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2012年2月1日星期三
FBI to use Twitter to predict crimes
www.telegraph.co.uk
The FBI is trying to develop software that will scan Twitter and Facebook to look for ‘emerging threats’.
The Bureau is asking companies to build software that can effectively scan social media online for significant words, phrases and behavior so that agents can respond.
A paper posted on the FBI website asks for companies to build programs that will map sentiment and wrongdoing.
Although the software would only be able to look at information already in the public domain, free speech campaigners have raised concerns.
Jennifer Lynch, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told New Scientist that it could erode the sense of freedom provided by the internet. “These tools that mine open source data, and presumably store it for a very long time, do away with that kind of privacy. I worry about the effect of that on free speech in the US,” she said.
A spokesman from Privacy International told the BBC that the move risked placing large numbers of people under surveillance.
The FBI has previously been suggested that ‘scraping’ social networks is reasonable. The Department of Homeland Security claimed earlier this month that “information posted to social media websites is publicly accessible and voluntarily generated. Thus the opportunity not to provide information exists prior to the informational post by the user.”
The Bureau is currently asking potential contractors to estimate costs and suggest solutions. It is seeking software that can “enhance its techniques for collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence".
The proposed web portal will be able to translate from foreign languages as well as detect patterns of users misleading the police.
Although the police, including in Britain, already use Facebook routinely to ascertain the whereabouts of criminals, automatically filtering out irrelevant information remains challenging. The new FBI application will be able to automatically highlight the most relevant information. The FBI is seeking responses by 10 February.
The FBI is trying to develop software that will scan Twitter and Facebook to look for ‘emerging threats’.
The Bureau is asking companies to build software that can effectively scan social media online for significant words, phrases and behavior so that agents can respond.
A paper posted on the FBI website asks for companies to build programs that will map sentiment and wrongdoing.
Although the software would only be able to look at information already in the public domain, free speech campaigners have raised concerns.
Jennifer Lynch, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told New Scientist that it could erode the sense of freedom provided by the internet. “These tools that mine open source data, and presumably store it for a very long time, do away with that kind of privacy. I worry about the effect of that on free speech in the US,” she said.
A spokesman from Privacy International told the BBC that the move risked placing large numbers of people under surveillance.
The FBI has previously been suggested that ‘scraping’ social networks is reasonable. The Department of Homeland Security claimed earlier this month that “information posted to social media websites is publicly accessible and voluntarily generated. Thus the opportunity not to provide information exists prior to the informational post by the user.”
The Bureau is currently asking potential contractors to estimate costs and suggest solutions. It is seeking software that can “enhance its techniques for collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence".
The proposed web portal will be able to translate from foreign languages as well as detect patterns of users misleading the police.
Although the police, including in Britain, already use Facebook routinely to ascertain the whereabouts of criminals, automatically filtering out irrelevant information remains challenging. The new FBI application will be able to automatically highlight the most relevant information. The FBI is seeking responses by 10 February.
2012年1月31日星期二
Gold Ready to Smash Through $2,000
kingworldnews.com
Today James Turk told King World News that gold is very close to beginning a move that will take the ‘Metal of King’ smashing through the $2,000 level. Turk was even more outspoken on where silver is headed and included a chart. Turk, who was interviewed out of Spain, had this to say about where gold and silver are headed in coming weeks: “The logical question here, Eric, is after the big week we had last week, will silver drop back to give buyers one more chance to buy the dip? A dip is logical given silver’s 6.5% gain last week. On the other hand, as we noted in the last blog we did, sometimes the dips can be very shallow.”
James Turk continues:
“The important point to keep in mind is while silver may look high compared to where it started the month, to me silver looks cheap compared to its upside potential over the next few months. So don’t wait for a big pullback to buy. If today is the day where you purchase silver each month, go ahead and make the buy. Don’t try to time the market.
This following weekly silver chart is really looking very powerful and as I have been saying, once silver hurdles above $35, I expect to see $68-$70 in 2-to-3 months.
