City officials in El Paso Texas disclosed on Wednesday that they had fallen prey to an email phishing scam that resulted in a 3.2 million United States dollar sorry for your loss. The city became aware of scam in October after a vendor informed the city that it had not been paid for work involving a streetcar project, with the money instead having been routed to fraudulent bank accounts. Employees have reverted to issuing paper checks in the meantime to thwart further attempts at social engineering. An attorney for the city stated that some of the funds had been recovered by law enforcement, though few details were given due to the ongoing investigation as to how the thefts occurred – but now that the Nigerian Prince has been paid hope is that the rest of the fortune will arrive in their coffers soon.
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Hillary Rodham-Clinton Child Trafficking Connections On Track To Hit Mainstream News Tomorrow
Haitian child abductor and trafficker Laura Silsby's connections to Hillary Rodham-Clinton and Huma Weiner are on track to enter the mainstream news cycle tomorrow.1 Silsby and others operating under cover as "missionaries" used the aftermath of the 2010 Haitian earthquake in order to steal black children. Several wikileaked emails show that Hillary Rodham-Clinton was involved in saving Silsby from the Haitian legal system following Silby's arrest for the aforementioned child theft and trafficking. Sorry for your lulz.
Timing based on 31337 proprietary Qntra social media to news talking head verbal diarrhoea forecasting technology. ↩
Soy And Corn Yields Massive, Prices Depressed Further
This year's US soy crop has been referred to as a "bin buster" and potentially record setting with substantial acreage still waiting in the field for harvest. Corn yield have been good too. This news is dismal for farmers, but delightful for dicamba. Landscape accordingly because the future is now.
Chinese fiat/Bitcoin Interface BTCC Opening US dollar Market And Remaining Closed To US
The Chinese fiat/Bitcoin interface formerly known as "BTC China" announced they would be opening a United States dollar market. They attribute their decision in part to the Bitfinexodus. creating a pliable user base in search a place that isn't named Bitfinex. Naturally BTCC made it clear that while they welcome trading of the United States dollar, they have no plans to accept United States persons as customers. United States persons simply invite too many problems.
Ingsoc Reintroduces Rickets To Britain
Eradicated from the Anglophone world by the end of World War II, Rickets has made a comeback in the Anglophone world. This grave form of childhood vitamin D deficiency prevents normal bone growth, and a related adult vitamin D deficiency leaves adults fragile. Likely contributing factors are "sun safety measures" and good old fashioned malnutrition.
Yahoo Peanut Butter Guy Fails His Way To Ripple CEO Job
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CenturyLink Acquiring "Level 3" As Internet Transit Routes Consolidate
In a far lesser heralded acquisition than anything involving consumer recognizable names, CenturyLink began the process of buying Level 3 communications. Both providers mostly provide Internet pipes to smaller Internet service providers and other business customers though CenturyLink maintains a token number of residential customers.
Mainstream Media: Clinton Emails Already "Baked In" To Polls
On this day, the ninth day before the United States presidential election, the talking heads of the United States mainstream media-political complex are in concert adopting a single position on the damage from the latest revelation of Clinton Criminality. Apparently the political damage to Hillary Rodham-Clinton from this latest news is already "baked in" to Hillary Rodham-Clinton's polling numbers, and this damage has been for some amount of time, perhaps even since the beginning of time itself.
This "baked in" theory spontaneously emerged among several dozen "independent" mainstream talking heads simultaneously. Naturally there is *no way* that this introduction of the "baked in" line could have been coordinated.
Hack Forum Kicks DDoS Vendors
Hack Forums, one of the oldest and most well-known forums of its kind on the internet, has announced it will no longer allow vendors to offer DDoS services or "server stress testing" for sale in it's services section, in part due to the attack that left many sites unreachable last week.
Forum admin Jesse "Omniscient" LaBrocca (WoT:nonperson) explained:
"I do need to make sure that we continue to exist and given the recent events I think it's more important that the section be permanently shut down,"
The forums had been under pressure from online security researchers who claimed that forum users were likely responsible for the recent spate of attack using the Mirai malware. The source code for Mirai first appeared on the forums on September 30th when user Anna-senpai released a copy for public consumption. Omniscient denied that the forums promoted using the services for illegal purposes and that much like other user-generated content sites, "The content ….. reflects the topics they are interested in discussing,"
Not Quite News Roundup Xtend 12 (TM)(R)
Welcome to the twelfth edition of the Qntra Not Quite News Roundup Xtend (TM)(R). The below events are alleged to have happened, but they are decidedly innocent of newsworthiness.
- The price reported by fiat/Bitcoin interfaces has been bullish on the Bitcoin and bearish on the fiat sides with United States dollars sinking to less than 1/700th of a Bitcoin per and Chinese rembini to less than 1/4850th of a Bitcoin per.
- The United States Department of Defense was recently revealed to be the largest purchaser of Jack Daniels Tennessee Whiskey. The Department utilizes the distiller's "By the Barrel Program" which includes tours of the distilling facility and meetings with the taster and master distiller in order to select particular barrels for purchase. Barrel pricing varies from 9,000 to 12,000 United States dollars per barrel due to variations in volume and is related to the premium pricing in effect for bottled "single-barrel" whiskies. A barrel is roughly equivalent to 250 bottles of the traditional 750 ml volume commonly referred to as a "fifth" and is only enough whiskey to sustain a dedicated solo hard drinker for a period of four to nine months.
- Facebook may be in hot water with the Feds for playing a part in violations of the Fair Housing Act of 1968 through its practice of allowing any schmuck with a couple bucks to place a targeted advertisement. For its part Facebook protests that targeting people for their "ethnic affinity" in Facebook Ads is not that same thing as actually discriminating based on race. The timing of WaPo making a fuss of this is extremely suggestive.
- Polish fiat/Bitcoin interface Bitcurex moved to shut down after your loss.
- This week's altcoin drawing unwarranted attention is variably known as "Zooko Cash", "Z-Cash", and "ZEC" and drawing attention for having been released after substantial hype. ZEC is similar to Monero in that its privacy "features" fail against sufficiently panoptic observers. ZEC tokens found their way to markets soon after the Genesis block's minting and individual tokens are presently trading for more than individual Bitcoins due to scarcity though the exchange rate has been falling rapidly as more ZEC are mined and released to market. A full 10 percent of ZEC are set to be awarded to parties other than miners. With this kind of debut the stage is set for unprecedented levels of "your loss", we are very sorry for it.
- Aspersing "Bitcoin" news outlet CoinJournal is in full "your loss" coping mode after Barclays SFYL'd their fiat bank account.
- Vladislav Surkov's email was allegedly hacked. Mainstream sources are crediting "Ukranian activists" for the hack despite the CIA telling NBC News it was going to try this exact sort of thing on October 14th. Apparently Surkov used Microsoft Outlook.
- "Open Transactions", which is Ripple before Ripple was a thing, was finally attached to a n00b friendly interface. The interface is attached to the "Stash Bank In A Box" hardware product. Sorry but you're late.
- The United States and its coalition forces are continuing to support the Medes and other Persians in their effort to take Nineveh from the Assyrians.
- The strained relationship between the GOP and their Presidential candidate has yielded a most unfair benefit. In down ticket races nearly all of their attack ads against Democratic party candidates also get to contain anti-Hillary attack ads while few down ticket Democratic party advertisements dare to attack Donald Trump-Clinton and the down ticket candidate at the same time.
- In the mainstream media, the second most important political story of the week is receiving unsurprisingly little coverage.