Spy...

 


A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested.

The arrest of the former officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, capped an intense F.B.I. inquiry that began around 2012, two years after the C.I.A. began losing its informants in China.

FBI agents discovered he had handwritten notes containing the "true names" and "phone numbers" of assets, covert CIA employees and CIA facilities.

Some intelligence officials believed that a mole inside the C.I.A. was exposing its roster of informants. Others thought that the Chinese government had hacked the C.I.A.’s covert communications used to talk to foreign sources of information.

Mr. Lee, who left the C.I.A. in 2007, has been living in Hong Kong and working for a well-known auction house. He was apprehended at Kennedy Airport in New York  and charged in federal court in Northern Virginia with the unlawful retention of national defense information. 

Hate...*الكراهيه

 

Hatred is a complicated animal; it is the child of dark forces. When you hate someone, he or she has power over your life and infiltrates everything you do.
Your hate slithers into your veins like a serpent, wrapping itself around your heart. You take pleasure in witnessing this person’s demise. You want to watch him or her fail, to get hurt and to suck at life.   

You spend an exorbitant amount of energy thinking about the target of your hatred, stalking social media and talking sh*t to anyone who listen.  You may hate this person, but you feel very, very strongly about him or her. Even though you certainly do not want to admit it, you care.  
There is so much hate in the world, and it is so available that one could just reach out, as if into thin air, and grasp a bundle of hate and eat it. There is a lot of love as well, sure, but most of the time, it’s not so easy to just reach out and grab and for that reason people tend to lean towards hate or just laziness. 

They tend not to stretch their tired arm so far, not to rise from their comfortable seated position, not even to think twice about it. They just settle for hate. 

Perception is reality especially in hate.. Hate gives us the illusion of control because we think we understand it.  But hate has reigned longer than love.

As our world’s history is so riddled with hateful people and hateful acts we seem used to it, and when hateful people act out against other hateful people, and all the hate starts to fly back and forth, it feels as if it is right, as if it is normal. Hate is our status quo. Hate is harvested. Hate is given away for free.

Love knows no rules, has no authorities, protectors or enforcers. Therefore I am free to write and speak all I wish about Love and no one can really say I am wrong about it. You can however say I am wrong about hate, but chances are, you are an optimist. 

Proxy...*

Foreign involvement in the Syrian Civil War refers to political, military and operational support to parties involved in the ongoing conflict in Syria that began in March 2011, as well as active foreign involvement.

The ongoing conflict in Syria is widely described as a series of overlapping proxy wars between the regional and world powers, primarily between the U.S. and Russia as well as between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

The Syrian Ba'athist government is supported by Iran and Russia, actively supported by Lebanese Hezbollah party and by Syrian-based Palestinian group PFLP-GC and others.

The Syrian opposition, receives financial, logistical, political and in some cases military support from major Sunni states, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey. allied with the U.S.,

U.S, France, and the UK provide political, military and logistic support to the opposition as well as rebel groups in Syria that are not designated by them as terrorist.

The predominantly Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the main armed service of the Kurdish Supreme Committee, the government of Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava), have received military and logistic support from Iraqi Kurdistan and air support by U.S., Canada, British and French air force.

The Salafist groups are partially supported by Turkey, while the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant received support from several non-state groups and organizations from across the Muslim World.

NATO allies decided to interfere into  a small poor country like Syria. It caused major destruction and damage to the country and set the country back 100 years. Ten Millions refugees and future generation of children with no hopes for a peaceful life.  Just a thought.

Cavity...

Define...*

"Man surprised me most about humanity.

Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.

And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;
the result being that he does not live in the present or the future.

He lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

"Never be bullied into silence.

Never allow yourself to be made a victim.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."   Just a thought. 

Marriage...*

The groom was a U.S. citizen strapped for cash.
The bride was Chinese and in search of a green card.
One month after their first meeting, they tied the knot at Dynasty Wedding Studio in Temple City. Among the guests were his boyfriend and her husband.

Jason Shiao, 65, and Lynn Leung, 43, are suspected of orchestrating more than 70 fraudulent immigration applications over nearly a decade. The two allegedly commanded sums as high as $50,000 from Chinese clients hoping to obtain legal immigration status.

The father-daughter team would help stage the weddings and honeymoons complete with photo shoots tend to the proper paperwork and coach the couples on how to appear legitimate. 

“They had phony law firm. Because of that professional face on their organization, they were able to charge more.”

At least 23 U.S. citizens admitted to being a part of the scheme that included referral bonuses for those who could bring in a new potential spouse.
Staged wedding photos and bogus honeymoons during which the couple would not even stay in the same room were standard practice. Meanwhile Shiao and Leung went to work creating fraudulent marriage certificates, tax returns, bank statements and leases, authorities alleged.
          Just a thought.

Trusted...*

Ashley Madison is a Canada-based online dating service and social networking service marketed to people who are married or in committed relationships.

It is the world's largest online Social Networking Community of its kind that caters to people who are already in relationships but still want to date.

Founded in 2002 by Darren Morgenstern, with the slogan: "Life is short. Have an affair." The name comes from two popular female names, "Ashley" and "Madison".

But there were accusation of fake profiles, then the site was hacked and the subscribers names released.
What's the world coming too? No privacy...

Civilization...*

German police describes how women in the western city of Cologne had to run through mobs of drunken men who attacked them during New Year’s celebrations. Police announced that 90 women had been sexually molested, robbed, or threatened outside the city's central cathedral, a series of events they condemned as a "new dimension in crime."

The officer said “several thousand male persons with a migrant background” hurled fireworks and bottles into the crowds of revelers who had gathered in front of the city’s cathedral to celebrate the new year.

 “In the course of the operation numerous crying and shocked women/girls approached officers and told them of sexual assaults by male migrants/groups.

“We must examine again and again whether we have already done what is necessary in terms of … deportations from Germany in order to send clear signals to those who are not prepared to abide by our legal order,” Merkel said.

Bonus...

Tobaco...*

The "Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Warning Ordinance" would require health warnings on advertising within city limits  on billboards, walls, the sides of cabs and buses.     Liquid sugar is the new tobacco as far as public health advocates are concerned. 

"This is a very important step forward in terms of setting strong public policy around the need to reduce consumption of sugary drinks; they are making people sick, they're helping fuel the explosion of Type 2 diabetes and other health problems in adults and in children.

The label for billboards and other ads would read: "WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay. This is a message from the City and County of San Francisco."

Retailers must carry warnings on advertising within stores, although the goal is to give them plenty of time to comply.  About 32 percent of children and teens in San Francisco are overweight or obese. That figure is lower than Los Angeles, San Jose and Sacramento.    Just a serious Thought.