Republicans against bank reform

Republicans running interference against Banking Reform.

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Timothy McVeigh's decision process.

 and independent American terrorist.

Observations:

Just saw the special on MSNBC.

Poorly done. They miss Tims point
completely.

Tim was very clear he was applying his military training

to what he considered a combat situation.

I want to make it clear from the onset I have no

sympathy or reservations about Tim being

wrong and an terrorist, but I am going to 

look at this through his eyes, looking to get a 

handle insights on domestic terrorism.

The training Tim was talking about was

army doctrine. 

When you don't have rules of engagement

you look at what the enemy is doing and

take the lead from them.

And Tim had come to view the Government

as the enemy. 

How and why I'm not going to examine here.

But the collateral damage at Ruby Ridge

and Waco , the dead children and women

he did not view as collateral deaths but

as murder.

The trigger seems to be the American 

Government, power, killing innocents,

Americans.

And in his mind turned this into

his guideline or rules of engagement.

He views the dead children at Murrah Building 

the same as the dead children

burned at the Waco Siege.

The one group of dead children

some how balanced out the

other group of dead children,

in his mind.

Quid pro Quo.

He is very clear about his motives

and activating factors.

He was sending a message to

the American Government,

with a body count.

His paradigm would point

to the importance of not

having any collateral damage

in any American operations

against Americans in reference
to American generated terrorist.

There doesn't seem to be any

problem in the killing of principals.

It is a risk they assume when they

take on America as an enemy.

And there doesn't seem to be

any vengeance associated with

killing active participants.

Vengeance seems to be associated

with collateral damage.

In the case of McVeigh.

I differentiate this type of terrorism

from work place mass murders,

that is more associated with 

disassociation. 

Where by someone becomes 

so disassociate from society

they view it as alien from themselves

and strike out in anger.

They feel society has struck out

against them unfairly, illegally

and they feel they have no recourse

except violence.


In Tim's case the Government
nor society had taken any actions
directly against Tim.

The air plane into the Federal Income

Tax building recently, may be a good

example of Disassociation. Or other 
examples of going Postal.

Tim's paradigm points to the critical

element in American Ops on Americans,

that there be NO collateral damages/ deaths.
To prevent American generated terrorist.

I suspect that the American Somalia 

youths going to Somalia to fight for

al Qaeda cult has adopted this flavor

of Tim's terrorism.

They are brain washed into believing

in American caused collateral deaths

associated with "their people" is motivation
for joining the al Qaeda cult.

And I'm sure this has a counter point

in Afpak and terrorist recruiting also.

Collateral deaths equals effective Info War

propaganda for recruiting terrorists.

Tim said the score board
was 168 to 1, if the Government
killed him.


He viewed this as a win.

And he had to get caught to

send his full message.

Gerald

Anthropologist

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Its worse than you think.

Cybersecurity could rip away the superpower status of the U.S., argues a CBS News report. Do you buy that? 


YES, G, cornfliker DOS attack on the Internet Nodes for example.

Its worse than you think.

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Watch CBS News Videos Online

It get worse:

Report: ZeuS crimeware kit, malicious PDFs drive growth of cybercrime.

By  Dancho Danchev 

Why are these IP's still up?

Top 10 Source IPs

IP Address	Reports	Attacks	First Seen	Last Seen
222.186.093.097	650,787	97,219	2010-03-23	2010-04-23
218.003.204.139	171,606	91,870	2008-12-02	2010-04-22
116.228.179.019	250,969	86,600	2009-10-25	2010-04-22
222.045.112.221	562,057	81,251	2009-11-05	2010-04-23
060.161.078.155	424,243	77,396	2010-03-30	2010-04-23
211.234.122.134	77,305	77,052	2010-04-08	2010-04-22
122.225.100.154	591,862	76,518	2009-09-07	2010-04-23
060.173.011.020	589,672	74,699	2009-11-14	2010-04-22
060.173.011.012	157,705	72,801	2009-11-07	2010-04-23
061.147.110.144	81,542	72,512	2010-04-07	2010-04-22

Top Sources

SOURCE:



Why haven't these IP's been taken off line?
We just watch the attacks? WTF?


