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2017-03-11

TechReview | WikiLeaks Takes A Big Dump On The CIA (video)

Domain Mondo's weekly review of technology news:

Features •  1. WikiLeaks Takes A Big Dump On The CIA while Judicial Watch sues U.S. government intelligence agencies over Flynn investigation  2. Roth Conference March 12-15, Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel; 3. Other Tech News.

WikiLeaks Releases CIA Hacking Tools, FBI Probes

Video above published Mar 9, 2017: Carbon Black (carbonblack.com) national security strategist Eric O’Neill and Bloomberg’s Nafeesa Syeed discuss WikiLeaks releasing The Central Intelligence Agency’s hacking tools with Bloomberg's Caroline Hyde on "Bloomberg Technology."

Vault7 | Wikileaks.org: ""Year Zero" introduces the scope and direction of the CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of "zero day" weaponized exploits against a wide range of U.S. and European company products, include Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones."

And in a related matter--
Judicial Watch sues intelligence agencies over Flynn investigation

Video above published Mar 7, 2017: JudicialWatch.org director Christopher Farrell on why the organization is suing U.S. intelligence agencies over leaks of classified information about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.

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2. Roth conference, March 12-15, 2017:
The 29th Annual ROTH Conference at The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel in Dana Point, CA, March 12-15, 2017, with close to 500 participating companies and over 4,000 attendees, will feature presentations from hundreds of public and private companies in a variety of sectors including: Technology, Internet & Media; Healthcare; Cleantech, Industrial Growth & Solar; Consumer; Oil & Gas / Mining & Minerals; Business Services. Listen to audio presentations by registering for the Roth webcasts.

3. Other Tech News / Quick Takes:
•  One last thing: Billionaire tech entrepreneur Peter Thiel declared globalization is over on Tuesday, claiming it’s “so 2005, it feels so dated.” Thiel added that “No one in their right mind would start an organization with the word ‘global’ in its title today, A decade ago, there was a group of people who were running the world, and now, it’s just a group of people who messed up the world.”

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo  

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2017-01-13

US Intel Community's 'Nazi-like' Tactics, Media Hysteria & Trump (video)

US intelligence community's 'Nazi-like' tactics:

In the video above published January 12, 2017, MSNBC.com's Morning Joe program hosts Joe and Mika, and guests, discuss the loss of trust and credibility in the U.S. intelligence community, and the apparent 'corrosive' relationship with President-elect Trump due to the politicization of the CIA and other intelligence agencies, and inappropriate (if not illegal) leaks, all of which have been used by media to whip up hysteria over Russia and Vladimir Putin, including stories published by Buzzfeed and CNN about a "dossier" which was compiled, and paid for, apparently, by supporter(s) of Hillary Clinton and anti-Trump Republican(s). Unfortunately, for some unexplained reason, the said "dossier" or "summary" was also reportedly appended to a briefing given to Obama and Trump and select members of Congress by the U.S. intelligence community even though none of its allegations have been proven, and in fact, some have already been proven false.
The New York Times explains U.S. intelligence community’s ‘Nazi-like’ tactics, smears, and leaks

Below is the statement issued by James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (highlighting and emphasis added):

The Fake News "Dossier" backstory according to reports in the New York Times and Mike Allen in Axios.com:
The former MI6 British spy behind the Trump smear, Christopher Steele, was hired by FusionGPS.com, a Washington firm headed by former WSJ reporter Glenn Simpson, according to a NYTimes.com front-page story. The story began in September 2015, when an unknown wealthy Republican donor who strongly opposed Mr. Trump put up the money to hire Fusion GPS to compile a "dossier" about Trump's past scandals and weaknesses. For months, Fusion GPS purportedly gathered documents and put together files from Mr. Trump's past in business and entertainment. After Mr. Trump emerged as the presumptive nominee in the spring, the Republican interest in financing the effort ended, but Democratic supporters of Hillary Clinton were very interested, and Fusion GPS kept doing the same deep dives on behalf of their new clients. Also noted, Neil King, a journalist at the WSJ and husband of Shailagh Murray, a senior Obama adviser, just took a job with Fusion GPS.
UPDATE 16 Jan 2017: Christopher Steele, Ex-Spy Who Compiled Trump Dossier, Goes to Ground | NYTimes.com: "An investigator for a business research firm in London similar to Orbis [domain: orbisbi.com], who knows the work of the company but who has met Mr. Steele only briefly, said he was not impressed by the dossier. “I have a lot of experience in this world,” he said. “If I were the client, I would throw it back and say, ‘Where’s the evidence guys? I can’t use this.’ "

