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The melting of wetland permafrost in the Arctic and the resulting release of carbon into the atmosphere may be "unstoppable" in the next 20 years, but wetlands closer to the equator, like those in Louisiana, can be restored, he said.
Teixeira admitted wetlands have an image problem with the public, which is generally well-disposed to saving the rainforest but not the swamp.
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Actually, it looks like the info wasn't so much false as it was a huge misunderstanding! An SBS pic finally appeared that mentions the 2929 thing and it turns out that it wasn't a hint from Oda, but a zany fan theory concerning the crewmembers with DF powers (gomu gomu= 5656, hana hana= 8787, etc.) Looks like 2929 was just the fan's attempt at guessing who the final crewmember will be. Apparently, Oda was baffled in his response.
Well, now that we've got THAT confusion out of the way, we can wait for the rest of the SBS info without worries.....
Update: Well, some SBS info came out. Looks like nothing really substantial was revealed this volume, which is a shame (but I guess it's understandable after seeing how much awesome was packed in 58's SBS). Anyway, probably the most interesting info so far would be character birthdays:
Ivankov: 1/8 (what's really amusing is that this comes from his "hee-haw" laugh )
Blackbeard: 8/3 (from "ya-mi", naturally )
Crocodile: 9/5
Marco: 10/5
Law: 10/6
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Akainu: 8/16
Aokiji: 9/21
Kizaru: 11/23
....Like I said, nothing really outstanding. Aside from the fan theory that was mentioned earlier, the only other somewhat interesting question asked was whether or not the chapter title for 572 was based off the Bob Dylan song (to which Oda replies yes). Oh well, now to wait for the volume 60 SBS.....
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Ivankov: January 8- Capricorn
Blackbeard: August 3- Leo
Crocodile: September 5- Virgo
Marco: October 5- Libra
Law: October 6- Libra
Akainu: August 16- Leo
Aokiji: September 21- Libra
Kizaru: November 23- Sagitarius
I like how Oda answered positive that the chapter title for 572 was based off the Bob Dylan song of the same name. I heard the song being played in the WATCHMEN movie opening title and it's rather fitting.
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I woulda liked it if he had given the ages of the various WB commanders.
Blackbeard is only 38, so i'd probably bet Marco, Joz & Vista are around that same age...Just like Shanks is. it also means Blackbeard was on WB's crew from around the same age as Shanks...because WB mentioned BB 22 years prior, which would make him only 15-16 years old..which also means, he musta been a smart bastard for having come up with the plan he did and biding his time for that long.
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Hey, so there actually was a couple pieces of really interesting information that slipped over our heads! Our friend aohige gives us the 411:
Yes, very interesting, indeed. Looks like this explains how guys like Jozu and Vista can be numbered lower than Ace despite them having a couple decades' seniority over him. The whole deal about the NW allies is no surprise, of course. Still, it would be nice if Oda gave us a little more info about Ace's old crew....
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although we really only saw numbers 1-5 (not including Thatch) dishing it out .. Marco & Jozu taking on admirals (and Ace on Aokijii too later) and Vista on Mihawk
frankly I have a hard time believing WB had 11 more (up to 16) fighters of that level .. VA level maybe ..
|2010-08-08, 22:49
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Regardless, it does seem that Marco (No.1), Jozu (No.3), Vista (No.5) are the strongest in the crew, with Ace (No.2) coming after.
|2010-08-12, 22:42
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LOL, my bad. I thought more people would be familiar with that expression. Guess I should stick with more general terms from now on.....
Anyway, one particular question I'm hoping that Oda will answer in a future SBS is whether or not Moria would be immune to the sun's effects if he separates himself from his shadow in broad daylight. I think he actually DID split himself from his shadow at Marineford, but it's a bit difficult to tell for sure. Therefore, I'd like for Oda to shed some light on that subject (no pun intended ).
|2010-08-13, 13:25
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Maybe i'm 1 of the very few who cares about such minor stuff...but still...
|2010-08-13, 18:12
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I kinda had the anime in mind as well, but honestly, I've long since learned to take anime events with a grain of salt (like Zoro cutting steel before the Alabasta arc ).....
I'd particularly love to get some more info about the NW captains (in fact, I'm pretty sure I mentioned something like that earlier in this thread), but my guess is that Oda still has plans for them at some point in the future, which is why we saw so little action from them at Marineford (kinda like why he didn't reveal the full details of Marco's DF).....
|2010-10-24, 14:40
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Pardon the double-post, but quite a bit has been revealed about the upcoming data book One Piece Green:
-Full title is One Piece Green: Secret Pieces
-Has all 12 of the current splash page ministories included, as well as several of the other animal-themed splash images
-Has 4 new Straw-Hat Theater omake chapters
-Oda reveals various sketches and behind-the-scenes stories about his works
-New World's major forces introduced
-Over 80 secrets revealed
Apparently, a couple of those 80 secrets were already teased, partiularly the explanation of the crossed-out "S" on Ace's tattoo and Luffy's shipwright sketch from the Water 7 arc looking like Franky. But yeah, I kinda doubt that anything particularly major will be revealed.....
Oh, and cover:
Comes out November 4th, folks!
|2010-10-25, 12:54
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Aaaannnd.... Triple post!
Once again our friend from APforums Greg has provided us with more nuggets of Green's content that was teased in the latest SJ issue. Among them is:
Brooke's early design! Turns out that Oda had already planned out the character quite some time ago (long before he appeared at Thriller Bark!). Greg notes that he's drinking English tea and still makes his bone-related puns (but he uses the word "hone" instead of "kotsu". And in addition to that last pic:
Green's back cover! The inclusion of Gedatsu and Wapol (with his sexy wife) is pretty sweet enough, but a color pic of one of Eneru's moon bots is quite awesome, as well. Man, I can't wait for the flood of info that's about to come next week.....
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[Update] Microsoft Talks On Amazon Acquiring Killer Instinct Dev Double Helix Games
Update #2: Microsoft has commented on Amazon's acquisition of Killer Instinct developer Double Helix Games.
Polygon has obtained the following comment from Microsoft, which mentions the future of the Killer Instinct franchise.
We have thoroughly enjoyed working with Double Helix and wish them success in their next endeavor. We want all of our loyal fans to know that the Killer Instinct team at Microsoft is not changing and that the franchise will remain with Microsoft Studios. We remain dedicated to delivering a great experience and plan to announce our new development partner soon. We're excited about the future of this popular franchise.
