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FBI Lawsuit Update – Part 3
Robert S. Mueller
This a follow up to yesterday's article FBI Lawsuit Update – Part 2. As standard in Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) cases with very incriminating files the FBI/DOJ wishes to hide in violation of FOIA, the FBI/DOJ have been stonewalling me in court, using the same flawed, lawless arguments they've used VERBATIM in other cases, according to Pacer searches, to violate the Freedom of Information Act. So much for government transparency in the Obama Administration.
The following is a link to the case documents, revealing their unlawful argument that the Civil Rights Act and Civil Rights Act of 1964 do not apply to the FBI, DOJ and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller and as such, they do not have to obey said laws, which is a blatant lie.
The fact of the matter is the FBI and DOJ receive "federal financial assistance" and under the Civil Rights Act, they are not allowed to discriminate against anyone.
Robert S. Mueller cowardly invoked the U.S. government's "immunity shield" in the case, as he broke the law at my expense. However, there exists no "immunity shield" granting any member of the U.S. government to break the law.
They are hiding the FOIA files I am entitled to, as the files relating to the Madonna case are really bad and the files regarding Robert S. Mueller violating my Fourth Amendment rights, are incriminating to him.
Therefore, there is a conflict of interest in him not releasing the files, as he broke the law in spying on me and others, in misconduct I outed him for online in a time stamped, copyrighted 2006 article proven true and correct 3 months later via the report of the U.S. government's Inspector General. Mueller and FBI agents were later excoriated for the misconduct in the U.S. Congress in what became a scandal they had to address.
Robert S. Mueller had their legal representation in the case state it is at his discretion whether or not the FBI brings justice in cases. He deliberately ordered FBI agents to drag their feet on the investigation though my life is in danger and instructed them to conceal the Freedom of Information Act files, to allow Madonna and co. to further steal copyrights.
Mueller is also a man that for years deliberately sat on the terrible financial crimes of Bernard Madoff and R. Allen Stanford. This ladies and gentlemen is why the economy collapsed – the man that has been left in charge of law enforcement kisses up to rich criminals, allowing them to steal from hardworking people, as that is crooked Muller's definition of success. To anyone else with any sense, that's a house of cards waiting to collapse…and it did.
Madonna and co. are still criminally stealing from my Copyrighted Catalog. Her ex-husband and father of her child, Guy Ritchie and his alleged film "Sherlock Holmes" is a complete rip off a years old, preexisting copyright from my Copyrighted Catalog.
Guy Ritchie's rip off
Guy Ritchie stole the modern remake idea from my copyrights – then stole other years old scenes from my preexisting, Library of Congress registered, Copyrighted Catalog that contains 12,500 songs, 1000 movie scripts, movie treatments and short stories, 15 book manuscripts, 300 music video treatments, 500 photographs, 100 photo treatments, perfume, clothing line, nano-technology, a solar cell phone and thousands of other items.
Guy Ritchie is disgusting – every film he has ever made has a copyright infringement lawsuit against it, as he steals everyone else's property. He's been sued in five unrelated cases by different people for stealing their movie scripts and TV projects.
He recently announced he is starting a record label. Ritchie, who knows nothing about music and is famous for having sex with a crazy pop star, is starting a record label. No doubt, it is to steal.
In all of this, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller reminds me of the lead Nazi the film, The Aryan Couple, criminally taking and redistributing the property of others to fellow Nazis, under a sick, racist premise that whites are superior to others and everyone else is slave labor to exploit.
The only massive problem is, while Mueller unlawfully helps dirty Hollywood stars in lining their pockets via criminally stealing copyrights whose proceeds are meant to go towards cures to AIDS and Cancer, millions of people are dying from the aforementioned diseases. God is not going to bless you all for that. God have mercy on your souls.
Click Here For Court Documents
Obama Creates Cyber Security Branch (Hollywood Pedophiles)
Obama Creates Cyber Security Branch
Hollywood Pedophiles
President Barack Obama
Today, President Barack Obama announced the creation of a Cyber Security department of the U.S. government to combat hacks into the national internet infrastructure.
Presently, the FBI has a computer intrusion department named "CIP" that goes by other names as well, but their performance has been very poor in stopping major hacks into domestic government and private sector computer networks.
Just last week, I read a feedback column link that led to an article featuring a U.S. general stating America may begin to respond to cyber attacks with military force.
During the press conference today, President Obama spoke of people breaking the law by "hacking" into computers and "stealing intellectual property" (copyrights, trademarks and patents).
Note to Madonna: he's talking about you, witch!
President Obama even referred to a company that lost $400,000,000 via this criminal practice. It appears Madonna and her associates in Hollywood have set the new standard for dirty business dealings in this regard among criminals, creating a nasty template for others to follow. Hollywood private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, had hackers on staff that specialized in this deceitful, illegal practice. Madonna was one of his clients.
As many of you have also witnessed, when I write something on the site that is unflattering about Madonna, my websites (and computers) get hacked, sabotaged and delayed.
Intellectual property theft is vile, cowardly, lazy and disgraceful. It says to the country and the world, one is too dumb and untalented to author creative works, therefore one will take the dishonorable route of stealing from others' federally registered intellectual property.
In my case, the thefts of my copyrights became very malicious and sick. For example, Madonna's cohorts at Lions Gate, a defendant in the 2005 Aisha v. Madonna case, which the latter bought out in violation of criminal statues, went so far, as to arrogantly and criminally steal more copyrights from me two years later in 2007.
The commercial and critical flop "Good Luck Chuck" was stolen from my copyrights. To be nasty, this is what they did with my preexisting copyright they butchered with their stupidity and vileness.
My preexisting copyright was a wonderful, romantic, fictitious movie treatment I wrote about an affluent man on a dating site and women finding out about it and flocking to him. The later released Lions Gate film "Good Luck Chuck" is about an affluent man, whose profile is posted on a dating site and women flocking to him.
That's an illegal duplication of my copyright, which Madonna criminally gained an unlawfully made copy of, along with my voluminous Copyrighted Catalog, via criminal hacking, performed by Digilink, the company that began hosting her website Madonna.com several years ago.
Here's where it gets really sick. In the infringing film "Good Luck Chuck" they added items not in my copyright, such as crass, pornographic sex scenes and a character named ANISHA which is one letter away from my real, legal name AISHA. Not to mention, the lead female character in the film, played by Jessica Alba, is named "CAM" and one of my private nicknames I use is "KAM" short for my middle name KAMILAH. They are both pronounced the same as well.
It was a stupid and criminally incriminating thing to do. The infringing film "Good Luck Chuck" constitutes major violations of the law and is more than enough to obtain a devastating indictment and convictions, for all involved, for criminal copyright infringement, computer intrusion and violations of various human rights laws.
