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“Just think George Orwell, and take it to the nth degree. [B]We’re in an environment of surveillance, essentially.[/B] It will be an extraordinarily rich data set of your life.” [Joel Reidenberg, director of the Center on Law & Information Policy at Fordham Law School, being quoted]

“Many parents first became aware of how widely their children’s personal data is being shared with third parties of all sorts when the controversy erupted over inBloom in 2012, [B]the $100 million corporation funded by the Gates Foundation.[/B] Because of intense parent opposition, inBloom closed its doors in 2014, but in the process, parents discovered that inBloom was only the tip of the iceberg, and that [B]the federal government and the Gates Foundation have been assisting the goal of amassing and disclosing personal student data in many other ways.”[/B]

Is this Bill Gates ?

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peterma · November 15, 2015, 5:04pm

So the former deputy PM of UK figures no air strikes, no drones, probably only words will win this war.

‘Starting a war after Paris attacks will only fan the flames of hatred in the Middle East’ - John Prescott - Mirror Online

President Hollande sees it different, he figures that these evils monsters have little fear of fancy words.

The WSJ reported earlier today that the French Government sought help from the US, they needed information from perhaps the most sophisticated surveillance there exists.

Then, later, the WSJ updated the story:

France Launches Airstrikes Against Islamic State Stronghold in Syria - WSJ

Kevin_LaCoste · November 15, 2015, 5:38pm

The pic says it all. All decent people of different backgrounds are outraged by this attack, Muslim and non-Muslim.

PipatronG6 · November 16, 2015, 4:16am

Still shocked by what has happened in Paris, could be a real game changer. UK government saying today that 7 attacks have been foiled in the UK recently too.

Clint · December 4, 2015, 4:02am

[B]Muslim terrorists attack America.
Again.[/B]

Enough has been learned about the mass-murder of 14 people and the wounding of 21 others in San Bernardino, California, 2 days ago, that we can now say definitively that this was an act of Muslim terrorism.

[U]Here are some of the facts which have been confirmed[/U]:

• The attack was carried out by: Syed Rizwan Farook (28) and his wife Tashfeen Malik (27).

• At about 11am (pacific time) on Wednesday, the attackers entered the San Bernardino County office building (where Farook worked), dressed in combat gear and carrying semi-automatic rifles, semi-automatic handguns, and an improvised explosive device (IED) composed of three pipe-bombs connected together and wired to a remotely-triggered detonator.

• They went directly to a conference room full of people gathered for a staff meeting (which Farook had left minutes earlier), and began shooting. The carnage: 14 killed, and 21 wounded.

• Farook and Malik calmly left the building, entered the rental car they had arrived in, and drove away.

• The IED they left behind in the building, which they intended to detonate remotely, failed to detonate.

• About 4 hours later, their rental car was spotted and stopped by police, and a shoot-out ensued in which both Farook and Malik were killed.

• In the rental car, police found weapons, ammunition, pipe-bombs, and the homemade device intended to detonate the IED left at the office building.

• At a house in nearby Redlands, California, rented by Farook and Malik, police found a cache of weapons, a huge stockpile of ammunition, 12 pipe-bombs, and tools and materials for building pipe-bombs.

• After Farook and Malik had been publicly identified as the attackers, neighbors reported to police having seen many visits to the garage of their rented house, after midnight on various occasions in recent weeks, by several middle-eastern men carrying boxes. The neighbors did not report this activity to the police, for fear of being accused of racial/religious-profiling. The FBI and the police from several jurisdictions are working to identify these persons, presumed to be involved in the conspiracy.

• Farook was a Pakistani-American, born in Illinois. He advertised for a wife on the internet, where he met Malik, a Pakistani national. Farook travelled to Saudi Arabia to meet Malik, and they were married there. Malik entered the U.S. on a Pakistani passport.

• The FBI has uncovered contacts between Farook and radical jihadi elements inside and outside the U.S.

• Shortly after the attack in San Bernardino, and before the attackers had been identified, Hillary Clinton and Martin O’Malley (in separate statements) went public with demands for gun-control, and accusations against the National Rifle Association.

• At about the same time, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the puppet organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, issued statements denying Muslim involvement in the massacre.

• Even now, with all that is known about Farook and Malik, Barak Obama will not admit that this massacre was the work of Muslim terrorists.

• The FBI has not yet classified this massacre as Muslim terrorism, most likely on orders from Obama.

