EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IS THE LAW. SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND GENDER DISCRIMINATION ARE ILLEGAL. IT IS ILLEGAL TO RETALIATE AGAINST SOMEONE WHO HAS LODGED A COMPLAINT OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND DISCRIMINATION AGAINST YOU.
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Note from February 10, 2015
There are a lot of factual errors in this blog. Those errors don't include my discussions of "Making A Difference" and of the overall corruption and promotion of crime of the entities and people who formed what I named "the conglomerate" in 2010.
I don't think that the White House controls most of the things on the Internet about the government. It took me a long time to realize that most people don't have a lot of control over what gets said about them on the Internet. That realization is the reason that I started looking at the official websites for entities and individuals.
Copyright L. Kochman, February 10, 2015 @ 6:03 p.m.
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Note for this page: This page of this blog begins on July 13, 2010, but I’m writing this note on September 30, 2010, at 12:11 p.m.. I have edited out a large amount of what was originally written on this page. However, my Friendster profile and WordPress blog being destroyed were only the most recent examples of my writing being suppressed online. Much of the first half of my WordPress blog was writing that I had kept a copy of, which was helpful on August 18, 2010, when this same page on Weebly got erased right in front of me.
On August 18, 2010, I stood there and watched while everything from the bottom of the page to the section for July 15, 2010 @ 3:29 p.m. got erased; it really did look as if an invisible eraser was working its way up the page to just below where Brian Williams was quoted from his appearance in the December 27, 2009 USA Weekend as saying “We’ve been pleasantly surprised that our ratings are up this year over last. Considering we were in the midst of a history-making presidential election year (and the downward trend in the news biz, in general), that’s saying something.”
If you read what is now my short version of this blog, you will see that what got erased along with everything else on August 18, 2010 was my complete explanation of how Mr. Williams, Kevin Tibbles, and whoever else those two men colluded with at NBC deliberately and painstakingly committed fraud to cover up the fact that Mr. Williams had taken an idea that I’d written about on Friendster in January of 2009 and that he’d turned it into his very successful “Making A Difference” project.
As I’ve said many times, I never begrudged Mr. Williams the use of that idea; I wasn’t copyrighting anything I wrote online then, and I doubt that I would have tried to copyright that idea anyway since I thought it would be a good thing for any news show to have. In fact, here’s my express permission that any news show that wants to can use my original idea that I wrote about on Friendster in January of 2009 and create any kind of “Good News Show” that they want to. Since it WASN’T Mr. Williams’s idea to begin with, and since I’ve proved that conclusively in this blog, I doubt that Mr. Williams or anyone at NBC can sue you for using my idea to create a show like that or to put a segment like it in your already existing news show. That goes for newspapers, magazines, online, radio and so on; anyone who wants to use my original idea for its original intention of letting people know about good things that are happening in the world can.
While I was working on the Word document that I used to put this page of my blog back together just now, I asked a question from “Office Online.” One of the side captions that appeared next to my document says “Crabby demystifies Word terms.”
The battery is charging on my camera right now. If I can, I’ll leave the page that shows that caption up until I can take a picture of it.
All of the above is copyrighted to me, L. Kochman September 30, 2010
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July 14, 2011
Here’s another note that I’ve written about this page. PLEASE NOTICE THAT TODAY’S DATE, JULY 14, 2011, IS A YEAR LATER THAN THE DATE ON WHICH I STARTED MY EXPLANATION OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH MY ORIGINAL ESSAY ON FRIENDSTER THAT WAS USED BY MR. WILLIAMS AS THE BASIS FOR HIS NBC NIGHTLY NEWS SEGMENT “MAKING A DIFFERENCE”.
When I wrote my essay about the need for a Good News Show on Friendster in January of 2009, the Internet, media and entertainment industry harassment of me wasn’t yet sexual harassment. I used the quote “Hope is the virtue from which all other virtues spring” at a time when I couldn’t have anticipated that in two and a half years I would think carefully about using the word “spring” if I didn’t absolutely have to do so.
I didn’t have a blog such as Weebly or WordPress before the summer of 2010. The way I had written online before then was to write on Friendster and then replace what I’d written a few hours later, the next day, or a few days later. Also, when Brian Williams appeared in the December 27, 2009 USA Weekend and said that he’d begun “air(ing) a new segment called ‘Making a Difference’” in 2009, not only was the harassment of me not yet sexual in nature, no code significance had been attached to the word “new”.
Copyright L. Kochman July 14, 2011 @ 12:40 p.m.
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July 13, 2010
I found what I wrote on Friendster that it’s always seemed to me that Brian Williams at NBC took and used as the basis for his “Making A Difference” segment. I had printed out a copy of the screen that had the essay on it in Friendster: on the printed page you can even see the Friendster section heading “About Me,” as well as other Friendster-specific titles and graphics that print out on the page when you make a paper copy of the screen. At the top right-hand corner of the page it reads “Saturday, January 24, 2009 @ 8:56 p.m.. That means that I wrote the following essay on or before January 24, 2009:
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from “About Me:”
I was thinking it would be fun to have a show called “The Good News Show.” I think it’s important to have news shows keep reporting on all the scary, bad things that are happening in the world, but sometimes I feel like I’ve been watching the same show over and over again since I was a kid. So I thought it might be fun to have a half-hour show in which the newscaster reported the statistics of all the good, low-key things that happened every day.
For example: “Today, 250 million people in the United States got up and went to work.” “Today, 50 million kids went to school in the United States.” “Today, 10,000 tons of stuff got recycled.” I don’t know what the actual statistics are on any of those things. Does anyone in general know those statistics? No? So we need that show.
I feel like it would be nice to have those daily numbers reported on all the people who are going about their business, the ones who aren’t screwing up. Because I think that there are a lot of people who are not screwing up on any given day. It’s not that I don’t have an interest in the world outside my doors. I just hate seeing one catastrophe after another and feeling like there’s nothing I can do about any of it. I read somewhere that “Hope is the virtue from which all other virtues spring.”