With a cyber sidearm?
Click link above.




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Anthropologist
Tactical Internet Systems analyst.




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Afghans buddies with Taliban, maybe not

Afghans sympathetic to militants, maybe NOT.

An Army survey reveals what U.S. forces have to confront in their next major offensive in Afghanistan.

The U.S.-led forces are gearing up for a major operation in Kandahar province. It is considered the birthplace of the Taliban, who have widespread support among Kandaharis, according to a survey of 2,000 Kandaharis conducted by the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System and reported by the New York Times.

Five of six Kandahar residents considered the Taliban "our Afghan brothers." By a 19-to-1 margin, they support negotiations with the Taliban over hostilities.

In contrast to corruption in the Afghanistan's government, more than half of the Kandaharis polled considered the Taliban "incorruptible."

SOURCE:

The Taliban have killed more than 200 tribal leaders.

You are a Afghan and some stranger shows up doing a survey.

Do you tell the truth about everything?

The Taliban have threatened your village, and use suicide bombers.

Your government and may be your jerga may have fought them.

The Taliban deal in drugs, and you know they have no honor.

DO YOU TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE TALIBAN?

MAYBE NOT. FOR YOUR AND YOUR FAMILIES SAKE YOU MIGHT LIE ABOUT

HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT THE TALIBAN.

THEY BEHEAD PEOPLE.

Gerald 

Anthropologist

http://warintel.blogspot.com/2010/04/kandahar-already-huge-success.html

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US / Iran Nuclear Paradigm

US / Iran Nuclear Paradigm

In examining the relationship between Iran and US 

Paradigm Intel reveals some very interesting hypothesis.

None of which will we revel, and all notes have been

destroyed to NSA standards, no trace remains on our

computers.

In view of this new intel we support Obama's actions.

But want to point out the thin margin of error.

A mistake will result in history marking the Obama

administration responsible for a nuclear armed

Iran. And in effect  for the disaster that follows.

And it looks like Obama has not taken Israel into

it's confidence, Which in and of its self represents

a calculated risk.

This is going to make a Great movie someday,

and will twist the publics minds.

It is bad news for the Iranian Regime and good

news for the rest of the world.

We watch with great interest and enthusiasm
the unfolding of events.

Gerald

Anthropologist

http://warintel.blogspot.com/2010/04/iran-ops-and-intel-update-042110.html

Follow up:

My essential issue with Obama 

Thomas P.M. Barnett

OPINION: "He's a Dreamer, He's a Realist: In matters of national security, confusion is always dangerous," by Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal, 15 April 2010.

While I admire the reach for balance, and judging everything in and of itself, I do worry about the lack of coherence.

Good example: Good to be tough on Israel, but then idealistic to think you're going to stop Iran's nukes, and the combo of those two things is a bit spooky in its potential to explode.

I mean, the guy's working his Inbox with plenty speed and thought, but I worry about his let-me-fix-this-problem ambition getting out of control.

But you have to wish Obama well while he's trying. Guy said he can live with one term and he's already working foreign policy like it's his second.

[thanks to WPR's Media Roundup]

Posted by Thomas P.M. Barnett on April 23, 2010 3:02 AM Permalink 

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Our Genius readers 04.22.10

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Iran Regime reacts;

US gives up military option, non-UN sanctions against Iran 

US debate on military option does not impress Tehran 






Iran's Regime secret reaction :









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Bank regs, Mafia so proud

American economy the envy of the World, Maybe not.

USA is the only country in the world, that has legalized

LOAN SHARKING.

30% ON cc AND 460% ON PAY DAY LOANS.