[U]Here are several articles from various U.S. news organizations[/U]:

‘Where’s Syed?’ How the San Bernardino shooting unfolded — [I]The Washington Post[/I]

First officer on scene of San Bernardino massacre: ‘It was unspeakable’ — [I]USA Today[/I]

F.B.I. Treats San Bernardino Attack as Possible Terrorism Case — [I]The New York Times[/I]

Shooting in San Bernardino, California (86 slides from [I]Reuters,[/I] and other sources) — [I]MSN[/I]

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Hogarste · December 4, 2015, 9:22am

I see so many of the people I grew up with, posting really sad things on Facebook, that I find to be really hateful. Things like ‘why don’t they all leave this country and go back where they belong’ etc. When we use terms like ‘radical Muslim’ or whatever, aren’t we really just trying to insult other people who are peaceful.

If we’re going to use those terms, then I don’t understand why we shouldn’t use terms like radical Christian terror to describe those who commit violent acts domestically “in the name” of Christianity. I’m not a Christian, but can see that at it’s core, it’s a religion of peace. I wouldn’t want to insult the overwhelming majority of Christians by linking the words together. I realize that some will find passages from the Quran, and try to prove that at it’s core Islam is not a peaceful religion, but I don’t think that’s true. Most Muslims, Christians, Jews, Atheists, etc, care about family and decency. I live in the north eastern US, which is often associated with progressive mindedness, and I see so many people becoming outwardly anti-Muslim. This is what the terrorists want.

Why is it so important that certain phrases are used, and if we are going to use them, then shouldn’t we be consistent?

Clint · December 8, 2015, 12:55am

Hello, Brian

It’s quite apparent that my post triggered your post.

You wouldn’t be here on this thread, at this particular time, if my post hadn’t upset you.

If you have a problem with what I posted, you can confront me directly. You don’t need to create surrogates — “people I grew up with, posting really sad things on Facebook”.

Perhaps you should compile a list of violent acts committed “in the name” of Christianity. I’ll compile a list of violent acts committed “in the name” of Islam. And then, we can compare lists.

I think it will be obvious that conflating [I]rampant Islamic terrorism[/I] with [I]almost-nonexistent Christian terrorism[/I] is ridiculous on its face.

You’re implying that you have read the Quran. If that is true, then you know that the Quran is full of hate, is full of intolerance for any belief other than strict Islam, and that it not only permits — not only encourages — but demands that Muslims brutalize any and all “non-believers”. There’s your religion of peace.

Now you’re lumping Jews and Atheists into your faulty comparison.

I guess you’d better make lists of violent acts committed “in the name” of Judaism, and “in the name” of Atheism, as well. It shouldn’t take long — all three of your lists will be extremely short.

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After Obama’s pathetic speech on television on Sunday evening — in which he spent more time giving cover to Muslim terrorists, than to laying out a credible plan for defeating this menace — David French posted THIS ARTICLE in [I]National Review Online.[/I] His article addresses the mindset shared by Obama and many other liberals, such as yourself.

I’m sure that Obama will not read it. I hope that you will.

Here are two excerpts:

Simply put, America’s leaders actively deceive the American people about the sheer scale of Muslim hatred and commitment to jihad. Rather than tell us the truth, the Obama administration and the media aristocracy constantly lecture Americans about discrimination, apparently believing that only their scolding keeps the great redneck masses at bay.

Islam has a problem. It is Muslims’ responsibility to reform their own faith. It is America’s responsibility to defend itself and its citizens. Neither goal is advanced by telling convenient, politically correct lies. After 14 years of war, can we finally tell the truth?

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Hogarste · December 8, 2015, 1:29pm

Hey Clint,

All of your posts whether trading related or politically minded, come from a place of intelligence and good research. I disagree with you politically, but I try to learn from your posts, even if I do disagree.

My reference to Facebook was literal, and I was referring to several friends I grew up with, who post meme’s I find disturbing and really sad to be honest. I saw your post, I do disagree with you, but it was really several factors that made me want to post. I can disagree with you and respect you at the same time.

I have not read the Quran, but have read excerpts from it. I can see how people might take issue with aspects of Islam, but I also think that a majority of Muslims practice it peacefully. I think they find beauty in the concept of total submission to what they believe is g*d’s will and I believe most of them are peaceful. I’ve read the five pillars of Islam, and they are loosely similar to concepts in Christianity and Judaism.

I think people do bad things and are often mislead into doing bad things in the name of religion. I do recognize there are Muslims who are turning to violent extremism, but I think there are people in Iraq who were not terrorists, who lost loved ones as a result of George W Bush making a decision that seems in my view, to have made the world much less safe. I think radicalization occurs in different forms and I think there are similarities in how this happens and who this happens to.

