Utah Couple Sues Online Retailer Behind $3,500 Negative Review Post

This is a very frightening look at what is a growing trend in America today.  The site in question?  KlearGear.com.  http://www.kleargear.com/help.html  this is a link to the page that is brought up in this news article.

  We could not find where KlearGear has any claim in their policy saying that customers can not give bad reviews of the site anywhere else online and to even have that as a policy is a breach of the freedom of speech.  Now it's not to say that KlearGear did not at one time have this policy.  We simply do not know nor is there a cached copy of it found anywhere online that we found.  After looking the KlearGear site over, it's not where we would want to do any online shopping for ourselves.  Their product line is interesting novelty geek items.  Nothing that could not be found when searching eBay or Amazon however.  Prices?  A bit high for what you are getting.  Does anyone really need an Iron Man flash drive?

  What we saw on the KlearGear.com site help page that gave us a major red flag was the claim that they own the copyrights to the software behind the site, yet on other parts of the site it seems that they are referring to using Linux and GNU technology for the site.  If you know anything about Linux, there is no such thing as copyrights to the GNU codes.

  Further, the above news story really does not make sense.  There is a lot of information withheld that we are not being told.  How did KlearGear.com get the judgement for the $3,500.00 in question?  That would have required a lawsuit to have been filed and won.  Did the couple ignore a lawsuit?  We are simply not told.  If there was no lawsuit, then all the couple really had to do was file a legal complaint with the 3 credit reporting agencies who would then initiate an investigation.  If the investigation could not substantiate the claim, the claim is then removed from their credit report.  Was this tried?

  The CNN news coverage is sketchy at it's very best.  The bottom line is we do not see anything directly against KlearGear.com that could warrent the above news story and we also can not tell what the real facts are about the case we just looked at.  Again, KlearGear.com is not where we would look to shop, but on the other side of the coin, we also see no reason to avoid the site for anyone who appreaicates the types of offerings the site has.  It's more along the lines that the CNN news story is not a story at all but instead, a mass confusion disinformation piece of media.

  This is why we usually refuse to watch TV anymore.  We all to often have all of these questions after viewing most so called news stories and find out that they were not really news stories at all.  They were just misleading disinformation pieces of trash to fill holes in time slots, in our opinions.  If the above is now regarded as investigative journalism, then they can keep it.  It lacked real investigations and information as we just pointed out.  The only real winner here?  KlearGear for all the free publicity.  For even bad publicity is better than no publicity.  It still brings people to your site.

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One Thousand Dollar Contest Giveaway, Gloucester, Virginia Links and News

Congratulations, you won.  Here is your very own one thousand dollars.  Now do not go spending this all in one place or all at one time.  But by all means, get something nice for yourself.  What can you do with this?  Start your own eBank, send it out as a donation to your favorite charity or politician.  Pay online bills with it.  Bribe people with it.  Start your own ecommerce site.  Send it to friends as a birthday present.  We are sure you can think of plenty of other clever things to do with it as well.

  Not many people have ever seen a one thousand dollar bill.  You can get them, but they have to be used for something like a gift and then given back to the bank.  They can not be spent or used in any stores or to buy any goods.  When you give them back to the bank, you exchange it for regular currency.  You do not lose the value, just the daily use.  Besides, how many places can give you change for this?

  What you can not do with this.  It's a digital image, it has no actual value, only a perceived value and as an image, it's very low.  It's here more for fun than anything else.  It's actually our free Art of the day.

  Do not try and print this and use it.  We did not post the back for a very clear reason.  We do not want anyone getting into legal trouble over something meant for fun.  But hey, if you need more than one thousand dollars, make more copies until you have enough cash.  Become an Internet millionaire.  Cool.

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Gloucester, VA Surplus Auction Site Information

In the event you were not aware that Gloucester County, Virginia has it's own surplus auction site, we found it and are bringing it to you.  A few days ago there was a good amount of items on here, however, those auctions ended and some people got some nice bargains.  Printers, office furniture and supplies.  At the moment, the only items on the site are two county trucks.  You can see above the starting asking price.

http://www.publicsurplus.com/sms/gloucester,va/list/current?orgid=19242  This is the link to the auction site page.  Once there, you can bookmark the page to make it easier to find in the future.  It's not easy to find on your own.

http://dgs.virginia.gov/OfficeofSurplusPropertyManagement/Auctions/StateSurplusAuctions/tabid/855/Default.aspx  Here is the link to Virginia State surplus auctions.

