It looks like the Federal Reserve must have its share of social media in order to keep watch over the world.And I thought net neutrality was bad. This has not been a good day for freedom in the Divided States of America.
David DeGerolamo
From Zerohedge.com:
[The Federal Reserve] is requesting the creation of a “Social Listening Platform” whose function is to “gather data from various social media outlets and news sources.” It will “monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria.” The Fed’s desired product should be able to “determine the sentiment [ED:LOL] of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document”… “The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms – Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube. It should also be able to aggregate data from various media outlets such as: CNN, WSJ, Factiva etc.” Most importantly, the “Listening Platform” should be able to “Handle crisis situations, Continuously monitor conversations, and Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers.” Said otherwise, the Fed has just entered the counterespionage era and will be monitoring everything written about it anywhere in the world. After all, why ask others to snitch for you and anger everyone as Obama found out the hard way, when you can pay others to create the supreme FIATtack WatchTM using money you yourself can print in unlimited amounts. And once the Internet is completely “transparent”, the Fed will next focus on telephone conversations, and finally will simply bug each and every otherwise “private” location in the world. Because very soon saying that “printing money is treason” will be treason, and such terrorist thoughts must be pre-crimed before they even occur.
From the key section of the RFP, presented in its entirety below:
I. Introduction
Social media platforms are changing the way organizations are communicating to the public Conversations are happening all the time and everywhere.
There is need for the Communications Group to be timely and proactively aware of the reactions and opinions expressed by the general public as it relates to the Federal Reserve and its actions on a variety of subjects.
The following videos speak for themselves. The president has just declared our nation to be “The Divided States of America”. Hypocrisy in this administration knows no boundaries.
We are being threatened once again with a government shutdown mainly due to FEMA lack of funding. Davy Crockett was and still is an American legend. He served two non-consecutive terms in Congress and the following true story outlines the beginnings of our fiscal mismanagement. If we had learned the lesson taught to Rep. Crockett, our nation would not be morally or fiscally bankrupt.
Safety and preparedness groups have formed across the country to prepare for the coming economic collapse. Although the majority of people do not want to admit that our country is bankrupt ten fold over, this reality is now being reported in the media. Our government will not admit this since they are the people responsible for this fiscal mismanagement.
Precious metals have taken a direct hit this past week as their prices collapsed. Silver dropped over 25% and gold lost over $200/oz. The following article outlines a cogent argument for watching the price of copper. If he is correct, we are about to experience a round of deflation which is the Federal Reserve’s greatest fear.
Benjamin Netanyahu spoke at the United Nations today (September 23, 2011) regarding the question of a Palestinian state and peace in the Middle East. This segment shows a world leader who stands up for his country and principles.
World Net Daily is reporting the possible expansion of Sheriff Arpaio’s posse investigating the legitimacy of president Obama’s citizenship. Whether this approach will be successful or not, I would like to see just one Republican running for the office of President stand up and address this issue. If they cannot stand up for a Constitutional requirement out of fear of repercussions, this shows a lack of moral character as well as spine.
I cancelled my subscription to the Raleigh News & Observer about ten years ago for one simple reason: poor journalism. I want a newspaper that reports the news instead of being what is now referred to as “mainstream media” by Rush Limbaugh. Speaking of Mr. Limbaugh, here is a 
