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Fwd: [Dailydave] Shmoocon 2010 CFP is open
by R.A. Hettinga 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Begin forwarded message: > From: "Nicholas B." <nberthaume(a)gmail.com> > Date: September 14, 2009 4:36:43 PM GMT-04:00 > To: dailydave <dailydave(a)lists.immunitysec.com> > Subject: [Dailydave] Shmoocon 2010 CFP is open > > The Shmoocon 2010 call for papers opened on Friday, September 11th, > 2009 and looks like its open until Sunday, November 1st, 2009. > > http://www.shmoocon.org/cfp.html > _______________________________________________ > Dailydave mailing list > Dailydave(a)lists.immunitysec.com > http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave

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Singapore Seeks Transparency
by R.A. Hettinga 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

The anonymity pogrom proceeds apace. You can run, but you can't hide. Not anymore. Resistance is futile. You *will* be "tax-normalized". Cheers, RAH ------- <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125266621774402741.html?mod=djemITP#printMo… > The Wall Street Journal SEPTEMBER 14, 2009 Singapore Seeks Transparency Asian Financial Hub in a Hurry to Get Off Bank Account-Shield List By COSTAS PARIS Singapore, an Asian financial center attracting billions of dollars in offshore accounts, is working quickly to become more transparent and is on course to be removed by year's end from a list of nations that shield bank-account information. Pascal Saint-Amams, head of the international tax cooperation division at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, said "Singapore is moving fast on a twofold approach." He said the city-state is "changing its domestic legislation to put an end to any impediment in the exchange of tax information, and renegotiating its double-taxation agreements." The government has renegotiated tax agreements with six OECD countries and aims to conclude talks with seven others in the coming months. It is seeking to get off the OECD's "gray list" of countries targeted by the U.S., France, Germany and others over concerns that their tax laws could hide tax evaders and money launderers. "When Singapore reaches the threshold of renegotiating 12 [double- taxation agreements], it will be removed from the gray list," Mr. Saint-Amams said from the OECD's Paris headquarters. "It's realistic to expect this by the end of the year." Along with several European private-banking banking centers, Singapore in April found itself on the OECD gray list of 38 countries that had agreed to improve transparency standards concerning the exchange of tax information but hadn't implemented the changes. In the most high-profile case, Switzerland came under pressure from the OECD and the U.S. to relax its bank-secrecy laws. UBS AG agreed last month to give the U.S. Internal Revenue Service information on 4,450 accounts that held as much as $18 billion at one time. Singapore, which manages more than $300 billion of foreign cash, has amended its tax laws. Previously, Singapore wouldn't give overseas authorities information on foreigners' bank-deposit interest or investment gains. The changes have allowed the government to renegotiate its agreements with the U.K., Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia and Denmark. "We are satisfied with Singapore's progress," Mr. Saint-Amams said. The Singapore Finance Ministry said the government "has made substantial progress in implementing the standard" set by the OECD. However, the city-state hasn't thrown its bank vaults wide open. Singapore says it will be willing to investigate income that isn't taxed locally only if there are serious, documented suspicions of tax evasion and proof that the foreign authority requesting the information can't get it directly from the foreign investor or deposit holder. Singapore's financial rival, Hong Kong, is listed by the OECD as among economies that "have committed to implement the internationally agreed tax standard." The Hong Kong government said recently it has "stringent and effective anti-tax-avoidance legislation" and doesn't have laws protecting bank secrecy. One thing helping Singapore is that the home governments of account holders in the city-state aren't likely to push hard for information. Most of the money parked in Singapore belongs to wealthy Indonesians, Malaysians, Chinese and other Asians, private bankers say. "Some of these people with money here are very influential in their home countries," said one observer.