“There is, of course, no guarantee that silver will successfully hurdle $35 on its first attempt, but we need to get ready just in case it does. By ‘get ready,’ I mean we have to prepare ourselves mentally - to eliminate the emotion and watch what silver is telling us. This can be very hard to do, but it is essential. Otherwise you will miss the big moves, and it is riding these big moves to the fullest extent possible, from start to finish, where the big money is made.
Regarding gold, I don’t think people realize that gold could explode from current levels. I think the potential for explosion is there and what you are going to see is not only silver on the move, but you will also see gold smash through the $2,000 level.”
When asked what’s happening in Europe, Turk responded, “It looks like Greece is ready to blow up, Eric. The Greeks have rejected German-led calls for the EU to start managing Greek government finances. That would mean the complete loss of Greek sovereignty, so the Greek finance minister obviously rejected that dictate.
Consequently, it looks like Greece is not going to get its next bailout, meaning it will default. But there’s a lot of other bad news in Europe as well. Spain is in a depression with its youth unemployment rate now over 50%. France just raised the VAT (Value Added Tax) to 21%. Imagine, Eric, paying 21% to the government for everything you purchase.
This is why the underground economy is so large and growing in Europe because people need to survive. Across the channel, the UK is sliding into what looks like a deep recession.
To make things even worse, on the other side of the Atlantic, the Federal Reserve announced they are going to destroy savers by keeping interest rates below the inflation rate for another two years. It is really tragic, Eric, how governments are destroying capitalism, but as Ludwig von Mises warned us, governments will destroy free markets and economic activity long before they understand how they work.”
Today James Turk told King World News that gold is very close to beginning a move that will take the ‘Metal of King’ smashing through the $2,000 level. Turk was even more outspoken on where silver is headed and included a chart. Turk, who was interviewed out of Spain, had this to say about where gold and silver are headed in coming weeks: “The logical question here, Eric, is after the big week we had last week, will silver drop back to give buyers one more chance to buy the dip? A dip is logical given silver’s 6.5% gain last week. On the other hand, as we noted in the last blog we did, sometimes the dips can be very shallow.”
James Turk continues:
“The important point to keep in mind is while silver may look high compared to where it started the month, to me silver looks cheap compared to its upside potential over the next few months. So don’t wait for a big pullback to buy. If today is the day where you purchase silver each month, go ahead and make the buy. Don’t try to time the market.
This following weekly silver chart is really looking very powerful and as I have been saying, once silver hurdles above $35, I expect to see $68-$70 in 2-to-3 months.
“There is, of course, no guarantee that silver will successfully hurdle $35 on its first attempt, but we need to get ready just in case it does. By ‘get ready,’ I mean we have to prepare ourselves mentally - to eliminate the emotion and watch what silver is telling us. This can be very hard to do, but it is essential. Otherwise you will miss the big moves, and it is riding these big moves to the fullest extent possible, from start to finish, where the big money is made.
Regarding gold, I don’t think people realize that gold could explode from current levels. I think the potential for explosion is there and what you are going to see is not only silver on the move, but you will also see gold smash through the $2,000 level.”
When asked what’s happening in Europe, Turk responded, “It looks like Greece is ready to blow up, Eric. The Greeks have rejected German-led calls for the EU to start managing Greek government finances. That would mean the complete loss of Greek sovereignty, so the Greek finance minister obviously rejected that dictate.
Consequently, it looks like Greece is not going to get its next bailout, meaning it will default. But there’s a lot of other bad news in Europe as well. Spain is in a depression with its youth unemployment rate now over 50%. France just raised the VAT (Value Added Tax) to 21%. Imagine, Eric, paying 21% to the government for everything you purchase.
This is why the underground economy is so large and growing in Europe because people need to survive. Across the channel, the UK is sliding into what looks like a deep recession.
To make things even worse, on the other side of the Atlantic, the Federal Reserve announced they are going to destroy savers by keeping interest rates below the inflation rate for another two years. It is really tragic, Eric, how governments are destroying capitalism, but as Ludwig von Mises warned us, governments will destroy free markets and economic activity long before they understand how they work.”
