2014, SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Not being satisfied with Courts allowing their widespread unconstitutional snooping on and invading the privacy of all Americans with neither warrants, court orders, or even articulated suspicion hypocritical Obama/Holder supported U.S Government federal spying agencies now having lost a lower court decision allowing tech companies in unwelcome receipt of such orders to invade their customers privacy and "directing" them to engage in this clear fundamental constitutional rights invasion on behalf of the federal government at least under the lower federal court's order to disclose such unwelcome requests and disclosures to customers including even in aggregate numbers because such blanket "gag orders" constitute "prior restraint" which is the most repugnant restraint in jurisprudence of core first amendment rights including to freedom of speech and the press.
       Since these federal spying agencies which hypocrite President Barack Obama and Attorney General Holder exactly as promised not to do when Obama first ran for Presidential office seeking to distinguish himself from former not-elected "President" Bush have not been restrained but instead continued to be supported as official State policy to run ever further totally amok even in the face of even worsening abuse of the People's constitutional and other legal rights much less forget about moral and ethical restraints (terms that long ago fell out of the State's vocabulary) naturally they again are screaming "national security" as they insist on trampling one right after another even in such ridiculous circumstances as below. Someone needs to tattoo Benjamin Franklin's admonition on these dangerous idiots' foreheads. Twitter too agrees reportedly having given up on lengthy "negotiations" with the State for ordering the use of social media as yet another spying tentacle of untold proportions with the State now having totally alienated yet more of the great minds of a generation with the Federal State conspiracy of dunces at the table no doubt endlessly repeating the two words left they know "national security" ad nauseum forcing disgusted Twitter finally yesterday to throw up its hands and just sue the federal government as well.
       In the appeal scheduled to be heard by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco today Federal spy agencies including the FBI plan to expound on the same old tired arguments that their attempts not only to proceed with their clearly unconstitutional demands of telecom, internet and tech companies but even to "gag" unwilling companies from disclosing the fact of the demands even in the aggregate as a threat calling "such secrecy 'vital' in national security cases because public disclosure could interfere with the probe or endanger someone's physical safety," which phrase the Ninth Amendment could just bet the State cut and pasted out of about one million other specious fictitious "legal briefs". This with more details is reported today in the Reuters article linked to below. Sure aggregate disclosure of such information is going to "endanger someone's physical safety".  And if readers believe that we have got a whole warehouse of "like new" United States Constitutions that are no longer in use by the current federal government that we would like to sell you. Not really please do not be in touch.
       It should be obvious we would think to most at this point the bigger threat to anyone's physical safety is not these telecom, internet, and tech companies being forced to snoop by federal spy agencies that have proven incapable of doing their jobs the right (and incidentally legal) way not being "gagged" from disclosing even aggregates of lists of such "requests by force" in violation of yet further fundamental core Constitutional rights.
       The biggest threat to the American people's personal safety, the Nation's security, and everyone's liberty with the continuing State assaults decimating the sacred text of the Constitution which ironically is the only compact which affords the State any legitimacy in the first place as revealed particularly by continuing careful disclosures of the State's seemingly endless voluminous mountains of misdeeds and attempted cover-ups from Edward Snowden's vast library of cautiously distributed documents has now been revealed to all as none other than these State federal executive "national security" agencies run wild out-of-control screaming "fire" in every crowded theater and hollering "national security" (like the loser alcoholic morphine crazed Senator Joseph McCarthy and his opportunistic posse whose "Red Baiting" no one even the venerable (at that time) Supreme Court dared rein in for fear of life, liberty and career until McCarthy simply virtually disintegrated into the nothing at all that he was) in every legal case the Feds wish to strong-arm the judiciary into backing down and letting the "national security" hysteria junkies "win" for fear that otherwise the Court doubtless will be ordering the end of the world.
       These are nothing more than cases where as in the usual course of human experience those with far too little experience are allowed way too much power and thus will use it inevitably until they are "corrupted absolutely" as long ago observed by Lord Acton so here now they wish to holler on about spying domestically on ordinary citizens that is each of us (and doubtless one day themselves as well) with near zero correlation to any valid "national security" concern that they are likely to discover. These are cases the Department of Justice would have been ashamed to argue in better times and so it should be now. And what the heck are they so eager to be "probing" all the time anyway. Can one not go to jail or some rehabilitative institution or at least a proctologist for doing so much probing.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/08/us-security-telecommunications-hearing-idUSKCN0HX0IN20141008?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

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28 September 2014

FBI Cries Foul To Latest Generation Apple iPhones Password Protection Even Apple Cannot Bypass To Access Data At Feds' Demand And Google Follows Suit Makes Claim For New Android Phones In Wake Of Yahoo Privacy Lawsuit Against Government

