Saturday, December 29, 2012

DNA Findings

Russian DNA Discoveries Explain Human 'Paranormal' Events

Friday, December 28, 2012

Too Big to Jail ?

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Amen, Brother

It’s time to legalize all drugs | Daytona Times

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Bankers face criminal prosecution


December 23, 2012 at 16:31:48
HooHa: Finally, A Few Bankers Face Criminal Prosecutions For Conspiracies
By Danny Schechter
New York, New York: When most mainstream media outlets discuss conspiracy theories, it is usually to debunk the views of dissenting and critical thinkers who are routinely denounced as simplistic, paranoid or worse.
You have frequently seen the mantra questioning their motives and conclusions as if the idea of people or officials acting together covertly to advance their interests in illegal ways is something new in history.
Until recently, US press outlets characterized conspiracy arguments as rants that lacked any factual basis, engaged in guilt by association and stretched the facts.
The only conspiracy charges they tended to look at uncritically were criminal complaints against the Mafia under anti-racketeering statutes like the RICO statutes. Prosecutors loved these cases because normal concerns with protecting   the rights of defendants didn't apply when hearsay evidence was permitted.
But now, four years after the financial crisis, prosecutors have finally discovered what critics have been alleging repeatedly:   that big banks were   crooks, engaging, engaging among other illicit practices,   in secretive, illegal and conspiratorial schemes to rig baseline interest ratesand manipulate credit markets,
It has now been admitted that traders at two major financial institutions were fixing LIBOR--the London Interbank Offered Rate, used to set the interest rates of $800 trillion worth of financial products, including credit cards and mortgages.
That figure again: $800 trillion!
The banks: Barclays and UBS. At first, regulators got them to agree to pay fines in so-called "settlements," which are viewed by these institutions as a cost of doing business.
Barclays shelled out $450 million, but UBS went further paying a whopping $1.5 billion fine. They also admitted to fraud and bribery. (Usually banks settle such complaints with out anyadmission of responsibility).
The Brits took the money, but US prosecutors went further and also lodged criminal charges against two former UBS senior traders for the Libor manipulation. They are the first individuals to be charged in what Reuters called "the wide-ranging investigation that involves more than a dozen big banks."
(Note: Only two were charged, and neither works for UBS anymore. The Naked Capitalism site scoffed: ""So far, the top echelon of UBS is unaffected by this epic scandal. Until we see executives suffer (and fines are insufficient if they remain wealthy), it's a no-brainer that this type of behavior will continue, albeit in different businesses and new guises.")
The practices were "absolutely rampant" between 2005 and 20 10, according to the Daily Beast which also noted:
"Both the Barclays and UBS settlements show a combination of systemic corruption--senior officials who did not seem to care about illegal activity going on--and a tight-knit, foulmouth fraternity among the traders themselves. While the Barclays boys talked about buying each other Bollinger, (ie. pricey champagne), the UBS fixers deployed nicknames, profanity, and a total disregard for the fact that their communications with each other might one day be made public. "
The Wall Street Journal couldn't ignore the story and reported that regulators "alleged" a vast conspiracy, even after the banks admitted to some of what they had done.   Rupert Murdoch couldn't resist his tabloid training by having two UBS stars quoted in large type on the front page:
"Said a Broker to a Trader: ""Mate your getting bloody good at this Libor game...think of me when yur on your yacht in Monaco won't yu."
"Said The Man Called "Trader A:" I need you to keep it as low as possible..if you do that"I'll pay you, you know, "$50,000, $100,000 dollars.. whatever you want"I'm   a man of my word."