Obama's last set of Banking regulations

took away States Rights to legislate

or Regulate Loan Sharking.

The Federal Mandate forbids States

from limiting Interest rates, the 

Banks and Mafia were very pleased 

with this ruling.

I don't remember voting to legalize

LOAN SHARKING, DID YOU VOTE 

FOR IT?

I have a Blind 83 yr old Widow who got

a 402 % loan instead of going to a 

social service agency for aid.

Now they are going after her Social

Security Checks.

She will be in the streets and hopefully

we can hook her up to an agency to help her.

WHEN DID THE CRIMINALS BECOME IN

CHARGE OF CONGRESS?

THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

TO LEGALIZE USURY.

THE MAFIA IS SO PROUD.

ENVY OF THE WORLD INDEED.

Gerald 

Anthropologist

Series 3 and 7

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Iran Ops and Intel Update 04.21.10

Anybody know what Obama is up to with Iran?
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US gives up military option, non-UN sanctions against Iran 


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Would the U.S. Shoot Down an Israeli Jet? Top Officer Won’t Say
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia — I’m not going to make a big deal of this, although some dug deep in the trenches of the Middle East debate might. But America’s top military officer wouldn’t rule the possibility today of U.S. forces firing on Israeli jets, if Israel launched a pre-emptive strike on Iran.

Read More http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/04/top-officer-iraq-no-fly-zone-applies-to-israeli-jets/#more-23805#ixzz0lkNGI3lk


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The Middle East nuclear race is already on




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Government requests directed to Google and YouTube

Gerald

Is Obama contributing to an nuclear arms race in ME?

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Tehran's Other Target: America 2015

Sanctions on Iran. WHY? IATT

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Why Sanctions on Iran.

Sanctions on Iran. WHY?

Why is the administration working on sanctions?

Why has China refused sanctions so far?

Sanctions will certainly work, look

at North Korea, sanctions crippled their

economy, no electricity in the whole 

country at night except the capital.

Sanctions worked so well on North Korea

and we should expect the same effect on Iran.

 Oh wait my staff just told me N. Korea

has nukes, NEVER MIND.

A EMP non-nuclear attack would

set Iran back 5 to 10 years.

Enough time for regime change?

Gerald

Internet Anthropologist

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Shearson Lehman Fraud?

Shearson Lehman pulling an Enron hiding losses off the Books? G

According to a report released in March by Lehman's court-appointed examiner, Anton Valukas, Lehman accounted for Repo 105 and Repo 108 transactions as sales, without disclosing that practice to investors and regulators.

The transactions allowed Lehman to temporarily remove some $50 billion in assets from its balance sheet, presenting a stronger financial picture than existed, according to the report.

"On one hand, having a forward purchase contract -- a right and obligation to buy an asset -- is not the same as owning the asset," Herz wrote. "On the other hand, the contemporaneous transfer and repurchase commitment entered into in a repo transaction raises questions about whether control actually has been relinquished."

SOURCE:

So when it came time for the Books to be audited, the asset was sold, for the period covered

curing the audit, so the asset with huge losses wasn't on the books, then repurchased 

at an agreed price after the audit. In my book thats FRAUD, cooking the books to 

hide losses.

We are going to find a lot of the big American banks were doing this.

Whether this gets cleaned up or not will point who is in charge of Congress.

If they will let the criminal American Banks continue with out real regulation.

Gerald

Series 3 and 7

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aNTI vIRUS nope PSA

PSA
As we've said time and time again.G

Are AV Reviews Providing a False Sense of Security?

April 9th, 2010

PC World recently reviewed Norton Internet Security 2010 praising the tool as “one of the top performers in detecting and cleaning up active malware infections on a PC.” While it is important to recognize the inherent need for anti-virus (AV) security tools, reports like these published by PC World may in fact be a disservice to consumers and businesses by creating a false sense of security for those using these tools.

