Media/Memes: Olympics, Elvis, Obits and more

With pop, performance and pride, #London extinguishes #Olympics flame and passes the torch to #Rio*
Spice Girls, The Who, Muse to rock Olympics closing ceremony*
Here Are the Closing Ceremony Performances From The Who, Muse and Ray Davies That NBC Didn't Broadcast*
Here's the Kate Bush Song That Was Cut from the U.S. Broadcast of the London Olympics Closing Ceremony*
#Elvis fans greeted at #Graceland by Priscilla, Lisa Marie on 35th anniversary of icon's death*
‘Stars Earn Stripes’ on NBC, With Gen. Wesley Clark; Entertainers and athletes take on military-like assignments on “Stars Earn Stripes,” a new reality competition series on NBC*
Former Cosmopolitan editor and author Helen Gurley Brown dies*
Onion Field killer's death brings closure for LAPD, chief says*
Jean Merrill, Children’s Book Writer, Dies at 89*
R.I.P. Joe Kubert*

Media/Memes: Mayberry, Lamb of God, Heidi Bowl and more

Sheriff Confirms Andy Griffith Has Died*

Video: TV Legend Andy Griffith Dies at 86*
Singer in U.S. Metal Band Arrested in Fan's Death in Czech Republic*
Lamb of God singer Randy Blythe still in Prague prison*
Julian Goodman, NBC Pres. Battled Nixon, Sorry for ‘Heidi Bowl,’ Dies at 90*
Barry Becher, Creator of Ginsu Knife Commercials, Dies at 71*
Video: Original Ginsu Knife Commercial*

"America's Got Talent" Singer Believed He Was Injured In War

from ap: A soldier-turned-TV contestant whose claims of being injured in battle were dismissed by military officials says he believed he was telling the truth, but he doesn't know what is real. Timothy Michael Poe appeared on Monday's episode of the NBC show "America's Got Talent," claiming he was injured by a grenade in Afghanistan in 2009, though Minnesota National Guard records don't support his claims. Poe, who now lives in Texas, cried in portions of an interview aired Friday on WFAA-TV in Dallas. He told the station he doesn't know why he "believed things that happened to me, and they might not have?" Poe won over the crowd and celebrity judges on the talent show with a moving story about how he blocked a grenade blast to save his buddies. He said the blast broke his back and left him with a brain injury. The National Guard has said military records show Poe wasn't injured in combat in Afghanistan, and he has been criticized — especially by veterans — since he made his injury claims. Poe also provided a photo to the NBC talent show of a soldier he passed off as himself, though the photo actually shows Staff Sgt. Norman Bone in Afghanistan in 2006. Bone said Friday that Poe's alleged lies disrespect all men and women who've served in the military, and he called Poe's actions "completely wrong." Poe's fiance, Carrie Morris, has said Poe accidentally submitted the photo because he was rushed. Poe has declined requests for interviews from the Associated Press.

#Newspurge: Patience (Over Anxiety) + Updates

Econocrash:
'Is the Economy Recovering for You?'*
Higher Gas Prices Threaten Economy If They Persist*
Gasoline Pushes Consumer Prices to 10-Month High*
Exec Slams Goldman Sachs In Open Resignation Op-Ed*
Energy Sec Steven Chu Retracts Infamous Gas Price Comment*
Growing Antitax Movement Shows Irish Stoicism Wearing Thin*
Video: New IRS licensing scheme challenged in major federal lawsuit*
World’s Biggest Employer…U.S. Defense Department*

History/Mystery:
Video: Da Vinci's Lost Masterpiece May Be Found*
Video: Art Researchers Claim They Have Found Long-Lost Leonardo Da Vinci Masterpiece in Florence*
New Human Species Discovered?
How China Fossils Could Redefine 'Human'*
New Dinosaur Discovered Through Bones Found In Alberta*
Convicted Nazi criminal John Demjanjuk dies at 91*
Amelia Earhart object of new high-tech search*
Researchers say new clue may help uncover fate of Amelia Earhart 75 years after disappearance*
Secret files reveal 9,000 Nazi war criminals fled to South America after WWII*

