Update on Peter Popoff

[Akira625]

Now, if we could just get the FCC to shut down Popoff, and all those faith healing shows in the US for the that same reason...

[555pontifex]

Jeremy Hunt is not worth contacting. He is a work-shy self promoting narcissistic politician. All he needs to do is pick up the phone, for goodness sake, and talk to the minister in Iceland. Too much bother for him, apparently. On the other hand, he's wasting taxpayers money by paying an army of underlings to issue standard letters to me and everybody else who complains about Popoff. At this point, I would say that Jeremy Hunt is as guilty as Popoff. He won't lift a finger, so I will point one.

[Shavarnarak]

More like Peter Jerkoff, amirite?

[sfiorare]

oh look it's shanedk, the coward that's afraid to debate economics

[Nytephyre]

I saw this db Popoff at like 4am or whatever on tv last night and was thoroughly disgusted. There was another guy just like him on before or after him who was selling something called "No Evil Oil" which is supposed to be a sort of "blood of jesus" concoction. Healing powers and all that i suppose just like the miracle water...I swear it seems like early morning tv has a scams hour.

[NotSoOldHippy]

Popoff -- another fucking Christian crook. They all are.

[ArchNME]

con-artist or not, isn't this censorship...

[zoltan6561]

@ArchNME

Censorship is sometimes necessary.

[ArchNME]

@zoltan6561 I disagree, besides who decides what is worthy for the rest of us to see? It's just a power to easily abused. Bad information can always be defeated with more information anyway so it's unnecessary to censor. It's just lazy and it's dangerous.

[sinmantyx]

@zoltan6561 It's not censorship to pressure a channel to quit giving someone a forum. People should be free to say what they want without fear of being hurt or jailed. There is no obligation to give them a forum to speak.

[YoricksSkull]

well... why not sue them? somebody will have to respond then...

[xtro1969]

Good on you for this. I cannot stomach people like this - preying on the weak & vulnerable in this manner has got to be the lowest of the low.

[pdblouin33]

Dear DPRjones,

I sent an email to VisionTV (Broadcasters of PPM in Canada). No reply.

After waiting a few weeks, I have now sent an email to the CBSC (Canadian Broadcasting Standards Council) and am awaiting a reply. I desperately want to get PPM out of business.

These Christian bureaucrats are excellent with finding loopholes (e.g. iceland) - it's a prerequisite to being a fraud, conman, charlatan...

[Doryreed]

I got the same email. Not much use!

[Sweepingreaper4]

reply on behalf of Hunt: "The Department has noted your comments. However, this is not a channel that falls under Ofcom's jurisdiction. Any complaint about the programmes broadcast by The Gospel Channel would be a matter for the appropriate regulator or licensing authority, in this case, the Icelandic authorities."

Thats not everything but the bulk of it.

[daylightisabadthing]

Just got a (presumably bulk) reply from Emmeline Ham at the Public Engagement and Recognition Unit, Department for Culture, Media and Sport responding for Jeremy Hunt's office. It says the Gospel channel is not Ofcom's responsibility and I should contact the Icelandic Ministry of Communications or Licensing Committee.

Doesn't address the point I made about Sky exploiting a loophole to evade the regulators.

[i5a6i7n8]

Havent got any reply sent 12/11/10 to Mr Hunt, our fake democracy fails again

[einsibongo]

I'm Icelandic and have blasted this video on my facebook account... I think I recall the Omega station being funded by some uber-christian millionaires from America or somthing...

[ProportionalResponse]

Sent

[NeCacaluXuxultic]

sent!

[tomson600]

as a Cristian i appreciate you exposing Peter Popoff. Please keep up the good work.

[Sweepingreaper4]

@tomson600 As a secularist I appreciate you.

[zencat999]

@tomson600 hope you loose your delusion as well.

[KlipKultur4]

Iceland's minister of Education is a beautiful 36 years old woman. The times they are a changin'

[KlipKultur4]

@KlipKultur4 I meant 34.

[davcar23]

Think I'll buy air time in Iceland to transmit ilegal copies of current films to England.

[Anonymous247n]

You have my support! I sent emails!!! Everyone, do the same, let's DEMAND some justice!

