tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39881173074627407312024-03-13T13:15:50.614-06:00Cowboys and Tea PartiesCowboys and the Tea Party political movement have a lot on common. Both believe in individual responsibility; judging a man by his actions not words; and, both are disgusted with government intrusions into our lives and particularly our God given rights.Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-35754753497800914392017-07-26T21:20:00.000-06:002017-07-26T21:20:05.683-06:00More Government Infringement On Individual Rights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week, the Supreme Court asked the Obama administration to weigh in on the question. <br /><br />The Court is pondering an appeals court decision saying that such planting can, in fact, infringe patents.<br /><br />In 1994, the agricultural giant Monsanto obtained a patent covering a line of "Roundup Ready" crops that had been genetically modified to resist Monsanto's Roundup herbicide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This genetic modification is hereditary, so future generations of seeds are also "Roundup Ready."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Farmers had only to save a portion of their crop for re-planting the next season, and they wouldn't need to purchase new seed from Monsanto every year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The company didn't want to be in the business of making a one-time sale, so when Monsanto sold "Roundup Ready" soybeans to farmers, it required them to sign a licensing agreement promising not to re-plant future generations of seeds.<br /><br />However, farmers remain free to sell the soybeans they grow in the commodity market, where most are used to feed people or livestock.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Roundup Ready soybeans have become extremely popular; they now account for 94 percent of all acres planted in Indiana, for instance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vernon Bowman, an Indiana farmer, was a customer of Monsanto who realized that Roundup Ready soybeans had become so common in his area that if he simply purchased commodity soybeans from a local grain elevator, the overwhelming majority of those soybeans would be Roundup Ready.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Commodity soybeans are significantly cheaper than Monsanto's soybeans, and they came without the contractual restriction on re-planting.<br /><br />So Bowman planted (and re-planted) commodity soybeans instead of using Monsanto's seeds. When Monsanto discovered what Bowman was doing, it sued him for patent infringement.<br /><br />Patent protection or freedom to farm?<br /><br />Bowman argued his use of the seeds is covered by patent law's "exhaustion doctrine." This doctrine, like copyright law's first sale doctrine, holds that a patent holder's rights in a particular product are "exhausted" when the product is sold to an end user.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Supreme Court beefed up the exhaustion doctrine in 2008 when it held that LG could not "double dip" on patent licensing fees—charging both chipmaker Intel and OEM Quanta royalties for the same chip.<br /><br />Bowman argued that when Monsanto sold seed to a farmer, it exhausted its rights not only to that specific seed but to all of the seed's descendants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Since Bowman wasn't required to sign a licensing agreement before buying commodity seeds, he argued that he was free to plant the seeds and even to save and re-plant each season's crop for future seasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />But Monsanto countered that each new generation of seeds is a separate product and thus requires a separate patent license. In effect, Monsanto contends that Bowman is illegally "manufacturing" infringing soybeans.<br /><br />Monsanto has a point. Taking Bowman's argument to its logical conclusion would imply that anyone could buy a single batch of commodity (but still Roundup Ready) soybeans and use it to sell an unlimited number of copies. This would effectively eviscerate Monsanto's patent protection.<br /><br />Yet Monsanto's position—that planting Monsanto-derived soybeans always requires Monsanto's permission—could also have troubling consequences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">In a world where 94 percent of soybeans in circulation are descended from Monsanto's genetically engineered seeds, it might be hard for farmers who didn't want Monsanto's seeds even to buy seeds that were not patent encumbered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Monsanto's position would effectively place the burden on farmers to test seeds they hope to plant in order to ensure they are not covered by any patents.<br /><br />Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled, as it had on several previous occasions, that patent exhaustion did not cover second-generation seeds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Supreme Court has now asked the Solicitor General, the official in charge of representing the Obama administration before the Court, to weigh in on the case.<br /><br />The Patently-O blog reports that a request for the Obama administration's views typically requires four justices, suggesting significant interest in the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">However, the Obama administration may agree with </span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">the Federal Circuit and recommend against the Court taking the case.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the Court may opt not to </span><span style="font-size: large;">hear the case even if the Obama administration recommends taking it. Should that happen, Monsanto's appellate court win would stand.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">[source: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/04/farm-fresh-infringement-can-you-violate-a-patent-by-planting-some-seeds.ars]</span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-45659439616764838352017-05-06T01:00:00.000-06:002017-05-06T01:00:10.440-06:00A Dose Of Reality<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />It's very sad for me to think we actually have a party that believes that we HAVE to intermingle these people with our people and down the road, many of these people will KILL our people. Why is it so hard for liberals to accept the fact that buying votes isn't worth what's being set up, for the future. Not one Muslim country has accepted any of these refugees. does that say anything?????? The Senate Minority Leader stands up in front of others and pretends to CRY about Trump wanting to protect him, and us from the present and future. Take a look and see what you think and, if you agree, send this to some of those who just can't seem to understand what is happening. Ask the people in the UK how accepting these people have fared for them? Ask Germany? Ask Sweden? <br /><br /> The Pope recently said that the US should build bridges, not walls. Then why is Vatican City enclosed with a wall......Gee, could it be to keep the wrong type of people OUT?????? I don't say that to bad mouth the pope, I too am Catholic but, let's make sense out of what's going on and at least make certain that we know who in the heck is coming into this country. And as far as a leader of this country pretending to choke up over this matter.................................</span>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-18510148091880675232017-05-01T01:00:00.000-06:002017-05-01T01:00:11.155-06:00Funny Church Signs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-64495984404909161242016-11-06T01:00:00.000-06:002016-11-06T01:00:26.466-06:00Release of Criminal Aliens.<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2QOwAJ2ez6U" width="560"></iframe>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-23828586173489883312016-10-31T01:00:00.000-06:002016-10-31T01:00:13.358-06:00I'm Confussed!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I used to think I was just a regular guy, but I was born white,
which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist. I am a
fiscal and moral conservative, which by today's standards, makes me a
fascist. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am heterosexual, which according to gay folks, now makes me a
homophobe. I am non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working
class and an ally of big business. I am a Christian, which now