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14 Sep '09

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14 Sep '09

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Re: Norman Borlaug, 1914-2009
by R.A. Hettinga 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Sep 14, 2009, at 1:30 AM, Robert X. Cringely wrote: > Either that or you simply like to insult people you don't know. Yes. Yes, I do. I'm even good at it sometimes. :-) I also effusively praise people I *don't* actually know. Like, say, Norman Borlaug. Or you, on occasion. Most of the erst-"modern" media, as currently constituted, is a moral sewer, "Bob". The internet, present company :-), and some cable channels excepted. And it's not the management, or the technical people, or the advertising salespeople. It's the very people who create the "news", which *is*, as I said, a veritable cloaca maxima: of thinly-disguised neofeudal Marxism. What? You thought I meant Dissipation? Debauchery? Anchor-porn? Or maybe you thought I meant "capitalism", "greed", "oppression" of the "workers", or some other grotesque salad of Marxist loan-words? Nope. Though when one actually lies for a living it must prey on the soul sometimes. And, it's probably even worse to actually believe the progress- and initiative- destroying collectivist *superstition* that the so- called mainstream media emets these days. To paraphrase Scott Adams (speaking of someone else who destroys initiative and progress...), people like Tom Brokaw and almost everyone fronting for the government controlled leftist media "...combine pomposity and a command of trivia and try to pass it off as intelligence" And the media *is* leftist and government-controlled, in the case of of Mr. Brokaw's medium, from the day in 1934 when Roosevelt (a leftist...) bamboozled the American people into letting him expropriate the airwaves and set up the FCC. Yes, I'm sure Mr. Brokaw worked very hard his whole career at writing thirty-second digests of news stories from the front page of the New York Times, or from Time, or the AP, or Granma, or Tass, or wherever, and reading them into a camera while slathered in pancake makeup with a bunch of klieg lights making his face grimace into that famous, rugged, far-seeing visage. All while maintaining enough of an air of absolute informed authority to keep his ratings up and sell elderly-care products to a continually-declining audience. Particular to *my* observation of him in action that day, however, was his *entire* "greatest generation" history-regurgitation schtick, the *height* of hypocrisy, in light of his unceasing efforts to undermine the military effectiveness of his *own* country, pretty much every weeknight of his adult life. It was almost impossible for me to keep my gorge down while watching him spew that stuff into the faces of the *next* generation, all while a bunch of crypto-commie academics drooled adoringly at him, nodding sagely at his now old -- and, okay, dissipated -- far-seeing visage. So, no, I'm sure Mr. Brokaw is a *delightful* person to down a few beers with, or stand in a government-restricted trout-stream to fly-fish with. Or sit on a dais with while he collects another honorary degree. But, to me, he represents the very business end of a, yes, moral, sewer. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?... ;-) Cheers, RAH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 9.10.0.500 wsBVAwUBSq5FfcUCGwxmWcHhAQEghgf8CsGJpvqscZkKfqLlTbgSDLd64NytL5HC 04RzoJ9qjTdKMBV2Ugd6mOD3FdwLQdX5GgHmlG8wg0eteyclx7mCq1vIrEZEc/EJ msJYJ7bCrCQTmA/EeRM4w/vDDS/VCNtK7gJHXMOU3RJvMqftXj6WEBr7HGmENsvw jQ57OYz1bfEsHE60OkSghPnmRZs++EywTMTRDmcflUwYtjFMe7BQVgV2WF/3AKtN r3BhCOLiWecsKxe1BtxEH1d3j6+/+czYwpyJlpmzcwto9fPkO8+6DnyZNVyJ8FU5 l5T/IOmxX0c2gL6niOSt315jVVR40D4qeCXnSwvfbBMraTUUg2PNBg== =A/to -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Fwd: Norman Borlaug, 1914-2009
by R.A. Hettinga 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

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Norman Borlaug, 1914-2009
by R.A. Hettinga 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

