It is completely outrageous to think any city is selling these statues intact to the highest bidder. The stone they are carved with is the only quality aspect to any of them. So, grind them into pebbles and sell it for use in driveways. It will make a great driveway and an interesting color at that.
May 15, 2017
Richmond, Va. — The United States (click here) is beginning to realize that it suffers from deferred maintenance of its own history. Here in Virginia, the city of Charlottesville is preparing to remove and sell its statue of the Confederate general Robert E. Lee. New Orleans is already removing its Confederate statues and “monuments” honoring post-Civil War white supremacists.
Perhaps the most emblematic complex of structures honoring those who fought for the Confederacy is here in Richmond, its former capital. In the decades following “the night they drove old Dixie down” the city’s business and housing was rebuilt step by step.
The early 20th century saw a broad row of grand patrician homes going up on Monument Avenue. The avenue is punctuated by equestrian statues of Confederate heroes — Lee, Jeb Stuart, Stonewall Jackson — and a semicircular shrine with an outsize column glorifying the Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, the seceding states and the deceptive doctrine of “sovereign states” deployed to defend slavery. They were erected 35 to 50 years after the war. Records show that they were meant to legitimize and dignify the white supremacist regime that had taken hold in Virginia....
They have no significance to USA history. They are emblematic of dehumanizing values, unspeakable wealth and anti-religious values. They are immoral and deserve no place in USA sovereignty. End of discussion.
Monday, May 15, 2017
Absolutely not! I must have been born yesterday.
If this was such a viable option in the "World of Greed" it would already be sought by the banks. This is nothing they want to have anything to do with, small businesses are not an interest and haven't been since 2008's global collapse. Mortgage backed securities are because it is REAL ESTATE, tangible, repossessible and small business is none of that or the smallest part of the business is a mortgage which already qualifies for Wall Street Greed.
After the banks were recovered in 2008, the small local lending banks continued to go bankrupt. It is those local banks that need focus and it is best done by the SBA (Small Business Administration) and not the conglomerate of wealth in the big banks.
If the New York Times wants to be revolutionary, it is time to look at the small businesses in the USA with a record low unemployment rate since President Obama was in office during his SECOND TERM. They need lending banks that are solvent and knows the local economy. Those type of banks would have at hand the ability to measure market share in a local economy and decide if there was enough room in that economy to support such an economic venture.
The US Small Business Administration (click here) has loans at the ready. They even have SPECIALIZED loans for Black Owned Business. Do the conglomerate wealth banks have that? No.
The only aspect of financing small businesses is to have local banks that know the terrain and the realistic estimate as to the viability of a small business venture. That type of specialty bank does not exist. It requires REAL management of a bank and REAL connections to local people. A banker that lives and works in the local economy that knows the pulse of potential for GROWTH.
The infrastructure set up for the Big Banks with big ideas of ruling every dollar on the face of Earth will never be able to customize a bank for a local economy and lend with enough confidence to people sincerely interested in providing more growth to a healthy local economy and/or revitalize the neighborhoods the obscenely conglomerate wealthy banks laid to waste in 2008!
May 15, 2017
By Hal S. Scott
Somewhere in the United States right now, (click here) an entrepreneur is having trouble getting a small-business loan for expansion. The reason? The bank is committed to keeping a large portion of its money in government debt instead.
After the banks were recovered in 2008, the small local lending banks continued to go bankrupt. It is those local banks that need focus and it is best done by the SBA (Small Business Administration) and not the conglomerate of wealth in the big banks.
If the New York Times wants to be revolutionary, it is time to look at the small businesses in the USA with a record low unemployment rate since President Obama was in office during his SECOND TERM. They need lending banks that are solvent and knows the local economy. Those type of banks would have at hand the ability to measure market share in a local economy and decide if there was enough room in that economy to support such an economic venture.
