What dishonest whackjob dared to post this???? The hedge fundsters, and private bankster trash, are going to save America????? Kiss my barberously hard all-American a**, you jackholes!!!!! Even the Rothschilds can be found on the list of Americans Elect financial backers, for chrissakes!!!!!!!!!!! Eff off, slime bag credit who posted this nonsense --- go back to wetdreaming about performing sex acts on your fave boyfriend, Thomas Friedman, for chrissakes!
Stratfor's site will be secure AND up about the same time in the far, far future when American finally catches up with China and buildts a 500-mile-per-hour bullet train. OR NOT................
Thanks, great comment and most appropriate on-target remark, sstamps.
Stratfor is where all the Mental Category types go, like that moron, the former Montgomery County cop, who wrote that godawful piece of trash, Ghost, which really is an example of the idiots they have been staffing the government intel agencies with the past 20 to 30 years as they slowly privatized the American intel establishment, with the upper (and crooked) echelon going over to the super-paying private sector intel jobs, while the douchebaggers are hired at the civil service level.
This morning I heard a spineless, gutless airhead (Nada fewmets or something), a former 10-year CIA analyst, excuse her abominably cowardly behavior in going along with the Cheney-Bush (now Bush-Obama) administration's illegal invasion into Iraq.
Stratfor’s CEO, George Friedman, Thomas Friedman, Jaclyn Friedman, Stephen Friedman....too many, many Friedmans, me thinks?
,,,stooge and planted clown. Gee whiz, dood, so you think offshoring all the jobs to China, i.e., offshoring the vast majority of American production assets and capital assets is a great idea, dood? So falling tax revenues, both federally and at the local level is a great idea, dood? This moron and their moronic post is truly beneath the level of intelligence at/.
....I mean, since when has anyone bothered to question that originally (I haven't checked in the last several years, so I'm unsure if they still do) Blackwater USA (then renamed to Xe, and then Academe) was responsible for the background security checks on TSA employees?????
Now, when people in Tacoma, WA applied for TSA positions circa 2004/2005, at least four convicted felons were hired, and later re-arrested for pilfering luggage at their TSA jobs.
And has Scheier ever questioned 9/11??? Gee whiz, how come those black boxes which survived that day indicate no hijackings??? Yeah, we know......reality is tough to deal with.....
....I would declare the Chinese to be American heroes, should they wish to blow up the US Chamber of Commerce. Also, any and all Fox, CNN and NPR stations.
Since it was, and still continues to be, the US Chamber of Commerce, together with McKinsey and the Peterson Institute, which fraudulently claims that for every one American job offshored, two jobs magically appear to take their place (by that criminal logic, America should have recorded at the very least 37 million new jobs created over the past 10 years, instead of that many lost to offshoring and offshore job creation by American-based multinationals and corporations); evidently similar to those Keebler Cookie magical elves, huh????
So I'm all for the Chinese, who are major beneficiaries of all those jobs, and all that technology, which has been offshored to them, to continue on hacking the USCoC, McKinsey, and by all means Rockefeller stooge, Peter G. Peterson's Peterson Institute!
Recently, Iran hacked into, and brought down, an incredibly expensive, state-of-the-art, stealth drone spying above their country.
Now how was that possible?
A joint Iran/Pakistan/Chinese operation made it possible with the absolute and corrupt collusion of Corporate America and the Wall Street-owned American government!
The Chinese penetrated the drone operations *** in the USA, inserting malware and permanent key loggers to copy operational data.
Then from that Chinese network penetration, and aided by elements within Pakistan who had previously intercepted drone satellite communications, Iran was successfully able to compromise the stealth drone (otherwise its self-return and/or self-destruct subroutines would have functioned).
And this was made possible only by Wall Street’s monolithic offshoring of American jobs, American technology, foreign aid and strategic assets to China.
And President Obama, taking time away from his constant and impeachably false pronouncements that the bankers didn’t break any laws, asks Iran to return the incredibly expensive and compromised spy drone ---- and Iran says “NO!”. (FYI: Since you’ve demonstrated zero knowledge of the law as president, Mr. Obama, allow me to explain that under international and maritime law, Iran gets to keep the drone! Understand?)
