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Debunking conspiracy theorists' paranoid fantasies about Net Neutrality

December 31st, 2011

By Katherine Smith PhD

When Verizon announced in December that its newest smartphone — the Samsung Galaxy Nexus — will not carry the Google Wallet app, it spawned a number of these ludicrous “net neutrality” fairy tales. And as always, there is - sadly - a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.

One of the wilder stories circulating about Google’s business deals, and the one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst the Public Knowledge and Free Press Advocacy conspiracy groups is that Verizon, their longtime foe in the Capitol Hill net neutrality policy battle is “blocking” Google Wallet customers from downloading the application, and therefore exhibiting “anti-competitive, anti-consumer” behavior.

Conspiracy theorists were never a group of people to be bothered by facts. These crackpots even contend that Verizon is practicing carrier limitation and that the agreement had nothing to do with an existing business deal.

“When Google’s own business deals with Sprint precluded it from being featured in the new Verizon smartphone and even more interesting that these kooks seem to have missed is that Google requested that Verizon not make the wallet function available with its upcoming round of Samsung Android phones because Google is locked into an existing exclusive business deal with Sprint, therefore any dummy would understand that Google Wallet would only be available through Sprint.” “Net Neutrality” on The Daily Caller

Michael J. Morris thinks that the Net Neutrality proponents are delusional [I agree] because there really isn’t a Net Neutrality problem. He points out:

“If Verizon starts slowing content from Google, you can bet AT&T will be beating down Google's door to sell them bandwidth. At the consumer end, there is DSL, cable modem, wireless, and others. Only collusion of major ISPs (illegal, see Sherman Act) could have a global Internet effect.”

In other words it’s the Marketplace, stupid.

"Net Neutrality Proponents Must Rely on Hypotheticals. Yeah, it sounds bad....scary. Too bad it hasn't happened yet. Five years later with the explosion of Google, Youtube, Facebook, and the millions of other websites and videos, and still no "slowing" on the Internet by ISPs. Amazing! No problem ever existed and the free market mentality of the Internet has kept it that way.”

No problem ever existed and the free market mentality of the Internet has kept it that way.

Michael Morris should have written: No problem ever existed because the Internet market mentality of FREE, has kept it that way.

Wordpress, Firefox and Google supports the “law of free supply and demand:” When the supply is free, it creates nearly ubiquitous demand. [1]

Are you confused? Don’t worry so is everyone else because the Internet and cell Phones, which are FREE, economically make no cents.

Why are surfing, texting, talking and emailing virtually free? Where are the Pigs at the trough, and why isn’t Wall Street shafting Main Street?

We are conditioned to believe everything is about money, power, greed and corruption. Therefore we are not aware of the great lengths to which the six companies that control 96% of the media go to sell a Corporatocracy (a non-conspiracy term) driven agenda.

An agenda, to make sure we never suspect electromagnetic pollution is the goal and not the unintended consequence of the World Wide Web and Cellphonemania. [2]

The 1%ers spent $1 trillion because they are determined (supported below) to collapse the Earth's magnetic field with a magnetic dipole field reversal.

The net and your smartphone, powerful enough to send a man to the moon, are electromagnetic nightmares for the Earth. [3]

Below is the image of the Earth's magnetic field with a healthy dipole:

Healthy

Now look at the Earth's magnetic field when 4.6 billion humans surf, text, talk and email about: how much they owe to their landlord, lovers' quarrels, discuss in excruciating detail their own and others' embarrassing medical conditions, details of recent real estate purchases, job triumphs, and awful dates as well as some of the most unsavory gossip. Our Cell Phones, Ourselves

Unhealthy

And in one of those coincidences that doesn’t happen very often, Congress passed the telecommunications Act of 1996, a milestone in the history of telecommunications, the same year that seismologists from Columbia University published evidence of super-rotation in the Earth … the inner core was rotating between 2 and 3 degrees longitude per year faster than the solid mantle and surface. The Geodynamo by Gary A Glatzmaier – Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz

Social and economic inequality, high unemployment, greed, as well as corruption, and the undue influence of corporations: Everywhere but on the Net and your cell phone.

Is this some tinfoil New World Order hat conspiracy?

