Black Friday Kicks Off Red-Letter Week For Phishers

Another reason to be very careful when responding to any one asking for personal info through your email inbox. Best policy is don’t.
Tom
By Tim Wilson
DarkReading
 
<!– –>Holiday shoppers may have been out and about over the Thanksgiving weekend, but phishers apparently were hard at work.
Cyveillance today reported that it recorded some 8,298 phishing threats during Thanksgiving week, [...]

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AIG May Double Some Salaries With Retention Payments

By Hugh Son
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) — American International Group Inc., whose bonuses and perks drew fire from lawmakers after the insurer accepted a federal bailout, will make special retention payments that more than double the salaries of some senior managers, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Some executives in the group of 130 recipients [...]

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The Axis of Ignorance

Bill Orally
Rush Limburger
Hannaty
Oh yea, you know who I mean. I can’t even find it within my self to spell their names correctly.
Tom

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Lay offs continue

DuPont to cut 2,500 jobs, trim 4,000 contractors
AT&T to cut 12,000 jobs due to economic downturn

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Record number of Americans using food stamps: report

By Roberta Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Food stamps, the main U.S. antihunger program which helps the needy buy food, set a record in September as more than 31.5 million Americans used the program — up 17 percent from a year ago, according to government data.
The number of people using food stamps in September surpassed the previous [...]

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Bush’s Parting “Fuck You” to America

The ‘bailout’ is another Bush/GOP scam, a big black hole into which some 1.5 trillion dollars has already has been sucked! The dollar will eventually collapse as did German Marks under the Weimar Republic. Only the big banks benefit but they, too, will collapse. There is no bailout for the ‘buck’. The emerging picture is [...]

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Bush strips collective bargaining rights from federal employees.»

 

Someone needs to handcuff this fool.
Tom
Yesterday, President Bush issued an executive order “that denies collective bargaining rights to about 8,600 federal employees who work in law enforcement, intelligence and other agencies responsible for national security.” 900 of the employees affected were already represented by collective bargaining units. Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees [...]

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Bush, quit lying here are the Facts

U.N. weapons inspectors entered Iraq on November 27th, 2002.
Source: PBS Newshour,
citing Associated Press, quoting UN Weapons Inspector Dimitri Perricos
Inspectors searched for illegal weapons, finding few and only minor violations, “no evidence that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapons program,” and “no mobile facilities for producing weapons.”
Source: Arms Control Today, the publication of the Arms Control [...]

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A recurring lie: Saddam wouldn’t let the inspectors in?

 
A recurring lie: Saddam wouldn’t let the inspectors in?

He’s said it at least five times now…
     Why does President Bush keep lying, even now, about
     Saddam Hussein’s ‘refusal’ to let weapons inspectors in?
… And why does no-one in the corporate media call him on this obvious lie?

[Reporter's question]   If the intelligence had been right, would there [...]

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The ability to sustain cooperative relationships requires personal confidence and emotional security — the very qualities that rulers suppress in those they dominate.

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