       Sunday, 28 September 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - In the wake of staggering revelations made public in documents still being released from Edward Snowden methodically upon determination that they will not put Government operatives or agents at direct risk steadily chronicling United States Government blatantly unconscionable unconstitutional criminal misconduct among other things in wholesale mass eavesdropping on and permanently recording its own American citizens across the board with no cause at all snooping into every aspect of the lives of all American people respecting no privacy whatsoever even in every sacred moment of their lives including their communicating about perfectly legal business, family and pleasure matters to everything in between without limitation including for example all from the most deeply personal to commercial secrets to private religious, medical, and political conversations as well as with their lawyers and accountants, political to intimate conversations between couples married and not and the millions of other types of perfectly legal totally private and personal conversations in which everyone in the United States should be able to engage with the expectation of the right to privacy being absolutely recognized and respected by the State whose morally bankrupt criminal snoops otherwise belong in prison.
       That expectation is inherent given the understanding of for what Americans have fought and died to live in a country with a government constrained and respectful of laws rather than one that routinely criminally misbehaves as a matter of course lording over its citizens as if they were the oppressed slaves of a totalitarian state now to the point that finally even America's tech giants are fighting back perhaps soon in court and right now in their research and development efforts after routinely being forced under illegal orders to execute the Government's criminal dirty work against Apple and Google's own clients and customers and then left largely to play the fall guys for these heinous illegal Government-ordered invasions of privacy on a scale so universal as to have come to seem unreal as directed by Government representatives now too young to have fought in anything but phony wars as exemplified by the phony Nixon totally hypocritical insincere losing "war on drugs" dragging on now for 40+ years with no overall progress at all to show for it but rather the establishment of highly violent international crime organizations that are at the point of rivaling the firepower of entire corrupted nations leaving behind a trail countless dead including tens of thousands of innocents and nothing to show but failure failure and misery.
       Though Facelog's Zuckerboy with his ever-evolving schemes to extract from Facebook users as much private information by any means possible with no notice whatsoever until forced to provide it has long been suspected by many of being a CIA operative with a devious brilliance this sick penchant for extracting more information through ever-expanding trickery in his Mugbook service that will "always be free" including using devices such as facial recognition technology and "tagging" and on and on as he relentlessly persists in trying to dupe Americans and persons worldwide into creating their own most intimate files to serve as ready fodder "selfie"-made dossiers for government perusal at its leisure essentially a J. Edgar Hoover sicko romp into Zuckerboy's twisted idea of privacy invasion mugshot heaven with all biographical information including birth, location, family, friends, activities, politics, thoughts, etc. to boot. The European community having a little more context long has not been amused with his twisted antics with its European Union regulators fining his spydom goldmine hundreds of millions of dollars on more than one occasion yet barely even followed in the news it means so little to the bottom line especially as it is probably paid by American taxpayers via the CIA anyway.
       Back in the United States while Zuckerboy no doubt gladly hands it all over to his handlers the other tech giants have become increasingly uneasy with first Yahoo which unsuccessfully sued the U.S. Government for ordering it to turn over clients' private information but did prevail in being able to make the damning case files public.  Unlike Zuckerboy proud to violate the Constitution at every opportunity at the Government's behest provided Zuckerboy even knows or cares what the Constitution is (or rather was), Apple too like Yahoo apparently has had it with playing criminal in the eyes of the American and foreign peoples under orders from the metastasized National Security agencies thus commercially threatening the company at home and especially abroad and yesterday announced the release of the latest generation iPhone which even Apple cannot penetrate once it is in the customer's hands. No backdoor for the suits to sneak into Americans treasure trove of private information which the U.S. Government has come to see as its birthright.
       Now Google long suspected itself of managing Americans private information in collusion with the CIA allegedly with some data centers built side-by-side has turned and also taken aim first organizing resistance to NSA blanket interception and storage of communications and now like Apple in the technology research and development arena announced it also no longer had provided a "backdoor" for the government "suits" to slip inside to snoop around Google's clients' most private information either. So Google although long suspected itself of complicity in the Government's mass surveillance run totally amok of the Constitution (although a big deal was made most likely as a cover story about the resourceful Feds having to crack the code and secretly intercept an uncooperative Google's internal date packet transmissions "on the fly" under yet another novel lame legal theory of legitimacy concocted by U.S. Government "lawyers" no doubt on the condition that whatever latest tortured analysis they had concocted justifying the Government's crimes in advance be locked deep in a vault and never looked at again until fifty years after all involved were dead now also apparently really is fed up as Google now spearheads NSA reform drives and apparently shares Apple's domestic and especially foreign commercial concerns about further even involuntary participation with the government spying on its customers and/or clients and thus made Google's own announcement on the heels of Apple's that its latest generation Android phones likewise could not be penetrated for data even by Google.
      The Feds with their newfound 21st Centuty attitude of total entitlement and apparent perceived immunity from incarceration (for themselves) are apoplectic having sucked at the tit of unconstitutionality for so long and with such impunity that the existing phone warrant requirement (still the law of the land for wired phones last the Ninth Amendment heard) seems to them a quaint relic of the dinosaur age (the 1950's) since the advent of the portable and then cellphone of course meant to them that although the legal reasoning should have been exactly the same and likewise protected such communications the Feds had soon made it clear that if it went through the air rather than a line a telephone conversation involved no expectation of privacy at all. A perfectly tautological argument making no sense whatsoever.
       And that reasoning certainly did become a self-fulfilling prophecy because law enforcement with impunity since routinely has listened in on any such telephone so there sure was no expectation of privacy since law enforcement made sure privacy in such conversations was non-existent. As the Virginia farmboys' parents and ancestors who had themselves once made honest livings and fought to the death for such liberties would say it was a case in which "the horse followed the cart". And the American people allowed this further assault to be perpetrated against their rapidly disappearing core fundamental rights under the Constitution with barely a whimper all for the sake of the instant convenience of pulling a phone from one's pocket and also because they most likely knew no better even if the government would be the third party on the line.
       Readers interested in more detail concerning this latest seemingly ever more rare "last stand" to uphold a constitutional right to privacy here by sure force of technology may refer to the CNN print story below now with a little more context perhaps as to why the FBI grown fat and lazy (at least metaphorically if not in the movies) certainly cannot abide being deprived of the convenience of merely being able to order some tech giant to suck the information out of readers' phones although the FBI apparently still grudgingly recognizes the requirement of some sham of a warrant for data surprisingly acknowledging that any part of the Constitution that protects the American people's rights still even may exist (or so it claims, but the FBI could be lying too).
       However the mere thought of Apple or Google marketing its most recent phones in the face of the FBI's brilliant (for the FBI) argument that like a closet that can NEVER be opened, now by that thought the FBI cannot just abide. The Constitution is said go be a "living document" and sometimes living things just need to die for a while before they can come back. . . . as for example . . . a totalitarian state. The infrastructure of a rigorous democracy ostensibly is still here seemingly visible for all to see although its actual out of sight functionality merely has merely changed a bit. Indeed just as Aldous Huxley predicted.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/25/politics/fbi-apple-google-privacy/index.html?section=money_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fmoney_topstories+%28Top+Stories%29

