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Originally posted by JoshF
Only a retarded person who signed up for facebook and handed over their info in the first place should be worried about this. Make sure you post on your facebook that you are against them surrendering privacy the next time youvoluntarily track your movementslog on to tellstrangersyour "friends" what you are doing.
Originally posted by maestromason
Originally posted by JoshF
Only a retarded person who signed up for facebook and handed over their info in the first place should be worried about this. Make sure you post on your facebook that you are against them surrendering privacy the next time youvoluntarily track your movementslog on to tellstrangersyour "friends" what you are doing.
Well by your definition of "retarded" there are AT LEAST 200+ million out of 330 million mentally handicapped people here in the US alone!
What a number eh?
edit on 2-2-2012 by maestromason because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by JoshF
Originally posted by maestromason
Originally posted by JoshF
Only a retarded person who signed up for facebook and handed over their info in the first place should be worried about this. Make sure you post on your facebook that you are against them surrendering privacy the next time youvoluntarily track your movementslog on to tellstrangersyour "friends" what you are doing.
Well by your definition of "retarded" there are AT LEAST 200+ million out of 330 million mentally handicapped people here in the US alone!
What a number eh?
edit on 2-2-2012 by maestromason because: (no reason given)
And your point?
Originally posted by maestromason
Originally posted by JoshF
Originally posted by maestromason
Originally posted by JoshF
Only a retarded person who signed up for facebook and handed over their info in the first place should be worried about this. Make sure you post on your facebook that you are against them surrendering privacy the next time youvoluntarily track your movementslog on to tellstrangersyour "friends" what you are doing.
Well by your definition of "retarded" there are AT LEAST 200+ million out of 330 million mentally handicapped people here in the US alone!
What a number eh?
edit on 2-2-2012 by maestromason because: (no reason given)
And your point?
My point apparently flew over your head so I will not reiterate it.
I guess you joined the club.
Originally posted by trustnothing
reply to post by Wildmanimal
I absolutely agree,
To the posters above, I am at work right now so I cant access the links on my home pc but here is few old articles I found in a quick search.
www.nzherald.co.nz...
www.guardian.co.uk...
the video posted above by another user explains some of the financial connections between facebooks initial funders and CIA projects such as InQTel There are also links to Palantir.....
EDIT one of the keys here is Peter Theil (original investor) who is also part of the Bilderberg steering committee
en.wikipedia.org...
"In late 2004, Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in Facebook for 10.2% of the company.[12][3] In addition to Facebook, Thiel has made early-stage investments in numerous startups (personally or through his venture capital fund), including Booktrack, Slide, LinkedIn, Friendster, Rapleaf, Geni.com, Yammer, Yelp, Inc., Powerset, Practice Fusion, Vator, Palantir Technologies, IronPort, and Votizen.
Also key is James Breyer CEO of ACCEL which then leads us to Gilman Louie who has been awarded CIA honors in his time so id expect was a serving agent in some capacity at least.
"James Breyer is the CEO of ACCEL, a venture captialist company, who funded Facebook with 13 million dollars.
Taken from ACCEL's website:
"Mr. Breyer was so taken with Mr. Zuckerberg's company, thefacebook.com, which creates online interactive college-student networks, that his firm, Accel Partners, plans to announce a $13 million investment in the start-up today."
taken from the National Venture Capital Assoc website:"
New Board Directors Also Named During Association’s Annual Meeting
May 13, 2004 – San Francisco, CA – The National Venture Capital Association’s (NVCA) Board of Directors today unanimously elected James W. Breyer to serve as its Chairman for the coming year. The election took place at the Association’s 2004 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
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The NVCA Board also announced eight new Directors who will each serve four year terms: Peter Barris, New Enterprise Associates; Michael Cronin, Weston Presidio; Joanna Rees Gallanter, Venture Strategy Partners; Robert Ketterson, Fidelity Ventures; Mark Klopp, Eastman Chemical; Gilman Louie, In-Q-Tel; Ted Schlein, Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers; and Chad Waite, OVP Venture Partners.
Notice the one name in there - Gilman Louie, In-Q-Tel Let's have a look at In-Q-Tel's website. Right in there header banner
Investing in Our Nation's Future - Our mission is to deliver leading-edge information technologies to the CIA and the Intelligence Community. We're a critical link between the Agency's IT users and the most promising technologies in the IT marketplace.
edit on 2-2-2012 by trustnothing because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by xuenchen
When we actually see the list of major stockholders,
we will see who owns FB.
And we will then know who will be directing the new company.
