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Comment: Gee whiz, could that be why.... (Score 1) 376

by sgt_doom (#38945065) Attached to: Moglen: Facebook Is a Man-In-The-Middle Attack
.....the below?

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9164978/Narus_develops_a_scary_sleuth_for_social_media

Narus is developing a new technology that sleuths through billions of pieces of data on social networks and Internet services and connects the dots.

The new program, code-named Hone, is designed to give intelligence and law enforcement agencies a leg up on criminals who are now operating anonymously on the Internet.

In many ways, the cyber world is ideal for subversive and terrorist activities, said Antonio Nucci, chief technology officer with Narus. "For bad people, it's an easy place to hide," Nucci said. "They can get lost and very easily hide behind a massive ocean of legal digital transactions."

http://www.hotvoipnews.com/blog_87.shtml

VoIP Blocking in Saudi Arabia using Narus Software

VoIP blocking in Saudi Arabia has been around for sometime and was aided by the introduction of the VoIP blocking software provided by the Californian Company Narus. The reasons the Saudi government block VoIP is to protect the national telephone carrier Saudi Telecom from potential competition. By prohibiting VoIP calls people based in Saudi Arabia are forced to use the more expensive Saudi Telecom service.

Comment: Welcome to the (Romney) Matrix (Score 1) 501

by sgt_doom (#38894309) Attached to: Mitt Romney, Robotics, and the Uncanny Valley
Mitt Romney’s individual contributors (please see end for list of financial institution contributors)

John Paulson, hedge fund manager, Bob Mercer, Renaissance Technologies, Bill Koch, member of Koch family, and various other hedge fund managers and private equity LBO firms, etc.

John Paulson was the hedge fund manager who made an estimated $5 billion one year betting on the economic meltdown thanks to a supertanker-sized amount of insider information. (Remember that when Alan Greenspan left his position as chairman of the Federal Reserve, he went to work for Paulson at his hedge fund.)

To illustrate the direct wealth transfer in action: Paulson buys a credit default swap (CDS) for $1.4 million, which later pays out $100 million --- and he does that any number of times.

Paulson and the other banksters and hedge fundsters, now have their billions and A.I.G. and Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, et al., “must” be bailed out by the taxpayers --- who later lose their jobs and homes or residences, and must go on “austerity” programs because Paulson and Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase and GE bought those CDSes and AIG and the others who sold them didn’t have any capital on hand to back them up.

Bob Mercer’s Renaissance Technologies is an institutional investor in the major banks and oil companies which were heavily involved and responsible for the global meltdown as they speculated – or financially manipulated – the prices of oil, energy and commodities – jacking up the paper market price of oil to 13.8 times higher than the actual physical market by May of 2008 by super-selling oil futures to each other, forcing the price upwards.

They used the same scheme to jack up the prices of refinery-involved chemicals and oil transportation costs (using forward freight futures to raise the price of supertanker rental and bulk carriers, etc.)

Mitt Romney’s Fortune

Born into wealth, Romney would accumulate even more by selling debt, loading companies with debt and more debt by taking out loans against companies in leveraged buyout deals to reward himself.

He accumulated even more money by avoiding taxes; utilizing offshore finance centers in the Caymans, Switzerland, and other locations. (The leveraged buyout structure itself is predicated on tax avoidance and shifting the burden of taxation onto the workers due to the tax deductibility of debt payments.)

This is what plutocracy looks

like!http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/imageroot/2012/01/Romney.jpg

(And his Super Pac individual donors)

http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00490045/763780/sa/11AI

Comment: Those who were killed...... (Score 1) 1303

by sgt_doom (#38784123) Attached to: How the US Lost Out On iPhone Work
John F. Kennedy stood up for workers' rights, and he was killed.

Rev. Martin Luther King stood up for workers' rights (and much else), and he was killed.

Bobbie Kennedy stood up for workers' rights, and he was killed.

Sen. Paul Wellstone stood up for workers' rights (sponsored much improved labor law), and he was killed.

I think we get the message........

Comment: In the final analysis.... (Score 1) 405

by sgt_doom (#38666070) Attached to: Who's Flying Those Drones? FAA Won't Say
...we all realize it's the multinationals which is really flying those drones. (And the latest from that Eureqa program filtering out the current news bites.)

Be Like Mitt

I want to be like Mitt, who has never done an honest day’s work in his life!

I want to be like Mitt, who would convince his cronies to invest 10% in a fund, and then borrow the remaining 90% from the banks, using the targeted company in the leveraged buyout as collateral -- that means transferring the 90% debt to the target company. (I’m going to buy a car, what’s your collateral, the bank asks me, the car I’m buying, I reply, try the bank next store, they reply.)

I want to be like Mitt, and receive free millions from the banks (after the LBO or leveraged buyout, they would borrow more millions from the banks against the targeted company – known as dividend recaps -- thus paying themselves a fortune while adding even more debt onto the target company).

[The proper term for this is debt financing or deficit financing, creating unbelievably burdensome debt on the takeover company to enrich themselves. Romney’s vast wealth, and that of other private banks and hedge funds, is directly responsible for the increase of the national debt.]

I want to be like Mitt, who avoided military service during the draft.

I want to be like Mitt, free money for no work and super-rich!

(Where’s the risk? There is no risk as the laws they bribed congress to pass, back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, ensured that!)

Comment: Exactly ! ! ! (Score 1) 582

by sgt_doom (#38631978) Attached to: Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments
Obama isn't a democrat, just as the Clintons aren't, and were never, democrats. Who did Hillary Clinton appoint as her chief of staff? The very same neocon from the Bush administration who specifically was the culprit who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA professional to Richard Armitage, Ari Fleischer and that butt-ugly WaPo columnist, whose name I will never utter.

From Nixon on, the same neocon slime (and no, there's no actual difference between neocons and neolibs, the neocons just want you to believe so) keeps reappearing in the next, or future and opposite party, administrations: Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner first appear in Geo. H.W. Bush's administration, then reappear in Clinton's, Linda Chavez first appears in Jimmy Carters, stays on for reappointment in Reagan's, then Bush #2 (the simian-looking fellow who gets almost his entire agenda enaced) tries to reappoint her in his.

And Obama reappoints Robert Mueller as FBI director, first appointed to DOJ by Bush #1 as chief of its criminal division when that BCCI investigation was getting close to the White House, then reappointed as FBI director by Bush #2 four days before 9/11/01. Interestingly, Mueller is the grandnephew of Richard Bissell, while his wife is the granddaughter of Charles Cabell (President Kennedy fired the three top guys at the CIA: Allen Dulles, Richard Bissell and Charles Cabell). And who is Timothy Geithner descended from? (Hint: on the Moore side of the family, also was a treasury secretary and once made the memorable quote that the poor should pay taxes, and only the poor should pay taxes.....)

Comment: Forever warring America (Score 1, Interesting) 969

by sgt_doom (#38549736) Attached to: Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War
The USA has been violating Iranian airspace for quite a number of years now, and illegally threatening war (under international law, yet laws and treaties America continues to routinely break) any number of times, and let's not forget that Stuxnet virus unleashed with American cooperation, etc. Iran began developing its nuclear industry from the illegal consulting advice form CEO Dick Cheney-led Halliburton (Iran was under saction and illegal for Halliburton to involve themselves with both studies and materiel to Iran) because radium is the second resource after oil. America will continue their forever wars to continue to enrich the plutocracy, all excuses to the contrary.

There is nothing more silly than a silly laugh. -- Gaius Valerius Catullus

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