I can’t convey in a way that anyone would take seriously on a currency trading forum how much 9/11 has affected my life, and I was incredibly lucky that morning. I was across the street getting ready to walk towards the north tower and cut through the under ground mall when the first plane hit. The south tower ripped a hole in my building when it collapsed, but after the second plane hit, I decided to walk up to mid-town as it was apparent something evil was taking place. For many of the years that followed I worked in lower Manhattan, and every time the subway would come to a stop and they announced that something was being cleared off the tracks, you could see fear in peoples (of all religions) faces. In 2003, the power grid failed in the northeast, and I again had to walk up to mid-town feeling certain at the time that something terror related was taking place.

I will always read the things I see you post on this forum, and while I am proud of my political beliefs, there is no shortage of respect or appreciation for your posts. I know I didn’t answer everything you raised (or that I raised), but I’m trying to get a testing project done so I can refine my trading. I am not against any religion at it’s core, where it is about tolerance. I am against the distortion (as I see it) of religion to justify violent acts, and to motivate people who are lost to commit horrible acts.

I did read the article you posted. There is a lot of anti-Semitism in the Muslim world. I think it relates to a few different things. Very often, people draw a distinction between Judaism and Zionism. I’m not justifying any hate, but to some people, the issue they have is not the practice of the Jewish religion, but the political / geographic aspect relating to Israel. Obviously, I don’t support their views, but I do make a point of trying to understand the thought process of those I disagree with.

Clint · December 8, 2015, 1:54pm

The respect is mutual, Brian.

You and I have always debated, and disagreed, respectfully — publicly on this forum, and privately away from the forum. And I intend for that high level of respect to continue.

Thanks for your reply.

Kevin_LaCoste · December 9, 2015, 3:01am

So Trump is proposing to shutdown the Internet.

Clint · December 10, 2015, 4:37am

He’s going to shut down much more than that.

Clint · January 30, 2016, 12:07am

Obama Plans to Collect Companies’ Salary Data

It’s none of your damn business, Obama.

Just butt out.

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Hogarste · January 30, 2016, 11:05am

Everyone but me had the restraint not to type 'He will build a bigger better Death Star, and make the Rebels pay for it. We’re gonna destroy so many planets, you’re gonna get tired of destroying planets" which as I typed, I realized seemed a little too close to the actual proposed Trump policies.

Clint · February 8, 2016, 2:13pm

Why You Should Be Furious
Over Hillary Clinton’s Email Scandal

Why you should be furious over Hillary Clinton’s email scandal / The Week

We need to run this lying b*tch out of the American political system.
She’s worse than useless. She’s a criminal. And she’s dangerous.

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Clint · February 10, 2016, 12:45am

The old socialist curmudgeon Bernie Sanders
hands Hillary Clinton a humiliating defeat.

Clinton - 39% … Sanders - 60%

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Clint · February 10, 2016, 2:27pm

Nanny Bloomberg
is threatening to launch
a third-party campaign for
president

I’m going to turn this entire country into a
SMOKE-FREE,
SUGAR-FREE, SALT-FREE,
GUN-FREE ZONE !

You betcha.

Maybe he’ll call his new party

THE NANNY PARTY

Run, Nanny, Run !

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tonyro44 · February 10, 2016, 4:34pm

I can’t stand that man, just who does he thinks he is !!!

Clint · February 26, 2016, 7:14pm

Lindsey Graham represents the [I][B]Republicrat[/B][/I] faction of the Ruling Class in Washington.*

In this “year of the insurgent”, Lindsey Graham is not a happy camper.

But, Lindsey Graham, [I]the politician,[/I] seems to have potential as [I]an entertainer[/I] — as the following clip demonstrates — and he seems to enjoy doing stand-up comedy, and using the occasion to twist the knife.

On the other hand, Donald Trump, [I]the entertainer,[/I] seems to have potential as [I]a politician[/I] — and he seems to enjoy imagining himself as president.

Here’s a crazy idea:

Let’s take Graham out of politics, and put him on t.v.

And let’s take Trump off t.v., and put him — [I]where? in the White House?[/I]

Man, I don’t know. That’s a pretty scary proposition. We’d better think long and hard about that.

Anyway, here’s a portion of Lindsey Graham’s “roast” of the Republican Party.

*Three factions make up the Ruling Class: The DemoCrats, the RepubliCrats, and the MediaCrats.

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