[Source: Polygon]
Update #1: Amazon has confirmed the acquisition to Game Informer with the comment, "Amazon has acquired Double Helix as part of our ongoing commitment to build innovative games for customers."
It's still not entirely clear what Amazon's specific plans are for the developer, but it will definitely have the studio doing what it does best: make video games. Last year, we reported on Amazon releasing an Android based console to compete in the video game console market. You can read more about that here.
Original Story:
Reports have appeared online that Amazon, the online retailer, has acquired video game developer Double Helix Games.
Double Helix Games is the developer behind the recent Xbox One exclusive Killer Instinct, and the upcoming reboot of Strider, which is releasing later this month.
According to a report from TechCrunch, news of the acquisition leaked early in the form of an invite to a joint recruiting event for Amazon and Double Helix. Amazon then confirmed the acquisition to the site. The purchase apparently includes the studio, all of its employees, and intellectual properties owned by Double Helix.
We've reached out to Amazon ourselves for more information and will update our story when we receive a response.
[Source: TechCrunch]
Our Take
This isn't too surprising, considering Amazon's upcoming console reports, but it's still a strange headline to see Amazon acquire a video game developer. It is especially strange considering the developer is one who has recently seen success with Microsoft, and is working with Capcom to release Strider later this month. That being said, Amazon is a very successful company, and committing to it is a fairly safe bet. I'm excited to see what the company, who has historically not made video games (but has recently dipped its toes in the water), has in store for the industry.


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The Honeynet Project http://www.honeynet.org Christian Seifert - The New Zealand Honeynet Project Last Modified: 7 November 2007
In our recent KYE paper on malicious web servers, we identified several hundred malicious web servers. These servers launched, so-called drive by downloads, that allowed them to gain complete control of the client machine without the consent or notice of the user, who merely visited the malicious web server with his (vulnerable) web browser. In our study, we analyzed a large number of web servers with our client honeypot Capture-HPC, which allowed us to assess whether a server was malicious, then inspect the exploit code that was sent to the client and the potential malware downloaded. However, many questions remained unanswered:
1. We observed that malicious servers were not consistent in their behavior. When interacting with a malicious server, it might initially demonstrate malicious behavior, but cease to do so on subsequent attempts. We were unable to discover with certainty the reason or technique for this non-deterministic behavior.
2. We observed that only the Internet Explorer browser was targeted. Was this because attackers were choosing not to attack the other browsers in our study, or because of the specific set of browsers/versions we chose to include?
3. We observed that malicious web pages accessed centralized exploit servers. However, we were unable to determine whether this was common practice or a one-time incident.
4. We consistently observed obfuscation to be deployed on the malicious pages, but could determine neither how the obfuscated code was generated nor whether there are elements of the obfuscation engine that are consistent and detectable with static code analysis.
Web exploitation kits, which increasingly appeared in 2006/7, will provide us with a behind-the-scenes look at how these malicious web servers operate. In this paper we will give a brief functional overview of several web exploitation kits, then delve into answering the questions above through analysis of these kits and malicious web servers that use it. The web exploitation kits that we will examine are Webattacker, MPack and Icepack. We conclude with implications of our discoveries on client honeypot technology and future studies on malicious web servers.
A web exploitation kit allows an attacker to gain control of a client machine when it visits a malicious web page. The steps that lead to successful exploitation are shown in Figures 1 and 2 show the steps that are usually taken by these drive-by-downloads . First, a user visits a web page that hosts a web exploitation kit. Following the client's request, the web server might implement some server side logic that assesses from what country the request is coming, what browser is being used, etc. and then returns the attack code as part of the response. The attack code attacks the client, and if successful, executes a downloader component without the user's consent or notice (Step 1). The downloader in turn will make a follow-on request to download and execute a piece of malware from a URL specified by the attacker (Step 2). Alternatively, the step can be skipped and the malware delivered with the initial attack code making Step 2 unnecessary. At that point, the attacker has complete control of the client machine and can steal sensitive information, such as credit card numbers or account credentials, join the client machine in a botnet, use social engineering to entice the user to purchase bogus products online, etc. The user did not notice that he was just successfully attacked as all steps are happening in the background. As such, drive-by-downloads is a popular technique in the attacker's arsenal.
Figure 1 - Client-Side Attack - Step 1
Figure 2 - Client-Side Attack - Step 2
WebAttacker is one of the first web exploitation kits that appeared in early 2006. It was sold on Russian web sites for about $15 [1]. MPack, a more sophisticated web exploitation kit, was developed shortly after by three Russian programmers who call themselves the "Dream Coders Team" [2], and was initially released in June 2006. The tool is sold via the underground market for approximately $700 to $1000 and according to VeriSign/iDefense [3], it has been responsible for thousands of infections. IcePack was first reported in July 2007 [4], [5] and is quite similar to MPack. It has been developed by another group, the IDT group, with a purchase price of $400. Since August 2007 even Chinese localizations of the MPack/IcePack toolkits are available [6].
Under the hood, these web exploitation kits are quite simple. WebAttacker consists of a Perl and some PHP scripts. MPack/IcePack consists of several PHP scripts and a downloader creator that allows the user to create custom downloaders, programs designed to retrieve and install the actual malware. The use of the downloader frees the attacker from any size limits posed by the payload buffer and potentially provides some encryption routines to evade intrusion detection systems. Our test installation of MPack was as easy as unpacking the MPack archive into a directory, editing a simple configuration file and placing the downloader into the directory. The provided documentation and sample configuration assisted us in our efforts. Once the web exploitation kit is installed, attacks are live and accessible on the web server under a specific URL, and the attacker's only remaining task is to entice users to visit this URL.
Once a kit is set up, the application can provide the attacker with information about the progress of its attacks via a password protected administrative/statistics page. The MPack administrative interface is shown in Figure 3 . It primarily contains information on the success rate of the various attacks and information about the location of the attacked clients. Similar administrative interfaces exist for WebAttacker and IcePack. We will review the administrative interface of MPack in more detail below.
First, we will investigate our observation of non-deterministic behavior of malicious web servers. Repeated interaction with a malicious web server did not consistently yield malicious behavior. Analysis of MPack/ IcePack exploitation kits allows us to - at least partially - explain this behavior.