The effects of the U.S. intel community's tactics, leaks, smears and/or mishandling of the so-called "dossier" have now had a negative impact on markets, with major U.S. indexes closing down on Thursday, January 12, 2017:
DJIA  12 Jan 2017 (source: google.com)
This story appears to have "legs" and may have continuing negative effects on markets. Other news media have now published in-depth stories about the "dossier" including the Wall Street Journal (wsj.com) and Bloomberg (bloomberg.com). Below are a mix of videos from other news sources:

Trump dossier: US Intelligence distances itself from document:

Video above published on Jan 12, 2017, by Sky News (news.sky.com): The US Director of National Intelligence says he does not "believe" that a "dossier" containing claims about Donald Trump was leaked from within the intelligence community.

Fmr. Rep. Hoekstra: Intel community has become very politicized

Video above published Jan 13, 2017: Former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) on the Russian hack briefing and the U.S. intelligence community.

Kellyanne Conway: It's an internet report, not an intel report:

Video above published on Jan 12, 2017 by Fox Business News (foxbusiness.com): Kellyanne Conway, Senior Advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, on the controversy over the leaked report on President-elect Donald Trump published on BuzzFeed.

The distrust between Trump and U.S. Intel Community

Video above published Jan 12, 2017, by FoxBusiness.com: Former CIA Officer Buck Sexton on the growing divide between President-elect Donald Trump and the intelligence community.

Due to the toxic atmosphere in the U.S., particularly since the November 8th election, engendered by the Washington D.C. establishment, including the U.S. intelligence community led by Obama's Democratic political appointees, as well as the post-election hysteria whipped up by the liberal-biased mainstream media, one can not rule out the possibility that Trump's life may be in danger. Any attempt to take the life of the President-elect could have negative effects on markets. Caveat Emptor.

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2016-12-12

MacroView | Trump Effect: Breaking The Curse, A New Paradigm

MacroView | ©2016 DomainMondo.com
Domain Mondo's weekly review of  macro economic and investing news:
 
MacroView Feature • Trump Effect--Breaking the Curse, A New Paradigm--"the 'Curse of Correlation' has lifted, for now ..."--Convergex.com

The “Risk On, Risk Off” markets of 2010–2015, responded to macro news, everything depended on market perception of central bank interest rate policy. Since the election of Donald Trump, investors have been identifying new macro trends (e.g., higher interest rates) and unlock potential winners--financials, industrials, materials, healthcare--and sell losers (tech, utilities). Correlation data, post-election, indicates this time is different from any point since the Financial Crisis. Get Ready for Dow 20,000 | Barrons.com: "... the Dow is outpacing both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. It could continue to outperform in the year ahead ..."
Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) UP 7.77% since Nov 8 (source: google.com)
• Fed expected to raise rates

Video above published Dec 9, 2016, by FT.com: Sam Fleming talks to Donald Kohn and Joseph Gagnon about the prospect of higher interest rates and Donald Trump's proposed tax cuts. The Fed Open Market Committee (FOMC) meets December 13-14. 

Why the Fed will no longer be the big deal when it meets this week: The Federal Reserve Open Market Committee on Wednesday (Dec. 14) is expected to announce an interest rate hike — its second in a year, and also the second in 10 years. However, a 25 basis point increase in the Fed funds target rate has become anticlimactic because there's a new game in town for investors — the Trump Effect:
"The surprise of the Republican sweep of Congress along with the Trump administration has really changed consensus expectations almost 180 degrees. We really are focusing in on some of the impacts that some of the policy changes could have. We may be shaking up the economic world in terms of what we've been waiting for, what the Fed has even been saying — we need Congress and fiscal policy to do some of the heavy lifting here. I guess in some cases the Fed isn't really leading the story as much as they had in the past, and in some ways the Fed is really following the market right now in terms of raising rates," said Scott Anderson, Chief Economist for Bank of the West.--CNBC.com
Why Trump's Fiscal Plans Won't Blow Up the Budget: Factor in the extent to which animal spirits will be unleashed--analysts cite a Trump proposal that could turbocharge corporate spending--Trump's business plan allows manufacturing companies to immediately expense their capital investments, while the deductibility of interest expenses on future loans would be eliminated, significantly increasing the net present value of a given investment project, and encouraging companies to ramp up spending.--Bloomberg.com.

