Been refraining from posting, but this is important, so will regretfully break my self imposed curfew on this and then go back to "lurk" mode.
people need to be aware of just how serious in scope, how malign and real manipulation and conspiracies actually are, and a recent expose' by journalists in UK shows this to be
true, whether people like it or not.
In light of the "Hacking Scandal" and this item on how "lobbyists" edited wikipedia to hide/obfuscate reality for their "clients", people need to be aware that, considering the wealth/power of those who have vested interests to keep ME patients denied and neglected from treatment for thirty+ years, they are
possibly able to have wikipedia and other outlets filled full of lies, crap, obfuscation etc all to bamboozle the public and prevent any united outrage/protest against their evil abuse of us...to avoid having to pay insurance claims, avoid civil or criminal court cases, to avoid
change
again "
If you want to make enemies, try to change something", see how CDC behaved early on with HIV/AIDS, which cannot be blamd purely on bigotry alone, as the scope of the inactivity was too large. Lot of it's merely to do with despicable laziness, asinine greed and general gross incompetance of those at the top who often are gawd damn
stupid.
Same damn thing today, with ME, and some of the same damn people involved...oh I wonder why that is, hm?
http://www.thebureauinvestigates.co...r-targeted-environmental-campaigners-website/
Bell Pottinger targeted environmental campaigner on Wikipedia
Staff at Bell Pottinger targeted the Wikipedia entry of Gordon Browns sister-in-law, Clare Rewcastle Brown, an environmental campaigner.
Ms Rewcastle Brown, who campaigns against the destruction of tropical rainforests, has been heavily critical of the state government of Sarawak in Malaysia and particularly its chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud.
A writer on Wikipedia working under the user name, Biggleswiki, which Bell Pottinger has admitted was used by its staff, amended Ms Rewcastle Browns entry to include criticisms of Radio Free Sarawak, which she runs. The same user has made positive amendments to the chief ministers Wikipedia entry.
The changes were amongst hundreds carried out by representatives of Bell Pottinger which are now being investigated by Wikipedia. There is no suggestion that those people who had their Wikipedia entries altered by Bell Pottinger knew about the changes.
The changes include:
* Addition of material relating to South African arms manufacturer the Paramount Group and its head, Ivor Ichikowitz. When other users tried to put up warnings that the article was being altered for promotional purposes, Biggleswiki removed them. Many edits relate to the Marauder, an armoured vehicle manufactured by the Paramount Group, which is being sold to Azerbaijan a country that is currently subject to a European arms embargo. Paramount is a client of Bell Pottinger, which recently arranged for the Marauder to be showcased on the BBC show Top Gear. Top Gears Wikipedia entry was also altered in a minor way by the firm. No one from Paramount was available to comment.
* Edited material relating to the arrest by appointment last year of Victor Dahdaleh, who was accused of attempting to bribe Aluminium Bahrain, a state-owned metals company charges which he is vigorously contesting. Mr Dahdaleh did not respond to a request for comment. He is currently on police bail.
* Removal of a reference to a clients university drugs conviction, which was replaced with a reference to a recent interview.
The Wikipedia entry for Rupiah Banda, the former President of Zambia, has also been amended by another username identified by Wikipedia as being associated with Bell Pottinger, Smythej. The amendment said: It is widely acknowledged that Banda stepped down with good grace. In conceding defeat he was not bitter and wished his successor well. Bell Pottinger acted for Mr Banda in the 2011 general elections in which he was defeated, as well as in the election that brought him to power.
I am astonished at the ethical blindness of Bell Pottingers reaction. That their strongest true response is they didnt break the law tells a lot about their view of the world, Im afraid.
Jimmy Wales, WikipediaOther entries changed by accounts associated with Bell Pottinger include those of the founder of the law firm Carter Ruck, London-based Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and at least two large financial firms.
Carter Ruck is the legal firm employed by Bell Pottinger. Carter Ruck has sent a legal letter relating to this investigation from Bell Pottinger to the Bureau.
Dirty tricks
Ms Rewcastle Brown told the Bureau: I have been aware of Bell Pottingers interest in me for some while. She called on the firm to put their name to these dirty tricks and show the rest of the world who they are prepared to work for, not hide behind fake names on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia has now locked down 10 user accounts that it believes are associated with computers owned by Bell Pottinger, pending an investigation by the websites founder Jimmy Wales.
Mr Wales told the Independent, which has published the Bureaus investigation: I am astonished at the ethical blindness of Bell Pottingers reaction. That their strongest true response is they didnt break the law tells a lot about their view of the world, Im afraid.