labels me as an infidel.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe in the 2nd Amendment, which now makes me a member of the
vast gun lobby. I am older than 60 and retired, which makes me a
useless old man. I think and I reason, therefore I doubt much that
the main stream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, which
makes me a xenophobe. I value my safety and that of my family and I
appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a
right-wing extremist. I believe in hard work, fair play, and fair
compensation according to each individual's merits, which today makes
me an anti-socialist.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland for and by all
citizens, which now makes me a militant. Please help me come to
terms with the new me… because I'm just not sure who I am anymore!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I would like to thank all my friends for sticking with me through
these abrupt, new found changes in my life and my thinking! I just
can’t imagine or understand what's happened to me so quickly! Funny
…it’s all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As if all this nonsense wasn't enough to deal with… I'm now afraid to
go into either restroom!</span><br />
<br />Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-32061523386146862802016-10-26T11:19:00.003-06:002016-10-26T11:19:56.475-06:00Proof of Detroit's Comeback<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white;">
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">WOW. IT'S A WONDER THIS BILL WAS EVER CAUGHT. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">SORY TO HEER THAT... CAN WE GETS A HOT DAWG THEN?</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">LOOKS LIKE SHE COULD USE A LITTLE SUPPORT</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">(HOPE SHE IS BUYING SOME DUCT TAPE)</span></b></div>
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Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-75726502371731319942016-08-23T10:10:00.001-06:002016-08-23T10:10:38.641-06:00Divorce Agreement<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This isn't about Divorce between a man and a woman. Read it, it makes you think. The person who wrote this is a college (law) student. Perhaps there is hope for us after all. This is so incredible well put and I can hardly believe it's by a young person, a student!! Whatever he runs for I'll vote for him.<br /><br />Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists and Obama supporters, et al: We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.<br /><br /> Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.<br /><br /> Here is our separation agreement:<br /><br /> --Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by landmass each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.<br /><br /> --We don't like redistributive taxes so you can keep them.<br /><br /> --You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.<br /><br /> --Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA and the military.<br /><br /> --We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar and biodiesel.<br /><br /> --You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move them.<br /><br /> --We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart and Wall Street.<br /><br /> --You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies and illegal aliens.<br /><br />--We'll keep the smart diverse and conservative Governors like Susanna Martinez & Niki Haley, greedy CEO's and rednecks and you can keep Jerry Brown, Bernie Sanders & e-mail Hillary. --We'll keep Bill O'Reilly, and Bibles and give you CNBC and Hollywood .<br /><br /> --You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.<br /><br /> --You can have the peaceniks, war protesters, Black Lives Matter people and all the sanctuary cities.<br /><br /> -- When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help protect & provide them security.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> --You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness and Shirley McClain. You can also have the U.N. but we will no longer be paying the bill.<br /><br /> --We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.<br /><br /> --You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors who’re willing to forego payment.<br /><br /> --We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem.", and a whole slew of Country songs.<br /><br /> --I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya" , "We Are the World", & all of the anti establishment Rap songs.<br /><br /> --We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> --Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. <br /><br />In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.<br /><br /> Sincerely, John J. Wall Law Student and an American P.S. Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin & Charlie Sheen, Barbara Streisand, Al Sharpton, Alan Grayson, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and ( Hanoi ) Jane Fonda with you.<br /><br /> P.S.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.<br /><br /> Forward This Every Time You Get It ! Let's Keep This Going, Maybe Some Of It Will Start Sinking In!! </span>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-66030098304012482582016-07-12T11:16:00.001-06:002016-07-12T11:16:47.283-06:00Democrats: Pass At Least Two Constitutional Changes Wow!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The proposal includes a call for more federal campaign subsidies, and a restructuring of the federal agency responsible for campaign finance enforcement. "We need to amplify the voices of the American people through a small donor matching public financing system. We need to overhaul and strengthen the Federal Election Commission so that there is real enforcement of campaign finance laws."
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The platform is an extension of principles delineated by Hillary Clinton earlier in her campaign, though the call for more matching campaign subsidies is a recent development in the agenda for national Democrats. A model of the program presently exists in just five states: Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine and Minnesota. In the last, it has been alternatively deactivated and reactivated over the last decade due to funding disruptions.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comment: The simple fact is that the Dems want the taxpayers to fund everything. The way things are going with job loss and the lowest job participation rate in the last 50 years, it will soon be 35% of Americans paying taxes and funding everything ,....not just welfare and defense but now the Dems want taxpayer funded campaigns. And if we let the Dems develop a Federal Agency to regulate campaigns like Obama's IRS regulated conservative groups, then we are in trouble. </span><br />
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Jesse Jackson's Newest Staffer,...and, You can't make up stuff better than this! Confirmed by snopes is none other than former Chicago Congressman Mel Reynolds to Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's payroll. Reynolds was among the 176 criminals excused in President Clinton's last-minute clemency forgiveness spree. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Reynolds received a commutation of his six-and-a-half-year federal sentence for 15 convictions of wire fraud, bank fraud, and lies to the Federal Election Commission. He is more notorious, however, for concurrently serving five years for sleeping with an underage campaign volunteer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a first in American politics: An ex-congressman who had sex with a subordinate......Then won clemency from a president who had sex with a subordinate.......Then was hired by a clergyman who had sex with a subordinate! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Oh, and Mel Reynolds' new job? Ready for this? YOUTH COUNSELOR.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Questioned by George Stephanopoulos about her view of the amendment, Clinton talked about a "nuanced reading" and emphasized her belief in the rights of local, state and federal governments to regulate gun ownership. Stephanopoulos, formerly a top aide to President Bill Clinton, wasn't satisfied by the response.