Recently, Iran hacked into, and brought down, an incredibly expensive, state-of-the-art, stealth drone spying above their country.
Now how was that possible?
A joint Iran/Pakistan/Chinese operation made it possible with the absolute and corrupt collusion of Corporate America and the Wall Street-owned American government!
The Chinese penetrated the drone operations *** in the USA, inserting malware and permanent key loggers to copy operational data.
Then from that Chinese network penetration, and aided by elements within Pakistan who had previously intercepted drone satellite communications, Iran was successfully able to compromise the stealth drone (otherwise its self-return and/or self-destruct subroutines would have functioned).
And this was made possible only by Wall Street’s monolithic offshoring of American jobs, American technology, foreign aid and strategic assets to China.
And President Obama, taking time away from his constant and impeachably false pronouncements that the bankers didn’t break any laws, asks Iran to return the incredibly expensive and compromised spy drone ---- and Iran says “NO!”. (FYI: Since you’ve demonstrated zero knowledge of the law as president, Mr. Obama, allow me to explain that under international and maritime law, Iran gets to keep the drone! Understand?)
Five media corporations control the majority of the world's media.
The fact of the matter is that those six (actually five) corporations which control the majority of the American media are so financially interlocked with the top banks and each other that for all intents and purposes it is really just one monolithic corporation in control.
Sure, they have their individual and internecine squabbles, but overall everyone tows the line in their psywarfare perpetrated on the rest of us, which was why many of us gave up on the US myth-media long ago (for me, sometime back in the '90s). Turn on Fox, CNN or NPR and you hear the same wannabe stenographers from Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, the trashy NY Times, the same astro-turf outfits erroneously called "think tanks" who give us the future shills to be our Treasury Secretary, etc., etc., etc. and why ANYONE would ever watch the bottom tier propaganda clown acts of ABC and CBS is beyond a sane person's purview.
....so your points are completely nonsensical and invalid as obviously collaboration and collusion were most likely involved (at least with Siemens, but perhaps with Vacon, Profibus, Fararo Paya as well????).
Plus, countries where top flight hardware/software hackers are presently jailed, Netherlands, Sweden & USA, most probably had captive talent which they utilized. Please avoid chronic cluelessness in the future......
Great links, Johannes, although I've already studied this extensively, including some outstanding studies on it (Symantec's especially good), and studied the code, and first of all would definitely suspect any article, as in the posted article, which includes any reference to that fraudster BSer, Richard Clarke and his entirely phony Cyber War book. (If the Chinese are such a god almighty security threat, why do those frigging corrupt politicians keep shipping them all the strategic assets of the USA, specifically on the military side (1) Clinton's handing over the over-the-horizon missile targeting technology to the Chinese in the '90s; Bush's giving them that precision ball bearing plant in Ohio in the '00s, allowing the advanced development in aviation, ground and subsurface vehicles, etc., (2) the biopharmaceutical manufacturing, (3) chip and computer manufacturing, (4) munitions manufacturing, (5) derivatives processing, (6) and generally speaking, the bulk of production assets and capital [as in investment] assets?)
And the extraordinary sophistication of the code, the P2P network, command-and-control routines, tech specs to Siemens tech, Profibus tech, Vacon tech, Fararo Paya tech, etc., not to mention all those exploits covered in various studies and the fine links Johannes provided, stridently points to the USA (w/possible Israeli and Euro collaboration).
And what the bloody hell is a cyber analyst?????? Geez Louise........
(Prefinanced propaganda books: "The Watchers" --- "Cyber War" ---- "Tiger Trap" --- "Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy" ---- of course, in each of these the authors make some serious boo-boos, which allows for enlightening further research, e.g., bottom of page 190 or 191 in Javers' Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy leads to Jeffrey Starr, his connection to Goldman Sachs' Business Intelligence Group [and WTF he's on loan from the DIA??] which leads to following Starr's family history and further employment as Washington lobbyist for no. one private security firm and global privatizer, G4S; plus in the Tiger Trap Wise screws up on pp. 88, 101, 105, 106, etc., which further lends credence to Sibel Edmonds' expose of an internal, secret arms operation involved in the secret selling of nuclear tech (Wise doesn't mention this, but his serious mistakes point in that direction), etc., etc.)