Hollywood Pedophiles
Here's where the infringement "Good Luck Chuck" gets even sicker. The character ANISHA starts off as an 8-year-old girl (which coincidentally is the age I immigrated to America from Jamaica).
To be nasty, they made this character a goth 8-year-old virgin wearing a leather bra, trying to lose her virginity in a closet with an 8-year-old boy (never happened to me by the way, as I took a Christian vow of chastity until marriage, which I wrote about on my site a few years ago in the Q&A section).
However, Lions Gate turned my wholesome, romantic, copyright about a grown, affluent man on a dating site and grown women finding out about it and flocking to him, into a nasty, depraved, promiscuous piece of pornographic garbage.
The nasty PEDOPHILES at Lions Gate should be locked up for not only criminal copyright infringement and hacking, but for filming and broadcasting that piece of nastiness featuring the character ANISHA, an 8-year-old, underage, preteen girl in a black leather bra, skimpy skirt, black lipstick and goth hairstyle, trying to have sex in a closet with an 8-year-old boy. The scene is disgusting and PEDOPHILIC. You're nasty PEDOPHILES for thinking that is filmable entertainment.
It reveals the sick levels of mental illness present in Hollywood that they could do something so deplorable. This is the terrible level of mental illness the FBI has running loose around the streets of Los Angeles.
Hollywood is disgusting and severely mentally ill. You need serious counseling with a side order of institutionalization.
Imagine that. I have been quietly working on copyrights and patents to improve people's health and you animals are criminally robbing and defaming me with my own copyrighted work, in criminal violation of the law. What nasty message do you think that sends to the public about you.
But, it is the same sick pattern of mental illness rearing its ugly head throughout the case I reported to the FBI that they claim they are investigating.
As mentioned the other day, Madonna recently, criminally stole another of my preexisting copyrights, that has been sitting in the Library of Congress in D.C. from 2006, that is my life story and ripped it off in a sick, obsessive manner, for her so-called directorial debut "Filth And Wisdom."
The lead character in Madonna's rip off "Filth And Wisdom" is an immigrant named A.K. aspiring to be a singer, writer and poet. In my 2006 preexisting copyrighted movie script, I star in the biopic as myself, an immigrant aspiring to be a singer, writer and poet, whose initials are A.K. (short for "Aisha Kamilah").
What kind of sickos criminally steal copyrights from a writer, then include the defrauded writer's name in the script as a character. That screams severe mental illness and sends the nation and the world a horrific message about Hollywood.
Madonna and co. even stole one of my copyrights about my homeland Jamaica, where I lived for years and Miami, where I've lived for two and a half decades, adding slurs to the script, sure to offend Jamaica and even started making arrangements to fly to Jamaica to begin filming it.
I've quietly been living in Miami for 25 years. I have no criminal record or history of strange conduct. I have a genius level IQ and spend my time at home, on my computers, doing research work and authoring patents and copyrights. I spend a lot of time authoring items for science and medical patents, to improve people's health and quality of life.
I don't bother people. I don't go to clubs, industry parties, none of that. Yet, the aforementioned animals in Hollywood have been viciously targeting, robbing and attacking me, unprovoked and invading my privacy in very sick ways.
Who could be happy or pleased with that kind of criminal interference in their life. It's disgraceful. The human rights abuses and civil rights violations I have been subjected to are so sick.
Her conduct and that of her cronies in Hollywood has been ugly and unjustifiable. There is no excuse for it.
Obama's Remarks On Cybersecurity
Friday, May 29, 2009 – President Obama's remarks on his administration's cybersecurity review on Friday in the East Room of the White House:
…I know how it feels to have privacy violated because it has happened to me and the people around me. It's no secret that my presidential campaign harnessed the Internet and technology to transform our politics. What isn't widely known is that during the general election hackers managed to penetrate our computer systems. To all of you who donated to our campaign, I want you to all rest assured, our fundraising website was untouched. (Laughter.) So your confidential personal and financial information was protected.
But between August and October, hackers gained access to emails and a range of campaign files, from policy position papers to travel plans. And we worked closely with the CIA — with the FBI and the Secret Service and hired security consultants to restore the security of our systems. It was a powerful reminder: In this Information Age, one of your greatest strengths — in our case, our ability to communicate to a wide range of supporters through the Internet — could also be one of your greatest vulnerabilities…
But every day we see waves of cyber thieves trolling for sensitive information — the disgruntled employee on the inside, the lone hacker a thousand miles away, organized crime, the industrial spy and, increasingly, foreign intelligence services. In one brazen act last year, thieves used stolen credit card information to steal millions of dollars from 130 ATM machines in 49 cities around the world — and they did it in just 30 minutes. A single employee of an American company was convicted of stealing intellectual property reportedly worth $400 million. It's been estimated that last year alone cyber criminals stole intellectual property from businesses worldwide worth up to $1 trillion.
In short, America's economic prosperity in the 21st century will depend on cybersecurity…
This new approach starts at the top, with this commitment from me: From now on, our digital infrastructure — the networks and computers we depend on every day — will be treated as they should be: as a strategic national asset. Protecting this infrastructure will be a national security priority. We will ensure that these networks are secure, trustworthy and resilient. We will deter, prevent, detect, and defend against attacks and recover quickly from any disruptions or damage.
To give these efforts the high-level focus and attention they deserve — and as part of the new, single National Security Staff announced this week — I'm creating a new office here at the White House that will be led by the Cybersecurity Coordinator. Because of the critical importance of this work, I will personally select this official. I'll depend on this official in all matters relating to cybersecurity, and this official will have my full support and regular access to me as we confront these challenges…
Madonna's Link To The Commissioned Hackings Of My Business Computers
Hacks into computers
Madonna.com hosting company illegally in computers and sending me harassing emails
Madonna's staff contacting people in my personal life offering them money to harass me
Madonna's hacker's criminal misconduct
More break-ins to my home
Photo courtesy of the Daily Mail
As many of you know, Madonna, her label and the people she illegally passed my copyrighted catalog to, have been frequent visitors to this web site before and after the criminal copyright infringement of my wholly owned Copyrighted Catalog began.
They did not obtain a copy of the Catalog through dumpster diving, as my work is digital and the only print outs that exists in part are sent to the Copyright Office in Washington, D.C.
I would say at best only 10% of the Catalog has ever been printed out and it was sent to the Library of Congress in D.C. The standard medium for my copyrights is read-only CD-ROMs.
My computers have been hacked on a daily basis in ongoing misconduct that predates the infringement of my preexisting Copyrights.
Despite our best efforts at blocking the hacks to my "protected computers" as the legal and software term goes, my system is still suffering from terrible, malicious computer intrusions, commissioned and paid for by Madonna, who is no stranger to copyright infringement claims, having been sued for it more than any other artist in history. She has made a living for 25 years off copyright infringement, which is absolutely shameful and illegal.