The US Small Business Administration (click here) has loans at the ready. They even have SPECIALIZED loans for Black Owned Business. Do the conglomerate wealth banks have that? No.
The only aspect of financing small businesses is to have local banks that know the terrain and the realistic estimate as to the viability of a small business venture. That type of specialty bank does not exist. It requires REAL management of a bank and REAL connections to local people. A banker that lives and works in the local economy that knows the pulse of potential for GROWTH.
The infrastructure set up for the Big Banks with big ideas of ruling every dollar on the face of Earth will never be able to customize a bank for a local economy and lend with enough confidence to people sincerely interested in providing more growth to a healthy local economy and/or revitalize the neighborhoods the obscenely conglomerate wealthy banks laid to waste in 2008!
May 15, 2017
By Hal S. Scott
Somewhere in the United States right now, (click here) an entrepreneur is having trouble getting a small-business loan for expansion. The reason? The bank is committed to keeping a large portion of its money in government debt instead.
After the financial crisis, the government, in the form of the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, imposed liquidity requirements that force American banks with assets over $50 billion to hold huge amounts of government debt as liquid assets.
Those assets represent $4.3 trillion in government debt, or about one-quarter of all American banking assets. They include $1.75 trillion in bank deposits (called excess reserves) held at the Fed, $1.5 trillion in mortgage-backed securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (called government-sponsored-enterprise debt) and $560 billion in United States Treasuries.
American banks are truly awash in government debt at five times pre-crisis levels. If President Trump wants to follow through on his promise to increase lending to small businesses, he should start by scaling back these requirements....
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Someone want to explain what happened to truth in advertising?
This is an insult to the intelligence of the American people. Why is it okay? Corporate? Really? The ad money is okay because corporations approve of the deception. Is that why it is running on USA networks.
There is no oil IN THE ARTIST and artists can find material to express their art. Cave drawings have lasted millions of years and it wasn't because an oil based paint was manufactured by some corporation drilling into Earth somewhere.
If a woman is using oil based make-up she needs to read the label better.
"Oil taps potential?" A handicapped female athlete is dependent on oil for her prosthetic arm? Plastics? Is that the point? A prosthetic arm is a lot more than plastic. And the female athlete needs clean air, water and an environment that won't kill her because of the climate crisis.
And the space program? That is outrageous. The petroleum industry is no where near the space program except for perhaps plastic and ground vehicles on Earth. Maybe. They can be replaced with E85 or Flex vehicles or better yet electric vehicles.
The petroleum industry has caused a great deal of damage in every corner of Earth and should be grateful they have product that is actually still needed.
The commercial is definitely misleading, ambiguous and flat out lies. It is a horrible commercial that insinuates oil is a hero to the American people.
LIAR!
The Russians might believe it though.
There is no oil IN THE ARTIST and artists can find material to express their art. Cave drawings have lasted millions of years and it wasn't because an oil based paint was manufactured by some corporation drilling into Earth somewhere.
If a woman is using oil based make-up she needs to read the label better.
"Oil taps potential?" A handicapped female athlete is dependent on oil for her prosthetic arm? Plastics? Is that the point? A prosthetic arm is a lot more than plastic. And the female athlete needs clean air, water and an environment that won't kill her because of the climate crisis.
And the space program? That is outrageous. The petroleum industry is no where near the space program except for perhaps plastic and ground vehicles on Earth. Maybe. They can be replaced with E85 or Flex vehicles or better yet electric vehicles.
The petroleum industry has caused a great deal of damage in every corner of Earth and should be grateful they have product that is actually still needed.
The commercial is definitely misleading, ambiguous and flat out lies. It is a horrible commercial that insinuates oil is a hero to the American people.
LIAR!
The Russians might believe it though.
There are no gas pumps in space, nor will there be.
Solar arrays that convert energy to electricity on the space station are made of thousands of solar cells. The solar cells are made from purified chunks of the element silicon. These cells directly convert light to electricity using a process called photovoltaics....
