The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify “Key Bloggers” And Monitor Billions Of Conversations

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The Economic Collapse
Sept 26, 2011

The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify Key Bloggers And Monitor Billions Of Conversations Federal Reserve Big Brother

The Federal Reserve wants to know what you are saying about it.  In fact, the Federal Reserve has announced plans to identify “key bloggers” and to monitor “billions of conversations” about the Fed on Facebook, Twitter, forums and blogs.  This is yet another sign that the alternative media is having a dramatic impact.  As first reported on Zero Hedge, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has issued a “Request for Proposal” to suppliers who may be interested in participating in the development of a “Sentiment Analysis And Social Media Monitoring Solution”.  In other words, the Federal Reserve wants to develop a highly sophisticated system that will gather everything that you and I say about the Federal Reserve on the Internet and that will analyze what our feelings about the Fed are.  Obviously, any “positive” feelings about the Fed would not be a problem.  What they really want to do is to gather information on everyone that views the Federal Reserve negatively.  It is unclear how they plan to use this information once they have it, but considering how many alternative media sources have been shut down lately, this is obviously a very troubling sign.

You can read this “Request for Proposal” right here.  Posted below are some of the key quotes from the document (in bold) with some of my own commentary in between the quotes….

“The intent is to establish a fair and equitable partnership with a market leader who will who gather data from various social media outlets and news sources and provide applicable reporting to FRBNY. This Request for Proposal (“RFP”) was created in an effort to support FRBNY’s Social Media Listening Platforms initiative.”

A system like this is not cheap.  Apparently the Federal Reserve Bank of New York believes that gathering all of this information is very important.  In recent years, criticism of the Federal Reserve has become very intense, and most of this criticism has been coming from the Internet.  It has gotten to the point where the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has decided that it had better listen to what is being said and find out who is saying it.

“Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from various social media outlets and news sources.  They monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria.  They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document.”

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York intends to listen in on “billions of conversations” and to actually determine the “sentiment” of those that are participating in those conversations.

Of course it will be those conversations that are “negative” about the Federal Reserve that will be setting off the alarm bells.

“Identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers”

Uh oh.  So they plan to “identify” key bloggers and influencers?

What exactly do they plan to do once they “identify” them?

“The solution must be able to gather data from the primary social media platforms –Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Forums and YouTube.”

Hopefully you understand this already, but nothing posted on the Internet is ever anonymous.  Everything on the Internet is gathered by a vast host of organizations and is used for a wide variety of purposes.  Data mining has become a billion dollar industry, and it is only going to keep growing.

You may think that you are “anonymous” when you criticize organizations like the Fed, but the truth is that if you are loud enough they will see it and they will make a record of it.

“The solution must provide real-time monitoring of relevant conversations.  It should provide sentiment analysis (positive, negative or neutral) around key conversational topics.”

Why do they need to perform “sentiment analysis”?

If someone is identified as being overly “negative” about the Fed, what will they do about it?

“The solution should provide an alerting mechanism that automatically sends out reports or notifications based a predefined trigger.”

This sounds very much like the kind of “keyword” intelligence gathering systems that are currently in use by major governments around the globe.

Very, very creepy stuff.

Are you disturbed yet?

For those of us that write about the Federal Reserve a lot, this is very sobering news.

I wonder what the Fed will think about the following articles that I have posted on this site….

*Unelected, Unaccountable, Unrepentant: The Federal Reserve Is Using Your Money To Bail Out European Commercial Banks Once Again

*Celebrating Independence Yet Enslaved To Debt

*19 Reasons Why The Federal Reserve Is At The Heart Of Our Economic Problems

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*10 Things That Would Be Different If The Federal Reserve Had Never Been Created

What is their “Social Media Monitoring Solution” going to think about those articles?

Unfortunately, this is all part of a very disturbing trend.

Recently, a very creepy website known as “Attack Watch” was launched to gather information on those saying “negative” things about Barack Obama.

Suddenly, everyone seems obsessed with what you and I are saying.

This just shows how the power of the alternative media is growing.

Not only that, but it seems as though the government also wants to gather as much information on all of us as possible.

For example, a new rule is being proposed by the Department of Health and Human Services that would force health insurance companies to submit detailed health care information about all of their customers to the federal government.

Every single day our privacy is being stripped away a little bit more.

But now it is often not just enough for them to know what we are doing and saying.  Instead, the “authorities” are increasingly stepping in to silence important voices.

One of the most recent examples of this was when Activistpost was taken down by Google.  We are still awaiting word on why this was done.

Sadly, the silencing of Activistpost is far from an isolated incident.