"To my mind, outsourcing programming is a management fad that is (hopefully) already falling out of favor due to poor results."
Guess what, douchebag? It wasn't a fad, halfwat, it was what was taking place over the past 50 years while they were dismantling the economy of America (and elsewhere). It's too frigging late, moron! With the fantasy finance sector making up over 60% of the GDP, that's all, folks. And thanks, douchebag, your collusion was mighty appreciated, and I'm hopeful you really are at where you stated you are at, as payback can be mighty painful......
.....and please note how many software shell companies in this supposed new IT "boom" --- which have offshored their coding to India, are now giving the reason for the delay because of trouble with their "foreign coders" --- no excuses, cowardly scumbags, you can't do the work, or are too incompetent to hire those who can, then you and you alone are at fault.....
....well said, and how many times have I heard that silly drivel quote in the post about not being worried: management doesn't care about quality, only about this quarter's cost appearance. Too many times I have heard top notch programmers, network engineers, etc, ad infinitum, say the same self-denial drivel, only to hear about them later, either working as a dog poop scooper or homeless in the woods. (And brother, I ain't exaggerating!) For all those still news-challenged, or arithmetically-challenged, the BLS study, published in 2009, which detailed how essentially there has been ZERO net new job creation since July of 1999 (as in more jobs lost, then new jobs created --- created in the USA as opposed to overseas, that is), still stands today: there has been ZERO net new job creation from July of 1999 to the present! And that is why fewer and fewer American workers wish to slave away for the crooks at the criminal corporations.......
Exactly, and perfectly said! It's just like the Palm and Intel's new chip design operation, etc. Palm replaced 30's somethings-American coders with newly minted H1-Bs from India, and it never ever made them more successful, just the opposite. And Intel lost $1 billion a year or so ago, when they thought by opening up a chip R&D project in India, they could take advantage of all the newly minted engineers there. Again, major flop! Too many examples to record here, but any thinking person should get the idea.....
Same old BS, "command higher salaries" as if that's written in stone some place --- they will pay one whatever they either can negotiate or afford. Period...end of story. The truth is with sooooo many applicants, and sooo few and shrinking jobs (remember, as of July, 1999, there has been ZERO net new job creation in America; i.e., since 1999 America has lost more jobs than have been created in this country --- although the corps have created and offshored plenty overseas) the corps simply use arbitrary classifiers to shrink the applicant base: too old, too young, not good looking enough, doesn't dress the preferred way, doesn't play the game they prefer, etc., etc., etc.
I remember the last time (and then I thought I had hit rock bottom!!!) I was contracting at McSoftware in their retail tech support. During the usual OS/network training session, only the two oldest there, myself and another independent developer, passed both the OS and network exams on the first attempt. (Not necessarily indicative of anything, other than smarts and ability to get the job done.....)
I have to concur. Although I am a compulsive nerd, and always keep up with the latest tech, getting a job in coding after the early to mid 30s becomes almost impossible, except for the occasional DB dev job, for pennies on the dollar, so it's usually almost not worth it.
This reminds me of the same arguments to network admins gave me back in the early 00s, when they claimed they were "too valuable" with their companies, and I warned them that their managers really don't view reality they same way rational people do, and would offshore their jobs at the first chance.
Next time I saw them, they were living in a wooded area in Austin, now homeless network admins.
They had both suggested to a fellow named Kevin Flanagan, then a long-time systems programmer with Bank of America, who had brought in an H1-B from India to have him train his replacement for six months, or else they wouldn't give him a reference and severance pay. Kevin did so, while searching for another job. After the end of six months, still having found ZERO position, he went outside in their Oakland parking lot and blew his brains out!
As long as they are offshoring at critical mass, and importing foreign visa workers, labor arbitrage and labor deflation continues unabated......