Solar arrays. The light in space is enviably abundant and free.
Liquid Hydrogen--the Fuel of Choice for Space Exploration (click here)
Got that? Liquid Hydrogen + an oxidizer like Liquid Oxygen = propellant
Back in the day, it was originally liquid oxygen. But, when there was a deadly explosion killing three astronauts, the oxygen was mixed with hydrogen.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 2017 – Today API welcomed Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) decision to withdraw its proposed changes to the agency’s interpretation of the Jones Act as it applies to vessels in offshore oil and natural gas activity, a change that could have had widespread negative impacts on American jobs.
“Withdrawing the proposed changes protects U.S. energy security and allows for consumers and businesses to continue benefitting from America’s energy renaissance,” said API Upstream Director Erik Milito. “A recent report projected that this proposal could have resulted in the loss of thousands of American jobs, reduced U.S. oil and natural gas production, and diminished revenues for federal and state government.
“By rescinding the proposal, CBP has decided not to impose potentially serious limitations to the industry’s ability to safely, effectively, and economically operate. The responsible development of America’s abundant oil and natural gas resources is a critical part of a forward-looking energy policy that will secure our energy future and help meet our nation’s energy needs.”
API is the only national trade association representing all facets of the oil and natural gas industry, which supports 9.8 million U.S. jobs and 8 percent of the U.S. economy. API’s more than 625 members include large integrated companies, as well as exploration and production, refining, marketing, pipeline, and marine businesses, and service and supply firms. They provide most of the nation’s energy and are backed by a growing grassroots movement of more than 40 million Americans.
Saturday, May 13, 2017
Did DeVos bring a check with her to the speaker's podium? For the school, that is.
How did she ever come to speak after playing politics with African American lives. The students are correct and I strongly object to any coercion to stop them from protesting.
May 13, 2017
May 13, 2017
By Anya Kamenetz
...Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' (click here) first commencement address since taking office was interrupted by persistent boos when she addressed graduates at a private, Christian, historically black university in Florida. About half the graduates turned their backs on the secretary in protest. At one point the school's president, Edison O. Jackson, warned students he'd mail them their diplomas if the jeering continued. That led to only a brief pause.
DeVos has made missteps when it comes to historically black colleges, as we reported:
"Earlier this year, DeVos called HBCUs 'real pioneers when it comes to school choice,' a remark she was forced to walk back after protests; in fact, these colleges were founded as the only option for students when other colleges were still legally segregated. Just this week, DeVos found herself clarifying comments by President Trump that seemed to suggest that a key form of funding for HBCUs might be unconstitutional."...
I didn't check this reference well, but, it seems to have the correct focus. It is called racism.
The First HBCUs (click here)
Before the Civil War, higher education for African American students was virtually nonexistent. The few who did receive schooling, such as Fredrick Douglass, often studied in informal and sometimes hostile settings. Some were forced to teach themselves entirely. Some schools for elementary and secondary training existed, such as the Institute for Colored Youth, a school started in the early 1830s by a group of Philadelphia Quakers. A college education was also available to a limited number of students at schools like Oberlin College in Ohio and Berea College in Kentucky....
Additionally, Ms. DeVos must not have heard of Brown v. Board of Education (click here). See, the African American population was never sincerely embraced by many Whites, primarily in the South. Separate but equal. Thurgood Marshall.
The African American community has a proud heritage of valuing education and having scholars, but, it wasn't because of a choice to exclude Caucasians from their schools as the focus. These weren't charter schools to experiment with segregation.
Ms. DeVos needs to apologize to the African American community and grow a little humility in her obvious racism included in her politics.
I didn't check this reference well, but, it seems to have the correct focus. It is called racism.