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July 15th, 2010 @ 3:16 p.m.
Yahoo's coverage of the oil spill today reads: "BP back to slow trial of choking Gulf oil with untested cap (AP)." Yesterday I was out and there was a group of people a few feet away from me whom I didn't know and neither looked at nor approached. All of a sudden a guy in that group of people started saying things like "leak" and "horsehair" and making other references that made me think that he was aware of the way in which I've been getting harassed. He kept that going for a while and I ignored it. It also sounded as if he might have taken a picture of me with his cellphone. I wonder if the people and businesses who have been harassing me really think that they aren't endangering me.
I just did a Google search on " NBC Making A Difference" through Wikipedia and here were the first four results:
Advanced searchAbout 1,430 results (0.29 seconds) Search ResultsKTAL-TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NBC for the Ark-La-Tex (1996–2002); The News Station (2002–2009); Making A Difference (2008-2009); Your Weather Authority (2009-present) ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTAL-TV - Cached - SimilarJohn Rich (war correspondent) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After having been retired for many years, Rich was featured in NBC Nightly News' Making a Difference segment on July 24, 2008. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rich_(war_correspondent) - CachedWCNC-TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Come Home to the Best, Only on 36 (1988-1990; localized version of NBC ad campaign); Making a Difference (1989-1996); Carolinas' News Channel (1996-2007 and ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCNC-TV - 23 hours ago - Cached - SimilarKSNF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
KSNF is the NBC affiliated television station for the Joplin, ... unrelated to the 1986-1987 NBC ad campaign); Together, We're Making A Difference ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSNF - Cached - Similar
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July 15, 2010 @ 3:29 p.m.
Brian Williams appeared in USA Weekend on December 27, 2009 in an article called "The Best News of 2009." Here's a quote from him in that article: "We've been pleasantly surprised that our ratings are up this year over last. Considering we were in the midst of a history-making presidential election year (and the downward trend in the news biz, in general), that's saying something. Why us? Why now? It has been theorized that a spoonful of "good news" might just have helped. Several nights a week, we air a new segment called "Making a Difference.""
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July 15, 2010 @ 3:40 p.m.
Since Mr. Williams is calling the "Making A Difference" segment a "new segment" for NBC as of 2009 and is also crediting "Making A Difference" for the fact that his ratings in 2009 are up from his ratings in 2008, why are there search results from Google and Wikipedia indicating that "Making A Difference" was a part of NBC from as early as 1989, or even in 2008? It's not my fault that someone at The New Yorker starting calling me "Wikileaks," and I would appreciate it if Wikipedia didn't take out its embarrassment over that issue on me.
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July 15, 2010 @ 3:50 p.m.
The other day I looked up "NBC Nightly News" on Wikipedia. The article covers the history of the show "NBC Nightly News" since 1970, and there is NO mention at all of a segment called "Making A Difference" or anything like that segment ever being a part of that show. The Wikipedia article about NBC Nightly News isn't an old or abandoned article: the last sentence of the first paragraph says: "As of 2010, it is the highest rated broadcast news program in the United States."
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July 15, 2010 @ 4:35 p.m.
If you go directly to the Wikipedia website and do a search on "NBC Making A Difference" without using quotation marks, you will be directed to a Wikipedia page with several search results for that search term. The third search result has a title of "Jon Powers": I've taken the text of that search result directly from that page and put it below:
Jon Powers com/id/10070054/ NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams series, "Making a Difference", and http://www. msnbc. msn. com/id/16610767/site/ ... 5 KB (785 words) - 15:16, 21 May 2010
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July 15, 2010 @ 4:38 p.m.
If you follow the link to that Wikipedia article on Jon Powers, the first thing you'll see are two notes from Wikipedia from January 2010, one of which says "The neutrality of this article is disputed." The other note says "This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. It included attribution to IMDB, which may not be a reliable source for biographical information...."
Near the bottom of the page, there's a link that says "Jon Powers appearance on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams "Making A Difference" series".
If you follow that link, you go directly to a page on the "Making A Difference on NBC Nightly News" website. The page is devoted to what NBC claims is one story entitled "Iraq war vet determined to help children." There's a video and also a written article by NBC News Correspondent Kevin Tibbles. Just above the written article, there's a picture of Mr. Tibbles, with a note that says that the article was "updated 11/17/2005".
The video has an initial caption that says "Capt. John Powers has launched a program to help Iraqi orphans caught in the cross fire of war. NBC's Kevin Tibbles has his story." I've now watched that video 3 or 4 times; it seems to me that it's a fake designed to make it look like a "Making A Difference" story that Mr. Williams ran in 2005. "Making A Difference" didn't exist in 2005. I think that Mr. Williams and Mr. Tibbles took some old footage from Mr. Tibbles's 2005 report and tried to make it look like an old "Making A Difference" segment.
Neither Mr. Tibbles nor Mr. Williams ever says the date during the video. Mr. Williams signs off at the end of the supposed broadcast by saying "That is Nightly News for this Wednesday night."
@ 6:59 p.m.
That's also how Mr. Williams signed off last night, on July 14th, 2010, except that when the camera pulled away last night it gave a large, clear view of the outside of his desk which was lit up with the words "July 14th, 2010." The video of what Mr. Williams is trying to imply was the end of a broadcast that had "Making A Difference" in it from 2005 ends without showing the date in any way.
The logo from the faked 2005 "Making A Difference" segment is also different; it's yellow, white and blue and has been made to look less high tech than their current "Making A Difference" logo.
7:09 p.m.
I just did a Google search on the term "Jon Powers birthdate Buffalo NY" because I didn't want Mr. Williams to try to claim that his fake report was an update from this year or last year. The third search result is called Jon Powers/Thinkblue. If you follow the link from the Thinkblue page to "Powers Official Website," it's porn called "Fuckbook hacker".
