Cocktails & Popcorn: Reporting From The Front Lines Of The "Colored" Revolution - Apple Triggers Market Redirection - Blackstone Admits Predictive Modeling Is Crap

"You breached the children's trust
using that predictive modeling crap."

When you hear Bryon Weir of The Blackstone Group talking about a shift away from using algorithms and that entire predictive modeling crap in the investment models, you know you better go to the store and gets some buttery popcorn to go with the big gun psyoptics.

Yes, we are about to have us another #cyberwar because "The  Sagacious Economic Ones" [(SEO) facepalm] refuse to believe that you cannot predict human behavior.

They like to lump and dump variables by managing their asset databases of race, formerly known as the ship manifest.

See, it goes like this.

The Privateers came in and pilfered our national treasury by stealin' the children, the land and the votes, in the name of the tax exempt god, sailed off with the chattels in their UCCs to maximize revenues for their trafficking tiny human Social Impact Bonds to fund their campaigns to seize the assets of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth).

"The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) were not producing more of "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) because declining birth rates and infant mortality, so the consumer base shrank, again.

“We advocate for human rights, because Apple has always been about making products for everyone. And, arguably, if people are treated as second-class citizens in any part of the world, then it’s kind of hard to accomplish that objective. 

We believe education is a great equalizer. And so we try our best to bring education to the mainstream. And right now our major thrust is in coding because we think that coding is the sort of the second language for everyone in the world. And that’s regardless of whether they’re in technology or not. I think that you don’t have to be in technology for coding to be very important.” Tim Cook

So, "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) could not afford to buy the goods, let alone the data plans, so they went out and bought cocktails & popcorn, instead.

Then the Apple fell from the tree (which never set up a NGO) and the markets when into generational shock because it realized it was all a fraud.

The debt is fake and the markets know we  know, that they know, we know...........

Yes, that is correct, it is time to crack that brew and open that dollar store bag of popcorn because we are about to have ourselves another psyoptic!

Yes, as the rising power of an Ethical Leviathan,  the markets are waking up to the legal reality that if you do not stop stealin' they have their right to bear arms terminated, and their UCC fleets seized under treason, or rather the reanimated powers of the national treasuries, as "The Poors" (always said with clinched teeth) will bear witness, as original sources, through their voice of a price point, that these Privateers have breached the trust, which belong to the children.

See, that is a legal model for the intelligence community to help them stop stealin' which is why the markets are freakin' out.

We have yet to even scratch the surface of the industry of trafficking tiny humans and Her Flatulent Boviness, Sheila Jackson Lee, has issued the formal proclamation of the land that we are about to enter the era of "colored" wars, which will be just another chapter in #cyberwars.

So, expect yourself doozie when it comes to the next psyoptic "colored" propaganda campaign because there is so much more drama to come.

Just wait for Detroit.

There is no place like Detroit.

Here’s what every major analyst thinks of Apple’s warning on iPhone sales. ‘Biggest miss in years’

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The Paradise Papers Are Out!

THE 1 PERCENT

Offshore Trove Exposes Trump-Russia Links And Piggy Banks Of The Wealthiest 1 Percent

A new leak of confidential records reveals the financial hideaways of iconic brands and power brokers across the political spectrum.

A trove of 13.4 million records exposes ties between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump’s billionaire commerce secretary, the secret dealings of the chief fundraiser for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the offshore interests of the queen of England and more than 120 politicians around the world.

The leaked documents, dubbed the Paradise Papers, show how deeply the offshore financial system is entangled with the overlapping worlds of political players, private wealth and corporate giants, including Apple, Nike, Uber and other global companies that avoid taxes through increasingly imaginative bookkeeping maneuvers.

One offshore web leads to Trump’s commerce secretary, private equity tycoon Wilbur Ross, who has a stake in a shipping company that has received more than $68 million in revenue since 2014 from a Russian energy company co-owned by the son-in-law of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In all, the offshore ties of more than a dozen Trump advisers, Cabinet members and major donors appear in the leaked data.

The new files come from two offshore services firms as well as from 19 corporate registries maintained by governments in jurisdictions that serve as waystations in the global shadow economy.

 The leaks were obtained by German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and a network of more than 380 journalists in 67 countries.

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Watch This: Access Blocked To Public Right To Video

That's right, America!

You wanted police body cameras and you got it.

You think you can document public corruption, well think again.