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"That's not what I asked," he replied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>STEPHANOPOULOS</b>: Let's talk about the Second Amendment. As you know, Donald Trump has also been out on the stump talking about the Second Amendment and saying you want to abolish the Second Amendment. I know you reject that. But I want to ask you a specific question: Do you believe that an individual's right to bear arms is a constitutional right — that it's not linked to service in a militia? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>CLINTON</b>: I think that for most of our history there was a nuanced reading of the Second Amendment until the decision by the late Justice [Antonin] Scalia. And there was no argument until then that localities and states and the federal government had a right — as we do with every amendment — to impose reasonable regulations. So I believe we can have common-sense gun-safety measures consistent with the Second Amendment. And, in fact, what I have proposed is supported by 90 percent of the American people and more than 75 percent of responsible gun owners. So that is exactly what I think is constitutionally permissible and, once again, you have Donald Trump just making outright fabrications, accusing me of something that is absolutely untrue. But I'm going to continue to speak out for comprehensive background checks; closing the gun-show loophole; closing the online loophole; closing the so-called Charleston loophole; reversing the bill that Senator [Bernie] Sanders voted for and I voted against, giving immunity from liability to gun makers and sellers. I think all of that can and should be done, and it is, in my view, consistent with the Constitution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>STEPHANOPOULOS</b>: And, and the Heller decision also says there can be some restrictions. But that's not what I asked. I said, "Do you believe their conclusion that the right to bear arms is a constitutional right?" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>CLINTON</b>: If it is a constitutional right, then it — like every other constitutional right — is subject to reasonable regulations. And what people have done with that decision is to take it as far as they possibly can and reject what has been our history from the very beginning of the republic, where some of the earliest laws that were passed were about firearms. So I think it's important to recognize that reasonable people can say, as I do, responsible gun owners have a right. I have no objection to that. But the rest of the American public has a right to require certain kinds of regulatory, responsible actions to protect everyone else.</span><br />
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<br />Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-13850304325051149732016-05-20T10:49:00.001-06:002016-05-20T10:50:27.592-06:00 AN IOWA FARM STORY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-91123432544967033652016-04-10T01:30:00.000-06:002016-04-10T01:30:17.695-06:00Brilliance<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /><br />BRILLIANCE IN 3 PARTS:<br /><br />Part I:<br /><br />A. Back off and let those men who want to marry men, marry men.<br /> B. Allow those women who want to marry women, marry women.<br /> C. Allow those folks who want to abort their babies, abort their babies.<br /> D. In three generations, there will be no Democrats.<br /> I love it when a plan comes together; don’t you?!<br /><br /><br /> Part II: 10 Poorest Cities in America (How did it happen?)<br /> City, State, % of People Below the Poverty Level<br /><br />1. Detroit, MI 32.5%<br /> 2. Buffalo, NY 29.9%<br /> 3. Cincinnati, OH 27.8%<br /> 4. Cleveland, OH 27.0%<br /> 5. Miami, FL 26.9%<br /> 5. St. Louis, MO 26.8%<br /> 7. El Paso, TX 26.4%<br /> 8. Milwaukee, WI 26.2%<br /> 9. Philadelphia, PA 25.1%<br /> 10. Newark, NJ 24.2%<br /><br />What do the top ten cities (over 250,000 pop.) with the highest poverty rate all have in common?<br /><br />Detroit, MI - (1st on poverty rate list) hasn't elected a Republican mayor since 1961<br /> Buffalo, NY - (2nd) hasn't elected one since 1954<br /> Cincinnati, OH - (3rd) not since 1984<br /> Cleveland, OH - (4th) not since 1989<br /> Miami, FL - (5th) has never had a Republican mayor<br /> St. Louis, MO - (6th) not since 1949<br /> El Paso, TX - (7th) has never had a Republican mayor<br /> Milwaukee, WI - (8th) not since 1908<br /> Philadelphia, PA - (9th) not since 1952<br /> Newark, NJ - (10th) not since 1907<br /><br />Einstein once said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.'<br /> It is the poor who habitually elect Democrats... Yet they are still POOR.<br /><br /> Part III:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /> "You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.<br /> You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.<br /> You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.<br /> You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.<br /> You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.<br /> You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's Initiative and independence.<br /> You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what They could and should do for themselves."<br /> ~Abraham Lincoln<br /><br />"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by<br /> Letting the government take care of him had better take a much closer look at the American Indian."<br /> ~Henry Ford<br /><br /><br /> Six trivia questions to see how much history you really know. Be honest; it's kind of fun and revealing. If you don't know the answer make your best guess. Answer all of the questions (no cheating) before looking at the answers. <br /><br />1) "We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." <br /><br />A. Karl Marx B. Adolph Hitler C. Joseph Stalin D. Barack Obama E. None of the above<br /><br />2) "It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few... And to replace it with shared responsibility, for shared prosperity."<br /><br />A. Lenin B. Mussolini C. Idi Amin D. Barack Obama E. None of the above<br /><br />3) "(We).... Can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."<br /><br />A. Nikita Khrushchev B. Joseph Goebbels C. Boris Yeltsin D. Barack Obama E. None of the above<br /><br />4) "We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own ... In order to create this common ground."<br /><br />A. Mao Tse Tung B. Hugo Chavez C. Kim Jong II D. Barack Obama E. None of the above<br /><br />5) "I certainly think the free-market has failed."<br /><br />A. Karl Marx B. Lenin C. Molotov D. Barack Obama E. None of the above<br /><br />6) "I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched."<br /><br />A. Pinochet B. Milosevic C. Saddam Hussein D. Barack Obama E. None of the above<br /><br /> No peeking!<br /><br />Scroll down for answers...<br /><br />... and the answers are:<br /><br /><br /> (1) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004<br /><br /><br /> (2) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007<br /><br /><br /> (3) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007<br /><br /><br /> (4) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007<br /><br /><br /> (5) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007<br /><br /><br /> (6) E. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005<br /><br /><br /> Do something for your country, forward this!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the wake of the Sandy Hook tragedy, President Obama issued a list of Executive Orders. Notably among them, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was given $10 million to research gun violence.<br /><br />“Year after year, those who oppose even modest gun-safety measures have threatened to defund scientific or medical research into the causes of gun violence, I will direct the Centers for Disease Control to go ahead and study the best ways to reduce it,” Obama said on Jan. 16.<br /><br />As a result, a 1996 Congressional ban on research by the CDC “to advocate or promote gun control” was lifted. Finally, anti-gun proponents—and presumably the Obama Administration—thought gun owners and the NRA would be met with irrefutable scientific evidence to support why guns make Americans less safe.<br /><br />Mainstream media outlets praised the order to lift the ban and lambasted the NRA and Congress for having put it in place.<br /><br />It was the “Executive Order the NRA Should Fear the Most,” according to The Atlantic.<br /><br />The CDC ban on gun research “caused lasting damage,” reported ABC News.<br /><br />Salon said the ban was part of the NRA’s “war on gun science.”<br /><br />And CBS News lamented that the NRA “stymied” CDC research.