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Judge: FBI-tied child porn collector 'not a danger' to school
Seattle man gets $1,000 fine, isn't banned from home across from Ballard school
BY LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Updated 3:06 pm, Friday, April 8, 2016
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from Matt Connolly retired Mass Assistant DA
http://mattofboston.com/2.
This just in from attorney Mike Kuzma
http://www.dailypublic.com/articles/040 ... ing-vs-usa--
Michael Kuzma, Esq.
1893 Clinton Street
Buffalo, NY 14206
(716) 822-7645-office
(716) 474-3824-cell
(716) 823-1815-fax
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http://www.occurrencesforeigndomestic.com1297822734775_ORIGINAL
America’s heart of darkness
April 8, 2016 Uncategorized black people, boar, bores, Clintons, Cruz,
Mossack Fonseca, poor people, prisons, profits, rascals, rich people,
rogues, Sanders, super-predators, Syria, tokens, Ukraine
America’s heart of darkness
“… The lies here are much, much deeper. They go back much longer, and
take us all the way into America’s heart of darkness…..”
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I could write a book about the genocidal targeting of the
African-American community during the Clinton Administration.
In fact, I did.
It is called Dillon, Read & Co and the Aristocracy of Stock Profits.
by Catherine Austin Fitts
More here:
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One of the more controversial provisions of the Violent Crime Control
and Law Enforcement Act overturned a section of the Higher Education
Act of 1965 permitting prison inmates to receive a Pell Grant for
postsecondary education while incarcerated.
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“… There are so many ways that the Clinton Presidency was toxic to
black people in particular and people of color in general. … Today I
want to focus on one piece of legislation that the U.S. Congress
passed in 1994 which is still reverberating in 2012. The 1994 Omnibus
Crime Bill (spearheaded by Joe Biden and Bill Clinton) cost $30
billion dollars and helped to accelerate the growth of the prison
industrial complex in ways that we are only just beginning to
understand. The bill’s provisions included:
1. $10.8 billion in federal matching funds to local governments to
hire 100,000 new police officers over 5 years.
2. $10 billion for the construction of new federal prisons.
3. An expansion of the number of federal crimes to which the death
penalty applied from two to fifty-eight (the bill also eliminated an
existing statute that prohibited the execution of mentally
incapacitated defendants).
4. A three strikes proposal that mandated life sentences for anyone
convicted of three “violent” felonies.
5. A section that allowed children as young as thirteen to be tried as
adults.
6. The creation of special courts able to deport noncitizens alleged
to be “engaged in terrorist activity” on the basis of secret evidence.
7. Established guidelines for states to track sex offenders. Required
states to track sex offenders by confirming their place of residence
annually for ten years after their release into the community or
quarterly for the rest of their lives if the sex offender was
convicted of a violent sex crime. [This sex offender registry law has
caused havoc in the legal system]
These are just a few of the greatest hits from the 1994 Crime Bill…..”
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https://static01.nyt.com/images/2015/07 ... ter675.jpg“I signed a bill that made the problem worse,” Mr. Clinton said. “And
I want to admit it.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/16/us/po ... r-too-longBy PETER BAKER JULY 15, 201
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Reuters
See realtime coverage
Bill Clinton confronts protesters who say his crime reforms hurt
blacks
Reuters
2000 hours GMT-7 4/7/16
NEW YORK Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday faced down
protesters angry at the impact his 1994 crime reforms have had on
black Americans and defended the record of his wife, Hillary Clinton,
who is relying on the support of black voters in her …
Rorschach’s Crime Bill The Atlantic
‘Tell the truth:’ Bill Clinton clashes with Black Lives Matter
protesters Fox News
Opinion:Bill Clinton defends wife’s ‘super predator’ comment to
protestersJerusalem Post Israel News
[Ed.: It’s going to be interesting to see which city/convention
gathers the most confrontation, heat, police state intervention, paid
protestors (Philadelphia or Cleveland) and just how the mainstream
media, the social media, and the alternative media cover them. Both
events beg for an organized and coordinated coalition involving live
blogging teams.]
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Los Angeles Times
See realtime coverage
Wild police pursuit in rain includes ‘doughnuts’ on the 101, hugs and
a TMZ tour bus
Los Angeles Times
It had all the ingredients for a classic, made-for-Los-Angeles police
chase: a convertible with its top down performing doughnuts on Sunset
Boulevard, people cheering from the sidewalk, a leisurely cruise past
the Hollywood Walk of Fame and a close …
Related
Los Angeles police chase ends with burglary suspects taking selfies,
chatting Fox News
Burglary Suspects in Mustang Convertible Lead Wild Police Chase in LA
ABC News
Opinion:After a High-Speed Chase in LA, Suspected Burglars Have Time
to Pose for Selfies Before Cops Arrive
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Col. Lang has updated commentary on both Syria and the Ukraine.
