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Friday, July 6, 2012

The Friday Morning News: Weak Job Growth, an Amazon Smartphone, and Bye Bye Black Widows

Posted by on Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 8:24 AM

Posted by news intern Joseph Staten

Where's Romney When You Need Him?! The US added 80,000 jobs in June, but the unemployment rate didn't budge at 8.2 percent, in the third straight month of weak hiring.

High-Ranking Syrian General Flees Country: An important Syrian general has reportedly defected, marking the most prominent instance in a recent trend of flight from the increasingly violent administration.

Friday Higgs Roundup: Four UW physicists helped out, Stephen Hawking lost a $100 bet, and CERN scientists presented their findings in Comic Sans.

Amazon May Be Planning an iPhone Competitor: Bloomberg reports.

The Gateway Drug Isn't Pot—It's Alcohol: A new study "blasts holes in drug war orthodoxy wide enough to drive a truck through."

About Damn Time: Three retailers, including Costco, will add after-tax prices to liquor tags, and Safeway is "considering" doing the same. Gateway, ahoy!

King County Deputy Injured in Crash: A man who reportedly made an "improper" left turn in front of an officer in White Center last night caused a crash with a police car, concussing a deputy and sending him to the hospital.

Seattle Catholic School Abuse Victim Wins Lawsuit: A former student at Wallingford's St. Benedict School who was raped weekly by a teacher in the 1960s has been awarded $6.4 million, one of the largest sums in state history for a sex crime.

Fake It Til You Make It: A Enumclaw life insurance salesman who allegedly stole $2 million from clients and faked his own death will face federal fraud charges.

Doomsday is Monday: An estimated 4 million computer users who were infected by a "doomsday virus" may lose Internet access on July 9. Go here to see if you have it.

Wait: Islam Is a Religion? Louisiana Rep. Valarie Hodges, who supported Governor Bobby Jindal's voucher system that added options for religious schools, didn't realize that "religious" might include "Muslim." Now she's upset.

On to Bigger and Better: The Florida lifeguard who got fired this week after saving someone's life outside of his designated coverage zone has been offered his job back. He doesn't want it.

God Bless America: Less poisonous brown widow spiders appear to be pushing out black widows in Southern California.

And now, a 32-year-old dude has a conversation with his 12-year-old self:

I'm feeling SO MANY EMOTIONS right now.

 

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Pope Peabrain 1
Those Louisiana rubes are so amusing.
Posted by Pope Peabrain on July 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM
GlamB0t 2
Well technically they dont lose internet access, it redirects the DNS to a spoof site that looks identical. Meaning when you go to Google it would be a fake Google with malware or PPC links. The reason you wouldn't see these fake sites (or not have internet) is because the Government has removed many of these spoof sites but there are some who have not.

/nerd
Posted by GlamB0t on July 6, 2012 at 9:05 AM
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The link for the gateway study is broken.
Posted by i hateiwhenthathappens on July 6, 2012 at 9:12 AM
Supreme Ruler Of The Universe 4
iPads, Nexuses, Fires.

And yet none really do the job, because they are all dependent on wifi or 3G.

Meanwhile I can now buy an HTC Evo for Virgin Mobile for $300 that does run on Clear's wimax network, something I have always wanted. But I think, why not a pad that can do this.

With all the money and geniuses working on this stuff, no one yet gets it quite right. Or maybe they don't want to...I mean why would they allow me access to content published in SLOG when I could be forced to pay $24 for an "ebook".
Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe http://www.you-read-it-here-first.com on July 6, 2012 at 9:21 AM
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Re internet doomsday: I went and read the FBI's documentation of the problem [Click here for PDF]. I was shocked to see the huge number of DNS server addresses involved. I figured it was just the usual number (2).