<br /><br />Most mainstream journalists argued the NRA’s opposition to CDC gun research demonstrated its fear of being contradicted by science; few—if any—cited why the NRA may have had legitimate concerns. The culture of the CDC at the time could hardly be described as lacking bias on firearms.<br /><br />“We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes,” Dr. Mark Rosenberg, who oversaw CDC gun research, told The Washington Post in 1994. “Now [smoking] is dirty, deadly and banned.”<br /><br />Does Rosenberg sound like a man who should be trusted to conduct taxpayer-funded studies on guns?<br /><br />Rosenberg’s statement coincided with a CDC study by Arthur Kellermann and Donald Reay, who argued guns in the home are 43 times more likely to be used to kill a family member than an intruder. The study had serious flaws; namely, it skewed the ratio by failing to consider defensive uses of firearms in which the intruder wasn’t killed. It has since been refuted by several studies, including one by Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck, indicating Americans use guns for self-defense 2.5 million times annually. However, the damage had been done—the “43 times” myth is perhaps gun-control advocates’ most commonly cited argument, and a lot of people still believe it to this day.<br /><br />So, the NRA and Congress took action. But with the ban lifted, what does the CDC’s first major gun research in 17 years reveal? Not exactly what Obama and anti-gun advocates expected. In fact, you might say Obama’s plan backfired.<br /><br />Here are some key findings from the CDC report, “Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence,” released in June:<br /><br /><b>1. Armed citizens are less likely to be injured by an attacker</b>:<br /> “Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns (i.e., incidents in which a gun was ‘used’ by the crime victim in the sense of attacking or threatening an offender) have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies.”<br /><br /><b>2. Defensive uses of guns are common</b>:<br /> “Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year…in the context of about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008.”<br /><br /><b>3. Mass shootings and accidental firearm deaths account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths, and both are declining</b>:</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> “The number of public mass shootings of the type that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School accounted for a very small fraction of all firearm-related deaths. Since 1983 there have been 78 events in which 4 or more individuals were killed by a single perpetrator in 1 day in the United States, resulting in 547 victims and 476 injured persons.” The report also notes, “Unintentional firearm-related deaths have steadily declined during the past century. The number of unintentional deaths due to firearm-related incidents accounted for less than 1 percent of all unintentional fatalities in 2010.”<br /><br /><b>4. “Interventions” (i.e, gun control) such as background checks, so-called assault rifle bans and gun-free zones produce “mixed” results</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> “Whether gun restrictions reduce firearm-related violence is an unresolved issue.” The report could not conclude whether “passage of right-to-carry laws decrease or increase violence crime.”<br /><br /><b>5. Gun buyback/turn-in programs are “ineffective” in reducing crime</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />“There is empirical evidence that gun turn in programs are ineffective, as noted in the 2005 NRC study Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review. For example, in 2009, an estimated 310 million guns were available to civilians in the United States (Krouse, 2012), but gun buy-back programs typically recover less than 1,000 guns (NRC, 2005). On the local level, buy-backs may increase awareness of firearm violence. However, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for example, guns recovered in the buy-back were not the same guns as those most often used in homicides and suicides (Kuhn et al., 2002).”<br /><br /><b>6. Stolen guns and retail/gun show purchases account for very little crime</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /> “More recent prisoner surveys suggest that stolen guns account for only a small percentage of guns used by convicted criminals. … According to a 1997 survey of inmates, approximately 70 percent of the guns used or possess by criminals at the time of their arrest came from family or friends, drug dealers, street purchases, or the underground market.”<br /><br /><b>7. The vast majority of gun-related deaths are not homicides, but suicides</b>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />“Between the years 2000-2010 firearm-related suicides significantly outnumbered homicides for all age groups, annually accounting for 61 percent of the more than 335,600 people who died from firearms related violence in the United States.”<br /><br />Why No One Has Heard This</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Given the CDC’s prior track record on guns, you may be surprised by the extent with which the new research refutes some of the anti-gun movement’s deepest convictions.<br /><br />What are opponents of the Second Amendment doing about the new data? Perhaps predictably, they’re ignoring it. President Obama, Michael Bloomberg and the Brady Campaign remain silent. Most suspicious of all, the various media outlets that so eagerly anticipated the CDC research are looking the other way as well. One must wonder how media coverage of the CDC report may have differed, had the research more closely fit an anti-gun narrative.<br /><br />Even worse, the few mainstream journalists who did report the CDC’s findings chose to cherry-pick from the data. Most, like NBC News, reported exclusively on the finding that gun suicides are up. Largely lost in that discussion is the fact that the overall rate of suicide—regardless of whether a gun is involved or not—is also up.<br /><br />Others seized upon the CDC’s finding that, “The U.S. rate of firearm-related homicide is higher than that of any other industrialized country: 19.5 times higher than the rates in other high-income countries.” However, as noted by the Las Vegas Guardian Express, if figures are excluded from such anti-gun bastions as Illinois, California, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., “The homicide rate in the United States would be in line with any other country.”<br /><br />The CDC report is overall a blow to the Obama Administration’s unconstitutional agenda. It largely supports the Second Amendment, and contradicts common anti-gun arguments. Unfortunately, mainstream media failed to get the story they were hoping for, and their silence on the matter is a screaming illustration of their underlying agenda.<br /><br />[Source: <a href="http://www.gunsandammo.com/politics/cdc-gun-research-backfires-on-obama/#ixzz42Y4AGjYg">http://www.gunsandammo.com/politics/cdc-gun-research-backfires-on-obama/#ixzz42Y4AGjYg</a>]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every year the French have a 4 day celebration in Normandy
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">June 6, 201</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,
the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">70</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">th anniversary of "D-Day", the largest
invasion ever attempted, where 200,000 Americans stormed the beaches at
Normandy to begin the final push to defeat Nazi Germany in WWII. D-Day marked
the turning point in WWII in Europe ... Today, European heads of state make it
a point to recall and honor the sacrifices of those who landed in Normandy , as
do our Presidents.... well, most of them....<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">70</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> years since D-Day, there</span><span style="color: #0000a0; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">six</span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">occasions when the President of the United States chose not to
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Barack Obama,
2010<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. Barack Obama,
2011<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. Barack Obama,
2012<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Barack Obama,
2013<br />