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July 15, 2010 @ 7:44 p.m.
The reason that I wanted to look up Jon Powers's birthdate is that both the written article by Kevin Tibbles from 11/17/2005 and the fake "Making A Difference" report start by saying that Jonathon Powers is 26 years old. It's the first thing that Mr. Tibbles says in the fake "Making A Difference" video. It's definitely footage from 2005, from a story about Jon Powers that was a legitimate news story at the time it was made but which has been taken and falsely represented as part of Mr. Williams's attempt to cover up for the fact that he took the idea for his "Making A Difference" segment from something I wrote on Friendster in 2009. I'm not sure why he's gone to all this trouble; I've said many times that I never begrudged him the idea. I wasn't copyrighting anything I wrote on Friendster then and it has seemed to me that "Making A Difference" on the whole has proven to be a positive contribution to the world. I would really like it if Mr. Williams and everyone who's been supporting him stopped harassing me now, though.
July 30, 2010 @ 5:50 p.m.
Respect for women doesn’t mean creating a false ideal around them of any kind of general superiority to men or to certain women. Equality means equality; it means respecting women’s humanity, recognizing that everyone makes mistakes and that the human body is what it is whether it’s male or female. I see the vagina names as not just an invasion of my privacy but as a major violation; that is how I’ve seen being called those names since it began 5 months ago. In regard to sexual references, anyone of any gender who says “This makes me uncomfortable and I don’t want it to happen anymore” is supposed to have that statement respected after saying it once. As I’ve said before, I’m not interested in policing anyone or in setting rigid guidelines by which I expect everyone to abide so as to avoid the slightest chance of upsetting me. My belief is that reasonableness about this issue, evidenced by a genuine and sustained effort to be fair about it, isn't too much to expect from people who possess both intelligence and common sense.
September 24, 2010 @ 4:43 p.m.
(Note that I'm writing on September 30, 2010, regarding this section. A few days before I wrote this section, the South Burlington Police Department showed up at my house and gave me a Notice of Trespass Warning from the Colchester School District. It says "This is to notify you that you are not to enter onto or remain on the property/premises of Colchester Schools. Such act will constitute a trespassing violation....and will result in the criminal charge of Unlawful Trespass."
As I've said, I haven't been anywhere near any Colchester school in at least 20 years, since I played sports in high school. I have never threatened anyone in Colchester. I have never harassed anyone in Colchester. I haven't done anything to anyone at any Colchester school; not ever.)
(Note from October 1, 2010 @ 4:41 a.m.: I've removed some of what was in this section. The only line remaining from what I first wrote here is about how my Friendster profile got deactivated by an outside party.)
My Friendster profile doesn't work anymore; I can't log in. It looks as if it's been destroyed.
c. L. Kochman September 24, 2010
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September 24, 2010 @ 5:07 p.m.
There are posters around UVM saying “Resist the Bigots: Stand Up Against Islamophobia.”
It also says: “Glenn Beck and other flat-earthers have stoked the fires of religious intolerance and racial hatred, equating Islam with terrorism. Our side needs to answer back.”
I'm assuming that whoever planned that event hasn't been reading my writing online for the past year, and so missed all of the following:
--My current essay called “Iran” on my blog, newblog2010 at MyTripJournal.com
--The many times that I talked on Friendster from 2009 to 2010 about what a big problem racism is in the United States
--The time last year when I wrote on Friendster that I thought it would be a good idea for the U.S. Government to create an agency specifically to address the concerns of Muslim Americans and others who might have been mistaken for Muslims who have been living peaceably in the United States but who have been subjected to harassment by other Americans due to anti-Islamic sentiment since 9/11.
c. L. Kochman September 24, 2010
September 25, 2010 @ 2:53 p.m.
I'm at UVM right now, and students here have been coughing all over the place for an hour. Last week when I was here, I heard girls walk past me whispering "Liar" behind my back. What do they think is going on?
Weren't there people in Washington who were yelling "You lie!" at President Obama not too long ago? And what they were really saying was "You lie, boy!"
How much longer is the Obama administration going to try to pretend that its behavior regarding me isn't discriminatory and oppressive, isn't repression and abuse which is no different from America's historically bigoted treatment of black people that that administration claims to have "shattered" by getting President Obama elected?
What did those girls at UVM think I was lying about? Why am I getting harassed by UVM students?
Is the Obama administration still trying to tell people that I'm racist?
(May 13, 2011: There was originally an error in what I had written here. I've removed it. I'm sorry that I made the mistake in the first place. L. Kochman May 13, 2011 @ 12:47 p.m.)
The male cashier at Rite Aid put the crook of his arm over his face and coughed loudly before he helped me, and then he told me that he didn't have any $1 bills and he had to wait for a manager to bring him some.
I doubt that that cashier knows that the stack of “Rite Aid Crystal Lake” cases of water by the entrance to his place of employment are a reference to Crystal Mangum, the black woman who was branded as a false accuser of rape by Duke lacrosse players.
During the winter of 2010, I went online, did some research, and put a theory on Friendster which explained why I thought it was possible that Ms. Mangum had been telling the truth about being raped and that the parents of the lacrosse players had bribed or threatened the DNA testing center into giving false evidence of test results so that those lacrosse players would be wrongly acquitted. Does that sound like a racist thing for me to have done?
I was very surprised by the September/October issue of “Vermont Woman” newspaper, which was full of harassing references from cheese to leaks to everything you can imagine. I hadn't been watching that newspaper; I should have been. Here's a partial list of who's on the Editorial Advisory Board for the "Vermont Woman" newspaper:
The Honorable Madeleine Kunin (she's listed that way. She also sometimes teaches women's studies at UVM, which is a real shame.)
Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz
The Honorable Barbara Snelling (she's also listed that way.)
