News From Around Web - Start Date October 29, 2013 - End Date [Not Yet Set]

My Opinions and Conjecture Regarding That News
NSA’s Keith Alexander questions Washington Post report

Assad: No Peace Until Foreigners Stop Arming Insurgent Terrorist

GM earnings fall 53% in 3Q

Why Apple Wants to Bust Your iPhone from New York Times



NSA’s Keith Alexander questions Washington Post report

A report in The Washington Post — based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden — that the NSA secretly mined the connection between Google’s and Yahoo’s data hubs has been denied by Keith Alexander. The project, code named MUSCULAR and targeting data centers located around the world, granted the NSA access to hundreds of millions of accounts, including those owned by Americans, the Post indicated.

For the most part, though, Alexander defended the NSA’s conduct while attending the Bloomberg summit. “It’s legal, it’s necessary and it’s authorized, in every case,” Alexander said of existing programs that permit the NSA to collect phone records and monitor Internet communications for foreign threats.

Opinion / Conjecture: 

People need to understand that certain people or groups within the political structure of our government have been engaged in an economic war against the American people going back to at least the 1950's.  It has not been by accident but rather by design that America has lost one key industry after another.

Money equals political power.  It always has and it always will.  That is the nature of the beast.  There is only one way to gain political power.  That is to create your own wealth on a large scale or join with like minded people so that the wealth and the power can be shared in a united force.  In that economic/political game you help your friends and you hurt your enemies.  Wealth creates political power and in a corrupt system political power creates / increases wealth.

The ability to gather economic and personal data on people has been more used to engage in that economic and political warfare than to protect America from some Monster that most likely was created and financed by the same people who used that Monster as an excuse to trample on our economic, political, and individual liberty.

America prospers best when no one wins that constant political and economic war of which the movers and the shakers engage.  Freedom exist best when dissenting voices have to play nice and have to engage friends and enemies alike for common survival.

Now when there is a monopoly on economic and political power and dissent is easily crushed, then the American people become in as great of danger as any people in a dictatorship.  John Edwards was an important dissenting voice in the Democratic Party and he was crushed by the NSA spying that they leaked to the media.  Any time Bill Clinton developed a conscience and wanted to dissent from the insanity he knew was being fostered against the America people, a skeleton came slipping out of his closet and knocking on his front door.

NSA spying has been used to twist arms of European leaders.

NSA spying has been used for insider Stock Trading to help political friends and crush political enemies.

NSA spying has been used by the Obama administration to actually take over a key internet business.  I can't prove it and I will not say which company I am talking about.  Remember, this is opinion.

Something as evil as the so called Affordable Care Act, which was voted into law by people who could not even stand to read the abomination, could not have been passed into law without the misuse of information by the NSA.  It could never have been passed without NSA spying and the misuse of of spy information against our politicians.  People like to call the ACA insanity Obamacare but I would bet you that in his private moments, outside of NSA Spying, even Obama is appalled by the ACA.  Obama, like most of DC, has secrets  that he does not want revealed and so he does what he feels he has to do.

Perhaps even members of our Supreme Court have not been outside the spying of the NSA. Perhaps even the Pope of the Catholic Church was the victim of NSA spying and blackmail.

Now I can't prove that I am right in all that I have written.  It is opinion.  But given the scope of the NSA spying do you think that this conjecture and opinion is totally impossible?????











GM earnings fall 53% in 3Q from Detroit Free Press

From Article:

General Motors reported a 53% decline in net income for the third quarter, but there were several encouraging signs for the period, including an improving performance in Europe.

GM posted net income of $698 million in the quarter ended Sept. 30, down from $1.48 billion a year earlier.

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General / From Other:
North America continues to do good for GM and reduced its losses in Europe.  They earned  a $2.2 billion operating profit from North America while they reduced their European losses to $214 million from $487 million. Their reduction in net was in part because of stock repurchases.  Also The international earnings fell to $299 million from $761 million last year.

Their stock is up in pre-market trades this 10//30/2013. At this second it is trading at $37.10 a share from the close of $36.06 a share

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Assad: No Peace Until Foreigners Stop Arming Insurgent Terrorist

“The Syrian people alone are entitled to draw the future of Syria. Any solution must be approved by them and reflect their wishes away from any foreign intervention,” state television quoted Assad as saying to United Nations special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. “This is paramount to prepare the circumstances for dialogue and put clear mechanisms that achieve this goal.”

International powers are unlikely to meet their goal of convening peace talks on Syria in Geneva next month as differences emerge between Washington and Moscow over opposition representation, Arab and Western officials said.  Part of the opposition forces being supported by US & Saudi bankrolls have no desire to have a peace conference but instead are planning a new false flag attack to give the US & EU the lie they need to send troops into Syria and decimate the native populations.  However, some sources suggest a growing number of EU leaders are more inclined to side with Russia than the US & Saudi Arabia over Syria.  Any new false flag is more likely to lead to the resignation of Obama (if his finger prints are on it) than Assad.

There is no doubt the people of Syria would benefit from political reforms that might result from honest peace talks among civilized men & women.  However there is no way the Syrian people would benefit from allowing radical, savage terrorist (who view women as property) from having any say in those talks.

Reuters Article - Syria peace talks face delay as big powers split



Why Apple Wants to Bust Your iPhone from New York Times

From Article:

- When I called tech analysts, they said that the new operating system (iOS 7) being pushed out to existing users was making older models unbearably slow. Apple phone batteries, which have a finite number of charges in them to begin with, were drained by the new software.

- Economists have theories about market conditions that encourage planned obsolescence. A company has strong incentives to degrade product durability when it has a lot of market power and when consumers don’t have good substitute products to choose from.

Opinion:
An alternate view is that Apple has been very good at getting consumers to replace their products before their consumers realize the product is not good quality and will turn to trash fairly quickly.  It is not necessarily planned obsolescence but a cheap product made in China that Apple has been able to sell to consumers at a ridiculous price.

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