
… less ‘crunchy’, tastes great !

… less ‘crunchy’, tastes great !
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The commander of U.S. Cyber Command said last week that the Office of Personnel Management hack of millions of records of federal workers shows a new trend toward using Big Data analytics for both nation-state and criminal cyber attacks.
“One of the lessons from OPM for me is we need to recognize that increasingly data has a value all its own and that there are people actively out there interested in acquiring data in volumes and numbers that we didn’t see before,” said Adm. Mike Rogers, the Cyber Command commander and also director of the National Security Agency.
The theft of 22.1 million federal records, including sensitive background information on millions of security clearance holders, will assist foreign nations in conducting future cyber attacks through so-called “spear-phishing,” Rogers said, declining to name China as the nation state behind the OPM hacks.
Additionally, China is suspected in the hack uncovered in February of 80 million medical records of the health care provider Anthem, which would have given it access to valuable personal intelligence that can be used to identify foreign spies and conduct additional cyber attacks.
his was not supposed to happen.
After pledging, investing and otherwise guaranteeing the Chinese stock market to the tune of 10% of GDP, and intervening on at least 40 different occasions in the past month ever since China’s stock bubble burst in late June, with the subsequent crash nearly taking the Shanghai Composite red for the year, overnight China officially lost control for the second time, when after a weak start to the Monday trading session, things turned very ugly in the last hour, when the Shanghai Composite plunged by 8.48%, closing nearly at the lows, and tumbling some 345 points for its biggest one-day drop since February 2007 and its second biggest crash in history!

The selling was steady throughout the day, but spiked in the last hour on concerns China would rein in its market-supporting programs following IMF demands to normalize its relentless market intervention. According to Bloomberg’s Richard Breslow: “fear that the extraordinary support measures employed to hold up the market may be scaled back caused heavy afternoon selling resulting in a down 8.5% day.” Of course, one can come up with any number of theories to explain the plunge: for example the PBOC did not buy enough to offset the relentless selling.

A remarkable transformation is underway in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
The birthplace and final resting place of George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson—and once one of the most reliably-red of red states—is being rapidly turned into a progressive stronghold.
These changes are not the result of an inside agency, or a natural evolution in political thinking, but rather the result of one of the most impactful yet least-discussed policies of the federal government.
Each year the federal government prints millions of visas and distributes these admission tickets to the poorest and least-developed nations in the world.
A middle-aged person living in parts of Virginia today will have witnessed more demographic change in the span of her life than many societies have experienced in millennia.
A census study entitled “Immigrants in Virginia,” released by University of Virginia (UVA) researchers, documented the phenomenon: “Until 1970, only 1 in 100 Virginians was born outside of the United States; by 2012, 1 in every 9 Virginians is foreign-born.”

Was last week a preview of things to come? There are quite a few people out there that believe that the stock market would begin to decline in July, and that appears to be precisely what is happening. Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by more than 530 points. It was the biggest one week decline that we have seen so far in 2015, and some are suggesting that this could only be just the beginning. By just about any measurement that you might want to use, the stock market is overvalued. But we have been in this bubble for so long that many people have come to believe that this is “the new normal”. In fact, earlier today someone that I know dropped me a line and suggested that our financial overlords may be able to use the tools at their disposal to get this current bubble to persist indefinitely. Unfortunately, the truth is that no financial bubble ever lasts forever, and right now some very alarming things are starting to happen behind the scenes. Over the past couple of weeks, the smart money has been dumping stocks like crazy, and the lack of liquidity in the bond markets is beginning to become acute. Could it be possible that another great financial crisis is just around the corner?
Last week took a lot of investors by surprise. The following is how Zero Hedge summarized the carnage…
-Russell 2000 -3.1% – worst week since Oct 2014 (Bullard)
-Dow -2.8% – worst week since Dec 2014
-S&P -2.1% – worst week since Jan 2015
-Trannies -2.8% – worst week since Mar 2015
-Nasdaq -2.2% – worst week since Mar 2015

