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Retweet July 2010

BlahBlog — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 05:12:27 +0000

Here I am reblogging some retweets for the past month that broken down by subject matter. Some of these tweets also cover events that occurred in July 2010. If you like to follow along, befriend xwoop and lolprez and I’ll be sure to follow back.

Got Gov?

Is President Obama’s password to Twitter a state secret?
If your government censor it’s censorship policies you might as well rename your country Airstrip Two.
I don’t know why the Greek are looking at Germany to bail it out, they should be looking to China.
France is so famous of losing battles that they have a national holiday after such an occasion, Cinco de Mayo!
More talk leads to more BS, that’s why peace talks don’t get to any resolution.
The government invest in smart weapons, smart electrical grids, etc. why doesn’t invest more in smart people?
Pot Holes: Your tax dollars at making your vehicle not work!
The US was founded by Free Masons on mason principles and ideals.
Just like criminals cannot profit from their crimes, so too politicians should be made not to profit from theirs.
Here is a revenue generating idea, tax up to 80% of all income made by current and former elected politicians.

Econemy

We may be a nation of many laws but of few jobs.
Does the American blue collar worker belong in the anthropology museum?
We do not live in a Capitalist society, this is a Creditlist culture.
The American Dream + Inception = We Need More Bailouts
The Federal Reserve is a misnomer, like military intelligence, it’s neither federal and it doesn’t have any reservations of taking bailouts.
The Federal Reserve is like the prison gang of bankers where instead of getting shanked in the shower they get bonuses in the boiler room.
Every time you buy a Made in China product, whether it be toys or toothpaste, you have a higher than normal chance you are getting lead too.

Propagandon’t

Just like guns don’t kill people, religion does not murder, pillage, and rapes people, people murder, pillage, and rapes people.
News agencies have staff writers, staff photographers, and staff Photoshop illustrators.
First, Pluto is stripped of it’s planet status, now the Big Bang might be abandoned as the theory of the foundation of the Universe.
For every insurgent the US military days it has killed, it has killed directly/indirectly 4.3 civilians.
Give the people bread, not lead!

Questions

Is President Obama’s password to Twitter a state secret?
If you travel to a new country and have fast food, like McDonald’s, have you really traveled at all?
If you can’t be positive at the beginning of an adventure how do you think you will be at the end?
How can someone who says is good at geography be bad at directions and can’t follow a map to save themselves?
Do you like it nice and easy or fast and furious?
What drives you? Passion, success, money, fame, family, or the school bus?
Have you ever been so hot that even your eyeballs were sweating and that it made you look like you were crying?
Why should I not mess with Texas?
If you were a doctor what body part would you specialize?
Would you rather do something great or be someone great?
Which is better, a one trick pony or an old dog you can’t teach new tricks?
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? And, is she with Waldo?
Great achievements take great effort, otherwise what’s so great about it?
Which do you prefer, tiger roll or bear claw?

Randumb

Old stoners never die, they just get faded.
I should be dreaming, I need to go deeper.
Stupidity is viral.
I am the sum of all my multiple personalities.
We are all reality stars.
I want to trademark the word copyright and copyright the word trademark.
When you tell someone “I love you” there should be an equal emphasis on all words. Some focus on “I” most, others “you”, and some on “you”.
I wish world governments would work together to develop a machine to slow the spin of the earth to make more hours in the day!
Some people wakeup with the wrong emotional settings marked as default.
A real Mexican restaurant has menudo in the menu, otherwise it’s not Mexican.
I think it’s retarded to think about banning the word retarded.
Best New Excuse: A hacker stole my homework and posted it on Associated Content!
Kids are the best except when they are at their worst.
There is a class of people that call themselves celebrities but there is nothing about them to celebrate.
If you could power your vehicles with the jealousy from haters, we could solve our need of foreign oil.
I love digitally, I’m either turned on or turned off.
In no country, culture, time, or parallel universe does nagging make things better.
Waiting for the future does not make it arrive any faster.
I CAN HAZ NOT SLEEP!
Doctors have more meds than they have answers and in the end I think that the meds make you happier.
The customer is always right but the customer doesn’t always know what is right, therefore always make the customer feel like he is right.
What is wrong is in the eye of the beholder.
Beauty doesn’t much care about the beholder.
There are a few things that street cred will get you that credit will not.
FUD is food for the feeble.
Life is short so go long!
Life is epic.

