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Friday, April 10, 2015

Obama And Kerry Lied About "Framework." For Once, Tehran Was Telling The Truth!

Hayden: Iran's 'Stunning' Claims Demand Congress Review Deal

Friday, 10 Apr 2015 11:06 AM

By Melissa Clyne

Comments made Thursday by Iran’s supreme leader about the terms of the proposed nuclear deal were in direct contradiction to what the White House has represented, making it imperative that Congress review the agreement, retired Gen. Michael Hayden, a former director of both the NSA and CIA, said Friday on "America’s Forum."

"When this first happened and [Iran] was saying different things in Tehran than [Secretary of State John] Kerry saying in Washington, I said you have to expect that. And in some ways you'd want that, because each guy has got to sell the deal to his constituency," said Hayden on the Newsmax TV program.

"But in the last couple of days, the stories have become so desperate that they don't link back to the original deal," he said, characterizing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's statements as "stunning."

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"I cannot see how State Department spokesmen, or even White House spokesmen, can repeat what the president said earlier about 'this historic agreement,'" Hayden said. "What agreement?"
Khamenei, according to The New York Times, boldly stated that all economic sanctions would need to be lifted immediately upon the signing of an agreement and that the nation’s military sites would be "strictly off limits to foreign inspectors."

The Obama administration has lost all credibility, nationally and internationally, with its purported misrepresentations of the proposed accord’s terms, according to Hayden.

"We don't have a deal. And those things we've claimed have been agreed, a negotiating partner has said are not agreed ... even the French have a white paper out there that's inconsistent with our views," he said.

"I would say, right now, all is chaos. Congress needs to look into this. What's going on here? What are the facts?"

Hayden said that he had hoped to see Khamenei come out with a "more muted and supportive" statement.

"In a normal world, with the head of a foreign government saying what he said, this would be over, we would be done," he said. "We would simply say, we don't have a deal.

"Without being specific," Khamenei announced that "the American point papers are all wrong, you got to lift all sanctions and you got to lift them all at once, right at the beginning. And you're never going to get to see any of our military installations.

"So," Hayden asked, "where do we go from here?"

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We Hope Hillary's Ability To Raise Money Equals Her Ability To Write A Book!

Clinton to Raise 'Insane' Amount of Money After Announcement

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Friday, 10 Apr 2015 10:03 AM

By Melanie Batley

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's anticipated weekend announcement of her bid for the White House in 2016 will kick off an aggressive fundraising push that could be record breaking.

According to the Daily Beast, Clinton will use her first week as a candidate to raise "an insane amount of money," one insider asserts.

"They are going to raise in one week what some Republican presidential candidates are going to raise the entire cycle," one Clinton aide told the Beast.

Ready for Hillary super PAC, which has already raised $15 million, will host what will likely be its final fundraiser in New York before her campaign kicks into operation drawing on the support of the 3.6 million people who have been engaged by the PAC, the Beast said.

Earlier reports also indicate that her campaign will attract an avalanche of financial support.

"The floodgates are going to open immediately, and there's going to be a rush to get on the team," Don Peebles, the real estate mogul who served on President [Barack] Obama's national finance committee, told The Hill in January.

"There's nobody in the Democratic Party who can match her. Not even close."

"It's going to be like nothing you've seen," another top Democratic donor, told The Hill.

Obama Should Learn From The Chinese In How They Censor The Internet. Betcha, It Would Reduce The Complaints About Him! Is This The Reason For Net Neutrality?

Report Sheds Light on New Cyber Weapon Used By China on US Sites

Friday, 10 Apr 2015 11:18 AM

By Jennifer G. Hickey

China employed a previously unknown cyber weapons system in its attack on GitHub, an American coding site, according to a new report released Friday.

A team of researchers from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Toronto concluded the Chinese were able to use a new system, known as "The Great Cannon" to launch attacks on websites and inject malicious viruses on computers worldwide.

"On March 16, GreatFire.org observed that servers they had rented to make blocked websites accessible in China were being targeted by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. On March 26, two GitHub pages run by GreatFire.org also came under the same type of attack. Both attacks appear targeted at services designed to circumvent Chinese censorship," said the report.

The discovery of the system, the researchers said, was a dangerous development since the tool could allow China to monitor Web users that visit Chinese websites or sites with advertising content hosted in China.

The report also provides new insight into the Chinese government's cyberwarfare efforts and the lengths to which officials will go to censor information.

"The operational deployment of the Great Cannon represents a significant escalation in state-level information control: the normalization of widespread use of an attack tool to enforce censorship by weaponizing users," the researchers said.

Like Duh? Of Course There Will Be More Crisis Coming!

Dimon: 'There Will Be Another Crisis'

Friday, 10 Apr 2015 08:00 AM

By Dan Weil

While financial conditions have improved vastly since the 2008 credit meltdown, another financial crisis will eventually arise, says JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon.

"The trigger to the next crisis will not be the same as the trigger to the last one, but there will be another crisis," he writes in his annual letter to shareholders.

"Triggering events could be geopolitical, a recession where the Fed rapidly increases interest rates, a commodities price collapse, a commercial real estate crisis, bubbles, etc."

And what about the impact on financial markets? "The markets in general could be more volatile" than in the typical financial crisis, Dimon explains.

The S&P 500 index suffered a negative total return of 37 percent in 2008.

Problems such as banks' low inventory of securities and reluctance to extend credit, thanks largely to increased regulation, "make it more likely that a crisis will cause more volatile market movements with a rapid decline in valuations even in what are very liquid markets," Dimon explains.