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Hillary Clinton Made More in 12 Speeches to Big Banks Than Most of Us
Earn in a Lifetime
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Definitely worth a fast scan re: Sanders/Clinton
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April 7-8. 2016 — Was the father of presidential hopeful Cruz
involved in the JFK assassination? (in: GENERAL ARCHIVES April 2016)
[WayneMadsenReports]
Apr 7, 2016
Evidence mounts that Rafael Cruz, Sr. was in New Orleans in 1963 and
that he knew anti-Castro CIA agents, including Lee Harvey Oswald, Clay
Shaw, Guy Banister, Carlos Bringuier, and Sergio Arcacha Smith.
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Political Substance
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subway tokens is her doing a fast photo-op to demonstrate her point;
she showed up at a subway station– reminiscent of Bush’s appearance at
a supermarket after he couldn’t name the price of a gallon of milk —
to demonstrate her connection with the common people and immediately
documented it — with entourage (including Huma in close proximity)
announcing her as the next President. But it took her five attempts to
swipe the access card correctly. Can you imagine her riding the subway
without the entourage and the security and getting trampled by a herd
of New Yorkers as she fumbled at the turnstile?
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What the Panama Papers Tell Us
The Panama papers revealed only one of the vast networks used by
criminals, corrupt politicians and tax evaders to hide wealth from
scrutiny. There are many, many more.
My friend, Tom Barnett, at his new digs on resilient.com explains why
this leak is important:
There’s nothing new in tax evasion through parking one’s financial
assets “offshore.” That’s been around for a very long time. Instead,
what’s truly stunning here is the routinization and systematizing of
these nefarious practices. It reminds me of the leap from a pogrom to
the Holocaust: a massacre you can attempt to blame on particular
circumstances, timing, leaders, etc., but a genuine effort at genocide
is something operating on an entirely different level. The former,
because it’s short-lived, can be sustained by emotion, but the latter,
because it takes years of consistent effort, requires something far
worse – a truly deformed sense of morality.
I concur.
This is the same reason I found the financial crisis of 2007-2016 so
troubling (others found it troubling too since it launched both the
Tea party and Occupy):
This financial crisis demonstrated, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that
the entire US system from Wall Street to Washington is an elaborate
fraud.
A morally bankrupt system we can’t (read: won’t) dismantle because it
has become routine and accepted.
A system that is actively destroying the socioeconomic fabric of the
US and strangling our future.
A truly deformed sense of morality that has become disturbingly
pervasive.
Have fun,
John Robb
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The Panama Papers: This Is the Consequence of Centralized Money and
Power
If we don’t change the way money is created and distributed, we will
never change anything.
Fiat Chrysler cuts 1,300 workers in Michigan, scraps shift
War on Cash: JPMorgan Chase limiting cash withdrawals at U.S. ATM
machines
US Senator Wants Billions in Emergency Aid for Mideast
Graham Seeks Funds for Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Mideast
‘Marshall Plan’
A presidential decree says Russia’s new National Guard will be given
broad powers to suppress riots
Russia’s newly-created National Guard to have no right to shoot at
crowd — bill
Dutch Voters Reject Ukraine Deal
Dutch voters struck a blow against the E.U.’s Ukrainian association
agreement – and the incessant Russia-bashing that has surrounded it –
creating hope for less belligerence in Europe.
## The candidates ##
Hillary Clinton linked to ‘Panama Papers’ through lobbying firm,
Russian bank
Blast From the Past – Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders on Panama
Hillary Clinton Fundraiser Hosted by All-Star Cast of Financial
Regulators Who Joined Wall Street
Wall St is pretty certain Hillary Clinton will be president
Yes, the Panama Papers Could Really End Hillary Clinton’s Campaign
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Documents dubbed the ‘Panama Papers’ have revealed the names of over
200 US residents who used the services of Panamanian firm Mossack
Fonseca. Among them are several businessmen charged with financial
crimes, or already convicted of wrongdoing.
Some of the names on the list appear to be retired Americans seeking
to buy real estate in Panama and Costa Rica, according to the
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), the
US-based group that is publishing revelations from the documents
obtained by an anonymous hacker in 2015.