Independence Day

Happy Birthday, America!!! Let’s go out and celebrate with Chinese made fireworks.
Happy 4th and death to the Hessian mercenaries!
Be patriotic, think for yourself.
God bless America cause we can sure use some Divine help.
Happy Fourth: Don’t Tread on ME!

The Ground Zero Mosque

BlahBlog — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:11:24 +0000

All rights, including freedom of speech, have limitations and building a mosque near Ground Zero is the architectural equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded building. All Americans have the right to practice their faith in the accordance with his or her believes but they do not the the right to impose said beliefs upon any other person. There have been numerous cases where an establish religious organization has tried to put a symbol of their faith in clear public view. In many situations, the religious symbols have been forcibly removed under court order. Issues not unlike this have already gone to the supreme court.
In 2009, the US Supreme Court heard a case about a cross put up to honor fallen veterans. In the middle of a desert, this cross stood to pay homage to our war dead, and someone was offended enough to take the issue to the Supreme Court.
Cases like this have come up in court before, even though there is a separation between church and state, it doesn’t mean that one can impose their believes on others and place religious symbols in public view. Freedom of Speech also does not guarantee you unlimited and unfiltered speech. The classic example of the limits of Freedom of Speech is that one can’t yell fire in a crowded building. Building a a mosque in the ashes of Ground Zero is the architectural equivalent of yelling, “In yo face, bitches.” Islam is not unique to building religious structures over the those of other peoples. There is little coincidence that the Dome of the Rock is built over looking the ruins of the Jewish sacred places. This is not unique to Islam, conquistadores in Mexico built much of their colonial cathedrals using the same building block used to house mesoamerican gods.
The wounds of September 11 will take a long time to heal and all that went though it should pray together not build apart. We should build bridges not walls, and if you think you are building a bridge make sure you block the view of the locals!
Lest we forget, peace be to all the peoples of the book, even those that got the abridge edition!

LOL Hitler

BlahBlog — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:46:37 +0000

The meaning of symbols change, sometimes from a religious meaning to one synonymous with hatred, such as the swastika. In recent history, the swastika was used as a symbol for Hitler’s Third Reich, under whose emblem an approximate six million Jews, Poles, Gypsies, and other were exterminated. Originally the swastika was not a symbol of hate or murder, it was a religious symbol used by different peoples at different times going back to early civilizations. It is still used today in Hindu homes as a religious symbol, not much unlike the Christian cross or the Jewish star of David. The swastika, again is going through a metamorphosis transformation, especially as the Anti-Defamation League has downgraded the swastika as a Jewish hate symbol. The swastika is still considered a symbol of hate, but not one that specifically targets Jews, it is has broaden it’s horizon to other minorities so to speak.

But the swastika is not the only Nazi symbol that is going through a similar change in meaning, Hitler himself is getting a PR make over. During World Ware II, Hitler was portrayed in American propaganda posters as an tyrannical ape, evil incarnate, or a diabolical villain. In 2005 Prince Harry of Wales has been photograph wearing a Halloween costume of a Nazi soldier. Socialite Paris Hilton was seen doing what seemed like a Nazi salute at a club in 2010. By no means would I ever consider Prince Harry or Paris Hilton as Nazi sympathizers so people are left with the question, why did they behave as such?

There is a growing number of viral internet memes that juxtapose Hitler and something considered cute, like kittens. There is a website devoted to Cats that Look Like Hitler. The website has all sorts of pictures with whose hair color make it resemble the Fuhrer. Another internet meme is that of a little kid dressed up as Hitler himself holding a near empty glass of orange juice with the LOL caption that reads I HAVE ELIMINATED ALL THE JUICE. Another popular Hitler viral meme is to take the clip from the movie The Downfall where Hitler throws a tantrum and dub it in English about some other current event such as the BP oil spill.

I Have Eliminated All The Juice

Is Hitler funny? I don’t think Hitler would have doing well in The Last Comic Standing but many are remixing a dark sense of humor with elements of the Third Reich. The swastika, the Nazi symbol, and even Hitler himself are being transformed via viral internet memes to a degree that even the Anti-Defamation League might one day even downgrade Hitler himself as a Jewish hate symbol.