Hordes of YouTube accounts have been shut down for their political viewpoints.

Quite a few very prominent alternative media websites have been censored or attacked because of what they stand for.

So why is this happening?  Well, it turns out that the power of the alternative media is growing.  According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center for The People The Press, 43 percent of Americans say that they get their news on national and international issues from the Internet.  Back in 1999, that figure was sitting at just 6 percent.

The American people are sick and tired of getting “canned news”, and they are increasingly turning to the Internet in a search for the truth.

As I have written about previously, the mainstream media in this country is overwhelmingly dominated by just 6 very powerful corporations….

Today, ownership of the news media has been concentrated in the hands of just six incredibly powerful media corporations.  These corporate behemoths control most of what we watch, hear and read every single day.  They own television networks, cable channels, movie studios, newspapers, magazines, publishing houses, music labels and even many of our favorite websites. Sadly, most Americans don’t even stop to think about who is feeding them the endless hours of news and entertainment that they constantly ingest.  Most Americans don’t really seem to care about who owns the media.  But they should.  The truth is that each of us is deeply influenced by the messages that are constantly being pounded into our heads by the mainstream media.  The average American watches 153 hours of television a month.  In fact, most Americans begin to feel physically uncomfortable if they go too long without watching or listening to something.  Sadly, most Americans have become absolutely addicted to news and entertainment and the ownership of all that news and entertainment that we crave is being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands each year.

The “news” that we get from various mainstream sources seems to always be so similar.  It is as if nearly all mainstream news organizations are reading from the same script.  The American people know that they are not getting the whole truth and they have been increasingly looking to alternative sources.

The monopoly over the news that the mainstream media once possessed has been broken.  The alternative media is now creating some huge problems for organizations that were once very closely protected by the mainstream media.

The American people are starting to wake up and they are starting to get very upset about a lot of the corruption that has been going on in our society.

But it turns out that the “authorities” don’t like it too much when Americans try to actually exercise free speech in America today.  For example, you can see recent video of female protesters in New York City being penned in by police and then brutally maced right here.

Are you sickened by that?

You should be.

What the “authorities” want is for us to shut up, sit in our homes and act as if nothing wrong is happening.

Meanwhile, they seem determined to watch us more closely than ever.

So are you going to be afraid to talk negatively about the Federal Reserve now that you know that they are going to be watching what you say on the Internet?

Please feel free to leave a comment with your thoughts below….


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  1. yeaaa,neat idea
    The FED would act as the new GESTAPO against the bloggers
    What about freedom of speech?Welcome to American KREMLIN and American KGB controlled by American GESTAPO
    I dont like the FED just because is perverting all the government agencies into its own bodyguards
    SO WHAT

    Oprah Winfrey Assistant Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    Abolish the Feral Reserve de Wall Street Scam.

    the sage Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Die you criminal Jew banker scum!!!!

    Glen Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 1:41 pm

    These all sound fairly Neutral, you should see the comments from the people who really let rip.

    Remove the mandate of the fed to print money and they are screwed.

    between_the_lines Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 2:27 pm

    between_the_lines says:
    The “Federal”-Reserve Bank of New York’s “request for proposals” for a new media monitoring system is only window dressing to appear politically correct.
    click h**p://www.scribd.com/doc/66281284/Frbny-Social-Media-Rfp
    ..and search within document for “integration” and you will find the specs in attachment(1). Notice that it always uses the past perfect tense “has been” in “has been successfully integrated”. That means if you are not an established big player in the internet monitoring business you would have answer no, and you would be out of the running. Only an established big player in the internet monitoring business could win the bid. And they know who it is.
    ____________
    ATTACHMENT(1):
    H. Integration
    H1. (Question) Response Required
    With wich of the following activity monitoring tools HAS the Proposed Solution BEEN sucessfuly integrated? Check all that apply.
    Web Trends
    Google
    Coremetrics
    Omniture
    Supplier Comments:
    H2. (Question) Response Required
    With wich of the following search appliance tools HAS the Proposed Solution BEEN sucessfuly integrated? Check all that apply.
    Google Search Appliance
    Autonomy
    Fast
    Others, please explain the below comments section.
    Supplier Comments:
    H3. (Question) Response Required
    With wich of the following E-mail Clients HAS the Proposed Solution BEEN sucessfuly integrated? Check all that apply.
    Microsoft Outlook
    IBM Lotus Notes
    Gmail for business
    No, not offered
    Supplier Comments:
    H4. (Question)
    Does the Proposed Solution generate email alerts for each of the email clients selected in the previous question?
    _Yes, inherently out of the box
    _Yes, with Supplier customization
    _Yes, with Client configuration
    X No, not offeredSupplier Comments:

    between_the_lines Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 2:28 pm

    Also notice in the specs:
    [[D. Data and Search Considerations
    D7.
    (Question)
    Response Required
    Please indicate the search logic used by the Proposed Solution. Check all that apply.
    Keyword searching
    Phrase searching
    ☞Boolean searching
    Other, please explain the below comments section.
    Supplier Comments:]]
    “Boolean searching” is what they are doing. Nobody would dream of going back to simple keyword or phrase searching. Boolean searching means for example:
    If (((“Jew” OR “Yid”) AND (“apartheid” OR “Federal Reserve”)) AND “Rothschild”) then REPORT (or CENSOR).
    But from experience on mainstream messageboards if find they have added a frequency count too. So it becomes for example: If (“Jew” X 3 OR “Yid” X 2) AND “apartheid” X 1) AND “palestine” X 2). Where “Jew” X 3 means if the word “Jew” appears 3 or more times.
    When the system is used for censoring, you can beat it by identifying the key words, and misspelling them using special characters, or letters that look like others.
    For example
    Jew – Ɉεω
    Israel – lsrael
    Identify key words by isolating the variables one at a time. Misspell politically-sensitive words one at a time and retry your post until it posts. Then add that keyword to your list. But they have different lists for each application and the lists are not static. If you read the specs, the ability to change lists of keywords by application is mandatory. You just have to try to keep up with them, application by application.
    Of course if they are not censoring you but just reporting you for reprisals, there is no feedback to work with. But the list you have compiled from a censoring operation in a similar application will somewhat overlap the list for a reporting-for-reprisals operation.

  2. So… Are we supposed to be intimidated by the fact that a “private” entity is going to start monitoring sentiments about their actions and behavior? Ooooh, I’m soooo scared! Fuck YOU Bernanke! And your skeevey bosses and underlings. You and your cohorts have allowed this country to fall to such depths… You will all be called to account for your actions, I hope you are prepared to face the consequences. You will all pay for your criminal, treasonous acts….count on it.

    neverincorrect Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    Yes…. **** Bernanke. But, I don’t believe the Fed. Reserve has the legal or constitutional
    authority to to it. Arrest them.

  3. Now, that is really scarey; attacking the freedom of speech or the right to assembly.

    Mortarion89 Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 9:26 am

    Our right to assemble has been attacked. you have to have a permit to assemble. even though our CONSTITUTION says we have every right to do so.

  4. Personally I recommend using a VPN service that has servers in many different countries to choose from.

    Don’t use any login or aliases that are also attached or related to personal accounts like banking, insurance, etc. including forums where you reveal personal information.

    Don’t use Facebook or Twitter to speak about politics.

    It’s fair to say this country, if not the world, is going down the toilet and corrupt politicians are the root of it all. Those who allow the Fed to do what it wants in the 1st place.

    Freedom in the US is something in the past. You can read about it in history books but no longer exists. The important thing is protecting your privacy as best you can. The more alternative media grows, the more others will realize what is happening and stop listening to the mainstream media’s bs. That’s all there is to it at this point. There are simply too many brainwashed and ignorant people to stop what is happening. When I explain reality to others lost in the fog they either don’t comprehend or they realize it makes sense but really don’t care. When you live in a society that cares more about their sitcoms and cheese burgers than the future of their freedoms this is what you end up with. Many deserve what happens to them.

  5. well let me go on record right now. fuck you federal reserve system and your counterfieit money. i harbor deep resentment for the manipulation, looting, and pillaging of our nation by the cartels that work hand in hand the world over. so when the situation changes for the better, and you guys are heading out to safer places, we will be there to greet you, no matter what part of the world you plan to hole up and hide out. it is my sincere hope you go underground into a bunker here in the states. i am more patient than you, i can wait. i want you all to stand trial in a common court and if convicted of financial crimes of which there is no doubt sent to a work gang. there for the first time in your lives you will work with your hands to do something truly honest and worthwhile. molon labe. watchmenofamerica.com

  6. Well it looks like we’ll have to start using code when writting our comments, as well as when the articles are written. We could use terms like Fuquer (instead of FED) Big Dump (for president), Gall (instead of Government) etc, etc…..
    Also, what ever happened to the word COLLUSION? We may need to start investigating who and what are shutting down itnernet sites, and for what reasons. It doesn’t matter is the government wants to shut down a site, or anyone else for that matter. collusion is still Collusion. Remember the FED is a private enterprise and it could be sighted for Collusion if it tries to manipulate the web. But more than that, is that we need our Congress to understand what its priorities are in keeping us safe FROM OUR GOVERNMENT !!!