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12 September 2014

Childrens' Tech Screentime Curtailed By Steve Jobs And Many "High-Tech" Executive Parents Who Allow Very Limited Or None At All But For Homework With No Smartphones Until Age 14 Nor Data Plans Until Age 16 And In Any Case "Never" In The Bedroom

       Friday, 12 September 2014, NEW YORK, NEW YORK - The Ninth Amendment Editorial Board suggests that parents of minor children may be well advised to follow the lead of some of those who should know best including former Apple Computer chief Steve Jobs and many other current top executives of major internet players and their spouses about both educational pitfalls and more immediate real-world dangers that high-tech devices and internet "services" may bring often by stealth into their homes.
       Perhaps surprisingly most of those interviewed in the New York Times article linked below rather than having homes stuffed with iPads and the like instead have recounted rigorous household rules greatly limiting their youths' exposure to "reading" materials other than good old-fashioned paper-bound books, pens and paper particularly when it comes to anything other than legitimately creative endeavors and the necessity for computers in completing homework accompanied by family dinner conversations about current school learning and other areas of knowledge at tables with nary a tech device including screen to be found.
       Most interestingly many parents in top positions at some of the largest and biggest players in tech internet and other such companies completely ban devices and their use that other parents presumably less knowledgeable about the risks they entail for their children freely make available or even encourage as if it were a matter of right of passage to full-blown childhood. Specifically mentioned is the fact that many of these "high-tech" parents will not even allow the use of messaging devices and tech tools which keep a permanent record of personal communications which one day may come back to haunt their children from a time before they knew better than to make them.
        So sorry to Facebook's Zuckerboy, Myspace. Google+, Twitter (whose own top executives vigorously enforce such restrictive rules with their own children), Yahoo, LinkedIn and the hundreds of other such deceptively designated "social media" and e-mail, instant messenger, cellular call and text service privacy invaders and all manner of other commercial exploiters of personal information and communications for their own monetary gain.
       Regardless of whether or not they expressly "knowingly" cooperate their consistently repeated experience would alert anyone but a complete brain-dead idiot that willingly or not they are acting either constructively voluntarily in league with or as total imbecilic tools of their de facto U.S. "national security" partners who repeatedly and incessantly in wholesale criminal violation of privacy laws and other U.S. Constitutional rights and their penumbras in furtherance of their consistently misguided largely completely ineffective in the absence of actual painstaking police work criminal schemes which they bottom line justify by strong-arming what any self-respecting attorney knows or should know are completely convoluted self-serving BS made-to-order contrived bogus "legal" opinions ultimately based on nothing but the ridiculously farcical foundation that the criminal transgressions they endorse in clear violation of the U.S. Constitutional rights they are sworn to uphold can ever be more "compelling" under the U.S. Constitution than the rule of law itself.
       Many high-tech executives if they allow their children any such constantly illegally monitored activities at all allowed only specifically named services such as "Snapchat" which allegedly immediately dispose permanently of any such personal messages as soon as they are sent although based on the Ninth Amendment's experience with the U.S. Government's Executive Branch "national security underworld" we would have to find in this day and age any such assurance to be most highly suspect at best. Something that need be kept private and even for a moment is absorbed into a high-tech device even unconnected to a phone line, the internet or anything else to our understanding must immediately by sledgehammered to bits the size of pebbles burned in a barrel of jet fuel thrown with no outside observation whatsoever into the back of a dumpster on a dark Bedford-Stuyvesant sidestreet immediately emptied into the trash compactor in the back of an armored car converted into a dump truck taken directly to a mob-owned car-crusher after being liberally doused in liquid hazardous radioactive medical waste before being buried under hundreds of tons of similar debris piled on a half-mile long barge bound directly to China where it is permanently disposed of under a concrete highway along with the remains of the Twin Towers in an active volcanic crater.
       For similar reasons if one did not heed the example of these high-tech executives' universal warning to keep all such "high-tech" devices out of one's children's bedrooms we certainly would suggest keeping any computer camera or microphone even supposedly not in use well-covered with duct tape or better yet first with petroleum jelly or otherwise assume whether it is the Russian mafia, the NSA or any of a thousand others working solo or for another "outfit" that some creepy criminal geek working for whichever may well be watching and listening to one's under-age daughter talking about her parents, changing her clothes, sitting on the toilet, or worse....