The Obama administration has introduced homosexual rights policies across federal agencies, including at the Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement website, which links to a guide that rates placement providers and communities on LGBT-friendly services, including having “culturally competent mental health providers” and “LGBT-affirming places of worship.”
The eight-page guide — published by the homosexual refugee advocacy organization Heartland Alliance International in 2013 and entitled the “Rainbow Welcome Initiative” — is designed like a scorecard that allows agencies and service providers to use a point system to rate refugee programs and communities on acceptance of the LGBT lifestyle.
“This document is intended to serve two purposes; first, as a set of guidelines for Voluntary Agencies (VOLAGs) to use for determining which of their affiliates are best suited to accept lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender refugees for placement, and second, as an agency self-assessment to help refugee programs identify strengths and challenges that they may face when resettling LGBT refugees,” the guide states.
by Larry Elder
Ninety-five percent of black voters in 2008 voted for then-Sen. Barack Obama. Surely a “progressive” black president would care about, empathize with and understand black America in a way no other president ever has or could, right? Exit polls from Pew Research show that 63 percent of all voters — and 65 percent of Obama voters — cited the economy as the number one reason they voted for him. Iraq was a distant second at 10 percent. Even for black Obama voters, “It’s the economy, stupid.”
After six years, the report card is in. The grades are not pretty. By every key economic measurement, blacks are worse off under Obama. In some cases, far worse off.
What about poverty? In 2009, when Obama took office, the black poverty rate was 25.8 percent. As of 2014, according to Pew Research Center, the black poverty rate was 27.2 percent.
What about income? CNNMoney says, “Minority households’ median income fell 9 percent between 2010 and 2013, compared to a drop of only 1 percent for whites.” The Financial Times wrote last October: “Since 2009, median non-white household income has dropped by almost a 10th to $33,000 a year, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s survey of consumer finances. As a whole, median incomes fell by 5 percent. But by the more telling measure of net wealth — assets minus liabilities — the numbers offer a more troubling story.”
What about net worth and the black-white “wealth gap”? The Financial Times said: “The median non-white family today has a net worth of just $18,100 — almost a fifth lower than it was when Mr. Obama took office. White median wealth, on the other hand, has inched up by 1 percent to $142,000. In 2009, white households were seven times richer than their black counterparts. That gap is now eightfold. Both in relative and absolute terms, blacks are doing worse under Mr. Obama.” Remember, these numbers apply to all “non-whites.” For blacks, it’s worse.
Race divisions in the United States will lead to our demise as a nation. Just as in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, America is divided into various tribes—factions and groups of people who don’t like each other very much. And just like in Africa, the ongoing genocide is blamed on everything but the killers themselves—colonialism is the scapegoat in Africa, while in America its white supremacy and privilege.
The new buzz word slogan by the fringe left is “Black lives matter”—and certainly they do. Unfortunately; more too white people than to blacks. If blacks actually think that black lives matter why do they abort their unborn and butcher each other on the streets in such staggering numbers? If black lives actually matter why are the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, and the race pimps so silent regarding the black genocide? How many blacks are actually killed by “white supremacy? My guess is zero!!!
Slavery in America has been outlawed for more than 150 years. The Civil Rights Act has been the law of the land for more than fifty years. The playing field has been more than level for many years with set asides, quotas, affirmative action, minority hiring practices, minority college preferences—the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, much of black intelligence has been devoted to devising creative methods of living off the dole, rather than availing themselves of the opportunities which have been provided.
The problem is that conceding more and more to our minorities is simply not enough—and never will be. Since the unfortunate and horrific killings in Charleston, everything and everyone has been blamed except the guy who did the killing. Politicians have been falling all over themselves in their efforts to denounce the Confederate flag. Why? Will its removal from some state buildings: close the achievement gap, decrease black illegitimacy, or reduce the number of inner cities murders? No—it will merely remove another excuse. But, another scape-goat for lack of economic and social progress will emerge—as long as there are race pimps you can count on it!
Now there is an outcry to abolish the United States flag because some of our founders owned slaves. Slavery has been a part of human civilization for as long as there has been recorded history—and for the most part blacks have captured their brethren and supplied them as the free labor. Even as you read this, slavery is alive and well—blacks enslave blacks in Africa today.
Many Blacks hate, or at best resent white people. We hear the term white supremacy thrown around like a hand grenade by the race baiters. It seems no one ever notices that blacks have been provided more opportunities in the United States than any other nation in the world. If blacks think they are being ill-treated here—perhaps they should take a peek into copy of National Geographic magazine or look on the internet at the plight of their brethren in Africa. Of the twenty poorest countries in the world, the top ten are located in sub-Saharan Africa. The poorest black people in America are still light years ahead of their African brethren regarding health care, income, material possessions, and government assistance. Rarely does a black American expatriate to Africa: Thailand, Costa Rica, New Zealand maybe—but they don’t want to return to their ancestral home. Many flaunt their African heritage—but, they are as aligned with their brethren as East is to West.
From the shoes on their feet to the television sets they own, and everything in between, blacks who despise white Europeans have them to thank for their toys. Without the intervention (and inventions) of colonialism in Africa (for good or bad), sub-Saharan Africa would still be stuck in the Stone Age. The en masse contributions of the black race to human civilization have been largely unremarkable and quite frankly, completely negligible (sports and rap music are not contributions). Yes, there have been and are brilliant blacks who have contributed to the arts and sciences—but, when considering the entire black community, they are as rare as valuable pearls in fresh water.
We tend to look at the inner cities in our country and wonder at the savage murders and crime. We only need to look at Africa and realize it is merely an inbred way of life. The only thing that has changed in 200 or 200,000 years is the weapons used. Poverty, misery, illiteracy, and lack of morality represent the corporate legacy of the black race. How can we logically expect a different result in America?
America and its people have done everything conceivable to atone for our role in slavery. At some point we need to acknowledge that efforts to bring blacks into the mainstream of American society simply have not, are not, and will not work. To be separate is not that difficult—being equal is based on self-initiative, self-discipline and a desire to improve one’s lot in life—these are key elements of the human psyche which cannot be mandated by any government. Asian, Indian, and other minority immigrants who have to learn our language seem to routinely achieve—so why are so many blacks stuck in misery and poverty?
The unspoken question is: Can a group of people who were taken out of the stone-age jungles of Africa to be used as slave labor be augmented into an advanced majority white society? One hundred fifty years of American history would indicate—no, the majority cannot. Allowing two minorities of our citizens (blacks and Muslims) to dictate national policy is self-defeating and will only serve to further inflame racial tensions and bring about even more racially motivated carnage. America is being destroyed by Americans—unless and until we acknowledge that fact and deal with it—our nation is destined for perdition.
Have a good week. Bill Shuey is a freelance writer from North Carolina.
A couple of years ago I wrote a short post InfoBomb.
When a government or corporation collects so much information on a citizenry that the unintentional release, theft, or misuse of it is a catastrophic event.
The most immediate danger from the government collecting data on us isn’t that they will use it against us… it is from the damage it will do when they inevitably lose control of it.
This analysis was spot on: the failure at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is an infobomb.
Chinese hackers were able to steal records on 18 million current and former government employees + sensitive background information submitted by people applying for security clearances.
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Another crisis buried by the government and the media. Compromised government employee data sold to the highest bidders. And that is a best case.
David DeGerolamo