On page 22, there's a story called “Kids 4 Peace Vermont: Envisioning a Better Future for the Middle East;” it has a picture of a bunch of Jewish and Palestinian children at the beach and also a picture of two holding an open carton of eggs, so that the newspaper can call me "salmonella."
The article begins this way:
"In spring 2009, Diane Nancekivell found herself sitting in Jerusalem looking at pictures of a green summertime in Vermont, in a scrapbook put together by a middle-school-aged Muslim girl. The photos and memorabilia were labeled in both Arabic and English."
Here's another quote from that article:
“Vermont Episcopal Bishop Thomas Ely, a founder of the Vermont chapter of Kids4Peace, attributes the success of the program to the families who made it happen. Nancekivell believes the courage of the parents who send their kids to Kids4Peace is the fuel that can set peace alight.
(quote by Diane Nancekivell: “They risk so much in sending their kids across the ocean..."
Here's a situation; it seems to me that there is a large segment of the religious community in Vermont that is a part of the harassment, that is in fact extremely supportive of the use of children and teenagers to make sexual references.
On Thursday: All Saints Episcopal Church.
Little did I know that I had walked into the House of Horrors. On the bulletin board in the front office there's an article from The Other Paper called “Sailing Right Along;” it's about a cruise trip that South Burlington music students are going to be taking.
In the basement, there's a big picture of "Noah's Ark" across from the children's play section; that's the Bible story that they're teaching right now. In the kitchen, which is also in the basement, there's a big carton of "Goldfish," on top of the refrigerator. The door to the closet across from the refrigerator was open and I saw that there was "Cabot Cheese" paraphernalia, a big sign that said "Lobster Supper," and stacks of plates that had "How To Eat a Lobster" written on them.
(**Note from October 6, 2010 @ 9:55 a.m.: I've removed some of what I had originally written here because I think that there are some people who ought not to be punished inordinately for having followed a bad example set them by their bosses or other authority figures. L.Kochman.)
I couldn't figure out where Judy Kearns, the editor of The Other Paper, was getting all of her power, but it seems to me that she has strong support from at least two churches in addition to the administrators of all of the South Burlington Schools. However, the week of 09/16/10, I called Krista Atwood, the pastor at the Faith United Methodist Church, and I left her a message about Ms. Kearns and that it also seemed to me that her church was getting used by some of the people who go there as part of the harassment and abuse of children. The next week, I got the “Warning of Trespass Notice” delivered to me from the Colchester School District through the South Burlington Police Department.
Here's more of what I saw today;
--A pet store that had a sign in the window that read “Get Your Coral Here! Sea Squirts: Breeding the Comet, The Reefs of the Ocean, Australian Lord Corals.” Next to that sign it had another sign that said “Live Marine Photoplankton.” That was all under a big, neon sign that read “TROPICAL FISH.” As I was taking pictures, I noticed that under the light switch just inside the window was a sign about making sure to turn off “the recessed lights.”
--AT & T signs that read “Head of Class,” and had pictures of kids on new electronic equipment. One of the new products was “Pantech Impact” and the other one was “Pantech Pursuit.”
--A sticker on outdoor electrical equipment that read “Got Cod?”
All of that was on the same stretch of road in South Burlington that took 10 minutes to walk.
Here's what I saw in Burlington today:
--Posters in the window of Key Bank, some of which had watermelons on them and said “Fresh Solutions,” and one that had a white man smiling with a caption that said “Stay in control.” As I've said, the Obama administration can't support one form of bigotry without supporting all forms of bigotry, and those ads for Key Bank prove it. The Obama administration sexually harassing me and encouraging others to sexually harass me is encouraging racism also.
--A string of dolphins hanging from the front porch of a house.
--A towel that someone had hung in his or her window facing the street; the towel was an underwater scene of Spongebob holding a net over a fish that was swimming away.
--Posters for something called "The Death of Rough Francis." I've seen those around for a couple of weeks. My middle name is Francesca.
--The Fletcher Free Library has "piggyback" written on its dry erase board behind the desk. It also has something set up back there that says "Kill A Watt."
--(Note from October 5, 2010 @ 10:41 a.m.: I have removed part of what I had originally written here.) A poster for---apparently there were giant pumpkins at the Champlain Valley Fair this year, and people are going to hollow them out and row them on Lake Champlain as if they were boats.
--A gas station downtown has a banner for "Bridgestone Tires," the official tires for the National Hockey League, just below a banner for "Nokian Tyres: World Class Tires from Finland."
I spent most of yesterday calling shelters. I got someone on the phone who told me to go over and see him today at 1:00 p.m. When I went there today, he wasn't there. The guy who was there told me that they had a big bedbug problem, and that they were going to have to go through all of my stuff, and that I'd have to take a shower and wash all of my clothes. I'm lucky that another user of those services told me that the woman's sides has plenty of room, because when the person who had told me to see him at 1:00 p.m. finally showed up at 2:00 p.m., he also started talking to me about their bedbug problem. I'm sure that the other night, I heard Brian Williams on NBC talking about a "bedbug problem," and what it takes to "snuff them out." I've been getting called "bedbugs," too, haven't I, as part of the harassment. And the men who work at that shelter were planning to make me take all my clothes off and take a shower before they gave me a place in the shelter, even though there's plenty of room on the women's side. I wonder if they were planning to make me do that while they went through all of my stuff and then were also planning to tell me that I had lice and couldn't stay in the shelter, even after I'd taken a shower and washed all of my clothes.
When I got to that shelter today, I saw that they'd written "Clean Up" and "Barge Canal" on the blackboard. "Cleaning Up the Barge Canal" was on the front page of the Burlington Free Press a couple of days ago.
Yesterday I saw that the Merchants Bank had SEABA artwork in its front window; the plaque under it said the artist does work in "Stoneware."