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/fashion/steve-jobs-apple-was-a-low-tech-parent.html?action=click&contentCollection=Opinion&module=MostEmailed&version=Full&region=Marginalia&src=me&pgtype=article

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03 August 2014

GOOGLE aka "KNOWN ISSUES" May Change Name To "GOO-GLITCH" Denotes Multitude Of Faulty Products Once Known To Buyers Simply As "Defective". Please GOO-GLITCH Has No Time To Answer Piddling Questions So Beneath Its Giant Piles Of Cash About KNOWN ISSUES Replaces Nothing Unless One Bought "The Plan" But Please Feel Free To Gnaw In On Our Unpaid "Buddies Circle Jerkle" Best Known Guesses So We Can Sell Your Personal Info ID'ing You Too In "Buddies Circle Jerkle" Social Media

       Sunday, 3 August 2014, MOUNTAIN "OF CASH" VIEW, CALIFORNIA -Well Blogger friends and domestic help are any of you getting nearly as rich as Google yet letting Google aka KNOWN ISSUES data mine your every contact and interest that you were not even sure you had with their relatively recently joined or merely just more encouraged and patted on their heads by (but never yet consciously -- to them -- punished with the old water board) their new best CIA friends who coincidentally almost magically just have found themselves just so very simultaneously as fascinated as Google with every activity in your life. It is all just money to Google whether the information for commercial social media wars and incidental bonuses from the CIA comes in through Blogger+ or the old "sponsored results" that never ever would have happened on so reputably academic a search engine as Google until of course they did.
       So when did Google and the others like Zuckerboy begin to feel so sure they were above the law (probably from a little too much exposure to those charged with enforcing the law against "others") that they for example apparently can claim when they never answer you except in court sell you products which were previously just known as "defective" junk but never anymore return for refund but instead have developed to the point that they have the audacity to tell you they do no even answer phones about defects but just maybe you can "circle buddy" with some of the thousands of others who also have suffered through their so-called "beta" defects and will be happy to commiserate but please just be clear on one thing most importantly which is even if GOO-GLITCH aka KNOWN ISSUES gives those unpaid geeks a few unpaid ribbons everything they come up with is strictly answered on their own behalves and NO KNOWN ISSUES guarantees nothing except any royalties coming from more social media data mining belongs to them (and their CIA partners) alone.
        As for the shared problems new "jerkle buddy circle" users are experiencing while Google is busy designing the next generation of planned obsolescence or rather planned defects in its next generation of products while also figuring out ways to get users (or "used ones") to sign off every detail or access to every detail of jerkle buddy life from birth to death and everything inbetween which is pretty crafty because actually in one's "real" social life whatever that used to be none of these geeks were ever your "friends" and would not have merited another scoff if you caught them trying to chart and graph every aspect of your social life which was so much more interesting to them than their own existence spent with their own best friend the Asteroids machine.
       And you were beginning to think that you were just perhaps nothing but not quite mostly up-to-par "bloggers" raking it in which was after all the original "idea" as advertised was it not although coincidentally or not that was just around the time the NSA, CIA and rest of the national acronym crowd began to give Google perhaps just an inkling of the real value of that "Blogger" sky's the limit up-to-the-minute (very roughly speaking) was perhaps after all not really quite so much the focus of the whole "operation" as might have perhaps a bit more honestly been communicated. No now Google makes a fortune off of your Person+ for which you are not getting a dime except new bunch of "freinds" for your "circle of jerkles".
       In fact that part of the tale after seeing a United States President ELECTED after all and all those heady skirmishes just at the shaky borders of the foundation in the age of "terrible secrets" of the United States Constitution once held so dear by so many well that part of the tale really did not seem so "compelling" nor so "heady" to the ones now become in the know and dining with the spooks outside Mclean that it really may have begun to slip their swimming minds just a bit amidst all these heady developments that there were, well, starting to be what rapidly had become the "cover story" that clearly was not nearly so exciting nor PROFITABLE as some of the other stories.
       Well fellow Bloggers we urge you for the moment not to rush into the Blogger+ deal and spend a bit of time asking yourself whether you really deep down feel some COMPELLING REASON to find yourself sharing yourself and so much of your life with some people who well quite frankly as of just a couple years ago may not have even really known from Adam. Remember when you perhaps wanted to prove yourself personally with a successful bit of writing well-received by an audience which was not "scientifically" determined and placed among your, what, followers?
       We ask for now that you just might wish to collect your thoughts for a bit and not jump into putting that + after your personal "profile" information maybe more so as to release its disclosure from a legal point of view and to take Google forward leaps and bounds in some perhaps new merely greedy direction whereby it might get its hands ASAP on that "social media" information from Facebook and the others if not by some in-kind trade that strengthens it all then some sort of clever tact at getting you to actually feel some sort of eagerness to part with that information you might not ever have even dreamed of with a company in ten short years become larger than General Motors and you really are not even sure why. There is after all no big rush. Except perhaps for when the time comes that we all decide to go after Google itself for fraud, class action, punitive damages, invasion of privacy, psychological manipulation by methods of the always jury-loved cult?
       Yes please friends keep us in mind if your statistics that are promised to be accurate and timely seem increasingly are neither. That all that Adsense and other advertising program money you have heard so much of the old favorite Ronald Reagan "anecdotal evidence of" such as quite amazing riches or financial independence or in any case close to it are not quite coming true for you yet either. But then there is always SO MUCH more new information provided by Google and it is no doubt "well" paid acting agents that may not always make that much sense nor seem that revolutionary, but what the heck after just six or seven years why not give them a chance, ESPECIALLY if you have already started your own business.
       Yes friends we sense a new day dawning and since it is one where both a federal agency or agencies and a very rich company or companies who have indeed demonstrated indeed that they do have VERY DEEP pockets we first of all DISCLAIM ANY SPECIAL LEGAL OR FINANCIAL EXPERTISE IN THIS AREA WHICH YOU MUST SEEK ONLY FROM A DULY LICENSED PROFESSIONAL, but may we suggest that in the meantime we proceed carefully and cautiously keeping as best we can accurate records of what we were promised or APPEARED TO BE and WHAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE OR HAVE APPEARED TO RECEIVE. In the meantime we are keeping a very close watch on whether those pageview numbers which Google has provided with growing inaccuracy as freely can be followed in our posts are keeping up commensurate where historical performance would indicate they should be and with these recent efforts even better perhaps maybe even more so God willing with your support which as you are all too aware costs fellow "bloggers" nothing. Just imagine a million bloggers all standing up for one million other bloggers.
       And should we see those growing numbers of pageviews and ad impressions continuing to grow well then we shall also have very good grounds for examining and ask that KNOWN ISSUE is being especially diligent and careful about reporting them completely and timely as that after all was to be at least what is appearing to us as what may be for all of us who choose and performed for Google as our part of the bargain and therefore must especially taking care to make sure that we too benefit richly where they have from our own "benefit of the bargain" and also having done so kept us from putting or fortunes with those of so many competitors for our work from whom Google lured us. And make no mistake as for the specifics of each of us, it is each of us who is putting in the work, writing all the feedback and looking for those non-existent Google return letters. Stay strong, read on, and let those of us who continue on this path remember where lies the true path and reward of "mutual support".
       Let GOOGLE have its KNOWN issues fellow Bloggers we shall have our MUTUAL SUPPORT. So pay attention and in the the unforgettable words of Douglas Adams on the cover of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy "DON'T PANIC". Just keep track of that money GOOGLE owes you from mathematical errors or selling your social media without your permission to sell and soon those + signs will be adding up in your column also. We hope.