官媒：不能讓投資市場掠奪民眾
文匯報
香港文匯報訊 《人民日報》報道，內地不少投資股市、基金、理財產品的民眾，在市場漲跌之中，財富卻被一大口咬掉。因此，有必要進一步加強市場秩序的建設，絕對不能讓投資市場掠奪普通民眾的財富。
香港文匯報訊 《人民日報》報道，內地不少投資股市、基金、理財產品的民眾，在市場漲跌之中，財富卻被一大口咬掉。因此，有必要進一步加強市場秩序的建設，絕對不能讓投資市場掠奪普通民眾的財富。
大多投資者在心理上可以接受自己能力不濟、運氣不佳帶來的經濟損失，比如投資黃金白銀市場虧損的客 戶，大多是在反思自己的投資策略。但另一方面，投資者非常難以面對市場秩序混亂、監管漏洞、法律缺位帶來的財富災難。因此，從管理者的角度來看，有必要進 一步加強市場秩序的建設。近幾個月，證監會監管風暴升級，共打擊了幾十宗違法違規案件，讓不少投資者拍手叫好。
因此，對內幕交易、利益輸送和市場操縱等「從民眾口袋裡偷錢」的行為處以重罰，對創業板套現熱和 理財產品亂象給予合理的制度規範，已是當務之急。絕對不能讓投資市場成為獵殺普通民眾財富的叢林，只有給予投資者一個公平有序的市場環境，才能避免財富兩 極分化，才能讓經濟可持續發展。
2012年1月30日星期一
War, Bank Runs, Riots & Gold Going Mainstream
kingworldnews.com
With news from the Fed causing tremendous upside action in gold this week, and reports coming in from Los Angeles describing a massive military exercise in the streets of Los Angeles, today King World News interviewed Gerald Celente, Founder of Trends Research and the man many consider to be the top trends forecaster in the world. Celente had this to say about the Fed announcement and subsequent press conference: “You can see what’s happened to gold prices and how they’ve spiked up. There’s no way out and it’s not only the Federal Reserve, it’s also the European Monetary Union. Look at the games they are playing. We just saw, at the end of 2011, the ECB giving away some $600 billion in loans to banks at virtually no interest rate so they could buy up the bonds of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland. Nobody wants to touch these bonds.”
Gerald Celente continues:
“Look at what’s going on all over the world, there’s no way out of this. What they are doing by keeping interest rates low, through 2014, my God, this should be headline news, the raping of the American public. So this is a collapse in the making, right in front of everyone and gold prices and silver prices don’t lie, they’re reflecting it.”
When asked if Jim Sinclair’s statements that mainstream companies like GE, tech companies and others would enter the gold market, if this was a new trend, Celente responded, “I believe so. I believe a lot of people are going to move into gold. It’s going to go mainstream and it’s going to continue to go mainstream as you see more bank runs and riots....
Celente had this to say about urban military training in civilian areas of Los Angeles: “Wasn’t it on New Year’s Eve, when you were trying to celebrate, that Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act? So when I say fascists, it’s right there in front of you. It’s the ‘No Bill of Rights.’
They could take anybody out there that disagrees with the government, call them a ‘belligerent of the state’ and the military could come and take them away with no charges. No judge, no jury, no trial and Jack you’re dead. I’m saying, Eric, I believe they are instituting Battlefield America in this country and others as the system collapses.
(We’ve been talking about) Economic Martial Law and now you have the military in control, to make sure it doesn’t get out of control. Think about what would happen with a bank holiday. The systems are in place to keep the people in place. So I believe they are putting in Martial Law to support Economic Martial Law.
With the National Defense Authorization Act they repealed the 1878 the Posse Comitatus Act, which used to prevent the military from taking over police duties. This is against the Constitution in every manner possible.”
Celente also issued this warning regarding the State of the Union Address: “If I were to ask everybody, how did this speech start and how did it end? Most people won’t remember. But I can tell you how it started, it started with war and he ends it with war. He starts talking about Iran, the President is prepping the people for war. He began it with war, his State of the Union Address, and he ended it with war. Get ready for war.”