Initial revelations by ICIJ have sought to implicate celebrities and
politicians across the world. It has since emerged that Mossack
Fonseca had registered over 1,000 businesses in the US – primarily in
Nevada and Wyoming – and that it had many US clients in Panama as
well.
READ MORE: ‘Panama Papers’ company set up 1000+ businesses in USA
Among the company’s US clients listed in the documents are four
businessmen who have been convicted of financial crimes, as well as
one who is currently facing serious charges. Their identities were
first made public by McClatchy Newspapers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KzqRHwcXXwRobert Miracle of Washington was sentenced in 2011 to 13 years in
prison for mail fraud and tax evasion, over his role in a $65 million
Ponzi scheme involving an oil field in Indonesia. In 2008, John
Michael “Red” Crim of Pennsylvania was convicted to eight years in
prison, for involvement in a plot to cheat the US tax authorities of
$10 million in revenue using fraudulent trusts. The same year,
Jonathan Kaplan of Massachusetts received a 5-year probation sentence
for accepting a bribe from a client of his prepaid telephone card
business. In 2007, California real-estate mogul Igor Olenicoff was
sentenced to two years of probation and a $52 million fine, for tax
evasion and use of offshore shell companies.
Wall Street financier Benjamin Wey was indicted in September 2015, on
charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy and money
laundering. The government claims he used family members to secretly
gain control of large blocks of stock in companies through “reverse
mergers” between Chinese corporations and US shell companies –
incorporated by Mossack Fonseca, according to McClatchy. Wey’s
indictment says he accumulated tens of millions of dollars in illegal
profits by manipulating the companies’ stock prices.
Announcing the indictment, US Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern
District of New York called Wey a “master of manipulation.” Wey,
president of the New York Global Group, told USA Today there was no
evidence he’d ever owned or controlled a foreign account.
The leaked documents have been of great interest to the US government,
which said it would use them in prosecuting financial crimes as well
as upholding the sanctions regime against countries such as Russia.
“The US government intently focuses on investigating possible illicit
activity, including violations of US tax laws or sanctions, using all
sources of information, both public and non-public,” the Department of
Treasury told Bloomberg News in an emailed statement.
Ernst Wolff, a journalist and author of ‘Pillaging the World: The
History and Politics of the IMF,’ says the US is using the scandal to
cause upheaval around the world and redirect the flow of money into
tax havens in America.
“Of course, they have to put in some American individuals and some
American companies in order to kind of camouflage the whole thing,”
Wolff told RT. “But those are only minor people in there. The big
people in there are non-American citizens: they are Europeans; they
are people from different countries all over the world.”
“This is this anti-Russian, anti-China, anti-Iran campaign that just
keeps beating in America,” Gerald Celente, publisher of the Trends
Journal, told RT. “I believe that this might be a push back from Soros
for Russia last year banning a number of American NGOs. So, this could
be payback.”
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2016
OOPS! BILL CLINTON SAYS HE ACCIDENTALLY TOOK $500,000 FROM ALGERIA
DURING KEY ARMS NEGOTIATION WITH STATE DEPARTMENT Downtrend (Sherry).
The Clinton Foundation bribe machine is finally starting to be
exposed.
Hillary Clinton Fundraiser Hosted by All-Star Cast of Financial
Regulators Who Joined Wall Street Intercept (resilc)
Sanders: Clinton ‘Not Qualified’ to Be President New York Magazine.
Ooh, I hope she takes the bait. But his critique needs to be much
broader.
The best evidence I’ve seen that Bernie Sanders’s political revolution
might be possible Vox (furzy)
Clinton Campaign Attacks Intensify To Halt Sanders’ Win Streak
ShadowProof (martha r). This is beautiful. Sanders raises more money
every time she attacks, and that’s before you get the fact that many
(most) of her salvos backfire.
The Problem With Hillary Clinton Isn’t Just Her Corporate Cash. It’s
Her Corporate Worldview. Naomi Klein, Nation (martha r)
Some Democratic Lawmakers Are Open to Removing Lobbyists as
Superdelegates Intercept (martha r)
Bernie Sanders: “Israel’s ‘positive’ US ties hinge on bettering
relations with Palestinians” Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Judy B)
TRUMP LEADS IN PENNSYLVANIA AS CLINTON EDGES SANDERS, QUINNIPIAC
UNIVERSITY POLL FINDS; BOY NEXT DOOR KASICH RUNS BEST IN NOVEMBER
MATCHUPS Quinnipiac Press Release
Poll: Hillary Clinton Plummets in Crucial Pennsylvania Primary, Lead
Falls From 22 to 6 latest.com
Roger Stone: ‘They Ought to Put the Handcuffs On’ Ted Cruz for Vote
Fraud Breitbart (furzy). Wow, just wait for the ugliness to get even
worse as the Republican convention approaches. As Lambert likes to
say, “Pass the popcorn.”