PC World stated that Norton “found all bad software, disabled 93 percent of it and removed all traces of two-thirds of the software—the best score of any product [they] tested.” While these may have been the best scores that they saw, according to the report, their lab environment included only known signatures, thus not representing the “real” Internet where zero-day threats and malware with unknown signatures appear in abundance every day.

Since the testing of the top AV products was conducted against known signatures, anything less than a 100% detection rate should be unacceptable. As illustrated in the graph below, we have found that even the most popular AV solutions detect less than half of the latest malware threats:

Furthermore, after at least a week from the release of a new malware threat, AV companies still only have about a 50% chance of protecting against the threat – strengthening the argument for a comprehensive proactive security approach. More information regarding our testing can be found in the Cyveillance Intelligence Report.

We strongly encourage vigilant testing of security products but the methods should be based realistic online environments, provide insight into the realities of what AV solutions can do and report an accurate level of security for those using the products.

SOURCE:

Kandahar already a huge success.

Kandahar already a huge success.

Human Terrain System most effective force multiplier,

end run around kinetics?

The meat:

Thus, scores that combine district responses to compute an overall provincial

score reflect only the districts in this study

Kandahar Province Demographics

A total of 1,994 individuals were interviewed with a margin of error of ±4.2%. A full

depiction of the demographic summary is presented in Appendix 3. By gender, the sample is

56% male and 44% female. Due to local security conditions, only men were surveyed in

Maywand and Shah Wali Kot districts. Sixty percent are between the ages of 18 and 34; 40%

are 35 and older. The mean age is 34. Fifty-seven percent have no formal education.

Thirty-eight percent are employed in non-farm professions, nine percent are unemployed, and

43% are housewives. An additional 7% are full-time farmers. Eighty-two percent are

married. The monthly income based on the trichotomized sample is: less than 10,000 Afs

(28%), 10-20,000 Afs (33%), and more than 20,000 Afs (37%).

Ninety-nine percent of the sample is Pashtun and 98% is Sunni Muslim. In the Kandahar

sample, no tribes are greater than 10% of the sample. The most represented tribes in the

sample are Norzai and Alkozai, each at seven percent.

Corruption

Corruption in Kandahar not only affects all levels of government, 53% of respondents believe

it affects their daily lives, as well. In Maywand and Zhari, more than seven out of ten

respondents see corruption as a major concern in their daily lives (Figure 8). When asked

about the level of corruption in their district government, 63% believe it is a major problem.

The perceived level of corruption is highest in Kandahar City at 71%

( to fully understand the corruption issue, I'd like to see the same figures for feelings

about corruption in USA, by Americans. G)

                                                                                   ..... corruption in their districts

respondents were asked if they had to pay extra money for five services over the past year

(Figure 9). Approximately two-thirds (61%) of all individuals say they have paid extra fees to

obtain an identity document. The percentage is higher for five districts with no less than 55%

of respondents having to pay extra for this service. For civil court cases, in Maywand (71%),

Zhari (67%), and Shah Wali Kot (63%), a large proportion of individuals say they resort to

bribery and corruption to resolve cases.

A significant

majority of respondents think corruption is the underlying reason behind conflict in the

country. Furthermore, a strong majority of respondents believe that corruption in the

government forces them to seek alternate solutions to their problems. These solutions may

include reliance on anti-government elements. Slightly more than half of the Kandahar

respondents believe that the Taliban cannot be corrupted.

Respondents in all districts express concern about the provision of services and corruption.

Still, they give government officials high marks for managing dispute resolution, though not

for controlling corruption. Furthermore, government officials are not seen as providing

services equally across the province. Nevertheless, while perceptions of service provision

vary across districts, the people believe the local government is working hard for them.

There is a much weaker relationship between age of the respondent and perceptions of

political legitimacy by district (Table 10), as indicated by the fewer number of shaded cells in

the table. Age is split into younger/older categories based on the median age of the sample

(31 years). In Khakrez and Spin Boldak, however, respondents aged 31 or less do seem to

have a greater perception of political legitimacy, which declines with age.