Notice these violations of banking regulations are always presented as victimless crimes or crimes that only affect investors, never people who lose jobs or homes or how they impact on the economy worldwide,
Most of the coverage does not link all these financial crimes to the larger effect and impact they have had on the world.
Last June, Congresswoman Maxine Waters tried to raise these issues with Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank asking him to take action. He retreats into bland and passionless responses. It didn't seem he was in much of a hurry to anything. (Watch her efforts on You Tube" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJX-0944ass&feature=player_embedded
Months later, other regulators in Britain and the US acted but also in a low-key way.
These prosecutions are highly selective and show a real unwillingness to crack down on bank crimes, even when they involve drug running.
Former NY State Governor Eliot Spitzer, and a former prosecutor who went after Wall Street commented on a refusal to go after the HSBC Bank on these charges, ""The decision to not prosecute in this instance belies everything that the government has ever done with regard to drug prosecutions everywhere.  
"I mean, when you think about the way they behave toward ordinary people who get caught up in drug cases, where they seize all your property and they use absolutely the maximum sentences they can possibly avail themselves of, and in this case they catch a bank that launders billions of dollars for Colombian and Mexican drug cartels " for years on end, and they can't find something to charge these people with?"
"If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.  
It's not just the banks or governments. The media seems to just be admitting that many banks are run like criminal enterprises.
I and other in the independent media have been making these points for years, as the website Zero Hedge noted:
" Fraud caused the Great Depression and the current financial crisis, and the economy will never recover until fraud is prosecuted
" Criminal fraud is the main business model adopted by the giant banks.
" Largely because they are out-of-control criminal enterprises, economy cannot recover unless the big banks are broken up.
" The Obama administration has made it official policy not to prosecute fraud. Indeed, the "watchdogs" in D.C. are so corrupt that they are as easily bribed as a policeman in a third world banana republic.
" Instead of prosecuting, the government throws money at them
" As Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz noted years ago:
"The system is set so that even if you're caught, the penalty is just a small number relative to what you walk home with. The fine is just a cost of doing business. It's like a parking fine. Sometimes you make a decision to park knowing that you might get a fine because going around the corner to the parking lot takes you too much time."
Slowly, these concerns are working their way into the media but without much of the larger framework presented in a dire global economic report on just how deeply the world economy has been wounded.
The UN reported that it will take until 2017 before jobs come back to pre crisis levels, if they ever do, Global recession could easily deepen given the problems with the US, European and, now, the Chinese economies.
Much of this tracks back to the financial crimes that are just officially being acknowledged. It's important to remember the warnings of Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter who, years ago,   referred to the criminal practices of big bankers, when he said: "Never have so few done so much to so many."  
Also note that none of this "back story" is ever referenced in the reporting on the so-called "fiscal cliff" negotiations. It is rarely mentioned how much of the money owed is in interest due banks. We keep hearing reports about our economic woes without any discussion of what is behind it.
News Dissector Danny Schechter directed two films on financial crimes, In Debt We Trust," and Plunder." He also wrote "The Crime of Our Time" about bank rip-offs. (Disinformation Books.) He blogs at Newsdissector.net.   He hosts a show on ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com (PRN.fm).