Ideas for Launching Your Start-Up

BlahBlog — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:42:25 +0000

The June issue of Inc magazine has a list of Ten Ideas for Launching Your Start-Up Right Now. The top startup ideas that interested me where environmental consultant, exam prep and tutoring, self-storage leasing, translation services, and mobile application design. The green sector is fastest growing area in the home construction and remodeling industry. There are new energy saving appliances, materials, and services and people are starting to invest in the area heavily. Self-storage seems attractive because there is little risk, little effort, and little capital to get started. There are a lot of new innovation in self-storage and moving services, from self packing containers, moving equipment rentals, etc. The mobile application development is on fire, mostly because of the huge success of the Apple iTunes App Store. In less than a year, 1 billion iPhone apps where downloaded through the iTunes App Store. I wouldn’t be surprised is Apple develops a way to push desktop apps through a similar model.

Favorite Tweets July 2010

BlahBlog — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 18:13:44 +0000

There are some funny people on Twitter. Whenever I find a funny, witty, or thought provoking I usually retweet it and favorite it. Here is a small collection of recent tweets that stoop out to me.

@5tevenw: My father always told me, “Be bold! Don’t be italic.”
@momosuxx: Does my username make me look fat?
@jdickerson: Out back I hear crickets, birds, plane, car, hammering, sprinkler all at once. Distracting me from Twitter distracting me from the paper
@ButtercupD: “multi-device-ing” again…PC on lap, iPad to the left and iPhone to the right…and I like it like that!
@DamnItsTrue: Facebook is for friends that are now strangers, Twitter is for strangers that should be your friends.
@keithie: Tufte lecture: Only two industries describe their customers as “users”, computer software and drugs dealers
@centernetworks: iPhone marriage -Two iPhones got married. It was a lovely ceremony, but the reception was awful. Apparently they held it in the wrong place.
@alexia: OH: In my next life I want to be reincarnated as a computer.
@gurl: Never trust a man in flip flops.
@rands: Avoid those who use language to mystify the obvious.
@DaRealAmberRose: Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
@NatashaYi: Girls are like phones. We love to be held, talked to, but if you press the wrong button you will be disconnected!
@batfish: Bacon is the duct tape of the culinary world.
@adamjackson: “News” is just a distraction to what’s really going on in our world.
@laughlitmus: I need a software that controls US defense systems to remove human error from strategic decisions *must not become self-aware*
@SchemaCzar: The beginning of time ain’t what it used to be…
@DocHobbes: Outraged that the President does not have a plan in place in the event of a zombie out break / apocalypse.
@ladyfox14: OH: ‘It smells like SPF 50 and hash’ ‘The best two smells of summer’
@verowhite: I hate packing almost as much as I love traveling.
@spangley: OH: “rural oregon is like the west virginia of the west coast.”
@Susan_ld4e: If is the longest word
@errolmorris: Maybe 95% of all “art” is painting by numbers.
@Miss_Officer: Life is the best school. God is the best teacher. Problem is the best assignment. Failure is the best revision.
@Jason: Business plans are entrepreneurial masturbation. Please don’t send me business plans or ideas.
@mzkay2good: da way i am is cuz of my parents, n their both great but only when their in seperate rooms lol
@jlashae: Flaws r beautiful :-)
@iBangLSE: My mistakes have made me strong .
@Gbaybeeh: There’s a piece of me who leaves when you gone
@zpower: as a consumer, what sort of wacky decision tree would cause you to conclude that a $300 sony daily edition is a sound purchase?

Five Questions to Answer in Every Interview

BlahBlog — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:12:11 +0000

I started reading 101 Smart Questions to Ask on Your Interview, by Ron Fry. The author states that there are basically only five key questions that most hiring managers want you to answer.

Can you do the job?
Will you do the job better than other interviewees?
Will you take the job if it is offered to you?
Do you think you will fit in the company culture and team dynamics?
Will you make me look good for hiring you?

You will not be asked these questions in such wording but it will help if you can make the answer to these clear in the mind of the interviewer.

Favorite Tweets June 2010

BlahBlog — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:09:57 +0000

There are some funny people on Twitter. Whenever I find a funny, witty, or thought provoking I usually retweet it and favorite it. Here is a small collection of recent tweets that stoop out to me.