Figure 3 - MPack Administrative Interface
MPack can be configured via the $BlockDuplicates option to only deliver an attack to a user it hasn't seen before. If this "IP tracking functionality" is enabled, MPack exectutes the CheckAddUser function shown in Figure 5 . The user's IP address with the browser identifier are hashed (line 08) and stored in the MPack database (mysql or txt file) (lines 48-49 and 23-25). Upon repeated visits by the user with the same IP address and browser identifier, the hash is once again generated and checked for existence in the MPack database (lines 15 and 29, 30, 41-42). If it is found, an "unhappy" emoticon is displayed and no attack is delivered (line 17 and 44). (Similar functionality exist in IcePack [7].)
The CheckAddUser function explains why certain URLs are malicious and then permanently go dormant. However, this would not explain URLs that exhibit malicious behavior, temporarily go dormant (maybe one or two requests), but then exhibit malicious behavior once again; this is a pattern we observed in our study. To explain this observation, we turn to an additional attack technique of Fast-Flux networks, which we more extensively describe in our Know Your Enemy: Fast-Flux Service Networks paper. Fast-Flux networks are networks computer systems with public DNS records that are constantly changing. If a malicious URL is part of such a network, it might resolve to actual different physical machines, which will only have access to their local IP tracking database. If a client honeypot accesses the same URL repeatedly, it might actually interact with several physical machines that each trigger initially, but then permanently go dormant. From the client honeypot's view, however, it appears as if it is sporadically attacked.
Figure 4 - CheckAddUser Function
In our study on malicious web servers, we interacted with web servers using older versions of the browsers Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Microsoft Internet Explorer. We didn't configure any plug-ins other than the ones provided by a clean Windows XP SP2 installation. The results of our study yielded only observed attacks on Internet Explorer, but did not observe any attacks on Firefox and/or Opera. However, just because we didn't observe any attacks on these clients, we couldn't conclude whether they are not targeted at all, because our configuration/versions might have simply been too bare or old.
The web exploitation kits provides us with a specific answer to this question. Other browsers and operating systems are certainly targeted as well. The following attacks are currently supported by the web exploitation kits. They first assess which browser and operating system are being used before delivering an attack to foster a high success rate:
|WebAttacker (as of September 2006)
|MPack V0.94
|IcePack [8] (as of September 2007)
|Microsoft Data Access Component Vulnerability
Windows VML Vulnerability ( CVE-2006-4868 )
|Microsoft Data Access Component Vulnerability
Microsoft WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
|Microsoft Data Access Component Vulnerability
WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Microsoft Management Console Vulnerability
Yahoo! Messenger Webcam ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Exploitable crash in InstallVersion.compareTo vulnerability
Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
|Windows Media Player Plug-In with Non-Microsoft Internet Explorer Vulnerability
JavaScript Navigator Object Vulnerability
While the set of attacks supported is rather small, it does show that multiple browsers are targeted. Many attacks utilize attack vectors that make use of plug-ins. Firefox and Opera are being attacked via a Microsoft Windows Media Player plug-in and Internet Explorer is attacked via some older vulnerabilities of the browser (MDAC attack), but also some more recent vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins, such as QuickTime and Winzip. (Note that this the attack sequence we encountered on the Italian Keith Jarrett web site.) In September 2007, a vulnerability was discovered that allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on Internet Explorer 7 via crafted PDF files ( CVE-2007-5020 ); another dangerous potential candidate for inclusion in one of the kits. How quickly new releases with new attacks are actually unleashed is still not well understood and will be answered as part of future work.
If we look at these three web exploitation kits as evolutionary successions, however, there seems to be a trend towards attacking plug-ins. Browsers nowadays have some sort of automated update mechanism that would result in a closure of the attack window for these web exploitation kits fairly quickly. However, third-party plug-ins, such as Flash or Yahoo! Widgets, do not have such update mechanisms and remain unpatched on the system even when patches are available. Targeting these plug-ins ensures that the web exploitation kits remain effective.
MPack has an additional feature that we haven't considered so far: geolocation-dependent triggering via the freely available MaxMind Geolocation Technology. MPack determines in what country the user is located and can be configured to only trigger on certain countries. A copy of MPack that we obtained was configured to trigger only on users from Russia, Ukraine and the United States. A user located in New Zealand that navigates to the malicious page would not be attacked. The PandaLabs Report shows an MPack installation that doesn't seem to be as selective triggering on users from different countries. Their statistic page shows successful attacks on users from Japan, Germany, Spain, United States, Romania, UK, Italy, France, China, Mexico and Canada.
The geolocation-dependent triggering could easily be extended into a more fine grained triggering mechanism to avoid specific networks. Web exploitation kits could create the illusion of a malicious server in a sheep skin for entities that find and assess malicious web servers (AV and securtity companies), but could continue to exhibit malicious behavior when accessed from outside these specific networks . For the attacker, it would lead to a greatly reduced risk of detection, while at the same time increasing the likelihood of continued operation of the malicious web server and therefore lead to continued financial gain for the attacker.
All web exploitation kits record information about the clients in a statistics database. An example of the effects statistics, shown in Figure 3 , makes targeting easier. It provides attackers with information to determine whether their attacks are still successful. Do old attacks, such as the MDAC attack on Windows 2000, still lead to successful exploitations? If so, an attacker might refrain from upgrading to newer and more expensive exploits. If the success rate of an exploit suddenly drops, the attacker can react accordingly. Browser statistics and the subsequent trends allow the attacker to purchase exploits that provide the highest return on investment.
Geolocation information could potentially be used for follow-up attacks in the regions that were most successful. Successful rates in a specific region indicate that users are less security aware, do not use the latest patches, etc. and therefore will be prone to future attacks. These attacks are not limited to drive-by-downloads, but could be in the area of phishing, attacks on servers, SPAM, etc. These are the low hanging fruits attackers will go for first.
In our previous KYE study, we observed that malicious web pages usually do not host the attack code directly. Rather, the attack code is being imported onto the "front-end" page (for example, via iframes), or the user is redirected to the attack code, as shown in Figure 6 . IcePack and MPack confirm that this is common practice as it explicitly supports this structure in the statistics the tool collects. Every front-end page sends information about itself to the exploit server via the HTTP Referrer header, which is then recorded by the IcePack and MPack tool and visible on the statistics page as shown in Figure 3 and Figure 5 . The attacker, as a result, can determine which front-end pages drive the most traffic to the exploit server and, equipped with this information, "marketing campaigns" or specific hacking attempts can be focused to effectively increase the attack success rate.