Carbon offsets originated within the Reagan Administration, circa 1983, as just another scam, while today it is simply yet another extension of that overall global scam called, "shadow banking" --- easily explained by that GAO report a few years back, citing the carbon market in Europe as a colossal financial fraud scheme, doing absolutely nothing to cut down on emissions and pollution, which is exactly why that professional fraudster, Jeremy Rifkin, has been working over there pushing it for so long.
Various new carbon derivatives have been created by the same JPMorgan Chase (and ISDA-type) Blythe Masters, responsible for creating the credit default swap and variations on those CDOs, etc., etc.
And who owns all those climate exchanges, clearinghouses, etc.? Of course, the global bank/oil cartel. (Sure, Al Gore, together with several of his Goldman Sachs' buddies, started Generation Asset Management, to trade in the carbon market, and they purchased 10% of the Chicago Climate Exchange, owned primarily by Climate Exchange, PLC, registered on everyone's fav offshore finance ceter, the Isle of Man, but Gore has always been a faux crat, and neocon, and fervent supporter of every "free trade" agreement --- NAFTA, CAFTA, etc. --- and GATT, etc., etc.)
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Agreed, and perfectly articulated, sir.
Trust Doc Ruby to beat me to the counterpunch, outstanding, Doc!!!
What dishonest whackjob dared to post this???? The hedge fundsters, and private bankster trash, are going to save America????? Kiss my barberously hard all-American a**, you jackholes!!!!! Even the Rothschilds can be found on the list of Americans Elect financial backers, for chrissakes!!!!!!!!!!! Eff off, slime bag credit who posted this nonsense --- go back to wetdreaming about performing sex acts on your fave boyfriend, Thomas Friedman, for chrissakes!
Stratfor's site will be secure AND up about the same time in the far, far future when American finally catches up with China and buildts a 500-mile-per-hour bullet train. OR NOT................
Stratfor is where all the Mental Category types go, like that moron, the former Montgomery County cop, who wrote that godawful piece of trash, Ghost, which really is an example of the idiots they have been staffing the government intel agencies with the past 20 to 30 years as they slowly privatized the American intel establishment, with the upper (and crooked) echelon going over to the super-paying private sector intel jobs, while the douchebaggers are hired at the civil service level.
This morning I heard a spineless, gutless airhead (Nada fewmets or something), a former 10-year CIA analyst, excuse her abominably cowardly behavior in going along with the Cheney-Bush (now Bush-Obama) administration's illegal invasion into Iraq.
Stratfor’s CEO, George Friedman, Thomas Friedman, Jaclyn Friedman, Stephen Friedman....too many, many Friedmans, me thinks?
,,,stooge and planted clown. Gee whiz, dood, so you think offshoring all the jobs to China, i.e., offshoring the vast majority of American production assets and capital assets is a great idea, dood? So falling tax revenues, both federally and at the local level is a great idea, dood? This moron and their moronic post is truly beneath the level of intelligence at /.
Now, when people in Tacoma, WA applied for TSA positions circa 2004/2005, at least four convicted felons were hired, and later re-arrested for pilfering luggage at their TSA jobs.
And has Scheier ever questioned 9/11??? Gee whiz, how come those black boxes which survived that day indicate no hijackings??? Yeah, we know......reality is tough to deal with.....
....I would declare the Chinese to be American heroes, should they wish to blow up the US Chamber of Commerce. Also, any and all Fox, CNN and NPR stations.
So I'm all for the Chinese, who are major beneficiaries of all those jobs, and all that technology, which has been offshored to them, to continue on hacking the USCoC, McKinsey, and by all means Rockefeller stooge, Peter G. Peterson's Peterson Institute!
A joint Iran/Pakistan/Chinese operation made it possible with the absolute and corrupt collusion of Corporate America and the Wall Street-owned American government!
The Chinese penetrated the drone operations *** in the USA, inserting malware and permanent key loggers to copy operational data. Then from that Chinese network penetration, and aided by elements within Pakistan who had previously intercepted drone satellite communications, Iran was successfully able to compromise the stealth drone (otherwise its self-return and/or self-destruct subroutines would have functioned).