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Sunday, December 16, 2012

President Obama

Watching the President give words of comfort to New town resident's.


Friday, December 14, 2012

Crazy Day

So today a guy who apparently was upset with his mother took out 28 people today.

Yes, President Obama our hearts are broken. We can't' understand this crazy behavior. As adults we protect the young. Perhaps because the shooter was not a parent he did not have that imprinted DNA imperative to protect the young from any species.



Wednesday, December 12, 2012

David Boies

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I just email a letter to David Bodies asking him to become involved with my case.Got my fingers crossed and saying my prayers,





Sunday, December 9, 2012

The Fiscal Cliff

All the Sunday news show's talked about this cliff and politics, as usual.

I can't help but wonder if the contentious style of the two parties is not based on something basic and fundamental rather then the normal tension between the left and right elements of the political spectrum.

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

The law of unexpected consequences

Sad to note the passing of the UK nurse, who while filling in for someone, puts through a call, a begins a whole chain of events.

32 years ago today, John Lennon's fame inspired his killer.

And the beat goes on

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Suzy Vusovich

We lost Suzy early this morning. She had flown the coop!

Now that  her life's energy has been spent on this planet she is free to rejoin her husband

Friday, November 30, 2012

The Perfidious Trustee

A recent telephone call to me made me aware of the former attorney for Chase Manhattan, and loan service agent, Ocwen, as well as a principal with the foreclosing trustee, Dreyfess, Ryan, & Weifenbach, is still practicing law in Orange County. The perfidious trustee, DRW, has since filed bankruptcy protection, but Diane Weifenbach continues.
It reminds me that these giant corporate giants are made up of individuals who have less than lawful legal ethics.
On March 6, 2003, after being replaced by a new law firm, Houser and Alison, attorney Diane Weifenback marched into court to argue to restrict my constitutional right to a fair hearing as evidenced by the court room transcript.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Tablet Computing

I recently purchased a Nexus 7 and began my experiences in this new world of personal computing. " Information at your fingertips ".

So far, after 48 hours of use, I am very impressed with the technology.

More later on.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Lou Stolp interview

Lou Stolp designed and built the Stolp Starlet with the idea of using a s Volkswagen engine for power. He wanted me to put in an aircraft engine in it before he sold it to me. I installed a Continental C-75 horsepower and Glen Beets built an engine mount and installed the engine.



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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Going to court Friday

Trying to get my drivers license back to go to FEMA deployment on East coast.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Court Order from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

October 24, 2012


I got this electronic notice from the court today The banks response to my informal opening brief was originally due in February of 2012.





Sunday, October 21, 2012

The Google Chromebook, Suddenly, Is An Enterprise Contender



Summary: Everyone was gearing up for a Tablet Battle Royale between the iPad and the Windows 8 armada. Now comes spoiling for the fight over the enterprise is the small fleet of Google Chromebooks, led by the $249 Samsung ARM Chromebook.
Google's Chromebook hadn't been on my radar, I confess. The first models from Samsung and Acer were so meh. And Google seemed content to quietly market them exclusively to K-12 schools
But the ARM-based Samsung Chromebook has my full attention. Hello, my $249 gorgeous...

