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Image: (via Infowars) A visual representation of Invisible Children’s true backers and master minds. They will gladly shed their front group in the name of self-preservation and making a clean escape.
Funny how all of the mainstream news sites are trying to spin this and point out that Jason Russel is a Christian.
Umm excuse me but how many times have your typical lefty Hollywood types like Angelina Jolie, Nicki Minaj, Obama officials and Amnesty International previously been so quick to get on board with the political work of a devout Evangelical Christian?
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The growing legions of critics and skeptics arrayed against this latest Wall Street-London psychological operation will undoubtedly seize this irresistible bait laid out, either by chance or by design, to focus on finishing off the already mortally wounded “Invisible Children” organization. It is already turning out to be a spectacular crash and burn.
However, the focus must be maintained on the mechanics behind Invisible Children, the fact that they are backed by USAID and that they participated in the US State Department’s Alliance for Youth Movements (Movements.org) summits which laid the groundwork years in advance for the US-engineered “Arab Spring.” It must also be remembered that while they pretend to be a movement of the people, Invisible Children is in fact backed by (page 22) Soros-funded foundations, JP Morgan, Chase, and others.
And as satisfying as many will find it to stomp Invisible Children out of existence for intentionally misleading them, preying on their emotions, insulting their intelligence, and literally lying to them, they must remember that all they’ve managed to do is hack away but a tentacle of a much larger monster. While we have a firm grip on Invisible Children, let’s pull up the whole monster from its murky lair.Image: (via Infowars) A visual representation of Invisible Children’s true... more
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This doesn't sound like "exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition," this sounds a bit like three or four days of chasing the dragon to me.
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The co-founder of the charity group behind the fastest-spreading Internet viral video ever was arrested Thursday for allegedly being drunk in public, vandalizing cars and masturbating, NBC San Diego reported Friday afternoon.
Jason Russell, 33, a filmmaker, was reportedly acting strangely when police picked him up off Ingraham Street in San Diego around noon on Thursday. Officers claim he was seen undressing as he ran through traffic, screaming all the way. Invisible Children CEO Ben Keesey said Friday that Russell was suffering from “exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition.”
“He is now receiving medical care and is focused on getting better. The past two weeks have taken a severe emotional toll on all of us, Jason especially, and that toll manifested itself in an unfortunate incident yesterday,” a prepared statement given to NBC San Diego read. “Jason’s passion and his work have done so much to help so many, and we are devastated to see him dealing with this personal health issue. We will always love and support Jason, and we ask that you give his entire family privacy during this difficult time.”This doesn't sound like "exhaustion, dehydration, and malnutrition,"... more
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Thanks to relentless promotion by corporate media, government, celebrities and politicians of both corporate parties, along with right wing church groups and foundations, the Kony 2012 video has “gone viral.” Viewed on YouTube more than a hundred million times by now, it paints a vivid and simple picture, clear enough, its narrator says, for a five year old. But is it real, or is it propaganda, and for what purpose?
Social Media Scam Alert: Top Ten Ways to Tell Kony is Phony
by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon
Reason #10: Invisible Children is funded by a core of notorious right wing donors
Reason #9: Invisible Children and Kony 2012 don't tell us that the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni, one of the “good guys” in the Kony 2012 universe, shot his own way to power using an army that included enslaved child soldiers
Reason #8: Invisible Children and the Kony 2012 video also don't tell us that Uganda's Museveni replaced a president and rival general from the Acholi region
Reason #7: Invisible Children and Kony 2012 are lying when they attribute the disappearance of 30,000 missing northern Ugandan children to the LRA
Reason #6: Threats of massive foreign intervention into civil conflicts never bring adversaries to the table
Reason #5: The United States, the other “good guy” in Kony 2012's imaginary world invented the modern African child soldier in the late1970s and early 80s, so their commitment to “ending child soldiers” is a bit suspect
Reason #4: Depending on movie stars and celebrities to move public policy is the precise opposite of building the backbone and habits of a vibrant and self-aware civic movement
Reason #3: When both corporate parties, the entire corporate media universe, a constellation of celebrities and movie stars, all the right wing and much of the establishment liberal church
Reason #2: Kony 2012 and the campaign to keep US boots on the ground in Central Africa are all about the oil
Reason #1: It's all about white people, the white West and their First Black President doing their imperial and colonial thingThanks to relentless promotion by corporate media, government, celebrities and... more
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The Dark Knight won't hit screens until this summer. But that won't stop Warner Brothers from cramming it down our throats until then.The Dark Knight won't hit screens until this summer. But that won't stop... more
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In T-Mobile UK's latest viral marketing campaign in the run-up to the royal wedding on April 29th, they went with an all-dancing wedding ceremory filled of royal lookalikes... wonder how they got the idea from? (thanks mobile phone network)
Video from YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kav0FEhtLugIn T-Mobile UK's latest viral marketing campaign in the run-up to the royal... more
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Something the ASA won't like, actor Bradley Cooper advertising NZT, a pill that increase your brain power, except you might want to stick with Omega-3, because this is just a spoof ad all to promote the thriller 'Limitless', which doesn't hit cinemas 'til March.