And this was made possible only by Wall Street’s monolithic offshoring of American jobs, American technology, foreign aid and strategic assets to China.
And President Obama, taking time away from his constant and impeachably false pronouncements that the bankers didn’t break any laws, asks Iran to return the incredibly expensive and compromised spy drone ---- and Iran says “NO!”. (FYI: Since you’ve demonstrated zero knowledge of the law as president, Mr. Obama, allow me to explain that under international and maritime law, Iran gets to keep the drone! Understand?)
Actions Have Consequences
A joint Iran/Pakistan/Chinese operation made it possible with the absolute and corrupt collusion of Corporate America and the Wall Street-owned American government!
The Chinese penetrated the drone operations *** in the USA, inserting malware and permanent key loggers to copy operational data. Then from that Chinese network penetration, and aided by elements within Pakistan who had previously intercepted drone satellite communications, Iran was successfully able to compromise the stealth drone (otherwise its self-return and/or self-destruct subroutines would have functioned).
And this was made possible only by Wall Street’s monolithic offshoring of American jobs, American technology, foreign aid and strategic assets to China.
And President Obama, taking time away from his constant and impeachably false pronouncements that the bankers didn’t break any laws, asks Iran to return the incredibly expensive and compromised spy drone ---- and Iran says “NO!”. (FYI: Since you’ve demonstrated zero knowledge of the law as president, Mr. Obama, allow me to explain that under international and maritime law, Iran gets to keep the drone! Understand?)
Actions Have Consequences
*** http://www.trackinfections.com/americas-drones-have-been-infected-virus-g357519858-p3
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/12/maureen-tkacik-the-anti-occupycia-connection.html
http://wikileaks.org/spyfiles/list/releasedate/2011-12-08.html#
The fact of the matter is that those six (actually five) corporations which control the majority of the American media are so financially interlocked with the top banks and each other that for all intents and purposes it is really just one monolithic corporation in control.
Sure, they have their individual and internecine squabbles, but overall everyone tows the line in their psywarfare perpetrated on the rest of us, which was why many of us gave up on the US myth-media long ago (for me, sometime back in the '90s). Turn on Fox, CNN or NPR and you hear the same wannabe stenographers from Murdoch's Wall Street Journal, the trashy NY Times, the same astro-turf outfits erroneously called "think tanks" who give us the future shills to be our Treasury Secretary, etc., etc., etc. and why ANYONE would ever watch the bottom tier propaganda clown acts of ABC and CBS is beyond a sane person's purview.
Plus, countries where top flight hardware/software hackers are presently jailed, Netherlands, Sweden & USA, most probably had captive talent which they utilized. Please avoid chronic cluelessness in the future......
and his flakey book, Cyber War is mentioned in flakey article.....
And the extraordinary sophistication of the code, the P2P network, command-and-control routines, tech specs to Siemens tech, Profibus tech, Vacon tech, Fararo Paya tech, etc., not to mention all those exploits covered in various studies and the fine links Johannes provided, stridently points to the USA (w/possible Israeli and Euro collaboration).
And what the bloody hell is a cyber analyst?????? Geez Louise........
(Prefinanced propaganda books: "The Watchers" --- "Cyber War" ---- "Tiger Trap" --- "Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy" ---- of course, in each of these the authors make some serious boo-boos, which allows for enlightening further research, e.g., bottom of page 190 or 191 in Javers' Broker, Trader, Lawyer, Spy leads to Jeffrey Starr, his connection to Goldman Sachs' Business Intelligence Group [and WTF he's on loan from the DIA??] which leads to following Starr's family history and further employment as Washington lobbyist for no. one private security firm and global privatizer, G4S; plus in the Tiger Trap Wise screws up on pp. 88, 101, 105, 106, etc., which further lends credence to Sibel Edmonds' expose of an internal, secret arms operation involved in the secret selling of nuclear tech (Wise doesn't mention this, but his serious mistakes point in that direction), etc., etc.)
And that's why fewer and fewer alpha coders wish to work for the worst companies in existence today, the American criminal corps.