The First HBCUs (click here)
Before the Civil War, higher education for African American students was virtually nonexistent. The few who did receive schooling, such as Fredrick Douglass, often studied in informal and sometimes hostile settings. Some were forced to teach themselves entirely. Some schools for elementary and secondary training existed, such as the Institute for Colored Youth, a school started in the early 1830s by a group of Philadelphia Quakers. A college education was also available to a limited number of students at schools like Oberlin College in Ohio and Berea College in Kentucky....
The African American community has a proud heritage of valuing education and having scholars, but, it wasn't because of a choice to exclude Caucasians from their schools as the focus. These weren't charter schools to experiment with segregation.
Ms. DeVos needs to apologize to the African American community and grow a little humility in her obvious racism included in her politics.
Friday, May 12, 2017
Flint, Michigan motivated an entire country.
There has been some random violence lately, a 17 year old is dead because of a bullet through his head while riding his bicycle and there was a lock down of a school when shots were heard.
Guns and violence do not solve problems. I am sorry to hear such issues exist in a town still trying to recover from an abuse of government. This is not the way to do it. Burning a truck is not the way to do this.
For as hard as it is being in Flint and realizing the tragedy that occurred; Flint was a wake up call to the country. Since this tragedy there are people all over this country asking questions. Flint's tragedy is now saving lives. An example is Waco, Texas which ignored lead findings in water two years ago. (click here) Waco still has lead paint leaching into ground water. Do you know how long ago it was that lead in paint was banned?
The picture is "White Lead" paint. White paint with a lead base. Look closely, it says it right on the label, "Basic Carbonate White Lead." 1978. That was the year lead in paint was banned and it is still in the living environment of children in Waco, Texas. Flint is do this. Flint is making people pay attention to injustice. It is happening around the country because Flint's problem is so very heinous and unnecessary. Flint, Michigan has every reason to be proud of standing up for justice. The people of Flint have a great Mayor. The people need to unite in recognizing the difference they have made in lives across this entire country.
May 12, 2017
By Ron Fonger
Flint, MI -- Vandals burned a truck (click here) and smashed windows of vehicles set to replace water service lines on Friday, May 12, setting back work that's being done on Flint's north side.
Guns and violence do not solve problems. I am sorry to hear such issues exist in a town still trying to recover from an abuse of government. This is not the way to do it. Burning a truck is not the way to do this.
For as hard as it is being in Flint and realizing the tragedy that occurred; Flint was a wake up call to the country. Since this tragedy there are people all over this country asking questions. Flint's tragedy is now saving lives. An example is Waco, Texas which ignored lead findings in water two years ago. (click here) Waco still has lead paint leaching into ground water. Do you know how long ago it was that lead in paint was banned?The picture is "White Lead" paint. White paint with a lead base. Look closely, it says it right on the label, "Basic Carbonate White Lead." 1978. That was the year lead in paint was banned and it is still in the living environment of children in Waco, Texas. Flint is do this. Flint is making people pay attention to injustice. It is happening around the country because Flint's problem is so very heinous and unnecessary. Flint, Michigan has every reason to be proud of standing up for justice. The people of Flint have a great Mayor. The people need to unite in recognizing the difference they have made in lives across this entire country.
May 12, 2017
By Ron Fonger
Flint, MI -- Vandals burned a truck (click here) and smashed windows of vehicles set to replace water service lines on Friday, May 12, setting back work that's being done on Flint's north side.
Mayor Karen Weaver said a crew with WT Stevens Construction Inc. discovered the damage when they showed up at a staging area where equipment had been left in a parking lot behind the shuttered Bryant Elementary School.
"I don't know what a motive could be," Weaver said at the site on East Pierson Road in Flint's 1st Ward. "When they are caught, they will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Police and Stevens employees were also on the scene Friday, assessing the damage and looking for clues....
What's new with Russia, Rex? Arctic drilling? So much for sanctions.
How do you spell ignoramus? ExxonMobile, that is how you spell it. Under the guise of oil cooperation the Russians are repopulating it's military capacity against the USA.
