* Goldman Sachs Bank of New York
* Kuhn Loeb Bank of New York/Shearson American Express
* Lazard Brothers Bank of Paris
* Israel Moses Sief Banks of Italy
* Warburg Bank of Hamburg, Germany and Amsterdam
* Lehman Brothers Bank of New York
* Chase Manhattan Bank of New York (David Rockefeller)
On Sep 26, 2:33 pm, Bruce Majors <majors.br...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify "Key Bloggers" And Monitor Billions
> Of Conversations About The Fed On Facebook, Twitter, Forums And Blogs
> To: undisclosed-recipients
>
> **
>
> *Will their identification and monitoring change the facts? No.*
> *Will their identification and monitoring intimidate We The People?
> Hopefully, NO.....*
>
> Monday, 26 September 2011 05:44 *Right Side News *
> **
>
> *The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify "Key Bloggers" And Monitor Billions
> Of Conversations About The Fed On Facebook, Twitter, Forums And Blogs
>
> *The Federal Reserve wants to know what *you* are saying about it. In fact,
> the Federal Reserve has announced
> plans<http://www.scribd.com/doc/66281284/Frbny-Social-Media-Rfp>to
> identify "key bloggers" and to monitor "billions of conversations"
> about
> the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs. This is yet another sign
> that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact.
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>
> [image: Big_Brother_Watching]As first reported on Zero
> Hedge<http://www.zerohedge.com/news/here-comes-fiattackwatch-bernanke-goes-...>,
> the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a "Request for
> Proposal<http://www.scribd.com/doc/66281284/Frbny-Social-Media-Rfp>"
> to suppliers who may be interested in participating in the development of a
> "Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution".
>
> In other words, the Federal Reserve wants to develop a highly sophisticated
> system that will gather everything that you and I say about the Federal
> Reserve on the Internet and that will analyze what our feelings about the
> Fed are. Obviously, any "positive" feelings about the Fed would not be a
> problem. *What they really want to do is to gather information on everyone
> that views the Federal Reserve negatively. It is unclear how they plan to
> use this information once they have it, but considering how many alternative
> media sources have been shut down lately, this is obviously a very troubling
> sign.*
>
> You can read this "Request for Proposal" right
> here<http://www.scribd.com/doc/66281284/Frbny-Social-Media-Rfp>.
> Posted below are some of the key quotes from the document (in bold) with
> some of my own commentary in between the quotes....
>
> *"The intent is to establish a fair and equitable partnership with a market
> leader who will who gather data from various social media outlets and news
> sources and provide applicable reporting to FRBNY. This Request for Proposal
> ("RFP") was created in an effort to support FRBNY's Social Media Listening
> Platforms initiative."*
>
> A system like this is not cheap. Apparently the Federal Reserve Bank of New
> York believes that gathering all of this information is very important. In
> recent years, criticism of the Federal Reserve has become very intense, and
> most of this criticism has been coming from the Internet. It has gotten to
> the point where the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has decided that it had
> better listen to what is being said and find out who is saying it.
>
> *"Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from
> various social media outlets and news sources. They monitor billions of
> conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria.
> They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to
> some topic or document."*
>
> The Federal Reserve Bank of New York intends to listen in on "billions of
> conversations" and to actually determine the "sentiment" of those that are
> participating in those conversations.
>
> Of course it will be those conversations that are "negative" about the
> Federal Reserve that will be setting off the alarm bells.
>
> *"Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers"*
>
> Uh oh. So they plan to "identify" key bloggers and influencers?
>
> What exactly do they plan to do once they "identify" them?
>
> *"The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media
> platforms –Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube."*
>
> Hopefully you understand this already, but nothing posted on the Internet is
> ever anonymous. Everything on the Internet is gathered by a vast host of
> organizations and is used for a wide variety of purposes. Data mining has
> become a billion dollar industry, and it is only going to keep growing.
>
> You may think that you are "anonymous" when you criticize organizations like
> the Fed, but the truth is that if you are loud enough they will see it and
> they will make a record of it.
>
> *"The solution must provide real-time monitoring of relevant conversations.
> It should provide sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) around
> key conversational topics."*
>
> Why do they need to perform "sentiment analysis"?
>
> If someone is identified as being overly "negative" about the Fed, what will
> they do about it?
>
> *"The solution should provide an alerting mechanism that automatically sends
> out reports or notifications based a predefined trigger."*
>
> This sounds very much like the kind of "keyword" intelligence gathering
> systems that are currently in use by major governments around the globe.
>
> Very, very creepy stuff.
>
> Are you disturbed yet?
>
> For those of us that write about the Federal Reserve a lot, this is very
> sobering news.