While you were sleeping, or probably out in the streets enjoying the fashionable public protests of being part of the Black Lives Matters movement, all because you are just now finding out about what goes on in the lives of people, daily, for the last, oh hum, 400 years, you missed the latest move in stripping rights.

First it was your parental rights, then it was voting rights, next came property (land, water, air, economic) rights, now it is intellectual property rights.

When police use body cams, who shall be the keeper of the record and will there be copyright infringement of public use in the midst of a criminal proceeding.

I could generate a bunch of different plausible scenarios for you to sit around your campfire, sharing your stories of "inner city grit" sipping on a Starbucks chai latte at your next scheduled BLM protest on your i-Phone, or I can just let you know that this is another one of those "day-late-and-dollar-short" situations for "The Elected Ones" to ignore.

Minnesota already passed legislation.

The rest of the socio-economic policy test tube states are ready for replication and Michigan is one of them.

 

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Statement of Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. Full Committee Hearing: “The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy”

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman.  I want to associate myself with your comments about our jurisdiction. 

“It is not an accident that the House Judiciary Committee is the committee of primary jurisdiction with respect to the legal architecture of government surveillance. 

“In times of heightened tension, many of our colleagues will rush to do something, anything, to get out in front of an issue.  We welcome their voices in the debate—but it is here, in this Committee room, that the House begins to make decisions about the tools and methods available to law enforcement.

“I believe that it is important to say up front, before we get into the details of the Apple case, that strong encryption keeps us safe even as it protects our privacy. 

“Former NSA Director Michael Hayden said last week that ‘America is more secure . . . with unbreakable end-to-end encryption.’

“In this room, just last Thursday, former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff testified that, in his experience, strong encryption helps law enforcement more than it hinders any agency in any given case.

“The National Security Council has concluded that ‘the benefits to privacy, civil liberties, and cybersecurity gained from encryption outweigh the broader risks . . . created by weakening encryption.’

           

            “And Director Comey has put it very plainly:

‘Universal strong encryption will protect all of us—our innovation, our private thoughts, and so many other things of value—from thieves of all kinds.  We will all have lock-boxes in our lives that only we can open and in which we can store all that is valuable to us.  There are lots of good things about this.’

“Now, for years, despite what we know about the benefits of encryption, the Department of Justice and the FBI have urged this Committee to give them the authority to mandate that companies create back doors into their secure products. 

“I have been reluctant to support this idea for a number of reasons.  The technical experts have warned us that it is impossible to intentionally introduce flaws into secure products—often called ‘back doors’—that only law enforcement can exploit, to the exclusion of terrorists and cyber criminals. 

“The tech companies have warned us that it would cost millions of dollars to implement and would place them at a competitive disadvantage around the world. 

“The national security experts have warned us that terrorists and other criminals will simply resort to other tools, entirely outside the reach of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

“And I accept that reasonable people can disagree with me on each of these points.

“What concerns me, Mr. Chairman, is that in the middle of an ongoing congressional debate on this subject, the FBI would ask a federal magistrate to give them the special access to secure products that this Committee, this Congress, and the Administration have so far refused to provide.

“Why has the government taken this step and forced this issue?  I suspect that part of the answer lies in an email obtained by the Washington Post and reported to the public last September. 

“In it, a senior lawyer in the intelligence community writes that although ‘the legislative environment towards encryption is very hostile today . . . it could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be shown to have hindered law enforcement.’

“He concluded that there is value in ‘keeping our options open for such a situation.’

“I am deeply concerned by this cynical mindset.  And I would be deeply disappointed if it turns out that the government is found to be exploiting a national tragedy to pursue a change in the law.

“I also have doubts about the wisdom of applying the All Writs Act—which was enacted in 1789, codified in 1911, and last applied to a communications provider by the Supreme Court in 1977—to a profound question about privacy and modern computing in 2016.

“I fear that pursuing this serious and complex issue through the awkward use of an inapt statute was not, and is not, the best course of action.

“I am not alone in this view.  Yesterday, in the Eastern District of New York, a federal judge denied a motion to order Apple to unlock an iPhone under circumstances similar to those in San Bernardino.

“The court found that the All Writs Act, as construed by the government, would confer on the courts an ‘overbroad authority to override individual autonomy.’

“Moreover, ‘nothing in the government’s argument suggests any principled limit on how far a court may go in requiring a person or company to violate the most deeply-rooted values.’