May 12, 2017
Fairbanks, Alaska (Reuters) - As foreign ministers (click here) from countries with territory in the far North celebrated an agreement on fighting climate change this week, one topic seethed below the surface: growing competition for Arctic resources and sea lanes as the ice melts.
Russia, one of eight members of the Arctic Council which includes the United States, Canada and the Nordic countries, has been pouring money and missiles into the Arctic as well as reopening and building bases there. This is bringing its Arctic military presence to the highest level since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.
Although the Arctic Council does not officially consider security issues, the topic was on the minds of policy makers....
No apologies, Crimea is under siege by Russia. Let's get this straight. The Russians don't need oil. It is ExxonMobile that needs money.
12 May 2017
A fighter jet (click here) was scrambled to intercept a US reconnaissance plane over neutral waters of the Black Sea on May 9, the Russian Defense Ministry revealed on Friday.
“After approaching a plane at a safe distance the Russian pilot visually identified the flying object as a US surveillance plane P-8A Poseidon,” the Russian military said.
The Russian pilot “greeted” the US pilots with a special maneuver, after which the US plane changed its course away from the Russian border....
Kodiak Island is within the continental United States. What were Russian jet fighters doing buzzing Gizzly Bears?
...Indeed, these incidents are not rare. In April, two Russian Tu-95 planes were intercepted by US F-22s, about 100 miles from Alaska’s Kodiak Island, and the Pentagon said the Russian bombers were escorted for the full 12 minutes by US jets as they were in international airspace, with spokesman Navy Commander Gary Ross noting their “safe and professional” conduct.
No apologies, Crimea is under siege by Russia. Let's get this straight. The Russians don't need oil. It is ExxonMobile that needs money.
A fighter jet (click here) was scrambled to intercept a US reconnaissance plane over neutral waters of the Black Sea on May 9, the Russian Defense Ministry revealed on Friday.
“After approaching a plane at a safe distance the Russian pilot visually identified the flying object as a US surveillance plane P-8A Poseidon,” the Russian military said.
The Russian pilot “greeted” the US pilots with a special maneuver, after which the US plane changed its course away from the Russian border....
Kodiak Island is within the continental United States. What were Russian jet fighters doing buzzing Gizzly Bears?
...Indeed, these incidents are not rare. In April, two Russian Tu-95 planes were intercepted by US F-22s, about 100 miles from Alaska’s Kodiak Island, and the Pentagon said the Russian bombers were escorted for the full 12 minutes by US jets as they were in international airspace, with spokesman Navy Commander Gary Ross noting their “safe and professional” conduct.
In February, two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers were monitored by Royal Air Force jets northeast of Britain.
Moscow has repeatedly expressed surprise at such zealous attention given by NATO members to routine operations.
Russian nuclear weapons can easily be delivered to the lower 48 without a problem from flying over Kodiak, Alaska. The USA military was asleep at the switch and/or distracted completely by North Korea.
Where was everybody!?!?!? I know where the residents of the island were.
Russian nuclear weapons can easily be delivered to the lower 48 without a problem from flying over Kodiak, Alaska. The USA military was asleep at the switch and/or distracted completely by North Korea.Where was everybody!?!?!? I know where the residents of the island were.
Jeff Sessions is out of line and shows his racist leanings in a speech he made today. I am surprised everyone in the room didn't fall asleep for the length of time it took.
He is so old world in his ideas of justice, it is hard to understand why Columbus wasn't arrested when he arrived on North American shores.
May 12, 2017
By Colin Dwyer
...He elaborated (click here) on the memo in a brief speech to the Sergeants Benevolent Association of New York City, which honored him with an award Friday in Washington, D.C.
"Charging and sentencing recommendations are bedrock responsibilities of any prosecutor. And I trust our prosecutors in the field to make good judgments," Sessions said. "They deserve to be unhandcuffed and not micromanaged from Washington."