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<u><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2014 – 2015 Still too busy!</span></span></u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the past </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">70</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> years, every American President except Obama have taken
the time to honor the memory and sacrifices of the 6,000 American soldiers
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with the National Security team and was interviewed by WEWS Cleveland and WDIV
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Senatorial Campaign Committee in Palo Alto , CA , once again at our
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ELECTING A PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF: HE IS
ABSOLUTELY A DISGRACE TO ALL WHO FOUGHT FOR THIS NATION AND GAVE THEIR
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Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-3684515352585007752016-01-28T07:58:00.003-07:002016-01-28T07:58:58.910-07:00Are you dreaming about gun control?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace: none;">
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no more why all those young and stalwart men with such virility took on
the task of traveling all those miles (many without their womenfolk
and children)… <br /><br />They are coming to see y’all like they said they would, but not with a bouquet of flowers… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size: 12pt;">Cheers! </span></span>Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-72743870496193764012016-01-10T01:00:00.000-07:002016-01-10T01:00:08.427-07:00America's Hunters<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><br /><br /> <br />GOD BLESS AMERICA and GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS! <br /><br />Interesting slant on things... <br /><br />AMERICA'S HUNTERS <br /><br />Pretty Amazing! <br /><br /> <br />A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion: There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin ... Allow me to restate that number: 600,000! <br /> <br />Over the last several months, Wisconsin 's hunters became the 8th largest army in the world. <br /><br />(That's more men under arms than in Iran . More than France and Germany combined.) <br /> <br />These men, deployed to the woods of a single American state, Wisconsin , to hunt with firearms, And NO ONE WAS KILLED. <br /> <br />That number pales in comparison to the 750,000 who hunted the woods of Pennsylvania 's and Michigan 's 700,000 hunters, ALL OF WHOM HAVE RETURNED HOME SAFELY. <br /><br />Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it literally establishes the fact that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world. And then add in the total number of hunters in the other 46 states. It's millions more. <br /> <br /> ________ The point? ________ <br /> <br /> America will forever be safe from foreign invasion with that kind of home-grown firepower!</span><div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />Hunting... it's not just a way to fill the freezer. <br /><br /> It's also a matter of national security. <br /> <br />That's why all enemies, foreign and domestic, want to see us disarmed. Food for thought, when next we consider gun control. <br /><br />Overall it's true, so if we disregard some assumptions that hunters don't possess the same skills as soldiers, the question would still remain... <br /><br />What army of 2 million would want to face 30 million, 40 million, or 50 million armed citizens??? <br /><br />For the sake of our freedom, don't ever allow gun control or confiscation of guns. <br /><br />(If you agree, as I do, pass it on, I feel good that I have an army of millions who would protect our land, and I sure don't want the government taking control of the possession of firearms.) <br /><br />AMERICA! Designed by geniuses <br /><br />Now run by idiots <br /><br /> *Legalize common sense* <br /><br />Amendment II <br /><br />"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." <br /><br /> "IN GOD WE TRUST" <br /><br /><i>"Participating in a gun buy-back program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids." </i><br /> <b>- Clint Eastwood </b><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><b><span style="color: #1f497d;">History has a way of repeating itself<u5:p></u5:p></span></b></em><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>To understand radical Islam, you should start by understanding the
founder and prophet of Islam. Muhammad was no Jesus or Buddha. He was a warrior
who ordered the beheading of 900 Jews and took their wives and daughters as sex
slaves in a single battle.</b></em><u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>Look it up. The Qurayza genocide is just one example, but it’s a good
start. Tell that to the people who say ISIS does not represent Islam.</b></em><u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>… A few thousand Islamic warriors, no different from ISIS
today, brought down the super powers of the day, the Christian Byzantine
empire, modern-day Turkey, and the Zoroastrian Persian empire, modern Iran. And
it is estimated 100 million Hindus were killed in repeated Islamic invasions of
India.</b></em><u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>Islam spread within 100 years of its birth to cover most of the known
world, from Spain to India. It did not do this by peacefully spreading the word
of God, but through terror and destruction.</b></em><u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><em><b>… Stop making excuses that the attacks are because of the Iraq war or
because of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. Islam has been attacking
and trying to conquer Europe for 1,000 years.</b></em><u5:p></u5:p><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-50693502070658906262016-01-01T01:30:00.000-07:002016-01-01T01:30:15.396-07:00Lights Out: Power Grid Attack Precursor to the Collapse<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The below article is from the Associated Press Investigative Team and highlights how the U.S. could go from normal to a collapse in one day (or less). Have you read Lights Out? One Second After? Both take you through a EMP - Power Out scenario. Attacks on the U.S. power grid, if sosphicated enough, could cause the same scenarios to ring true. Be Prepared. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AP Investigation: <b>US Power Grid Vulnerable to Foreign Hacks</b></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Source: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ap-investigation-us-power-grid-vulnerable-foreign-hacks-35882487]</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Security researcher Brian Wallace was on the trail of hackers who had snatched a California university's housing files when he stumbled into a larger nightmare: Cyberattackers had opened a pathway into the networks running the United States power grid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Digital clues pointed to Iranian hackers. And Wallace found that they had already taken passwords, as well as engineering drawings of dozens of power plants, at least one with the title "Mission Critical." The drawings were so detailed that experts say skilled attackers could have used them, along with other tools and malicious code, to knock out electricity flowing to millions of homes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wallace was astonished. But this breach, The Associated Press has found, was not unique.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About a dozen times in the last decade, sophisticated foreign hackers have gained enough remote access to control the operations networks that keep the lights on, according to top experts who spoke only on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject matter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The public almost never learns the details about these types of attacks — they're rarer but also more intricate and potentially dangerous than data theft. Information about the government's response to these hacks is often protected and sometimes classified; many are never even reported to the government.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These intrusions have not caused the kind of cascading blackouts that are feared by the intelligence community. But so many attackers have stowed away in the largely investor-owned systems that run the U.S. electric grid that experts say they likely have the capability to strike at will.