The last assessment of political legitimacy is based on income levels (Table 11). Family

income is split along the median income of the sample, which is 19,000 AF/month. Kandahar

City and Spin Boldak residents have the most distinct differences in opinion based on the

high number of shaded cells in the row by district. The greatest disparity by income levels

appears in the dispute resolution column. Families with higher income tend to hold more

positive views of the district's ability to handle dispute resolution than those with lower

incomes.

Reconciliation

Reconciliation is a popular concept in Kandahar province. There is almost universal

agreement that negotiation with the Taliban is preferable to continued fighting (Figure 19).

Specific approaches such as calling a Loya Jirga and a jobs training program for former

fighters are both widely supported (Figure 20). The desire for reconciliation is likely driven

by the perception that the Taliban are part of Afghan society; a significant majority of

considering the ethnic makeup of the Taliban  highly Pashtun and the history

in Kandahar Province.

Methodology:

A total of 1,994 interviews covering nine districts were conducted in Kandahar Province

were conducted between December 23rd and 29th, 2009. Kandahar district was divided

between urban (Kandahar City) and rural areas.

Surveys were conducted by face-to-face interviews with a representative sample of adult

Afghan citizens, 18 years of age or older. Interviews were conducted in Dari or Pashtu

depending on the area.

The instability and frequent fighting in these provinces caused some sampling points

to be adjusted or replaced to keep interviewers out of areas with active violence.

The majority of the interviews were completed on the first attempt (99.6%),

The briefings for supervisors were held in Kabul. Issues emphasized during briefing(s)

included proper household and respondent selection, review of the questionnaire content,

appropriate interviewing techniques, and pilot interviews conducted to make sure the

concepts and techniques are well understood.

The total number of interviewers employed in this survey is 71

For Kandahar Province there were 338 refusals and 479 residences in which no one was

home.

Quality Control Methods

After the delivery of the questionnaires from field, most of the completed questionnaires

were subject to logical control for proper administration. In the delivered output, actual

interviewing was monitored directly by a supervisor in 1.7% of the sample. Another 12.2 %

of the completed interviews were back-checked by a supervisor in person. The issues verified

during in person back-checks were proper household and respondent selection, as well as

correct recording of answers to three randomly selected questions from the main body of the

questionnaire.

In Kandahar there were 102 interviews which were rejected due to a 90% or higher rate of

similarity to other interviews.

Results of Back-Check Controls

In Kandahar there were 102 interviews which were rejected due to a 90% or higher rate of

similarity to other interviews.

Problems Encountered During Field

On December 23rd, 2009 a civilian vehicle was struck by roadside IED near Kandahar city.

Reportedly the vehicle was en route from Spin Boldak to the center of the city. As a result of

which two people were killed. No arrests were made.

On December 24th, 2009, a suicide attack occurred in the vicinity of Kabul Bank, District 2,

Kandahar City of Kandahar province. Reportedly four people were injured. No one claimed

responsibility for the incident.

Because of security problems the following substitutions have been made:

14 different cities chosen, reason control of Taliban of the cities.

SOURCE:

APPLICATION AND USE:

Just the taking the survey
may have had huge impact.

IT WORKed...

Taliban looking to relieve pressure:

Just amazing work, GENIUS.
Such Anthro professionalism in the
middle of a WAR. 

Acute re-focusing of objectives

sways support and changes 

enemy's FRAME. ?
Law of unintended consequences
kicked in big time in US favor.

Maybe the most advanced WAR

paradigm ever executed.

Smells of huge success.

Executing the survey alone may have
embedded in the seminal demographic
a huge frame shift.
News of the Survey Q. would have
spread wide in Kandahar based
just on distribution.
Unintended but Effective Info War OP.
"They are asking this"

Gerald 

Anthropologist

With my hat off.

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