@LeyMarieCel: When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Charles Austin Beard
@avinashkaushik: “I’m as proud of the products that we have not done as the ones we have done.” – Steve Jobs
@alexia: OH: In my next life I want to be reincarnated as a computer.
@spangley: OH: rural Oregon is like the west Virginia of the west coast.
@tonystubblebine: Just watched the worst parallel parking attempt of all time. He eventually gave up and now I’m watching the second worst. It’s a huge spot!
@simplebits: I’m convinced that Comcast got into the phone business so that you’re unable to call them when their service goes down.
@chadfowler: Social networks depreciate like cars :)
@jenniferbrook: I’m thinking about platforms as cultures.
@Archimage: By end of next year 10% of internet users will have their own boutique URL shortening service.
@georgeruiz: I’m totally getting the sexy new Apple camera (with limited phone functionality). Who’s with me!
@jdub: Why haven’t Iraq, Katrina and the Oil Spill convinced conspiracy theorists that the US govt is utterly incapable of conspiracy?
@joshspear: Caught in the rain! Good thing I’m waterproof.
@thatdrew: OH: My caucasian wife makes awesome authentic tamales
@karlihenriquez: Please don’t have conversations with yourself via Twitter…its a little weird
@Gemstars: “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery
@shawnrobinson: You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen
@swedal: When cheese gets it’s picture taken, what does it say?
@loliphea: how you tryna sell dreams an aint even slept yet?!
@ITSNAYB: Good morning rise & grind
@MinouChatte: I changed the way I looked at things, and the things I looked at changed.
@Miss_Officer: Some of life’s best lessons are learned at the worst times.
@JessicaGottlieb: Folks. Please stop projecting, if you have mental health issues get a shrink not a blog.
@Miss_Officer: Words without actions are just like air without oxygen, useless
@youloveB: Good friends are like four leaf clovers, hard to find & are very special so keep them!

Retweet June 2010

BlahBlog — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:35:18 +0000

Here I am reblogging some retweets for the past month that broken down by subject matter. Some of these tweets also cover events that occurred in May 2010. If you like to follow along, befriend xwoop and lolprez and I’ll be sure to follow back.

Obamanation

Prof Prez Obama’s answer to the meaning of life and everything else is to form a sub-committee to find out whose ass to kick.
The reason President Obama has not kick any ass with the oil, car, and banking industry is because he can find the ass to kick.
President Obama is not really the ass kicking kind of president, he is more the ass thinking.
Have you notice that presidential candidates always promise change, but never promise to just make shit better for people.

Got Gov?

Just like criminals cannot profit from their crimes, so too politicians should be made not to profit from theirs.
Here is a revenue generating idea, tax up to 80% of all income made by current and former elected politicians.
Pot Holes: Your tax dollars at making your vehicle not work!
Local governments don’t like to pay for cops unless it’s with overtime.
Cops are corrupt the world over, the difference is what it takes to corrupt them, a $20 bribe or a few hours over time.
Don’t do drugs, don’t fund CIA black ops.

Politricks

Al Gore says, “I did not have sexual relations with that women.”
General McChrystal must have been on McMeth when he agreed to do the Rolling Stones interview.
You know you are in the wrong side of every aisle when you have to apologize for your apology.
I think vuvuzelas should be allowed and be part of the political discussions, debates, and town hall meetings.
Vuvuzela for president 2012!!!
Free Weev!!!

Propagandon’t

Some Americans remember the Alamo but many of those that do don’t remember why they should have remember it in the first place.
There is no freedom just propagandom.
Fear is a virus of the mind!
Control the supply, and you control the demand and the price you can charge.

War Racket

Congratulations Afghanistan, for being the longest American war!!!
Art is my favorite weapon.
War will lead us to energy independence!!!

Question

If your life can be condensed to one photo would be a still life study or an out of focus action shot?
Why would you need a tool to open this toolset I just bought?
If Steve Jobs would reinvent the wheel what would it be like?
If he built a better mouse trap would the mice become Apple fanboys?
If it’s not fun, is it worth it?
Who needs a StairMaster when you have a kid and a set of stairs?
What kind of characters hang out at the corner of East Sesame Street and MLK Blvd? Crackhead Monster? Beto y Kike? El Memo? Big Pimp?

