Give These Guys Major Cred for "I'm Farming and I Grow It"! Check This One Out!!!

Have You Seen This? I'm Farming and I Grow It 
By Roxana Hegeman,
Associated PressJuly 6th, 2012

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas State University student Greg Peterson and some friends were unwinding at a drive- in restaurant when LMFAO's song "Sexy and I Know It" came on the radio. He groaned.

But as the chorus droned on, the 21-year-old found inspiration. He switched "sexy" to "farming" as he began rapping. Then he started coming up with lyrics. It would be fun, he thought, to do a video parody with his brothers when he returned home to the family farm in central Kansas.

Peterson said the brothers aimed the video at their city friends on Facebook because they "hardly knew anything about the farm." They ended up educating the world. "I'm Farming and I Grow It" video has become an Internet sensation with more than 3.2 million views since it was posted June 25 on YouTube.

Its success has been hailed by farm groups, documented by newspapers and even won the brothers a whirlwind trip to New York City for a television appearance on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends."

Peterson said he and his family have been a little bit overwhelmed by all the attention and he's doing "some normal things" now to keep sane. On a recent morning, he was out swathing – or mowing – the prairie hay used to feed the family's cattle.

"I am just trying to rest my brain a little bit and get back to, you know, this is reality," he said by cellphone. "This is something I can understand, whereas when I was in New York, everything was just hitting my mind, and it was kind of like, `I can't believe this, I can't believe this.'"

The 21-year-old Kansas State University senior isn't the first to parody LMFAO's club hit. Spoofs include "Elmo and I Know It," which features the popular "Sesame Street" character, "I'm Average and I Know It," and "Santa and I Know It." Most have only a few thousand hits, although the Elmo version has garnered roughly 12.7 million hits in about seven months.

Peterson's 3:32-minute video begins at the break of dawn with him and his brothers, Nathan, 18, and Kendal, 15, walking across a field of golden wheat that sways gently in the wind. The scenes then shift rapidly to the song's beat, showing the brothers doing chores, driving combines and tractors and jumping on hay bales. It ends with the three walking off into the sunset across a field where the wheat has been harvested.

One scene shows Peterson feeding cattle as he raps, "When I step to the bunk, yeah, this is what I see: All the hungry cattle are staring at me. I got passion for my plants, and I ain't afraid to show it, show it, show it. I'm farming, and I grow it."

Peterson, who's majoring in agriculture communication and journalism and minoring in music performance at Kansas State, said the video was produced with iMovie and GarageBand software. His 11-year-old sister, Laura, shot some of it on the family farm near Assaria.

Steve Baccus, the president of the Kansas Farm Bureau, said what the Peterson brothers did on their own is exactly what agriculture groups have been trying to get other farmers to do – use social media to show consumers the real faces of agriculture.

Individual farmers and industry groups have started using Twitter, YouTube and other social media in recent years to counter the messages put out by tech-savvy environmental and animal rights groups concerned about everything from water quality to the size of cages chickens are kept in.

"We think it is a great way to communicate with the consumer and give them an idea of what exactly goes on in agriculture on the farm," Baccus said. "We are being painted by some different groups in a pretty nasty vein, and that is not at all true. I think we need to get the message out there is another side of agriculture."

He said he loved the Peterson brothers' video: "I liked the way they incorporated humor into it, and I just thought they did a fantastic job."

The Peterson brothers have posted other videos about the family farm on YouTube, and Peterson said they'll make more. He keeps his iPod Touch with him as he farms, occasionally pulling it out and filming things.

"That doesn't take any extra time, or really any extra thought," he said. "It is just like, `This is what I am doing. So I will continue to make those kinds of videos.'"

source: http://www.ksl.com/?sid=21134677&nid=1017&title=have-you-seen-this-im-farming-and-i-grow-it&s_cid=queue-2

Check Your Computer For Malware! You May Not Have Internet By Monday!

Malware may knock thousands off Internet on Monday

By LOLITA C. BALDOR | Associated Press

 WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite repeated alerts, tens of thousands of Americans may still lose their Internet service Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago.

The warnings about the Internet problem have been splashed across Facebook and Google. Internet service providers have sent notices, and the FBI set up a special website.

According to the FBI, the number of computers that probably are infected is more than 277,000 worldwide, down from about 360,000 in April. About 64,000 still-infected computers are probably in the United States.