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01 August 2014

Google Blogger Sites Suffer Grossly Worsening "Up To The Minute" Statistical Reporting Performance In Recent Months Making Such Representations Used To Lure New Google "Bloggers" Untrue

        Friday, 1 August 2014, MOUNTAIN "OF CASH" VIEW - One need say no more than repeat the false promise used by Google to lure what are now reportedly in the millions of "bloggers" stolen away from many other competitors which have grown up and thrived offering free blogs probably now in the hundreds of thousands by most every Google-style competitor with easily superior service to the notoriously unresponsive Google computer cash giant featuring basically non-existent "customer service" unless one happens to be calling from the CIA front office. Instead Google cleverly lets its customer hash it out among themselves as they increasingly release programs with bugs and bring all manner of "products" to market with clearly acknowledged "known issues" that hopefully Google's millions of customers will sort out for them so they will not have to lift a finger or spend a dime fixing them. Imagine how happy you would be if you were to purchase your new Cadillac with a hidden laundry list of "known issues" bound to pop up at any time and then given other customers' phone numbers to "try to work them out" even after free placement in your new "circle of goddamn friends I do not want". How jolly!
       The fraudulent phrase that this Ninth Amendment log has come particularly to take issue with is that after establishing our site for well over seven years on the Google "Blogger" program lured from the widely recognized quality of the likes of for example competitor Wordpress' and now so many other free blogging services the Google false clarion call remains that Google the Great is particularly desirable to bloggers for "Google's up-to-the-minute stats!" Clearly Google recognizes stats importance in recruiting most profitable bloggers and those bloggers maintaining their sites to the best standards better, and for counting all that cash.
       But sad to say after perhaps one hundred plus "feedback explanations" with "screenshots" sent dutifully from this publisher to Google we have in several months growing on years now heard NOTHING AT ALL back from Google other than steadily declining service and less and less reliable statistics to the point they are laughable. 270 pageviews one day -- then maybe a half dozen in the following ten hours. We KNOW we have the pageviews, but when they do not show up with Google statistics we also KNOW we do not have a cent of our earned money from Google's advertising program or all the supposed value of that expertise.
       GOOGLE - We are too busy working for the NSA and CIA now. We will NEVER get to you, even if you buy our product which we will be happy to sell you rife with "known issues". What, did we miss something, did Google somehow get a pass from reality but a very large bucket of gold at the end of the rainbow? If only we went to M.I.T. we too might have been clever enough to come up with a name of the times just perfect based on our sheltered level of maturity: "GOO-GOO". Oh scrap that we have a perfect fit for the best new corporate name: "Known Issues".

Copyright 2014 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved

29 July 2014

Criminal Interference With Site Owner And Publisher Continues To Hamper Access To Ninth Amendment And That Of Readers To Site