Guess what, douchebag? It wasn't a fad, halfwat, it was what was taking place over the past 50 years while they were dismantling the economy of America (and elsewhere). It's too frigging late, moron! With the fantasy finance sector making up over 60% of the GDP, that's all, folks. And thanks, douchebag, your collusion was mighty appreciated, and I'm hopeful you really are at where you stated you are at, as payback can be mighty painful......
.....and please note how many software shell companies in this supposed new IT "boom" --- which have offshored their coding to India, are now giving the reason for the delay because of trouble with their "foreign coders" --- no excuses, cowardly scumbags, you can't do the work, or are too incompetent to hire those who can, then you and you alone are at fault.....
....well said, and how many times have I heard that silly drivel quote in the post about not being worried: management doesn't care about quality, only about this quarter's cost appearance. Too many times I have heard top notch programmers, network engineers, etc, ad infinitum, say the same self-denial drivel, only to hear about them later, either working as a dog poop scooper or homeless in the woods. (And brother, I ain't exaggerating!) For all those still news-challenged, or arithmetically-challenged, the BLS study, published in 2009, which detailed how essentially there has been ZERO net new job creation since July of 1999 (as in more jobs lost, then new jobs created --- created in the USA as opposed to overseas, that is), still stands today: there has been ZERO net new job creation from July of 1999 to the present! And that is why fewer and fewer American workers wish to slave away for the crooks at the criminal corporations.......
Exactly, and perfectly said! It's just like the Palm and Intel's new chip design operation, etc. Palm replaced 30's somethings-American coders with newly minted H1-Bs from India, and it never ever made them more successful, just the opposite. And Intel lost $1 billion a year or so ago, when they thought by opening up a chip R&D project in India, they could take advantage of all the newly minted engineers there. Again, major flop! Too many examples to record here, but any thinking person should get the idea.....
Same old BS, "command higher salaries" as if that's written in stone some place --- they will pay one whatever they either can negotiate or afford. Period...end of story. The truth is with sooooo many applicants, and sooo few and shrinking jobs (remember, as of July, 1999, there has been ZERO net new job creation in America; i.e., since 1999 America has lost more jobs than have been created in this country --- although the corps have created and offshored plenty overseas) the corps simply use arbitrary classifiers to shrink the applicant base: too old, too young, not good looking enough, doesn't dress the preferred way, doesn't play the game they prefer, etc., etc., etc.
I remember the last time (and then I thought I had hit rock bottom!!!) I was contracting at McSoftware in their retail tech support. During the usual OS/network training session, only the two oldest there, myself and another independent developer, passed both the OS and network exams on the first attempt. (Not necessarily indicative of anything, other than smarts and ability to get the job done.....)
This reminds me of the same arguments to network admins gave me back in the early 00s, when they claimed they were "too valuable" with their companies, and I warned them that their managers really don't view reality they same way rational people do, and would offshore their jobs at the first chance.
Next time I saw them, they were living in a wooded area in Austin, now homeless network admins.
They had both suggested to a fellow named Kevin Flanagan, then a long-time systems programmer with Bank of America, who had brought in an H1-B from India to have him train his replacement for six months, or else they wouldn't give him a reference and severance pay. Kevin did so, while searching for another job. After the end of six months, still having found ZERO position, he went outside in their Oakland parking lot and blew his brains out!
As long as they are offshoring at critical mass, and importing foreign visa workers, labor arbitrage and labor deflation continues unabated......
Various new carbon derivatives have been created by the same JPMorgan Chase (and ISDA-type) Blythe Masters, responsible for creating the credit default swap and variations on those CDOs, etc., etc.
And who owns all those climate exchanges, clearinghouses, etc.? Of course, the global bank/oil cartel. (Sure, Al Gore, together with several of his Goldman Sachs' buddies, started Generation Asset Management, to trade in the carbon market, and they purchased 10% of the Chicago Climate Exchange, owned primarily by Climate Exchange, PLC, registered on everyone's fav offshore finance ceter, the Isle of Man, but Gore has always been a faux crat, and neocon, and fervent supporter of every "free trade" agreement --- NAFTA, CAFTA, etc. --- and GATT, etc., etc.)