Usually the administrators of these front-end pages are not even aware that they are hosting code that includes or redirects to malicious content. These front-end servers might have fallen to victim to an attack themselves in which the attacker modifies the pages or, more covertly, performs man-in-the-middle attacks, such as ARP spoofing [9], to include the malicious content. In the case of ARP spoofing, the administrator of the web page cannot find any direct evidence of malicious pages on the web site, but users are attacked nevertheless. Tools that allow an attacker to perform automated ARP spoofing, such as HTool and zxarps [10], have been reported to be bundled with the MPack web exploitation kits, although we ourselves did not obtain a copy of such a tool.
Figure 5 - Administrative Interface - Referer [sic] Stats
Figure 6 - Redirect to Exploit Server
Knowledge about these exploit servers is of high value. SANS Internet Storm Center identified a MPack attack in the middle of 2007 that showed 10,000 referral domains [11],[12]. This means that 10,000 web pages pointed to one exploit server. That is a high number. A live MPack server we found on the web (http://www.cordon.ru/mp/admin.php), "only" listed 504 referer URLs. A security administrator that is able to identify these servers will be able to greatly reduce the risk of infection by simply blacklisting these central exploit servers, effectively defusing risk of infection of the many front-end web pages that users potentially could come across.
Identification of these servers is simple. Since the exploitation kits consists of various PHP pages that host specific content, one can easily find exploit servers using a low interaction client honeypot, such as HoneyC . We performed such a search on several thousand known malicious URLs (sourced from stopbadware.org and mvps.org ). For each URL, we checked for the existence of an admin.PHP page (the page to the administative console of MPack v0.94), as well as the specific string "All activity is being monitored", which can be found on these PHP pages. We were able to identify several MPack servers as shown in Table 2 . Note that a search of this type was performed within a few hours on an average desktop PC using our low interaction client honeypot, HoneyC. The Snort signature used, which can also be used in the Snort Intrusion Detection System, is shown in Figure 8 .
Figure 7 - Snort Signatue MPack 0.94
Search engine queries can also be used. Apparently a simple query that checks for `intitle: "Web Attacker Control"` used to result in several WebAttacker stats pages on Google [13].In October 2007, however, Google doesn't return any results; and Live Search only returns one defunct instance of WebAttacker. Since search engines adhere to robots' directives and do not index standalone pages, the coverage is likely to be low and a low interaction client honeypot would be the preferred method of identifying a exploit server.
|Hosts MPack (password protected stats page)
Table 2 - Identified MPack Hosts
Obfuscation is a mechanism to hide attacks from static detection tools, which use signatures to match against a known malicious string. Obfuscation causes the appearance of the malicious string to change therefore evading these detection tools. It is a technique we frequently encounter and something that is supported by the IcePack and MPack tool. With access to the MPack code, we are able to take a deeper look at how obfuscation is applied and whether there are weaknesses in the obfuscation routine.
Attack pages provided by MPack are obfuscated. The decryption routine executes three time before the attack page is in a state in which the browser can execute the contained attack code. A sample of the various obfuscation functions is shown in Figure 9 , which leads to an obfuscated attack page as shown in Figure 10 . It is obvious that a simple string matching algorithm would be unable to match on the attack code if this content changes upon every request.
Figure 8 - MPack Obfuscation Routine
However, MPack v0.94 currently contains a major bug in its obfuscation routine: it produces unchanged obfuscated output on the same attack page (the bug is located on line 3 of Figure 9 : instead of 165, it should be a random number). Even if the bug is fixed, there seems to be a finite number of obfuscated pages the current version of MPack could generate, and therefore static matching does fall into the realm of possibility on the attack page. Alternatively, several efforts attempt to decrypt obfuscated JavaScript and statically analyze the code in the clear [15],[16] or the code's behavior within a JavaScript engine [17].
Figure 9 - Obfuscated Attack Page (Snippet)
On top of this obfuscation, however, additional obfuscation is likely to be applied to the front-end page that imports the page from the exploit server. These front-end pages do not merely place a static iframe on the page that imports the exploit. Rather, obfuscated JavaScript snippets append the iframe (via the document.write method) to the page once it is opened. Since this technique is independent of the web exploitation kit, it might even been applied with the earlier web exploitation kits that did not support obfuscation.
In addition, there are other means to determine whether a web exploitation kit is involved in an attack. A successful attack by a particular web exploitation kit seems to cause similar state changes on the client machine (see Appendix A for a complete list of state changes encountered on the URL http://www.keithjarrett.it, which was attacked by an MPack server). As such, simply reviewing the state changes that are caused on the client, one is able to infer what web exploitation kit was used in the attack. For example, reviewing the MPack attack page we observe that a file with the name "sys" plus four random characters and ".exe" is always pushed to C:\. Matching on this behavioral signature of this specific file write event among the state changes yields an identification of MPack attacks. From the 306 malicious URLs we identified in our KYE study, we were able to identify 13 URLs (or 4.24%) that utilized MPack using these behavioral signatures:
Table 3 - MPack URLs
We also discovered a static iframe as part of the attack page in Mpack that attempted to import an additional page "/counter/index.php" from a the remote web server "allhigh.org". If this was indeed included by the creators of MPack, the purpose of it might be to count the number of times their framework is used or to potentially steal a customer for themselves. The path name indicates that it is used for counting, but because the URL is not live anymore we can not assure any explanation. Either way, if such static iframes are used, identification of a web exploitation kit would be straightforward: simply monitor DNS lookups to the specific host name. If a DNS lookup of allhigh.org is observed, that would be the indicator that a client attack by a web exploitation kit MPack was attempted.
In this paper, we have taken a behind-the-scenes look at malicious web servers that launch drive-by-downloads. We analyzed specific aspects of several web exploitation kits that allowed us to reexamine several questions that we were unable to answer with our previous study on malicious web servers. The web exploitation kits provided us with valuable insight on how malicious web servers operate. (For comprehensive analysis of MPack and WebAttacker we refer to existing reports [18], [19].) There are several conclusions we draw as a result of our analysis with respect to future studies and client honeypot technology:
First, the appearance of web exploitation kits have a positive effect on identification of malicious web servers. Since they are tools that can be relatively easily obtained and deployed, it has a homogenizing effect on the malicious web server landscape (4.24% of the URLs encountered in our KYE study used MPack; WebAttacker apparently composed 32% of reported exploits in June 2006 [20]). Characteristics about the tool and the malicious content it serves can currently be identified and matched upon. We demonstrated that we can easily identify MPack servers using our low interaction client honeypot HoneyC as well as behavioral attack signatures. Whether attackers will invest energy and resources to "fix" these weaknesses remains to be seen.