As mentioned before, two separate computer companies analyzed my computers and placed in writing that the systems are being severely hacked, with one of the computer specialists witnessing one of the hacks before his very eyes and mine. He also documented what he saw.
A McAfee representative confirmed in writing that the "Gateway" posted above is the IP address on the entity requesting access. The above posted IP is constantly trying to get into my computers, is stopped by McAfee for a minute, then illegally breaks in through backdoors, getting into the system.
The hacks are originating from the same IP address 192.168.1.254 that belongs to IANA, which is an affiliate of ICANN and both are connected to the company DIGILINK through irrefutable business records. Bob Atkin's DIGILINK has hosted the web site Madonna.com for years. All three companies are located in the same building in suites next to each other, with DIGILINK occupying multiple suites.
4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292 is home to ICANN, IANA and Madonna's hosting company DIGILINK, owned by BOB ATKINS.
Then I began receiving specific, targeted, threatening and harassing emails about Madonna and the legal case, to my web site, from an IP address belonging to, once again, the company hosting Madonna.com, DIGILINK of 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA 90292.
The emails included personal, distinct info you would only know if you had wiretapped my phone and or were illegally in my home, listening to me speak to my dad and my lawyers. Separately, there was also a harassing email sent to me, registered to DIGILINK's IP that stated things one could only know had you been in my private bank account. I have saved all these emails as evidence. DIGILINK also specializes in high tech phone service over the internet.
Then came the terrible revelation about DIGILINK – THEY'VE BEEN PAID FOR YEARS TO HOST AND MAINTAIN MADONNA'S WEB SITE MADONNA.COM.
For years Madonna's web site's IP address with DIGILINK has been 126.96.36.199, up until 5 weeks ago when her hacker illegally accessed my computer and accessed the temp files. When said hacker did, he found a copy of DNS records I'd found online, linking the hacks of my business computers and threatening emails sent to my sites, to the same IP Block and hosting building address for Madonna.com (see the history of Madonna's site DNS records below).
I also wrote about it on the Judiciary Report site weeks ago, stating I knew who she paid to do the hacks, how they did it and their business relation to her.
After years, all of a sudden she switched IPs like her shirttail was on fire due to the terrible link between her and Digilink.
She was switched, because of her irrefutable tie to DIGILINK and the fact she's been paying someone in that company to commit computer intrusions/hacks, to engage in grand theft larceny of a very valuable Copyrighted Catalog, valued at billions, which constitutes very serious felonies.
There is also a link between Digilink, ICANN, IANA and the Kabbalah Center that I will go into shortly.
Someone at Digilink is abusing network router clearance privileges and using it to hack into computers.
Madonna and Warner Bros are the entertainment industry sites I have found whose IP's registered to Digilink (Warner Bros. has recently switched IPs/hosts as well to get away from the terrible tie in the case). Not even Sony, Def Jam, Interscope or Universal's sites are hosted by Digilink or on an IP address belonging to them.
Here's another saved record that shows Digilink hosting Madonna.com for quite sometime (see "name server"):
Madonna's Hacker Has Done The Following:
1. Illegally copied and forwarded my preexisting, multi-billion dollar valued copyrighted catalog to Madonna who began using it in criminal violation of the law.
2. Copied emails between me and my dad who works for the Jamaican government and various correspondences between me and my lawyers, then forwarded them to Madonna, who began spouting off verbatim in later public interviews, items from the preexisting time stamped emails. This animal has been passing my private emails around amongst her cohorts in the case as well. Who is she to do that. What are you doing in my email box you psychopathic, nosy old whore.
3. Copies unreleased site articles in the queue to be published, private papers and documents in my computers that I author and illegally forwards them to Madonna, who like clockwork, a day or so later, places these items, verbatim, attributed to herself, in the Daily Mail, the Sun or on TMZ as Madonna articles. She keeps doing this and there is time stamped proof that I authored them prior to her doing this each time. She's also been placing my unreleased copyrighted articles, docs and items unique to me and my family, on a few blogs as well, that shall not be mentioned today, but will be in the not too distant future.
4. Illegally copied my Visa debit card number from bills I paid online and purchases I made online, at a time I did not realize her commissioned hackers were illegally in my computers watching and copying everything I did, then used said credit card to commit identity theft, which the FBI said they found evidence of and are investigating.
5. Constantly tries to block my web sites from being published, especially when I write about Madonna or her self-professed "cousin" Hillary Clinton, which are always unflattering articles.
6. Deletes or alters different pages and links of my web sites referencing Madonna's misconduct.
7. Corrupts and tries to delete medical information pertaining to my parents respective physical health issues, containing doctors' analysis, recommendations on treatment, medication requirements and recovery. What kind of animal does something like that. This is the kind of psychopath she has hacking my computers.
8. Corrupts and tries to delete scientific research files that are apart of patents.
9. Copied photos of my family members and friends from my computers and email account.
10. Placed spyware on my computers, KeySnatch, to record everything I type, then quietly emailed it to them.
We've experienced multiple break-ins to our home, during which time copyrighted CD-ROMs were stolen (I have back-ups) – then after the police reports were filed by us, items from said CD-ROMs surfaced in the public domain attributed to Madonna and her cohorts. Here are a few of the Miami Shores police report numbers: #03006193, #06001671 and # 06002483. They have deferred to the FBI in this case, stating the "Feds take years." This is true, as Anita Busch went to them in 2002 regarding Bert Fields and Madonna's private investigator, Anthony Pellicano, and the case went to trial in 2008. Regardless, I'm not depending on the FBI.
Our house door locks were picked to such degrees that they began falling off. They were replaced, but due to the ongoing break-ins, started falling off again.
Just recently, at the place we moved to, we experienced another break-in, where once again, nothing of physical value was stolen (only CD-ROMs with my preexisting Copyrighted Catalog), but my copyrighted work files and CD-ROMs were rummaged through by someone looking for something who removed a few discs.
This break-in destroyed a very sturdy, expensive front door handle that was new when we moved in and the accompanying lock shows signs of tampering. The backdoor lock to my home office/studio was also tampered with to the point it started falling off as well.
All my life these things never happened to us anywhere we lived with our locks until this Madonna madness started targeting me.
During another break-in to my home a few months ago, once again nothing was taken, but one of my best paintings I did was maliciously defaced out of spite by the intruder. It happened shortly after I received an email to one of my sites asking me to post some of my paintings online.
I am being harassed by people she hired, Anthony Pellicano style, when I go outside for my usual evening walks or to places I usual frequent in Miami, when prior to crazy Madonna stealing from and targeting me, never happened.
