The Internet & The Civil War

The internet & modern technology is changing the face of social and economic organization as we know it. From social status to business to government, those who held positions of power without contest for a century or more are for the first time having their cultural hegemony threatened by a rapidly expanding technological force. Because of this, a heavily financed psycho-social criminal operation for distraction and division was created which would act as the window of opportunity for consolidation of internet & technological resources. The internet as of 2008 is a 220 billion dollar industry, that is more then the newspaper and publishing industry, the music industry, the movie industry, the manufacturing industry and the sports industry combined and multiplied several times. These industries and several others have lost substantial revenue over the past 8 years, some of them quickly heading into bankruptcy.

Here is an example of this phenomenon and what I will be posting in this blog:
The Newspaper & News Industry - Threatened by blogs & socially powered media such as Topix, Digg and Fark.
Crimes - Using ID fraud and spam to spread negative propaganda on blogs and socially powered media networks so that people cannot trust the new media institutions.
The Television, Movie & Music Industry - Threatened by YouTube and socially powered independent media.
Crimes - Spamming YouTube with traditional media videos and keywords to overlap socially distributed independent media.
The Sports Industry - Threatened by online gaming and virtual and participatory sports.
Crimes - Politicians building stadiums for a failing and declining revenue model.
Retail Franchises - Threatened by Google Maps, socially-powered retail, globalisation, small business and EBay.
Crimes: Spamming competitive businesses with negative reviews and buying large ad spaces on old-media controlled internet networks.
Target: The Home Page - Purchases by Time Warner, News Corp, etc. and subsidies of major internet properties, desire to consolidate & control large populations media consumption and distribution habits.
The Lie: Independent media and small business is not profitable.
The Truth: Independent media can be ad supported and small businesses can be multinational and supported by independent media advertising. Appropriately targeted advertising and competition is more profitable then non-rotating, irrelevant spaces.
Example: World of Warcraft and The Sports Industry

This is a very minor example, not including the participating social network, and you can expect more as the links are filled in.

“He who moves not forward, goes backward” - Goethe

These are my bold (although not coldly calculated) predictions made in Jan 09: