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Thanks for the support
We all have to say thanks, I in this case to the BBC, they were just able to give support to two issues that I put out in the open over a year ago (too tired to find these articles, they are at least a year old and it is 33 degrees Celsius at present (at 21:30), The first is the lacking approach to Common Cyber Sense within the US Administration, I found that failing in the Pentagon in 2018, I found Cisco routers still carrying the password Cisco123 in at least two sensitive areas and there was the use and abuse of non secured USB sticks in more than two sensitive places and on top of all that, the US ends up with an idiot in the White House relying on a password like MAGA2020, how bad do things need to get? I agree that the man Victor Gevers did everything right, including alerting the proper players, but this is a much larger problem. So when we see "The president's account, which has 89 million followers, is now secure. But Twitter has refused to answer direct questions from BBC News, including whether the account had extra security or logs that would have shown an unknown login", the quote forgets to give a larger part, you see, this was all on the user, when the user is thick as molasses and equally stupid, can we blame Twitter? And this now also reflects back to '6 simple questions', which I released on February 3rd 2020, there we see the simple setting that the Daily Mail, the Daily Mail of all sources that there was a way to infect accounts yet no way to establish by who or how. It gets us back to the original question 'Where is the evidence that Saudi Arabia infected ANY phones?', a question that FTI Consulting and the United Nation essay writers can not inform us. It shows a much larger lack of cyber security and proper cyber defences, all whilst these so called investigators are happy to accuse whomever is a political and not a true target, is that too much?
I ended that article with question 6 'Why on earth is the UN involved in an alleged Criminal investigation where so much information is missing?', now we see a new page turned, can any criminal investigation hold any water when the users are that thick? MAGA2020, really?
So when we consider "Mr Gevers also claimed he and other security researchers had logged in to Mr Trump's Twitter account in 2016 using a password – "yourefired" – linked to another of his social-network accounts in a previous data breach", in all this the need to employ Common Cyber Sense is a situation that becomes more and more essential and we need to catch on quicker than we are, because it is people like that who will claim things against Russia and China, whilst letting their security services in at their leisure because they cannot be bothered with Common Cyber Sense.
As I see it, President Trump will optionally get two additional Christmas cards this year, one from 76B Khoroshevskoe Highway, the other from 14 Dongchangan Avenue, Dongcheng District, Beijing. Both will be stating "Thanks for the support", what a lovely way to end a presidency and probably the first time that a US President gets a Christmas card from both locations.
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Tagged as BBC, China, Chinese state intelligence, Cisco, Common Cyber Sense, FTI Consultancy, GRU, IT Security, Jeff Bezos, pentagon, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Twitter, USA, Victor Gevers
A political stage of nowhere
Less than an hour ago the BBC gave us 'EU reveals plan to regulate Big Tech', apart from the discriminatory nature of the stage, are they doing anything else than merely fuelling their own gravy train? Consider the news from last July, there we were given 'Apple has €13bn Irish tax bill overturned', a case that started in 2016, had Apple and the government of Ireland in a twist, when you consider "The Irish government – which had also appealed against the ruling – said it had "always been clear" Apple received no special treatment", I am on the fence, and in this the European Commission wasted 4 years in going nowhere, in the light of that revelation, can we even trust the approach the EU has? When we look at the first option, we see 'Online harms law to let regulator block apps in UK', this means an almost immediate blocking of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and a few more. Local laws have been 'accomodating' to large corporations for such a long time, that social media is caught in the middle (and yes they benefitted too), so they re now pushing for changes that end privacy, because that is a conclusion. If we hunt down the perpetrators, we need to coat the materials in identity revealing codes, in addition, the EU government will have to adjust laws to make the poster responsible for what they post and that will lead to all kinds of privacy adjustments (that does not worry me), yet when insurance companies will use that setting to see transgressions on social media and they demand adjustment by handing over the posted evidence, how long until people like Margrethe Vestager start realising that they were clueless from the start? The BBC article gives us "The law would give local officials a way to ask Airbnb and other apps to hand over information or remove listings", which now puts some players on the dark-web and the chaos (and organised crime involvement) merely increases. For example, when we see "not use data gathered via their main service to launch a product that will compete with other established businesses", how will that be proven and tested? By handing all data over to the government? How many frivolous cases will that grave train launch? How is it impossible to stop advantage seekers a stage where they use Margrethe Vestager and her gang of idiots to do the bidding of (optionally) organised crime?
Even though I spoke of the Accountability Act, a legal direction that could thwart a few issues from the start in June 2012, 8 years later and this group is hardly even on the track of resolving anything, only to get their grubby greedy fingers on data, the new currency. And in this, the tech companies have their own games to play as Facebook shows with "Apple controls an entire ecosystem from device to app store and apps, and uses this power to harm developers and consumers, as well as large platforms like Facebook", what Apple does, IBM did for decades, what Apple does Microsoft did for decades, so where is that train station? So even as we see "And they may influence other regulators – in the US and elsewhere – which are also planning to introduce new restrictions of their own" we also need to realise that after a decade, the local and EU laws have done little to nothing to hold the poster of information to criminal account, it seems to me a massive oversight. And in all this there is no view that the EU will wisen up any day soon.
So as I see it, this will soon become a political stage that goes nowhere and in all this these layers merely want their fingers on the data, the currency that they do not have. How is that in any way acceptable?
Oh and when we see the blocking of apps and localisation, how long until people find an alternative? An alternative that the EU, the UK and the US have no insight over? Will they block apps that interact with data centres in China, Saudi Arabia and optionally other locations too? I raised it in other ways in 'There is more beneath the sand' in 2019 as well as some issues in 2018, a setting that was almost two years ago, as such is it not amazing that we see a shortsighted approach to this issue, whilst I gave the option EIGHT YEARS AGO and the laws are still not ready? They are ready to get the data from Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft, as such when the trial goes wrong, hw will these people be compensated for the loss of uniquely owned data, data that they collected over the decades? Will the stupid people (Margrethe Vestager et al) compensate per kilobyte? How about $25,000,000 per kilobyte? Perhaps we should double that? What will be the price and in this, we should demand that Margrethe Vestager and her teams will be criminally liable for those losses, or will the gravy train decide that it is a little too complex to hold one station to order, and let face it, that gravy train has 27 stops to make, all with their own local needs, their local incomes and their local digital wannabe's.
When a setting like that goes nowhere, you better believe that there is someone behind the curtain pulling strings for their own enriching needs, that is how it always has been, as such, let me give you the smallest example from January 2020, there we see "'DIGITAL CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE' CONFERENCE", with the nice quote "The e-Evidence Project led by the European Commission, DG Justice and Consumers, provides for the e-Evidence Digital Exchange System that manages the European Investigation Order/Mutual Legal Assistance procedures/instruments (e-Forms, business logic, statistics, log, etc.) on European level. The Reference Implementation Portal is the front-end portal of the e-Evidence Digital Exchange System and is also provided by the EC", yet this is only step one. In all this we can also include the EC (at https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/cybercrime/e-evidence_en), where we see: "However, present-day solutions too often prove unsatisfactory, bringing investigations to a halt", I get it, you will say, will this not resolve it? Well, consider "provide legal certainty for businesses and service providers: whereas today law enforcement authorities often depend on the good will of service providers to hand them the evidence they need, in the future, applying the same rules for access to all service providers will improve legal certainty and clarity", in this we need to look in detail at 'provide legal certainty', which at present under privacy laws is a no-no, and the poster cannot be identified and cannot (and will not) be held to account. As well as 'applying the same rules for access to all service providers', still the poster remains out of reach and the local and EU laws have done NOTHING for over a decade to change that, as such, when we consider this, why should Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Microsoft suffer the consequences, in addition we see the absence of IBM, why is that? Does it not have data collection software, it has data centres, it has cloud solutions, so why are they absent?
And in light of earlier this year, as we were told 'Google starts appeal against £2bn shopping fine', how will that end? The law remains untested in too many aspects, in this the entire data stage is way too soon and in that the blowback will be enormous, all whilst the EU (UK too) is unable to do anything about data driven organised crime, other than blame state operators Russia and China, consider the Sony Hack of 2011, I was with the point of view by Kurt Stammberger (before I even knew about Kurt Stammberger), North Korea lacks infrastructure and a whole deed of other parts. I also questioned the data, like "former hacker Hector Monsegur, who once hacked into Sony, explained to CBS News that exfiltrating one or one hundred terabytes of data "without anyone noticing" would have taken months or years, not weeks", I even considered an applied use of the Cisco routers at Sony to do just that, all issues that North Korea just could not do and in that environment, when we see these levels of doubt and when we get "After a private briefing lasting three hours, the FBI formally rejected Norse's alternative assessment", which might be valid, but when we see a setting where it takes three hours to get the FBI up to speed, can we even trust the EU to have a clue? Even their own former director of German Intelligence, gave us recently that they did not fully comprehend Huawei 5G equipment, and they will investigate the data owners, al before the posters of the messages are properly dealt with? I think not!
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Tagged as Amazon, Apple, BBC, CBS News, China, Cisco, e-Evidence, Eu, EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Facebook, FBI, google, Hector Monsegur, IBM, Kurt Stammberger, Margrethe Vestager, Microsoft, North Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sony
Intent or not?
This is a question that has been forming in my mind for some time now, and today the question rose again. The article that started it all is "Oil tanker off Saudi Arabian port hit by explosion caused by 'external source''' (source: the Guardian). The setting is not new, we have seen it a few times in the last year. We all want to point fingers and blame people left right and center, but the truth of it is that the problem goes deeper and the west is largely in denial or refuses to acknowledge the events. Less than a decade ago, an attack on Saudi Arabia was for the most unthinkable. Even as we see the crying blame game, this is not a Houthi issue. You see, the Houthi's are firing drones and missiles on Saudi Arabia, but everyone is in denial and refusing to look at Iran. There is no Yemeni infrastructure to create and optionally test drones and missiles, there is no quality control, there is no technology available in Yemen for any of this and that has been shown by different sources over the last 2 years. Even as the New York Times gives us an opinion piece that gives us "Saudi Arabia is not entitled to U.S. military or diplomatic support. It's not a treaty ally like Japan. Its importance to U.S. security has dwindled as the United States seeks to reorient its foreign policy away from the Middle East. And if Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's tutelage is any indication, the kingdom is proving to be a wildly destabilising force in the region", Saudi Arabia, for the most has been the stability the Middle East (outside of Israel) needs, feel free to give it to Iran, but in this, the next time they elect another Ahmadinejad, all the linked nations will target Israel AND the United States AND Europe, is that what you want?
So whilst the New York Times is slamming Saudi Arabia, or seemingly so, it is actually proving the opposite. Saudi Arabia is entitled and worthy of support. It's events into Yemen was done by the elected government of Yemen, and that is also ignored most of the time, just like the setting that Houthi forces are getting direct support from Iran, the Houthis are getting Iranian hardware, missiles and drones. They seemingly smuggle it by all naval intelligence operations. It is almost like the EU and the US are keeping the Middle East destabilised. That is at least what it looks like, you see, for the last two years someone is feeding the Houthi forces drones and missiles and that needs to stop. I would venture that the involved parties like the price of oil to go up, up by a lot.
In this I will tell you right now that this is my speculative view, I cannot prove the latter part (other than the Iranian support which has been proven by several parties), yet the media is silent on that part, why is that?
My mind has been busy considering an anti drone option, but as I see it, the larger part of Saudi Arabia is an empty sandbox, so how to go about it (without creating ecological and environmental devastation), a setting that needs thought, because the cure cannot be worst than the disease. The Brookings institute (at https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2016/03/16/six-ways-to-disable-a-drone/) give us 6 methods, but to deploy them in any rural situation (which is the bulk of Saudi Arabia) is not a good thing, yet it did give me an optional idea, not a great one mind you, but one that might work.
They had Radio waves (3) and Hacking (4), This gave me an optional idea. What if we create a wifi network, one that actively pushes. Consider 4 jeeps, each jeep is a network node, and as you can see, moving the second jeep to another location sets a larger and a different curtain. Now, consider that the latest Iranian drones can fly up to 250KM/H, now the Houthis will not get those (and they lack monumental amounts of skill to operate them), but the older ones are slower, as the jeeps get a lock on a danger, the remote operator uses the created network to disrupt drone operations. I reckon that a setting of 8 jeeps might be a good start, but how to deploy them? I see the need to create 3-5 clusters of up to 4-8 jeeps, it gives the remote operator a decent amount of time to crash the drones far away and safely, optionally (and harder) is to land them so that the evidence can be collected. A secondary option is to fry the electronics, so that the drones would return to the point of liftoff, giving Saudi Intelligence a place to work from. This is the drones, not sure yet how to stop (in a cheap way) Iranian missiles, but I reckon Raytheon has something they eagerly want to sell. I merely want it to cost Iran the farm, not Saudi Arabia, like in Charlie Wilson's War, there Charlie Wilson provided the Afghans with stringers to stop the Russians, Stinger $38,000, Russian Hind (Mil Mi-24) $36,000,000, so almost 1000:1, those are numbers to work with and that stage needs to be found to top Iran as well. So as I was looking into the Shahab-1, Shahab-2, Shahab-3, can the same network be used to create a false image, or a setting to fool the missile?
GOT systems
It is one of two systems, and any Go-Onto-Target missile has three subsystems (or so I am told), they are :
Target tracker
We are told that the target tracker is also placed on the launching platform, yet is that so with the Iranian version? If that is true, then we need to find a way to infect both, or find a way to disrupt the link.
Missile tracker
This is where it is, I asked the missile, but it had no sound system installed, hence, I watched a USAF training tape and I learned "The missile guidance computer scenario works as follows. Because a variation has modified some of the information the missile has obtained, it is not sure just where it is. However, it is sure where it isn't, within reason, and it knows where it was. It now subtracts where it should be from where it wasn't, or vice-versa, and by differentiating this from the algebraic sum of where it shouldn't be, and where it was, it is able to obtain the deviation and its variation, which is called error", this seems effective and simple, I merely wonder what if we could find an automated way to mess with the error so it will assume wrongly where it was, and if this accumulative, it will crash ahead of schedule, optionally in a place where there is only sand.
Guidance computer
Guidance computers are in the missile and in the target tracker, it has the same setting as the Target Tracker, we cannot intervene in time, but what happens if we flood the missile with both disrupting and false information? (At the same time mind you)
This is where I found myself, my only reference to missile technology is pointing my own missile at a biological silo (me, as a once proud teenager), I just had to go there to make this story not too serious. Yet there was corroborating materials (not on the Silo though), it is seen in Northrop Grumman's Patent US4589610A, the Guided missile subsystem. Here I see a little more, but it also gave me a thought. The patent gives us "The IMU driven Kalmanised radar track loop accommodates the use of a high performance radar, like a synthetic aperture radar, for example, which operates to measure radar data at a low rate on the order of 1 Hz, to generate estimates of relative target and missile kinematics to drive the control loop at rates compatible with high performance missile kinematics", I believe that Iranian missiles are not that advanced, but the groundwork matters. The idea that we have "operates to measure radar data at a low rate", so it reads signals to differentiate, what is we mess with that instance to create a different error in the Shabab missile? Radar is basically a radio signal, a specific one and specific signals are more easily messed with, yet can it be done efficiently and not expensive, or can we create a setting where on system can impact the next 200 missiles fired?
The second system is a GOLIS systems (go-onto-location-in-space), it is autonomous and created for targets that do not move (for example the IRS building at 300 N. Los Angeles St.), I would presume a building almost everyone hates, especially in Hollywood. I will not go into all the details, but it had one option I recognised, it was the Hyperbolic navigation, DECCA. Maritime uses (or used) it. It requires 3 stations to operate and if that is so, that is something we can use. We can actually guid a missile when we alter the signal of any two out of three elements. The nice part, as it is obsolete, there is a decent chance the Iranians are till using it, the DECCA system was pretty decent as a concept and for maritime navigation (before we had satellite navigation) was the most precise way to find ourselves in the ocean, it was precise up to 7M2, when you are 2432 KM from shore, that is pretty awesome. So as we see "Hyperbolic navigation is a class of obsolete radio navigation systems in which a navigation receiver instrument on a ship or aircraft is used to determine location based on the difference in timing of radio waves received from fixed land-based radio navigation beacon transmitters", that is one principle, there is every chance that if we can intercept and relay 2 of the signals, we can create a different error and as such the missile becomes a lot less reliable.
These are merely a few thoughts and they should be seriously considered (except targeting the IRS building, these people have lives too), if we can change the game for Iran we can support Saudi Arabia in creating more stability, less stability is to adhere to Iran, I wonder if the New York Times considered that part that they are voicing, whether it is opinion or not.
OK, I knew about DECCA from my days at the. Merchant Naval Academy, so that might not be completely fair, but this is me thinking out of the box (and out of bed), which implies that this was another day, another dollar, and all done in less than 2 hours. I wonder what more Iranian stuff I can screw up this week, we all need a hobby at times.
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Tagged as Afghanistan, Charlie Wilson, DECCA, GOLIS, GOT, Houthi, Iran, Middle East, Mil Mi-24, New York Times, Northrop Grumman, Russia, Russian Hind, Saudi Arabia, Shabab-1, Shabab-2, Shabab-3, Stinger, The Brookings institute, USAF, Yemen
November 23, 2020 · 06:03
The speed of rumours
Yes, we have all heard of the speed of sound and the speed of light, yet have you heard of the speed of rumours? In this, I was amazed at how quick it actually is. On the 14th of November, I wrote 'Outdated?' (At https://lawlordtobe.com/2020/11/14/outdated/), and now, less than 9 days later we see the Guardian give us "State-sponsored hackers from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are engaged in concerted attempts to steal coronavirus vaccine secrets in what security experts describe as "an intellectual property war"" and those are merely the ones they are willing to name, yet the larger stage is that ANY and ALL IP is under duress, if ownership can be reregistered, as such I see the need for a clear data vault, without it I am keeping my IP on the one system that never connects to the internet, is never networking and is never handed out of hands. It is (for now) safe. And all these so called data vaults in the Apple app store can reconsider what they are, because as I see it they are many vaults, but not really a data vault, what a surprise.
So as we take notice of "The cyber struggle involves western intelligence agencies, including Britain's National Cyber Security Centre, who say they are committed to protecting "our most critical assets". But they discuss only a fraction of their work in public", I merely wonder what our side is up to, with the US as broke as it is, with the media filtering what people are allowed to know, the issue is not who can we trust, but is there anyone left to trust? I know that this is not the way we tend to feel on Monday morning, but when will we feel ready? Even as the news is limiting the scope through "Adam Meyers, senior vice-president at the IT security specialists Crowdstrike, said countries including Russia and China had been engaged in hacking western companies and agencies "for the past 20 years"", I tried to bring you up to speed with with Hollywood and how easy they find it to reassign ownership, there are a few cases out there, and how protected were the original creators, Do you think that 5G IP is any safer? Do you think that given a chance, corporations are even hesitating to claim millions, of not billions? I cannot guarantee that Huawei would keep its word, yet would Amazon or IBM? Google has a larger disadvantage, this gets out and as such they would get a brain drain the size that could snowball into the greatest loss they ever faced. But the settings out there are not in favour of the average inventor and for some of us time is running out, making it public domain is all we might have, in that field the cheapest maker gets the largest slice and when that is out, they get hired for a nice fee and it is what comes next that gets the money rolling. It might be the only option for some. So when we are told "western governments remain reluctant to point the finger of blame in all cases of hacking attacks for fear of diplomatic repercussions, with the UK, for example, particularly cautious about accusing China", I am wondering what the reluctance is, I am speculating that it is not merely governments, it is the large corporations directing some key people in those governments. The Financial Times gives us (at https://www.ft.com/content/26903a94-3617-11ea-ac3c-f68c10993b04) 'Americans are wrong to paint China as an intellectual property thief', as well as "Now that the US has reached the top of the ladder of tech supremacy, it wants to kick it away". In all this, we take notice of "the US made the claim that China's IP theft violated "public morals" prevailing in US society, while noting that such behaviour "may not offend China's sense of public morals". That allegation is both wrong and offensive. IP violations bring about civil, administrative and even criminal penalties in China, as well as in the US. China cherishes a culture of fair competition and respect for innovation. "To steal a book is an elegant offence," has long been misread as a permissive aphorism peculiar to Chinese culture", yet the setting is larger, when you do the Google searches on IP theft by the US you find none, only mentions of China stealing from the US and they tend to be opinion pieces and allegations, a lot of them absent of any level of evidence. It does not add up, there is no mention of the scripts that were 'reacquired' other events that I know happened do not get a mention, the setting is too unbalanced, and I do not trust any equation that unbalanced. Yet the article is failing in one respect, it does not show the imbalance that iterators versus innovator bring and that is important, Huawei is only the first of I reckon a dozen that can conquer others a dozen times over. It is the larger setting we face, because we face it now as the underdog, 30 years ago the lines were blurry, now we see that China has telecom, cars, motorcycles, an d many more, it is now the world's leading manufacturer of chemical fertilisers, cement, and steel. A stage that remains growing in a time when the US and the EU are in a stage of mounting debts, a system of deranged stupidity and we are all idly sitting by, whilst the captains of balance sheets are setting another tone and in this we all get slammed, Some might say we are getting hammered, yet in the UK they will think we are merely getting drunk. Yet the Wirecard issues which is costing some $2,200,000,000 is merely the beginning of a larger stage and soon the players need whatever IP they can get, just to keep their heads above the water. And in all this thousands of inventors are trying to keep whatever they had secure, all whilst app stores are looking at data vaults and think it is to keep pictures safe by transferring them via a camera roll, yes really inventive move!
So what is being done (nation by nation) to keep IP safe? With 70% of the cloud getting hacked, I do not think that will be the place to keep them, but that is merely my idea.
Have a fun Monday!
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Tagged as 4G, 5G, Adam Meyers, Amazon, App store, China, Crowdstrike, Data vault, Financial Times, google, hollywood, Huawei, IBM, IP, National Cyber Security Centre, Russia, UK, Wirecard
Yup, its like the eggs, I like my eggs in different ways, sunny side up, scrambled and poached. The poached ones I tend to prefer with Salmon and sourdough, yet I remain optimistic. Today is a stage of a lot of optional optimism. You see, like the eggs I am faced with a few scenario's
There is more than one setting, there is the stage where we make our way quickly or awkwardly up a steep gradient or over rough ground, it is what the US is enabling me to do. You see, it is well over a week and there is still no result from Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin is under review and recent soon enough, the 0.2% advantage the Biden has in Georgia guarantees a recount. With another state in question there is a lot happening and they opened the for buy continuing in a media takes all frenzy that makes certain allies nervous, yet the American setting is all about media proclaimed superiority, yet the BBC give us 'US election: Gulf Arab leaders face new reality after Biden victory', all whilst 5 states remain in question. Even now, North Carolina and Georgia have not been called. Wisconsin is in the wind and Arizona, no-one knows what will happen there and it is making more than a few people rather nervous.
As such, when we see (at https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54904874) "Mr Biden's victory could now have far-reaching consequences for Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf Arab states", in all this, I am not sitting by, with a $8,500,000,000 deal that could fall in the water I could look at 3.75% of that amount if I poach it. It would give me $318,750,000 and I need to pay rent. You want to be delusional? The is fine with me, I prefer to do it via the BAE, get the UK the arms deals, but in the end, I actually do not care whether it is them or China, you wanted greed driven? I wonder if you still like it when the shoe is on the other foot. And lets be clear, Saudi Arabia wanted (read: preferred) the American product, but certain delusional congress and senate members had this overreaching idea of whatever they were thinking and I do not mind, I saw a nice house and I do not mind spending my retirement there. It was only last march when we were given 'Wall Street Poaching Season Stalls as Virus Curbs Interviews', as such, if poaching is so acceptable, you do not mind me taking away business, do you? Even now when we see "President Barack Obama, under whom Mr Biden served as vice-president for eight years, was increasingly uncomfortable about Saudi Arabia's conduct of the war against Yemen's Houthi rebels. By the time he left office, the air war had been going for almost two years with little military success while inflicting enormous damage on civilians and the country's infrastructure", we understand part of it, yet the stage remains unbalanced, the atrocities of the Houthis remain unmentioned, as dos the actions of Hezbollah and Iran in Yemen, but remain in denial, I will look after that multi-trillionaire client of yours. And whilst we now see "This lifted sanctions on Iran in return for strict compliance with limits on its nuclear activities and inspections of its nuclear facilities. President Trump called it "the worst deal ever" and pulled the US out of it. Now, his successor looks set to take the US back into the agreement in some form", as the stage of denial of Iran becomes more and more visible, we will see that additional business opportunities become mine (read: wishful thinking), yet that is the setting of poaching, closing your eyes to pragmatism and reality works for Mme in this case, so I will take it.
Yup, the yoke is on the people of the US. When they lose an additional $8.5B, more and more infrastructure will not be affordable, a stage they made for themselves, we can warn them again and again, yet at some point I will take the money, what was theirs is now mine, they set the stage for me to walk on and dance I will (that much money and they can see me do a jig). And when the people in the US finally wake up, finally realise that some games come at a price, we will see them cry foul (or fowl), yet they called for their chickens and they merely turned into turkey's.
Of course I know that my chances are slim to none, but in that setting I will take slim anyway and as I see it, my chances here are better than the lottery and the price is a hell of a lot more rewarding. So whilst Al Jazeera gives us ''Relationship reassessed': Joe Biden and Saudi Arabia relations', I say "reassess all you like", and the quote there is "We should not overestimate what the Biden administration can do in relation to Yemen's war," Nadwa Dawsari, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, told Al Jazeera. "A political settlement under the current circumstances would further complicate Yemen's war and play into the hands of the Houthis and, by default, Iran" and the is where Saudi Arabia becomes more and more nervous, more and more needing an alternative. It is not ego, Iran is becoming a much larger problem all over the Middle-East and Saudi Arabia is not in a good place, they feel even less certain whether the egotistical democrats realise just how much of a problem Iran really is. The media has been keeping silent over so much events, there is a general distrust here and I am very (read: extremely) willing to step in and get a few coins out of it. Now, I am no Nicholas Cage, but I do get the part when he states (in Lords of War) "Without operations like mine it would be impossible for certain countries to conduct a respectable war. I was able to navigate around those inconvenient little arms embargoes. There are three basic types of arms deal: white, being legal, black, being illegal, and my personal favourite colour, *grey*. Sometimes I made the deal so convoluted, it was hard for *me* to work out if they were on the level", and that works for me in this case, the fact that I take $8.5 billion and give it to the UK is merely icing on the cake (as long as I get my 3.75% or more).
You might think that I am deplorable, but if I do not step in, the Russians will and I have something against giving free money to them (its an old cold war thing). A stage where the US is finagling billions in 5G, optionally more, a stage where their close rich allies are turning away all because thee media cannot be bothered giving all Americans the proper picture as such I see no reason not to step in and after that I can fund my IP into products the will make me rich beyond belief. Yup, as I see it, 2021 might be sunny side up, although I do admit that 2020 was mostly about scrambling and poaching. But that is partially due to those willing to let it all happen.
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Tagged as 5G, Arizona, BAE, China, Georgia, Iran, Joe Biden, Nicholas Cage, North Carolina, President Trump, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UK, USA, Wisconsin, Yemen
Brother, can you spare a clue?
Yup, we all need clues at time. In some cases it is a simple as a vowel or a consonant, a stage where the word is still hidden to us. At times it is a clue to a larger picture, like the Guardian giving us 'Biden to Trump – you're embarrassing US', now I am no Trump fan, yet the elections are not called yet in two states (31 electoral votes), we are optionally facing a recount in Wisconsin and Arizona (21 electoral votes), and there we see the larger difference, it is up in the air who becomes president. The media is shouting and screaming that Biden has won, which would be nice, but I deal in certainties and this is not certain. Georgia is leaning towards Biden, North Carolina is not. Yet until these two are officially called this race is still on. We can scream 'count every vote' and I support that, but not all the votes have been counted yet and there we have the larger station.
Then we see China optionally requiring a legal clue, we see this in BBC article 'Hong Kong disqualifies four pro-democracy lawmakers after China ruling', a lot of us might go all huffy and puffy, yet does that remain when we see "The expulsion came moments after Beijing passed a resolution allowing the government to disqualify politicians deemed a threat to national security", as well as "China's National People's Congress Standing Committee says that lawmakers should be disqualified if they support Hong Kong independence, refuse to acknowledge China's sovereignty, ask foreign forces to interfere in the city's affairs or in other ways threaten national security", a setting that is open to interpretation. Especially when I consider "Freedom is the non-negotiable demand of human dignity; the birthright of every person—in every civilisation. Throughout history, freedom has been threatened by war and terror; it has been challenged by the clashing wills of powerful states and the evil designs of tyrants; and it has been tested by widespread poverty and disease. Today, humanity holds in its hands the opportunity to further freedom's triumph over all these foes", which President George Bush gave us from the White House in 2002, it comes in context with The National Security Strategy (NSS) which is a document prepared periodically by the executive branch of the government of the United States for Congress. It sets a tone towards the outlines the major national security concerns of the United States and partial methods on how to to administer these plans for dealing with issues. The legal foundation for the document is spelled out in the Goldwater-Nichols Act. The document is purposely general in content (read: Ambiguous), and its implementation relies on elaborating guidance provided in supporting documents. Both are choices in execution the need for a national security. Did you actually believe that the stage where Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898 was the end of that? After WW2, 50% of that lease period was surpassed, what did you think was going to happen? China giving up on the most profitable region in history? It is emphasised when we consider the Conversation giving us a year ago "Since 9/11, American domestic and international security policy has been focused on individual terrorists, terrorist groups and rogue countries as the primary threats. The country's defensive response has been focused on the military and law enforcement capabilities. That's natural, because the military knows how to shoot, drop and launch things at threats like that. And those dangers still exist", do you think that China was not doing that as well? Since 2000 almost 100 attacks (mostly lone wolves) have been nipping at the heels of the USA, do you think that China is waiting for an attack? It will be minimising risk and Hong Kong is seen as all risk.
Yet these matters are out in the open, there is a whole range of issues the remain in the dark, in the US, in China, in the Middle East and in Russia, each having its own baton of transparency, each having a different working method and in position we see the media pushing buttons and giving a partial view whenever possible, they too have their share holders, their stake holders and their advertising needs, it does not help many of us getting a clear picture. Consider the AP 4 days ago when they gave us "On Saturday, Biden captured the presidency when The Associated Press declared him the victor in his native Pennsylvania at 11:25 a.m. EST. That got him the state's 20 electoral votes, which pushed him over the 270 electoral-vote threshold needed to prevail", which is by all accounts a fair call, but the votes are not counted yet, the 31 out in the open and the end result could become Biden 276-Trump 262. This is an awful close call to be celebrating when votes are still being counted, one contested state is all the is required to show is all overboard and Wisconsin with 10 electoral seats might get us Biden 266 – Trump 272, that is the ball game. This is where it is at and the previous stage will be abandoned by so many it will scare you. You see, I am no Trump fan, and the chaos will ensure that the US will see several attacks, it infrastructure is massively undercut, its resources strained in the wrong directions and we are all screaming: Biden save us, all whilst the stage is not yet set, a stage that the Lone Wolves are really liking at present. Consider Savannah Georgia, Long Beach California, Seattle, Houston and South Carolina, they all have something in common and they neglected a lot in the last decade, the finds were not there. So when problems come calling the American people better have a real focal point instead of the reds versus the blues, we saw how that happened in Gangs of New York, how did the city fair there? It was set to Herbert Asbury's 1927 nonfiction book The Gangs of New York. Yet what set it all apart, how do you remember the New York City draft riots? You think it does not relate? Consider that it was the moment when the population of New York fell below 11,000 and the area's demographics changed pretty much forever as a result of the riot. You think that the second time around it will be better? When the reds versus the blues come calling instead of uniting, the US stands to lose a massive amount more from the start and this time around nationwide. I agree, it does not help when one of the players isn't the sharpest tool in the tool chest, but the stage needs to be secured, China did it from the start, here we see a stage that is open for all with a gun and a loud mouth. Still thinking I have gone coo-coo? Consider 'Three-quarters of Americans fear post-election violence and riots, Independent reveals' (at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/election-results-2020-riots-trump-biden-b1700559.html), a stage given to us 2 days ago. That stage still exists, and it still holds water and there is the larger danger, not the rioters, but the opening the they give the lone wolves waiting for a signal. We are given "Such fears appeared directly linked to Americans' concerns that it will not be clear by 4 November who won the presidential race", now consider that one week later this issue is still in play. I watched two states remaining at 99% for 3-4 days, so what is hampering the final count?
As you can see, in light of the unknown and there is quite a lot of it, brother, can you spare ME a clue?
Oh, and I was not done yet (well, not completely). You see, the Goldwater-Nichols Act is the foundation of a larger issue (at https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a525942.pdf), you see when we consider "Goldwater-Nichols may have made DOD more efficient but at the cost of civilian control. It has also politicised the Armed Forces. Like the law it replaced, it has created a national military command structure that ignores the separation of powers. The amended National Security Act has consolidated dispersed powers into one office, unintentionally establishing conditions under which an imperious Secretary might abuse them", as such we can surmise that the US will be under a larger version of exposed danger until the 19th of January, 2021. You did not actually think that these lone wolves are sitting on their hands, did you? The danger is not red versus blue, it is those seeking an advantage during that time and as I personally see it, the US is not ready to deal with that danger.
Filed under Finance, Law, Media, Military, Politics
Tagged as Arizona, BBC, Biden, California, China, Gangs of New York, Georgia, Goldwater-Nichols Act, Herbert Asbury, Hong Kong, Houston, Long Beach, National Security, North Carolina, Russia, Savannah, Seattle, South Carolina, the Guardian, The Independent, Trump, UK, USA, Wisconsin
October 28, 2020 · 21:37
The failing of others
We see this, others fail, we all do at times. My management position is different. I do not care about mistakes made, we all make them and anyone who claims that they do not make mistakes is either a liar or one who is about to make the whopper of all mistakes, history has proven me right again and again. You see, for me it is not about making the mistake, it is how quickly can you fix the mistake that was made, and if it is too late to fix it, what processes do you have in place? It is as reasonable as anyone can get. It is the application of realism. In all this there is the stage where others leave the door open, the door which you can come through. There was a setting earlier, now the setting is more defined. It is seen in 'Saudi Arabia condemns republication of blasphemous caricatures' (source: Arab News), they are not alone, all Islamic nations are opposing the farce France allowed for. A stage of 'secularism' versus 'Intentionally insulting religion', I feel certain that the Islamic nations are feeling a little less academic about it than I am. But for me there is an upside, I wanted to retire in Monaco (when you dream, it better be a good one), and the stage that we see in the Human Rights Watch, one with the headline 'France Should Halt Arms Exports to Saudi Arabia' (at https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/06/10/france-should-halt-arms-exports-saudi-arabia-egypt) where we were treated to "After Qatar, the governments of Saudi Arabia and Egypt received the greatest amounts, accounting for €1.4 billion and €1.0 billion in arms, respectively", so lets take away the €1.4 billion from France and give it to China with a small finders fee, lets make that 3.75% for two years, with 5.3% for any additional sales over the €1.4 billion. I reckon that the stage will give me a retirement fee of € 105,000,000 and that is if there is no additional sales, but I reckon that I can pul that off to, I still have Gordian One in my back pocket and the first bonus will allow me to test it before setting it to the market. Everyone is all s up in arms and all about the evil that Saudi Arabia does, yet the simplest respect or tolerance for Islam is not to be found. So, why buy from them? An in this France has a $4.3B, Italy a $3.8B and Germany a whopping $7.5B, so in all this I would be in a position of a really nice retirement, can anyone blame me? I am upfront on my reasons, most others are not, most others hide behind their secularism to allow for right winged hatred, they are too afraid to be replaced and the worst thing is that replacement will happen at some point, so doing it whilst hurting your coffers to support your nation makes no sense at all, and as I am proving, there is always someone else ready to deliver what the customer needs. If party to is hungry enough, he or she will find a way and there are several nations that need to be aware of what comes next. France is only one example, the US has through its own actions endangered close to $10 billion in sales and in that case Russia and China are fighting on what they might deliver, at that point we see the shifting of the Middle East options that the US (the EU too) has left. A stage that will happen, the stage is too loud for it not too happen and several actions are already in the past, with Saudi Arabia having by far the fastest 5G setting, we see that there are additional setting for the KSA to embrace and China is seemingly increasingly willing to pick up that baton, two batons dropped by the EU and the US through acts of increasing stupidity and that setting is not stopping anyway soon, as that continues more and more additional offers of goods will come from other directions, and in this we see a larger stage, if the sales fall away the drop in jobs come pressing, it will result in additional economic stagnation, all whilst their larger opponents will get economic boost after boost. How will that play out? Well, I am speculating, not too good for the US and the EU, but if it goes my way I will have a nice golden parachute, and as such I will not care.
The station of acceptance is not merely giving the consumer what they want, it is accepting that they work with other values, it is the simplest of rules in the setting of larger sales and that is a mistake at least 5 nations have made, thinking that their values would be blindly accepted on a global setting. In this one source gives us "The Trump Administration has degraded environmental enforcement, favouring polluters over citizens' interests", as such, if for these people the environment is so important, why do we see shallow levels of acceptance? Hypocrisy is a dangerous form of ammunition, it can openly be used by shooter and target and there is no guarantee that it goes the way they think, in the end the hooter could end up getting shot by their own bullets. This is not a new setting, there is an entire dimension of sales systems banking on the failing of others, they refer to it as their pipeline, the pipeline of opportunity. So in this, what is wrong by resetting that pipeline to me? It is the way they do business, as such I can too.
Tagged as 5G, China, Egypt, Eu, France, Germany, Gordian One, Human Rights watch, Italy, KSA, Monaco, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Trump, UK, US
What ya gonna do?
It started two days ago, actually it started a lot earlier, but I basically had enough of the BS stage that we are given. Just to be sure, this is for the largest station not a media thing, so even as the BBC flamed my mood, the BBC is not responsible. As such before I go into 'Google hit by landmark competition lawsuit in US over search', I need to set the record straight according to the view I have and you might decide that I am wrong, which is perfectly fair.
History gives us that Larry Page (aka Clever Smurf) and Sergey Brin (aka Papa Smurf) developed PageRank at Stanford University in 1996 as part of a research project about a new kind of search engine. It was not the first attempt, or perhaps 'version' is a better setting, there were earlier versions that go all the way back to the eigenvalue challenge by Gabriel Pinski and Francis Narin. So two bright surfs came up with the setting that big people players like Microsoft and IBM ignored for the longest time, and as such Google had the patents. The idea of link based popularity had not syphoned through because a lot of these wannabe bullet point managers basically did not understand the internet, they merely understood the options of selling concepts, yet in that age of selling concepts Google had the inside track to sell a setting that was ready and able as early as 1998. As such I have watched with my eyes desperately focussed on the heavens, asking our heavenly father to smite some of these stupid people, we now see "The charges, filed in federal court, were brought by the US Department of Justice and 11 other states. The lawsuit focuses on the billions of dollars Google pays each year to ensure its search engine is installed as the default option on browsers and devices such as mobile phones", the same organisation that ignored Netscape and gave free reign to Microsoft is now seeing the government data lights? So when we see 'the billions of dollars Google pays each year to ensure its search engine is installed as the default option on browsers and devices such as mobile phones', all whilst it truthfully should say 'Google installs its search engine on its mobile operating system Android, an alternative to the largely unaffordable iOS iPhones', consider that the three generations of mobiles I have bought containing Android in times when the Apple alternative was close to 250% more expensive each and every time. The last time around the iPhone was $1999, whilst my Android phone (with almost the same storage) was $499, I will let you work out the setting. So when I see "Officials said those deals have helped secure Google's place as the "gatekeeper" to the internet, allowing it to own or control the distribution channels for about 80% of search queries in the US", I merely see (with my focal points partially towards the history of things) "Google was active and affordable in an age when Apple was not, Apple was unaffordable as they set themselves up as the larger elite provider, Android had affordable models by Motorola, Huawei, Google Nexus, Google Pixar, Oppo, HTC, Samsung, Oneplus. A setting that was open and affordable. And the officials that are raving on 'allowing it to own or control the distribution channels for about 80% of search queries in the US', these (as I personally see it) so called idiots, optionally way too deep in funky mushrooms are ignorant of the stage that Google catered to the user, Apple (the alternative) catered to its own bottom dollar way too often. In that same trend we need to see that "Apple's iOS operating system has a share of 50 percent of the mobile operating system market in the United States", so how come that Google has 80%? They thought things through, the BI management idiots with their bullet point presentations never thought things through. I have at least two examples that predate Facebook and well over half a dozen examples of 5G IP that is beyond the comprehension of mot of them (with the exception of Google and Huawei), these two UNDERSTAND systems, the others merely use and use to their nature towards limited comprehension, or at least that is how I see it. And in this ZDNet was a happy supplier in January of 'Microsoft is about to force Bing onto Office 365 Plus users. But does even Bing think it's better than Google?', which is a nice setting, because I can ask bing on my Android, yet it seems that Microsoft forces Bing on its system, but it allegedly seems that they get way with that. The article has a few nice tidbits, but I particularly liked "Why Hasn't Bing Improved To Become Better Than Google?", an 2016 article by Forbes. With the article (at https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-google-better-than-bing-i-asked-google-and-bing-and-got-surprising-results/) giving us the added "and why Bing has a bit of a reputation as 'the porn search engine'", it seems that 18 years later bing is still sliding very much behind Google, Google had a few things better and better set. It is the final two parts that matter, the first one is "Both companies might try to offer something authoritative, but you should always use your own judgment and realise the vast limitations and algorithmic biases of all search engines. If Bing works for you, be happy. If Google does, be happy too. In both cases, though, be wary. Can you cope with the responsibility?" Yet in all this Bing never shows up in any official part does it? The second part gives the larger stage "in Bing searches, the entries under the News tab were far, far more dated than those in Google", consider the need of us, the users, when do we accept dated information? It seems that any competitor of Google is vastly behind, even the rich bitch Microsoft. When we see that part of the equation, we need to wonder what is the play that these officials are making? What is it actually about? The BBC article also gives us "Google called the case "deeply flawed"" and that is the larger truth, the Bing setting proves that side of it, and more important, Microsoft who pushed Netscape out of the market is not being asked any questions in this regard, or is used to show the inferiority of what they have countering the vastly superior solutions by Google. As such, when we see "Politicians in Congress have also called for action against Google and fellow tech firms Amazon, Facebook and Apple in an effort that has united Democrats and Republicans", no one seems to be wondering what Russia and China have on the market, because the advantage Google has now could become the stage of a fight against whatever Russia and China offer, in this data is the catalyst in these systems and before anyone starts trivialising that, consider that TikTok is Chinese, when we consider that over 2 billion people have downloaded it and it nw has a value between 110 and 180 billion, in a stage that only had Google before (YouTube), yet even in that setting the larger US tech giants set on their hands and they never came up with it, a Chinese entrepreneur did, so what else can they come up with? In a stage with non comprehending officials on just how cut throat this market is, they are weighting down on the tech giants all whilst Chinese innovators are going to town. And none of them have my IP yet. Another stage they ALL overlooked. What else do you think they will miss, because I do not think of everything (I just cannot be bothered thinking of everything), so what else is not seen?
Consider that when you look at these so called 'lets kick the tech-giants' because at this speed the US will only have these four tech-giants left, the rest is most likely Indian or Chinese, the hungry tend to be innovative and in America these so called innovators haven't been hungry for the longest time, so their track record wanes more and more. That is partially seen with 'Quibli is the Anti-TikTok' (at https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/09/quibi-vs-tiktok). Here we see the article from April where we are given "Rather than iterating toward product-market fit, it spent a fortune developing its slick app and buying fancy content in secret so it could launch with a bang.Yet Quibi's bold business strategy is muted by a misguided allegiance to the golden age of television before the internet permeated every entertainment medium. It's unsharable, prescriptive, sluggish, cumbersome and unfriendly. Quibi's unwillingness to borrow anything from social networks makes the app feel cold and isolated, like watching reality shows in the vacuum of space", with that consider that Quibli was founded 2 years AFTER TikTok, as such the stage for a better product was there to a much larger extent, and as Tech Crunch states "It takes either audacious self-confidence or reckless hubris to build a completely asocial video app in 2020", and when we consider the fact that TikTok was created earlier by 2 years, the lack of innovation in Quibli is easily seen and as such after 6 months it shut down. These officials need to wake up and smell the coffee, the race is on and even as scare tactics towards anti-China might work to some degree in the US, the EU with 700 million consumers have little faith in US Hubris and that is where the stage changes, especially now with data laws in place. If Chinese and Indian innovators get the name and therefor the people and consumers, the marketshare of US companies will collapse more and more, as I see it 2022-2025 will not be a pretty picture for the US, the 5G backlog is starting to show and it will show more and more soon enough.
As I see it, Google has two wars to fight, one with its own political administration, one with the true innovators out there. The second war they can win as they have true innovators themselves, but the one with the US political administration is a larger issue, because that war will also hinder the second war, which would be a bad situation for Google to be in.
Tagged as 5G, Android, Apple, BBC, Bing, China, Francis Narin, Gabriel Pinski, google, IOS, iPhone, Larry Page, Microsoft, PageRank, Quibli, Russia, Sergey Brin, Stanford University, Techcrunch, TikTok, USA, ZDNet
Intentionally creating imbalance
This happens, it happens more often than you think, but that is a separate issue. Yet too often have you seen that the media all over the world have thrown evidence to the side of the road, just to aid in imbalance? Consider that stage for a second. We all have our own windmills to fight, it is not simplifying to Don Quixote, even though it is tempting. I would be drawn to "The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water", even as some might rely on "Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness", a stage we all all face, all sides of it. In this Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra might have been a larger philosopher than anyone realises, even if it made little sense in those days, it does in these days, in the age of digital awareness, sides of insanity and madness finally make sense.
In this I start with 'Jamal Khashoggi: Journalist's fiancee sues Saudi crown prince'. It is not the first page but it is another page that in isolation makes the most sense to use. Yes, there are all kinds of people telling me how insane I am, the madness that I show in this when soo many sources telling me otherwise. A stage that I would accept if the soup wasn't getting cooked on a high flame. In the BBC article I start with the fiancee is the one party I would give a pass on. I believe that she was hurt and she is filing, but there is the real matter, is it not?
Even as we are given "Hatice Cengiz and the rights group Khashoggi formed before his death are pursuing Mohammed bin Salman and more than 20 others for unspecified damages", so a group formed before his death? It is the 'unspecified damages' that takes the cake, the biscuits and the pot of tea. In the matter we need to look and address 'a lawsuit against Saudi Arabia's crown prince, accusing him of ordering the killing'. This part we need to see with a clinical view. What evidence exists? The term 'ordering the killing' requires proof beyond all reasonable doubt. The infamous UN essay by Agnes Callamard showed that there is no evidence, there is no body and the work of fiction called 'Blood and Ice', shows even more lack of truths. As I personal see it 'Blood and Oil' is a fictional work by Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck, a fictional work with a collection of facts based on people who actually exist. It reads easy and is seemingly created for a longer term, a stage I have not seen in Journalistic work, but this is not that, is it? It is an important take to realise, as the case created by the 'Hatice Cengiz and the rights group Khashoggi' calls for it. Consider the stage of a court, the costs involved. I will concede that there are leagues of people willing to set the stage through pro-bono work because of the limelight the case will get, but in the end, there was no evidence, the bast we can hope for is that Jamal Khashoggi is missing. This is not about personal feelings or personal knowledge, it is what can be proven in court and even if any evidence EVER comes to the surface, the setting that it can be linked to the Crown prince is close to impossible to prove. A stage where a person no one cared about (except his mum and the person he shares a bed with) has received close to 80 million hits online and that is merely a conservative guess. At some point I saw the counter go well over 60 million and that was a year ago. So has something bad happened to him? Personally I believe tht to be the case, but I cannot prove it. I was not there and NO ONE presented any evidence to the fact that this has happened. It happened in nation that is the puppet of Iran and tht nation has the most incarcerated journalists in the world and that nation has been the discussion of a whole range of murdered journalists, murders that cannot be proven, but they state that they have the evidence on this, yet they never properly presented it. As I personally see it, the acts of a puppet nation without evidence.
As such, when we see "After listening to purported audio recordings of conversations inside the consulate made by Turkish intelligence, UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard concluded that Khashoggi was "brutally slain" that day", the UN report does not show any evidence to positively confirm that the person allegedly being interrogated was Jamal Khashoggi, in the UN report at [398] we see "In an international forum at least, a review of the rules of evidence and jurisprudence conducted by the Special Rapporteur shows that the admissibility of the tapes and potentially other intercepts relating to Mr. Khashoggi's death will depend on the form in which they are ultimately produced, their reliability, the fairness to the defendants of using such evidence, and the interest of the international community in providing justice to Mr. Khashoggi and his family", here we see no mention that the tapes PROVE that the tapes are beyond the shadow of a doubt the recordings of Jamal Khashoggi. Yet at [41] of that report we are given "Recordings of only seven different conversations over a two-day period were made available to the inquiry. Combined these amounted to 45 minutes of tape, when, according to Turkish Intelligence, they had access to at least seven hours of recordings. The remaining six hours and 15 minutes may or may not be relevant to the inquiry, but without doubt there remains much more recorded information than that made available to the Special Rapporteur", consider that allegedly only 10.7% of the available recordings were made available, so in what universe does that not constitute reasonable doubt or even an alleged form of tempered evidence? This is merely a setting of 2 elements in a much larger report. None of it proves murder, to a much larger extent it is a document that due to manipulation could set many optionally involved people free.
My setting is seen in the report at [244] where we see "Much attention has been focused on whether the Crown Prince himself ordered the murder. However, this focus on "ordering" the crime and on finding the "smoking gun" creates expectations which legal systems, both domestic and international, may not be able to meet. The search for justice and accountability for human rights violations should also and as importantly require identifying those that have abused their influence and power or failed to act with the diligence required of their positions" and the stage of 'which legal systems, both domestic and international, may not be able to meet'. It was the stage I had from the very beginning, whatever happened, it cannot be proven and now we get to the good stuff. A report that is well over a year old gives us this, so why continue, this is not about 'justice' this is about creating middle east imbalance, optionally this is about people catering towards Turkey and Iran for a third reason and they have no issues burning Saudi needs. The larger stage is however a much more dangerous side. As some seemingly clever people are setting their needs of 'we need no Saudi Arabia', we see a stage where Russia and China are willing to set a much larger stage, as such it could cost the EU and the US well over $15 billion in trade deals and goods over the foreseeable future. I will be happy (not knowing whether if I am able) to take over that business. Yet walking way for crumbs from a $15,000,000,000 piece of pastry is even larger madness; of all the windmills I face, an income well below $135,000 a year (pre taxation) is perhaps the easiest to overcome if the opportunity is offered. The moment the two larger players are set in a stage where they lose out, we will see all kinds of demands and contemplated compromises, I merely wonder if it will be too late for them at that point.
And consider the larger issue, how much effort had been made towards all the murdered journalists in Turkey, or even those currently in a Turkish prison? How much articles have you seen on that part of the equation? Some sources give 47 (one less than China) some sources say a lot more, theft that in 2016 well over 100 were in prison gives us question on some data that Forbes presents (at https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2019/12/12/the-countries-imprisoning-the-most-journalists-in-2019-infographic), even as we see one source giving us '85 journalists and media workers in jail in Turkey' (complete with a name list) we see a stage of catering and hiding behind 'media workers', yet the stage of 47 and 85 is a little too big, so I am willing to go on a madness quest and state that the media themselves are catering to the wrong parties and they need to consider this a lot quicker then they currently are.
Could I be wrong?
Yes, absolutely! Yet consider the evidence and sources. I reflect on the produced US report (which I will happily label a mere essay), and when we see the other stage (like Jeff Bezos and FTI Consulting) and accusation after accusation, all whilst evidence open to the media is ignored, you tell me, Am I wrong?
When a book refers to "dismembering Khashoggi's body like butchers", all whilst the body is never found, all whilst evidence of dismembering cannot be produced and whilst there is no digital evidence of any kind, we see "a gripping work of investigative journalism" and in all this, no one is asking questions. I for one do not stand for the hypocritical stage that is exploited by the media on several fronts. Fell free to disagree, yet I feel that there is enough evidence on my side, whilst the lack of evidence on the other side is massively questionable.
I will let you decide on this, like I pretty much always do.
Filed under Law, Media, Politics
Tagged as Agnes Callamard, Blood and Oil, Bradley Hope, China, Crown Prince, Don Quixote, Forbes, FTI Consulting, Hatice Cengiz, Jeff Bezos, Justin Scheck, Khashoggi, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Mohammed bin Salman, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Turkish Intelligence, Washington Post
October 7, 2020 · 02:39
The creative virus
At times we all have it, the ability to create, some have it all the time, think of the carpenter making a new table, some throw it into hobbies, you see some of those dioramas made and shown via YouTube and you wish you could make them, they seem so simple, but the truth is a little harsh, these people make it seem amazing, because for decades they work on something this amazing. We pine at the exploding submarine, the megaladon eating a surfer, The waterside diorama, they all look amazing, some are a little more functional and we see how people restore old butcher knives or swords, not always real, some of the fantasy prop making are very much worth watching, but they have something in common, they are made by people passionate about creating and restoring.
I wish I could restore a sword or a butchers knife the way it is done, but I do not have the tools or the skills, I cannot change a rectangle piece of iron in a tempered and polished knife. I know that, I can analyse, I can write and I can combine the two. So as I watched NCIS in the background, I created the first half of a short story, the story was in me and I brought it to the surface and onto pieces of paper. Half way to 10,000 words. I was also working on something larger, but I got stuck at 55,000 words. I am not giving up, but the mind needed to rethink some of the parts I had written, is it about writing them, or is it about the Chile – Peru trench? Perhaps it is about the Huawei upgrades applied to Chinese satellites, a new communication system, which actually has a side effect, the new protocols apparently have the ability to ignore oceanic thermal layers, as such they will be able to see what is there at 7300 meters deep. It is a setting that changes things, is it not? And yes their opponents will find a solution in 3-5 years, first a graduate at the University of Moscow will set the premise of what SHF is also able to do, then the system evolves, yet that play will have a larger interest and only one player has the ability to see, but will they get there?
The story is not about that, but the book is about what got what there. I would call it historical fantasy, the stage before the stage and how we got there. But for now it is about a short story and a waiting queue. The premise of what we expect to see and especially when it is about something else, we forget that at times. It goes to the beginning of Clue, do you remember the game? Who played it and asked from someone else a card they had, hoping to set the opponent on the wrong foot, the tactic works best when there are only 3 players. But the is the stage I see when I look at the UK, China and Russia, all whilst America still thinks it matters. But the old stage is gone, if you cannot afford the ante, you can merely sit at the table watch others play. It is in that stage I got the idea for the first short tory and the second is already in my mind, optionally there are a few stories there, or so I think they are. As I see it creativity is like a virus, we can infect others and perhaps that I what these YouTubers did when they put their videos online, the showed me what I could never do and as such I started to look on things I could do, is that true? Well, I will know soon enough, but in the end it is merely another story to tell and it is mine to tell, although I am still curious about what Russia is up to, they have been vying for time. We see all the experts looking at their Yasen-M submarine class, and it makes sense to look at that, but China had other ideas at present (I honestly do not know what) and here is where the speculation starts, I wonder if a project that they call сосулька (whatever that is) is worth my time, or my imagination. Yet no matter how I turn, I remain optimistic on the progression of my creativity. I would have written about what is now, but I see so much time wasted on American Politicians that now have Covid-19, it is just not fun anymore. And that is beside the Facebook (against their promise) is catering to political advertisement, so whatever hole they are digging, they are doing it themselves.
So in all this I wonder what will happen tomorrow, yet that will be another day. For now I can clearly small the scent of chocolate wafers, I feel like having them and in this the page is not bout food, but about the choices we make which optionally lead to the desires we have at times. I cannot answer all questions, especially not the ones I have, yet I acknowledge the stage the the creative mind sets for itself, it does not matter whether it is short sighted or delusional. It is a stage where I (at least I think I do) can create something. And as we see the this year alone gamers are spending $50 billion and as some sources state that the market will surpass $200 billion by 2023, I think it is time that I get a sliver of it and it all starts with a good story, so that is where I will start, and in that perhaps the short stories are merely the beginning of something more.
We all get to places, but we tend to never ever go in a direct line, perhaps my route was never in IT, it was merely a sage where creativity was fuelled and I got there via other means. I do not pretend to have the answers, I am merely (at the most) guessing, are you not? Where will you go and do you think that a straight course gets you there?
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Xorcom's CEO: Improving PBX Reliability is the Focus of New XE Series
Posted by James Chapman | Apr 13, 2011 | VoIP Hardware, VoIP News, VoIP Systems | 0 |
CEO Rich Tehrani recently conducted an interview at ITEXPO East 2011 in Miami with Xorcom's CEO and Co-founder Eran Gal. Both men kicked off the interview complimenting the weather in Miami – fittingly, since the event was held in February.
Xorcom was founded in 2004, "based on Asterisk technology," Gal said. About a year and a half ago, he told TMC's Paula Bernier in an interview that the company was captivated by the Asterisk Open Source PBX during the time in which open source telephony was picking up speed.
"With the understanding that this approach was destined to change the market completely, we set out to become a leading vendor in open source telephony market," said Gal.
Gal hit the company's pricing and flexibility as two of its main market differentiators against "any other proprietary system." They came to the show with a new release in tow — the XE series of Xorcom's PBX's. The company already offers the XR2000 and XR3000 series, and its XE series (XE2000 and XE3000) also handles both traditional (Public Switched Telephone Network) and VoIP calls, but comes with features rendering them a significant upgrade, such as microprocessor-based temperature control with redundant fans, redundant hard disk drives, internal backup and recovery support.
Tehrani couldn't help but note the antenna on the box Gal brought for the interview. Gal said, "This is a completely new direction we are going in. Xorcom is the first to have integrated ZigBee technology into the PBX." It's a meshed wireless network, aimed not at replacing WiFi, Gal said, but more for monitoring with low bandwidth and low-power consumption.
He said it is based on feedback from Xorcom's partners and customers, which led the company to create the XE series — "not just what we think the market wants."
In fact, Gal called the XE the "big brother" of the successful XR series, Xorcom's attempt to enter a bit higher-end market. He characterized the major areas of improvement as being in reliability and disaster recovery. Overall it appears to be a more robust series, geared to work which does, in fact, need to get done at night for the next day.
Asked to specify the customer Xorcom had in mind when they created the new series, Gal described existing customers across several verticals — small office operations and banks, security firms, who all want to see more reliability and monitoring built in. He mentioned customers such as Fortune 500 companies and cruise ships, "places which are naturally more sensitive and want to see more built-in reliability."
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MANCHESTER UNITED could benefit from John Terry's experience, says Danny Mills.
Chelsea captain Terry will call time on his 22-year career with the Blues at the end of the season.
The 36-year-old insists he won't retire and wants to continue playing at the top level.
And former England international Mills reckons Terry would be a useful at Manchester United even if he doesn't play regularly.
"Even to have him on the training pitch, around the place, that experience [would be good for United]," Mills told BBC Radio 5 Live.
Stoke midfielder Charlie Adam also backed Terry to reunite with Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford.
He added: "I couldn't see Terry in a United shirt but if I was a Mourinho I would go and take him.


Well...maybe not furtive...but definitely furry!
My wife Cheryl loves to take pictures since she got a digital camera, but she's less than diligent in downloading them to her laptop. She got this picture while we were at a sales conference for our new business back in February.
On my show, I shared with the listeners about the bizarre group of people with whom we were sharing the hotel. Seems there was a Texas Furry Fiesta going on at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Addison at the same time we were trying to talk about frozen juice products.
The highlight for me, was when we were in the bar waiting for the final night's dinner together and a single gray wolf strolled in confidently...almost arrogantly...walked up to our group, stood between Cheryl and I as if we'd known him for years, and put his "hands" on both of our shoulders.
I just stared him down in disbelief and not a little bit of irritation until he got the message. It wasn't until two or three minutes later that I wished I'd simply had said, "Get your filthy paws off of me."
But I offer this photographic evidence as proof that I wasn't making my furry friends up for ratings.
Do you think anyone is even remotely interested?
Now...there's an image that isn't going anywhere for a while.
Nice to know that you've only been back to blogging for a couple of weeks and you've already managed to collect yourself a troll or two.
Keep up the blogging, we're going to need more light on the murky world of metro politics in the future.
I find it interesting. I have heard that Chris is in some kind of food distribution thing. If you don't find it interesting, then why are you posting on this blog anonymous?


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Q: Slick Responsivo Não estou conseguindo criar um slick responsivo, não tenho muita experiêcia com HTML.

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    $(".slick-logistics p").remove();
    $(".slick-logistics").slick({
        slidesToShow: 4,
        slidesToScroll: 4,
        autoplay: true
    });
}

A: O Slick possui uma propriedade chamado responsive, lá você determina a quantidade de imagens deseja exibir para cada resolução, como não há um padrão estabelecido nos tablets, você pode estipular manualmente. Veja:
$('.responsive').slick({
  dots: true,
  infinite: false,
  speed: 300,
  slidesToShow: 4, // aqui é o padrão
  slidesToScroll: 4,
  responsive: [
    {
      breakpoint: 1024, // aqui define até que largura será as configs abaixo
      settings: {
        slidesToShow: 3,
        slidesToScroll: 3,
        infinite: true,
        dots: true
      }
    },
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This week's featured drinking game is another classic! It is super simple, but it never gets old. We strongly recommend playing with a Nintendo 64; you can also buy the Nintendo 64 version of Mario Kart on your Wii system if you have classic controllers for the Wii. If this doesn't work for you, you can still go with your preferred version of Mario Kart.
So, this one is pretty simple. All you will need to do is set up Mario Kart for the number of players you have as you usually would. Each player should have one beer in front of him. That beer should be UNOPENED!! Some jerks will make a player who opens their beer in advance chug the entire thing and get a new one… it's up to you whether you'd like to implement that beer Nazi rule.
Once you are given the green light to start moving in the game, you also have the greenlight to crack open your beer. However, you cannot be using or holding your controller while you drink your beer!
The objective is to finish your entire beer throughout the course of the race, and finish the race itself as quick as possible. Players who finish the course but do not finish their beers are disqualified! That's right—it doesn't matter if you scored first place in the game if you didn't finish your beer. You are tied for last!
Obviously, drinking a beer per game for each course that is less than 10 minutes long can get a bit dicey… that is why we recommend scaling it to a half a beer per game or less if you think that is more appropriate for your tolerance level and intended time of gameplay.
A strategy we recommend is getting the boost at the start of the course, then immediately dropping your controller and drinking as much of the beer as you can. Mario Kart tends to give you better power-ups when you're falling behind, so starting in last place and fighting to get back ahead is much better than starting out in first and dropping to last place on the last lap when you finally finish your beer.
That's all there is to it! This is a pretty simple one. If you haven't played Drunk Driver before, you are missing out!! Give it a go and let us know what you think. Have a hilarious story about that one time you played Drunk Driver? Feel free to share it in the comments below!
We hope you have a great time trying this one out! Don't forget to drink responsibly (drunk driver should be reserved for Mario Kart only), and let us know if you have any questions!


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Pours a clear golden blonde with a stark white puffy head.
Bright and husky aroma with some citrus hop notes and booze.
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A tad creamy, light on the palate but the high alcohol content might slow down your sips.
It's pretty drinkable, not too many strong flavors but has a nice balance. The alcohol is a little much and isn't masked very well. After a hot day, this might sound good, but the booze will have you dozing off pretty quick.


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Heartless school board breaks a city's heart
Heartless school board breaks a city's heart; layoffs in Rochester set to take effect Jan. 1
Author: Ned Hoskin
Source: NYSUT Communications
Caption: More than 1,000 activists braved the cold to voice strong opposition to the Rochester board of education's proposed mid-year layoffs. Photo by Becky Miller.
More than 1,000 Rochester teachers, paraprofessionals, parents and students showed up at Thursday's "Rally to Spare Our Students" and the city school board meeting to demand that the board reject the superintendent's ill-conceived plan for disruptive mid-year cuts.
As dusk fell, local union presidents Adam Urbanski of the Rochester Teachers Association and Angie Rivera of the Rochester Association of Paraprofessionals, stood on a soapbox in a light snowfall to announce that the projected layoffs had been reduced significantly.
Hundreds of pickets on Broad Street outside the RCSD building howled with hope! But they wanted even more. As Rivera said: "We need zero cuts!"
The good feelings didn't last.
At the end of the night, after hearing testimony from 92 people, all of whom pleaded for a reprieve, the board voted to enact the proposed midyear cuts that NYSUT President Andy Pallotta labeled "a disaster" and "a national disgrace."
While the union and community protest significantly reduced the number of layoffs, the school board approved 155 layoffs, including 109 teachers and 10 paraprofessionals, effective Jan. 1. Initially, the superintendent proposed cutting 287 jobs.
When the final vote was cast, emotional educators erupted in outrage. They hugged and cried and disrupted the rest of the meeting as they made their way to the exits.
"It's shameful what this board did tonight," Urbanski said outside the room. "Absolutely shameful."
"It's very clear that if you had gotten the #FoundationAid that you deserve, the City of Rochester would actually have a surplus right now and not be in this position," said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta.
"There is no reason to have confidence in this board of education or in this superintendent. They had time. Christmas break is coming. We could have worked together to try to work something out. We didn't break off discussions, and the legislature is not coming back into session until January."
If the board waited, Urbanski said, the state Legislature could have taken action to resolve the budget deficit, and anyway the school board should have waited until the end of the school year to enact brutal layoffs and reduction in services.
Resources for laid-off members
Few events are as devastating as losing a job. NYSUT will waive statewide union dues for at least two years for laid-off members. That membership ensures eligibility to participate in NYSUT Member Benefits and NYSUT Social Services. It also entitles laid-off members to free legal consultation.
Resources are also available from the American Federation of Teachers (unionplus.org/hardship) and the National Education Association (neamb.com/assistance).
"There was the opportunity to do all that," he said, "and to make cuts to this central office, which this superintendent refuses to make, and this board is too scared to stand up to him."
TWITTER MOMENTS: Tell the story of the rally and board meeting in your tweets, photos and videos.
Pallotta said NYSUT and the RTA and RAP would hold a special event in Albany Jan. 14 to highlight the plight of the district. Earlier, he told the board that if the state had met its obligation to provide $85 million in Foundation Aid to RCSD, this would never have happened.
Ever since the layoffs were proposed several weeks ago, RTA and RAP members told the district that cutting teachers and support staff would disrupt the relationships they've built with their students.
Students were so upset after layoffs were proposed that thousands walked out of schools to protest. "Cut your salary, not our teachers," their picket signs read, targeting district administrators, and "My biggest concern should be grades, not losing my teachers."
Students rendered heartfelt testimony Thursday night. Said one girl: "You're saving money, but at what cost? Our education? When I heard the news, I cried my eyes out. Please don't take my teachers."
In recent weeks, parents, educators and community members, along with allies across the country, took to wearing red, repeating the "Red for Ed" demonstration of solidarity that has become so common in this era of teacher uprisings.
It has become a national story. The day before the board vote, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., tweeted, "I stand with Rochester students!" On the day of the rally, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Ma., and Vice President Joe Biden tweeted in support, too.
NYSUT and the RTA have tried to help laid off educators make a smooth transition. NYSUT legal and certification experts have provided information and consults. The RTA has hosted job recruiters from districts in Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Newark, Niagara Falls and more who conducted interviews with members who received notices.
On Friday, RTA and RAP members will wear black to protest the devastating mid-year cuts that will damage the schools and the community for years to come.
#RTAStrong pic.twitter.com/7ThcIwIAt3
— Rochester Teachers Association (@RochesterTA) December 20, 2019


Hey short babes and happy #PetiteWeek!
To participate in #PetiteWeek, a week of celebrations for petite women, head over to my Instagram. Each day I'm posting giveaways, discounts, or special collaborations with other petite bloggers, all culminating in the launch of my 12-week fitness program, The Petite Strength Plan, available on Kickstarter for pre-order May 15th!
The following is a contribution post from fellow community member Jolie. Jolie was one of the early pioneers of petite women who completed The Petite Strength Plan when it was undergoing testing.
"I hated working out. As I'd slip into my control-top leggings and slide into my seemingly brand new Adidas (their wear was no indication of how long I'd owned them), I'd contemplate 101 ways I could get out of going to the gym. Maybe I could jump in front of a moving bus. Maybe I could fake a sudden illness. Maybe I could catch up on the work I'd been procrastinating for weeks. But the vicious cycle of avoiding my workouts only resulted in a pudgier waistline, which left me feeling worse about myself—and in turn even less motivated to exercise.
"I had never realized that the reason I loathed the gym so much was partially because the equipment isn't designed for my body."
Then, I found Smalletics. At 5'2, I find that the machines are extremely hard to use and often times don't facilitate the results I want. I was introduced to the program through an Instagram giveaway (I never pass up an opportunity to win free stuff). When I saw the news about the pilot program for April's 12 week fitness program, The Petite Strength Plan, I submitted an application hoping it would force me into a GTL routine. TBH, when I got in I was a little bummed. That meant I actually had to plan my week around gym visits. But to my surprise, from the very first workout, the experience completely altered my views on fitness and health.
From left, Jolie, myself, and Suzie met up in Manhattan to do a workout together from The Petite Strength Plan.
"I walked away with a ton of knowledge not only about fitness, but about fitness for the petite frame."
Instead of my monotonous routine of elliptical and sit-ups, I was challenged with a fun and inspiring workout daily. There wasn't a single exercise that left me feeling bored, and the constant progression of the program challenged me in new ways up until the very end. The program itself was extremely comprehensive, and I walked away with a ton of knowledge not only about fitness, but about fitness for the petite frame. Progress pics and push-up tests served as constant motivation to show up and sweat. Within the first four weeks, I not only looked better, but I found myself thinking more clearly and greeting each morning with a spurt of energy and enthusiasm. Because the program is designed specifically for my body type, the results are staggering at a far faster pace. Even though my three months have concluded, my fitness journey has only just begun. I don't know who this gym-rat is when I look in the mirror, but I do know that I like her."
Download your FREE One-Week Workout Plan here and try out the first week of The Petite Strength Plan for free.