       Tuesday, 29 July 2014, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS - Apparent criminal interference with the Ninth Amendment site and apparent computer damage to internet-connected computers per the above apparently continues unabated especially since most recent Ninth Amendment post(s) regarding corrupt Texas Republican candidates for office including incumbents and others presently serving in appointee positions. The Ninth Amendment Log renews assistance sought of Google and any geographically proximate FBI field office to Ninth Amendment's local bureau requesting full investigation and prosecution for all pertinent and applicable state of Texas and federal crimes by those committing interference and other cyber crimes and crimes related to interference with exercise of Constitutional and all civil rights including under federal and Texas state statutes. Pageviews of Ninth Amendment reported since publishing of the Ninth Amendment's last notice post about six hours ago have increased by over about 1,000 per cent despite documented continuing attempts at site pageview interference of both the Ninth Amendment and its attempted readers.
       "Breaking into and causing damage to any internet-connected computer shall not be punishable by more than twenty (20) years imprisonment." The cynically named "Patriot" Act (Paraphrased here to the best of our lay recollection.) It is not known if anyone has ever actually read The "Patriot" Act in its entirety since the "W" Administration (Bush 43) allegedly snuck a replacement to the official Congressional Joint Committee version with ink still wet on its several hundred pages on the podium just moments before the final full Congressional vote on the so-called "Patriot Act" legislation chock-full of sections which had nothing to do with terrorism but previously had been overwhelmingly resoundingly rejected by Congress as clearly unconstitutional gross law enforcement and Executive Branch unenforceable over-reaching.
       The so-called most objectionable "sunset" provisions allegedly inserted in the original text were later in many cases made permanent at the urging of the President Obama administration including Constitutional-champion Attorney General Eric Holder which also has continued and expanded patently illegal and unconstitutional NSA and other Executive Agency illegitimate and therefore Constitutionally ineffective provisions as set forth as the basis of the underlying compact of the United States Constitution which provides that all power resides and emanates from the people and where such powers were never granted to the State by the People in the ratified text of the Constitution and its legitimately enacted Amendments all such State claims to authority are null and void as they remain residing exclusively in the People. (See, e.g. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin.)
       THE FOREGOING DOES NOT PURPORT TO BE NOR DOES IT IN ANY WAY CONSTITUTE LEGAL ADVICE WHICH MAY NOT BE RELIED UPON IN ANY WAY AND MUST ONLY BE SOUGHT FROM A PROPERLY LICENSED LEGAL PROFESSIONAL PREFERABLY NEVER HAVING SERVED AS COUNSEL TO FORMER "VICE"-PRESIDENT PROFITEER DICK "PIGHEART" CHENEY WHO ALLEGEDLY WOULD SIGN ANY LEGAL OPINION PROVIDED THAT IT MIGHT BE LOCKED FOREVER IN A SAFE WHERE NO ONE MIGHT EVER READ IT UNLESS IT WERE IMMEDIATELY TAKEN BACK UNCOPIED BY FORCE FROM THEIR POSSESSION AND LOCKED UP AGAIN OUT OF SIGHT FOR ALL ETERNITY.

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21 July 2014

CIA Partner Google Blogger Statistic Failures Past Year Habitually Grossly Under-Report Ninth Amendment Site Performance Data With Google Now Reporting Misinformation Six Plus Hours Daily