I think the holding tanks and mutual funds will be the main buyers.
i.e. STATE STREET CORPORATION, BlackRock Institutional Trust, etc.
The major holders own the majority of the stock.
They end up telling the "board of directors" what to do.
Originally posted by maestromason
Originally posted by xuenchen
When we actually see the list of major stockholders,
we will see who owns FB.
And we will then know who will be directing the new company.
I think the holding tanks and mutual funds will be the main buyers.
i.e. STATE STREET CORPORATION, BlackRock Institutional Trust, etc.
The major holders own the majority of the stock.
They end up telling the "board of directors" what to do.
Question????
How do you know which if any of these companies are federally owned and operated?
I am a businessman and I have owned several companies including a few shells and have sold a few. I can tell you from experience that a company can LEGALLY vault certain information from the public's eyes. It is done everyday on the markets. ESPECIALLY when you are dealing with IP(Intellectual Properties) which my firms exclusively deals with. There are extreme shades of grey that only an IP Attorney would be able to spot and address...just saying.
If ABC Telecom Inc ends up owning a nice share of FB then signs a contractual agreement with the federal government for "x" amount of data whatever that data may be you would be as clueless of the transaction as a man walking on the darkside of the moon.
Originally posted by xuenchen
Originally posted by maestromason
Originally posted by xuenchen
When we actually see the list of major stockholders,
we will see who owns FB.
And we will then know who will be directing the new company.
I think the holding tanks and mutual funds will be the main buyers.
i.e. STATE STREET CORPORATION, BlackRock Institutional Trust, etc.
The major holders own the majority of the stock.
They end up telling the "board of directors" what to do.
Question????
How do you know which if any of these companies are federally owned and operated?
I am a businessman and I have owned several companies including a few shells and have sold a few. I can tell you from experience that a company can LEGALLY vault certain information from the public's eyes. It is done everyday on the markets. ESPECIALLY when you are dealing with IP(Intellectual Properties) which my firms exclusively deals with. There are extreme shades of grey that only an IP Attorney would be able to spot and address...just saying.
If ABC Telecom Inc ends up owning a nice share of FB then signs a contractual agreement with the federal government for "x" amount of data whatever that data may be you would be as clueless of the transaction as a man walking on the darkside of the moon.
You are 100% correct !!
I think the problem starts when those big stock investment companies amass millions of shares in corporations.
At that point, the actual investors (individuals as well as other corporations) become private information.
Many people believe that those holding tanks are where TPTB exercise much of the power worldwide.
What else that is hidden is national origins of the "owners/investors".
Individuals and corporations in any country can easily set up an American holding company and place money in a shell name. It all stays out of public view.
Any government can do the same thing.
The CIA has set up many blind companies for all kinds of purposes.
Your ABC Telecom example could have a contract with a dummy corporation that a government agency actually might own !!!
Originally posted by Agit8dChop
.. I dont understand why people are so quick to say facebook is dead.
what.. 800 million people are going to suddenly stop using it?
I think that even if facebook started charging, say $19.95 per year it would still retain around 500 million.
Facebooks grown into something pretty amazing, its more than just a conduit for friends and family its a whole dimension that the entire world is plugged into.
I’ve had times when I hated it, and loved it. But so long as your not stupid and use it now and then its great fun.
I've seen the DOUCHE bags my xgf's ended up with.
I've seen the high school bully turn into a fat checkout bum
I've seen the high school princess turn into a single mother of 4
I've seen friends on the other side of the world get married
I've kept up to date with mates I knew in school as if i was calling them on a daily basis.
Sure, the CIA probably has a finger in it, the same way they have a finger in EVERYTHING!
You all cry foul over this, but you still use a mobile phone, google, gmail, yahoo, your internet, your TV..
Do you think these things are immune from statistical reporting, snooping, updating or eves dropping?
As for your 'property' online.. what the hell is this all about?
So you post a photo on facebook.. big deal.
So someone saves it as a jpeg... well, if they are that bored and have that much of a pathetic life they collect photos.. who's to stop them?
I've never seen facebook use my photo in a Viagra add, or a mens erection issue add.. the day I do, yes maybe Ill be annoyed enough to cancel the account.
but all in all I think people are really making a mole hill out of jealousy!
I like re iterating this point when it comes to facebook, An IT security firm when asked who the greatest hackers of all time were awarded Mark no 1 spot, "he created a web portal and convinced users to share their personal information then legally sold it for millions of dollars." He is thus one of the most succesfull social engineers of all time.