Obamessiah:
Romneys vs Rockefellers: Tapped in Tampa?*
NBC News pulls Ron Paul's last embedded reporter*
African Press Intl Reports 'Genuine Birth Certificate surfaces'*
Osama Has No Death Certificate And Obama Has No Birth Certificate*
Malia Obama 'safe' after earthquake in Mexico*
Etch A Sketch takes center stage in GOP fight*
Ron Paul blasts Obama for killing Americans*
Is Ron Paul Secretly Winning The Missouri Caucus?*
Video: Whatever happened to Ron Paul?*

Police State Updates:
Obama Executive Order Takes Control of All US Resources*
New York State Set to Add All Convict DNA to Its Database*
Video: Attack dogs used against High Schoolers for planned protest and thought crimes*
TSA Considering Automating ID Checks*
Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords*
Video: "Your First Amendment Right Can Be Terminated"*

Titanic Memes:
Audio: U.S.S. Enterprise leaves for final deployment*
Robot-like equipment to aid search for bodies in Costa Concordia ship wreck off Italian coast*
2 Israeli warships leave Port Said after crossing Suez Canal*

new world next week - jan27

new world next week: episode061 -
egypt protests, nbc/comcast, big brother corporation


Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report & Media Monarchy that uncovers the subtext & gives you the context on some of the most important developments in alternative news & open source intelligence. This week:

Story #1: Egypt Protests Told Through Social Media
Related: Amid Street Protests, Twitter Shuttered in Egypt

Story #2: How the Comcast/NBC Universal Merger Affects You
Related: Olbermann Ouster - Immelt Helps Obama With His Left Flank
Background: Ben Bagdikian & 'The Media Monopoly'

Story #3: How BBC Bosses Ordered Presenter to Downplay Queen Mother's Death
Update: BBC Became Propaganda Machine for Climate Change Says Peter Sissons

Subscribe to NewWorldNextWeek.com to get hi-quality episodes to download, burn & share. And as always, stay up-to-date by subscribing to the feeds from Corbett Report here & Media Monarchy here. Thank you.

download audio version of 'new world next week'*

previous episode: jan20 -
hu in america, stuxnet USrael, obama deregulation?

for hollywood, it was a tough 2010 as spending continued to fall

from latimes: To paraphrase Apollo 13 astronaut Jack Swigert, "Hollywood, we have a problem." The industry that was supposed to be immune to economic downturns looks like it's going to have some re-entry problems as the economy begins to recover. Broad swaths of the entertainment business declined in 2010. DVD sales were off 13%. Music CD purchases plummeted 19%. Video game sales as well as concert and theater attendance also fell. Even the turnout for America's favorite pastimes — baseball and NASCAR — was down. And swift changes in technology will make it difficult for Hollywood to capture pre-recession levels of revenue. So much for the value of escapism. But perhaps most ominously, last summer the pay-television industry suffered an unprecedented net loss - for the first time - of customers, a yellow warning light that consumers may no longer regard cable TV as a must-have utility on par with electricity and phone service.

flashbacks: pay tv subscriptions fall for first time ever in US &
americans watched more television than ever in 2010

behavior placement: corporate media greenwashes your lazy ass

nbc's cynical mind-control games
from the week: First there was product placement. Now there's "behavior placement", the planting of subtle messages in popular TV shows to encourage certain viewer behavior — such as healthy eating or eco-conscious habits — and thereby convince sponsors that their brands will be associated with "feel-good, socially aware" shows. NBC has owned up to the practice, reports The Wall Street Journal, as part of its Green Initiative: If "Tina Fey is tossing a plastic bottle into the recycling bin," the theory goes, audience members will be more apt to do the same. Innocuous or "Orwellian"?

This isn't just creepy, it's dumb: The pressure to be eco-conscious has reached a new high, says says Christopher Rosen in Movieline. NBC implies that people are too dumb to make healthy decisions on their own. How "patently stupid." Do viewers really need NBC "telling them how to run their life?"