Exploit servers are high value identification targets. Because they are used for numerous front-end pages, it is not likely that they will disappear. Rather, it is suspected that attackers will frequently update these exploit servers, which allows security researchers to observe the latest attacks. All web exploitation kits reviewed allow attackers to purchase upgrades, which will likely appear on the same machines.
On the other hand, the web exploitation kit MPack showed us that our identification of malicious web servers with high interaction client honeypot, such as Capture-HPC, has some limitations. First, the IP tracking functionality throws a wrench in the works of client honeypots and is likely to result in many false negatives if not addressed appropriately. A study into the magnitude of this technique and adjustments into the client honeypot approach are needed. It is likely that distributed client honeypots will become a necessity in the near future. Second, geolocation-dependent triggering is something we had not yet considered. Depending on what countries are prime targets, it might also result in a large number of false negatives. A comparitive study finding malicious servers using client honeypots in different physical locations will be necessary to assess the magnitude of the problem.
The web exploitation kits also showed us that other client applications/plug-ins are targeted. This is bad news for the end user whose many client vulnerabilities are now being actively attacked and comparing supported attacks of WebAttacker, MPack and IcePack seems to indicate a trend. As a result, client honeypots would require more complex configurations in search of malicious servers. In our previous study, we likely missed numerous attacks. With the insight provided by web exploitation kits, we are planning to address these gaps in future studies to come.
We would like to thank the following people:
• David Watson of the UK Honeynet Project (reviewer, provider of MPack v0.94)
• Raul Siles of the Spanish Honeynet Project (reviewer)
• Dave Dittrich of the Honeynet Project (reviewer)
• Thorsten Holz of the German Honeynet Project (reviewer)
• Mark Ryan del Moral Talabis from the Hawaii Honeynet Project (reviewer)
For the interested reader, we provide references to additional papers/articles on MPack, malicious web servers and client honeypots:
* Seifert, C., Steenson, R., Holz, T., Bing, Y. and Davis, M.A. Know Your Enemy: Malicious Web Servers, The Honeynet Project, 2007, Available from http://www.honeynet.org/papers/mws/ ; accessed on 25 September 2007.
* The Honeynet Project. Know Your Enemy: Fast-Flux Service Networks, The Honeynet Project, 2007, Available from http://www.honeynet.org/papers/ff/ ; accessed on 25 September 2007.
* Seifert, C., Welch, I. and Komisarczuk, P., HoneyC - The Low-Interaction Client Honeypot. in NZCSRCS, (Hamilton, 2007), Available from http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/~cseifert/blog/images/seifert-honeyc.pdf ; accessed on 10 September 2006.
* Provos, N., McNamee, D., Mavrommatis, P., Wang, K. and Modadugu, N., The Ghost in the Browser: Analysis of Web-based Malware. in HotBots'07, (Cambridge, 2007), Usenix.
* Provos, N. and Holz, T. Client Honeypots. in Virtual Honeypots: From Botnet Tracking to Intrusion Detection, Addison Wesley Professional, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2007, 231-272.
Christian Seifert is a PhD candidate at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and is currently on a visiting scholar appointment at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. His research is targeted at improving the detection accuracy and speed of client honeypots. Christian has an MS in software engineering with a focus on computer security from Seattle University, WA. Christian has been a member of the New Zealand Honeynet Project since April 2006.
The work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
Copyright © The Honeynet Project, 2007
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[1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/27/spyware_diy/
[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/23/mpack_developer_interview/
[3] http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3015
[4] http://www.finjan.com/MCRCblog.aspx?EntryId=1601
[5] http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/Ice_2800_Pack_2900_-for-the-summer.aspx
[6] http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/10/mpack-and-icepack-localized-to-chinese.html
[7] http://www.finjan.com/MCRCblog.aspx?EntryId=1601
[8] http://blog.trendmicro.com/icepack-packing-heat/
[9] http://blog.trendmicro.com/icepack-packing-heat/
[10] Note that this the attack sequence we encountered on the Italian Keith Jarrett web site.
[11] http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2007/10/04/arp-spoofing-is-your-web-hosting-service-protected/
[12] http://www.teamfurry.com/wordpress/2007/08/29/zxarps/#more-157
[13] http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3015
[14] http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007/06/massive-embedded-web-attack-in-italy.html
[15] http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2007_02_01_archive.html
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[19] http://blogs.pandasoftware.com/blogs/images/PandaLabs/2007/05/11/MPack.pdf
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012 at 9:15AM
This post is by Hasan Ceylan, an Open Source software enthusiast from Istanbul.
I loved the JPA 1.0 back in early 2000s. I started using it together with EJB 3.0 even before the stable releases. I loved it so much that I contributed bits and parts for JBoss 3.x implementations.


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The Grind of the mile
The Blistering sun
The Burning of day
The terror of night
Forever unknown
The Gulf sun slants idly towards the oceans edge. Its golden midday tone is gone, displaced by a hazy orange hue that slinks lazily across the gulf.
A salty breeze whispers through the spokes of Drew's bike and drapes around him as he pedals through the sloping suburbs of Seminole.
By now, Drew has grinded out forty-three miles, and is swathed in summer sweat.
Summer and not summer are the only seasons here, but the heat is tolerable while cycling because the shore breeze offsets the beating sun. At 18 miles per hour, his pace is relaxed, it lets his mind wade through the events of the past year. Mostly, his thoughts drift back to Texas.
The roads are safe now. The evening rush has ended and the beach is rarely frequented on a Tuesday night. Even still, Drew makes sure to carefully cross the tumultuous Park Boulevard, because you never know which car is going to hit you.
The black wheels of the Denali GMC make their way into the time beaten lane. Park Boulevard is river of coquina and sandstone thats hemmed by a languid alfalfa grass. The grass grows higher along the barrens before the old overpass, grabbing at the old steel and concrete steel erection.
Although its nothing extraordinary, The road is dotted with the embellished suburban sub divisions that sprung up during the housing boom a few years ago. Their roofs are slung with Spanish terra cotta tiles and were built like the hearty Havana houses that popped up in the sixties. Despite their luster most of them are derelict. The housing crash devalued most things in Seminole, especially the houses.
Like sand spurs, these homes grew on fallow ground, and when the rains didn't come they died.