Holder had asked prosecutors to avoid slapping nonviolent drug offenders with crimes that carried mandatory minimum sentences, practices that, as NPR's Tamara Keith explains, "give judges and prosecutors little discretion over the length of a prison term if a suspect is convicted." Holder's recommendation had been aimed partly at helping reduce burgeoning prison populations in the U.S....
I am not surprised by this vote and no one else should be either. The petroleum industry has been completely remiss in protecting human life.
Pruitt's nomination for the EPA was narrowly approved. He should pay attention to that. The Republicans that voted with Democrats knew it was the right thing to do and have political capital.
May 10, 2017
By Juliet Eilperin and Chelsea Harvey
The site (click here) of the massive natural gas leak, near Los Angeles.
The Senate on Wednesday (click here) narrowly blocked a resolution to repeal an Obama-era rule restricting methane emissions from drilling operations on public lands — with three Republicans joining every Democrat to preserve the rule.
May 10, 2017
By Juliet Eilperin and Chelsea Harvey
The Senate on Wednesday (click here) narrowly blocked a resolution to repeal an Obama-era rule restricting methane emissions from drilling operations on public lands — with three Republicans joining every Democrat to preserve the rule.
The 51-to-49 vote on a procedural motion marked the first time since Trump’s election that Republicans have failed in their attempt to use the Congressional Review Act to overturn Obama-era rules. Thirteen other resolutions, based on the 1996 law that allows Congress to overturn rules within 60 legislative workdays of their adoption, have succeeded.
Thursday is the deadline for using the Congressional Review Act this way.
The methane emissions rule, issued by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management in November, addresses a potent greenhouse gas that is accelerating climate change.
The rule would force oil and gas companies to capture methane that had been previously burned off or “flared” at drilling sites. According to federal estimates, the rule would prevent roughly 180,000 tons a year of methane from escaping into the atmosphere and would boost federal revenue between $3 million and $13 million a year because firms only pay royalties on the oil and gas they capture and contain.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) unexpectedly voted no against a motion to proceed with consideration of the resolution, along with GOP Sens. Susan Collins (Maine) and Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). Two Democrats who had considered backing the rule’s elimination — Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia — voted against the motion, and sent a letter asking Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to make it less burdensome....
The California leak was the largest in USA history.
...On Wednesday California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency and called for "all necessary and viable actions" to stop it.
The California leak was the largest in USA history.
...On Wednesday California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency and called for "all necessary and viable actions" to stop it.
More than 10,000 people have been moved from their homes and many people have reported nausea and headaches.
A further estimated 7,000 are now in the evacuation process, according to SoCal Gas....
The leak displaced an entire town and buildings had to be closed. If that isn't enough the area was highly explosive and the gas company lucked out nothing exploded. I can only imagine the emergency managers running around turning off every lit gas flame in every oven or water heater in the city. IT WAS CRAZY!
And what did Southern Cal say? "It says the gas being pumped into the atmosphere, which includes methane, is not a threat to public safety."
The corruption under Pruitt is thicker than pea soup.
February 22, 2017
By Alexander C. Kaufman, Ben Walsh, Chris D'Angelo
...The public release of the emails (click here) was ordered last week by a judge in Oklahoma and comes just five days after the Senate narrowly voted to confirm Pruitt as EPA administrator. Pruitt’s nomination faced fierce protests from environmentalists and some Democrats, who argued that his confirmation vote should be delayed until after the release of the emails.
The emails reveal a chummy relationship between Pruitt and the companies whose pollution he’s now tasked with reining in. The document dump sheds new light on Pruitt’s frequent strategizing with Devon Energy Corporation, the Oklahoma City-based oil and gas giant. Pruitt’s ties to the company, uncovered in a similar email dump published in 2014 by The New York Times, became a flashpoint during his confirmation process. In particular, critics railed against Pruitt’s 2011 decision to allow the company to write a three-page complaint to the EPA under his letterhead....