The Canadian Internet Registration Authority said about 25,000 of the computers initially affected by the malware were in Canada, but now only about 7,000 machines remain infected there, according to Canadian Internet Registration Authority spokesman Mark Buell.

He said his organization, together with Public Safety Canada and the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission, has developed an online site where computer users can check their computers for the malware.

People whose computers are still infected Monday will lose their ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the Internet.

The problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of more than 570,000 infected computers around the world. When the FBI went in to take down the hackers late last year, agents realized that if they turned off the malicious servers being used to control the computers, all the victims would lose their Internet service.

In a highly unusual move, the FBI set up a safety net. They brought in a private company to install two clean Internet servers to take over for the malicious servers so that people would not suddenly lose their Internet.

And while it was the first time they'd done something like that, FBI officials acknowledged that it may not be the last, since authorities are taking on more of these types of investigations.

The temporary Internet system they set up, however, will be shut down at 12:01 a.m. EDT Monday, July 9.

Most victims don't even know their computers have been infected, although the malicious software probably has slowed their online surfing and disabled their antivirus software, making their machines more vulnerable to other problems.

But popular social networking sites and Internet providers have gotten more involved, reaching out to computer users to warn of the problem.

According to Tom Grasso, an FBI supervisory special agent, many Internet providers are ready for the problem and have plans to try to help their customers. Some, such as Comcast, already have reached out.

The company sent out notices and posted information on its website. Because the company can tell whether there is a problem with a customer's Internet server, Comcast sent an email, letter or Internet notice to customers whose computers appeared to be affected.

Grasso said other Internet providers may come up with technical solutions that they will put in place Monday that will either correct the problem or provide information to customers when they call to say their Internet isn't working. If the Internet providers correct the server problem, the Internet will work, but the malware will remain on victims' computers and could pose future problems.

In addition to individual computer owners, about 50 Fortune 500 companies are still infected, Grasso said.

Both Facebook and Google created their own warning messages that showed up if someone using either site appeared to have an infected computer. Facebook users would get a message that says, "Your computer or network might be infected," along with a link that users can click for more information.

Google users got a similar message, displayed at the top of a Google search results page. It also provides information on correcting the problem.

To check whether a computer is infected, users can visit a website run by the group brought in by the FBI: http://www.dcwg.org .

The site includes links to respected commercial sites that will run a quick check on the computer, and it also lays out detailed instructions if users want to actually check the computer themselves.

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Associated Press writer Charmaine Noronha in Toronto contributed to this report.

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Online:

To check and clean computers: http://www.dcwg.org

Canadian websites: http://www.dns-ok.ca/

Comcast Warning: http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Security-and-Anti-Virus/DNS-Changer-Bot-FAQ/td-p/1215341

Google: http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2012/05/notifying-users-affected-by-dnschanger.html

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/notifying-dnschanger-victims/10150833689760766

source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/malware-may-knock-thousands-off-internet-monday-063924510--finance.html

"Secret Combinations". U.N. Treaty To Take Away Our Right To Bear Arms.

From killing someone to make their point in FAST AND FURIOUS to a new arms treaty, the agenda of oppression is upon us and is being enacted by our government in secret. The use of secrecy to pass treaties and to create laws that take away more of our Constitutional rights/Bill of Rights is biblical prophecy. 

These people are not working in our best interest. They are working to make us helpless and to make us slaves to their needs. Only the elite will have the rights we have come to love and take for granted. We need to rise up and fight these secret combinations!


Don't let the United States Constitution hang by a thread anymore than it already is. The U.N. is an agency that seems from the outside to be good, but what goes on behind the cloak of humanitarian help is treaties like this one. Do not be deceived!


 

Here is the build up that the media is putting out there so that this can be justified...

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 UN chief terms lack of arms trade treaty as “disgrace”

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. — Photo Reuters
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pleaded on Tuesday for a binding pact to regulate the more than $60 billion global weapons market, while delegates at a treaty drafting conference worked to defuse a dispute over Palestinian participation. 

“We do not have a multilateral treaty of global scope dealing with conventional arms,” Ban told delegates to the conference, which runs through July 27. “This is a disgrace.” 

“Poorly regulated international arms transfers are fueling civil conflicts, destabilizing regions, and empowering terrorists and criminal networks,” he said. 