[jjason55740]

Even if your're in USA?\

[tmcthree]

I'm in, but I don't think Ofcom should be off the hook either. While it might not be a practical solution I suspect Ofcom's decision to wash their hands of the matter might be subject to judicial review.

[theoldbat40]

This kind of fraud needs to be stopped. Mail sent

[USMarineSgt]

Emails sent. I also emailed Popoff's ministries asking if they would be willing to donate a pallet of miracle water to help combat the cholera outbreak in Haiti. No response yet :(

[moother888]

at least i have chicken



[beriukay]

Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of email!

[fkerpants]

Done. 

[hamalinzor]

Provided you read video comments, dprjones:

1. Do you have any consumer protection organizations to turn to in Britain? As far as I understand, the only people you've been contacting so far have been Popoff's buddies.

2. What about a major news broadcast, like BBC? Surely BBC would pay some attention to this, considering how many articles they've written on consumer protection.

[kleenex3000]

I am not in the least amazed about the differential reception of the same Videos. As we all know, the user kirke appreciates the idea, that all the little babies' Penises are to be cut off (afaik it's called CyrrCummCission) - and, YouTube, that they are like any proper organization firm in Heebs' hands, vice-versally thank him for his solidarity in the very, bloody issue.

[Gnug215]

4 people bought Miracle Spring Water, and found it tasty.

[Hemulen40]

Pete Pop-Off !

[ericleb01]

I've sent a letter to the CBC. I would think that this situation would merit some sort of mention.

[ravenslaves]

Peter Popoff a fraud?

I think not.

God talks to Peter...er...through his wife...uh...then through an earpiece. Afterwhich he shoves an invalid old lady to the ground by shoving her face...uh...in the name of Jesus...yeah....

DPR, you should apologize to this man of GOD (tm)...yes, yes you should.

It would be the Christian thing to do.

[BaronCalisto]

I've sent a rather stern email to Jeremy Hunt, Minister for Broadcasting. DPRJones, if you don't get a response from him by Wednesday, well, i'd be very surprised, because the repercussions for him are that i'll take it a bit higher than him, and he's been prewarned to 'politely' get his arse into gear.

[fragelius]

hmm wont it be easy to block all incoming mail by simply making popov filter <.<

[Nakedhominid]

How can it be possible for anyone to circumvent Ofcom and broacast in the UK without their regulation?

[wearealltubes]

I'll just pop off a few emails.

[moocows111111]

@wearealltubes I saw what you did there =D

[Sandro1989]

Thumbed up

E-mails sent

Comment posted

Keep at it dpr!!! GOOD JOB

[Pisarenko]

Fuck me....that Omega is a major plague in Iceland...

Anyways, if you need help with translation or something, I´m Icelandic and can help.

[OrbitPrime]

Emails, sent

[Ibis333]

Peter Popoff broadcasts on Vision TV in Canada. I don't imagine that it conforms to their own Code of Ethics (which you can find linked from their homepage), let alone regular broadcast & advertising standards. Complain to audience@visiontv.ca

[gilgameshismist]

messages to broadcaster sent..

[petehjr1]

Mmm Katrin is very cute.

[spaceghost1313]

email sent to the lazy son of a bitch minister.

I dont think iceland are to blame for this one. Ofcom surely have to tell sky they arent allowed to show Popoffin the UK

[afspeter]

Messages sent!

[CyberNeticRodent]

i will sort this tomorrow morning. count mein.

[SjoerdvdKroon]

Messages sent! Looking forward for an update.

[a2zdiy]

... I just love the name - peter popoff... pppriceless!

[frank3976]

e-mails sent !!!

[ahmalala]

Popoff's show still seems to air in the US on the BET channel :(

[Greafgriet]

@ahmalala BET? Maybe Aaron McGruder was right when he said BET was out to destroy black people.

[ichimonji1988]

Message sent, take that Jeremy Hunt! :)

[STFUNOWlol]

Thank you for taking a stand against this kind of stuff, and thank you everyone who is helping.

[Shashen]

done and also done

[bdf2718]

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[ElvisKnucklehead]

Done and done

[finallyfreethinking]

Consider them sent. Time to get this con off the air.

[DanceInYourRoom]

I could never do what Peter Popoff does even if I tried to do it. My consciousness would scream at me that it's wrong to take advantage of the sick and suffering.

How many of those sick and suffering ended up killing themselves when God didn't heal them, or quietly dying from poverty after giving all their money to Popoff? I can't even see what they look like. We'll never hear from them because they lack the means to cry out for help.

I wish a God did exist, just to get justice on him.

[DanceInYourRoom]

This video has the potential of helping a lot of people whose minds are exhausted from their physical suffering.

[spazjp316]

I'd hate to be on the wrong side of jones.

[geganobo]

/ignore ^^

[TemporalOnline]

You need to put example e-mails for each one of them, somewhere, for easy access of the "lazy" (unless you don't want them, to help, of course |:)).

[WilbertK13]

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

Delivery to the following recipients failed.

omega@omegatv.is

[Shashen]

@WilbertK13 mailbox maybe full?

[Segee]

sent!. And I was very polite.

[MatchCard]

Revenue share... as in he gets money off your video? How fucked up is that!! Ehh... comparable to Popoff's fucked-up-ness.

[GreyFoxNinjaFan]

Blimey, the Icelandic minister for education is smokin' hot!

[metalebd]

@GreyFoxNinjaFan Was just about to post the exact same thing. The Icelandic minister for education is freaking hawwt.

[shaedies]

Email sent to eric, but I could not send anything to omega, the email adress did not work.

[benthediceman1]

I've now sent a.... nice enough email to them mostly repeating what you said already in your emails.

[KonijNx2]

Just e-mailed all three. Will resend them all again tomorrow -- and so on.

[goosed1]

Peter has gotten them all addicted to Holy Water.

[akrulla]

Yeah, good luck man.

[Gnug215]

Jeremy Hunt? Does he have a brother called Michael, or Mike for short?

[MisterDoctorE]

Hero!!! :)

[Minttzz]

Can't get this to pla on my iPhone for some reason. Can someone mirror it?

[HellsGate9999]

Sent all three. Good luck DPR keep up the good fight! Be sure to keep us updated with all new info please. We are helping so we want to know whats going on and when. =)

[IvarNordman]

i sent emails to

[aardjazz]

ok done. It may help if you also edited a couple fo your videos on popoff, removing the long intros etc so they are easier to send to MPs etc.

[Asciarius]

emails sent to Iceland and Jeremy Hunt

[daylightisabadthing]

email sent to Jeremy Hunt - good work DPR.

[lawbag1]

I wish you well in your efforts

[Swede1066]

DprJones is Peter Popoff's worst nightmare!!! Dude, you are a one-man wrecking machine! Give 'em hell!!!!

[daylightisabadthing]

@BuecherFuerAlle Ripping off vulnerable people with a scam doesn't count as free speech. Popoff has already been exposed and banned and Sky TV is circumventing the regulatory authority in order to keep making money from his ilk (funded by their gullible victims).

[catalyst8]

@BuecherFuerAlle The right to free speech does not mean the right to commit crime. If I came to you with a bag of sand & told you that it would not only cure your cancer but would also conjure money for you, that would be a criminal activity, dangerously criminal for obvious reasons. Popoff is making similar claims.

[pirbird14]

I sent emails to omega and to the Ministry of Education. I proofread the first one and found you had used "know conman" instead of "known conman" twice.

[19822andy]

I've done my part too. We must stop Popoff (Or Poopoff as I like to call him) from begging money from vulnerable people. Great work DPR!!

[prowled]

You have done a LOT of work Dpr! You must know that we are very thankfull for your vigorous atempts to get this man to obey the law!

[plumdrix]

Further checking shows that the omegatv.is domain is not registered and no MX record (mail exchange record) exists either.

omega@omega.is however seems to work and as the repsonsible person for the omega.is domain is erik@global.is, it will certainly reach the correct person.

In case that the guys at Omega use 'God' as their Admin, he clearly doesn't have a clue about DNS :-)

[plumdrix]

Just sent the mails, but also got an error for the omegatv.is address :

'No MX or A records for omegatv.is'

Will post any repsonses from the other mails.

Keep up the great work.

[555pontifex]

Just sent an email to Hunt, copied to the other two. Keep up the good work!

[mythinktube]

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: omega@omegatv.is

[goddom]

Three emails sent... I will let you know if I get a response.

[jonbob0008]

I sent e-mails to all three addresses that you recommended. Since you didn't have an example for the Minister of Broadcasting, I had to wing it. Hope this helps a lot. LET TAKE THAT CONMAN DOWN!!!

[taiming71]

Popoff is probably giving them a lot of money to this sneaky way in to the UK.

Ice Land is probably in need of any or all out side cash they can get . So i think they will be difficult to deal with.

I wish you luck.

Please anyone that can help DPR please do. Popoff is a monster that preys on the weak .

[dannypantsgm]

Isn't it obvious, dpr? Kirke420's upload of your video was just better than yours. ;)

[FredrichNietzsche25]

I commend you for going through all of this trouble

[TheUnmaskedMagician]

ok I just sent the emails

lets see what happenes

[TheUnmaskedMagician]

I will send the emails and let you know if I get a response

[mrtruthfinder1975]

great vid....i cant believe YT did that. wow

[ScientologyPhishing]

Hell yeah, let's see if we can make a difference come Monday morning!

[LeviTimes]

E-mails sent. Here's hoping that one less conman spreads his trickery to the public.

[fakesmith797]

contact james randi's educational foundation!

[iurak6868]

Done!

[clawdfrawg]

Peter Popoff and his mom down voted you, somebody else sliped it hapens sometimes.

[Leadman1989]

@clawdfrawg

and now nephy has down thumbed him too..

[JustJobeMY]

I think some value can be gained by looping into CC some journalists from media quarters. If nothing more than just to add some pressure for them to respond.

[Zentz29]

Mail sent...

[gj75845]

done and done :-) lets hope we'll get some answers soon!

[lardo444]

i'm on it.

peace, lardo.

[HappyCabbie]

All right y'all lets do this. Leeeeeeeroooy Jenkins.

Emails are being sent

[PrideSwine]

@HappyCabbie At least I have chicken.

[RaidenTheAlmighty]

Imagine you have a child who tries to touch the stove. When he does, you stop him. You never explain to him why he shouldn't touch it, or let him touch it to experience what a burn is; you just stop him from touching it. Eventually he is going to touch the stove and get burned.

These people need to learn the hard way. That's why it think this is sort of pointless. If we keep saving them, then they will never learn.

[RDJim]

Done

[Aresftfun]

Is is just me or did you spell "License" wrong? Is that a cultural difference such as colour and color?

[pardy12]

Sent!

[MtlRedAtheist]

Done and done...

... and done.

[bailesie]

@MtlRedAtheist

Dammit! That's my line ^_^

[arcanics1971]

Done, but as SPACKlick says, the omegatv.is address bounces emails back.

[Aresftfun]

Time to stop their shenanigans.

[RELIGIONmustDIE]

lol, 1 dislike

Maybe Popoff doesn't like this video :)

[FrostbittenWolf]

Huh... a few people who might be able to at least point us in the right direction... but i still can't help but feel that we haven't found the right tree to bark up. The tangled web of regulation loopholes related to Gospel channel... i doubt Popoff is the only shady character working through that network.

[DanceInYourRoom]

I can't imagine how many people this may help. There's enough suffering in the world without conartists, and notifying the people who actually have some influence may have some effect in this case.

[RaidenTheAlmighty]

It won't save anybody. They'll just give their money to the next snake oil salesman who promises to take away their woes, for a fee of course.

[pjedinn]

Reykjavik is small, I think Ill give someone a call or knock on some doors for you.

[Michigan1985]

One down vote. lol @ popoff

[RaidenTheAlmighty]

I'll be honest DPR, I don't really see the point of trying to get this guy kicked off the air. You aren't actually helping the situation. The problem isn't being solved, it's just going to be moved somewhere else. Removing Popoff isn't going to prevent gullible theists from giving their money to con men. They'll just give it to the next guy who promises something outlandish. In the end, you're just silencing him by getting him kicked off the air. Just my opinion though.

