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So youtube is now making sounds that they want me in the fold. Hmm tricky The dynamics between users and youtube is highly asymmetric, and that asymmetry will only get more vivid when money is involved. (IF you become dependent on the money from youtube, then they hold almost all the cards. They can afford the loss of your account far more than you can). I am also deeply disturbed by the fact that if you now type in the title from the youtube video protest Youtube vs the Users you find NOTHING. Even though the video was mirrored a few hundred times, you find NOTHING. Thats some pretty BS censorship. I don’t want youtube to advertise their weak spots, and I can appreciate they don’t want every grunt with an axe to grind making their life hard, but Orwellian history revision of this sort is BULLSHIT! My position has changed as the value of the channel, in terms of the work I have put into it, increased. The initial goal was to make the media, and rely on word of mouth for the material to find an audience. However the channel has now become the main route by which the audience accesses the material. I am still not sure how this will go with youtube, or what the future with youtube (if any) is. I noticed recently that youtube now has compulsory ads on some videos, that is ads you MUST watch before the video starts. Hmmm thats starting to look more like the Viacom method of media distribution, and the only effect that had on me is that I never go there (daily show etc) anymore …

As the Sun Awakens, NASA Keeps a Wary Eye on Space Weather NASA Science June 6, 2010 Earth and space are about to come into contact in a way that’s new to human history. To make preparations, authorities in Washington DC are holding a meeting: The Space Weather Many technologies of the 21st century are vulnerable to solar storms. Richard Fisher, head of NASA’s Heliophysics Division, explains what it’s all about: “The sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we’re getting together to discuss.” The National Academy of Sciences framed the problem two years ago in a landmark report entitled “Severe Space Weather Events—Societal and Economic Impacts.” It noted how people of the 21st-century rely on high-tech systems for the basics of daily life. Smart power grids, GPS navigation, air travel, financial services and emergency radio communications can all be knocked out by intense solar activity. A century-class solar storm, the Academy warned, could cause twenty times more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina. Much of the damage can be mitigated if managers know a storm is coming. Putting satellites in ‘safe mode’ and disconnecting transformers can protect these assets from damaging electrical surges. Preventative action, however, requires accurate …

Studies show that flu vaccines are unsafe and ineffective. This uncensored presentation by the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute (www.thinktwice.com) includes a visual depiction of flu vaccine production — how the flu vaccine is made and what it contains! A natural alternative to flu vaccines is provided. [For more information about vaccines, become a FAN of Thinktwice on Facebook.]

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