The Chicoms have seized local conglomerate with international holdings Anbang and turned it over to the Chinese Insurance Regulatory Commision nominally to "protect the rights and interests of consumers."
Author Archives: Aaron 'BingoBoingo' Rogier
US Customs And Border Patrol Allegedly Has Never Been Able To Check Signatures On Passport RFID Data
Thirteen years after introducing RFID implanted passports and applying pressure to compel their adoption, allegations are emerging that the US Customs and Border Patrol service has never implemented a means for checking digital signatures on the information contained in the passport RFID chips (archived).
Missouri Governor Arrested By Saint Louis Pantsuits For "Invasion of Privacy" Allegations
The Governor of Missouri, Eric Grietens, has been arrested following an indictment by Saint Louis, Missouri Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner alleging (archived):
…Greitens violated a Missouri statute that makes it a felony if a person transmits the image contained in the photograph or film in a manner that allows access to that image via a computer.
Greitens was elected to office as part of the Great Again wave in Fall 2016 which brought President Trump into office. Before taking office as Governor elect, Greitens' wife Sheena was robbed at gunpoint in the city of Saint Louis.
The Governor of the State that contains Saint Louis was booked at the "Saint Louis Justice Center" and is being released from the jail on a personal recognizance bond without travel restrictions. Pantsuit continues thrashing.
Fickle Fiat: Twenty Year Old Social Media User Knocks 1.3 Billion USD Off Snapchat Market Cap
After Kim Kardashian's 20 year old sister Kylie Jenner announced she doesn't really use Snapchat anymore, traders on the NYSE began dumping shares of the application's parent company Snap Inc. More than 1.3 billion Unified Standard Dosiedos in value has been shaved off the social media firm.
"Bittorrent Inc" Milks Window To Let Code Execution Bug Live
Bram Cohen's (WOT: nonperson) venture "Bittorrent Inc." has let the full 90 day window for a remote execution vulnerability revealed through Google's irresponsible disclosure program nearly expire before issuing a supposed fix to their uTorrent software. To ensure a timely upgrade panic the details and a demonstration of the vulnerability are already available (archived).
Having Dumped Dratel Ulbricht Continues Facing Grim Trial Aftermath
Earlier this month the three year window for Ross Ulbricht to seek a new trial through a Rule 33 motion passed. Katherine Forrest denied a motion from Ulbricht's new attorney Paul Grant to grant an extension in light of Ulbricht's previous counsel Joshual Dratel having perfomed the greatest failure in modern legal history.
Meanwhile a seperate set of attorneys retained by Ulbricht's family is seperately working to try to unravel the Dratel inflicted mess in the empire's appelate courts (archived).
India's City Union Bank Claims 2 Million USD Loss Through SWIFT
City Union Bank in India is claiming to have lost 2 million USD1 of fiat currency through the SWIFT network following what they are referring to as an attack (archived). The bank is negotiating with various other fiat actors to recover a portion of the funds, while the destination of other funds transfered out of the bank is lost in the soup of legacy fiat systems.
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Former FBI Director Prepares Constitutional Crisis In United States With Indictments
Former FBI Director Robert Mueller acting as a "Special Counsel" has indicted 13 Russian nationals and one organization for engaging in political speech. The indictments are based on laws which nominally prohibit foreign nationals from engaging in US Federal Elections. Challenges to the laws which would arise from a serious legal defense citing the Consitution's protection of free speech and a free press would likely either result in their gutting to the point of uselessness or the disenfranchisement of many pantsuit supporters that happen to be undocumented foreign nationals physically present in the United States.
The indeterminism inherent in the US Courts Circus makes predicting which outcome arises, provided the case is litigated at all, a challenge, but either way the squeeze is in.
Shooting Outside USG.NSA Fort Meade
Reports are emerging of a multi casualty shooting incident this morning outside of the main entrance to the US NSA's Fort Meade Headquarters. The freeway around the area has been closed and local media is reporting differing numbers of casualties and other details at this time.
Unilever Prepares To Stop Feeding Facebook And Google
Consumer goods giant Unilever is preparing to cease continuing to spend bleeding marketing dollars on advertisements through Facebook, Google, and other online platforms. Unilever Chief Marketing Officer Keith Weed is offering:
"As one of the largest advertisers in the world, we cannot have an environment where our consumers don’t trust what they see online."
"And we cannot continue to prop up a digital supply chain – one that delivers over a quarter of our advertising to our consumers – which at times is little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency"
Mainstream propagandists are interpreting this as a call for "social responsibility" on Unilever's part, but the point appears to be that Unilever can't count on Facebook and Google to deliver a return on their portion of the marketing budget.