[BabySatch1]

@RaidenTheAlmighty If we make a big enough noise/fuss, it might even reach the news. Then millions of people will be exposed to the exposure of another dishonest theist!

So get your ass into gear and harrass these people!

[gunnerdan70]

i watched your other video that you say was removed today so WTH I only watched it again because it and other videos i have already watched keep popping up in my latest video in box

[IdleGod]

I hate to say it, but I think the only way you will get a response would be to sue them, and put out a press release about your doing so to the local news agencies. :(

[BabySatch1]

@IdleGod If we make a big enough noise/fuss, it might even reach the news. Then millions of people will be exposed to the exposure of another dishonest theist!

So get your ass into gear and harrass these people!

[firewallx]

These crazy Christians love to file false DMCA notices. They can't even follow 1 of their own 10 commandments 'thy shall not bear false witness.'

[sandform]

@firewallx They can't even name all of the commandments, let alone follow them.

[bjam89]

sent, but omega sucks the email wont be sent

[eyallev]

be prepared for another dmca ..... some people must really love that popoff guy.

anyway, good luck with your battle.

[ancoreal]

Great work, dprjones. But the credit goes to all who sent at least one email

youtube.com/watch?v=V74AxCqOTv­g

j/k

[BabySatch1]

EVERYONE MIRROR THIS VIDEO!!!

[dominictemple]

Email sent.

[nemo3590]

Could Americans get involved even though we don't really have a stake in it?

[Alaron251]

@nemo3590 Yes. Just say you have UK relatives, or are staying their breifly or something.

[omgiwaswrong]

@Alaron251 @nemo3590 No need to lie about your circumstances. Just say you're concerned about the situation and state your reasons.

[vermanshane]

So sick of this youtube terms of use BULLSHIT, its why i upload nothing

[DactylorhizaEire]

Respond to this video... Even though I am from Eíre, I will still send the email's, I suppose that I may as well, after all sky broadcasts over here too.

[MrAbkebab]

Just send the e-mails to the persons responsible for this circus

[dangerouslytalented]

Of course, we could ALL send miracle spring water directly to all those involved, hundreds and hundreds of vials, and this will show them what kind of fraud this guy is...

[dominictemple]

@dangerouslytalented

I'm going to have to disagree with you there on the grounds that we would have to first buy the miracle spring water from popoff, and there is no way in hell that I'm going to give that man even a penny of my hard earned cash.

[dangerouslytalented]

@dominictemple actually he sends the water out free and then asks for a donation. He does this to get around certain pesky laws.

[omgiwaswrong]

@dominictemple Oh you misunderstand, the "miracle" water is totally free. But in order for it to actually work you have to give a "seed" donation (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

"Selling" miracle water would probably attract the attention of the authorities even in the religulous US.

[Doryreed]

Sent the three emails. Lets hope it helps.

[applefrog111]

uke Iceland... problem solved.

[Wollff85]

@applefrog111 Nuking Iceland? Are you kidding?

Totally useless. You wouldn't even be able to tell the difference on a before-after pic.

[bjam89]

@applefrog111 that would kill a bunch of people tat has done nothing wrong

[applefrog111]

@bjam89

Yes but nuking Iceland would stop the problem, outlined in the video.

[bjam89]

@applefrog111 i'd rather do a clinical missile strike or someting like that

[HentaiGuy42]

@bjam89 > You mean a surgical missile strike? A clinical missile strike would be a dispassionate strike. If you've gotten to the point that you're willing to bomb someone, you're generally passionate about something.

[bjam89]

@HentaiGuy42 yeah what he was saying and it is better to take down one building then take out an island like he wanted

[applefrog111]

@bjam89

Yes that would also solve the problem ..... however Iceland might retaliate and kill us all with their unstoppable armies. So it's agreed than we will nuke all of Europe, and Asia and the Americas and Australia?

[bjam89]

@applefrog111 no, i am not for the use of nukes at all

[Jammsbro1]

Consider it done DPR¬

[Stereolabdream]

Will do, Sir.

You and I share a detestation for Popoff and his brood of imitators.

[CyborgAtheist]

Don't these people know who you are?

When dprjones sends you an email you don't ignore it.