What's the big deal? Despite the hubbub, the principles NBC promotes are "fairly innocuous," says Amy Chozick in the Wall Street Journal. "Climate change may be controversial," but these shows don't make a political statement — they simply show characters making green-conscious decisions. "Most people can agree... [this] is a good thing."

Unfortunately, healthy habits aren't the bottom line: Clearly, for NBC, behavior placement is about dollar signs and cynicism, says Jon Bershad in Mediaite. The execs' attempts to manipulate their viewers to draw eco-conscious, health-conscious advertisers is "soul-crushing" proof that "everything is a business" these days.

related: entertainment industry's dystopia of the future

2/25 newspurge: drugwar, geopolitiks, history/mystery & media/memes

drugwar updates:
medical marijuana patients suffering police harassment*
dispensaries targeted for simply selling weed; pot shop owner arrested for sales*

geopolitiks:
dutch govt falls over afghanistan mission*
brown praises new world order, again*
military seize power in nigerian coup*
courthouse bombed in northern ireland*
fresh detentions over turkey coup 'plot'*
suicide bombers kill 17 in kabul*
cnn poll: 7 in 10 believe iran has nukes*
green prince, son of hamas founder spied for israel*

history/mystery:
fbi closes anthrax case,
gives more details about scientist labeled a killer*
anthrax investigators looked at 1,000 suspects*
a bullet-proof case - not ivins, the fbi cover-up*
aclu sues usaid for refusing to release docs relating to religious programs*
a million library books to be sent down the mines*
sibel edmonds: the traitors among us*
video: margaret sanger, planned parenthood & eugenics*

nbc continues to highlight dyncorp gen. barry mccaffrey

from allgov: Since NBC doesn’t bother to point out the conflicts of interest held by oft-used military analyst Barry McCaffrey, Huffington Post and others have. McCaffrey has appeared on the network’s cable subsidiary, MSNBC, no less than 10 times in the past month to talk about the importance of staying in Afghanistan and training local security forces.

With each appearance, McCaffrey was identified only as a retired general—and not someone who sits on the board of DynCorp International, a security company currently getting paid by the U.S. government to develop Afghanistan’s police force, build barracks and do the laundry of U.S. troops. According to Forbes, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan account for 53% of DynCorp’s $3.1 billion in annual revenue.

MSNBC also hasn’t bothered to point out his relationship with Army General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, for whom McCaffrey recently completed a report about the war. McCaffrey has been seen praising Petraeus on TV, while criticizing President Barack Obama’s proposed troop-withdrawal deadline.

flashbacks: dyncorp/halliburton sex slave scandal won't go away & state dept can’t account for $1b paid to dyncorp

comcast to buy control of nbc universal in $30b transaction

from latimes: In a momentous shift in the balance of power of the entertainment industry, cable television giant Comcast Corp. on Thursday made it official by announcing that it was buying control of NBC Universal from General Electric Co. The proposed $30-billion transaction is the culmination of the longtime ambition by Comcast's chief executive, Brian Roberts, to transform his family-controlled Philadelphia company from a passel of distribution pipes into a leading producer of movies and TV shows and owner of prominent cable channels. The deal underscores how the high profit-margin business of cable TV - not a broadcast network or a Hollywood movie studio - has become the financial backbone of media conglomerates. "Cable channels are the best part of the media business today; they are really the crown jewels of any entertainment company," Comcast Chief Operating Officer Steve Burke told analysts in a conference call.

flashbacks: comcast caps, feds say comcast violates internet rules & fcc fines comcast for airing fake news

media/memes: obamavision, tv twilight & the end of the road

abc announces oprah-obama christmas special*
nbc's obamavision: '30 rock' offers up more gore*
washington post shutters all US bureaus outside capital*
vatican sinks teeth into vampire film 'twilight'*
mpaa says copyright-treaty critics hate hollywood*
gang was killing people for fat, attempting to sell it to cosmetic companies*
study: many day cares showing tv to tots*
rihanna's 'russian roulette': or, what's wrong with the entertainment industry*
celebrities lead charge against scientology*
'the road': bleak & unforgettable*
godless 'road' offers bleak worldview*
jim corr is better suited to celtic crooning than new world order conspiracy theories*

previous media/memes post:
content is king & corporate schemes

media/memes: content is king & corporate schemes

80% say they would not pay for online content
from zero hedge: In a blow to ongoing plans by Murdoch (and others) to capitalize on premium content, a new study from Forrester shows that 80% of consumers would not be willing to pay for online news content.

