BLOGOSPHERE WAR OF GUTTENBERG AND PUTIN

Blogosphere is the last bastion of freedom. Blogs are the best political tool. Instead of paying voters to show up for the vote or stuffing boxes, today's savvy campaign managers are helping their candidates influence blogs. They are doing online what they used to do offline. 


Fireflies, influential people, are pivotal in the dynamics behind blogs in recruiting and spreading calls for action that contribute to riots, revolutions, protests, and elections. The most influential group to these events consists of a small group of fireflies close to the center of a network. This group, the spreaders, plays a critical role in triggering chains of messages reaching huge numbers of people. http://venitism.blogspot.com

However, early fireflies in the protest and those starting the recruitment process, have no characteristic position within the network, they are the leaders of the movement and first movers in their local networks. They spark the initial online activity that recruits the spreaders, but they are scattered all over the network. When calls to action come from many different sources within a short time window, their effects are amplified, resulting in recruitment bursts. The vast majority of users are recruited this way responding to the collective behavior of others.

Blogs have played an important role both in the recent wave of mobilizations in developing countries, such as the Arab Spring, and in protests across Occident, such as the Global Tax Revolt. Mass mobilizations depend not on the influence of central users, who are nonetheless crucial for their growth, but on the actions of many users in local networks that will ultimately reach the influential core. 

Most people are influenced by what those around them do. If they are exposed to many messages calling for action within a short time frame, they are more likely to respond to this apparent urgency and join in. This creates recruitment bursts that can translate into a global cascade with truly dramatic effects, massive demonstrations, wave of occupations, tax revolts, and political turnabouts.

Karl-Theodor Guttenberg is the Czar of Cyberincitement. He was appointed by Neelie Kroes with specific instructions to cooperate with Hillary Clinton to use blogs for Occidental propaganda, especially to incite people to overthrow their antioccidental governments. Mission impossible! http://venitism.blogspot.com

The Theory of Critical Mass proves that you only need a few fireflies, influential people, to reach a critical mass, tipping point, for a chain reaction of people. It might take a long time to reach the tipping point, but after that point things happen in a very short time, like an atomic bomb. Therefore Guttenberg's mission is to find fireflies of propaganda for a critical mass of people to propagate Occidental ideas to the rest of the world. Using internet as a propaganda tool turns global politics upside down, but it saves trillions of dollars in unnecessary wars.

This mindless promotion of Occidental culture and Occidental kleptocracy alienates the governments targeted and will motivate them to harm Occident in some manner. Thousands of young and naive people die at the hands of the regimes they are instigated to overthrow by the democracy-pushing kleptocrats, all of whom are safe and secure in Washington and Brussels, inspiring pseudoheroic vanity. A libertarian non-interventionist policy will allow foreigners to work out their political destiny in their own way and at their own pace, prevent unnecessary additions to Occident's growing list of enemies, prevent the clash of cultures, and save countless young lives.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) has systems that automatically spread information on the Internet. The Dispute system is responsible for overall monitoring of the blogosphere and social networks in order to single out the centers where the information is created and the ways by which it is spread among the virtual society. It also looks at factors that affect the popularity of various reports among internet users. 

The Monitor-3 system develops the methods of organization and management of a virtual community of attracted experts, setting of tasks, control over work and regular reports on chosen issues.

The Storm-12 system automatically spreads the necessary information through the blogosphere, as well as information support of operations with prepared scenarios of influence on mass audience in social networks.

Iteranet, headed by a former deputy head of the Russian Cryptography Institute, Igor Matskevich, who previously worked on top secret state orders, has created systems to overcome Occidental systems. 

Russia's leading startup manager of internet projects Anton Nossik is proud that Russins have outsmarted Guttenberg. Russian systems go beyond the legal sphere, hacking the administrators' rights on social networks, mass messaging, and infecting the users' computers with automatic bot programs. The head of the Russian association Center for Safe Internet, Urvan Parfentyev, muses Russian systems are a natural development in counterbalancing the Guttenberg systems.

The Internet has become a significant power factor in Russia, with a hundred million people from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok surfing the net. When Putin once again used fraud in last parliamentary elections, the opposition struck back online, posting videos that showed the manipulation taking place. State-run television hid the existence of these videos, but one clip, showing a representative of Election Commission No. 2501 filling out ballot after ballot himself, was viewed three million times on Youtube.

Alexei Navalny leveled online accusations of corruption against kleptocrats, calling Putin's United Russia a party of crooks and thieves. Navalny struck a nerve with voters fed up with corruption and cronyism. Putin's party has been out for revenge ever since. Access to Navalny's website was blocked! http://venitism.blogspot.com

Medvedev likes to be photographed with an iPad in hand, and he presents himself in his speeches as the Internet's greatest protector. Putin also lauds the Internet as free and enormously democratic. But that is nothing more than political rhetoric. A new Internet law has made it possible for authorities to block websites without a court order. 

In few other countries are social networks as influential as in Russia. Russian users spend an average of around a dozen hours a month on such sites, twice as much as the global average. Putin fears a scenario such as unfolded during the Arab Spring, when blogs became the demonstrators' most important channels of communication. Either blogosphere will destroy Putin's regime or the regime will destroy blogosphere.

Occident has developed electronic weapons that could be used to defend the West
against cyber attacks or prevent them. Occident is prepared to strike first in a
cyber conflict. Cyber arms grow out of control. No government can guarantee it
can protect a country or entity against cyber attack. In future wars, there will
be a cyber element. Countries hope that if they threaten to use missiles to
retaliate against a cyber attack, others will think twice about launching one.

Internet security firms make more money when people are more scared of malware, and Eugene Kaspersky declares that cyber terrorism can bring the end of civilization! A global Internet blackout and crippling attacks against key infrastructure are among two possible cyber-pandemics. Kaspersky is afraid cyber terrorism is just beginning. Very soon, many countries around the world will know it beyond a shadow of a doubt. Kaspersky hoodwinks it will be the end of the world as we know it! http://venitism.blogspot.com

Kaspersky hoodwinks the evolution from cyber war to cyber terrorism comes from the indiscriminate nature of cyber weapons. Very much like a modern-day Pandora's Box, Flame and other forms of malware cannot be controlled upon release. Faced with a replicating threat that knows no national boundaries, cyber weapons can take down infrastructure around the world, hurting scores of innocent victims along the way.