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That caused me to belatedly examine all of the progress the Chromebook has made in the past year. Not only did I come away impressed, but Google's mobile platform moves suddenly made sense to me. Its hardware partners may disagree, but Google doesn't really care if Android makes it in the enterprise. It's a consumer platform. The cloud-centric Chrome is its enterprise play.
Let's recap:
The first Chromebook was released at $349 more than a year ago. The price was good, but not great. But Samsung's sleek new $249 Chromebook aggressively undercuts the $499 iPad on price the way many observers thought Microsoft needed to do with the Surface RT. 
Instead, it's the new Chromebook that is:
- half the price of the iPad and the Surface RT;
- half to one-third the price of Windows 8 convertible tablets (see my gallery of 17 of them here). Without keyboards, most of these Atom-based 'tabtops' or 'laptablets' run between $500 and $900; 
- one-third to one-fourth the price of Windows 8 ultrabooks, whichrun between $800 to $1,200. 
At these prices, what CIO or IT manager wouldn't give the Chromebook a serious look?
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You'd have to be crazy not to.
The new Chromebook is also a dramatic improvement in looks - important in the age of the Consumerization of IT. Whereas the first Chromebooks were drab, stripped-down laptops, the latest Samsung model sports MacBook Air-like looks and dimensions (0.8 inches thin, 2.4 pounds). It bears little resemblance to its forebears or their common ancestor, the undersized-yet-chunky netbook. As Computerworld put it, "Make no mistake about it: This is an attractive computer."
The new Chromebook is also more powerful under the hood, being the first mobile device to sport Samsung's Exynos 5 system-on-chip. The Exynos 5 uses a dual-core, 1.7 GHz ARM Cortex-A15 CPU that can support up to 2560x1600 resolution, 1080p video at 60 frames per second, and USB 3.0.
The Cortex-A15 has been benchmarked running twice as fast as the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3, which, coincidentally, is used in the Surface and the Google Nexus tablet. The Cortex-A15 is so fastthat the iPhone 5, probably the fastest mobile device today, was initially thought to be running it.
Alas, there's theory and there's IRL (In Real Life). The new Chromebook seems to be shackled by its 2 GB of RAM, with reviewers saying that the browser becomes sluggish after you open a dozen browser tabs or so. That's annoying, but with an 11.6-inch, 1366-x768 screen, the Chromebook wasn't going to please Browser Hoarders, anyway.
(For faster performance, you can opt for the $449 Samsung Chromebook Series 5 550, which has a dual-core Intel Celeron chip and 4 GB of RAM.)
Google has also improved the Chromebook's offline capabilities so that you can read and write e-mail and Google Docs while disconnected from the cloud. Besides the 16 GB of local storage on the SSD, you also now get 100 GB of Google storage, too.
Mobile Device Management with the Chromebook
You can argue that enterprises aren't as easily impressed by price tags as consumers. What they care about is Total Cost Of Ownership (TCO), which is related mostly to the cost and time of managing devices.
Here, Google also claims its Chromebook shines, with a TCO that is just a fraction of a PC (try their calculator). Organizations can ship a Chromebook straight to an end user and auto-enroll and provision their network settings, apps and other policies the first time they log into the Web. This "zero-touch deployment" should be music to the ears of IT admins.
IT managers can later update the OS, track assets, push updates and block apps, apply group policies etc. all via Google's Web-based management console. Security is a no-brainer, says Google, since it installs security patches to the Chrome browser quickly and behind the scenes.
If you prefer to outsource management and support, Google will do it and charge you a flat fee of $150 per Chromebook for the lifetime of the device. For schools, it's just $30 per Chromebook.
Stealth Uptake
With all of the publicity around the iPad's success in education, it's little known that the Chromebook has also attracted more than 500 school districts in the U.S. and Europe. They include:
- Richland School District 2 (SC) - 19,000 Chromebooks
- Council Bluffs Community School District (IA) - 4,300 Chromebooks
- Leyden Community High School District (IL) - 3,500 Chromebooks
There is also Hanover School District (PA), University of Connecticut and Kingston University in London, and the schools shown on this map. 
I must've really been asleep at the switch, as the Chromebook also has won some mainstream enterprise users. They include Mollen Clinics (4,500 Chromebooks), California State Library (1,000 Chromebooks), the Dillard's Inc. retail chain, test prep provider, Kaplan, Logitech, the city of Orlando, the U.S. Army. See this map for testimonials and MSPMentor for excellent coverage.
What if you're a company that doesn't want your investment in Windows applications to go to waste? Well, there are third-party tools like Citrix Receiver and Ericom AccessNow that let you remotely access Windows applications running on desktop PCs or servers. Trucking firm, Quality Distribution Inc. (QDI), and the aforementioned Richland and Hanover school districts, Kingston University and the University of Connecticut all use Ericom's Accessnow. If don't want the hassle of managing that data center, there are also cloud services like nGenx that can host those Windows desktops or applications.
Chromebooks can also be great for organizations with slim capital budgets. You can rent Chromebooks from CIT Group for $30 a month with no long-term commitment.
Who Should Get The Chromebook?
Chromebooks won't be right for every organization. For enterprises that are standardized on Windows and an Active Directory-based management infrastructure, Google's MDM solution will feel like an extra fee to pay and an extra dashboard to manage. That's what Microsoft and Windows 8 proponents are betting upon.
Also, I would argue that Google's TCO figures are overly-optimistic, as they assume companies will standardize on the Chromebook for mobile. That's unrealistic, if you want to be at all responsive to the needs of your employees, partners and customers. In many companies, Chrome would be a 3rd or even 4th mobile platform. Those enterprises will need to invest in cross-platform MDM AND Mobile Enterprise App Platforms.
With that in mind, I think Google would be smart to start working on integrating its Chromebook management console with mainstream MDM or PC management software. Or, at the very least, opening up the APIs so that other software can do the heavy lifting.
Also, even with its slightness and 3G option, the Chromebook is fundamentally more of a laptop replacement option for white-collar employees and other workers who rarely stray away from their corporate campus and its Wi-Fi network.
The Chromebook is NOT a true mobile device for field service and any jobs involving extended time away from a desk. Here, I include repairmen, store employees and doctors, and many many more. For them, touch-enabled tablets or convertibles make more ergonomic sense, IMHO.
But I could be wrong. Do you think enterprises should adopt Chromebooks? Why or why not?
Eric Lai