>
> I wonder what the Fed will think about the following articles that I have
> posted on my site....
>
> - *Unelected, Unaccountable, Unrepentant: The Federal Reserve Is Using
> Your Money To Bail Out European Commercial Banks Once
> Again<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/unelected-unaccountable-u...>
> - *Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To
> Debt<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/celebrating-independence-...>
> - *19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of Our Economic
> Problems<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/19-reasons-why-the-federa...>
> - *Is Ben Bernanke A Liar, A Lunatic Or Is He Just Completely And Totally
> Incompetent?<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/is-ben-bernanke-a-liar-a-...>
> - *10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal Reserve Had Never
> Been Created<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/10-things-that-would-be-d...>
>
> What is their "Social Media Monitoring Solution" going to think about those
> articles?
>
> Unfortunately, this is all part of a very disturbing trend.
>
> *Recently, a very creepy website known as "**Attack
> Watch*<http://www.attackwatch.com/>
> *" was launched to gather information on those saying "negative" things
> about Barack Obama.*
>
> Suddenly, everyone seems obsessed with what you and I are saying.
>
> This just shows how the power of the alternative media is growing.
>
> Not only that, but it seems as though the government also wants to gather as
> much information on all of us as possible.
>
> For example, a new rule is being proposed by the Department of Health and
> Human Services that would force health insurance companies to submit
> detailed health care information about all of their customers to the federal
> government <http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-07-15/pdf/2011-17609.pdf>.
>
> Every single day our privacy is being stripped away a little bit more.
>
> *But now it is often not just enough for them to know what we are doing and
> saying. Instead, the "authorities" are increasingly stepping in to silence
> important voices.*
>
> *One of the most recent examples of this was when Activistpost **was taken
> down* <http://reasonandjest.com/blog/2011/09/where-is-activist-post/>* by
> Google. We are still awaiting word on why this was done.*
>
> *Sadly, the silencing of Activistpost is far from an isolated incident.*
>
> *Hordes of YouTube accounts have been shut down for their political
> viewpoints.*
>
> *Quite a few very prominent alternative media websites have been censored or
> attacked because of what they stand for.*
>
> *So why is this happening? Well, it turns out that the power of the
> alternative media is growing. According to a new survey by the Pew Research
> Center for The People & The Press, **43
> percent*<http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/internet-hits-all-time-high-news-...>
> * of Americans say that they get their news on national and
> international issues from the Internet. Back in 1999, that figure was
> sitting at just **6
> percent*<http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/internet-hits-all-time-high-news-...>
> *.*
>
> The American people are sick and tired of getting "canned news", and they
> are increasingly turning to the Internet in a search for the truth.
>
> As I have written about
> previously<http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-...>,
> the mainstream media in this country is overwhelmingly dominated by just 6
> very powerful corporations....
>
> *Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of
> just six incredibly powerful media corporations. These corporate
> behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day.
> They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers,
> magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite
> websites. Sadly, most Americans don't even stop to think about who is
> feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they
> constantly ingest. Most Americans don't really seem to care about who owns
> the media. But they should. The truth is that each of us is
> deeplyinfluenced by the messages that are constantly being pounded
> into our heads
> by the mainstream media. The average American watches 153
> hours<http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/americans-watching-...>of
> television a month. In fact, most Americans begin to feel physically
> uncomfortable if they go too long without watching or listening to
> something. Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely addicted to news
> and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and entertainment that
> we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands each year.*
>
> The "news" that we get from various mainstream sources seems to always be so
> similar. It is as if nearly all mainstream news organizations are reading
> from the same script. The American people know that they are not getting
> the whole truth and they have been increasingly looking to alternative
> sources.
>
> The monopoly over the news that the mainstream media once possessed has been
> broken. The alternative media is now creating some huge problems for
> organizations that were once very closely protected by the mainstream media.
>
> The American people are starting to wake up and they are starting to get
> very upset about a lot of the corruption that has been going on in our
> society.
>
> But it turns out that the "authorities" don't like it too much when
> Americans try to actually exercise free speech in America today. For
> example, you can see recent video of female protesters in New York City
> being penned in by police and then brutally maced right
> here<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moD2JnGTToA&feature=player_embedded>
> .
>
> Are you sickened by that?
>
> You should be.
>
> What the "authorities" want is for us to shut up, sit in our homes and act
> as if nothing wrong is happening.
>
> Meanwhile, they seem determined to watch us more closely than ever.
>
> So are you going to be afraid to talk negatively about the Federal Reserve
> now that you know that they are going to be watching what you say on the
> Internet?
>
> Please feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts below....
>
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