As readers are able to move from one content aggregator to another with greater facility than the Fed prints another billion dollars, Rupert's approach will likely entail a massive "game theoretical" strategy whereby either all move to a premium model or none do: if even one "defector" remains, it will render the "premium-paid" plan DOA.

or: people won't pay much for online content*

indymedia & eff successfully fight bogus fbi subpoena*
ashleigh banfield joining abc news*
dobbs was forced out say sources, cnn insiders*
2012 achieves world domination*
nbc's obamavision: 'law & order' -
'this is why we need health-care reform'*
fear, children, & video: ingredients for obama's weapon of mass persuasion*
oprah to declare 2011 end to landmark talk show*

previous media/memes post:
greenwash, lou dobbs & immortal technique

media/memes: greenwash, lou dobbs & immortal technique

doj asked for indymedia.us' visitor lists*
npr, pbs & the national security state*
media, money & the moonies*
shakeup at rev. moon's washington times*
nbc enlists prime-time programs in green message*
video: lou dobbs resigns from cnn*
thought police drive lou dobbs off cnn*
lawsuit claims rampant sex harassment, race discrimination at new york post*
video: russia today interviews immortal technique*

jenna bush hired as 'today' reporter for general electric

from washington post: NBC's "Today" show has hired someone with White House experience as a new correspondent - former first daughter Jenna Hager. The daughter of former President George W. Bush will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television's top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive producer. Hager, a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, said she has always wanted to be a teacher and a writer, and has already authored two books. But she was intrigued by the idea of getting into television when Bell contacted her. "It wasn't something I'd always dreamed to do," she said. "But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change."

banksters team up to buy weather channel

from dealbook: An investor group led by NBC Universal and two private equity firms clinched a deal for the Weather Channel on Sunday, after three weeks of negotiations over the sale of the weather news giant. Though the parties did not disclose the price, the buyers – NBC and the private equity firms Bain Capital and the Blackstone Group – will pay just under $3.5 billion, people briefed on the matter said... Others financing the deal are Deutsche Bank, which was also the buyers’ lead financial adviser, and General Electric’s GE Commercial Finance unit... JPMorgan Chase worked as Landmark’s financial adviser, while Wilcox & Savage, Kilpatrick Stockton, Venable and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom provided legal advice.

before nh primary, ron paul makes the rounds

from raw replay: Jay Leno is joined by Congressman Ron Paul to discuss what a Ron Paul administration would look like. The following video is from NBC’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno, broadcast on January 07, 2008.

leno frustrated with fox over paul exclusion
from gambling911: NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno felt Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul got a raw deal from Fox News after he was excluded from their Sunday night debate. "He (Ron Paul) is tied with Rudy Giuliani in the state of New Hampshire according to polls. He's not an obscure candidate," said Leno, who believes that Fox News excluded Paul simply because they do not like his politics.

ron paul on cnn's late edition on jan6
from rogue government: A Brief Overview of Congressman Paul's Record:

He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.

howard stern loves ron paul!
from eluminated: We need to convince Howard Stern to have Ron Paul as a guest! ... I have no doubt that Howard will support Paul 100% once he hears his full ideas on all the issues and so will his fans! Please contact the show at howardsterndotcom and urge Howard to follow his heart an extend an invitation to Dr. Paul!

kristol & russert: msm attack dogs are all bark

neo-con mass murder facilitator kristol slams paul on faux news

from lew rockwell: This YouTube clip is a great demonstration of what neo-conservatives believe: in the warfare, welfare, corporate, police state–and global hegemony. Other countries better like it, or we’ll destroy them. And no one better question the shifting rationales, since we have always been at war with Islamic East Asia.