Courtesy of Zerohedge
I received a letter from NC State this week stating that my information may have been compromised from one of their servers. It appears that personal information from my graduate school studies from 2000 – 2003 is still active. And not only is it active, it is being maintained. The letter was sent directly to my new address that is 15 months old.
So why is NC State maintaining my personal information? It appears that we may have stumbled onto the repository of Obama’s personal race database.
David DeGerolamo
Posted July 17, 2015
Q. I received a letter from NC State about a computer security incident. What happened?
A. On June 16, 2015 NC State learned that data housed on a university computer server was accessed by an unauthorized person. The unauthorized access created the potential for the individual to view certain personal identifying information.
Q. Does that mean someone has personal identifying information?
A. No. However, because the possibility exists that someone may have accessed or misused your personal information, NC State notified you so that you may take appropriate steps to protect the information.
Q. Will NC State contact me to ask for additional information around this situation?
A. Never. In similar cases at other institutions, people have reportedly been contacted by individuals claiming to represent the institution that notified the individual of the security breach, who then proceed to ask for personal information, including social security numbers and/or credit card information. Please be aware that NC State will only contact you with information regarding steps you should take to prevent possible fraud or identity theft. We will never ask for your full social security number. We will not ask for any credit card or bank information. We recommend that you do not release personal information in response to any contacts of this nature that you have not initiated.
Q. How did NC State discover the possible unauthorized access?
A. The information was made available to NC State as part of an ongoing investigation.