I think that at least Hillary Clinton is going to use Delicious.com to get into high schools and maybe also colleges in Vermont if not all across the United States. I hope it's not too rude for me to express the hope that she won't use that Internet connection to try to create legions of Hitlary Youth.
c. L. Kochman September 25, 2010
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Note from February 10, 2015
There are a lot of factual errors in this blog. Those errors don't include my discussions of "Making A Difference" and of the overall corruption and promotion of crime of the entities and people who formed what I named "the conglomerate" in 2010.
I don't think that the White House controls most of the things on the Internet about the government. It took me a long time to realize that most people don't have a lot of control over what gets said about them on the Internet. That realization is the reason that I started looking at the official websites for entities and individuals.
Copyright L. Kochman, February 10, 2015 @ 6:03 p.m.
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Note for this page: This page of this blog begins on July 13, 2010, but I’m writing this note on September 30, 2010, at 12:11 p.m.. I have edited out a large amount of what was originally written on this page. However, my Friendster profile and WordPress blog being destroyed were only the most recent examples of my writing being suppressed online. Much of the first half of my WordPress blog was writing that I had kept a copy of, which was helpful on August 18, 2010, when this same page on Weebly got erased right in front of me.
On August 18, 2010, I stood there and watched while everything from the bottom of the page to the section for July 15, 2010 @ 3:29 p.m. got erased; it really did look as if an invisible eraser was working its way up the page to just below where Brian Williams was quoted from his appearance in the December 27, 2009 USA Weekend as saying “We’ve been pleasantly surprised that our ratings are up this year over last. Considering we were in the midst of a history-making presidential election year (and the downward trend in the news biz, in general), that’s saying something.”
If you read what is now my short version of this blog, you will see that what got erased along with everything else on August 18, 2010 was my complete explanation of how Mr. Williams, Kevin Tibbles, and whoever else those two men colluded with at NBC deliberately and painstakingly committed fraud to cover up the fact that Mr. Williams had taken an idea that I’d written about on Friendster in January of 2009 and that he’d turned it into his very successful “Making A Difference” project.
As I’ve said many times, I never begrudged Mr. Williams the use of that idea; I wasn’t copyrighting anything I wrote online then, and I doubt that I would have tried to copyright that idea anyway since I thought it would be a good thing for any news show to have. In fact, here’s my express permission that any news show that wants to can use my original idea that I wrote about on Friendster in January of 2009 and create any kind of “Good News Show” that they want to. Since it WASN’T Mr. Williams’s idea to begin with, and since I’ve proved that conclusively in this blog, I doubt that Mr. Williams or anyone at NBC can sue you for using my idea to create a show like that or to put a segment like it in your already existing news show. That goes for newspapers, magazines, online, radio and so on; anyone who wants to use my original idea for its original intention of letting people know about good things that are happening in the world can.
While I was working on the Word document that I used to put this page of my blog back together just now, I asked a question from “Office Online.” One of the side captions that appeared next to my document says “Crabby demystifies Word terms.”
The battery is charging on my camera right now. If I can, I’ll leave the page that shows that caption up until I can take a picture of it.
All of the above is copyrighted to me, L. Kochman September 30, 2010
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July 14, 2011
Here’s another note that I’ve written about this page. PLEASE NOTICE THAT TODAY’S DATE, JULY 14, 2011, IS A YEAR LATER THAN THE DATE ON WHICH I STARTED MY EXPLANATION OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH MY ORIGINAL ESSAY ON FRIENDSTER THAT WAS USED BY MR. WILLIAMS AS THE BASIS FOR HIS NBC NIGHTLY NEWS SEGMENT “MAKING A DIFFERENCE”.
When I wrote my essay about the need for a Good News Show on Friendster in January of 2009, the Internet, media and entertainment industry harassment of me wasn’t yet sexual harassment. I used the quote “Hope is the virtue from which all other virtues spring” at a time when I couldn’t have anticipated that in two and a half years I would think carefully about using the word “spring” if I didn’t absolutely have to do so.
I didn’t have a blog such as Weebly or WordPress before the summer of 2010. The way I had written online before then was to write on Friendster and then replace what I’d written a few hours later, the next day, or a few days later. Also, when Brian Williams appeared in the December 27, 2009 USA Weekend and said that he’d begun “air(ing) a new segment called ‘Making a Difference’” in 2009, not only was the harassment of me not yet sexual in nature, no code significance had been attached to the word “new”.
Copyright L. Kochman July 14, 2011 @ 12:40 p.m.
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July 13, 2010
I found what I wrote on Friendster that it’s always seemed to me that Brian Williams at NBC took and used as the basis for his “Making A Difference” segment. I had printed out a copy of the screen that had the essay on it in Friendster: on the printed page you can even see the Friendster section heading “About Me,” as well as other Friendster-specific titles and graphics that print out on the page when you make a paper copy of the screen. At the top right-hand corner of the page it reads “Saturday, January 24, 2009 @ 8:56 p.m.. That means that I wrote the following essay on or before January 24, 2009:
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from “About Me:”
I was thinking it would be fun to have a show called “The Good News Show.” I think it’s important to have news shows keep reporting on all the scary, bad things that are happening in the world, but sometimes I feel like I’ve been watching the same show over and over again since I was a kid. So I thought it might be fun to have a half-hour show in which the newscaster reported the statistics of all the good, low-key things that happened every day.
For example: “Today, 250 million people in the United States got up and went to work.” “Today, 50 million kids went to school in the United States.” “Today, 10,000 tons of stuff got recycled.” I don’t know what the actual statistics are on any of those things. Does anyone in general know those statistics? No? So we need that show.
I feel like it would be nice to have those daily numbers reported on all the people who are going about their business, the ones who aren’t screwing up. Because I think that there are a lot of people who are not screwing up on any given day. It’s not that I don’t have an interest in the world outside my doors. I just hate seeing one catastrophe after another and feeling like there’s nothing I can do about any of it. I read somewhere that “Hope is the virtue from which all other virtues spring.”
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July 15th, 2010 @ 3:16 p.m.
