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08-03-2011 08:05 The series is devided into 10 parts and is created to unveil the hidden policies of media and mind controling and it contains some extremely important information. It is time for you to Wake Up and understand what is going on in the world.
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Mind Control (Part 5): Mass Media Entertainment - Video
14-07-2011 09:15
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Media G324: Out of Control - Video
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, speaks to the media after the Senate passed a two month extension of the payroll tax cuts, unemployment benefits and payments to Medicare providers on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 23, 2011. The House passed the bill a short time later. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
Published: Feb. 2, 2012 at 12:02 PM
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Control of the U.S. Senate is going to be a close call with candidates' war chests playing a key role, a review of the year-end fundraising reports indicated.
Roll Call rated seven seats as toss-ups, all the candidates -- incumbents and challengers alike -- have healthy bank accounts, the publication reported Thursday.
Democrats have 23 Senate seats to defend compared to the Republicans' 10. The GOP must add four seats to pick up a majority.
Democratic strategist Jeff Pollock of Global Strategy Group said, "It's no secret our side has more seats to defend, and the [Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee] has made sure our candidates have their campaigns in order."
Pollock said Democrats expanded the playing field by good recruiting in Arizona, where Republican Sen. Jon Kyl is retiring, and Massachusetts, where Harvard University professor Elizabeth Warren is challenging GOP incumbent Scott Brown.
"So we have reason to be optimistic about how things will turn out when the American people choose which party they want leading the country," Pollock told Roll Call.
"As much as I would like to believe that 2012 will be a wave election for Republicans, it is unlikely to be so at the presidential level," Scott Bensing, a former executive director at the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said. "It will be close, meaning that high-quality Senate candidates and well-run campaigns will win the day."
Roll Call lists as toss-ups open Democratic seats in New Mexico, Virginia and Wisconsin; the seats of Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill in Missouri and Jon Tester of Montana, and the seats of Republicans Sens. Brown and Dean Heller of Nevada.
Financial reports filed with the Federal Election Commission indicated Heller collected $1.1 million.
Brown raised $3.3 million during the last quarter to try to retain his Massachusetts seat.
McCaskill, Tester and former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine led Republican opponents, with all having at least $1.3 million in the cash advantage, Roll Call said of its review of the FEC documents. In Wisconsin, Democratic Rep. Tammy Baldwin, raised $1.2 million last quarter and likely will face either former Gov. Tommy Thompson or former Rep. Mark Neumann in the general election.
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Control of the U.S. Senate a toss-up
Pfizer Inc is reaching out directly to women consumers to warn them about its U.S. recall of one million packets of birth control pills as concerns mounted that a manufacturing error could raise the risk of unplanned pregnancies.
The world's largest drugmaker recalled 14 lots of Lo/Ovral-28 and 14 lots of the generic counterpart Norgestrel and Ethinyl Estradiol late on Tuesday, prompting panicked exchanges on social media like Twitter.
Litigators began soliciting new clients who may have suffered health problems or unplanned pregnancy as a result.
"Unfortunately, this manufacturing error diminishes people's confidence in an extremely important and safe method of contraception," said Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for external medical affairs at Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Cullins noted this version of birth control has been in use for decades and remains safe and effective.
Pfizer said on Wednesday that the error may have been limited to 30 packets of the birth control pills, in which the "placebo" tablets taken at the beginning of a woman's menstrual cycle were placed in the wrong order with the pills that contain the contraceptive's active ingredient.
The placebo pills, which are different color from the active tablets, were placed in the blister pack out of order during the automated packaging process in a few random packets manufactured throughout 2011, company spokeswoman Kristen Neese said.
Pfizer was alerted to the problem when a consumer noticed a discolored pill in the middle of a pack, she said. All lots possibly affected were recalled, the problem was fixed and prevention measures are now in place, she said.
The company is now using social media and video messages on its own website to notify women of the recall.
But even if the error was more limited, women who took pills from any of the recalled lots should use a non-hormonal form of birth control immediately, experts said.
"If pills come from those lots, she should consider those pills ineffective from the standpoint of preventing pregnancy," Cullins said. "She is at risk of ovulation, of eggs being released and of becoming pregnant."
Pfizer manufactures and packages the birth control pill, but it is sold by Akrimax Pharmaceuticals.
The pills were distributed nationwide with no specific geographic concentration, Pfizer said. Expiration dates on the affected packs range from July 2013 to March 2014.
Dr. Natasha Johnson, a gynecologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, said most women these days take generic forms of birth control pills.
She called the affected brands "fairly popular, well tolerated pills."
The Pfizer recall comes on the heels of increased attention surrounding birth control and possible health risks.
In recent months, U.S. health advisers have recommended stricter labels on a more widely used, newer generation of birth control pills, based on data showing they may put women at a higher risk of dangerous blood clots. They include Bayer AG's popular Yaz and Yasmin tablets.
A new federal rule requiring religious universities and other affiliated institutions to provide free birth control coverage has also drawn fresh opposition from religious groups.
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Pfizer cites packaging flaws in birth control pill recall
You'll have to keep dusting off those stacks and shelves of DVDs for the foreseeable future--and maybe forever.
Kaleidescape, a company that has long sought to help consumers create copies of their DVDs and store the digital files to a media server, has lost another legal battle.
A prototype of RealNetworks' Facet, the DVD player that copied and stored digital movies, but was effectively killed in 2010 following a court fight with the DVD CCA.
(Credit: Greg Sandoval/CNET)
In 2004, the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) sued Kaleidescape. That group, which includes all the major Hollywood studios and some consumer electronics companies, licenses the anticopying protections on DVDs and Blu-ray discs.
The DVD CCA accused Kaleidescape of violating the terms of the CCA license when it began releasing servers that copied DVDs. Kaleidescape has argued there's nothing in the DVD CCA's contract that prohibits anything that the company's media servers do.
But according to a story published by Cepro.com, on January 9 a Superior Court judge in Santa Clara, Calif., issued a tentative ruling in favor of the DVD CCA. Kaleidescape's managers say they will appeal and continue their eight-year court fight. Read Cepro.com's story for all the legal ins and outs.
What's most interesting about this prolonged legal battle is that the two sides appear to be fighting over a format that might be obsolete by the time their conflict is resolved. DVD sales have been in decline for years as Web-streaming services, such as those offered by Netflix, HBO Go and Amazon, grow in popularity.
The idea of buying another set-top box just to house DVDs we collected and never got around to watching sounds like a waste of time. But I'm probably getting ahead of myself again. My studio sources chafe when I write that the DVD is dead and they remind me that while home-video revenues are declining, they are still significant.
Fair enough. But I've always argued that if the studios wanted to milk the DVD for as long as they could, why not give consumers a better way to store and handle their discs?
Four years ago, RealNetworks sought to create a server similar to Kaleidescape's. The box, called Facet, would have used technology similar to RealDVD, the company's DVD-ripping software, to enable users to copy their discs. The technology was supposed to lock up the movies within the box so they couldn't be shared illegally. It was slick.
RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser demonstrated the device in court. With a single push of a button, a user could hop from scene to scene or movie to movie.
But the DVD CCA prevailed in 2010 over RealNetworks in a court case similar to Kaleidescape's. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that advocates for Internet users and tech companies, was supportive of Kaleidescape and RealNetworks and argued that the DVD CCA's opposition was an attempt to keep consumers from making copies under fair use and force them to back up their films by buying additional copies.
On the contrary, said DVD CCA. They argued that they were making movies and TV shows easier to access than ever but they would "vigorously defend our right to stop companies from bringing products to market that mislead consumers and clearly violate the law."
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Courts have likely killed media servers that copy DVDs