About Eric Lai

I have tracked technology for more than 15 years, as an award-winning journalist and now as in-house thought leader on the mobile enterprise for SAP. Follow me here at UberMobile as well as my even less-filtered musings on Twitter @ericylai
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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Chuck Yeager goes supersonic 65 years after 1947 record



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More than six decades after shattering the sound barrier, pilot Chuck Yeager hasn’t slowed down. In fact, he's gotten faster.
At exactly 10:24 a.m. Sunday, officials said — 65 years to the minute since Yeager first pushed his rocket-powered Bell X-1 past Mach speed in 1947 at 670 mph — the 89-year-old legend broke the sound barrier once more in an Air Force F-15 over the Mojave Desert, hitting Mach 1.4.
He rode in the seat behind Capt. David Vincent of the 65thAggressor Squadron to commemorate the anniversary of his feat, which was memorialized in the 1983 movie “The Right Stuff.” These days, Mach speeds are no big deal for jets like the F-15, nor apparently for Yeager.
"Flying is flying,” Yeager, a retired Air Force brigadier general, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “You can't add a lot to it.”
That may be why, on the same day as Yeager’s anniversary achievement, 41-year-old Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner floated up into the atmosphere in a balloon andmade a 23-mile jump — becoming the first person to break the sound barrier as a skydiver. Plain-old supersonic is passe these days.
According to the Associated Press, Yeager took off from Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas and broke the sound barrier at 30,000 feet over the Mojave, his old stomping grounds. A Nellis spokesman told the Associated Press that Yeager piloted the jet during takeoff and landing. The Review-Journal reported that Vincent piloted the F-15 to Mach 1.4.
Yeager said he didn’t think anything special about breaking the sound barrier. After the flight, a young girl asked him whether he was scared. The Associated Press said he replied with a joke, “Yeah, I was scared to death.”
His wife, though, was a little more amped up.
"This is so cool. I'm excited,” Victoria Yeager told the Review-Journal, adding of her husband, “He's in the back seat where the instructor pilot sits because he's the elder statesman."

October 14, 2012 - Chuck Yeager


Chuck Yeager goes supersonic 65 years after 1947 record

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More than six decades after shattering the sound barrier, pilot Chuck Yeager hasn’t slowed down. In fact, he's gotten faster.
At exactly 10:24 a.m. Sunday, officials said — 65 years to the minute since Yeager first pushed his rocket-powered Bell X-1 past Mach speed in 1947 at 670 mph — the 89-year-old legend broke the sound barrier once more in an Air Force F-15 over the Mojave Desert, hitting Mach 1.4.
He rode in the seat behind Capt. David Vincent of the 65thAggressor Squadron to commemorate the anniversary of his feat, which was memorialized in the 1983 movie “The Right Stuff.” These days, Mach speeds are no big deal for jets like the F-15, nor apparently for Yeager.
"Flying is flying,” Yeager, a retired Air Force brigadier general, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “You can't add a lot to it.”
That may be why, on the same day as Yeager’s anniversary achievement, 41-year-old Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner floated up into the atmosphere in a balloon andmade a 23-mile jump — becoming the first person to break the sound barrier as a skydiver. Plain-old supersonic is passe these days.
According to the Associated Press, Yeager took off from Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas and broke the sound barrier at 30,000 feet over the Mojave, his old stomping grounds. A Nellis spokesman told the Associated Press that Yeager piloted the jet during takeoff and landing. The Review-Journal reported that Vincent piloted the F-15 to Mach 1.4.
Yeager said he didn’t think anything special about breaking the sound barrier. After the flight, a young girl asked him whether he was scared. The Associated Press said he replied with a joke, “Yeah, I was scared to death.”
His wife, though, was a little more amped up.
"This is so cool. I'm excited,” Victoria Yeager told the Review-Journal, adding of her husband, “He's in the back seat where the instructor pilot sits because he's the elder statesman."