Kickstarter: Fuck unions and all you assholes too…

 

KICKSTARTER TO WORKERS AND PROJECT CREATORS: DROP DEAD

Today, Kickstarter offered its response. The communications officer emailed me, and said he would like to share a statement from the CEO with the project creators. The statement said that Kickstarter:

1. Stood by its decision to fire the organizers, and would be dispatching its lawyers to fight their claims.

2. Would not voluntarily recognize a union even if the vast majority of workers signed in support of one.

3. Would not pledge to remain neutral on unionization, and would continue to actively oppose the effort.

KICKSTARTER: **Final Day** – A Dangerous Idea

KICKSTARTER

Eugenics are coming back.

Dennis Kucinich tipped me off to this. “Dangerous biological nonsense.”

BACKPACK FULL OF CASH

Project Needs Your Support

On Kickstarter:

BACKPACK FULL OF CASH: a new film,
narrated by Matt Damon

 

R’ha Kickstarter

 

KICKSTARTER

This is a great sci-fi project. If you’ve got money to spare, put it where it counts.

 

 

NEWSBUD Needs Sponsors (You)

Kickstarter needs donors.

 

 

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Sibel Edmonds’ Newsbud

Support a 100% people-funded, nonpartisan online news source. Newsbud-where media integrity matters. Dear Friends and Supporters: The day has finally come for your chance to help me create a 100% people-funded news alternative. My Kickstarter campaign has gone live, and I’m counting on your support. For us to realize our collective dream of a major independent, nonpartisan media platform, I need your help. Make a pledge, put the word out by forwarding this email to others, and, please, take action as soon as possible-the first 3 to 4 days of the campaign are the most critical to our success. Thank You All, Sibel Edmonds Now is the time to stand up for your right to be informed. Newsbud will be a news and multimedia network unlike anything else online, in print, or on TV. It will offer all of the elements people expect from a large news organization, but it will be free of the compromises that come with a reliance on corporate advertisers and ownership by billionaire dynasties. Newsbud’s stellar team of seasoned and international producers, editors, and independent investigative journalists will offer original stories and investigative reports, video-podcast productions, editorials, and discussion forums 24/7. Newsbud will be a real independent alternative because it will be one-hundred percent people funded. Without you, we cannotachieve our dream of a media network that is nonpartisan, independent, and accountable only to its viewers and to the truth. Help us create Newsbud—- where media integrity matters. Join us in our effort—- make a donation and activate others by sharing this email. They have rendered we the people irrelevant; together, we will make them irrelevant! Learn More About NEWSBUD

New Rules for Crowdfunding Investment (huge)!

“For the first time, promoters will also be able to offer a share of the profits in a project.”

This plan may implode as hucksters, shysters and other grifters seek to bilk the public with fake projects. We shall see…

Here’s How the New Crowdfunding Rules Will Change Indie Film Financing

The new rules limit the amount of individual investments to relatively small sums, but collectively, they will constitute enough of an investment to make a big difference for many start-ups. Investors with annual incomes or a net worth of less than $100,000 can contribute up to $2,000 or 5 percent of their net worth or income, whichever is greater. Wealthier investors can invest 10 percent of the lesser of their annual income or net worth in these transactions, with a cap of $100,000 over a 12-month period.

Save the Elephant

Africa’s Last Elephants

This Kickstarter is a documentary, not a direct action to protect elephants. So I don’t know how I feel about it. Anything helps, and if the doc succeeds more people may get involved.

Still, you can send your money directly to people protecting elephants (which would require some research).

Jon Lajoie’s Kickstarter Parody

 

 

Deep Web: Bitcoin and Silk Road

Filmmaker Alex Winter presents a radical and potentially disturbing take on the web beyond the law, the secretive parts of the internet nicknamed the “dark web.”

Winter already did a film favorable to Napster, calling it a “revolution” and giving a one-sided view of file sharing.

 

What strikes me is the total contempt and opposition to the music artists (and other copyright holders) who want to get paid so they can survive.   There is no balance to his presentation, and his fawning description of a web beyond the law, the realm of drugs, organized crime and terrorism, sort of gives pause.  Just what is he advocating?  Some laws are a good thing.

I remember a documentary from 1970 about the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin touring across Canada.  Just after Woodstock, when the massive crowds tore down the fences and the concert turned free – the bands met up with Canadian crowds who only wanted free concerts.  The kids tried to tear down fences in several shows, and Jerry Garcia discussed it with others about how the band needed to get paid so they could tour at all.   The musicians do need some compensation, and the expectation of free everything is childish and unrealistic, actually detrimental to all concerned.  If artists can’t survive then they will be out of the game.  Some compensation needs to be part of the system, or else it validates the claims of music corporations that downloading is “theft.”  Many people hate corporations with a knee jerk response, and the big ones deserve it.  But the musicians themselves are a part of this equation.

Alex Winter’s new project Deep Web is described here:

Deep Web: The Untold Story of BitCoin and The Silk Road

His pitch for a $10,000 sugar daddy is another moment to give pause.  Seems like someone oblivious that he’s playing with fire.  Or else he’s a bit of a pyromaniac.  Something to consider, anyway.

How can we balance the needs of free communications with the need to uphold the law and fight crime?  The new age is scary, for so many reasons.  The rise of hackers, government and corporate sponsored, as well as individuals and straight out criminals has us all at a disadvantage.  The modern condition is hackers 1, citizens 0.  As systems become more complex and pervasive that score is going to get a lot worse.

Venus Project Has a Kickstarter

 

Jacque Fresco continues challenging humanity to advance and to evolve.  Kickstarter.

Paradise or Oblivion?

 

 

The Brainwashing of My Dad

 

Rush Limbaugh and right wing talk radio and their malevolent effects on Americans…

This is a Kickstarter Project (needs help).