As Drew approaches the old overpass he starts speeding faster. Without enough momentum he won't be able to ascend the drawbridge before him. Though its not that steep it would be hell to have to fight it up slowly in fifth gear, and I he can't downshift because his derailleur is broken.
"Damned derailleur." Drew thinks to himself, if it hadn't been for that last crash it would have been fine." His mind goes back to that moment when he went over the handle bars. The concrete, the asphalt, the blood pouring out of his side. But that was over, and it wasn't getting him over this bridge.
As his legs fight the grade he whizzes past an idly driving sedan.
A new coat of sea foam green paint hides the drawbridge's rusty rivets. It's older than any of the other drawbridges.
Drew had seen the other catwalks that dotted the beach crumble, and new ones built in their place. Some were spectacular, like the Bellaire bridge, a tremendous overpass that was so large that any ship might pass beneath it. Drew liked crossing The bellaire bridge at sunset because at the top of the bridge he could see miles away into the endless blue, the thin strand of land that he called home and how it looked like the hungry gulf would swallow it.
But the one bridge Drew didn't mind this one, It had been built decades before all of them. Although it needed a few repairs each year it was nothing like the draw bridges on Tierra Verde and Treasure Island. No, this bridge was old and honest. Most of all, Drew liked it because when he crossed it he knew he was home.
The climb is always intense. But Drew has climbed it many times. His legs burn with speed to maintain his tempo. After A few cars pass him and he's at the plateau of the bridge.
He pauses a minute to look between the thin steel grating separating him from a forty foot fall. Beneath him is the muddy inter-coastal, the water way which divides the Beaches from the mainland.
This delta is nothing like the islands it shelters, nor does it resemble the concrete desert it stems from. It's not like the inter-coastal's of Jax or Daytona. Here is a shore woven with the tangled roots of red and black mangroves. These old men of the estuary slink forever across this briny strand, trapping unweary fishing skiffs that navigate the shallows at low tide. More importantly, the the salty fingers of these mangroves grasp the fragile shore, which would otherwise slip away into the sea.
But for most this inlet is ignored, and only it only serves to bar them from the ocean. These trees are seldom recalled in the memory of beach-goers. The real purpose of the mangroves, unknown to many, is to divide the fifty thousand dollar homes of Seminole from the fifty million dollar estates of Indian shores.
Over the bridge Drew sees the ocean spread before him, and the tiny mile long town thats been his only home.
Like the intercostal, The beach too is not at all like city of seminole, or Largo, or even Clearwater. It's Lined by ethereal australian pines, and dotted with twisting sea grapes whose green and amber leaves coat the dunes. The slim sandy strand could be mistaken for a low lying olympus. Because the soft ocean tide streams gently against the shore. This turquoise water is clean and clear in every season, and has a ghostly emerald tone when it rains. Moreover, the pillared residences, with all of their high rising arches, tall windows, and architechtual glory, might give you the impression that your in a better place. But for all its luster Indian is really just another playground, albeit an expensive playground, for those that have.
As Drew's bike snakes down the winding lane that meets the north bound intersection he watches The palms that line the streets sag slowly in the evening draft. Glinting shards of the sunset pierce through the hotel windows and condo awnings that are scattered across the shore and these rays splash against his sun shades.
The road curves and he merges into the bike lane. This black and red line that the city built with the proceeds from the "penny for Pinellas" fund, as was the towering town hall that had been finished only a few months before Drew had returned. Although its just a small bracket, less than two yards wide, it's the safest road in the entire county. It's three miles long, and much much less dangerous than the Pinellas trail because it's safe to ride on at night.
As Drew rides he passes a few of the old Florida homes on the oceanside, then the thrift shops and ice cream parlors...then mauhaufers, the last beach rummy bar........and then finally the Coffee shop, where the public crossing divides street and sand.
The muted bass riff of "Bring on
the Night" pounds into Drew's ears. He sets his cycle on the side of the road and walks towards the red bricked crossing. Over the asphalt, he crosses the street unto an old wooden walkway which was nearly swallowed by the gulf when hurricane opal swept over this tiny island. No one has ever bothered to dig it out, so its purpose isn't obvious to anyone who has lived here less than seventeen years.
Drew feels the white sand crunch beneath his trainers and his gaze fixes past the swaying sea oats and unto the azure ocean.
He removes his visor and brushes his blond sweat soaked hair behind him.
There, beyond the west, lies the sinking sun. lingering at the edge of the sea, the reddish globe sets the horizon afire, tinting it with burning oranges and brash golds.
Above the falling star is the night sky. Its an embroidery of color: soft greens, and melancholy blues are woven together by thin white stratus clouds that stretch across the ether.
"I couldn't Stand it.", Sting sings. "I couldn't Stand,
another hour, of daylight. I Couldn't stand another hour,
of daylight."
Fighting back Warm salty tears, he turns
around and walks back.
The sound of screaming brakes doesn't reach him.


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Import .pst files
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Microsoft Outlook .pst files use a proprietary format. Thunderbird not only doesn't understand that format, it has no idea that .pst files even exist. Thats why there is no import command that lets you browse to the location of a .pst file.
Normally you import the contents of a .pst file by setting Outlook as the default email client, and then use Tools -> Import -> Mail within Thunderbird. Thats makes SimpleMAPI calls to Outlook, which returns the contents of the personal folders (.pst) file. See this article for information on how to import from more than identity. If some of the messages aren't imported correctly a common workaround is to import the messages into Outlook Express, and then import the messages from Outlook Express into Thunderbird.
If you are running Windows there are several mail conversion utilities that support importing .pst files. However, they actually make SimpleMAPI calls just like Thunderbird does. If you just have the .pst file (and can't install Outlook on the PC) you could:
What type/version of .pst file and what version of Outlook you are using matters. You normally can't open an Outlook 2003 .pst file (it defaults to Unicode) in Outlook 2002 (which only supports ANSI). You could export it as a Outlook 2002 compatible .pst file in Outlook 2003 using the File, New, Outlook Data File command, and then choose Outlook 97-2002 Personal Folders File (.pst) as the storage type.
If you are running Linux there are several open source utilities to convert .pst files to mbox files such as readpst , libpst and Outport . Thunderbird uses a separate mbox file for each folder to store all of the messages for that folder. None of those utilities seem to be under active development and they only support some of the versions of .pst files. You can use the ImportExporttools extension (it used to be called the mboximport extension) to import the mbox files.