Not to call the FBI maroons or anything, or even hope any of their IT braintrust will read this, but... with an estimated 4 million machines still sitting pointing to the wrong DNS servers, and THOUSANDS of those DNS server addresses currently being hosted by the FBI, I have a modest question. Why do they have to pull the plug and go dark on ALL of them at once? Why not take the incremental approach? Shut off a few of them at a time so as not to burden the world's tech support with 4 million down machines at once. As word spreads of them going dark, more people might wake up to the problem and get theirs fixed before getting shut down.
Posted by Brooklyn Reader on July 6, 2012 at 9:29 AM
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I thought that Higgs Comic Sans thing was a twitter joke. The font trolls must think that was the best day of their lives since use of Papyrus in Avatar.
Posted by sisyphusgal on July 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM
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That video was charming—it made my day!
Posted by mitten on July 6, 2012 at 9:49 AM
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Full Spectrum Dominance: Why transactional data matters

During the Bush administration, at least on several occasions, the entire warrantless eavesdropping or wiretapping and FISA made the national news cycle for several days ---- yet each time, oddly enough, it was knocked off by the news of national immigration marches.

What exactly was really accomplished by those national immigration marches?
Other than occupying the news space on those days?

Next obvious question would be who owned those Spanish-language radio stations responsible for organizing those marches?

At that time, the major financial stake in those stations belonged to the private equity firm, the Blackstone Group, chaired by Peter G. Peterson, protégé of David Rockefeller.

During that time the Blackstone Group also had a financial stake in telecoms in Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Poland, Italy, Portugal and Malta (Malta being an important nexus point, or physical exchange point, between Europe, North Africa and the Middle East), as well as one of the three major privatized global satellite networks at that period, New Skies Network (officially later sold off, but we never checked to see if Blackstone Group actually owned the company it was sold to?).

So those national marches, which knocked warrantless wiretapping off the news cycle and involved AT&T, were organized by Blackstone Group-owned radio stations, chaired by the fellow whose financial-economic-political mentor was David Rockefeller.

Now AT&T was broken up --- on paper at least --- but can anyone provide definite data to prove it was ever actually financially divested?

Negative!

Now, traditionally, AT&T was a Rockefeller-Morgan financial entity, which, by the way, happens to have re-conglomerated back to its original form, thanks in part to President Bill Clinton’s Telecommunications Act of 1996.

And who led the charge in congress to grant immunity to AT&T and those telecoms involved in that warrantless wiretapping for the government?

None other than Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia!

My oh my, how those coincidences pile up?

Recently, some very serious legislation has passed into law --- while other equally dangerous legislation has failed, for now --- although that failed legislation attacked net neutrality (equality of access to the Internet), it was really only to make into law that which is quickly becoming reality --- the end of net neutrality!

Laws have been passed, in America and Europe and elsewhere, requiring ISPs to retain your data for 1 to 3 years or more.

Why is this important to the ruling elites?

Transactional data, surrounding information, dot connection, global linkage.

Using existing DPI techniques (Deep Packet Inspection), they can virtually identify and extract information about you, your life, your family, the like of which most people cannot even imagine.

Data mining hit critical mass around 2003 to 2004; and all it then required to identify a person exactly was their age and zip code --- today it probably requires less.

A little while ago, a fellow from the New America Foundation wrote a book on ExxonMobil --- focusing on the personalities of its chief executives, and went on a book tour where not a single person who interviewed him (including NPR’s Terry Gross and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!) inquired as to the ownership of ExxonMobil?

Now isn’t that freaking amazing? ? ? ?

Of course, New America Foundation is funded by the Peterson Foundation, endowed by Peter G. Peterson, protégé of David Rockefeller. (ExxonMobil is a re-combining of the original Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Companies --- which were once broken up --- at least on paper --- as no valid data exists to suggest otherwise.)

AT&T? ExxonMobil? Are we beginning to note a pattern here?

Now that’s why we must also pay attention to transactional data --- it’s not just for the ruling elite to manipulate and control us --- it exposes the ultimate aims of the plutocracy!

So, to return to MK ULTRA --- which officially they claim was ended --- but is very much in existence today.