Furthermore, these aren't regular members of the public, as members of the public do not know what I'm discussing on the phone with my parents, lawyers, business associates and friends, to come up to me in public issuing veiled threats, that are verbatim take offs of my previous phone calls, once again, ala Anthony Pellicano.
There have been concerning incidents regarding strangers knocking on my front door and coming up to me while I garden in the front yard, saying very invasive things that they could only know if they were illegally listening into my private phone calls or illegally in my computers. It's apart of the criminal harassment she is paying for that should not have reached this close to home. She is very sick.
Oh, but it gets worse. Idle hands really are the devil's work shop.
Madonna and the local private investigator she hired to harass us ala Anthony Pellicano, has even gone so far as to contact people in my personal life offering them money and favors to threaten, verbally abuse and harass me, which is a very serious crime, known as witness intimidation, that's going to come back to bite her in the butt in court.
Then in February 2008 she had her producer Timbaland contact my MySpace page regarding the criminal copyright infringement they'd just committed and were about to release in 2 months (April 2008).
Then there are the harassing calls to my unlisted phone number with veiled and flat-out threats about the legal case, both civil and criminal.
My family and I are constantly being harassed by this lunatic and in terrible ways. We want her criminal mischief out of our lives, yet she refuses to stop this sick, depraved conduct.
She just keeps getting worse and worse with the misconduct, going further and further each time and it is the sickest, nastiest thing I have ever seen.
We are tired of her. I cannot emphasize enough that we are tired of her. Her sick criminal conduct has aggravated my mother's preexisting health problems, sent her pressure up and caused her literal chest pains on different occasions.
When I leave the house, at times she looks at me like she may not see me again and warns me to be careful, because someone tried to run me over with a car, Anthony Pellicano style, on the same street the Kabbalah cult is now located in Miami.
My father was sent to the hospital twice for stress related illness after receiving terrible news about sick, illegal things Madonna paid to have done against me for suing her in trying to protect my copyrights. His doctors said severe stress caused it.
Yet this nasty, disgusting, vile animal Madonna continues with this madness, unprovoked, going to worse extremes each time. She belongs in prison.
More Madonna Thefts Uncovered (Part 4)
Madonna's Many Looks Stolen From Others
June 9. 2008
As many of you know, I think Madonna is a terrible human being. She's stolen vast amounts of copyrighted music, film, clothing and photos from my preexisting Copyrighted Catalog containing 10,000 songs, 300 movie scripts and short stories, 15 book manuscripts, 200 music video treatments, 500 photographs, 150 photo treatments, a perfume line and clothing line.
Hence this page on my site illustrating she is a sick, crazy, vulgar, common, low class thief with no talent, who has stolen from DOZENS of copyright holders around the world.
Today, I found a blog http://madonnarevelations.blogspot.com (NSFW) that unmasked additional Madonna thefts that are appalling. This stuff is really stunning. The blog proved once and for all that Madonna is a complete, unadulterated fraud that stole from everyone to put together her farce of a career. Nothing she has done is original.
View the images below for yourself and watch how the blatant thefts pop right out at you. It's really terrible how far she has gone in stealing from everyone.
The photos are additional evidence that illustrate from day one there's been nothing real about Madonna's career. It's all been a fraud. From the music to the videos to the images, all stolen from other people's preexisting copyrighted works she butchered.
That's another thing – butchering people's work. In viewing the following photos, one can't help but notice how unwise she is in ripping off photographs of beautiful women – they make her look like dog chow in comparison.
Madonna, if you're going to rip off people's photos, which is illegal and is also known as copyright infringement, rip off items from the Lord Of The Rings, then at least you'll have a chance.
The so-called "iconic" images – well, none of it was real – she stole it all to go with all the music she stole:
Greta Garbo rip off
Jean Harlow rip off
Jean Harlow rip off
Jane Mansfield rip off
Jane Russell rip off
Gina Lollobrigida rip off
Marilyn Monroe rip off
Marilyn Monroe rip off
Marilyn Monroe rip off
Marilyn Monroe rip off
Marilyn Monroe rip off
Marilyn Monroe rip off
Marilyn Monroe rip off
Marilyn Monroe rip off
Marlene Dietrich rip off
Marlene Dietrich rip off
Marlene Dietrich rip off
Bette Davis rip off
Bette Davis rip off
Brigitte Bardot rip off
Brigitte Bardot rip off
Chrissie Hynde rip off
Princess Diana rip off
Princess Diana rip off
Princess Diana rip off
Princess Diana rip off
Audrey Hepburn rip off
Ginger Rogers rip off
Story found here
Madonna's "Hard Candy" Receives Terrible Reviews
Madonna's infringing CD "Hard Candy" has been the recipient of terrible reviews. The album really is quite poor and has seen the phony pop star butchering other people's copyrighted works.
Many critics are now accusing her of ripping off others music and following trends well after they happened, when she falsely claims to be an innovator. No, she is the imitator and always has been.
In going over some of the songs on her "Hard Candy" CD I also heard other people's lyrics on her album, not just mine. For example:
In one song she rips off R. Kelly stealing his lyric "Silence can seem so loud" from his big hit "I Believe I Can Fly."
In another song she ripped off Ciara's 2007's smash "Promise" for her 2008 "Spanish Lesson" that appears on Hard Candy by lifting the following lyrics:
Ciara 2007: You can be my teacher I'll do homework. You can give me extra credit baby I'll do more work.
Madonna 2008: If you do your homework. Maybe I will give you more work.
Then there's the 50 Cent rip off where she steals his song "Candy Shop" calling her own version "Candy Shop as well, whilst ripping off his lyrics.
She continually steals other people's music, regurgitates substandard versions of it, claiming it as her own. She really knows how to mess up a song.
This type of conduct is unacceptable. Artists are supposed to bring something new to the table. Not rip off preexisting pieces of music and imagery, repackaging them as your own.
That's the ultimate fraud. You don't get worse as an artist than that. It tells the world you are a fake and not the real deal. No one respects that.
It's funny, one reviewer points out she "ripped off" her own music via the infringing song "She's Not Me" from "Hard Candy" that knocks off her previous infringing song "Sorry" from Confessions On A Dance Floor.
However, these are both tracks I had formally accused Madonna of infringing from my Copyrighted Catalog. That's my writing style and the songs had been in the Copyright Office registered to me, years before she criminally stole them in violation of U.S. and U.N. law.
Tainted 'Candy'
When trendsetting turns into trend-chasing, it's time to hang it up.
Most surprising, some of Candy's catchier moments are barely disguised thefts from other, better songs. She's Not Me shamelessly apes Sorry from her own Dancefloor; Spanish Lesson steals so baldly from Timberlake's Senorita and Like I Love You that it's a wonder Madonna didn't just sample those songs instead.