With news from the Fed causing tremendous upside action in gold this week, and reports coming in from Los Angeles describing a massive military exercise in the streets of Los Angeles, today King World News interviewed Gerald Celente, Founder of Trends Research and the man many consider to be the top trends forecaster in the world. Celente had this to say about the Fed announcement and subsequent press conference: “You can see what’s happened to gold prices and how they’ve spiked up. There’s no way out and it’s not only the Federal Reserve, it’s also the European Monetary Union. Look at the games they are playing. We just saw, at the end of 2011, the ECB giving away some $600 billion in loans to banks at virtually no interest rate so they could buy up the bonds of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece and Ireland. Nobody wants to touch these bonds.”
Gerald Celente continues:
“Look at what’s going on all over the world, there’s no way out of this. What they are doing by keeping interest rates low, through 2014, my God, this should be headline news, the raping of the American public. So this is a collapse in the making, right in front of everyone and gold prices and silver prices don’t lie, they’re reflecting it.”
When asked if Jim Sinclair’s statements that mainstream companies like GE, tech companies and others would enter the gold market, if this was a new trend, Celente responded, “I believe so. I believe a lot of people are going to move into gold. It’s going to go mainstream and it’s going to continue to go mainstream as you see more bank runs and riots....
Celente had this to say about urban military training in civilian areas of Los Angeles: “Wasn’t it on New Year’s Eve, when you were trying to celebrate, that Obama signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act? So when I say fascists, it’s right there in front of you. It’s the ‘No Bill of Rights.’
They could take anybody out there that disagrees with the government, call them a ‘belligerent of the state’ and the military could come and take them away with no charges. No judge, no jury, no trial and Jack you’re dead. I’m saying, Eric, I believe they are instituting Battlefield America in this country and others as the system collapses.
(We’ve been talking about) Economic Martial Law and now you have the military in control, to make sure it doesn’t get out of control. Think about what would happen with a bank holiday. The systems are in place to keep the people in place. So I believe they are putting in Martial Law to support Economic Martial Law.