Ivanka Trump China-made scarves recalled Financial Times
Donald Trump snubs Europe’s far-right Politico
Cruz Explains ‘New York Values’ to New Yorkers New York Magazine
Gunz
Facebook Groups Act as Weapons Bazaars for Militias New York Times
(furzy)
Don Blankenship Gets 1 Year for Mining Disaster – BP Oil Spill
Engineer Gets Probation Charles Pierce, Esquire
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April 6-7, 2016 — ICIJ shows its U.S. government slip
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ),
which receives its funding from the CIA-connected U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) and Ford Foundation, as well as
George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, has “shown its slip” by
declaring that it will not make available the entire cache of hacked
documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca public.
Instead, ICIJ maintains that it does not want to expose “sensitive
information of innocent private individuals along with the public
figures.”
We have heard this type of language before with massive leaks,
including the classified National Security Agency documents leaked by
Edward Snowden. In that case, EBay and PayPal billionaire Pierre
Omidyar effectively “bought back” the NSA documents from advocacy
journalist Glenn Greenwald for a $250 million bribe that funded
Greenwald’s new journalistic contrivance “First Look.” After the deal,
NSA documents released by Greenwald and his associates were redacted
in the traditional style of NSA and U.S. Intelligence Community
Freedom of Information Act censors.
In the case of ICIJ, it is clear that government financial regulators
around the world will be entitled to access any of the over 4.8
million emails, 3 million database files, and 2.1 million PDFs
contained in the ICIJ’s 2.4 terrabytes tranche of Mossack Fonseca
documents. And it is very likely that since the documents were
obtained by criminal hackers, governments will shy away from
subpoenaing the documents but will use their connections with USAID,
the CIA, Soros, and the Council on Foreign Relations-linked Ford
Foundation to arrange for unofficial document access.
WikiLeaks also cut side deals when it obtained over 250,000 classified
State Department cables. Working with the corporate media in the same
style that ICIJ coordinated its release of Mossack Fonseca documents
with over 100 corporate media outlets and some 400 journalists around
the world, WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange worked with The
New York Times and Le Figaro to ensure that the initial release of
classified information was focused on Iran and, for example , not on
Israel.
Ironically, WikiLeaks is now condemning ICIJ for not releasing all of
the Mossack Fonseca documents in its possession. The scene is similar
to two vagabonds who stumble over a suitcase full of money and fight
each other for the lion’s share of the currency notes.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 07, 2016
Pistons popping, ain’t no stopping now!
“”The Cat Is Out Of The Bag” – In Interview Mossack Fonseca Founders
Admit It’s Over… To Rothschild’s Delight” This is very simple legal
work. Pulling shelf companies off the shelf and serving up a standard
trust agreement. This isn’t the kind of fancy ‘tax planning’ the
really big guys would get from white shoe law firms or accounting
offices in New York or London (that’s why the really big guys are
missing from the list). The only thing you get from Mossack Fonseca is
the expectation of utter privacy, and that has been blown up. The
Panama City base just adds a veneer of sleaziness which would appeal
to a certain class of punter. Despite the fact that the Soros stooges
are trying to use this, with no evidence whatsoever (so what else is
new?), as an attack on enemies of World Jewry doesn’t alter the fact
that this incident does not look anything like real investigative
journalism directed at fraudster tax evaders, but does look like an
attack on the business of Mossack Fonseca by a competitor , a
competitor that happens to have access to the abilities of a national
intelligence operation.
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Rothschild Humiliates Obama, Reveals That “America Is The Biggest Tax
Haven In The World”
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 04/06/201
In his speech yesterday, following the Treasury’s crack down on
corporate tax inversions, Obama blamed “poorly designed” laws for
allowing illicit money transfers worldwide. Since the speech came at a
time when the entire world is still abuzz with the disclosure from the
Panama Papers, Obama touched on that as well: “Tax avoidance is a big,
global problem” he said on Tuesday, “a lot of it is legal, but that’s
exactly the problem” because a lot of it is also illegal.
There is one major problem with that: of all the countries in the
world, it is none other than the country of which Obama is president,
the United States, that has become the world’s favorite offshore “tax
haven” destination.
