The news if flush with reports about the Obama Administration’s most likely cover up on the attack of The United States Embassy in Benghazi which saw Americans lose their lives in the name of diplomacy. Several reports out there indicate that like most focused administrations in the face of an election the use of this information could spell the death knell for such a campaign. Which is why as the reports claim, the administration knew way more than it admitted it did.

Then came the revelation after the attack at the Boston Marathon that the FBI had looked at one of the main suspects, deceased Tamerlan Tsarnaev based on a tip and inquiry from the Russian Government. The FBI claims it did extensive surveillance and research on Tamerlan and closed its file feeling there was not a threat. Well I guess we can all agree that was wrong.

What does this say about our state of security in The United States and at our installations abroad? How can we as citizens believe the government will protect us if a radicalized Chechen can come to our country and decide to wreak havoc. This individual immigrated to the United States to supposedly escape tyranny and have the opportunities we all have as citizens. How did someone like this miss all the good things life here has to offer and how did our government miss him especially after looking at him ?

The evidence seems clear that mistakes were made and yes we are all only human but it seems quite simple we either are not doing a good enough job or we just need more resources to do it. Why would we close a file on someone that a foreign government suggested could be tied to radical fundamentalists but we keep hammering away at innocent people we cannot find anything on? Seems bizzare right? Maybe common sense is absent from a lot of this decision making. Or maybe the people at the FBI are just understaffed and under paid? Let us face facts. There are so many credible threats out there how can they possibly track them all down thoroughly?

What our country needs is a group of politicians who can spend less than half of what they spend on getting re-elected and spend more on protecting our children. Doesn’t that just make sense? As we have said numerous times priorities must change in the world we live as we can see two young men with a little training can kill and wound. Imagine the damage they could have done with lots of training and more resources. Imagine what could have happened if they had a more potent device. The possibilities are quite scary.

The government should also be ashamed for receiving threats and warnings about the security in Benghazi. No matter what the political agenda no policy should accept the death of Americans including Ambassador Stevens who gave his life for what? An administration that didn’t care what was happening? According to reports still coming out from the events that happened that night, the Deputy Ambassador of the region contacted Secretary Clinton’s office and explained what was happening. No one responded. According to military sources multiple teams of special forces close to or in the vicinity that could have attempted at least to get there and protect who was left were told to stand down. Why? What possible political reason could it serve to allow American citizens who put themselves into harms way every day, get brutally murdered by radicals in another country? None that I can think of. How hard would it have been to listen to the embassy security chief who asked for more assets to protect our diplomats? How difficult would it have been to increase the security at all installations in foreign countries that are hostile? Not too difficult.

Maybe the United States should stop this entitlement routine and have all of us as citizens give something back to the country that keeps us free. We should adopt a policy for all men and women to have to serve in the armed forces for some period of time. We will be a more vigilant society and stop taking our freedoms for granted. We will also have more assets to choose from and be able to attract good candidates to counter terrorism and homeland security.

After all these are the most important factors in our lives that allow us all to sit at home in front of a large TV and watch who will win the next reality TV show right? Maybe we should consider what it will take to protect our children’s children one day. Technology advances in all aspects and we are still racing to catch up unfortunately. One day it may not be so difficult to wreak havoc on thousands or millions.

What seems clear is no matter how well we do and how many things we stop from happening we are still thinking like we did 20 years ago. Or even worse as in Benghazi just taking the phone off the hook and hoping for the best……..

 

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By Corey Ribotsky

This Friday the controversy sounding Bloomberg LP’s usage of the information derived from what subscribers are doing on their Bloomberg terminals put the service most on Wall Street have come to live by in a whole new light.

From a complaint that started at Goldman Sachs about a Bloomberg reporter asking about a Goldman partner and why he hadn’t logged into his terminal lately; to reporters at the company possibly looking at what the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the Secretary of the Treasury were looking at on their Bloomberg terminals, something is quite amiss.

Is it possible that Bloomberg employees have been utilizing information that a subscriber looked at and used for many years? If so what have they done with this information? If you take this occurrence to its possible logical conclusion it doesn’t paint a pretty picture.

In our society information is key and the utilization of that information is paramount. How is it possible that the powers that be at Bloomberg never safe guarded or encrypted the information that people accessed from their Bloomberg terminals? Does that mean that as a trader at a hedge fund or a trader on a desk at a bulge bracket firm like the former Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns or Merrill Lynch; what you looked at was open for any Bloomberg employee to see?

The ability for this information to be misused or fall into the hands of someone who could pass it along to anyone willing to use illegally is completely possible. Employees of Bloomberg having access to information that government officials are accessing as well puts our financial markets security at an amazing level of risk never before thought of. This is not just the financial system here in the United States, this is every where.

What are the possibilities here? What if Bloomberg and its majority owner, Mayor Michael Bloomberg one of the top 20 richest people in the world worth some $27 Billion has been using this information since inception of the Bloomberg system? Is that possible? Could it be? Imagine the level of insider information it could generate. The world thought the insider trading scandals of the past twenty four months were something, this could be the tip of the iceberg to one the most diabolical financial schemes of all time.

 

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Whatever the topic is, it’s all about money… Part 2

May 1, 2013

Have you been watching the NFL draft this week? Now professional sports have always been about the dollars but how many articles or reports have come out with athletes who are disappointed that they didn’t get to go first? Well not everyone can go first as the “first pick” right? That is why there is only one first pick?

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Whatever the topic – Its all about the Money….

April 29, 2013

Things do cost more today than they did some thirty years ago. Have incomes risen with the same progress? Most likely not and in some cases they have stagnated or been reduced. Some jobs are not even around anymore.

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The Numbers do Not Lie….

April 12, 2013

Several days ago the United States Government announced that the unemployment rate had dropped to 7.6% which was deemed as very good news. The current administration is helping the economy right? All good right? Well, many economic pundits say that is incorrect.

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History Repeats Itself Once Again

April 9, 2013

If you pick up a newspaper or see articles put out by the popular government led media you will see articles talking about home prices rising. Ask anyone looking to sell a property in good areas and they will look at you sideways when you suggest that home prices have risen to the point where they can sell their home.

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Some Pundits Claim the Bubble is about to burst…..

April 2, 2013

Stockman states in his essay published in the New York Times that the Federal Reserve’s quantitative easing policy following the global credit crisis has flooded the markets with cash even while the rest of us on main street are in a weakened position. Let us face facts, most people we all know are making less and spending less.

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Smart Phone Addiction – Stop your kids from getting their fix and wasting their lives away…

March 13, 2013

Our younger generation now suffers from a new threat of addiction. Not only do we as parents need to concern ourselves with the threat of real addiction with the likes of drugs or alcohol. Add to that the cyber addiction of virtual drugs as we have reported on, now we add to the mix the additional addiction of virtual age, cellular phone addiction. Yes that’s right smart phone addiction.

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Pocket knives and tennis rackets…..

March 6, 2013

If you have tuned into any news station you have now heard that the TSA who is in charge of our security at airports is set to reduce restrictions on some items being allowed to be carried on planes.

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An economic policy called SEQUESTRATION

February 25, 2013

It sounds like something that was the topic of a civil rights debate right? Sequestration? But no it isnt. It is a economic policy put in place by Congress and signed by President Obama in 2011 to extend US borrowing authority and an attempt to cut the defiict. The $1.2 trillion dollar deal has now [...]

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