We could not find an auction for Mathews county surplus.

York County has an auction site.

http://www.yorkcounty.gov/Default.aspx?tabid=7298  Link to York County surplus auciton site.

For Gloucester County surplus auctions, it is against Gloucester county government policy for government employees and their families from bidding on and or buying the surplus auction items.

We did a little navigating on the auction site at the top and it's a state wide site so you can search counties and towns throughout the state.  We found laptops and printers, cars and trucks and all sorts of other items on the site.

The above car is a 2001 Chrysler with a present price of $305.00  and is at the Gloucester County school board auction.  Dig around, you will be surprised at what you find.  And to think, you did not have to pay for this information.  You get it all here for free.  Gloucester, Virginia Links and News.  More useful by the day.

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New Gloucester, VA Board of Supervisors Web Site Now Up

A new blog web site titled Gloucester, VA Board of Supervisors is now up.  This site is not run by the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors but is instead one of our many new sub sites where we are covering more and more detail about the county at every level.  As we said, we are now going to flood the search engines with all kinds of sites and pages to make sure that you are getting all the latest news that the controlled press won't report.

http://gloucestervaboardofsupervisors.blog.com/  This is the link for the new site. It will be covering news you may miss from the Board of Supervisors meetings.

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New Gloucester White House On the Hill Web Site Now Up

The all new Gloucester White House on the Hill web site is now up and running. This site is meant to poke fun at Gloucester County.  There is even a Gloucester County Anthem on the site.  It has just started so give it time.

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is the link to the new site.  Something new to lighten up the day.

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Gloucester, VA - The Thrive Movement and the Fight To Control your Mind

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This is the official Thrive video.  The launch of the Thrive Movement.  The video is 2 hours and 12 minutes long.  It's loaded with some very interesting information but it turns a lot of people off early in the viewing due to it's alien visitation inputs. The main web site is http://www.thrivemovement.com/ and the site is loaded with a good deal of information.  High budget video and web site one has to wonder what the real agenda is here.

  We first visited the web site a few weeks ago after watching the video.  The site was not at all functional.  Only the video was hosted and the main page had a donation and sales area.  We thought it strange since this movement has been around for almost a year now.  Every page we visited was the same as the home page and none of the links worked.  We checked this through multiple browsers and computers as well as a tablet.  Same issues each time for several days.

  We decided to dig deeper into the matter and found the Thrive Movement on Facebook where we made contacts with some of the people there.  We were told that they had no other reports of site problems or other issues.  Then again they may have told 10,000 other people the same story.  Your always the only one who is having this issue.

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  To further the issues with the alien agenda in the film, Foster Gamble of the Proctor and Gamble fortune would have you believe that crop circles are placed here by aliens as a message to us regarding free energy.  (Please see the film).  Further research on crop circles simply does not support this.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crop_circle  This link is to a Wiki site that covers crop circles in more detail.

  The more we delve into the Thrive Movement and follow the links, the more we see well funded sites that are professionally laid out and not part of any form of grass roots movement.

Overall, we liked the video and it made a lot of sense in many areas but leaves other areas wide open for questions and the more we question the Thrive Movement, the more we keep finding more to question.  Yes Thrive is bringing up some very valid points in their video and on their site, but there is some serious money behind the entire movement.  One of the areas on the thrive Movement site right now that is being heavily promoted is Chemtrails.  Chemical trails that we all see nearly every day up in the sky being spread by planes.  Yes Chem Trails are real, however, none of the original sites or early reported coverage is used on the Thrive site.  Only newer sites and videos are used through Thrive.  Sort of like an exclusive club where only members are allowed.

  http://thrivedebunked.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/gambles-fire-back-accusing-thrive-critics-of-disinformation-campaign/  This link is to a site that argues that the Thrive Movement is loaded with a ton of garbage.  We have found some flaws in the arguments against Thrive, however, we also found some valid points as well.  The Thrive Movement site has Google Analytics loaded onto it to track how much time you spend on the site and what you are looking at.  We use the same technology on this site as well as it gives us somewhat of an edge on the direction of where we need to go.