And that's what worries Wallace and other cybersecurity experts most.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"If the geopolitical situation changes and Iran wants to target these facilities, if they have this kind of information it will make it a lot easier," said Robert M. Lee, a former U.S. Air Force cyberwarfare operations officer. "It will also help them stay quiet and stealthy inside."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2012 and 2013, in well-publicized attacks, Russian hackers successfully sent and received encrypted commands to U.S. public utilities and power generators; some private firms concluded this was an effort to position interlopers to act in the event of a political crisis. And the Department of Homeland Security announced about a year ago that a separate hacking campaign, believed by some private firms to have Russian origins, had injected software with malware that allowed the attackers to spy on U.S. energy companies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"You want to be stealth," said Lillian Ablon, a cybersecurity expert at the RAND Corporation. "That's the ultimate power, because when you need to do something you are already in place."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The hackers have gained access to an aging, outdated power system. Many of the substations and equipment that move power across the U.S. are decrepit and were never built with network security in mind; hooking the plants up to the Internet over the last decade has given hackers new backdoors in. Distant wind farms, home solar panels, smart meters and other networked devices must be remotely monitored and controlled, which opens up the broader system to fresh points of attack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hundreds of contractors sell software and equipment to energy companies, and attackers have successfully used those outside companies as a way to get inside networks tied to the grid.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Attributing attacks is notoriously tricky. Neither U.S. officials nor cybersecurity experts would or could say if the Islamic Republic of Iran was involved in the attack Wallace discovered involving Calpine Corp., a power producer with 82 plants operating in 18 states and Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Private firms have alleged other recent hacks of networks and machinery tied to the U.S. power grid were carried out by teams from within Russia and China, some with governmental support.v
Even the Islamic State group is trying to hack American power companies, a top Homeland Security official told industry executives in October.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Homeland Security spokesman SY Lee said that his agency is coordinating efforts to strengthen grid cybersecurity nationwide and to raise awareness about evolving threats to the electric sector through industry trainings and risk assessments. As Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas acknowledged in an interview, however, "we are not where we need to be" on cybersecurity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's partly because the grid is largely privately owned and has entire sections that fall outside federal regulation, which experts argue leaves the industry poorly defended against a growing universe of hackers seeking to access its networks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As Deputy Energy Secretary Elizabeth Sherwood Randall said in a speech earlier this year, "If we don't protect the energy sector, we are putting every other sector of the economy in peril."</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">THE CALPINE BREACH </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The AP looked at the vulnerability of the energy grid as part of a yearlong, AP-Associated Press Media Editors examination of the state of the nation's infrastructure. AP conducted more than 120 interviews and examined dozens of sets of data, government reports and private analyses to gauge whether the industry is prepared to defend against cyberattacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The attack involving Calpine is particularly disturbing because the cyberspies grabbed so much, according to interviews and previously unreported documents.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cybersecurity experts say the breach began at least as far back as August 2013, and could still be going on today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Calpine spokesman Brett Kerr said the company's information was stolen from a contractor that does business with Calpine. He said the stolen diagrams and passwords were old — some diagrams dated to 2002 — and presented no threat, though some outside experts disagree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kerr would not say whether the configuration of the power plants' operations networks — also valuable information — remained the same as when the intrusion occurred, or whether it was possible the attackers still had a foothold.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to the AP investigation, the hackers got:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—User names and passwords that could be used to connect remotely to Calpine's networks, which were being maintained by a data security company. Even if some of the information was outdated, experts say skilled hackers could have found a way to update the passwords and slip past firewalls to get into the operations network. Eventually, they say, the intruders could shut down generating stations, foul communications networks and possibly cause a blackout near the plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Detailed engineering drawings of networks and power stations from New York to California — 71 in all — showing the precise location of devices that communicate with gas turbines, boilers and other crucial equipment attackers would need to hack specific plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—Additional diagrams showing how those local plants transmit information back to the company's virtual cloud, knowledge attackers could use to mask their activity. For example, one map shows how information flows from the Agnews power plant in San Jose, California, near the San Francisco 49ers football stadium, to the company headquarters in Houston.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wallace first came across the breach while tracking a new strain of noxious software that had been used to steal student housing files at the University of California, Santa Barbara.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I saw a mention in our logs that the attackers stored their malware in some FTP servers online," said Wallace, who had recently joined the Irvine, Calif.-based cybersecurity firm Cylance, Inc., fresh out of college. "It wasn't even my job to look into it, but I just thought there had to be something more there."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wallace started digging. Soon, he found the FTP servers, typically used to transfer large numbers of files back and forth across the Internet, and the hackers' ill-gotten data — a tranche of more than 19,000 stolen files from thousands of computers across the world, including key documents from Calpine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before Wallace could dive into the files, his first priority was to track where the hackers would strike next — and try to stop them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He started staying up nights, often jittery on Red Bull, to reverse-engineer malware. He waited to get pinged that the intruders were at it again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Months later, Wallace got the alert: From Internet Protocol addresses in Tehran, the hackers had deployed TinyZbot, a Trojan horse-style of software that the attackers used to gain backdoor access to their targets, log their keystrokes and take screen shots of their information. The hacking group, he would find, included members in the Netherlands, Canada, and the United Kingdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The more he followed their trail, the more nervous Wallace got. According to Cylance, the intruders had launched digital offensives that netted information about Pakistan International Airlines, the Mexican oil giant Pemex, the Israel Institute of Technology and Navy Marine Corps Intranet, a legacy network of the U.S. military. None of the four responded to AP's request for comment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then he discovered evidence of the attackers' most terrifying heist — a folder containing dozens of engineers' diagrams of the Calpine power plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">According to multiple sources, the drawings contained user names and passwords that an intruder would need to break through a firewall separating Calpine's communications and operations networks, then move around in the network where the turbines are controlled. The schematics also displayed the locations of devices inside the plants' process control networks that receive information from power-generating equipment. With those details, experts say skilled hackers could have penetrated the operations network and eventually shut down generating stations, possibly causing a blackout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cylance researchers said the intruders stored their stolen goods on seven unencrypted FTP servers requiring no authentication to access details about Calpine's plants. Jumbled in the folders was code that could be used to spread malware to other companies without being traced back to the attackers' computers, as well as handcrafted software designed to mask that the Internet Protocol addresses they were using were in Iran.