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China hardware could be used for Cyber Espionage
Let's see, why are
our computers, Emails, Twitter and Facebook accounts
being hacked by China and
Russia?
China hardware could
be used for Cyber Espionage
Back in the early
1980's while I was still a newbie to computers and reading my newspaper
(The New London
Day).
I was shocked to
read about our
military outsourcing computer equipment
to China of all places.
Not nearly as
shocked as the author,
some retired navy admiral.
As he said back
then,
computers controlled the armed forces airplanes, ships and equipment
and
China is still a communist country.
Today 98% of
everything made, bought and sold in this country is made in another country,
including our computers and their software.
U.S. Military
Cautions Hardware from China could be used for Cyber Espionage
Defense officials
have said that Pentagon's staff of late warned that no agency should use
equipments of the computer manufacturer Lenovo of China following alarms that
Pentagon networks could be spied upon.
According to one
latest internal report that J-2 intelligence directorate presented,
cyber-security officers feel alarmed that handheld devices and computers of
Lenovo are likely to add remotely-controlled tainted hardware to the supply
chain of Defense Department, endangering it with cyber espionage.
Pentagon uses the
term
'supply chain'
to mean its
worldwide suppliers' network which disburses chief components in the
manufacture of military systems and weapons.
Yalibnan.com
posted this,
Utilities Pour Millions Into Solar Amendment
Utilities Pour
Millions Into Solar Amendment
Clouded By Deceptive Intent
and
Opposed By
Environmentalists
FlaglerLive | November 1,
2016
Smoking mirrors.
(Kevin T. Houle)
Four major electric
utilities have surpassed the $20 million mark in combined contributions to
support a proposed constitutional amendment on solar energy.
Florida Power &
Light and Duke Energy last week dropped nearly $3 million into the “Consumers
for Smart Solar” initiative — Amendment 1 on the ballot — that has been opposed
by most major environmental groups in the state.
The latest money
came as ads from Consumers for Smart Solar proclaim that Amendment 1 is “solar
done right.” But backers of the initiative also have been grappling with a
controversy stemming from the release of a tape in which a policy director for
a Tallahassee-based think tank claimed to outline the utility industry’s
efforts to deceive voters.
The latest
contributions, $2 million on Oct. 24 from FPL and $999,998 last Tuesday from
Duke, brought to nearly $20.2 million the amount the state’s four largest
private utilities have spent on the amendment.
FPL has directed
$8.055 million to the amendment. Duke Energy is at $6.7 million. Tampa Electric
Co. has provided $3.2 million, and Pensacola-based Gulf Power is at $2.2
million.
Overall the
Tallahassee-based Consumers for Smart Solar has received $25.78 million, of
which $21.1 million has been spent. The group also has received $341,100
in-kind contributions.
By comparison, the
state’s most expensive constitutional amendment campaign, the 2004 trial
lawyer-backed Floridians for Patient Protection effort that pushed ballot
initiatives opposed by the Florida Medical Association, spent $28.65 million.
Sarah Bascom, a
spokeswoman for Consumers for Smart Solar, pointed to high advertising costs
during this year’s elections.
“Due to the
presidential election, Florida has remained a battleground state throughout the
2016 election cycle, making media costs more than we originally anticipated,”
Bascom said in a statement on Monday.
FPL President Eric
Silagy has said the Juno Beach-based company is backing the solar-energy
amendment to guarantee consumer protections that now could be usurped by local
and state government rule changes.
“I know it’s a
popular story line to say this is just the utilities that are trying to protect
a monopoly, but we don’t have a monopoly on rooftop solar, ground-mounted solar
or anything else,” Silagy said when asked about the amendment earlier this month
during a Florida Chamber of Commerce event in Orlando.
The Consumers for
Smart Solar amendment would enshrine in the Florida Constitution existing rules
regarding the use of solar energy by private property owners. The proposal also
includes a more-contentious provision, which states that people who haven’t installed
solar on their property “are not required to subsidize the costs of backup
power and electric grid access to those who do.”
Proponents say the
second provision provides consumer protections for people who don’t install
solar panels. Opponents, such as the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, say it
could result in “discriminatory charges” against rooftop solar users and limit the
desire of people to go solar.
Critics of the
amendment upped their efforts this month after the Miami Herald reported on an
audio tape in which James Madison Institute Vice President of Policy Sal Nuzzo
described how to use a “little bit of political jiu-jitsu” by promoting solar
to win support for desired changes in policy.
Nuzzo’s comments
came while speaking Oct. 2 at the “Energy/Environment Leadership Summit” in
Nashville, Tenn.
“It should now be
clear to all that Amendment 1 is a manipulatively designed tool for the utility
industry to continue to dominate the energy market in Florida,” Tory Perfetti,
chairman of Floridians for Solar Choice, an opposition group, said in a release
Monday. “There is no other reason to dedicate roughly $25 million in an attempt
to pass this anti-consumer, anti-solar, anti-free market amendment.”
The James Madison
Institute asserted that Nuzzo misspoke. Consumers for Smart Solar said the
James Madison Institute wasn’t involved in planning or drafting the proposal.
–Jim Turner,
News
Service of Florida
11/1/16
Insurance Companies need to raise their rates
Insurance Companies
need to raise their rates
Top 50 Insurance
Companies
Not millions of
dollars.
Not Billions of
Dollars
But
Trillions of your
Dollars
in the pockets
of
Insurance Companies.
And now they want
into your pockets once again!
WHY?
What is the
definition of an Oxymoron?
Definition.
An oxymoron is a
figure of speech
in which incongruous
or
seemingly contradictory terms
appear side by side;
A compressed
paradox.
In other words.
The reason that this
country, at least the majority of this country,
voted in an Affordable
Healthcare system
(known as
Obamacare),
something the
Hillary Clinton
has been trying to do
for your country
for over 30 years,
is that the
Insurance companies
charge far too much
money to begin with!
The Center for
Consumer Information & Insurance Oversight
"Health
insurance premiums have risen rapidly, straining the pocketbooks of American
families and businesses for more than a decade.
Many times,
insurance companies have been able to raise rates without explaining their
actions to regulators or the public or justifying the reasons for their high
premiums.
In most cases,
consumers receive little or no information about proposed premium increases,
and aren’t told why companies want to raise rates."
So now,
our congress is
going to
allow the Insurance companies
to charge more money
because the
Insurance companies are losing money???????
8 States Where
Obamacare Rates Are Rising by at Least 30%
Obamacar
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=obamacare
What is the
definition of an Oxymoron?
People not voting
for the cure for a
(No Show, Do Nothing Congress).
and
its leader!
People that keep
complaining
about Emails
and not complaining
about
the congress that is
allowing
(Big Business),
into your pockets
time and time again.
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