The Thunderbird PST Import plugin lets you import selected folders from a .PST file under both Windows and Linux. Its based on readpst. Some of the dialog boxes are in French. [1] [2] Its not clear how well it works since nobody has reported using it in the forums and most of the comments on the download site reports it doesn't work. [3]
If you are running OSX Microsoft's web site has a tool to import .pst files into Entourage but it only supports .pst files from Outlook 2001 for the Mac, it is not compatible with any .pst files created by Outlook for Windows. Little Machines sells a product that can convert .pst files created by Outlook for Windows into files that can be imported into Entourage. This article explains how to import folders from Entourage into Thunderbird.
There is also Xena, a Java application that can convert several types of files (including .pst) into a XML archive format for long-term digital preservation . They provide a viewer, but its not clear if anything is available to convert the XML archive format into mbox files.
If none of these solutions solve your problem see this article for some generic advice on how to import and export messages. If you're switching to a new PC where you're going to run Thunderbird (instead of Outlook) its recommended you import your messages into Thunderbird before getting rid of (or cannibalizing) your old PC.
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
18 comments:
- John M. Lally said...
My family's health insurance bill increased by $100.00 per month this year. In addition, I read that my insurance carrier, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, will no longer cover medical costs at hospitals that belong to Norton's Healtcare's system. This included Kosair Hospital, the only children's hospital in our area. I was recently turned down for health insurance because some administrator "diagnosed" me with COPD. I had to get a note from my doctor to prove him wrong-- and even then it still shows up in my insurance paperwork from time to time.
I can't imagine why socialized medicine would be so feared at this point.
Would it mean that we might have to wait months to see our doctor? Guess what? We already have that.
Would it mean that we lose the freedom to choose which doctor we go to? We have that as well. "Dr. Smith won't be able to see you until October. You can either wait til then, or consult with our nurse practitioner".
Would it mean that some of the most expensive treatments would be unavailable to us? Guess what? We're already there.
We already have administrators determining how much healthcare we're entitled to, which doctors can see us, which facilities we must use, and what treatments we receive. We are currently in socialized medicine of a sort, in that the system depends on mutual insurance in order to keep operating. The system is broken, however. It needs repair. I am heartened by the account you provided of the Canadian healthcare service.
- June 11, 2009 at 10:15:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
Excerpt from NYT:
"Scaremongers emphasize the waits for specialists in Canada, and there's some truth to the stories. After the stroke, Ms. Tucker needed to make a routine appointment with a neurologist and an ophthalmologist to see if she should drive again. Initially, those appointments would have meant a two- or three-month wait, although in the end she managed to arrange them more quickly"
If the patient was not as forceful pushy lawyer, but a meek working stiff, the outcome might not have been good. All in all a stupid and irrelevant antidote.
- June 11, 2009 at 10:54:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
Shades of the world both left and right in today's America
June 11, 2009
"1984" 60 Years Later
By Cathy Young
"Another pervasive feature of the Orwellian state was the practice of constantly whipping up hatred toward the ideological enemy du jour. Looking at much of our political discourse today, from right-wing talk radio to left-wing blogs, it's hard not to think of such rituals as "Two-Minute Hate" and "Hate Week." On too many political websites, every week is Hate Week - whether the object of hate is liberals, Muslims, neocons, or Christian bigots. Partisan propagandists and professional hate-mongers bear a large share of the blame, but so do "regular" people who need little encouragement to demonize political opponents.
The inhuman system that inspired Orwell's masterpiece has crumbled. But doublethink, newspeak, thought-policing and virtuous hatred are eternal temptations of the human soul, even in the freest of societies. We have met Big Brother, and he is us."
Cathy Young writes a weekly column for RealClearPolitics and is also a contributing editor at Reason magazine. She blogs at http://cathyyoung.wordpress.com/. She can be reached at
- June 11, 2009 at 11:05:00 AM EDT
- John M. Lally said...
The Department of Homeland Security released a report earlier this year warning of the possible rise of violence by right wing extremist groups. The report indicated that because of the harsh economic times, the election of our first African American president, and the political climate, we could possibly see the rise of violence among these extremists. The report goes on to say that "lone wolf" extremists pose a great threat.
This was met with the same kind of fake outrage that we're accustomed to hearing from the Republicans. Out came Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity and the rest of the goon squad to cry about the report and to mischaracterize it as a political attack against republicans in general. Soon, legislators were calling on DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano to apologize. To APOLOGIZE, for warning and preparing the country for impending violence!
Well, it turns out that the report was spot on.
Jim David Adkisson killed two people and wounded six when he opened fire upon a Knoxville Tennessee Church. After the shooting, police later found a "manifesto" letter in Adkisson's truck in which he wrote in angry terms about his hatred of liberalism.
Three police officers were killed in Pittsburgh PA by a gunman who was afraid that the Obama Administration sent the officers to confiscate his weapons.
Scott Roeder killed George Tiller, a doctor at an abortion clinic. Roeder had harrassed Tiller and vandalized his clinic for several years before finally deciding to assassinate him. Details are emerging about Roeder's ties to Operation Rescue, a right-wing anti-abortion extremist group.
Just yesterday, white supremecist James von Brunn walked in to the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC and opened fire. He killed a security guard.
This is the type of Right Wing violence the DHS report was talking about. I think a lot of people owe Janet Napolitano an apology. She was only trying to protect us from a very serious threat. And if this report can stop another Oklahoma City bombing, then why in the world would our Republican elected leaders try to supress it?
- June 11, 2009 at 11:47:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
Maybe the killer was inspired by Obama's Cairo speech, when he said the killing of 6 million Jews was the equivilent of Israel's action in dealing with Palestinians.
"On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people — Muslims and Christians — have suffered in pursuit of a homeland."
What is this on the otherhand stuff? The Holocost is equal to the Palestinian fight to eliminate Jews in Israel?
Maybe Napalatono should keep Obama in check.
Note: Reworded from Newsmax observations.
June 11, 2009 12:19:00 PM EDT
Another note: I mistakenly posted this same thing on the last political blog.
- June 11, 2009 at 12:23:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
The Reverend Jeramiah Wright, Obama's former pastor is, again, whipping up anti Semitic and Israel hatred. Maybe present and former parishioners should be put on the watch list.
- June 11, 2009 at 3:08:00 PM EDT
- John M. Lally said...
I've looked all through the President's speech, and I can't find where he says that the Palestinian situation is "equal" or "equivalent" to the holocaust. I think you may be putting words into his mouth to score a cheap point.
