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[aedens]

Current:
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the United States Monday of living beyond its means "like a parasite" on the global economy and said dollar dominance was a threat to the financial markets.

Tue Jun 02, 2009
As we warned from Father Martin on what you wish to ignore at your expense from the 80's message he conveyed.

"The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination of Western politicians. For this reason Western politicians cannot grasp the fact that the Soviet intention is to win by 'democratic' means. Through transition to a new system, the Soviets are revitalising their own people and institutions, and they are succeeding. Contrary to Western belief, they are holding their ranks together."
Anatoliy Golitsyn The Perestroika Deception 1990

Nationwide, there are factories and joint ventures with at least 11 foreign automakers, including General Motors, which opened a $300 million plant near St. Petersburg in November. In general, then-President Vladimir Putin set the stage for this politically driven historical bias when he referred to the collapse of the Soviet Union as the "greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century." Regarding questions of history, it seems that Medvedev is dutifully following in Putin's footsteps. And this once again demonstrates who is really calling the shots in the country.
You just got to love the Moscow press. All spectrum's of Government to date are the same over sized and over confident China included. These events are going to bite them in the ass sooner or later. As stated fixed capital until October...
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/600/42/377681.htm <-------- have your malware up to date
Nissan is the third carmaker to build a plant in St. Petersburg after Toyota and Ford, prompting Matviyenko to declare at the ceremony that the city had built a copy of Detroit. Think about that Taxpayer. Keep voting the way you do.

[aedens]

[quote="OLD1953"]Everything is supposed to look like noise after encryption, that's certain.

The discovery of this threat should remind Mac users to carefully consider security and the real-life consequences of getting pwned. Remember, this type of threats are on the mission, and this is not cybercriminal that monetize infection nor steals money.

They kill you

[OLD1953]

Mostly seeking information I'd say.

Setting any external firewall to alarm every time an attempt to attach to a port is denied from the internet is to guarantee yourself an unending series of alarms. I'm told the uninfected lifetime of bare (no patches, no service packs) NT4, Server 2000 and Server 2003 is about two minutes on an open connection to the internet, I believe it. I seriously doubt a five year old Redhat install with neither patches nor antivirus would fare any better.

It's entirely possible the next attack on the US will be wholly cyber, and wholly successful. Suppose we got up tomorrow, and all data for all accounts on Wall Street and every account in every one of the top fifty banks was erased, then what? How about an attack on the Fed or the Treasury or both? That kind of thing could make us all crash and burn very quickly.

Wrote that nearly 24 hrs ago, I did not know this was being released, had no clue about it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43998147/ns ... ed-un-hit/

Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world.
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If that doesn't make the market tank, it's because the brokers are taking drugs or are drunk.

[Higgenbotham]

> My temporary run of luck has come to an end as the S&P closed at
> 1353 today and I am still short from just over 1320. An old
> gambler once told me that gambling is streaky.

I've been worried about you all day, Higgie, when I saw what the stock
market was doing.

John

Covered all shorts from just over 1320. The S&P is now at 1257.

It's showing some signs that it can crash from here but I'm guessing there will be a rebound for a few days or weeks, then the real trouble will hit around November.

It's very volatile and I could change my mind at any time.

[Higgenbotham]

Covered all shorts from just over 1320. The S&P is now at 1257.

Futures moved up a quick 10 points and I went short again.

[John]

This is some relief rally, huh higgie? - John

[Higgenbotham]

Covered all shorts from just over 1320. The S&P is now at 1257.

Futures moved up a quick 10 points and I went short again.

Just covered all shorts again 40 points lower from where they were when I posted this last trade (S&P is now 1225).

This is some relief rally, huh higgie? - John

Good thing I didn't blink or I would have missed it.

Let's see if there's a bounce here.

Edit: I will now wait once again for a rebound of a few days or weeks.

[jcsok]

Higgie:

I've been in and out, scared, wrong, almost dumb enough to try the long once (very briefly Sunday night), finally went back short yesterday for 1/2 position at 1262 last night, was already short 6JU and 6EU; out of GCLU; out of short GF; its been a long struggle, but the generational aspect of the world markets imploding looks to be beginning. Trichet talked nonsense earlier, the ECB won't have the ability to issue debt when the euro implodes.

[Higgenbotham]

Higgie:

I've been in and out, scared, wrong, almost dumb enough to try the long once (very briefly Sunday night), finally went back short yesterday for 1/2 position at 1262 last night, was already short 6JU and 6EU; out of GCLU; out of short GF; its been a long struggle, but the generational aspect of the world markets imploding looks to be beginning. Trichet talked nonsense earlier, the ECB won't have the ability to issue debt when the euro implodes.

No doubt in my mind it could be melting down.

I'm completely in cash at the moment (still out of shorts). The question I always ask myself when I cover shorts is: What will I do if the market heads straight down and never comes back? The answer needs to be "nothing and I'm OK with that". My first rule in trading is not to chase markets because it puts me on the wrong side emotionally. If it heads straight down from here, I'll be a little better off than in 2009 and prior, but a whole lot better off if/when the bubbles finally break for good. I can still envision an early morning intervention maybe along with an employment report that gets spun off as better than expected and then we're back to square one fighting this bubble from higher levels than where I got out.

The second thing I'm keeping in mind is 2007/8 was a US based problem so while our markets may get hit, they may not get hit as hard immediately as if the problem were in the US. That may wait until Fall. The US may have some safe haven status and may see some money flow as Britain did in the 1930s.

[aedens]

"This is the biggest transfer of wealth in terms of intellectual property in history," he said. "The scale at which this is occurring is really, really frightening."
From the msn article. This has been a reality for longer than they convey. Over all the article was typical.
Yes there are black hats out there but as I conveyed these kids today have a short view of reality.

I was out July 18th guys on equity, luck and numbers I guess. Lemming alert was posted that date.
If you are not planning the grand childrens inheritance why would they care about today alone?
Until politics figures out democrats and republicans are the issue it cannot repair itself
and the public already knows this. The bent of mind for the secular inertia has moved to
you will pay the price. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/whitehallII/
The divide will consume capital and not find solutions on a political level
since the State always has the solution. The disconnects are staggering
and many more realities are out there. It was said when the wall fell
it would take three generations to remove the void of the group dynamics.
A friend on mine conveyed as Isreal in the desert. On that we could agree.

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