As Bloomberg, which first broke the story about Nevada’s use as a
prominent tax haven early this year, writes, “Panama and the U.S. have
at least one thing in common: Neither has agreed to new international
standards to make it harder for tax evaders and money launderers to
hide their money.”
Over the past several years, amid increased scrutiny by journalists,
regulators and law enforcers, the global tax-haven landscape has
shifted. In an effort to catch tax dodgers, almost 100 countries and
other jurisdictions have agreed since 2014 to impose new disclosure
requirements for bank accounts, trusts and some other investments held
by international customers — standards issued by the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, a government-funded
international policy group.
In short: while Obama is complaining about corporate tax avoidance and
slamming Panama, he is encouraging it in the U.S.
Places like Switzerland and Bermuda are agreeing, at least in
principle, to share bank account information with tax authorities in
other countries. Only a handful of nations have declined to sign on.
The most prominent is the U.S. The other ona is, of course, Panama,
and we just saw what happened there.
The latest reporting “underscores the secrecy in Panama,” said
Stefanie Ostfeld, the acting head of the U.S. office of the
anti-corruption group Global Witness. “What’s lesser known, is the
U.S. is just as big a secrecy jurisdiction as so many of these
Caribbean countries and Panama. We should not want to be the
playground for the world’s dirty money, which is what we are right
now.”
For Obama, however, it is important to not let facts get in the way of
a good speech, or welcoming the dirty, laundered money of the world’s
uber wealthy, be they criminals or not, as they transfer their wealth
from Panama to Nevada, Wyoming and other tax sheltering destinations
in the U.S.
To be sure, the US has taken steps to keep track of US assets abroad,
but not of foreign assets in the US.
In 2010, Congress passed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or
Fatca, as the U.S. Justice Department began prosecuting Swiss banks
for enabling tax evasion. Fatca forces certain financial firms to
disclose to the Internal Revenue Service any foreign accounts held by
U.S. citizens.
Fatca doesn’t, however, bind banks to provide information on
foreigners with U.S. accounts to regulators abroad. The U.S. has
entered into agreements with some other countries requiring such
exchange with foreign regulators, but tax planners say they are
considered relatively easy to avoid.
That’s where the OECD came in, with its own international take on
Fatca that the U.S. declined to sign.
Panama has been one country which has done everything in its power to
delay and dilute its compliance with OECD regulations.
In a January interview, an official at Trident Trust Co., a big
provider of offshore vehicles, said it was seeing a large number of
accounts moving into Panama because of its weak commitment to the OECD
regulations. “The Panama office was extremely overworked, because a
lot of people are re-domiciling to Panama from BVI and Cayman,” said
Alice Rokahr, a Trident official based in South Dakota. In late
February, OECD officials said publicly that Panama had been “removed
from the list of committed jurisdictions” that agreed to share
information.
The latest coverage of shell companies created by a Panamanian law
firm could give the OECD new ammunition to put pressure on the country
to sign onto the information-sharing agreements, some tax experts
said.
But while one can criticize Panama, and with cause, for enabling tax
evasion, at least its leaders don’t pretend to be saints, who do
precisely what they condemn. Far less can be said about Obama.
“The U.S. doesn’t follow a lot of the international standards, and
because of its political power, it’s able to continue,” said Bruce
Zagaris an attorney at Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP who specializes in
international tax and money laundering regulations. “It’s basically
the only country that can continue to do that. Others like Panama have
tried, but Panama can’t punch as high as the U.S.”
And confirming just that, in a statement issued Monday by OECD
secretary general Angel Gurria, the OECD said “Panama is the last
major holdout that continues to allow funds to be hidden offshore from
tax and law-enforcement authorities.”
The statement didn’t mention the U.S., which is the OECD’s largest
funder.
And there it is: the US, simply because it is the biggest – and
wealthiest – bully in the yard, can dispense morality all day long,
but just don’t ask it to practice what it preaches.
Meanwhile, advisers around the world are increasingly using the U.S.
resistance to the OECD’s standards as a marketing tool – attracting
overseas money to U.S. state-level tax and secrecy havens like Nevada
and South Dakota, potentially keeping it hidden from their home
governments.
Advisors such as Rothschild , profiled initially by Bloomberg’s Jesse
Drucker.
Rothschild, the centuries-old European financial institution, has
opened a trust company in Reno, Nev., a few blocks from the Harrah’s
and Eldorado casinos. It is now moving the fortunes of wealthy foreign
clients out of offshore havens such as Bermuda, subject to the new
international disclosure requirements, and into Rothschild-run trusts
in Nevada, which are exempt.