Funds were disbursed for that program through the Rockefeller Foundation, and other Rockefeller family foundations under different names --- referred to as philanthropy, but technically known as the intelligence shadow funds disbursement --- then the MK ULTRA program was moved from the CIA to the Pentagon sometime in the 1970s.

In the 1980s, under Reagan, the NSA was also moved to DoD control, losing its ostensibly civilian independence.

The government, through the Department of Homeland Security, has instituted its own DPI software, called Einstein Intrusion-Prevention System, utilizing NSA tools (Tutelage program) to monitor traffic into and exiting government networks. (While this may be a preventative measure, it can also be a major boon in its war on whistleblowers.)

Their system, of course, was first tested and implemented on the AT&T network.

DPI technology is presently sold by the Boeing subsidiary, Narus, to China, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, etc., to track down activists for torture, jailing and to disappear them.

This is what democracy looks like?

And what former and unrepentant chief economist from the IMF, now a professor at MIT, claims that the Rockefeller family gave away the bulk of their fortune in philanthropy after the breakup of their Standard Oil, which itself is another claim?

Simon Johnson, who also happens to be a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, founded by Peter G. Peterson and David Rockefeller for the multiple purposes of ending Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, offshoring all American jobs, and promoting universal love and admiration for the WTO’s Financial Services Agreement!

(Those coincidences just won’t stop, now will they?)

So while Johnson spreads the mythology that (1) Standard Oil was broken up, when it was really only broken up on paper, the Rockefeller family retained financial power to control and manipulate; and (2) that the Rockefeller family gave away a fortune through philanthropy, when in actuality they were really disbursing taxpayer funds from the intelligence agencies’ shadow budget!

And Johnson promotes the breaking up of banks --- on paper --- while urging the continuation of the status quo, i.e., keeping all their financial tools for destruction in place, such as naked swaps, etc.

This too, is part of MK ULTRA!

We admit we have no idea as to the DoD’s new name for MK ULTRA, perhaps “Full Spectrum Dominance” --- if anyone knows or can find out we’d appreciate that datum.

By whatever name, the MK ULTRA program is still active, now involved with manufacturing reality, yours and mine, through disseminating the “news” through countless think tanks, institutes, foundations, trusts, etc.

It seeks all transactional data through social intelligence systems (social networking, web tracking services, Facebook, Discus, et al.) while manipulating general opinion through chatbots, site censorship, site-generated comments (non-human, but meant to sound like one), etc.

So let’s break it down: those national immigration marches acted to alter the national news cycle, only causing people in cars, trucks, buses to burn more gas --- and who profits from that?

The oil companies, and who owns the oil companies?

Truly, we are being played from every angle!

Whatever its name, MK ULTRA was and is about master control.

A young graduate student, a husky White-American male, climbs a tower on a Texas college campus, armed with a rifle and extra ammo, then randomly shoots at the people below.

A precocious Jewish-American youth enters Harvard at a very young age, where he becomes the unwitting test subject in Henry Murray’s behavioral manipulation program, and years later this young prodigy gains publicity as the Unabomber.

A Black-American IBM employee in his late 30s, is approached by people on a train who know everything about his past, and he quickly slips into mental illness, quitting IBM only to return in 1982, crashing into their Bethesda, Maryland, facility, and begins shooting at anyone and everyone!

The concrete link connecting them? They were all the unwitting subjects of the MK ULTRA program.

We only realize that today due to transactional data, surrounding data and links.

MK ULTRA . . . .it continues.
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Posted by sgt_doom on July 6, 2012 at 10:13 AM
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@6: I know I'm certainly enjoying it.
Posted by Ben on July 6, 2012 at 11:11 AM
doloresdaphne 10
Re: A conversation with my 12 year old self; Wow! I love this! I'm going to encourage everyone I know with kids to do this. I may have to do one for my 50 year old self.
Posted by doloresdaphne on July 6, 2012 at 6:13 PM

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