But what's your point? That the gunman was a Muslim? Or that he sympatized with the Muslims? Or that this white supremecist hangs on every word uttered by Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright? Nonsense.
- June 11, 2009 at 4:18:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
John, Obama equated the Holocaust where 6 million were killed with the Palestinian movement (Hamas) which has an expressed goal, as part of it's charter. the destruction of Israel. This moral equivalence has the effect of fanning anti Semitic and anti Israeli sentiment. Many times over the last fifteen years the Palestinians have been offered a two state solution as long as they agree to recognize Israel's right to exist and stop terror attacks. The Palestinians will not take yes for an answer. Imagine for a moment that 15 years ago they had taken yes for an answer. Israel is an incredibly productive and technologically cutting edge economy. The Palestinians could have taken part in that prosperity. Instead they nurse their hatred and send their children to blow Jews in pizza joints and launch rockets into cities. What a waste.
Obama transcript
"On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. For more than sixty years they have endured the pain of dislocation. Many wait in refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza, and neighboring lands for a life of peace and security that they have never been able to lead. They endure the daily humiliations - large and small - that come with occupation. So let there be no doubt: the situation for the Palestinian people is intolerable. America will not turn our backs on the legitimate Palestinian aspiration for dignity, opportunity, and a state of their own."
- June 11, 2009 at 5:15:00 PM EDT
- John M. Lally said...
I'm looking through the quote you provided, and I can't find the words "equal", "equivalent" or "moral equivalence". This is just another falsehood "Newsmax" is ginning up.
Nothing Obama has suggested so far is any different than Bush's "Roadmap to Peace". It just appears that Obama is more serious about achieving it.
Did you see the election in Lebanon? Hamas was rejected for a Pro-American government. There is talk that maybe Ahmadinajad (sp?) may be voted out of office in Iran thanks to better relations with the middle Eastern countries.
- June 12, 2009 at 8:09:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
You may not be able to see it, but I can and Israel can. The Lebanon election was a delightful surprise. If Obama had something to do with it, congrats. I don't see how you can prove his influence but you can certainly infer it. If the other guy wins in Iran it most likely will not mean any great difference. But it would at least be nice to not hear the Holocaust denied or promises of Israel's destruction.
- June 12, 2009 at 8:57:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
Is this a preview of Obamacare coming attractions.
Earlier this month, FBI director Robert Mueller warned the nation to brace for a potential crime wave involving fraud and corruption related to the economic stimulus package. "These funds are inherently vulnerable to bribery, fraud, conflicts of interest, and collusion. There is an old adage, that where there is money to be made, fraud is not far behind, like bees to honey," Mueller said. See full story.
- June 12, 2009 at 10:38:00 AM EDT
- John M. Lally said...
There's no fraud or corruption in our current healthcare system? Like you said, Jim, "Where there is money to be made, fraud is not far behind, like bees to honey".
Look at your hospital bill next time you have one. I guarantee you that you'll find at least one fraudulent charge. This doesn't count all the fraud perpetrated by doctors, practices, clinics, etc. every day.
- June 13, 2009 at 3:59:00 PM EDT
- John M. Lally said...
There's no fraud or corruption in our current healthcare system? Like you said, Jim, "Where there is money to be made, fraud is not far behind, like bees to honey".
Look at your hospital bill next time you have one. I guarantee you that you'll find at least one fraudulent charge. This doesn't count all the fraud perpetrated by doctors, practices, clinics, etc. every day.
- June 13, 2009 at 3:59:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
One area of abuse has been the run away legal profession which has forced US medicine to practice defensivly and redundently, thus boosting costs. It is unlikely that the problem will be addressed under Obamacare, since the trial lawyers are big supporters. We saw how unions got paid of in the auto bankruptcy.
- June 14, 2009 at 9:52:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
One area of abuse has been the run away legal profession which has forced US medicine to practice defensivly and redundently, thus boosting costs. It is unlikely that the problem will be addressed under Obamacare, since the trial lawyers are big supporters. We saw how unions got paid of in the auto bankruptcy.
- June 14, 2009 at 9:52:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
If this poll is to believed, Obama's and the Democrats socialism will have a short shelf life.
June 15, 2009
"Conservatives" Are Single-Largest Ideological Group
Percentage of "liberals" higher this decade than in early '90s
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ -- Thus far in 2009, 40% of Americans interviewed in national Gallup Poll surveys describe their political views as conservative, 35% as moderate, and 21% as liberal. This represents a slight increase for conservatism in the U.S. since 2008, returning it to a level last seen in 2004. The 21% calling themselves liberal is in line with findings throughout this decade, but is up from the 1990s.
- June 15, 2009 at 11:39:00 AM EDT
- JIm said...
Iran and the Obamasiah.
Where is he??? At a moment when there is a possiblity of Iran throwing off the theocracy he is quiet. He could at least condem the killing and the closing down of the internet and news services. Maybe he favors Ahmadinjad. They are both in favor of a strong dictatorial central government.
- June 15, 2009 at 2:58:00 PM EDT
- JIm said...
I never realized that the Communist Party could could, so sucinctly, sum up recent Obama moves, Sotomayor,health care and Fox News. Clarity at last!
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
Sonia Sotomayor
WASHINGTON – The way to end "right-wing" terrorism in the U.S. is to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court justice, boycott Fox News and support Barack Obama's plan for nationalizing health care, the Communist Party USA said in an editorial in its newspaper, the People's Weekly World today.
- June 17, 2009 at 5:39:00 PM EDT


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The Independent Statutory Maori Board believes its Maori Plan for Tamaki Makaurau will transform the region by improving the wellbeing of Maori.
The board has set 49 cultural, social, economic and environmental goals, backed by a set of activities that will "give direction, guidance and information to the Auckland Council for developing investment and budget bids in those specific areas".
It is a wide-ranging document that pushes the council into new territory, in that it has a significant focus on social outcomes, setting education and health targets, for instance.
It also asks the council to support the establishment of a te reo Maori working group to promote the use of Maori and to develop a naming protocol with mana whenua (Maori with traditional authority over the area), and to give its backing to compulsory te reo in all Auckland schools.
It also asks the council to support financial literacy programmes to ensure Maori business success to facilitate Maori engagement in trade delegations, foreign direct investment, innovation and export.
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Not much can happen in the plan without councillors' support.
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* 13.9% Waitakere ward.
* 7.6% North Shore.
* 6.6% Albert-Eden-Roskill.
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