Randumb

Zombies replicate by infection, the Borg by assimilation, can you imagine a zombie-Borg hybrid? A zomborg? Brains are futile.
This Aquafina water bottle claims to be made with 50% less plastic. How does that make it an eco-bottle?
In no country, culture, time, or parallel universe does nagging make things better.
I love digitally, um either turned on or turned off.
Just because you don’t see eye to eye with someone does mean you can go toe to toe with them.
You know how meterologists name hurricanes after people’s name, they should be named after fictional characters…
If hurricane would be names after fictional characters you know Hurricane Anakin would grow into one mean mofo of a storm.
Being honest isn’t a fault.
The new anti-Semitic is the anti-Semexican.
Forget snakes in a plane, I got ants in my car!
This TV diner is a rerun.
I don’t no the meaning of the word know.
Trafffuuuck!!!
FML SMH WTF LOL
From preschool to postdoc, school is universally for fools.
To me an expresso machine is like a time machine.
You are no better than those whom you’ve deem the worst.

Overheard

OH: Awww, that gansta cute.
OH: It’s business not celebrityness.
OH: Who touched my iPad, there’s a smudge on the screen.
OH: We are getting it done. It will be done. So it’s done.

Craporation

In the US, corporations are always right.
The BP Oil Spill is so large that it is thinking of running for president 2012 as a Republican. Campaign platform will be: Drill Baby Spill
Just like the brain is the biggest sex organ the biggest oil company is JP Morgan.
When life gives you an oil spill you make off like a bandit.
Al Qeada are a bunch of incompetents, BP, Golden Sachs, Monsanto can do more harm in one day than a bunch shoes and whitey tighties.
Oil executives think they are as slick as the oil they spill.
The BP oil spill is as large as the state of Vermont. The BP oil spill is so large, it should be it’s own state, Oilzona.

World Cup

World Cup: it’s not about how well you play, it’s how well the referees can see.
World Cup: The outcome of the World Cup is determined way in advance of the opening ceremony.
World Cup: FIFA fo dumb!
World Cup: each game should three score, one for goals each team has made and another for the number of bad calls made by the refs.
World Cup: it’s not about how many goals you score, it’s about how many goals the refs will qualify.
The World Cup has as much integrity as Chicago politics.

Futurism

In the future, robots will go to your local polling place and vote electronically for you and then an algorithm will declare the winner.
In the future, you can pick up FDA grade heroin at the condiment aisle at your local super market.
The future has let me down in terms of jet pack technology and space travel.
The future tastes like plastic.

Retweet May 2010

BlahBlog — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 05:14:49 +0000

Got Gov?

Where is the beef, where is the change?
Some Laws are biased, others ignorant, many shortsighted, and even a few are immoral.
The police wants to record your every step/action except being arrested by the police.
BP + Oil Spill + Hurricane Season + New Orleans + FEMA = nothing is going to get done…
The government wants to regulate success.
More laws lead to less justice.
Decades ago we were promised a future that includes jet packs and space travel, now the government wants to shape the future with terrestrial rail.

Politricks

Life already has chosen life, life chooses life.
There is 100,000 years of history for immigration!
We can’t have a supreme court justice in the closet and in the pocket of Goldman Sachs.
I wonder if Elena Kagan has more litigation experience than lesbian experience.
It seems like Obama wants the supreme court to adhere the don’t ask don’t tell policy themselves.
Britain’s election resulted in a hung parliament, at least that’s what she said, and by she I mean the Queen.
Instead of marching and protesting, most are happy bitching.

Econemy

The only thing capitalism values is pure unadulterated profits.
No one is above the law, except capitalism. $$$/LAW
Memorial Day, a day to remember the men and women that served our country and enjoy the profits earned from the military industrial complex.
Crony Capitalism offers the best returns.
Credit cards are the best way more than what an item is worth.
Sweet dreams are made of debt, who are you to disagree.
They should call things for what they truly are, like credit cards are really debt cards. Debt is really what you carry.
Did anybody else feel the stock market crash just now? It felt like an earthquake.
Pirates that go legit are known as corpirates, I mean corporates.
Don’t worry Greek people, if your civilization fails the British Museum will kindly save your property in their museum in England.
I’m not sure why everyone is worried, it’s not the first time Greek civilization has collapse.
The revolution will not start with a gun shot, but with a market crash.