With the National Defense Authorization Act they repealed the 1878 the Posse Comitatus Act, which used to prevent the military from taking over police duties. This is against the Constitution in every manner possible.”
Celente also issued this warning regarding the State of the Union Address: “If I were to ask everybody, how did this speech start and how did it end? Most people won’t remember. But I can tell you how it started, it started with war and he ends it with war. He starts talking about Iran, the President is prepping the people for war. He began it with war, his State of the Union Address, and he ended it with war. Get ready for war.”
愛帶食物赴澳華客不知違例
東方日報
【本報綜合報道】澳洲開恩茲機場上周從大批中國旅客的行李，搜獲數以百公斤計違反生物保安法的物品，並載滿五個垃圾箱，包括豬腳、冬蟲夏草、鴨蛋及燕窩等。當局表示，多數中國旅客都不知道有關法例，顯示有需要在國際間宣傳生物安全法。
機場生物安全官員史密斯表示，上周農曆新年假期開始後，大批中國旅客抵達澳洲，但均被發現違反當局的生物安全法，攜帶大量食物入境，包括蔬果、果仁、雞腳、雞內臟及豬肉。有人更帶有冬蟲夏草、燕窩及一隻仍然溫暖的熟鴨。
【本報綜合報道】澳洲開恩茲機場上周從大批中國旅客的行李，搜獲數以百公斤計違反生物保安法的物品，並載滿五個垃圾箱，包括豬腳、冬蟲夏草、鴨蛋及燕窩等。當局表示，多數中國旅客都不知道有關法例，顯示有需要在國際間宣傳生物安全法。
機場生物安全官員史密斯表示，上周農曆新年假期開始後，大批中國旅客抵達澳洲，但均被發現違反當局的生物安全法，攜帶大量食物入境，包括蔬果、果仁、雞腳、雞內臟及豬肉。有人更帶有冬蟲夏草、燕窩及一隻仍然溫暖的熟鴨。
史密斯稱：「每個旅客都有某些物件需要申報。」當局為此在機場安排翻譯員，以向中國旅客解釋這些違規物件不能入境，但發現大部分人都對有關法例不知情。當局預料更多中國旅客將於近日入境，違規物品可再填滿三個垃圾箱。
騙黨奇招道具抵押詐財
東方日報
【記者鄭華坤】借錢借手機黨詐騙手法層出不窮，除假扮遊客訛稱「冇港紙」或「手機冇電」外，更出動「提款卡」及「利是」等道具作抵押，令受害人信以為有借 有還，一名女騙徒去年底在屯門以一張假銀行卡作抵押，騙得一名少女借出二千元財物；另有男騙徒在沙田訛稱希望以人民幣兌換港幣，但因「攞唔切錢」，以「利 是」作抵押，成功騙去一名老伯六百元，當老伯打開利是一看，竟發現是一張五百元陰司紙。
【記者鄭華坤】借錢借手機黨詐騙手法層出不窮，除假扮遊客訛稱「冇港紙」或「手機冇電」外，更出動「提款卡」及「利是」等道具作抵押，令受害人信以為有借 有還，一名女騙徒去年底在屯門以一張假銀行卡作抵押，騙得一名少女借出二千元財物；另有男騙徒在沙田訛稱希望以人民幣兌換港幣，但因「攞唔切錢」，以「利 是」作抵押，成功騙去一名老伯六百元，當老伯打開利是一看，竟發現是一張五百元陰司紙。
警方去年接獲一百零二宗街頭騙案，較前年大幅上升六成五，其中寶藥黨勁升逾兩倍，祈福黨上升近一點四倍，借錢借手機黨亦上升近九成。
最細受害人僅九歲
警 方商業罪案調查科總督察孔慶勳表示，借錢借手機騙徒通常假扮遊客，訛稱無現金或手機無電，博取受害人同情，最細的受害人年僅九歲，而最新的犯案手法是出動 道具作抵押。去年十一月，內地女騙徒向廿多歲的女事主借錢及借手機，總值約二千元，並以一張偽造銀行卡作抵押，幸被巡警撞破，女騙徒被警方落案檢控，警方 不排除她涉及多宗同類案件。
去年一月一名內地男騙徒在沙田向一名老伯訛稱，可用優惠兌換率兌換港幣，但因「攞唔切錢」，要求老伯先借出六百港元，並以一封利是作抵押，但當老伯打開一看，竟發現是五百元陰司紙。
分工精細兼有劇本
另外，祈福黨騙案急升一點四倍，孔表示，騙徒甚有組織性，除有「劇本」外，每次出動五至六人，有男有女，男的負責「睇水」，女的分演不同角色，為防被銀行職員識破，騙徒不再要求受害人到銀行提款，而是在周日及假期犯案，要求對方拿出金器及現金祈福。
商罪科偵緝高級督察簡志韶表示，騙徒會預備兩個環保袋，一個擺放事主財物，一個放滿生果，當祈福完畢，會將放生果那一袋交給事主，吩咐七日內不能打開，因案發地點往往十分偏僻，一般無閉路電視令警方難以追查，一名六十九歲老婦去年九月在將軍澳被騙去六十多萬元金器及現金。
2012年1月29日星期日
曾蔭權談歐債「從未如此驚慌」
星島日報
| 2012-01-29 (08:45) | ||
曾蔭權與各國代表分享自己從政40多年，主理財金事務的經驗。對於歐債危機，他坦言：「從未感到如此驚慌。」 曾蔭權又重提自己當年應對亞洲金融風暴時，入市購股票的行動，促請歐美政府果斷行動。他還提到要協助基層市民，確保他們生活穩定，起碼付得起電費。 與曾蔭權同場的，包括國際貨幣基金組織總裁拉加德、英國財長歐思邦和日本財務大臣安住淳等，席間各人都談及如何應對歐債危機。 |
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