A way to control and keep track of 4.6 billion or so useless eaters: I doubt it. [4]

To suppose a conspiracy to make the World Wide Web and cell phones ubiquitous, in order to force the Earth to listen to the details of loved ones contacted, appointments made, arguments aired, and gossip exchanged, involving JP Morgan Chase (founding member of the 1%ers), AT&T, Lucent, Global Crossing and WorldCom, is absurd in the highest degree. [5]

However, knowing that telecommunications have transformed the way we live, work, and socialize, and there are many studies on the social impact of telecommunications but none analyzing the global impact on growth, jobs, and wealth creation [Appendix C], when you consider the following:

  • The TELECOM industry suffered catastrophic losses in 2003. JP Morgan Chase, the biggest loser with 46 trillion of derivative exposure [Appendix D], underwrote WorldCom and the Telecom industry and then in 2005 settled with WorldCom investors for an additional 4 billion. [6]
  • An evaluation of the cell phone industry and Motorola’s business plan concluded that the company “should probably not expect to raise venture capital for this venture” [Appendix B] rather than spend $100 million (in 1983 dollars) to develop a $3,995 device that weighed 2.5 lbs to be marketed to customers in the Chicago and Baltimore/Washington, D.C. service area. [7]
  • Cell phones and the Net are used primarily to give the “ignorant masses” an opportunity to blog and access Facebook, Twitter, the Weather Channel, Google Maps and the music service Pandora (as well as apps, apps and more apps). [8]

Therefore, if it’s a choice between believing that magnetic dipole field reversal (triggered by massive and unprecedented electromagnetic pollution) is the goal and not the unintended consequence of an Internet market mentality of FREE Bandwidth so only the rich can afford a land line and drive to the post office, then I am forced to admit that a conspiracy between JP Morgan Chase, Motorola, the Telecom industry and 1%ers to make the Internet and cell phones ubiquitous to change the earth’s magnetic field is a credible, viable theory.

Endnotes:

[1] Downward manipulation is an uneconomic aberration first discovered in the precious metals market by Ted Butler. We are conditioned to believe free enterprise supply and demand would lead to inflated prices so the greedy corporations can make more money, but Butler's research in the silver market concludes the opposite. The beneficiaries of this type of manipulation are the consumers because corporations can sell their products affordably and still make a profit.

Butler's investigation has identified JP Morgan Chase, one of the founding members of the Federal Reserve, as the prime suspect, in the "ongoing intentional, not accidental" great crime of keeping the price of commodities low so the middle class can afford the cell phone American dream, an electromagnetic nightmare for the planet. The Real Story, By: Theodore Butler

[2] Corporatocracy, in social theories that focus on conflicts and opposing interests within society, denotes a system of government that serves the interest of, and may be run by, corporations and involves ties between government and business. Where corporations, conglomerates, and/or government entities with private components control the direction and governance of a country, including carrying out economic planning notwithstanding the 'free market' label. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy

Six Companies Own 96% of the World's Media, National Vanguard Books, Who Rules America? Who Controls The U.S. Media? G. William Domhoff, a research professor at the University of California.

[3] Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969 when it sent two astronauts to the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3D situations, use more computer power than main frame computers of the previous decade. The Sony Playstation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars.

[4] New World Order

[5] In 1946 (October) - first "car phone" - Motorola communications equipment carried the first calls on Illinois Bell Telephone Company's new car radiotelephone service in Chicago, Illinois, USA. On April 3, 1973 Martin Cooper won the race when he placed the first cell phone call to his rival at AT&T. In 1977 cell phones went public. Chicago was the first city to trial cell phones with 2000 customers. In 1983 Motorola, with the help of Martin Cooper, introduced the "DynaTAC" the first truly portable cellular phone. This phone took 15 years and a cost of over 100 million dollars to come to market. The cost to the consumer was $3,995. It weighed 2.5 lbs., took 10 hours to charge and allowed 35 minutes of talk time. Features were limited to dial, listen and talk.

[6] Ted Butler, noted silver analyst has already found JP Morgan Chase guilty of Downward manipulation (DM). DM Downward-manipulation is an uneconomic aberration discovered in the precious metals market. We are conditioned to believe that prices are always inflated so the greedy corporations can make more money but Ted Butler’s research confirmed the price of silver had been manipulated to stay at the $4-5 price range for years. The beneficiaries of this type of manipulation are the consumers since industrial users can sell their products cheaply and still make a profit. The Real Story Theodore Butler

Behind every consumer society is the reality of a credit-based monetary system and a fiat currency. Behind every fiat currency is a Federal Reserve or a Central Bank controlled by the 1%ers which include, Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and J.P. Morgan, Ted Butler's prime suspect in the "ongoing intentional not accidental" great crime of keeping the prices low so just about everyone can have that glamorous, smart or dumb phone of their dreams, an electromagnetic nightmare for the planet."

[7] I'll get right to the point. Venture Capitalists wouldn't survive long enough to be called vulture capitalists if they made a 100 million dollar investment in a business model that when evaluated by The Finance Authority of Maine and Masthead Venture Partners concluded Motorola "should probably not expect to raise venture capital for this venture."

See Appendix B Financing Bright Ideas, A Primer On Venture Capital In Maine to understand why the cell phone industry never made "cents."

[8] “Despite the almost unlimited nature of what you can do on the web, 40 percent of U.S. online time is spent on just three activities – social networking, playing games and emailing leaving a whole lot of other sectors fighting for a declining share of the online pie,” said Nielsen analyst Dave Martin. What Americans Do Online: Social Media And Games Dominate Activity

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