Yahoo's coverage of the oil spill today reads: "BP back to slow trial of choking Gulf oil with untested cap (AP)." Yesterday I was out and there was a group of people a few feet away from me whom I didn't know and neither looked at nor approached. All of a sudden a guy in that group of people started saying things like "leak" and "horsehair" and making other references that made me think that he was aware of the way in which I've been getting harassed. He kept that going for a while and I ignored it. It also sounded as if he might have taken a picture of me with his cellphone. I wonder if the people and businesses who have been harassing me really think that they aren't endangering me.
I just did a Google search on " NBC Making A Difference" through Wikipedia and here were the first four results:
Advanced searchAbout 1,430 results (0.29 seconds) Search ResultsKTAL-TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NBC for the Ark-La-Tex (1996–2002); The News Station (2002–2009); Making A Difference (2008-2009); Your Weather Authority (2009-present) ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTAL-TV - Cached - SimilarJohn Rich (war correspondent) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After having been retired for many years, Rich was featured in NBC Nightly News' Making a Difference segment on July 24, 2008. ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rich_(war_correspondent) - CachedWCNC-TV - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Come Home to the Best, Only on 36 (1988-1990; localized version of NBC ad campaign); Making a Difference (1989-1996); Carolinas' News Channel (1996-2007 and ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCNC-TV - 23 hours ago - Cached - SimilarKSNF - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
KSNF is the NBC affiliated television station for the Joplin, ... unrelated to the 1986-1987 NBC ad campaign); Together, We're Making A Difference ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSNF - Cached - Similar
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July 15, 2010 @ 3:29 p.m.
Brian Williams appeared in USA Weekend on December 27, 2009 in an article called "The Best News of 2009." Here's a quote from him in that article: "We've been pleasantly surprised that our ratings are up this year over last. Considering we were in the midst of a history-making presidential election year (and the downward trend in the news biz, in general), that's saying something. Why us? Why now? It has been theorized that a spoonful of "good news" might just have helped. Several nights a week, we air a new segment called "Making a Difference.""
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July 15, 2010 @ 3:40 p.m.
Since Mr. Williams is calling the "Making A Difference" segment a "new segment" for NBC as of 2009 and is also crediting "Making A Difference" for the fact that his ratings in 2009 are up from his ratings in 2008, why are there search results from Google and Wikipedia indicating that "Making A Difference" was a part of NBC from as early as 1989, or even in 2008? It's not my fault that someone at The New Yorker starting calling me "Wikileaks," and I would appreciate it if Wikipedia didn't take out its embarrassment over that issue on me.
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July 15, 2010 @ 3:50 p.m.
The other day I looked up "NBC Nightly News" on Wikipedia. The article covers the history of the show "NBC Nightly News" since 1970, and there is NO mention at all of a segment called "Making A Difference" or anything like that segment ever being a part of that show. The Wikipedia article about NBC Nightly News isn't an old or abandoned article: the last sentence of the first paragraph says: "As of 2010, it is the highest rated broadcast news program in the United States."
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July 15, 2010 @ 4:35 p.m.
If you go directly to the Wikipedia website and do a search on "NBC Making A Difference" without using quotation marks, you will be directed to a Wikipedia page with several search results for that search term. The third search result has a title of "Jon Powers": I've taken the text of that search result directly from that page and put it below:
Jon Powers com/id/10070054/ NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams series, "Making a Difference", and http://www. msnbc. msn. com/id/16610767/site/ ... 5 KB (785 words) - 15:16, 21 May 2010
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July 15, 2010 @ 4:38 p.m.
If you follow the link to that Wikipedia article on Jon Powers, the first thing you'll see are two notes from Wikipedia from January 2010, one of which says "The neutrality of this article is disputed." The other note says "This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. It included attribution to IMDB, which may not be a reliable source for biographical information...."
Near the bottom of the page, there's a link that says "Jon Powers appearance on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams "Making A Difference" series".
If you follow that link, you go directly to a page on the "Making A Difference on NBC Nightly News" website. The page is devoted to what NBC claims is one story entitled "Iraq war vet determined to help children." There's a video and also a written article by NBC News Correspondent Kevin Tibbles. Just above the written article, there's a picture of Mr. Tibbles, with a note that says that the article was "updated 11/17/2005".
The video has an initial caption that says "Capt. John Powers has launched a program to help Iraqi orphans caught in the cross fire of war. NBC's Kevin Tibbles has his story." I've now watched that video 3 or 4 times; it seems to me that it's a fake designed to make it look like a "Making A Difference" story that Mr. Williams ran in 2005. "Making A Difference" didn't exist in 2005. I think that Mr. Williams and Mr. Tibbles took some old footage from Mr. Tibbles's 2005 report and tried to make it look like an old "Making A Difference" segment.
Neither Mr. Tibbles nor Mr. Williams ever says the date during the video. Mr. Williams signs off at the end of the supposed broadcast by saying "That is Nightly News for this Wednesday night."
@ 6:59 p.m.
That's also how Mr. Williams signed off last night, on July 14th, 2010, except that when the camera pulled away last night it gave a large, clear view of the outside of his desk which was lit up with the words "July 14th, 2010." The video of what Mr. Williams is trying to imply was the end of a broadcast that had "Making A Difference" in it from 2005 ends without showing the date in any way.
The logo from the faked 2005 "Making A Difference" segment is also different; it's yellow, white and blue and has been made to look less high tech than their current "Making A Difference" logo.
7:09 p.m.
I just did a Google search on the term "Jon Powers birthdate Buffalo NY" because I didn't want Mr. Williams to try to claim that his fake report was an update from this year or last year. The third search result is called Jon Powers/Thinkblue. If you follow the link from the Thinkblue page to "Powers Official Website," it's porn called "Fuckbook hacker".
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July 15, 2010 @ 7:44 p.m.