Arms control campaigners say one person every minute dies from armed violence around the world and that a convention is needed to prevent illicitly traded guns from pouring into conflict zones and fueling wars and atrocities. 

They say conflicts in Syria and elsewhere show a treaty is necessary. 

If the campaigners get their way, all signatories would be charged with enforcing compliance with any treaty by arms producers and with taking steps to prevent rogue dealers from operating within their borders...

read more at: http://dawn.com/2012/07/04/un-chief-terms-lack-of-arms-trade-treaty-is-disgrace/ 

Talks begin at U.N. on arms-trade treaty
July 04, 2012|By Ron DePasquale, Associated PressUNITED NATIONS - The world's nations began a final push Tuesday for the first legally binding global treaty that would regulate the international arms trade and try to prevent the transfer of weapons to armed groups and terrorists. 

The 193-member U.N. General Assembly is expected to approve the treaty, which has been in the works since 2006, when the United States voted against the resolution that launched the process. The Obama administration later reversed the George W. Bush administration's position and supported an assembly resolution to hold this year's four-week Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty. 

...The foreign ministers of the U.K., France, Germany and Sweden wrote in a Monday editorial in the Guardian newspaper that the treaty "should cover all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons, all types of munitions, and related technologies. It is also of great importance that the treaty includes strong provisions on human rights, international humanitarian law and sustainable development." 

read more at: http://articles.philly.com/2012-07-04/news/32537679_1_arms-trade-treaty-arms-trade-treaty-arms-and-light-weapons

J'lem seeks to stop 'Palestine' attending UN parley

By HERB KEINON

07/03/2012 21:21

Israel working to prevent Palestinians from participating in UN arms treaty conference as full fledged state rather than observer.

Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

Israel is actively working in key capitals around the world to prevent the Palestinians from participating in a UN arms trade treaty conference taking place in New York as a full-fledged state, and not merely as an observer, western diplomatic officials said Tuesday.

According to officials, Israel has lodged demarches in various capitals urging they work against seating the Palestinians as a state at the meeting, which aims to hammer out a binding treaty to regulate the global weapons market. The officials said Israel has let it be known that it would block the results of the treaty if the Palestinians were granted state status...

read more at http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=276149&R=R1&t=t

July UN Meeting to Discuss Global Arms Trade Treaty

Chinese officers check rifles of ARES Defense Systems, Inc from the U.S. at the Special Operations Forces Exhibition and Conference at King Abdullah I Airbase in Amman, Jordan, May 8, 2012.Andre deNesnera

June 28, 2012

Delegates from more than 150 countries are to meet next month (July 2-27) at the United Nations in New York to draft a global arms trade treaty.

The proposed legally-binding treaty would set international standards to regulate the import, export and transfer of conventional weapons - from aircraft carriers to machine guns and small arms.  Major arms exporters, such as the United States, and major importers, such as India, will participate...

Arms and ammo treaty

In addition to conventional weapons, experts such as Scott Stedjan, senior policy adviser with Oxfam America, said the treaty must also include ammunition.

"Every year, there are about 12 billion bullets produced throughout the world. And the value of that trade globally is around four billion dollars - in excess of $4 billion,” he said.

Stedjan said it is essential to have an international treaty regulating the arms and ammunition trade.

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The Russian dimension

Russia - a major international arms dealer and Syria’s main weapons provider - will have a delegation at the conference.

Kimball said Moscow continues to abide by the weapons sale contracts it signed with Damascus before the conflict began.

read more at: http://www.voanews.com/content/july-un-meeting-discuss-global-arms-trade-treaty/1275516.html

The Proposed UN Small Arms Treaty; Pushed by Hillary Clinton

by Adrian Krieg

The greatest gun grab in world history is in the midst of debate in the UN and is being pushed by Obama, Holder, Clinton, and all of Obama's Czars. Citizens of the United States, in fact citizens around the world, deserve to know what this treaty, if ratified by the Senate, would mean to Americans. Here is a brief synopsis:


• If ratified by the Senate the treaty would void the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.


• The Treaty would violate the Tenth Amendment transferring and federalizing gun ownership, regulation and licensing nationally.


• Require the establishment of a national data bank (federal) of all gun owners.