Video from YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne8YmpVVH4QSomething the ASA won't like, actor Bradley Cooper advertising NZT, a pill that... more
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viral marketing for a Russian brand of crisps with awesome vs animation battles, there are a number of them but here's Spartan vs Chuck Norris [via b3ta]viral marketing for a Russian brand of crisps with awesome vs animation battles, there... more
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Don't let the fact that's an advertisement put you off watching the video because the animation is fantastic. The video shows via stop motion the movement of objects transforming on a fictional whiteboard. Apples grow and dinosaur skeletons move, very fun.Don't let the fact that's an advertisement put you off watching the video... more
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Video Production by Studiobfilms.com: Take a dynamic company like Clif Bar and pair it with the feel of Run Lola Run and you have an energetic, quirky and inspiring video to celebrate a fantastic 2006. And in this case, Lola is played by Clif Bar's CEO herself!Video Production by Studiobfilms.com: Take a dynamic company like Clif Bar and pair it... more
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The most viral thing this year, Pants on the Ground parodies that crack you up!!!
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The previous Levi's ad campaign was titled "Live Unbuttoned." It featured smiling, attractive people dancing around to jumpy pop music. Watching those ads now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym_Z9tFv650), it seems clear they were conceived before the fall 2008 financial plunge. They already feel irrelevant—an attempt to capture a zeitgeist that's evaporated.
In December 2008, Levi's ditched its old ad agency and signed on with Wieden + Kennedy (the talented ad makers responsible for creating many of Nike's epic, stirring, one-minute anthems). The spots that W+K came up with—this new campaign is labeled "Go Forth"—have been running since the summer in movie theaters and, increasingly, on television. From the moment we see that "America" sign half-sunk in inky water, we know we're watching something new. The campaign inhabits a different universe from the one depicted in "Live Unbuttoned."
For one thing, it's a universe in which the ever-present soundtrack is Walt Whitman poetry. This spot uses a wax cylinder recording believed to be audio of Whitman himself reading from his poem "America." The second spot in the campaign employs a recording of an actor reading Whitman's "Pioneers! O Pioneers!"
Whitman is an involuntary spokes-celebrity here, and perhaps you deem this ad a desecration of all he stood for. I can't say I blame you. But were you forced to choose a clothing line for our favorite barbaric yawper to rep, you might choose this one. Levi's is the rare American brand that was actually around when Whitman was alive. And there's logic to this match between a quintessentially American poet and a quintessentially American product. Whitman's verse allows Levi's to evoke not only its proud history but a forward-looking present—the pioneering, American mindset that Whitman captured and that Levi's hopes to embody.The previous Levi's ad campaign was titled "Live Unbuttoned." It... more
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Yesterday I posted two videos on my Facebook wall and realized that they both are great examples of how Social Media is allowing even the smallest business or individual stand eye to eye with large organizations or celebrities. Both are a true David versus the Goliath story. Or is it?Yesterday I posted two videos on my Facebook wall and realized that they both are... more
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An E-book that includes your marketing message and a link to your website ...
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What an E-book Can Do for You An E-book that includes your marketing message and a link to your website ...What an E-book Can Do for You An E-book that includes your marketing message and a... more
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Do you fancy driving a fast car around a high performance track or having your photo signed by a gorgeous model? Log onto http://shift.eagames.co.uk to experience it all and then forward onto your friends.Do you fancy driving a fast car around a high performance track or having your photo... more
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Megan Fox recently put out a PSA against bullying, but promoting being yourself: ie killing and eating the boys at school. Mario and Hannah weigh in on if this is considered bullying, and how Inglourious Basterds should make us feel about killing Nazis.Megan Fox recently put out a PSA against bullying, but promoting being yourself: ie... more
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