The company committed the cardinal sin of a PR and lobbying company of having their own bad behaviour bring bad headlines to their clients, [and] did so in a fashion that brought no corresponding benefits.
Mr Wales later tweeted: Just spoke with Lord Bell. He agreed to let me give his staff a speech on ethical editing of Wikipedia. Seems prepared to apologise.
When approached by the Bureau, several companies denied having ever employed Bell Pottinger to manage their reputations, but did reveal that they had signed deals with other subsidaries owned by its parent company Chime Communications.
Just spoke with Lord Bell. He agreed to let me give his staff a speech on ethical editing of Wikipedia. Seems prepared to apologise.
Jimmy Wales, WikipediaMoletest, a company that offers skin cancer screening online, told the Bureau that it had hired De Facto Communications, a specialist in public relations and marketing for the healthcare and life sciences industries. Joe Ferreira said that the company had been briefed to manage both Moletests online and offline public relations. De Facto is owned by Chime.
Standard Life, the pensions and insurance group, had its Wikipedia presence edited more than a dozen times between November and December 2010. Barry Cameron, head of media at Standard Life, said it had hired Team Spirit, an advertising and marketing company at Chime, and that the brief had specifically included maintaining the companys Wikipedia profile.
Edits were also made to the online profile of Viscount Weymouth, a businessman and peer, adding in information about his business interests. A spokesman for Longleat Enterprises, of which Viscount Weymouth is the chairman, said that his company had never employed Bell Pottinger to manage its reputation. However he did confirm that Viscount Weymouth has received advice from Bell Pottinger on an ad hoc basis.
Internal review
Lord Bell, chairman of Chime Communications, the owner of Bell Pottinger, said an internal review had been launched. On Wednesday the company admitted it had used a number of accounts to make changes and add information to Wikipedia pages.
I cant see any bad headlines for our clients, he told the BBC. You wont find anybody, including journalists, who doesnt do exactly the same thing.
He stressed that when companies had requested Bell Pottinger post untrue statements onto the site it had flatly refused citing Wikipedias guidelines.
We are having our own conversations with Wikipedia, and we are also conducting our own review to establish the facts, he said.
It's all about "spin", damage control...giving the General Public "The Mushroom Treatment" and making them LIKE it.
Long as John Q Citizen is ignorant, apathetic and kept powerless, they cannot threaten the "status quo", on
any issue, this is what it's *ALL* about.
Doesn't mean that there actually is some git altering ME/CFS wiki pages for a malign reason, but damn well proves it
can be happening.
So those with their head in the sand on such possibilities:
grow up, wake up, and smell the coffee.
Treating ME would cost insurance companies vast millions, but
untreated it costs nations
billions and having a large immuno-compromised community is a terrible risk to the entire populace (see how HIV lead to resistant-TB spread), that is one avenue of attack that should be used to breach this strangehold (bring this up in letters to your MPs/Congressmen etc)
plus it's another part of the web of evil garbage that's destroying the very foundations of democratic support! Fewer and fewer people vote, because the crap goign on in politics like this, such as treatment of asbestos victims, Gulf War Syndrome etc etc all eats into any trust of governance.
Being honest, exposing corrption/stupidty hurts in short term, but it encourages trust and therefor, strengthens Democracy: the Public on the other hand
never forgets or forgives being LIED or being used and manipulated above anything else, they will CRUCIFY any politician who does that and who doesn't come clean.
It's guaranteed that spinless bureaucrats and politicians who'd be exposed for having deliberately let people suffer and die, are desperate for all this not to come out.
But the longer such scandals go on, the worse the eventual catastrophic "eruption" when it does come to light. It's like a volcano.
See current appalling scandal in USA where US veterans remains were dumped in
landfill sites, partially because of deliberate censorship/banning of any reporting, journalism and thus oversight of the system by the Bush Administration. ie secrecy inevitably breeds corruption, screw ups, and worse, and thus bites the arse of those stupid enough to sanction, start or be involved with such.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16081240
That is going to bring down a great many powerful people, merely because they DIDN'T act when they should have not through direct involvement.
ie, to any reading this who maybe in such positions of power/cause:
either
fix the problem (way ME/CFS patients and facts have been abused and covered up)
today , and earn praise from some, or be damned by
all and made truly unemployable or even incarcerated.
See what's happening to those involved in the "Hacking Scandal" as to consequences, even for those innocent of any direct involvement, and regarding those who think their power makes them immune from consequences, or uncaring of fixing problems. Eventually, they ge tcaught, they get blamed, they suffer the consequences.
"I will not be filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or NUMBERED!"