• Ban the sale, transportation and trade of all semi-automatic guns that have been in use since the 1890s.


• Confiscate all "UNAUTHORIZED" (a word not defined in the document) civilian firearms.


• Require a federal license for the purchase and ownership of any gun.


The fact is that were this treaty to be ratified it would fundamentally change America, giving it the appearance of Australia and England where gun ownership is restricted and crime statistically has risen drastically since their gun bans. England has clearly demonstrated the failure of this during the recent riots in which merchants were unable to defend their property, which the police were unable to do.


The argument by proponents of this treaty is to stop the unauthorized sales of guns across international boundaries that they claim are arming criminals and terrorists and leading to gun violence. In order to bolster that argument, Eric Holder and the US Department of Justice engaged the BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) to set up operation FAST & FURIOUS in which thousands of small arms were sold across the Mexican border, supplying the Mexican drug cartels with weapons. This was done with strong opposition by FFL licensees (gun dealers) who were in some instances told that their licenses would be reviewed if they did not cooperate with Fast and Furious. Over a dozen murders and the deaths of two federal agents are directly linked to Fast & Furious, which is now under review by congress.


The largest volume of small arms flooding the world markets are produced in China, the old Soviet republics, Israel, France and the United States. Since governments make all these sales, the treaty, which only regulates small arm sales to the private sector and to individual owners, will have no effect at all in the international arms bazaar. This treaty represents the elites' final move to disable people's resistance to the New World Order, something that they have been setting up for many decades.


For eons the global elite have had their eyes on everything that they desire to control. There appears to be nothing off the table. From arms for self-protection, to the seabed, the air, the climate, everything must be controlled by the power hungry elites. After all, we are far too stupid to fend for ourselves. Well, with what they have accomplished in the realm of education, bringing America from fourth in the world to 34th in just 30 years, you can gain understanding of their position. The nanny-state must protect you from your fellow citizens.


Well, not really. The enemy, as demonstrated in the immediate past, has not been our fellow citizens but in most cases their governments. Considering that in the 20th Century governments killed more people than all the wars including WWI and WWII, one can gain an understanding of the issue. In the Soviet empire alone from 1919 to its end over 200 million were killed, in China during the "Great Leap Forward" (Cultural Revolution) over 100 million were killed, in Germany and Italy perhaps ten million were killed. Frankly and honestly ,I would much rather trust my neighbor or even a stranger with a gun than any government agent.

This proposal, and let's hope that's all it will ever be, is the most massive attempt to control humanity undertaken since the beginning of recorded history. We have been told by no less an expert than Hillary Clinton that this is a fight against terrorism, insurgency, and international crime syndicates. It is in fact none of those. The world is awash with small arms, 98% of which were provided by or sold by governments. The control and/or elimination of private ownership of firearms will have zero effect on any of the aforementioned issues.



Let's make this abundantly clear. The Taliban, since the NATO incursion, facilitates the production of heroin, making Afghanistan the number one supplier of illicit drugs in the world. Before the NATO incursion into their country the Taliban had eliminated heroin production. They reinstated it to produce money to buy guns and munitions. Almost all guns of the Taliban are AK-47s and various versions of Kalashnikovs produced in China, Bulgaria, Russia and almost all of the old Soviet satellites. Other weapons used by the Taliban are American made, which they got from Afghan army deserters and theft. On our side of the pond the largest supplier of small arms in the past ten years to the Mexican drug cartels has been the BATF through operation Fast and Furious. France has supplied the Libyan rebels and when confronted by the gun-grabbers in Europe, the French government stated that they were not directly supplying the rebels but had no objection if other states in the Middle East supplied them with French arms.


On the Israel front, the Israelis have a long history of supplying their Lebanese Christian militias with arms and amendments and in fact using those militias as a surrogate captive army to destabilize Lebanon. The Israelis have also acted as intermediaries in small arms supplies to Central America, South America, various places in the Middle East, and in fact any place they can turn a shekel.


So the entire red herring of the proposed UN treaty on small arms is nothing but a veiled effort to establish world domination by removing the most obvious impediment to centralized control, the small arm.


source: http://www.thedailybell.com/2843/Adrian-Krieg-The-Proposed-UN-Small-Arms-Treaty-pushed-by-Hillary-Clinton

"Obama would like to erode gun owners' rights."