But perhaps Confessions was her swan song, a last best guess that left her sifting through sounds, searching in vain for that next groundbreaking, guaranteed hit.
Madonna's 'Hard Candy' definitely not better with age
Madonna is known as one of those artists who jumps on the latest trends in music, only to leave it lying in the dust when she goes back into the studio to work on her next album. On "Hard Candy" the only thing that is offered up is lots of dancing, relationships and sex.
CD Review: Madonna "Hard Candy"
But with "Hard Candy," Madonna plays catch-up with mainstream pop charts. She essentially has remade Nelly Furtado's "Loose" and half of Justin Timberlake's "FutureSex/LoveSounds," following fashion trends that are 2 years old. Is this where Madonna wants to be?
Never mind the off-putting come-ons such as "My sugar is raw, sticky and sweet" from the opener, "Candy Shop," or the nausea-inducing cover art redolent of down-market porn: Those are the least of Madonna's problems. She banks everything on the catchy but vacant single, "4 Minutes," in which Timbaland recycles the marching band trope that drove Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl." With Timbaland and Timberlake in the foreground, Madge certainly doesn't own the song; she is a bit player on her own track.
On "Hard Candy," when she slags Madonnalikes such as Britney Spears and Furtado ("She's Not Me"), the argument falls flat because these days, Madonna's trying to be them.
CD reviews: Madonna's 'Hard Candy' is more bland than sweet
Simply, one cannot imagine a major artist — and no matter how one feels about Madame Ciccone, she's a star of the highest magnitude — releasing such tepid material.
"Hard Candy" feels and sounds like a desperate attempt to remain relevant, with Madonna enlisting the likes of Justin Timberlake, Timbaland, Pharrell Williams and Kanye West for support.
That's sort of like enlisting Picasso and Van Gogh to paint a house.
What's most apparent is that Madonna, at 49, has become what she must fear most: Irrelevant, boring and disposable.
— Regis Behe
Madonna's hard sell for new album
Hard Candy is expected to make No.1 in the US and Australia in its first week and has been reviewed favourably in a number of overseas publications, but already there has been considerable negative press in her own country, most of it suggesting that the raunch, not to mention the music, is beginning to look a little tired.
It's baffling that Madonna, of all people, couldn't bring the best out of Timbaland and Pharrell, and the fact that she couldn't highlights the degree to which she was in over her head. It's sadder than the balding guy who buys a sports car; it's like a balding guy who goes to buy a sports car and drives off with a lemon because he doesn't know anything about cars. Unless Madonna can figure out how to recalibrate her identity in a way that compliments her, she could be facing an early retirement.
More sour than sweet
Madonna sounds out of touch on Hard Candy, her 11th album
It's no secret Madonna is unhappy with the way time is ticking ever onward. But the cover of her new CD, Hard Candy, tells the story in a way that words cannot. There's Madge, almost 50, in faux-bondage gear, trying to make like it's 1992.
Make her think she's invulnerable to the aging process, that she can keep up with the kids? She certainly tries, here. But that's the problem — you can hear her trying…
For Madonna to get on the bandwagon at this late stage feels like a calculated (and belated) attempt to get some street cred…
The problem is Madonna. She sounds out of touch, like she's not sure what to do with herself. Her trademark frigid coo doesn't fit with these bump 'n' grind rhythms, and her usually harmless pop hooks repeatedly fall flat.
Hard Candy quickly loses its flavor
Madonna seems to have made the unfortunate mistake of letting other pop stars serve as her bellwether — instead of Britney looking to Madge for inspiration, Madge seems to have taken a page out of Britney's latest book, taking half-a**ed sleaze over the seductive sounds that made her an icon in the '80s.
Still, you have to give her and her pop juggernaut friends credit — recycling pop music trends has to help curb the effects of global warming, right?
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Madonna "Hard Candy" Copyright Infringement (Part 1)
Verbatim Rip Offs Of My Preexisting Copyrighted Music
April 28. 2008
As some of you know, Madonna criminally infringed more items from my Copyrighted Catalog again. I have not had time to list out all the infringements in detail today, as it is very time consuming and I am very busy, but I have listed a few in Part 1 of this article.
Read below the songs for my opinions on her latest acts of criminal copyright infringement, among other things.
The infringements are color coded and go from left to right throughout the boxes below. My copyrighted works, that PREDATE MADONNA'S RIP OFFS BY YEARS, are in the left column and her rip offs on the "Hard Candy" CD are in the right column.
The third copyrighted song listed below "A Million Miles Away" that she ripped off for her new song "Miles Away" is actually 3 YEARS OLD (registered with the Copyright Office November 22, 2005).
Mad-onna has ripped off many artists' copyrights
For background on it, for those of you who don't know, Madonna's has been infringing my copyrighted works over and over again. She has repeatedly ripped off verbatim, distinct items, unique to my copyrighted works that have been in existence and under federal and international protection, well before she did so.
Currently, two Miami law firms are working on my behalf regarding copyrights Madonna also spread to affiliated artists and producers she worked with, who also fraudulently took writers credit and royalties for the already registered songs.
However, the Madonna infringements and civil rights violations that occurred in tandem with the case, will be handled internationally in separate legal world venues and courts of law.
Edgar Bronfman jr
Her label, the beleaguered Warner Music Group, headed by Edgar Bronfman jr., and her publishers have been to this web site before and after the rip offs occurred.
Pharrell Williams
Her producer Timbaland, among others she's worked with (Pharrell Williams), who have also been the subject of numerous plagiarism claims from different individuals, sent a friend request to my MySpace page from his music company's page (as written about here), when he should not have known who I am either.
The reason they know is because they are in possession of an illegally made copy of my preexisting Copyrighted Catalog which they have been using in criminal violation of domestic and international law.