A moral giant died yesterday, the greatest humanitarian of the 20th century. A man who directly saved more people (245 million) from starvation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug > than Lenin and Stalin & Co. (61,911,000), Hitler (20,946,000), Mao & Co. (77,277,000), and Pol Pot (2,035,000) killed altogether <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide >. If I were to guess, I'd figure there are at least a billion people standing on the planet right now who would not be alive if this man had not lived. Borlaug delivered not mere bags of surplus gruel shipped by guilty consciences in the "developed" world. Or, much worse, precious food stolen from the mouths of other starving people in communist countries and used as some kind of demented political weapon. Food left to rot on the docks for the rats to eat. Borlaug delivered *better* food, developed for local conditions, *grown* locally, and *sold* locally by farmers in a free market -- a condition which Borlaug personally demanded for the use of his hybrid seeds. Because of Norman Borlaug there is no famine in all the places haunted by starvation when I was a child: Mexico, India, East Asia, Africa, even China. The only places where people face wholesale starvation now are places where democidal politicians deliberately *cause* famine: North Korea, Burma, Congo, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Cuba and the Sudan. And the only people who face starvation in the future will be those subject to democidal thugs and fools. A moral monument of a man. A inspiration to free human beings everywhere. A man who now belongs to history. Cheers, RAH Who, quite by accident, saw Borlaug get yet another honorary degree at a nephew's graduation a while back -- along with Tom Brokaw, who actually did the commencement address. Talk about going from a moral sewer to a towering skyscraper in the space of a single dais... -------- <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090913/ap_on_re_us/us_obit_borlaug/print> Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug dies at 95 By MATT CURRY and BETSY BLANEY, Associated Press Writers September 13, 2009 DALLAS Agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution" who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in combating world hunger and saving hundreds of millions of lives, died Saturday in Texas, a Texas A&M University spokeswoman said. He was 95. Borlaug died just before 11 p.m. Saturday at his home in Dallas from complications of cancer, said school spokeswoman Kathleen Phillips. Phillips said Borlaug's granddaughter told her about his death. Borlaug was a distinguished professor at the university in College Station. The Nobel committee honored Borlaug in 1970 for his contributions to high-yield crop varieties and bringing other agricultural innovations to the developing world. Many experts credit the green revolution with averting global famine during the second half of the 20th century and saving perhaps 1 billion lives. Thanks to the green revolution, world food production more than doubled between 1960 and 1990. In Pakistan and India, two of the nations that benefited most from the new crop varieties, grain yields more than quadrupled over the period. "We would like his life to be a model for making a difference in the lives of others and to bring about efforts to end human misery for all mankind," his children said in a statement. "One of his favorite quotes was, 'Reach for the stars. Although you will never touch them, if you reach hard enough, you will find that you get a little 'star dust' on you in the process.'" Equal parts scientist and humanitarian, the Iowa-born Borlaug realized improved crop varieties were just part of the answer, and pressed governments for farmer-friendly economic policies and improved infrastructure to make markets accessible. A 2006 book about Borlaug is titled "The Man Who Fed the World." "He has probably done more and is known by fewer people than anybody that has done that much," said Dr. Ed Runge, retired head of Texas A&M University's Department of Soil and Crop Sciences and a close friend who persuaded Borlaug teach at the school. "He made the world a better place a much better place. He had people helping him, but he was the driving force." Borlaug began the work that led to his Nobel in Mexico at the end of World War II. There he used innovative breeding techniques to produce disease-resistant varieties of wheat that produced much more grain than traditional strains. He and others later took those varieties and similarly improved strains of rice and corn to Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa. "More than any other single person of his age, he has helped to provide bread for a hungry world," Nobel Peace Prize committee chairman Aase Lionaes said in presenting the award to Borlaug. "We have made this choice in the hope that providing bread will also give the world peace." During the 1950s and 1960s, public health improvements fueled a population boom in underdeveloped nations, leading to concerns that agricultural systems could not keep up with growing food demand. Borlaug's work often is credited with expanding agriculture at just the moment such an increase in production was most needed. "We got this thing going quite rapidly," Borlaug told The Associated Press in a 2000 interview. "It came as a surprise that something from a Third World country like Mexico could have such an impact." His successes in the 1960s came just as books like "The Population Bomb" were warning readers that mass starvation was inevitable. "Three or four decades ago, when we were trying to move technology into India, Pakistan and China, they said nothing could be done to save these people, that the population had to die off," he said in 2004. Borlaug often said wheat was only a vehicle for his real interest, which was to improve people's lives. "We must recognize the fact that adequate food is only the first requisite for life," he said in his Nobel acceptance speech. "For a decent and humane life we must also provide an opportunity for good education, remunerative employment, comfortable housing, good clothing and effective and compassionate medical care." In Mexico, Borlaug was known both for his skill in breeding plants and for his eagerness to labor in the fields himself, rather than to let assistants do all the hard work. He remained active well into his 90s, campaigning for the use of biotechnology to fight hunger and working on a project to fight poverty and starvation in Africa by teaching new drought-resistant farming methods. "We still have a large number of miserable, hungry people and this contributes to world instability," Borlaug said in May 2006 at an Asian Development Bank forum in the Philippines. "Human misery is explosive, and you better not forget that." Norman Ernest Borlaug was born March 25, 1914, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, and educated through the eighth grade in a one-room schoolhouse. "I was born out of the soil of Howard County," he said. "It was that black soil of the Great Depression that led me to a career in agriculture." He left home during the Great Depression to study forestry at the University of Minnesota. While there he earned himself a place in the university's wrestling hall of fame and met his future wife, whom he married in 1937. Margaret Borlaug died in 2007 at the age of 95. After a brief stint with the U.S. Forest Service, Norman Borlaug returned to the University of Minnesota for a doctoral degree in plant pathology. He then worked as a microbiologist for DuPont, but soon left for a job with the Rockefeller Foundation. Between 1944 and 1960, Borlaug dedicated himself to increasing Mexico's wheat production. In 1963, Borlaug was named head of the newly formed International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, where he trained thousands of young scientists. Borlaug retired as head of the center in 1979 and turned to university teaching, first at Cornell University and then at Texas A&M, which presented him with an honorary doctorate in December 2007. "You really felt really very privileged to be with him, and it wasn't that he was so overpowering, but he was always on, intellectually always engaged," said Dr. Ed Price, director of A&M's Norman Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture. "He was always onto the issues and wanting to engage and wanting your opinions and thoughts." In 1986, Borlaug established the Des Moines, Iowa-based World Food Prize, a $250,000 award given each year to a person whose work improves the world's food supply. He also helped found and served as president of the Sasakawa Africa Foundation, an organization funded by Japanese billionaire Ryoichi Sasakawa to introduce the green revolution to sub-Saharan Africa. In July 2007, Borlaug received the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress. He is survived by daughter Jeanie Borlaug Laube and her husband Rex; son William Gibson Borlaug and his wife Barbie; five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. They asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be sent to the Borlaug International Scholars Fund. It helps students from developing countries pursue graduate studies or short-term experiential learning activities at Texas A&M or other land grant universities in the U.S. Plans for a memorial service to be held at Texas A&M were pending.

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