“We could say the same about the FBI’s request in California.  The government’s assertion of power is without limiting principle and likely to have sweeping consequences—whether or not we pretend that the request is limited to just this device, or just this one case.

“This Committee, and not the courts, is the appropriate place to consider those consequences—even if the dialogue does not yield the result desired by some in the law enforcement community.

“I am grateful that we are having this conversation today, back in the forum in which it belongs: the House Judiciary Committee.  I thank the Chairman, and I yield back.”

Testimony of Bruce Sewell Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Apple on iPhone Encryption March 1,...

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House Judiciary Committee to Hold Hearing on Encryption

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

Washington, D.C.  – On Tuesday, March 1, 2016 at 1:00 p.m., the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing titled “The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy.” The House Judiciary Committee previously held member briefings on encryption, which included a briefing from technology companies and a classified briefing from the government. 

Below is a statement from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) on this hearing.

“The widespread use of strong encryption has implications both for Americans’ privacy and security. As technology companies have made great strides to enhance the security of Americans’ personal and private information, law enforcement agencies face new challenges when attempting to access encrypted information. Americans have a right to strong privacy protections and Congress should fully examine the issue to be sure those are in place while finding ways to help law enforcement fight crime and keep us safe.

“Next week, the House Judiciary Committee will continue its examination of encryption and the questions it raises for Americans and lawmakers. As we move forward, our goal is to find a solution that allows law enforcement to effectively enforce the law without harming the competitiveness of U.S. encryption providers or the privacy protections of U.S. citizens.”

As encryption has increasingly become much more widespread among consumers, there is an ongoing national debate about the positive and negative implications it poses for consumers’ security and privacy. Encryption is used to strengthen consumers’ privacy but it also has presented new challenges for law enforcement seeking to obtain information during the course of its criminal investigations. For example, following the December 2015 terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, investigators recovered a cell phone belonging to one of the terrorists responsible for the attack. After the FBI was unable to unlock the phone and recover its contents, a federal judge recently ordered Apple to provide “reasonable technical assistance to assist law enforcement agents in obtaining access to the data” on the device.

Witnesses for the hearing are:

Panel I

·         The Honorable James B. Comey, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Panel II

·         Mr. Bruce Sewell, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Apple, Inc.

·         Ms. Susan Landau, Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

·         Mr. Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., District Attorney, New York County

This hearing will take place in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building and will be webcast live at http://judiciary.house.gov/. Camera crews wishing to cover must be congressionally-credentialed and RSVP with the House Radio-TV Gallery at (202) 225-5214.

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Senior House Judiciary Committee Democrats Express Concern Over Government Attempts to Undermine Encryption

Earlier this week, through a court order, the United States government demanded that Apple Inc. help the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) develop software in an effort to break the encryption on an iPhone that was recovered after the recent shootings in San Bernardino, California.  The government cited the “All Writs Act,” enacted in 1789, to demand that the technology company create a new version of the iPhone operating system to circumvent several security features on the device.  Apple has five days to respond to the court’s order.  The House Judiciary Committee will hold an oversight hearing on the encryption debate on March 1.

Dean of the U.S. House
of Representatives
John Conyers, Jr.

Senior Democratic Members of the House Judiciary Committee, Reps. Conyers, Nadler, Lofgren and Jackson Lee, released the following statement in response:

“The terrorist attack in San Bernardino was a tragic event.  We agree that heightened vigilance is necessary to combat the threat of home grown extremism in all of its forms.  In this effort, we commit our full support to law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal levels and hope to provide them with the resources and tools they require to perform their jobs. 

“But there is little reason for the government to make this demand on Apple—except to enact a policy proposal that has gained no traction in Congress and was rejected by the White House.

“Properly understood, strong encryption is our best defense against online criminals—including terrorist organizations.  It is the backbone of the Internet economy and vital for the protection of both free expression and privacy.  The government’s demand on Apple would coerce a private U.S. company to hack its own device, threatening the trust of millions of customers and placing our technology industry at a significant disadvantage abroad. 

“In a September 2015 article, the Washington Post  cited an email from a top intelligence community official which stated: ‘the legislative environment is very hostile today . . . it could turn in the event of a terrorist attack or criminal event where strong encryption can be shown to have hindered law enforcement.’  We are concerned that the heartbreaking event in San Bernardino is being exploited to undertake an end-run around the legislative process in just this fashion.”