"Incredible Girl" ©2006
9-11-2006 (© certificate: PAu3-088-617) and 9-20-2006 (© certificate: PAu3-083-946)
"Incredible" by Madonna 2008
"Hard Candy" CD
|My song is about meeting a great guy, things going well in life and feeling celebratory about the whole thing. Her song rips off my copyrighted song TWO YEARS LATER. The songs are about the same thing, have mutual, verbatim lyrics and the same rhyme scheme.
| Incredible girl
We are the future
Don't tell us how to be
Incredible girl
We are the future
Love and unity Verse 1:
I feel so free
Life is good to me
I'm loving the days
I just got a raise
Met the man of my dreams
And he is what he seems
Things are happening for me
Oh the possibilities
Verse 2:
Verse 3:
| Incredible (Hey girl)
Just finish what we started
(Let's finish where we started girl)
Incredible (Hey girl) Just one of those things
When everything goes incredible
And all is beautiful
(Can't get my head around, I need to think about it) (x2)
And one of those things
That used to get you down
Now have no effect at all
Cause life is beautiful
(Can't get my head around it, I need to think about it) (x2)
Remembering the very first time
Just one of those things
Just one of those things
I remember when
Just one of those things
I don't want this to end
Incredible (Hey girl)
It's incredible, unbelievable
(Sex with you is…)
Incredible (Hey girl)
She by Aisha (© certificate: PAu3-340-689, 9-7-07)
"She's Not Me" by Madonna and Pharrell Williams 2008
"Hard Candy"
|My unreleased song, that was copyrighted years ago, is about a successful, wealthy woman with a great career and a lot of possessions, who is being cheated on by her husband, that's having an affair with another woman that tries to morph into his wife in how she dresses, does her hair, acts and conducts herself. Madonna's new rip off song "She's Not Me" is about the exact same thing with verbatim rip offs of my lyrics as well. Both songs even start of with the word "She" in the song titled" with "she repeated over and over again while listing all the unethical things the woman is doing.
| She had a great career
She had a successful husband
Beautiful children
Beautiful house
Beautiful car
Beautiful life She was envied by the one's
She thought to be her friend
They tried to be like her
Instead of realizing the uniqueness in them
That the Lord gave them
They tried to live like her
Whether women like to admit it or not
They caused her so much pain
Girl's best friend
Girl's best friend
I'm trying to live my life
She's got her hair just like you
She wants your man
Get your own life I'm his wife
|I should have seen the signs way back then
When she told me that you where her best friend
And now she's rolling rolling rolling
and you where stolen stolen stolen
She stared dressing like me and talking like me
It freaked me out
She started calling you in the middle of the night
What's that about? I just wanna be there when you discover
You wake up in the morning next your new lover
She might cook you breakfast
And love you in the shower
The flavor of the moment
Cause she don't have what's ours
She's Not Me
I should have seen the sign when you weren't here
She's Not Me
She's licking her lips and she's batting her eyes
I know I can do it better
Never Letchu Forget (She's Not Me)
She's Not Me
"A Million Miles Away" by Aisha November 22, 2005 (© certificate: PAu3-038-744)
"Miles Away" by Madonna 2008
|My mind is a million miles away
But my thoughts are with you today
Its funny how the mind strays
But the heart stays
As my thoughts fray
Over the days
the ways My mind is a million miles away
But my thoughts are with you today
Its funny how the mind strays
But the heart stays
As my thoughts fray
Over the days
the ways…
The only picture my mind can find
I miss you
Being young
You always love me more, miles away
So far away
When no one's around then I have you here
You always love me more, miles away
So far away
I'm alright, don't be sorry, but it's true
What kind of dog steals from a minority. You don't get much lower in life than stealing from a minority. How is that something to be proud of. She is so pathetic. What kind of animal do you have to be to do something like that. What kind of loser consistently does something like this.
This nasty obsession with stealing from and harassing someone that expressed in no uncertain terms that they think you are horrible and disgraceful. Don't you have any pride. You consistently shame yourself and your family with this. You are psychopathic. You're a sick, demented old witch who is a real nut job.
It is the sickest thing I've ever seen in my life. How does someone get so messed up in the head that they do things like this and on a regular basis.
Unwanted Contact
Then there's the unwanted contact. Madonna's commissioned hacker sent me three vile, harassing emails last week, that have been traced back to the same IP address that keeps hacking into my computers where the Copyrighted Catalog has been stored.
Then there was her producer, Timbaland, sending a friend request to MySpace page a couple months ago, knowing they had committed criminal copyright infringement for her forthcoming "Hard Candy" CD.
Before that, it was a Warner Bros artist named Kyle sending me a harassing email.
Then there was a bizarre, threatening phone call to my unlisted number, about Anthony Pellicano, Madonna's PI and that of her lawyer and former manager, containing taunting comments that they have the FBI in their back pocket and nothing is going to come of such cases.
If I were you, I wouldn't be worried about the domestic scope of things, but the international legal angle. Robert Mueller can't help you with that. Check the international legal rulebook.
Madonna Lied About Origin Of Song
Kabbalah nutters Guy Ritchie And Madonna
Madonna is also such a pathological liar. After I stated on this site that she ripped off more of my copyrights again, she did an interview and lied, saying the new song "Incredible" that is a dead rip off of my song "Incredible Girl" which was copyrighted almost 2 YEARS BEFORE her rip off, is about having sex with her husband Guy Ritchie, when people in London knows he's cheating on her and hates her.
Who are you really kidding. You further humiliated him in said interview and made him and yourself look stupid, when you stole a song that's been in existence for 2 YEARS then claimed you wrote it about him.
That song isn't about either one of you weirdoes. I wrote and copyrighted that song about me 2 YEARS AGO. It's been on my web site for a year and a half on the lyrics, store and home pages.
MILLIONS of people have been to my sites according to irrefutable Traffic Facts data, blog stats and link referrals, and have seen the songs' lyrics and heard the clips. Then here you come like a loser stealing it well AFTER ALL THOSE PEOPLE SAW AND HEARD IT.
How do you explain that some thing millions of people have seen and heard online that has been in the Copyright Office in Washington, DC, you ripped off 2 YEARS LATER!
Furthermore, look at the idiotic way she butchered my songs with those moronic, nonsensical, simpleton lyrics. Who writes like that. Your writing is so poor, one would think English is not your first language. At least then you'd have an excuse for writing in that manner.
The songs don't even make sense anymore. The rip offs look like hodge podge madness that don't go together. There is no way you have a 160 IQ as you publicly claimed, and ironically, you started saying this after I did about myself.
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Madonna Infringes Preexisting Copyrighted Music For "Hard Candy" CD
Miami, Florida – April 28, 2008 – Pop singer Madonna has once again infringed verbatim, the preexisting, years old copyrights of indie singer/writer Aisha for her forthcoming "Hard Candy" CD. Aisha has called for a boycott of the album.
Madonna unlawfully infringed copyrighted music from Aisha's web site, which has been viewed by millions. She further illegally infringed, verbatim, private, unreleased items from Aisha's preexisting Copyrighted Catalog, registered with the Library Of Congress, years before the willful thefts by Madonna occurred.
Aisha is the author of the world's largest independently owned intellectual property Copyrighted Catalog containing 10,000 songs, 300 movie scripts and short stories, 15 book manuscripts, 200 music video treatments, 500 photographs, 150 photo treatments, a perfume line and clothing line, which Madonna has been unlawfully helping herself to in violation of domestic and international law.
At no time did Aisha grant anyone permission to use any of said copyrighted works.
A detailed comparison of the infringements are available on Aisha's web site, AishaMusic.com and on JudiciaryReport.com along with Copyright Office registration certificate numbers, that all predate Madonna's infringements by years.