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For financial advisers, the current state of play is simply a good
business opportunity. In a draft of his San Francisco presentation,
Rothschild’s Penney wrote that the U.S. “is effectively the biggest
tax haven in the world.” The U.S., he added in language later excised
from his prepared remarks, lacks “the resources to enforce foreign tax
laws and has little appetite to do so.”
And that is all you need to know.
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U.S. power grid alert: “Aggressive foreign government hackers broke
into American companies 17 times between October 1, 2013, and
September 30, 2014,” according to a Department of Homeland Security
intelligence assessment from late January. “In two cases they snuck
into U.S. petroleum organizations, and hackers are ‘suspected of
exfiltrating data’ from one of them,” CNN reported Wednesday.
They hack “primarily to conduct cyber espionage … to conduct a
damaging or disruptive attack in the event of hostilities with the
United States,” the assessment read, adding, damaging cyberattacks
against the American energy sector is “possible but not likely.” More
from CNN here, or check out the assessment for yourself, here.
Who will be the next DNI? Not Mike Hayden, likely. The former CIA
chief and media-friendly general has been whispered for the job for
months in our ear, but now he’s come out endorsing… John Kasich?
Doesn’t really help his chances with frontrunners Clinton and Trump.
So, who’s it gonna be? Tell us who you’d like to see take over for Jim
Clapper by emailing us here.
Your Thursday #LongRead: American government surveillance planes are
working the U.S. skies, but don’t worry: they “usually take the
weekends off,” Buzzfeed reported Wednesday. “ Each weekday, dozens of
U.S. government aircraft take to the skies and slowly circle over
American cities. Piloted by agents of the FBI and the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS), the planes are fitted with high-resolution
video cameras, often working with ‘augmented reality’ software that
can superimpose onto the video images everything from street and
business names to the owners of individual homes. At least a few
planes have carried devices that can track the cell phones of people
below. Most of the aircraft are small, flying a mile or so above
ground, and many use exhaust mufflers to mute their engines — making
them hard to detect by the people they’re spying on.” Loads of data
visuals on the topic, here.
How do the world’s far-flung militants acquire heat-seeking missiles,
machine guns and more? Facebook, of course, NYT‘s C.J. Chivers
reports. “The weapons include many distributed by the United States to
security forces and their proxies in the Middle East. These online
bazaars, which violate Facebook’s recent ban on the private sales of
weapons, have been appearing in regions where the Islamic State has
its strongest presence. This week, after The New York Times provided
Facebook with seven examples of suspicious groups, the company shut
down six of them.”
Chivers’s findings “were based on a study by the private consultancy
Armament Research Services about arms trafficking on social media in
Libya, along with reporting by The Times on similar trafficking in
Syria, Iraq and Yemen.” Catch his report here, or the ARS report,
here.
Lastly today—there’s been too much caution and too few experienced
voices inside the Obama administration, former SecDefs Robert Gates,
Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel told Fox News as part of Bret Baier’s
report “Rising Threats: Shrinking Military.” Hagel went a bit further,
adding National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s inexperienced White
House staff held meetings on international affairs that “descended
into nonsense.”
Hagel: “I don’t think there’s one veteran on [President Barack
Obama’s] senior staff at the White House. I don’t believe there’s one
business person. I don’t believe there’s one person that’s ever run
anything… Other than Vice President [Joe] Biden, none of them have
ever been elected to anything.”
His bottom line: “The world becomes more dangerous, not less
dangerous, when America gets less involved in the world. I don’t mean
invading and occupying and imposing—but leading, engaging.” Watch the
rest, including a rant against 35-year-old Ph.Ds whom Hagel said
talked too much to simply show how smart they are, here.
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http://snuffysmithsblog.blogspot.com/20 ... ering.htmlEd.: Assuming Alzheimer’s has not snuck in the side door and my memory
is still functional, I recall that Snuffy’s brilliant son (a graduate
of a small school at the intersection of history, foliage and a massif
with a glacial cirque) went on to grad school at MIT.
What goes on at MIT always warrants attention — SecDef Carter went up
to the great historical incubator of textile arts, computer science
and biotechnology to seed a challenge for “advanced functional fibers”
— which reminds me of an old item once seen in Sports Illustrated
about the people who make fun of the club football team at MIT.
When the opposing team would score, the few fans in attendance (those
not in the labs, the library or the study hall) would render a
weak-voiced rendition of a this cheer:
“It’s alright'