The reason that I wanted to look up Jon Powers's birthdate is that both the written article by Kevin Tibbles from 11/17/2005 and the fake "Making A Difference" report start by saying that Jonathon Powers is 26 years old. It's the first thing that Mr. Tibbles says in the fake "Making A Difference" video. It's definitely footage from 2005, from a story about Jon Powers that was a legitimate news story at the time it was made but which has been taken and falsely represented as part of Mr. Williams's attempt to cover up for the fact that he took the idea for his "Making A Difference" segment from something I wrote on Friendster in 2009. I'm not sure why he's gone to all this trouble; I've said many times that I never begrudged him the idea. I wasn't copyrighting anything I wrote on Friendster then and it has seemed to me that "Making A Difference" on the whole has proven to be a positive contribution to the world. I would really like it if Mr. Williams and everyone who's been supporting him stopped harassing me now, though.
July 30, 2010 @ 5:50 p.m.
Respect for women doesn’t mean creating a false ideal around them of any kind of general superiority to men or to certain women. Equality means equality; it means respecting women’s humanity, recognizing that everyone makes mistakes and that the human body is what it is whether it’s male or female. I see the vagina names as not just an invasion of my privacy but as a major violation; that is how I’ve seen being called those names since it began 5 months ago. In regard to sexual references, anyone of any gender who says “This makes me uncomfortable and I don’t want it to happen anymore” is supposed to have that statement respected after saying it once. As I’ve said before, I’m not interested in policing anyone or in setting rigid guidelines by which I expect everyone to abide so as to avoid the slightest chance of upsetting me. My belief is that reasonableness about this issue, evidenced by a genuine and sustained effort to be fair about it, isn't too much to expect from people who possess both intelligence and common sense.
September 24, 2010 @ 4:43 p.m.
(Note that I'm writing on September 30, 2010, regarding this section. A few days before I wrote this section, the South Burlington Police Department showed up at my house and gave me a Notice of Trespass Warning from the Colchester School District. It says "This is to notify you that you are not to enter onto or remain on the property/premises of Colchester Schools. Such act will constitute a trespassing violation....and will result in the criminal charge of Unlawful Trespass."
As I've said, I haven't been anywhere near any Colchester school in at least 20 years, since I played sports in high school. I have never threatened anyone in Colchester. I have never harassed anyone in Colchester. I haven't done anything to anyone at any Colchester school; not ever.)
(Note from October 1, 2010 @ 4:41 a.m.: I've removed some of what was in this section. The only line remaining from what I first wrote here is about how my Friendster profile got deactivated by an outside party.)
My Friendster profile doesn't work anymore; I can't log in. It looks as if it's been destroyed.
c. L. Kochman September 24, 2010
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September 24, 2010 @ 5:07 p.m.
There are posters around UVM saying “Resist the Bigots: Stand Up Against Islamophobia.”
It also says: “Glenn Beck and other flat-earthers have stoked the fires of religious intolerance and racial hatred, equating Islam with terrorism. Our side needs to answer back.”
I'm assuming that whoever planned that event hasn't been reading my writing online for the past year, and so missed all of the following:
--My current essay called “Iran” on my blog, newblog2010 at MyTripJournal.com
--The many times that I talked on Friendster from 2009 to 2010 about what a big problem racism is in the United States
--The time last year when I wrote on Friendster that I thought it would be a good idea for the U.S. Government to create an agency specifically to address the concerns of Muslim Americans and others who might have been mistaken for Muslims who have been living peaceably in the United States but who have been subjected to harassment by other Americans due to anti-Islamic sentiment since 9/11.
c. L. Kochman September 24, 2010
September 25, 2010 @ 2:53 p.m.
I'm at UVM right now, and students here have been coughing all over the place for an hour. Last week when I was here, I heard girls walk past me whispering "Liar" behind my back. What do they think is going on?
Weren't there people in Washington who were yelling "You lie!" at President Obama not too long ago? And what they were really saying was "You lie, boy!"
How much longer is the Obama administration going to try to pretend that its behavior regarding me isn't discriminatory and oppressive, isn't repression and abuse which is no different from America's historically bigoted treatment of black people that that administration claims to have "shattered" by getting President Obama elected?
What did those girls at UVM think I was lying about? Why am I getting harassed by UVM students?
Is the Obama administration still trying to tell people that I'm racist?
(May 13, 2011: There was originally an error in what I had written here. I've removed it. I'm sorry that I made the mistake in the first place. L. Kochman May 13, 2011 @ 12:47 p.m.)
The male cashier at Rite Aid put the crook of his arm over his face and coughed loudly before he helped me, and then he told me that he didn't have any $1 bills and he had to wait for a manager to bring him some.
I doubt that that cashier knows that the stack of “Rite Aid Crystal Lake” cases of water by the entrance to his place of employment are a reference to Crystal Mangum, the black woman who was branded as a false accuser of rape by Duke lacrosse players.
During the winter of 2010, I went online, did some research, and put a theory on Friendster which explained why I thought it was possible that Ms. Mangum had been telling the truth about being raped and that the parents of the lacrosse players had bribed or threatened the DNA testing center into giving false evidence of test results so that those lacrosse players would be wrongly acquitted. Does that sound like a racist thing for me to have done?
I was very surprised by the September/October issue of “Vermont Woman” newspaper, which was full of harassing references from cheese to leaks to everything you can imagine. I hadn't been watching that newspaper; I should have been. Here's a partial list of who's on the Editorial Advisory Board for the "Vermont Woman" newspaper:
The Honorable Madeleine Kunin (she's listed that way. She also sometimes teaches women's studies at UVM, which is a real shame.)
Vermont Secretary of State Deb Markowitz
The Honorable Barbara Snelling (she's also listed that way.)
On page 22, there's a story called “Kids 4 Peace Vermont: Envisioning a Better Future for the Middle East;” it has a picture of a bunch of Jewish and Palestinian children at the beach and also a picture of two holding an open carton of eggs, so that the newspaper can call me "salmonella."