Currently, two Miami law firms are working on Aisha's behalf regarding copyrights Madonna also spread to affiliated artists and producers she worked with, who also fraudulently took writers credit and royalties for the already registered songs.
However, the Madonna infringements and civil rights violations that occurred in tandem with the case, will be handled internationally in separate legal world venues and courts of law.
According to web site statistics, Madonna's label, the beleaguered Warner Music Group, headed by Edgar Bronfman jr. and her publishers, have been frequent visitors to Aisha's web site, before and after the infringements occurred, attesting to the fact they know who the indie singer is, when they really should not.
One of Madonna's producers, Timbaland, also contacted Aisha's MySpace page, before the latest rash of infringements occurred.
Madonna is no stranger to copyright infringement claims, as she has been sued many times for blatant violations of the Copyright Act, among other things.
1. Aisha v. Madonna (civil rights violations and copyright infringement)
2. Sorrentino v. Madonna (assault and battery on a 10-year-old child)
3. DeCastro v. Madonna (invasion of privacy and commissioned stalking and harassment of a Miami family)
4. Myers v. Madonna (civil rights violations)
5. Ronald J Myers v. Madonna (civil rights violations)
6. Barrier v. Madonna (civil rights violations)
7. Bourdin v. Madonna (copyright infringement)
8. Easy Street Records v. Madonna (copyright infringement)
9. Acquaviva v. Madonna (copyright infringement)
10. D'Onofrio v. Madonna (copyright infringement)
11. Iving L Williams v. Madonna (copyright infringement)
12. Eon Net LP v. Madonna (copyright /patent/trademark infringement)
13. Rich Kidd Music Publishing, Inc. v. Madonna (copyright infringement)
14. Winterland v. Madonna (copyright infringement)
15. Hobe Cie. LTD v. Madonna (trademark infringement)
16. Coppola v. Madonna (personal injury)
17. Rice v. Madonna (breach of contract)
18. Mclay v. Madonna (breach of contract)
19. Nike, Inc. v. Madonna (breach of contract)
20. Millennium Films v. Madonna (breach of contract)
21. Done and Dusted v. Madonna (breach of contract)
Available on Aisha's web site is a feature detailing over 3 DOZEN incidents of Madonna infringing other artists "copyrights" and "trademarks" with multiple cases resulting in litigation from individuals all over the world.
Aisha stated, "To claim one is the queen of reinvention, when your many music and image makeovers willfully rip off other artists' copyrighted works in great detail, is disgraceful and screams fraud.
"There is nothing original about theft. Her conduct is very dishonorable. For one to steal and from a minority, is insidious and betrays a gross lack of character. Copyrights are considered intangible assets. Therefore, to steal another's copyrights is to steal another's money."
"In case Madonna has forgotten in her old age and vain attempts at trying to be the contemporary of Miley Cyrus and Britney Spears, copyright infringement is a crime under United States and United Nations laws."


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House of Lords debate music education
Last night, the House of Lords put music education in the spotlight in a 72-minute debate, in which James Rhodes' Don't Stop the Music campaign was repeatedly highlighted.
The proceedings were kicked off by Lord Aberdare – a singer in the Parliament choir – who asked what the government is doing "to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of music education hubs and the National Plan for Music Education."
He highlighted issues of concern, many also raised by James Rhodes in his campaign, including the decline in central government funding for local music education services (from a total of over £82million in 2010-11 to £58million in 2014-15), the lack of funding commitments beyond March 2016, issues with teacher training, and the absence of music from Ofsted's inspection framework which "means inevitably that schools give less priority to their music education activities than they might otherwise do."
"Access to instruments is another problem", added Lord Aberdare, highlighting James Rhodes instrument amnesty encouraging members of the public to donate instruments.
There were also many references in the debate to a lack of consistency in music provision across the country. "We also need to ensure that the work that is done is reaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds. There is something of a postcode lottery about the provision of music education… and the playing field is still uneven across the UK," said Lord Black of Brentwood.
The Lord Bishop of Lichfield added: "As cuts are made, the success of instrumental learning and one-to-one music lessons is diminished, which significantly affects the opportunities for students to progress. Recognition of the importance of music in education and for general well-being is essential if it is not to return to being seen as elitist, where only those with surplus money can afford lessons."
Lord Lipsey seconded Lord Aberdare's praise for James Rhodes' "wonderful programme", and highlighted the importance of head teachers and teachers knowing the value of music. "They are under tremendous pressure from Ofsted, the Government and the Michael Goves of this world to show their results in maths and English," he said.
Many of the contributors to the debate reflected on the importance of learning and listening to music in their schooldays and lives today, such as Lord Black of Brentwood who recalled: "I was lucky enough to have an amazing music education at school… I could not have wanted for more, and it has become my lifelong passion as a result. But what I – and, I suspect, all noble Lords – want is for every child to have the opportunity to have their life enriched by music in this way."
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Whatever happened to the echo effect? After all, it's been a couple of weeks since we last mentioned in any meaningful way - you would have to look pretty closely at the margin of our favorite chart in our post yesterday to even see it referenced.
Even though we're still rooting against it, given that it makes the math we do more complicated, filtering for the echo effect would still seem to be providing a better frame of reference for describing why the stock prices are behaving as they are. Here's the echo-filtered version of the alternative futures chart we presented yesterday:
For an example of why filtering for the echo effect would appear to provide a better frame of reference than the unfiltered version, let's look at the change in the value of the S&P 500 from Friday, 14 March 2014 to Monday, 17 March 2014. Here, after investors had fully shifted their forward-looking focus to the expectations associated with 2014-Q3 on Thursday, 13 March 2014, stock prices drifted lower on Friday so that they fell below the level where they would be if they were centered on that target.
Our hypothesis for how stock prices really work says that whenever they deviate from the level associated with the forward-looking expectations of investors, which we measure as the change in the year-over-year growth rates of trailing year dividends per share expected from one future quarter to the next, they will tend to move to the level that is consistent with the future quarter to which investors have focused their attention. And sure enough, that's exactly what happened on Monday, 17 March 2014, as investors maintained their forward-looking focus on the expectations associated with 2014-Q3, for the reasons we discussed yesterday.
Now consider this question - if stock prices truly do have the property of being mean-reverting, what defines where the mean is?
We like the alternative futures chart because, for us, it emphasizes the quantum nature of stock prices - that they chaotically move from one level to another like an electron orbiting a hydrogen atom as they either gain or lose energy. Only here, that happens as investors shift their attention from one alternative future to another and adjust their investment strategies accordingly to the expectations associated with the future upon which they focus.
So we find ourselves in the odd position of knowing what the future for stock prices is (or more accurately, what the alternative futures for stock prices are), or would be, provided that we can identify or accurately predict which future's expectations will signal and hold the attention of investors.