Kristol is horrified that Ron Paul wants to question some of the past and current practices of the biggest government in the history of the world, to call us away from empire and the corporate state, and to our constitutional republican origins. And note Kristol’s identification of the American nation with the central government. To be “anti-American” is to disagree with social welfare spending, corporate welfare spending, and Pentagon spending.

nbc’s russert attempts to portray ron paul as a hypocrite & spendthrift

from truthnews: In an attempt to make Ron Paul appear a hypocrite, NBC’s Tim Russert badgered the Republican presidential candidate on Meet the Press over the weekend about so-called "earmarks," money set aside for special projects within congressional districts.

“Paul, the libertarian-leaning GOP lawmaker from Lake Jackson, said on NBC’s Meet the Press that he has requested earmarks ‘because I represent people who are asking for some of their money back,’” reports the Houston Chronicle. “‘They steal our money,’ said Paul, during a heated exchange with the show’s host, Tim Russert, who questioned whether he was being true to his convictions.”

police state technocracy run amok

the pentagon's electronic warfare program
from global research: In 2003, then Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld signed a document called the Information Operation Roadmap which outlined, among other things, the Pentagon's desire to dominate the entire electromagnetic spectrum. If you are unfamiliar with this document, more detail can be found in a previous article here... How exactly do you create a real time electronic battlespace picture? And where exactly is the battlespace? A very similar statement was made in the Project for a New American Century document 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' published in September of 2000 (more about this document here and here.)

pentagon report: high-flying spy drones hobbled
from danger room: The Pentagon's highest-flying spy drone isn't able to "consistently" perform, even on a "limited schedule," according to a draft Defense Department report... That is, when they can fly. According to a draft report , from the Defense Department's Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), the current Global Hawk models - so-called "Block 10s" - aren't able to get into the air nearly as often as they ought to. The document was obtained by the Project on Government Oversight and provided to DANGER ROOM.

army expansion plans outlined
from ap: The Pentagon will send six new combat brigades to bases in Texas, Georgia, and Colorado in the coming years as part of an extensive plan to increase the size of the Army. As the Army moves to grow by 74,000 soldiers by 2010, officials mapped out decisions to add the combat brigades and eight support units around the country, as well an agreement to delay moving two brigades out of Germany until 2012-2013. The overall effort would cost $66.4 billion in 743 military construction projects through 2013.

nbc4 report on 'chemtrail weather control'

from truthnews: Sure, the government is simply attempting to “mitigate” global warming by way of “geo-engineering.” As noted in the above video, a lab analysis reported high levels of barium contained in California "contrails."

nbc refunds advertisers as ratings plunge

from reuters: Fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC has quietly begun reimbursing advertisers an average of $500,000 each for failing to reach guaranteed ratings levels, the first time a network has taken such a step in years, media buyers said.

Networks usually offer make-goods - free advertising slots - in the event of such shortfalls. But NBC has none to give. In fact, no broadcast network has much ad inventory left between now and year's end - except for, perhaps, a handful of units the week between Christmas and New Year's, and that doesn't do much for advertisers chasing holiday shoppers.

CBS, ABC and Fox also are doling out make-goods, primarily for the first quarter. They have blamed softness on a new ratings formula, but media agencies disagree. None of the networks would comment.

williams 'jokes' that media has already chosen hillary

from raw story: Brian Williams, host of NBC's Nightly News, appeared on Saturday Night Live last night as guest host.

In a sketch poking fun at the most recent Democratic debate, the reputed newsman made a shocking admission: "Incidentally, this arrangement was all determined by the drawing of lots except for Senator Clinton, who we're deliberately placing in the center since all of us in the media want her to be the nominee."

The other candidates, everyone except Barack Obama, nod knowingly.

"Gentlemen, I'm going to have to run; I have a 15-minute pre-debate interview with Senator Clinton, we're going to ask her about her first 100 days in office," Williams says in the sketch. "I wish you all good luck tonight, though we, again, in the media have pretty much made up our minds to go with Senator Clinton. We'll see you in a few minutes."