       Monday, 21 July 2014, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA - The Ninth Amendment log now has published three hundred and forty finalized posts continuously for seven years with this same site URL addresss from the same Mountain View, California located IP address including the "blogspot" domain root registered for Google "Blogger" sites. Google for several years has encouraged "blog publishers" despite assurances that publishers' sites "blogspot"-based URLs will be maintained by and never interrupted by Google that publishers also consider registering the independent unique component of their site names themselves without using the blogspot domain with which the sites were established by the publishers from the start of their "Blogger"-based relationship with Google.
       Google facilitates re-directing independent sites so that they still apparently without undue complication can continue uninterrupted along with Google the benefits of the blogspot relationship including blogspot site support including timely accurate statistical reporting and continued conforming participation as accepted into the Google "Adsense" campaign and other more recent affiliated advertising programs. Google however which earlier further facilitated this process by itself directly selling domain names listing itself with about ten other major domain name vendors has since withdrawn itself from the list encouraging publishers to use one of the other recommended reliable domain name vendors such as godaddy.com for issuance of the publishers' unique domain name currently used in combination with "blogspot".
       Readers with but a brief Google engine search of the word "blogger" can see for themselves that "blogger" has become a very heavily promoted full-service blogging tool by Google reflected in part by a great many subjective search results yielded by the Google engine search which readers will readily see describe "blogger" glowingly in positive terms emphasizing supposedly compelling opportunities particularly financially implying even possible financial independence for which sample true video first-person anecdotes are offered particularly for blogs associated with existing or contemporaneously established businesses as well as from the avowed benefits of the "blogger" seamless integration with a broad and greatly expanding range of web and web-enhanced businesses with the advantage of available Google free and paid advice and assistance including through such tools as "Adwords" for smaller and developing businesses with "Google Analytics" available also for businesses tending to be larger.
       Google although it allegedly shares advertising revenue when certain thresholds are reached with blog publishers through its Adsense and other programs has never made available to our knowledge or information to its publishers now reportedly numbering worldwide in the millions any share of the significant value to Google of Blogger goodwill, the value of demographic and other experiential information collected through the Blogger program, the value of the very heavily promoted Blogger+ program supposedly related primarily to blogging but actually most significantly valued by Google apparently as its grand entree into the by far most lucrative social media area all of which value is in no way to be shared with the publishers in the Blogger+ program although it is estimated to be far more valuable to Google through the vast collection of demographic information including of individuals and groups more or less manufactured by Google and encouraging such things as so-called "circles of friends" never even before know by participants altogether purporting to offer vastly more constantly Google-emphasized benefits including vague claims to offer far more unclear unexplained financial benefits than the original Blogger program apparently relying heavily on implied promises of, inter alia, readers' endorsements somehow without explanation including greatly increased advertising revenues.
       It soon became apparent that Google was not beyond more or less tricking non-Blogger+ participants into joining the program through the click of a button because of apparently intentionally confusing references to things such as profiles and other tangential elements of the Blogger program which really offered little greater financial advantage to participants but undisclosed apparently significant benefits to Google which seemingly given the repeated focus on Blogger+ were most valuable to Google which clearly was making no effort to share at any point any of the substantial real value of its surreptitious made-to-order social media behemoth benefiting from basically trafficking in the personal and private information of its long-time Blogger participants. This served to highlight that the long-term undercurrent of the Google Blogger partnership with publishers was not partnership at all since it clearly had been developed on the premise that almost all the benefits would run to Google and would only continue to do so in either greater amounts. This is why hard-working publishers focused on creating truly high quality material were rewarded like the Ninth Amendment with basically nothing (but advice from other participants in the Google program which cost Google absolutely nothing as Google itself grew notorious for never even responding but once in a blue moon to any queries of its millions of publishers thus costing Google next to nothing) while Google amassed a fortune in a matter of a couple decades to rival the great industrial giants of American business enterprise such as General Motors. If Google could have one word to describe the value on the Blogger+ relationships it supposedly celebrated Google's intentions as a "friend" in a circle of friends could only be described as despicable.
       Publishers are encouraged to communicate via solely via Google groups with minimum interference with Google personnel presumably counting their fortunes to determine at how young an age they might retire including as to publishers basically just giving to Google what could turn out to be most valuable strategies for the most dubious honor of participating in or taking part in or more accurately being taken by the Blogger+ social media program which has been promoted by Google not without a significant degree of challenge it is conjectured due to Google's less than fully honest approach to the purposes of and the totally confusing and basically largely nonsensical spectrum of different tactics Google uses to try to bring uninterested blogger participants into the Blogger+ program in order to access their personal information without their necessarily informed consent accompanied by warnings or rather more accurately vague threats of apparently potentially serious but actually just somewhat confusing consequences for those who no longer wished to participate any longer after joining in the Blogger+ program.
       Such conduct by Google therefore would some might conjecture make any purported agreements including those purporting to incorporate the non-sharing or failure of distribution of potentially huge profits from the collection of vast amounts of personal information to participants unenforceable for several reasons which by simple lay persons might reasonably be seen as fundamentally fraudulent conspiracies among other things also believe possibly may include affirmative defenses of unclean hands and laches for emphasizing what are really minimal benefits to participants while downplaying or altogether neglecting to mention or even provide any information as to the tremendous profits potentially to be gained from the great multitude of Blogger+ relationships established by Google for the unstated purpose of using existing relationships to become competitive in the hugely profitable area of "social media" players such as Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn and so many others.
       This would be consistent with the larger evolution of Google from what was originally introduced to the world as an academically driven internet entrant to yet another internet behemoth arguably driven first and foremost by profit or perhaps more accurately greed fueled in many cases by the unsuspecting participants in its ever-expanding endeavors using the human capital of basically unknowing and unconsenting participants giving up private and personal information through Google's basically disguised endeavors much like those of, for example, of what have become some of the world's other richest corporations which but for their relationships with for example the CIA and other "national security" agencies who benefit greatly from their information collection may well be poster children for antitrust and privacy invasion actions such as has been demonstrated by hugely costly rulings against the likes of Facebook and Google by European regulators or in the case of Google the European Union's highest court of last resort.
       This court's far-reaching reputation links privacy ruling Google's attorneys curiously failed to comment on because they had "not yet reviewed the decision" which seems a somewhat disingenuous response given that the ruling of a "court of last resort" is subject neither to rehearing nor to any appeal whatsoever since there is no higher court. It is in other words "Final" thus the moniker "Court of Last Resort". Hopefully Google did not have to pay too much for outside counsel that was capable of responding with a straight face to such decisions that it could not comment on their impact on Google since counsel had not yet had the opportunity to review them. Those legal fees after all could have gone to hard-working "bloggers" or unknowing new members of "Blogger+" to compensate them for their personal information they did not know was being collected and no doubt added to Google's bottom line.
       Persons familiar with the origins of Google in its formative pre-beta stages we vaguely recall to be reported to be the revolutionary brainchild of an MIT professor and developed there by him with some of his MIT students its unique brilliance that it ranked results on the basis of supposedly objective URL-to-URL links promising to give users an unparalleled purity of results not sullied by the rank corruption of secret payoffs, other not so obviously manipulated but reflecting equally crass commercial objectives nor the product of more refined manipulation (now blossomed into an apparently fully legitimate industry of "search engine optimization" accompanied by checklists of sequential steps one takes manually or with computer assistance entering URLs into various directories and totally distorting through "backlinks" for trade and sale the long-discarded original elegant Google concept) by computer hacks skewing search results through more obscured techniques nevertheless delivering equally tainted results in an search result environment where pagerank has long become synonymous with dollars.