  How the fight to control your mind works.  You give people a certain amount of truth and douse it with a certain amount of fabrication to make the entire story believable.  This technique has been used for centuries because it is extremely effective.  With advanced communications these days, the techniques have been brought to a much higher level than at any other time in history.  The evening news uses it as does the White house and every government body on the face of the earth.  It has become impossible to separate the truth from the fabrications now as there are tons of documented evidence to support both the truth and the fabrications.

  As we continue to grow the level of information, tons if disinformation will follow.  Is the Thrive Movement the capitalist answer to Zeitgeist?  The two look a lot alike.  In many areas we respect the work of the Thrive Movement and agree with some of it's messages.  In other areas we highly question the movement and it's works.  The more we dig through Thrive, the more uneasy we are about it.  It's up to each one of us to determine what we believe and what we think as well as support.  You can support the Baptist church but will be criticized by the Catholics for that choice.  You can support the Republican party but will be criticized by the Democrats and other parties.  We are all individuals with different experiences that help to determine our beliefs.  But are those beliefs the right ones?  That's part of the human experience.

   On a last word, keep in mind that people do not spend a great deal of money without expecting to receive some kind of return.  The Thrive Movement is well financed which means that they have an agenda somewhere.  They are not spending all this money because they think it is the right humanitarian thing to do.  Somehow, somewhere, they expect to get some kind of return on this investment.

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GVLN - Are Torrents Destroying Hollywood? Part 1

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Are torrents destroying Hollywood?  There have been a number of articles we have been reading all around in regards to just his subject.  Some complain that torrents aka peer to peer file sharing is costing Hollywood movie studios billions of dollars in revenue.  Others complain that Hollywood is doing it to itself.  We set out to see exactly what the real deal was as we have seen a lot of holes in all the stories out there.  You are going to be surprised at what we have found.   

We began by searching out a torrent software product that has an excellent overall rating.  Once we found the software and loaded it the rest was easy.  What we found was a real shocker.  We came across a host web site that could easily be compared to the Amazon of movies.  Though the selection was limited to just under 2,000 videos, the selection was still very impressive and hosted on an incredibly well laid out site where a great deal of both time and money was spent on the site.

The image to the right here is a sample screen shot of the listings from the site we are presently talking about.  If you click on the image, you will get an enlarged view.  This site has it all.  If you choose to view the info on the movie, you go to a new page where a brief synopsis of the movie is on the page along with usually 3 screen shots from the actual film.

You also have an option to watch a preview of the film you are considering.  The majority of the previews we have watched are the actual trailers for the film with only a few that were done by someone from outside of the movie studios.  Again, when you opt for the film preview, a new pop up window appears and the preview plays on the pop up.  This is some nice expensive software and design.  Again, look at the picture above.  That is a very well thought out site design.

  This site above is where we ran the vast majority of our tests.  Again the site is extremely well laid out and no expenses seem to have been spared.  Yet there is no charge for downloading any of these movies.  You read that right, no charge for downloading any of the movies on this site.  This site also has a very large Facebook fan page where they announce all their latest releases.

  On the torrent software, there are an average of between 200 and 400 seeds or people at any given time of the day or night that are both downloading these films as well as uploading them.  The way the torrent software works as you are downloading something, you are also uploading a smaller section of that same file to someone else as well as other films you have in your torrent list that others are looking to download.

  It's an exchange service of sorts.  The site we are discussing here makes the entire process seem very legitimate because of it's incredible professionalism.  What really shocked us is the new video release that showed up on the site a few days ago.  The Avengers.  This film is still being played in some movie theaters and has a release date of September 25th, 2012.  This torrent site already has the entire video available for download for free.  With hundreds of people downloading this video at any given moment during a 24 hour period, that means that thousands of people a day are getting this film before it even hits the store shelves.

  So on that end, yes, Hollywood is suffering huge losses on the potential sales of this and other titles before it even hits the shelves.  Plus as we have already said, this film is still playing in some movie theaters.  That affects the sales of tickets at the theaters as well.  The picture here shows the download from the torrent site.

This site usually offers the film in two to three formats.  1080 P full high definition, 720 P standard high definition and when available, 3D 1080 P.   The site has all three formats available for the Avengers film on line now.  More than a month before it's scheduled release date.  Amazon has a pre order price on the 3D Blu Ray version of 29.96 with free shipping and you have to wait for it.  It won't ship until release date.