Propagandon’t

Vaccines are not panaceas.
The truth is that Gaza is a concentration camp, an unlabor camp.
Any event involving freedom, flotilla, humanitarian, aid, Israeli, commandos can only end with at least 15 dead Palestinians.
It seems to me that most Jewish holidays revolve around the liberation or destruction of Jews by Babylonians, Persians, Egyptians, Romans…
Watching Sunday morning propaganda shows.
God is a lie. Free markets are a lie. History is a lie. Freedom is a lie. The cake is a lie.
The one thing the education system wants you to learn is to learn to sit down, listen, and follow directions. #obey
Revolutions are about freedom, sometimes.
The network news have a secret agenda.
If one man’s trash is another’s treasure, then one man’s wasteland is another’s promise land.

Question

If people count sheeps to help them fall asleep, what do sheeps count to fall asleep?
WTF why is it that taxes and fees are worth more than the actual price of a airfare ticket?
Do you read, analogly or digitally?
Which is worse, Facebook privacy leak BP oil spill?
Is Craig’s List part of the sex trade industrial complex?
Is the best time of your life behind you, ahead of you, or right now?

Randumb

Celebrities are fictional characters.
A terrible thing is a terrible thing to go to waste.
I know nothing and have an opinion on everything.
If you are going through hell, do not stop at the rest stop.
LMFAOMG
Two men that can go about their business in pajamas: Hugh Hefner and Dalai Lama
Apparently the Buddha was a dead beat dad.
I think time is the least understood currency, and the older you are the lower your ROI on existing time.
Time is a currency.
Not even time is for ever.
The universe is estimated to be 15 billion years old, it’s just a teenager, it doesn’t even have it’s provisional driver’s license.
What kind of day is it going to be? Checking life forecast… Partial meetings scattered throughout the day… I guess I should wear pants.
I’m sure James Cameron has directed a sex tape or two, after watching Avatar my question is, you think James Cameron made a 3D Avatar porn?
I can haz some om nom nom nom.
Forget who moved my cheese, I want to know who moved the damn remote.
Drinking the Kool-Aid doesn’t make you cool!
Waiting… Life in slomo.
Who is this Jonas Bieber I keep hearing about?!
Music moves mountains.
A diamond might be a girls best friend but her shoes are her confidant.
The valuable asset you can spend on someone is time.
I’m such a bad lier that I don’t need to tell the truth.
The truth has many sides, many shades, and many dimensions.
Live, listen, learn, laugh, love, and lose yourself.
Some hide, others slide, many snide, I drive it home like a bat out of hell just frozen over by climate change FTmofoW!!!1!
I wish I could take a picture, not of what I see but what I feel.

Overheard

OH: For you to look good you would have to travel back in time.
OH: I have a lot more to say than I’ll ever be able to say, so let me say this once.
OH: It is like wanted to bake a cake, eat it too, but without having the dough.
OH: Yeah, I want that too. I want my stuff to be next to your stuff an not feel stuffy.
OH: you must be a space man, cause you always spacing out.

Futurism

The future was here!
In the future, you will be charged as a hacker for using lynx to access a website.
In the future, you will be considered an accomplice for retweeting.
In the future, you will be considered a person of interest for content you like on facebook.
In the future, you will be held in charged with treason for voting for against the incumbent.
In the flat future, a mechanic will have a more secure job than a lawyer.
In the future, all first ladies will automatically be sworn on as the senator of New York.
In the future, poetry will not be felt but computed.
Imagine a future where if you buy paint it comes with a ToS limiting you what you can paint and whether you can sell it or not and to who…

World Cup and World Organization Thugary

BlahBlog — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:46:19 +0000

After watching so many gross errors on behalf of FIFA officials, their inactions and lack of motivation to solve them, and their absolute denial about problems I don’t feel positive about similar shadowy and secretive world government and world organizations such as the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Bilderbergs, Davos World Economic Forum, Skull and Bones, International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Red Cross, and even the UN. FIFA has admitted that their only mistake is to replay and show the referee errors and mistakes on the large jumbo tron screens in the stadium. So in a flat world where we aspire for open democracies and transparency in government, the governing body of the World Cup prefers to keep players and fans in the dark about bad calls. The difficult truth is not that Americans don’t care what happens at the World Cup but that this sort of tactic is used by world organizations while they are crafting world treaties that will effect most people in the world, case in point the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). ACTA is being drafted with the same secrecy that governments use for state secrets such as military operations!