  7. Funny to watch them now try to do damage control. Hey NY Fed Reserve, where are the US Gold Reserves? The banker traitor human excrement walked off with that gold decades ago. Let’s open the vaults at Ft Knox, then the vaults of the NY Fed, and then the Rothschild’s personal gold vaults, and see where the gold went. F the traitor Fed Reserve bank system, owned by the 8 international banker families, printing currency as debt, and F’ing the US financial system for the last 100 years.

  8. They can try whatever they want, they are going down and nothing will stop Goodness from acheiving the Divine creator’s plan. The abusers are loosing.

  9. Why are people and the media not asking “Who the F$*k are the PRIVATE BANKING CARTEL Federal Reserve to have any power to do this” ??? That’s just like McDonalds saying they are going to monitor all social media to find people talking sh1t about Big Macs.

  10. The Federal Reserve Plans To Identify “Key Bloggers” And Monitor Billions Of Conversations
    ————————————————————————

    Let the bastards “monitor” all they want to. We have the right to speak. Should the FED ever grow balls and decide to come and take that right from us, they better be sure to bring a good supply of body bags with then. We wont take the time to bury their dead.

    “Birds gotta eat, same as worms”. (Outlaw Josey Wales)

    Bravo2……..out

    Bullrun1861 Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 6:17 am

    Their military trained us well, when they try and take our freedom that fact might just come back to haunt them. FUCK YOU FEDERAL RESERVE THIEVES!!!

    dhsn Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 3:56 pm

    Recon, “We wont take the time to bury their dead.”
    “Birds gotta eat, same as worms”. (Outlaw Josey Wales)
    Are you saying we’ll eat their dead?

  11. Go ahead Federal Reserve spies and put me on your list, I give you the one finger salute!

  12. the fed are criminals,and they also have sex with midgets

  13. why does the federal reserve hate america?

    Bullrun1861 Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 7:35 am

    They hate free men, they only want slaves to cater to their evil desires.

    wiggins Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 10:33 am

    Probably because the big dicks have dual-nationality and favour one country more than the other.

    dhsn Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 11:43 am

    Freedom is the enemy of psychotic control-freaks, bullies, abusers, lawyers, politicians, etc.

  14. ben bernanke was recently seen dreessed in drag making out with tim geitner

  15. so the u.s government will let a foreign entity spy on its own citizens? typical.

    reconscoutsniper Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 9:00 am

    That in itself proves the NWO is a combined joint operational task force.

    Good post able danger.

    Bravo2……out

  16. Bernanki heard your mom gave head on the street for a quarter each to put you through school. I heard you help Bernanki on the side.

    Bernanki is that why you were so popluar at Bohmemia Grove. I hear bernanki has VD of the deep throat. End the Fed. I hope all the federal reserve buidings get burned to the ground.

    Monitor that spy piggy drones.

    Whizerd67 Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 9:30 am

    I heard that about his mom too…I was gonna find out if it was true, but the line was too long.

  17. Love the bloggers on here! I just have to join in on this one. FUCK THE FED. Go ahead and try and see what you get. Push a little harder please. Because the more you push, the more people wake up. The more you intrude, the more people wake up. The more you trample rights and morals, the more people wake up. I was woke up one day because of YOU. Never paid one bit of attention to what was going on until I overheard that YOU printed 600 billion dollars. That one instant changed everything.

  18. LETS GO “FED” COME AND SPY ON ME AND COME KICK IN MY DOOR I WILL BE WAITING AND ALL YOU ARE GUNNA GET IS MY MOTHERFUCKINFG LED FIRST COME A KNOCKIN AND I WILL START A SHOOTING YEAH WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

  19. Paper tiger go FUCK YOURSELF. No, you’ve already done that criminals….

  20. If i go missing, you know why…. FUCK YOU GREEDY ASSHOLES…

  21. “nothing on the Internet is ever anonymous” “Everything on the Internet is gathered by a vast host of organizations and is used for a wide variety of purposes. ”

    That was a false statement linking data mining with anonymity. If you post with an anonymous proxy server it is impossible for them to know who did it unless they are monitoring your computer from a different source (planted a spyware but in it)

  22. My blog is mild compared to others. I’ve noted the Department of Homeland security’s visited, the State department and my Linkedin Profile’s been visited by by Jarod Farnham
    Security Lead – State Department

  23. Wait Just a GD moment! The Federal Reserve is NOT a Federal Institution however works hand in hand with the Federal Government (runs the show) It seems to me that there is a blurry line being stepped over. So please explain to me how this is legal or how it pertains to the Federal Reserve Banking Institution.