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Circumstantial evidence such as snippets of Persian comments in the code helped investigators conclude that Iran was the source of the attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Calpine didn't know its information had been compromised until it was informed by Cylance, Kerr said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Iranian U.N. Mission spokesman Hamid Babaei did not return calls or address questions emailed by AP.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cylance notified the FBI, which warned the U.S. energy sector in an unclassified bulletin last December that a group using Iran-based IP addresses had targeted the industry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether there was any connection between the Iranian government and the individual hackers who Wallace traced — with the usernames parviz, Alireza, Kaj, Salman Ghazikhani and Bahman Mohebbi — is unclear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>A 'LUCRATIVE' TARGET</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cyberattacks designed to steal information are steadily growing in scope and frequency; there have been high-profile hacks of Target, eBay and federal targets such as the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. But assaults on the power grid and other critical infrastructure aim to go a step further.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Trained, well-funded adversaries can gain control of physical assets — power plants, substations and transmission equipment. With extensive control, they could knock out the electricity vital to daily life and the economy, and endanger the flow of power to mass transportation, military installations and home refrigerators.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the summer of 2014, a hacker of unknown origin, using masking software called Tor, took over the controls of a large utility's wind farm, according to a former industry compliance official who reviewed a report that was scrubbed of the utility's name. The hacker then changed an important setting, called the automatic voltage regulator, from "automatic" to "manual," he said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That seemingly simple change to any power plant can damage the generator and destabilize parts of the nearby grid if the plant's output is high enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last year, Homeland Security released several maps that showed a virtual hit list of critical infrastructure, including two substations in the San Francisco Bay area, water and gas pipelines and a refinery. And according to a previously reported study by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, a coordinated attack on just nine critical power stations could cause a coast-to-coast blackout that could last months, far longer than the one that plunged the Northeast into darkness in 2003.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"The grid is a tough target, but a lucrative target," said Keith Alexander, the former director of the National Security Agency who now runs a cybersecurity firm. The number of sophisticated attacks is growing, he said. "There is a constant, steady upbeat. I see a rising tide."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No one claims that it would be easy to bring down the grid. To circumvent companies' security, adversaries must understand the networks well enough to write code that can communicate with tiny computers that control generators and other major equipment. Even then, it's difficult to cause a widespread blackout because the grid is designed to keep electricity flowing when equipment or lines go down, an almost daily occurrence that customers never see.
Because it would take such expertise to plunge a city or region into darkness, some say threats to the grid are overstated — in particular, by those who get paid to help companies protect their networks. Still, even those who said the risks of cyber threats can be exaggerated agree it is possible for cyberattackers to cause a large-scale blackout.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And nearly everyone agrees that there are weaknesses that open the door to malefactors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Traditional central power stations and transmission systems include equipment that is decades old and physically unable to handle electronic threats. Some run on machines that use software that is so old that malware protections don't exist, such as Windows '95 and FORTRAN, a programming language developed in the 1950s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the Tennessee Valley Authority, a corporation owned by the federal government that powers 9 million households in the southeastern U.S., a former operations security expert said in recent years he saw passwords for some key operating systems stored on sticky notes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Some of the control systems boot off of floppy disks," said Patrick Miller, who has evaluated hydroelectric dam cybersecurity for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Army Corps of Engineers. "Some dams have modeling systems that run on something that looks like a washing machine hooked up to tape spools. It looks like the early NASA stuff that went to the moon."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The rush to tie smart meters, home programmable thermostats and other smart appliances to the grid also is causing fresh vulnerabilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">About 45 percent of homes in the U.S. are hooked up to a smart meter, which measures electricity usage and shares information with the grid. The grid uses that information to adjust output or limit power deliveries to customers during peak hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those meters are relatively simple by design, mostly to keep their cost low, but their security is flimsy. Some can be hacked by plugging in an adapter that costs $30 on eBay, researchers say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">FERC recently raised concerns about another area that is not covered by federal cybersecurity rules: contractors that sell energy companies software and equipment. As is evident from the Calpine incident, attackers have used outside companies to pull off hacks against energy companies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"We've got these vulnerable systems out there that are old and never had security built into them, and now we're exposing them </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to a wider audience," said Justin Lowe, a utility cybersecurity expert at PA Consulting Group.
"That wider audience is getting much more hostile."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>DEFENDING THE GRID</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The full extent of the attacks on the grid is not public knowledge. A Freedom of Information Act request by the AP for information regarding any FBI investigations of such hacks was not fulfilled. The Department of Justice said that agency kept no record of how often any such cases had been prosecuted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which oversees the reliability of the electrical sector, collects information about cyber incidents involving utilities and other users, owners, and operators of the bulk power system — but it is scrubbed of identifying information and details are confidential and exempt from disclosure under FOIA.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Authorities say they take the threat seriously. In response to a FOIA request, Homeland Security said it had helped more than 100 energy and chemical companies improve their cyber defenses, and held both classified and unclassified briefings in June 2013 and late 2014 on threats to companies associated with power grid operations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A small DHS team compiles statistics about hacks and vulnerabilities on control systems powering the grid and other public infrastructure, and responds to some attacks. But former federal employees who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the information was sensitive said government red tape kept the team from thoroughly responding to the smaller municipal and rural utilities that most needed their help, and that the statistics overstated the agency's grasp of the problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The companies themselves say they are vigilant — though they caution no fortifications are foolproof.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Early this year, an operations supervisor in Virginia for a subsidiary of American Electric Power — the nation's largest power grid operator, with operations in 38 states — opened a personal email on a company laptop and unwittingly downloaded a piece of malware called CryptoLocker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Known as "ransomware," CryptoLocker is a relatively common type of malware that reaches to outside servers, usually overseas, and downloads encryption instructions that scramble a computer's contents, making them inaccessible to anyone without a specific "key." The malware then moves through a computer — and computer network — and encrypts all the files it can, keeping users from accessing anything.