• China forex reserves drop $70bn

Video above published Dec 8, 2016, by FT.com: China’s foreign exchange reserves fell nearly $70bn last month as the country’s central bank burnt through more of its war chest in its battle to defend the renminbi from greater depreciation on the back of accelerating capital outflows.

•  Watch the yuan: The attitude of emerging-market policy makers to greater financial liberalization will be key in driving the next stage of global entanglement. China is, therefore, the elephant in the room. Beijing wishes to promote the global use of the yuan for trade and financial transactions, and permit two-way capital flows. But it faces a challenging balancing act, amid capital outflows and yuan-depreciation expectations. Outflows since the summer have ticked up since this year's low of $37.5 billion in February, rising to $69 billion in October, slightly up from $67 billion in September, according to Bloomberg Intelligence.--Bloomberg.com

•  Trump to name Exxon CEO Tillerson as Secretary of State: source | Reuters.com.

•  Tim Cook, Larry Page, Sheryl Sandberg ... are going to Trump’s tech summit next week | Recode.net: also attending Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella; Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins; IBM CEO Ginni Rometty; Intel CEO Brian Krzanich; Oracle CEO Safra Catz and even Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com Inc. The meeting will take place Wednesday (Dec. 14) in New York:
“I plan to tell the President-elect that we are with him and will help in any way we can. If he can reform the tax code, reduce regulation and negotiate better trade deals, the U.S. technology industry will be stronger and more competitive than ever.”--Safra Catz
•  Japan’s Pivot from Obama to Trump | NewYorker.com: "Abe’s visit to Trump Tower in November went against the wishes of Obama’s White House, according to a Japanese media report, which cited an unnamed diplomatic source who said that it would be “unprecedented” because, “Mr. Trump is not yet the president.” But Richard Samuels, who heads the Center for International Studies at M.I.T., told me that Abe’s team “did what they had to do, quickly and well.” ... Ironically, Trump’s tough talk may help Abe achieve what Obama’s pivot never could: broad support from the Japanese public for revising Japan’s constitution." See also: Is Donald Trump already the President? | WashingtonExaminer.com: The era of Trump has already begun.

 •  Democrats the "real threat" to the First Amendment: Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes told Business Insider's Henry Blodget that the "real threat" to the First Amendment did not come from President-elect Donald Trump during the campaign, but rather from the Democratic Party."--BusinessInsider.com.

 •  One more thing: More #FakeNews from the WashingtonPost.com and NYTimes.com--see Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence | TheIntercept.com by Glenn Greenwald; and also Kellyanne Conway calls [purported via anonymous sources] CIA report on Russian election meddling ‘laughable and ridiculous’ | WashingtonPost.com:
Unfortunately, as we found out on 9/11 and afterwards re: WMD in Iraq, the worst "intelligence" failures in U.S. history, "U.S. intelligence" claims or beliefs (particularly those of the Central Intelligence Agency a/k/a CIA) are often wrong and not credible. But at least the Russians are getting a good laugh out of all of this: Obama orders ‘full review’ of election hacks, results not to be made public | RT.com. See also: How To INSTANTLY Tell If Russia Hacked the Election | washingtonsblog.com.

-- John Poole, Editor, Domain Mondo


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2016-03-07

Could The CIA Have Stopped The 9/11 Hijackers? New Yorker New Media


The New Yorker's Digital Media Experiment, Reinventing the News Magazine Format (video):
THE AGENT - In a short documentary directed by Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright and others discuss what the C.I.A. knew about the 9/11 hijackers—before 9/11. Released on 2/16/2016. Producer: The New Yorker Presents

The New Yorker on Amazon Isn't Just TV. It's a Whole New Kind of Magazine: "...“It’s not a re-creation of the magazine itself, but a step in the direction of a reinvention of the news magazine format,” says Kahane Cooperman, the executive producer and showrunner of The New Yorker Presents. For Amazon and The New Yorker, the show is something of an experiment. It could attract new readers to The New Yorker and draw them into the magazine’s rich history. And Amazon gains the cachet of working with one of the most venerable names in publishing. Yes, The New Yorker Presents might not have the broad appeal of, say, Amazon’s critical hit Transparent or The Man in the High Castle. But The New Yorker has rarely tried to be anything other than its best self. Instead, the series shows how the risk of a traditional player entering a new medium (The New Yorker on TV) and of a newcomer entering a more traditional genre (Amazon in unscripted television) can create a new opportunity for both..." source: WIRED



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