  How do you estimate the loss on this one title alone?  We ran our tests for two weeks.  We were able to download about 50 films with a retail value of somewhere around one thousand dollars.  Again that was only for two weeks and we did not spend all day every day doing so.  We downloaded about 4 or 5 per day.  About 3 to 4 hours worth of time each day.

  We checked a number of items during this time.  We checked for back door attacks, viruses, open port hacks, malware, spyware and anything else that could go wrong.  We had no issues on any of the files or any of the times we downloaded and uploaded the torrents.  What about quality?  Here is where once again we were very shocked.  The quality of the torrents are extraordinarily good and the file formats used on just about everyone of these films were a universal MP4 format.  Only a couple of the films was in an mkv format.  The mkv format is not a common format and one will not be able to play the video without a special codec or video player to handle the file format.

  MP4 videos are about as universal to operating systems as MP3 audio is.  Microsoft, Apple and Linux systems can all handle these formats.  Even Andriod enabled products have no issues with this file format.  Every film we checked played very smoothly and was of true HD quality.  Only the mkv file formats had some motion issues.


Ending notes:  This ends part one of this series.  We have not mentioned the name of the exact torrent software nor the name of the site in this discussion for a reason.  The site contains illegal downloads that do hurt legitimate companies and their employees.  It is not our intention to teach people how to download illegal video files, but to educate people in the problems associated with these types of sites and issues.  We have since deleted the torrent software from our own system and will soon be deleting the downloads once this series is over.

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Gloucester, VA Local Government Using Local Business Tax Dollars To Kill Local Businesses

Gloucester, VA Local Government Using Local Business Tax Dollars To Kill Local Businesses

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July 17^th, 2012

Gloucester, VA. Local county government is flooding the local search engines with a huge amount of pages from it's main site located at www.gloucesterva.info. With a net effect of taking over the vast majority of local search results. This is coming at a large cost to local businesses with web sites and any other potential business considering putting up a local web site as the sites are getting lost in the search engine results.

A business that yesterday may have been on the first page of a Gloucester, VA search engine result may now find themselves way down on the 5^th or 6^th page of search results thanks to local government efforts to tie up local search. This is just bad for local commerce. How can anyone compete with a local government with such deep pockets all funded by local tax dollars? Where one ranks in the search engine results can make a huge difference in the amount of business one does in this information age.

Expected response from local government officials would be to say that it's an honest mistake made as the county was only trying to make the community aware of all the local government services available and part of it's effort in a transparent government process. Gloucester, VA Links and News thinks that there are other reasons for the county flooding the search engines. An old SEO trick when the county comes under attack with negative press is to flood out the results of that press so that it has little to no effect on the county government.

Gloucester, VA Links and News has been covering numerous negative news pieces about Gloucester, VA official’s and various offices and believes that this is the exact reason why the county government is flooding the search engines.

Either way, it's bad for local businesses as their sites keep getting pushed further down the search engine results causing a net negative effect in local commerce that helps fund the local government to begin with. It's just a self defeating move on the part of the county.

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Gloucester Worship, Churches Links 2

Another Link Site of places to Worship
Here is another links site of places to Worship on Gloucester County.  Gloucester, VA Links and News.  GVLN Website.

Gloucester County Blog News

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Here is a blog with news on Gloucester County, VA. Nice site and information on what is going on in Gloucester Politics.  Gloucester, VA Links and News.  GVLN Website.

Gloucester County Church Guide

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Far from a complete list, to date it's the biggest list I have seen yet.   Maybe I have to develop a new site for a more complete listing?  Gloucester, VA Links and News.  GVLN Website.

Gloucester Chamber of Commerce Site

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The Gloucester County, Virginia Chamber of Commerce website.  Link.  Gloucester, VA Links and News website.  

Gloucester News Website

Gloucester News Here is an incredible news website just found. Between the Gloucester - Mathews Gazette Journal and this site, you will have the full perspective of all the local news going on in this area. Looks like we will be a regular user of this site ourselves. Very clean and well done.  Topix is the name of the news site.  They have some crazy posts from many local people.  Some fights are found here.  This is not an actual local site.  It's part of a national site with local feeds.

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