The corruption under Pruitt is thicker than pea soup.
February 22, 2017
By Alexander C. Kaufman, Ben Walsh, Chris D'Angelo
...The public release of the emails (click here) was ordered last week by a judge in Oklahoma and comes just five days after the Senate narrowly voted to confirm Pruitt as EPA administrator. Pruitt’s nomination faced fierce protests from environmentalists and some Democrats, who argued that his confirmation vote should be delayed until after the release of the emails.
The emails reveal a chummy relationship between Pruitt and the companies whose pollution he’s now tasked with reining in. The document dump sheds new light on Pruitt’s frequent strategizing with Devon Energy Corporation, the Oklahoma City-based oil and gas giant. Pruitt’s ties to the company, uncovered in a similar email dump published in 2014 by The New York Times, became a flashpoint during his confirmation process. In particular, critics railed against Pruitt’s 2011 decision to allow the company to write a three-page complaint to the EPA under his letterhead....
Who care if Trump has tapes. This is the country.
By Phillip Bump
We have more (click here) than enough evidence that he's vile and unfit for the presidency.
President Trump (click here) issued a not-terribly-veiled threat to former FBI director James B. Comey in a tweet Friday morning.
For a guy who has spent the past week being compared to Richard Nixon for firing a man who was investigating his campaign, it was an odd threat to level. Nixon, of course, was undone in part by the things that he recorded himself saying in the Oval Office. Which raises an interesting question: Do presidents still record those conversations? Does Trump?...
Comey can only improve his reputation and game from here. He violated the instructions from US Attorney General Loretta Lynch. There isn't anything he can do on any tape that is going to worse than his compete disregard of American protocol in regard to elections.
If Comey knows something he needs to say something !
Is it known the attacks resulted from a program exclusively operated by the USA?
May 12, 2017
By Dan Bilefsky and Nicole Perlroth
Hospitals in Britain appeared to be the most severely affected by the attacks, which aimed to blackmail computer users by seizing their data. The attacks blocked doctors’ access to patient files and forced emergency rooms to divert people seeking urgent care.
Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity firm, said it had recorded at least 45,000 attacks in as many as 74 countries.
It was not immediately clear who was behind the attacks, but the acts deeply alarmed cybersecurity experts and underscored the enormous vulnerabilities faced by disjointed networks of computer systems around the world....
It seems to me no matter the creator of the attacks, it was recognizing a widely used security software. Snowden would not know the program in question? This can't be that much of a mystery. There have to be common denominators somewhere.
I think it was Russia and it's secret weapons, Mr. Snowden. I have stated over and over it is foolish not to bring him home. The USA should be negotiating with his legal team to end this mess.
17 December 2015
Russian software security giant Kaspersky Lab (click here) has formed a strategic partnership with a Chinese state-own company as Beijing and Moscow work more closely in policing their cyberspace.
It seems to me no matter the creator of the attacks, it was recognizing a widely used security software. Snowden would not know the program in question? This can't be that much of a mystery. There have to be common denominators somewhere.
I think it was Russia and it's secret weapons, Mr. Snowden. I have stated over and over it is foolish not to bring him home. The USA should be negotiating with his legal team to end this mess.
17 December 2015
Russian software security giant Kaspersky Lab (click here) has formed a strategic partnership with a Chinese state-own company as Beijing and Moscow work more closely in policing their cyberspace.
The deal was signed on Wednesday at one of the panel meetings of China’s second World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province.
Hours before the meeting, President Xi Jinping gave a keynote speech stressing the need for a new set of global rules on the use of the internet and the importance of respecting cyber-sovereignty. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who also attended the event, supported Xi.
At the internet security panel meeting in the afternoon, Eugene Kaspersky – founder of the Russian software security giant that bears his name – signed a deal with the China Cyber Security Company. The two sides did not elaborate on the extent of their cooperation....
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