  24. Hey..Federal Reserve!!! Yoo hooo! Over here…yeah yeah..thats it..thats it..ok..a little closer..ok…do I have your attention now?!
    Since you wanna monitor conversations on everything(as if you don’t do it now..you just know whats being said, and want to make it legal to break down doors now), let me say what needs to be said to you… ready?
    Do what the fuck you are supposed to do, or we will do it for you, or we will shut it down. Period.
    That goes for you other entities and individuals that know you are wrong.
    It comes down to the fact that you are scared..scared that we know you have something coming soon..scared that we will strike and make good on everything.
    YOU SHOULD BE SCARED. So should your big business partners from around the globe.
    We are pretty-much DONE being scared. And thats scary, isn’t it? You fucked-up, and we awoke in droves when you were caught. Thats scary too..isn’t it? Even though you expected and planned the resistance thats coming, you didn’t expect so many to awaken at once..did you? And you are thinking you have everything in postion for any opposition to be too late, and in vain.
    FUCK YOU! You wouldn’t let it be done peacefully, you had to submit to greed, and ‘power’…power that you thought you had/have to yourself…stolen from everyone…
    ….Feel your own fucking wrath now. You earned it. And yes, we let you…some IS our fault. We were tricked and brainwashed, but yeah, some of it WAS on us. But we tried to rectify our end. You kept going with the greed and power. It’s on you now! All of it.
    Yes **FEDERAL RESERVE** (and others that know who the fuck they are)Thats what I’m saying about you! Monitor it all you wish. You ARE anyway.
    ———————–
    Blessed Be to all.

  25. My blog is really not that incendiary, but it was visited by Dyncorp after I posted something about their engaging in child prostitution overseas. It was visited by DHS after I reposted the FBI “Prepper Flyer”. Yeah I’m sure I’m on a list or two. So what. I’m on a list for telling the truth.

    I also have a FB friend in government who started engaging me in discussion after I posted something political. (I think it was to bitch about the prepper flyer). We’ve been going back and forth for a while.

    Part of his job is to weed out tip-offs that amount to nothing.

    He insists that the humans in his agency only pay attention to someone when they start looking like they’re plotting to do harm to people. Apparently many of the people who do terroristic attacks tend to broadcast their plans for a while before they do it. The gov simply doesn’t have the resources to investigate everybody, and they’re happy to weed people out who just are regular folks with opinions, because it’s a waste of their time to look at those.

    Re. bumper stickers: It’s too bad that TPTB are so paranoid now that otherwise normal behavior starts to look suspicious to them, but gangs have colors, some gangs use otherwise normal things as “uniforms” or insignia, like there’s a gang in my city that wears jeans and big long white plain tee shirts, so then a plain white tee shirt starts looking suspicious. Maybe some gang was using bumper stickers somewhere? So then it spoils it for everyone else. Just a thought. I don’t think people should refrain from putting bumper stickers on their cars. The worst that might happen would be the cop pulling you over for speeding might be slightly more wary.

    They definitely are bracing for civil unrest. Personally I think it’s quite obvious to them (as it is to everyone) that an economic crash might cause riots, and possibly also opportunistic crimes, resistance groups, foreign meddlers, etc. We’ve got maybe as much to fear from that as from them. They don’t have the resources to defend against mass riots everywhere at once. They’ll have to pick what things to defend and what things to let burn.

    Back to the database, in my opinion it could theoretically be abused in the future if the gov became more totalitarian. Maybe they’d lower the threshold at which it spit out a name, or use its archives to build cases against dissidents. Again, it’s limited by the resources of the gov.

    If it got that way, we’ve got more to worry about from asshole neighbors and jealous rivals, who may call in fake tips, using the government as a weapon against their enemies, than from some database of our online opinion posts. A great percent of the people investigated by Stasi were as a result of these kind of tip-offs rather than any kind of police intelligence. A crashed economy or any kind of chaos will bring out the worst in some people.

    I think we should mostly be wary of after the crash, some “white knight” swooping in and offering to make it all better. Such an offer will undoubtedly have strings attached.

    between_the_lines Reply:
    September 26th, 2011 at 2:38 pm

    Morwith: I also have a FB friend in government who started engaging me in discussion after I posted something political.

    Between_the_lines: You sound like Hal Turner. He had an FBI(1) “friend” in government. Your FB(2) “friend” in government is just like his.

    ___________
    FOOTNOTES:
    (1) Federal Bureau of Investigation
    (2) FaceBook

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