       Conceptualization of these practices as the modern variation of starting one's business name with a long series of the letter "A" for purposes solely of telephone business page top position placement helps remove some of the "computer IT" mystery to help understand such practices as are being employed to "coax" desired commercial results from search engines. Interested readers are referred to other sources as close as the Wikepedia box to the lower right due to the Ninth Amendment's admitted lack of detailed knowledge and unavailability of its limited resources to more fully research the nascent Google and its subsequent history as being the tale of one more most desirable top academic institution's darling of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal that was priceless to what might ever be bought from a PR firm or advertising agency or it had to be Reputation.com crafting what one would have the world believe one is rather than what one actually has become.
        Presumably even Reputation.com after it deletes all one's bad news must have at least some small tatters of arguably good or at least neutral news left to which some modest shreds can be attached as to one's remaining personality and character, although alternatively there may be other "Reputation Plans" available for more difficult cases such as (1) creating large numbers of potential positive entries that might be reasonably successful in systematically establishing a somewhat better reputation such as for example in the case of Texas Governor Rick Perry upping his charitable church contributions a couple years back when he "earned" a reported $1 million as Governor from $80 to $90, to (2) taking bad entries that otherwise are not susceptible to being scrubbed and having them attributed to as an as unyet unacknowledged minor child whose parents might be amenable to a modest payment for having their name legally changed to your own but followed by a "Junior", "II" , or "III" (the second perhaps being preferable as more broadly susceptible to confusion and the third perchance even more desirable as even more susceptible to confusion) followed by having some keepers of records and so on contacted and not trying to shirk "reputation responsibility" but "come clean" and have one's name corrected to the "Junior", "II", or "III" as the case may be, and finally (3) having one's name legally changed to someone other party's name (but not "identity" as that might probably be illegal though maybe not if they are deceased and done using their identity), or having one's name changed to a new one that they have made up altogether.
       We have seriously digressed here which will very soon be remedied as the reason reputations come to mind so readily with Google is that everything Google now does for all appearances is completely antithetical to all the principles for which it was claimed that Google would stand in stark contrast to the increasingly commercial and privacy invasive computer and spy world Google was in fact entering. Google's true colors however soon came out as at the top and side of its results soon appeared those highlighting results that were "sponsored" by payments to Google rather than "linked" by their usefulness to people. Contrary to the high principles which it claimed to embrace with its use of links for results positioning to the contrary Google became associated with all sorts of efforts to achieve high rank by parties willing to spend money to do do and rumors of algorithms and different techniques for achieving high ranks on Google searches became all the commercial rage with former Google employees widely known to hire themselves out for just that purpose. All sorts of enterprises were born devoted to one's achieving the highest Google position possible with no regard whatsoever for the actual quality or value of a site to users, nor in many cases even it use of the English language or the quality of its writing.
       As Google expanded from its search engine beginnings it became the antithesis of all for which it once claimed to stand. Its goal rapidly developed into misusing the information available to it through its search engine to collect ALL information on its users searches, keeping a permanent record of them, and it shortly had joined in the competition to become yet another internet behemoth increasing its value by using new methods of compiling ever more information on its users with legal notices that came out in such excruciating detail and with such rapidity that like Facebook it was collecting information at and beyond the very limits of what was permissible at the same time starting to emulate the megalomania of the ever stranger head of Facebook rumored CIA tool Zuckerboy who developed fascinations in no time worthy of J. Edgar Hoover.
       Zuckerboy compiled information on his "social media" site using facial recognition technology and any new twisted idea which came to mind to gather more information of what once purported to be nothing more than a friendly facilitator of social interaction but in fact became a cataloger of persons from around the globe with an unhealthy interest in connecting their recognition physically to their name to their contacts to their hobbies to "what was on their mind". Facebook made so much money that billion dollar fines from European regulators outraged at Zuckerboy's invasions of their privacy were hardly even noticed by him, an were probably reimbursed anyway by American taxpayers through the CIA's or some similar outfit's black ops budget. Perhaps Facebook even had its own.
       Google having long before abandoned all its higher principles kept its innocent-seeming goofiness in its name alone. Not to be outdone by Facebook Google soon found that it sound had a secret investor in the CIA through a front company in the NYSE. Later all pretense was merely set aside and the CIA just openly invested with Google in a joint venture. Google and CIA built data storage facilities adjacent to one another, it being clear that Google's rapacious gathering of information through the required entering by its users of one I.D. for all its acquisitions, its collection of all information legally possible on it users, and in fact everything it did now being directed to collecting ever more information on individuals and metadata on everything was the C.I.A., F.B.I., N.S.A. and all the others of the rapidly growing number of "National Security" outfits now numbering probably between fifteen and twenty dream come true.
       What the State outfits could not legally access or collect they could barely believe their luck in having Americans grown up to believe in a government that followed the law and the U.S. Constitution now willing to go forward with whatever they could get anyone to sign off on their using. And the use of private counterparts such as Facebook using facial recognition technology and Google actually mapping and invading the premises by camera of nearly every house on the earth through open windows and from above was like their dream come true.
       What possible legitimate reason could private outfits like Google and Facebook have for this massive invasion of privacy without subjects consent and/or explained in such a way as to be as incomprehensible as adhesion insurance contracts thrown out by the courts years ago. Enough of today's digression and we shall wrap back around to Blogger. Blogger perhaps once of somewhat innocent intentions certainly no longer is that. Every other new appearance on a Blogger or Google screen is yet another attempt to trick a person without their informed consent of signing on for Blogger+ as Google is just so eager to have another route of invasion to person's private lives. It has very little to nothing to producing a blog of quality. It has everything to do with endless promises of meaningless advantages to signing on, sharing more information with Google, identifying circles of friends, or rather creating them as Google takes it upon itself to do far more than keep meaningless records of all its users do, it clearly would like to control what they do, to tell them who their friends are, to use any deceptive device at its disposal to get more persons to sign on to enable them to do basically do nothing except make it that much easier for Google to get every last bit of information about the lives of those who use Google. Google thirsts for "social media" privacy invasion that can rival Facebook's.
       Soon Google will have to be left behind for those who are not tools of the CIA and all their law-breaking friends. In the meantime Google at least with this site's blogger statistics is blazing the path for misinformation, disinformation, and in seven years has never responded to a single feedback message sent from this site. And how much has this site collected having been long ago accepted to Adsense, Amazon and other affiliate program"900s? This site's publisher has in seven years not yet received its first advertising paymemt. So in any case Google one might think Google could supply those site performance statistics in something close to real time. Half a day late and confusing Albania for Argentina just does not cut it when you are playing with the Big Boys.
       Keep that up and in no time the CIA will have you preparing the final reports for the President on the presence of WMDs. Or maybe the next nuclear missile silo exercise gone awry in Nebraska. You have to prove yourself worthy Google even if you do have a satellite map of the whole earth, a picture taken from 360 degrees outside every person's house in the world, a record of everyone's last five thousand Google searches, copies of all their private pictures and family photo albums, and a list of the everything they have watched and listened to on YouTube since Google bought it, next thing you know the CIA will ask you to keep a record for them of every number called and kept on everyone's Android phone because the Supreme Court told the CIA and the NSA you know even this Court must draw the line somewhere therefore that is not allowed, especially so long as Mr. Justice Thomas is on the bench with his suspected propensity for "900" numbers.

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