Thursday, August 18, 2011
Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, August 18, 2011
O.K., people... clear your throats... get the phlegm out, baby!
It's singin' time!
Oh...! By the way! Sorry for only one newsbite yesterday - I got caught up researching for my upcoming Portland (and greater Oregon!) trip.
I'll try and do better today... but no promises!
(*GRIN*)
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/44187274
New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week...
* THERE WE GO AGAIN, FOLKS... "MORE THAN EXPECTED." YEAH... RIGHT... (*SMIRK*)
Meanwhile, the Labor Department says the Consumer Price Index rose 0.5% in July...
* FOLKS... YOU ALL KNOW HOW THE GOVERNMENT SCREWS AROUND WITH MEASURING INFLATION - LEAVING OUT "LITTLE THINGS" LIKE... er... FOOD AND FUEL PRICES. (*ROLLING MY EYES*) THAT SAID, THINGS DON'T LOOK GOOD! WHEN THE MEDIA IS TALKING ABOUT INFLATION YOU KNOW IT AIN'T GOOD!
* I WAS JUST FOOD SHOPPING LAST NIGHT. PRICES INCREASES ARE MORE THAN WIPING OUT THE MINISCULE GAS PRICE DECREASES OF THE LAST WEEK.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/16/computer-labs-parts-raise-spy-concerns/
A U.S. supercomputer laboratory engaged in classified military research concluded a recent deal involving Chinese-made components that is raising concerns in Congress about potential electronic espionage.
* HMM... I'M HOPING MY FRIEND "MIKE D" EITHER POSTS OR EMAILS ME HIS THOUGHTS AFTER HE READS THIS EMAIL.
The concerns are based on a contract reached this summer between a computer-technology firm and the National Center for Computational Engineering at the University of Tennessee, whose supercomputers simulate flight tests for next-generation U.S. military aircraft and spacecraft, and simulate submarine warfare for the Navy.
The storage system for the contract calls for using software from U.S. cybersecurity firm Symantec installed over devices made by Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecommunications giant that U.S. officials have said has close ties to China’s military. Huawei and Symantec formed a joint venture in 2008, with Huawei owning 51% of the shares of the enterprise.
* I GOTTA SAY... I'M NOT EXACTLY THRILLED BY THE IDEA OF JOINT VENTURES BETWEEN SYMANTEC AND CHINA - PARTICULARLY WITH CHINA CONTROLLING 51% OF THE COMPANY.
Last week, four Republican senators and one member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence urged the Pentagon and Energy Department in a letter to review the contract for potential risks to national security. “Given Huawei’s close ties to the Chinese government and its military and intelligence sectors, its history of alleged corrupt practices and infringement on intellectual-property rights, and concerns it may act as an agent for a foreign government, Huawei is not an appropriate partner for advanced U.S. research centers - especially those working on critical or classified defense projects for the United States government,” the five lawmakers stated in an Aug. 9 letter to Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Mary Schapiro, chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
* I'VE GOTTA SAY... I'M CONCERNED AS WELL!
Huawei was founded in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei, a former engineer for the People’s Liberation Army.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
U.S. intelligence agencies suspect the company of having the capability of bugging microchips it seeks to install in U.S. networks and equipment that could give China’s government the equivalent of a listening post inside U.S. telecommunications architecture.
(*GRITTING MY TEETH*)
In 2008, the Treasury Department-led Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States blocked a proposed sale of the software company 3com to Huawei, based on national security grounds. Last year, representatives of the National Security Agency urged major telecommunications companies such as AT&T and Sprint to cancel a deal that would put Huawei firmware and hardware on the cell towers of the national 4G wireless network.
“My understanding is the ownership of Huawei is closely tied to the government of China,” said retired Air Force Col. John Toomer, who left the service this year as deputy director of the cyber and information operations directorate. “We’ve had that fear for a long time, of having chips compromised by intelligence services,” he said. “You are inviting a risk by using chips manufactured by Huawei at such a sensitive facility.”
(*SIGH*)
A 2009 white paper prepared for the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said China’s military has “begun employing this capability to mount a large-scale computer-network exploitation effort for intelligence-gathering purposes against the U.S. and many countries around the world.”
* WHICH THE CHINESE HAVE BEEN DOING...!!! IT'S DOCUMENTED...!!! HAVE WE LOST OUR F--KING MINDS IN THIS COUNTRY...?!?!
http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/new-video-shows-philly-teen-attack-081711
* ANIMALS, PEOPLE... ANIMALS. (WATCH THE VIDEO.)
[A] new video surfaces of another unprovoked attack in Philadelphia, right outside City Hall, by a group of teen girls on a worker.
* "TEEN GIRLS." UM-HMM. (WATCH THE VIDEO.)
A woman attacked in broad daylight in May is now coming forward. And Fox 29 has obtained chilling video of the attack on her by a group of teenage girls.
* JUST IMAGINE HOW THIS STORY WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF THE ATTACKERS WERE A PACK OF WHITE ANIMALS ATTACKING A LONE BLACK GIRL AS OPPOSED TO THE REALITY THIS VIDEO SHOWS.
The exclusive video shows her walking outside City Hall, before dark at 8 p.m. on a Thursday, when out of nowhere, a group of girls comes up behind her, slams her on the ground, and starts hitting her repeatedly.
* PEOPLE! THIS ISN'T A MUGGING IN A "BAD AREA" AT 3 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING! THIS IS OUTSIDE CITY HALL - 8:00 P.M.!
Philadelphia has been plagued by a series of teen mob attacks that have gotten national attention.
On July 29th, cameras caught attacks near City Hall and in the Old City area of Philadelphia.
Since 2008, there have been at least 12 incidents in Philadelphia were groups of teens have attacked bystanders.
* BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS! BLACK TEENS!
* FOLKS... THE MEDIA IS IN THE BAG... (*SIGH*)... BUT THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ITSELF THE MEDIA ARE SUBTLE...!!!
http://www.infowars.com/big-sis-latest-terrorists-more-white-americans/
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/07/21/dhs-video-depicts-terrorists-as-white-americans/
* NOTICE, FOLKS... NOT MY USUAL WSJ, NYT, WIRE SERVICE, LINKS. THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SEEMS TO BE KEEPING THEIR DISTANCE. DISGUSTING... (*SIGH*)
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/08/17/food-deliveryman-robbed-beaten-unconscious-in-delaware/
Police in Wilmington, Delaware are searching for seven suspects who robbed and attacked a food deliveryman, leaving him unconscious.
The attack happened at about 10:40 p.m. Tuesday in the 500 block of W. 26th Street in Wilmington.
According to investigators, the victim told them he was making a delivery when he was met by an unknown black male. The victim said six other black males appeared and began to strike him in the head and face until he lost consciousness.
Upon waking, the victim discovered that money, personal property and the food order had been taken.
* LUCKY HE WOKE UP.
* FOLKS... HOPEFULLY (AND ISN'T IT SICK I HAVE TO WRITE "HOPEFULLY?") THIS IS "ONLY" A REGULAR ROBBERY BY "REGULAR" CRIMINALS WHO JUST "HAPPEN" TO BE BLACK.
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