And yet, it's unpredictable because there are random and chaotic elements behind when those shifts might occur. We call that noise, which while causing stock prices to deviate from the targets investors would set, is necessary for the market to behave efficiently.
But that's a whole different topic for a different day.
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So here, this morning, we have news of the IAF attack on the south Lebanese village of Qana, in which more than 50 people were killed, mainly women and children. The fact that Olmert, Peretz and Halutz offered an immediate apology and pledged an investigation tells you it's probably just as bad as it sounds.
Since Hizbullah doesn't broadcast news of their casualties, I think the damage Israel is doing to its fighting strength on the ground is likely being understated. But I don't see how we can argue, at this point at least, that Hizbullah as a movement doesn't seem strengthened by all this. Hopefully there's some way out of this in which the underlying problem here can be solved — Lebanon's lack of control over the belligerent militia controlling its southern border. But it's hard to find the signs promising at this moment. And for Israel, one number tells the irreducible story. 140 rockets fell on northern Israel today. That's the highest count since July 12th when the whole thing started. And in terms of how Israel understands its own security, that's the most damning thing: even using main force, they can't stop the rocket attacks on their civilian areas.
As I said a couple days ago, the thing about this region is that things can always get worse, much worse.
And along those lines, I wanted to finish this post by flagging something ominous that keeps coming up in the Israeli press. There's a mix of public and private communications going on between Jerusalem and Damascus. Israel is trying to assure Damascus that they don't plan or want to expand the war to include Syria. Syria is clearly worried that they will and has their troops on full alert. Israel is also warning in no uncertain terms that Syria getting involved will spark massive retaliation.
But there are persistent signs that the US is egging Israel on to bring the war to Damascus.
Here's a clip from the end of an article today in the Jerusalem Post …
[Israeli]Defense officials told the Post last week that they were receiving indications from the United States that the US would be interested in seeing Israel attack Syria.
And there are other ominous indications of the US pressing for expansion the Israelis don't seem to want.
There's more here than the US not wanting a ceasefire before meaningful changes on the ground have happened in south Lebanon. Or at least I fear there is. This started because Israel doesn't want and won't tolerate a menacing militia building up on their northern border and lashing out with occasional raids or missile attacks, especially in the context of withdrawals from other areas.
The world has sat by for six years and let Hizbullah's anamolous position in south Lebanon be Israel's problem. Whether their response was wise or just, I'll set aside for the moment. It's not about totalitarianism or Afghanistan or Iraq, at least not in an operational sense, or dingbat fantasies about Freedom and Terror. But there do appear to be forces in Washington — seemingly the stronger ones, with Rice just a facade — who see this whole thing as an opportunity for a grand call of double or nothing to get out of the disaster they've created in the region. Go into Syria, maybe Iran. Try to roll the table once and for all. No failed war that a new war can't solve. Condi's mindless 'birth pangs' remark wasn't just a gaffe — or perhaps it was a gaffe in the Kinsleyan sense of inopportunely saying what you really think. That seems to be the thinking — transformation through destabilization.


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Climate-Responsive Design Reduces Energy Use
With buildings contributing close to half of the energy use in the United States, and energy use being the number one contributor to global warming, an obvious way to mitigate climate change is to design low or no-energy use buildings.
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10 Steps to Climate Responsive Architecture
Climate responsive architecture takes into consideration seasonality, the direction of the sun (sun path and solar position), natural shade provided by the surrounding topography, environmental factors (such as wind, rainfall, humidity) and climate data (temperature, historical weather patterns, etc.) to design comfortable and energy efficient homes.
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- Perform a site analysis. Determine the weather patterns, climate, soil types, wind speed and direction, heating degree days and path of the sun. Look at the water flows, habitat and geology of the site. Document each with a qualified team of professionals to understand the ramifications of building in that specific place. This is an approach which considers the best environmental sustainability practices.
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- It's all about the sun, so orient the building based upon cardinal directions. The goal here is to maximize the amount of sun that heats the space in the winter (hence using less energy to mechanically heat) and decrease the amount of sun that cooks the building in the summer (hence using less energy to mechanically cool).
- Select the appropriate window areas and glazing types based on orientation. South facing facades should utilize a window area appropriate to its orientation and glazing should utilize a double or triple paned glass with a low-e coating to minimize the amount of heat transmitted into the space in the hottest months while keeping heat inside during the cooler winter months. For example, south facing glass window wall will cook the occupants inside during the hot summer months if care is not taken to provide shade on the façade.
- Building envelope design varies greatly by geographic area. When designing the envelope of the building, factors such as insulation, vapor barriers, and air barriers will vary radically depending on whether the project is in the cold, snowy north, the hot and humid south or the arid desert.
- Minimize the building footprint. Question the true needs of the program. Do you need that much space? Are there ways that spaces can become multi-functional? Do we need that many private offices if some staff can telecommute occasionally and share offices? Once your team is set on the minimization program, take a look at the size of your footprint. Is it possible to add extra stories to make the footprint smaller? That way, the building will have fewer excavation costs and more wall area that can benefit from the warming effects of the sun and an increase in natural daylighting.
- Design for natural ventilation. Since warm air rises, a building can be cooled by designing for stack ventilation by drawing cooler air from openings low in the building, while carrying heat away through openings in the top of the space. The rate at which the air moves is a function of the vertical distance between the inlets and outlets, their size and the difference in temperature over the height of the room. This could prevent occupants from experiences sick building syndrome.
- Relax the occupants comfort standards. Most buildings in this day and age are designed to keep occupants fairly comfortable, at around 78 degrees Fahrenheit. However, with climate responsive design, reducing the amount of energy used to cool and heat the building can result in using natural systems, meaning the sun and the wind. With these, if building occupants are open to adding or removing layers during the seasons, it's amazing how much energy can be saved. Adding a sweater in the winter or relaxing the company dress code to shorts in the summer can be enough to eliminate mechanical heating and cooling altogether, saving a bundle of money and the environment.
- Conduct modeling and analysis. Energy modeling, lighting models, daylighting studies, computational fluid dynamics are all tools that designers can and should use to understand how the design best integrates with the local climate and micro-climate features specific to the site. Again, having the right team members with modeling expertise and software is the trick to keeping costs down while exploring the best options for the design.
- Perform multiple iterations. If at first, you don't succeed, try again! It will take the design team multiple passes of just these basic layouts in your pre-design or schematic design phase to hone in the lowest energy use possible, optimized for your specific site. However, it's better to spend more time in the early phases of design to model the project which is far less costly than making changes in the field or later on in the design process. Keep at the trials, and eventually, your building will be responding directly to the climate specific to the project site.


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