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In exchange for a fee, the hackers provide the victim a key that allows the files to be unlocked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Members of AEP's cyber-security team — housed in the company's Columbus, Ohio, headquarters behind an unmarked door that unlocks with a fingerprint scanner — saw the strange network behavior as soon as it started.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"When you see this (code) attempting to hit thousands of systems outside of the AEP network, that's a 'holy crap' moment," said Sean Parcel, AEP's lead cyberinvestigator.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Had CryptoLocker wormed its way into AEP's system, the business and operations networks could have locked up, experts say.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But Parcel said AEP's cyberteam already had blocked the foreign addresses that the malware needed to reach to start encrypting files, part of a policy of systematically blocking hundreds of Internet Protocol addresses each week to keep employees from inadvertently downloading malicious code.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AEP said the team remotely isolated and erased the supervisor's computer before its systems were affected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like most big utilities, AEP's power plants, substations and other vital equipment are managed by a network that is separated from the company's business software with layers of authentication, and is not accessible via the Internet. Creating that separation, and making sure that separation is maintained, is among the most important things utilities can do to protect the grid's physical assets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But cybersecurity experts say the protective gaps between computer systems that manage utilities' business operations and machines that manage their grids are not always as wide or as unbridgeable as utilities say they are. And even the utilities' own experts, who maintain it would be extraordinarily difficult for a hacker to knock out power to customers, admit there is always a way in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"If the motivation is high enough on the attacker side, and they have funding to accomplish their mission," Parcel said, "they will find a way."</span><br />
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Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-78089967374351557942015-12-21T01:00:00.000-07:002015-12-21T01:00:06.740-07:00A Nugget On Global Warming<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Pleasure
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I neglected
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by the AP and
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Has this
awful cataclysm been caused by Ford's Model-T emissions or, perhaps, from horse
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Charliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00177364539498093342noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3988117307462740731.post-41789633081053039222015-12-15T01:00:00.000-07:002015-12-15T01:00:03.704-07:00A Muslim Speaks on Evils of Islam...<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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I was born and raised as Muslim.<br />My whole family is still Muslim.<br />I know every genetic code of Muslim.<br />I know Islamic brain.<br />I live and breathe with them.<br />I am an insider.<br />I left Islam when I understood that Islam is a sick and evil religion.<br />The following are the Islamic message to the West.<br />To the infidels of the West:<br />The Constitution for the new Islamic Republics of EuroArabia and AmerIslamia is under construction.<br />We will fight the infidel to death.<br />- Meanwhile American laws will protect us.<br />- Democrats and Leftist will support us.<br />- N.G.O.s will legitimize us.<br />- C.A.I.R. will incubate us.<br />- The A.C.L.U. will empower us.<br />- Western Universities will educate us.<br />- Mosques will shelter us<br />- O.P.E.C. will finance us<br />- Hollywood will love us.<br />- Kofi Annan and most of the United Nations will cover our asses.<br />Our children will immigrate from Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Indonesia and even from India to the US and to the other Western countries.<br />They will go to the West for education in full scholarship.<br />America is paying and will continue to pay for our children’s educations and their upbringing in state funded Islamic schools.<br />We will use your welfare system.<br />Our children will also send money home while they are preparing for Jihad.<br />We will take the advantage of American kindness, gullibility, and compassion. When time comes, we will stab them in the back.<br />We will say one thing on the camera and teach another thing to our children at home.<br />We will give subliminal messages to our children to uphold Islam at any cost.<br />Our children in America will always care more about Islamic Country’s interest than US interest.<br />We will teach our children Islamic supremacy from the very childhood.<br />We will teach them not to compromise with Infidel.<br />Once we do that from the very early age our children won’t hesitate to be martyr.<br />We will take over the Europe first and then US will be the next.<br />We already have a solid ground in the UK, Holland, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Germany, and now in the US.<br />Our children will marry Caucasian in Europe and in America.<br />We will mixed with intricate fabric of the Western society but still will remember to Jihad when time comes.<br />Who are we?<br />We are the “sleeper cells”.<br />We will raise our children to be loyal to Islam and Mohammad only.<br />Everything else is secondary.<br />At the time of the real fight we will hold our own children as our armor.<br />When American or Israeli troops shoot at us the world will be watching. Imagine,…<br />Imagine the news in the world “Death of Muslim babies by infidels”.<br />We know CNN, ABC, CBS are broadcasting live.<br />Al-Jazeera will pour gasoline on the fire.<br />The news will spread like wildfire.<br />“Americans killed 6 babies, 10 babies”. “Jews killed two women”,<br />Keep your Nukes in your curio cabinets.<br />Keep your aircraft carrier or high-tech weaponry in the showcase.<br />You can't use them against us because of your own higher moral standard.<br />We will take the advantage of your higher moral standard and use it against you.<br />We won’t hesitate to use our children as suicide bomber against you.<br />Visualize the news flash all over the world, …<br />Moslem mother is sobbing, ….crying. ….<br />Her babies are killed by Jews and Americans, the whole world is watching live.<br />Hundreds of millions of Muslims all around the world are boiling.<br />They will march through Europe.<br />We will use our women to produce more babies who will in turn be used as armor/shield.<br />Our babies are the gift from Allah for Jihad.<br />West manufactures their tanks in the factory.<br />We will manufacture our military force by natural means, by producing more babies.<br />That is the way it is cheaper.<br />You infidels at this site cannot defeat us.<br />We are 1.2 billion.<br />We will double again.<br />Do you have enough bullets to kill us?<br />On the camera:<br />- We will always say, “Islam is the religion of Peace.”<br />- We will say, “Jihad is actually inner Jihad.”<br />- Moderate Muslim will say there is no link between Islam and Terrorism and the<br />West will believe it because the West is so gullible.<br />- Moderate Muslim all over the world will incubate Jihadist by their talk by defending Islam.<br />- Using Western Legal system we will assert our Sharia Laws, slowly but surely.<br />- We will increase in number. We will double again.<br />You will be impressed when you meet a moderate Muslim personally.<br />As your next-door neighbor, coworker, student, teacher, engineer, professionals you may even like us.<br />You will find us well mannered, polite, humble that will make you say, “wow, Muslims are good and peaceful people”,<br />But, we will stab you in your back when you are sleeping as we did on 911.<br />There will be more 911 in Europe and in America.<br />We will say, “We do not support terrorism but America got what it deserved.”<br />Muslims, CAIR, ISNA, MPAC and other international Islamic Organization will unite.<br />We will partner with Leftist, ACLU, with Koffi Annan, and the UN, and if we have to then even with France. Fasten your seatbelt.<br />The war of civilizations has just begun.<br />We will recite Quran and say Allah-Hu-Akbar before beheading infidels, as we have been doing it.<br />We will video tape those and send it to all infidels to watch.<br />They will surrender - ISLAM means surrender.<br />We will use your own values of kindness against you.<br />You are destined to lose.</div>
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