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Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS
HughPickens.com writes: The NYT reports that Hillary Clinton spoke at the Brookings Institution's annual Saban Forum on Sunday and said that the Islamic State had become "the most effective recruiter in the world" and that the only solution is to engage American technology companies in blocking or taking down militants' websites, videos and encrypted communications. "We need to put the great disrupters at work at disrupting ISIS. We need Silicon Valley not to view government as its adversary. We need to challenge our best minds in the private sector and work with our best minds in the public sector to develop solutions that would both keep us safe and protect our privacy," said Clinton. "We should take the concerns of law enforcement and counterterrorism professionals seriously. They have warned that impenetrable encryption may prevent them from accessing terrorist communications and preventing a future attack. On the other hand we know there are legitimate concerns about government intrusion, network security, and creating new vulnerabilities that bad actors can and would exploit."
This could work in the Middle East's favor... If they terrorize Western Governments into mandatory encryption backdoors for all communications, all of the multinational corporations are going to have to move their trade secret data centers and business transactions elsewhere. Sensitive business will be conducted in countries that allow strong encryption, and are have lots of shrewd businessmen... which sounds like what many countries in the ME are setting themselves up for.
This has happened before.... jews are pretty prominent in business and banking because most countries didn't allow them to own land, and for ages christians and muslims were forbidden to charge interest on loans. This created conditions that practically handed the entire middleman and long distance transaction business to jews. Perhaps... perhaps the Middle East, longing for the old days when they were a business empire powerhouse, has become desperate to find a niche to diversify their economy in the coming post-oil production years, and this may be a way to carve themselves a competitive business advantage on the world stage again.
Okay, we wake up, rise up and throw all the rascals out ... then WHAT??
What do we replace them with?
The same ol' shit?
It isn't that I am a cynic, but I've seen enough of the bullshit from inside the beltway to become extremely wary of the politicians
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
The Manning leak that showed she wanted the credit card numbers of diplomats of allied nations so that they could be used for blackmail (yes something that stupid was in writing and available at Manning's clearance level) should have finished her. She probably kicked off the Swedish Assange stupidity as revenge.
Then again, there's that other guy on the Republican side that should have been finished in politics forever when the tollbooth idiocy came to light, and there's Trump who has been "captured" four times in business but has no time for a soldier who was captured.
The current flock make Carter and Nixon look like paragons of competence and virtue.
Islamic history that they don't teach at Harvard:
When American colonists rebelled against British rule in 1776, American merchant ships lost British Royal Navy protection. With no American Navy for protection, American ships were attacked and their Christian crews enslaved by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the "Dey of Algiers"--an Islamist warlord ruling Algeria.
In 1786, Jefferson, then the American ambassador to France, and Adams, then the American ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the "Dey of Algiers" ambassador to Britain.
During the meeting Jefferson and Adams asked the Dey's ambassador why Muslims held so much hostility towards America, a nation with which they had NO PREVIOUS CONTACTS.
The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam: "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as prisoners, and that every Muslim who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."
In 1805, American Marines marched across the desert from Egypt into Tripolitania, forcing the surrender of Tripoli and the freeing of all American slaves.