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From the ashes of education comes cyber-learning

Published in the examiner.com August 28, 2009

In the wake of declining enrollment, possible bankruptcy, and the worst high school drop-out rates in the nation, Detroit Public Schools, along with rest of the nation’s public school systems, educators and lawmakers are in for a rude awakening: the factory school model of education has died.

What has arisen from the ashes is Westwood Cyber High School of Westwood Community Schools of Dearborn Heights, Michigan.

The visionary pioneer of this cyber-learning inititative is Executive Director, Glen Taylor, who has proudly partnered with Inclusion Trust out of the United Kindgdom. The U.K. “Not School” program, a 100% virtual learning experience, has been operational for about 9 years with a 97% completion rate.

The Inclusion Trust of the U.K. works directly with Westwood Cyber High School, the only project-based learning online in the United States. Inclusion Trust has formed other partnerships in Ireland, Sweden, and Australia, to name a few, demonstrating a successful alternative to traditional education in the Not School program.

Inclusion Trust came twice, the last time in July 2009, to Westwood Cyber High School to train staff on how to execute the duties and responsibilities of being research mentors. The Cyber High School was originally slated to have Westwood Cyber High Schools implemented the Models of Demonstration Proficiency format in February 2009. The format is a learning effect to standard, meaning the rubrics are tailored to the learning agenda and measurement expectations to the State of Michigan educational high school requirements.

Originally targeted for a goal of 182 students with its current retention rate at 93%, expansion to capacity of 540 was authorized by the state. Staff of Westwood Cyber recently traveled to the U.K. for enhanced training to transpose the model to an increased researcher population of 1,000, authorized by the state waivers under Title I funding by the State Director of Instructional Technology, Barb Fardel (email: FardellB@michigan.gov) and Bruce Umpsted (email: umpsteadb@michigan.gov).

There are no students because they are considered “researchers”, as stipulated by Technology Mentor, Wanda Hudson. Each researcher is given projects to be completed. Projects range from generating newletters to film production. The most innovative part of the learning experience is that the research managers, referred to as Mentors (as there are no teachers in the Not School) work directly with each researcher. The mentor, then, integrates mathematics, economics, physics, history and the rest of the social and physical sciences into each research project (as there is no homework in the Not School) for the researcher to present for publication.


It is quite expected that one will ask how this is all funded and how all this technological teaching can be achieved during the academic school year.

You have to remember, this is Not School, meaning, the research year is all year long, 24 hours a day. Researchers work at their own pace, finding their optimal time to complete each research project at home. According to the U.K. program description, the Not School is crafted for youth who disengaged with traditional learning because of illness or phobia, pregnancy, bullying or disaffection, travelling, reluctance to learn, exclusion, or in care. These descriptives fall under the classification of “at-risk” youth, the target population of Westwood Cyber High School.

A unique component to the Not School format is that the research mentors have designed a system of encouragement to keep the researchers on task by having them log on everyday, and even come to the home when there is a need for greater assistance in research and personal management of their lives.

Researchers are provided the tools of IMac desktop 20 inch screen computers, HP Digital Camera, and HP 5-in-1 printer to document work offline, as expected to do, and to put online. Once the researchers have completed their first 12-month cycle of research, the “researching tools” are given to the research to personally own.

One component, I believe, that has yet to be explored is the fact that the Westwood Cyber High School has chosen keywords to describe their target population, meaning “at-risk” youth. This label of “at-risk” youth has traditionally been applied with the negative connotations of foster care, better known as a ward of the state, but now, at with Director Glen Taylor at the helm of this educational phoenix, these “at-risk” youth are greatly prepared for college, not just because they own state-of-the-art computer equipment, or the idea that they have mastered technological abilities to achieve a college degree, but for the simple idea that these “at-risk” youth may qualify for expanded opportunities for grants and scholarships.

The benefits of this social and technological learning greatly outweigh the sunken costs of the factory school model. Faith in the future potential of our children in the Detroit Metropolitan Area has reemerged through the reimagining of education through Westwood Cyber High Schools.

It’s time our leaders listen to our children.

For more information, contact:

Westwood Cyber High School, 3335 South Beech Daly Road, Dearborn Heights, MI 48125.

Phone: 313-565-0288, or email: taylorg@wwschools.net

website: http://www.westwood.k12.mi.us/buildingwebs/cyberhighschool/index.html