The article begins this way:
"In spring 2009, Diane Nancekivell found herself sitting in Jerusalem looking at pictures of a green summertime in Vermont, in a scrapbook put together by a middle-school-aged Muslim girl. The photos and memorabilia were labeled in both Arabic and English."
Here's another quote from that article:
“Vermont Episcopal Bishop Thomas Ely, a founder of the Vermont chapter of Kids4Peace, attributes the success of the program to the families who made it happen. Nancekivell believes the courage of the parents who send their kids to Kids4Peace is the fuel that can set peace alight.
(quote by Diane Nancekivell: “They risk so much in sending their kids across the ocean..."
Here's a situation; it seems to me that there is a large segment of the religious community in Vermont that is a part of the harassment, that is in fact extremely supportive of the use of children and teenagers to make sexual references.
On Thursday: All Saints Episcopal Church.
Little did I know that I had walked into the House of Horrors. On the bulletin board in the front office there's an article from The Other Paper called “Sailing Right Along;” it's about a cruise trip that South Burlington music students are going to be taking.
In the basement, there's a big picture of "Noah's Ark" across from the children's play section; that's the Bible story that they're teaching right now. In the kitchen, which is also in the basement, there's a big carton of "Goldfish," on top of the refrigerator. The door to the closet across from the refrigerator was open and I saw that there was "Cabot Cheese" paraphernalia, a big sign that said "Lobster Supper," and stacks of plates that had "How To Eat a Lobster" written on them.
(**Note from October 6, 2010 @ 9:55 a.m.: I've removed some of what I had originally written here because I think that there are some people who ought not to be punished inordinately for having followed a bad example set them by their bosses or other authority figures. L.Kochman.)
I couldn't figure out where Judy Kearns, the editor of The Other Paper, was getting all of her power, but it seems to me that she has strong support from at least two churches in addition to the administrators of all of the South Burlington Schools. However, the week of 09/16/10, I called Krista Atwood, the pastor at the Faith United Methodist Church, and I left her a message about Ms. Kearns and that it also seemed to me that her church was getting used by some of the people who go there as part of the harassment and abuse of children. The next week, I got the “Warning of Trespass Notice” delivered to me from the Colchester School District through the South Burlington Police Department.
Here's more of what I saw today;
--A pet store that had a sign in the window that read “Get Your Coral Here! Sea Squirts: Breeding the Comet, The Reefs of the Ocean, Australian Lord Corals.” Next to that sign it had another sign that said “Live Marine Photoplankton.” That was all under a big, neon sign that read “TROPICAL FISH.” As I was taking pictures, I noticed that under the light switch just inside the window was a sign about making sure to turn off “the recessed lights.”
--AT & T signs that read “Head of Class,” and had pictures of kids on new electronic equipment. One of the new products was “Pantech Impact” and the other one was “Pantech Pursuit.”
--A sticker on outdoor electrical equipment that read “Got Cod?”
All of that was on the same stretch of road in South Burlington that took 10 minutes to walk.
Here's what I saw in Burlington today:
--Posters in the window of Key Bank, some of which had watermelons on them and said “Fresh Solutions,” and one that had a white man smiling with a caption that said “Stay in control.” As I've said, the Obama administration can't support one form of bigotry without supporting all forms of bigotry, and those ads for Key Bank prove it. The Obama administration sexually harassing me and encouraging others to sexually harass me is encouraging racism also.
--A string of dolphins hanging from the front porch of a house.
--A towel that someone had hung in his or her window facing the street; the towel was an underwater scene of Spongebob holding a net over a fish that was swimming away.
--Posters for something called "The Death of Rough Francis." I've seen those around for a couple of weeks. My middle name is Francesca.
--The Fletcher Free Library has "piggyback" written on its dry erase board behind the desk. It also has something set up back there that says "Kill A Watt."
--(Note from October 5, 2010 @ 10:41 a.m.: I have removed part of what I had originally written here.) A poster for---apparently there were giant pumpkins at the Champlain Valley Fair this year, and people are going to hollow them out and row them on Lake Champlain as if they were boats.
--A gas station downtown has a banner for "Bridgestone Tires," the official tires for the National Hockey League, just below a banner for "Nokian Tyres: World Class Tires from Finland."
I spent most of yesterday calling shelters. I got someone on the phone who told me to go over and see him today at 1:00 p.m. When I went there today, he wasn't there. The guy who was there told me that they had a big bedbug problem, and that they were going to have to go through all of my stuff, and that I'd have to take a shower and wash all of my clothes. I'm lucky that another user of those services told me that the woman's sides has plenty of room, because when the person who had told me to see him at 1:00 p.m. finally showed up at 2:00 p.m., he also started talking to me about their bedbug problem. I'm sure that the other night, I heard Brian Williams on NBC talking about a "bedbug problem," and what it takes to "snuff them out." I've been getting called "bedbugs," too, haven't I, as part of the harassment. And the men who work at that shelter were planning to make me take all my clothes off and take a shower before they gave me a place in the shelter, even though there's plenty of room on the women's side. I wonder if they were planning to make me do that while they went through all of my stuff and then were also planning to tell me that I had lice and couldn't stay in the shelter, even after I'd taken a shower and washed all of my clothes.
When I got to that shelter today, I saw that they'd written "Clean Up" and "Barge Canal" on the blackboard. "Cleaning Up the Barge Canal" was on the front page of the Burlington Free Press a couple of days ago.
Yesterday I saw that the Merchants Bank had SEABA artwork in its front window; the plaque under it said the artist does work in "Stoneware."
I think that at least Hillary Clinton is going to use Delicious.com to get into high schools and maybe also colleges in Vermont if not all across the United States. I hope it's not too rude for me to express the hope that she won't use that Internet connection to try to create legions of Hitlary Youth.
c. L. Kochman September 25, 2010